Into the Archives 39-Thanksgiving 2004

11/24/2011

Happy Thanksgiving from the Webster kids in 2004!

Into the Archives 38-Balloon Gum

11/17/2011

Do you remember when you were little and you pretended a balloon was bubble gum? Yeah I think most kids do that some time or another. We are no exception. Come to think of it, I think I still might do it every once in a while... Just kidding! Or am I?

Individual Worth Skits

This is what the Mia Maids (and one of our Laural's) did for our Personal Progress activity this month. I was actually in charge of it but I asked one of our leaders to bring two bags with a few random objects in them. We split into to teams and each one got a bag and 10 minutes to come up with a skit. I call it Bag Skits. (No, not baskets)

Happy 11!

Happy 11/11/11 everyone!

   

I have been doing special posts about a favorite author of mine (and one of her projects that has to do with today) on my Media Blog. Head on over there to find out more!

http://helloyoutube.blogspot.com/search/label/11%2F11%2F11%20Project

Also our school group is doing this project today:

http://betterplace.principlebasedlearning.com/day-of-united-service/

Into the Archives 37-Toad

11/10/2011

Toads have always been one of my favorite animals. They are extremely easy to catch and their care is minimal, I just let them go after a week or two. 2003 was the first year that I started this little hobby of mine.

 A direct entry from my nature journal:

Toady and Spring

Spring 2003- 6 years old

It all started when we found a boy toad. It was April 1st and mom found a toad in the garden. Then mom called me, "A toad! Come and see a toad." I came and saw the toad. It was sitting on the dirt very still. When I tried to touch it, it jumped into the leaves. I dug into the leaves and I got it. But it wasn't easy but it was fun.

Mom got a tank ready for the toad. We brought him inside the house. Mom looked up "toads" in a nature book we got from the library. Later we checked out more books about toads and we learned that boy toads don't croak and they are a lot smaller than girl toads. And girl toads croak because they call the boys so they can spawn their eggs.

We brought the toad to the library to Teddy Time, then on Wednesday we brought it to story time to show the children.

Mom thought that we needed to let April Fool's Day go (that's what I names the toad). I said, "I don't want to let him go." Dad said we needed to get Toady Crickets so that he could stay alive (we started calling him Toady because it was a shorter name). So dad went and bought the crickets at the pet store. Toady ate them so fast that mom couldn't see his tongue catch the cricket, but I could. 

He started to look sick so we called Anna-Lisa, our friend that works at a nature center, and she said we should put some water in the tank and feed it every other day.

A few weeks later I was looking for lizards on the rocks. Instead I found a girl toad. I came running in the house and yelled, "A toad! Come and see a toad! I think it's a girl toad!" Mom came running out and I showed her the toad. I tried to catch the toad-it was as hard as catching the first. I finally caught it and I brought the tank outside and put both toads in a wading pool. I names the new toad Spring.

The first time I heard the girl toad croak was an hour later when I was getting ready to go to mom's concert. I was way in my bedroom and Spring was in the kitchen and she croaked so loud that I could hear her from my bedroom. We found out that Spring croaks more in the night time.

One day I put her into the wading pool. I was playing with some friends and when I went back to get her she was gone. In a few weeks mom was digging in the garden bu the gazebo and mom saw something moving in the dirt. It was Spring. we caught her and took her inside to the tank. I taught her toads tricks.

And then it ends right there. But the end of the story that is unwritten is sad. I was so attached to these first animals I had ever caught that I didn't want to let them go. But I also seemed to forget to feed and water them. One day I found Toady dead in the bottom of the tank. It broke my heart but I still refused to release the other one. A few days later she was gone too. I felt so guilty. To this day I still am. I still catch toads and many other little creatures but I always take good care of them. I learned my lesson and I am proud to say not one has died in my care since then.

Play Modern

Yesterday I was on my google reader looking at the staff pick blogs including "Design Milk", and as soon as I saw this post I was like "Wha...wait a minute!? I know that name!"
http://design-milk.com/modern-playhouses-by-play-modern/

The Hales are our good friends from church. Play Modern is their little (but not so much) business and I really haven't seen much of it except when they were finishing some boards in their back yard a couple months ago. This was the first time I have seen them put together. I just thought it was funny that I somehow happened to come across this and completely out of the blue too.

Into the Archives 36~Halloween 2008

 11/3/2011

I guess I probably should have done this one last week before Halloween but what ever. Post occasion works. I don't have anything from this year anyway.

This was Halloween 2008. We were at our friends, the Anderson's, house. We have been going to their house for various holidays my whole life. It used to be Easter and Thanksgiving but in the last few years it has mostly been just Halloween. Anyway after trick-or-treating Leslie got out a gingerbread house kit especially for the occasion. We used plenty of our candy to decorate it.

But my favorite part of the picture is this:

Bonus! My nutty brothers showing off the house:

Into the Archives 35~Airport Family Reunion

10/27/2011

Here are lots of people sitting in the airport.
They happen to be aunts, uncles, cousins etc from my moms side.

This picture was a particular tricky one to find information about. I think I might have a very vague memory about being there but who knows. After emailing a few of the people in this picture, aunt Kari was the one that remembered the details. This is what uncle Allen sent in response:

"Well Kari has a memory of steel…

She remembers this was in February just before Valentine’s Day. Carol was flying to or from California and had a brief layover in SLC. Since there wasn’t enough time to go to Nanna’s house for a visit, we all came to the airport and had a brief reunion. We had the great BK meal for the party.

You can tell it was pre 911 since we are at the gate."

I thought that last part was a pretty funny observation.

Into the Archives 34~School Time

10/20/2011

This is my kind of homework style. Yes. Hat and all. At least back in 2003. 

Now a-days I prefer sitting on my bed with the iPad when possible.

This is really random but look at the time I scheduled/posted this post. There is a reason for the time. The school year starts in August (08) and ends in May (05). I do something like this with most of my posts. You know. Just in case you want a puzzle to figure out.

New! New! New!

Blogging might be addicting. Its a possibility. Here is a clue. I have two new blogs. This first one I have had for a few months but won't be updated all that often. The second one should be updated about every day or so-ish.  The food one is more for my personal purposes but I still want to share. The second it to share with everyone. To understand fully what they are about just read the first posts on each blog.

theunpickyeater.blogspot.com

helloyoutube.blogspot.com

Into the Archives 33~Tractor Time

10/13/2011

I haven't driven a car yet (yeah yeah I'm working on that...). But that doesn't matter. I have a tractor! Yup. Been drivin' it since I was 12 and don't plan to stop. My siblings are kind of jealous. But it's not like they won't have their turn. Oh wait. KEW started driving it this summer. Aw man I have to share now. Just look at his face. Little stinker. And this was taken back in 2007 when he was 8! But it's not all fun and games. It also involves mowing all 3.74 acres of yard...eh but it's worth it.

Our Favorite Plague

In seminary this year we are learning about the Old Testament. Currently we are talking about Moses and the whole plague thing. The other day Brother Norton had all of us split up into small groups of 3 or 4 and fill out a paper about the 9 plagues (it didn't include the last one about dieing firstborns) and also draw our "favorite" plague. When our team figured out that our favorite plague (if you think about it, that really is a hard decision seeing as we wouldn't want to go through any of them) and I volunteered to draw. We decided on the frog plague.

Exodus 8:2-8

2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

 3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:

 4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.

 5 And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.

 6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

My drawing became the laughing matter of the day. I could hardly finish it because we were laughing so hard. A bit dorky eh?

Into the Archives 32~Oh Brother!

10/6/2011

Great pictures of my brothers and I between 2005-2006. It's kind of a coincidence that I was wearing the same shirt in two of the pictures.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.  

-Garrison Keillor

 It's so true...

Scripture Power Kiddie Style

I love it when little kids tell stories. Well OK so who doesn't? Kid History anyone?!?  Ta-da! You are in luck. I found these cute videos about kids and their scripture stories. There are many, many great little Sunday videos out there. I'm just getting started! Not that you need to watch anymore TV today. That many hours of General Conference can be tiring. No matter. You should watch these anyway.

Into the Archives 31~A Little Family History

9/29/2011

This is me.

 This is me at about 9 months.

 This is me with great-grandma Marie.

This is me, Marie and dad. 

Marie is dad's grandma on his fathers side. This must be the reason why so many people are scared of family history research. It gets really confusing! But it is also very interesting how we are all connected somehow or another.

Where is Waldo?

So. I have to say I don't very much enjoy joint activities (church youth activity with all young men and young women). Let's just say there isn't many activities you can do with all the youth 12-18 and please everybody. There is always someone who would rather not be there (I'm not saying I've never been that person). But every once in a while inspiration comes.
Earlier this year some of the youth that were new in the ward (because of the ward boundary change) mentioned a joint activity that everyone had enjoyed in their previous ward. In fact they had done it a couple times because it was such a hit. We put it on the list of activities to do this year. And finally a couple week's ago it all came into play.

Have you ever read...er...looked at (?) the Where is Waldo books? You've probably at least heard of them. But wait. Have you ever played it? In real life? Oh well you should try it sometime.

All you need is a mall, a few "Waldos" (although I wouldn't recommend the normal red and white attire. That would be to easy to spot in a mall.) and bit of planning and off you go!

It would have been cool if each team (there was between 8 and 10 teams I think) had a camera so you could see everyone's reactions but I was the only one that got footage of the adventure with my team of 6. Next time I'll see what I can do.

If you would like to see the complete instructions I found this website that has them written out much better than I ever could have attempted.
http://goforwardwithfaith.blogspot.com/2010/09/wheres-waldo.html
And another note. I would contact the mall beforehand. The mall security was a little worried at first. :)

Into the Archives-30

9/22/2011

Just another normal breakfast in the Webster household. (2004)

 

While peacefully eating my breakfast my little brother decides that it is much too peaceful for his taste. He then proceeds to blow a whistle in my ear. Who knows what happens after that.*

“They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood."      ~Karen White

*This is just my interpretation. This might not be exactly what occurred.

Into the Archives-29

9/15/2011

While visiting family in Utah, Summer 2009, Nana (moms mom) helped my cousin Lexi and I make aprons. Nana took us to the store where we chose our fabric and then she taught us how to use her sewing machines.

Thanks Nana!

Currently my apron is still going strong and is well used. Like...basically every day. Love it!!!

Into the archives-28

9/8/2011

This was back when I had those few years of being the only child so mom & I went with dad on a lot of his show tours. Here is a slideshow of me touring the East coast (more or less) in 1998.  
Note: I would make sure the captions are on because they have notes of dates and places etc. Anything with quotations are exactly what my mom wrote on the back of the original prints. (with the exception of my name) Also the pictures are probably not quite in order but I did the best I could.

Into the Archives-27

9/1/2011

I have no idea when and why this was taken but I don't really care. I think its just a funny and cute picture of dinner with me and my two brothers and that little boy in the front right corner. We can't figure out who he is. Awkward. Well I'll let you know if I ever figure it out.