Julie Goes To the Zoo

Make a scrapbook - it's easy!

Video Time!

Watch as our kids master skills on wheels. David will laugh (he got it)! Julie will cry (she didn't)! Roll with our kids in this delightful movie!

Julie's Story Corner

Watch renowned author Julianna Cannon read her newest story, Barracuda and Sharky's Sleepover.

"Quote of the Week"

Josh came downstairs at bedtime to complain, "David hit me, and I hit him, and he hit me again and again and again and again and again. . . . Oh, it's Hop on Pop." (Jesse was using the book to hide his laughter.)

I've Been Tagged

So, what do you really want to know about me?

1. My husband calls me a Californian, because I was born in San Diego. However, I only lived there for the first six months of my life and have never lived there since, so I don't consider myself a Californian. (My mom was living with her parents while my dad was at tech school for the US Air Force. My gramps was stationed at the naval base there.)

2. I started at a gifted / talented (GT) preschool while we lived in Nevada, attended GT classes until I moved to Texas (I was disqualified when we moved there for some odd reason). I skipped the end of second grade while we lived in Arizona (before we moved to Texas).

3. I attended the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at the University of North Texas for my junior and senior year of high school. I was fully enrolled as a college freshman and sophomore those years, took 16 to 19 credits each semester, and lived in McConnell Hall, a dorm just for us minors, on campus. TAMS is considered a high school because we have to take a specific courseload to graduate and so that we can apply for freshman scholarships at the end of our senior year. So, to sum up, I started my freshman year of college at the tender age of 15; I didn't even have a drivers license yet! (Don't act so surprised - you knew I was a nerd!)

4. Despite predictions to the contrary I graduated from BYU before I got married, and I never lived in the "rabbit hutches" (BYU married student housing). THANK GOODNESS!!! Jesse took me to live in Orem (for the last two years we were at BYU) where I was so happy to be "far away" from Provo. (By the way the 23rd is the ten-year anniversary of my graduation from BYU.)

5. I thought I was going to have two black eyes for my wedding. One of my students, a mute sixth grader with autism, proved to be non-compliant and very violent on the first day of school. (Remember I am 5'2" and was only 115 pounds at the time, and although skinny, he was a good two to three inches taller than I.) Among other things, he ended up head-butting my nose twice during that first week, making me fear that I would have black eyes for our labor day wedding that weekend.

6. I have only been medicated during childbirth once, and that was for my last labor with James.

7. I love chocolate - what woman doesn't - but I have been getting snobby about my indulgences. No Hershey's for me; no sir!!! (I will settle for Dove's, though.) I need Lindt's or exotic imported chocolate from Whole Foods (Cinnamon-flavored chocolate is my favorite - okay, addiction - I crave it!) I like to make my own chocolates and have played around with the idea of trying to sell them. Pipe dream, but tantalizing nonetheless.

I tag Monique Shorten, Crystal Mills and Rachel Whetten. Please tell us seven things others might not know about you;).

NEWS FLASH

David lost his first tooth Thursday, April 10th. He was wiggling it while waiting in the car to pick up Julie from school and shouted to Mom that his tooth had come out. Mom quickly unbuckled her seat belt, climbed to the back of the car, and relieved to not have to stop any bleeding, wrapped the tooth in a tissue to take home. The Tooth Fairy traded David his tooth for a dollar after David went to sleep. Don't spend it all in one place, Dave!

Spring Fling

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"Quote of the Week"

Julie loves to read her Bible, often in books with familiar names like Jeremiah and James. While reading in James, she was excited to discover James 1:5, the scripture that led the boy Joseph to the Sacred Grove. During the Saturday afternoon session of conference, Julie quoted, completely from memory, the verse to Jesse, including the words "liberally" and "upbraideth." Jesse was very impressed and told her so. She replied, "That's going to be hung up in my heart."

Separated at Birth?

Uncanny!!! Of course, it comes from my side of the family. My grandmother grew up in Preston. The reservoir near town is named after her grandfather (I think; I'll have to ask my aunt again). And my aunt also tells me Jared Hess (Napolean Dynamite writer and director) is our fourth cousin once removed or something like that. I loved watching Napolean shop in the DI and Kings, because my aunt would take us "to town" to shop in those exact stores. Goshhh!

Video Time!

The yays have it! Watch James' amazing feet!