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4/28/2011

Christmas 2000

I can't remember much and nether can anyone else. I was 4 and KEW was 1. And that is about it!

He is Risen

Happy Easter Sunday! Here is a really good movie of what Easter is all about:

Click to see the full talk by President Monson.

He is risen! He is risen! 

Tell it out with joyful voice. 

He has burst his three days' prison; 

Let the whole wide earth rejoice. 

Death is conquered, man is free. 

Christ has won the victory.

Hymns #199

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It was my 4th birthday in 2000 and I adored Pooh Bear. (I still have a soft spot for that little character.) Hence the extravagant cake that mom made. What's even better...we still have those little toys from the cake.

More Pictures!

My Hair One Week Later

Today is the one week anniversary of my hair cut. In honor of that here is video of what can happen when I let friends play with it:

As a side note, I put "Justin Bieber" in the video tags just to see what would happen. In about 24 hours I had 30 views. So funny!

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4/14/2011

In December 2006 my Sunday school teachers asked if we wanted to have a class party. Well of course we did! Somehow we convinced them that we should go to Chuck E. Cheese's. My friend Atlanta and I decided to get our picture taken together with some of our coins. I just found it the other day in my stack of things to scrapbook (which never happens) and scanned it. I thought it would make a good ITA post.

Being Spontaneous

People are always asking "Why did you just do that? That was so random." I just say "I like being spontaneous. It keeps life interesting." 

Well...this was Mondays spontaneous-ness:

 My ponytail is off to Locks of Love!

 (And this is what happens if I don't watch out.)

So whatdya think?!? Me thinks its pretty awesome!

P.S. If I look sick...its because I am. Uggg you cold/allergies or possibly both.

The First Orbit of the Earth

Today is the 50th anniversary of the first orbit of the earth by man. I have always been interested in aerospace and stuff so this movie is interesting to me. To others it may be long and boring. Over and hour and a half long of views from the space station of what it would have looked like during the first orbit with the original mission audio to make it more authentic. I think the music behind it is beautiful too. Even if you don't watch the whole thing you can skip through it and get the idea.

http://www.firstorbit.org/

I would also watch this because it explains the work that went into this project.

(I scheduled this post for 11:12 PM...get it?)

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4/7/2011

As you might know we have a pretty big yard. And with it comes lots of little creatures. Sometimes we find Black Swallowtail caterpillars on our dill. So we collect them and and raise them in one of our animal tanks. Soon they form chrysalises and we wait for a few weeks until they emerge and we have butterflies! 2003 was a pretty good year and we had 2 or 3 butterflies to release after their wings dried.

Updated Post

I added more pictures to the YW broadcast post like I said I would. Here is the link to the album:

https://picasaweb.google.com/beautyoftheearth3579/YWBroadcast2011?feat=directlink

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 4/1/2011

Yesterday was very busy and the computer was dead half the day so I didn't get around to the Thursday post so here it is a day late.

In 2006 we were sitting in our doctors office when a lady walked in with a small pet carrier. We came to find out that there was a baby squirrel in it. Then she let us (Me, KEW & GRW) hold it. It was the cutest little thing! Anyway, she told us that she worked with the local nature center and helped raise orphan squirrels.
(More Pictures)
Since then I have started volunteering at the Lakeside Nature Center and now I have held (baby) squirrels, rabbits, snakes etc. I have done a few posts on our family blog about my experiences there:
LNC 1
LNC 2
LNC 3

Stake Young Women

On Saturday was the General Young Women Broadcast. Our stake always has a treats before...this year it was a cupcake buffet. Mmmm. They were really good!

Then we watch the broadcast. This is the little movie clip in between speakers:

Afterwords we have a picture of everyone!

This is with some of my friends that are currently or previously in my ward.

 From left to right. Front: McKenzie, Mary, Jasmyne.

Back: Therese, Ainsley, Atlanta, Corinne, Mariam, Emma, Me.

To see more click here.

Recent YW Projects

It has been since last summer that we did our Young Women bulletin board so we finally re-did it recently. I found an idea on sugardoodle.com for a YW bulletin board to make it look like a window. I kinda tweaked it. OK. Really tweaked it. Pretty much they both resemble a window and other than that they look totally different.

And this week for our mutual activity we made these tiles that said : 

"I am a princess~daughter of a Heavenly King." 

And last week we played this fun game. Kinda crazy.

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3/24/2011

November 2005 at the Andersen's. Brother Andersen LOVES Calvin and Hobbes and has taught us to adore these comics too. While reading it with him one day Sister Andersen came in with the camera. We just so happened to be reading one about Calvin getting his picture taken. We of course had to try his Calvin-ish tricks. How'd we do? Pretty good?

 

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3/17/2011

This was the day KEW was born. February 11 1999.

I don't remember it but I know I was excited. Unfortunately he and mom had to stay in the hospital for 6 days because his glucose levels didn't rise properly. So I would come for a little while but when I had to leave I would cry. I didn't want to leave my brother and mom. Thankfully they did come home soon. Today he is healthy and baseball crazy. (If you don't know what I mean check out his blog.)

More pictures:

https://picasaweb.google.com/beautyoftheearth3579/IntoTheArchives3?feat=directlink 

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Its "Into the Archives Thursday"!
3/10/2011

 Since I did a picture of some of my Webster cousins last week, I decided to do something from the Braithwaite side (mom's side). I'm pretty sure this picture was take in July 2003 (maybe even possibly on the 28th if the date on the picture is correct). All of the cousins were visiting Nana, who lives in Utah.

Zachary, KEW, Me and Lexi

Here I am with the Reinstein cousins and my brother KEW. I have fond memories of this day.
I remember that one of us had the great idea of running a lemonade stand. So we went up to Nana's art area and found plenty of paper and coloring supplies and made a great sign. 

Next we went to her freezer and pulled out some of her frozen lemonade and put it in a large measuring cup. Then we brought out her plastic toy organizer and put it at the end of the driveway, taped the sign to it and set the lemonade on top and decorated the ground around it with pine cones. And we waited. 

We waited through the heat. We waited some more. Then our first costumer...sort of. She said that she would come back later and get some. (she never did) It was so hot that we brought it back into the shade. We did end up with a few costumers! In fact there was one time that so many people came that we had to go raid Nana's freezer again!

This was so long ago (at least it feels like it) that I find it funny that I remember it in detail. I think we ended up using all of Nana's lemonade. But in the end I know we some had money. I don't know how much. I don't know who got it. I just remember we had fun sitting in the heat and getting excited over costumers.

Want to see more pictures of this fun adventure???

https://picasaweb.google.com/beautyoftheearth3579/IntoTheArchives2Lemonade?feat=directlink

Volleyball Doom

So I was looking through my Young Women pictures from last year and I found this one. Its from stake YW volleyball. I have no idea what was going through my mind when this picture was taken. (No the ball wasn't photoshopped in or anything) I laugh every time I see it. So I thought I'd edit it and add captions. I don't know about you, but I think they are pretty funny.

To see the pictures bigger click here.

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I have decided to do an "Into the Archives Thursday". Random day I know. But I couldn't wait and there really was no point in waiting. So, every Thursday I will post a picture (or possibly a movie if I'm feeling like it) from my past. It has to be at least 2 years old...but the older the better right? I will also explain the picture in detail to the bet of my abilities.

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Today I have picked a picture of a few of my Webster cousins...and Grandpa. I believe it was taken sometime in 2002. We were visiting our Grandparents in Ohio. Here we are in the living room...posing for a picture I suppose. Though its slightly comical.

  From top to bottom: my cousin Kyle, me and my cousin Ashli. And over in the corner is Grandpa.

My Big (Movie) Projects of 2010

I have recently done some movie making, or really more like extra long slideshow-putting-together-ing. The first one is of my YW activities in 2010. The second one is of the stake youth pioneer trek 2010. They may be long and boring to you but I wanted to post something that I have done, not about other things that really have nothing directly related to me. So here they are!







To see some of my other videos visit my Youtube channel: thisisrealife

The Vinyard

Check this out! Its fast and easy and it can help a lot!

http://vineyard.lds.org/

Be the Spiritual Warrior You Want to Be

I LOVE this short movie! This is how we should live our life. So that we can stand up to the devil himself. We are children of a wonderful Father in Heaven and we can live life with Him on our side!