WHAT TO DO ON A SATURDAY?

Why build a greenouse of course. Ken said it was a fun project and will give a great head start to their garden this year.

All ready to go!

Here they are again.

Just in case you have misplaced your goals or need a refresher memory jog, I have listed your goals again.  I'm looking forward to a big participation this month.  Good luck to all.

ARIA
1. I will give up sodas.
2. I will read my scriptures everyday.

ASHLEE
1. Lose 12% body weight
2. Run a marathon
3. Learn to sew something to wear, and wear it in public

CAROL
1. Lose 12% body weight

2. Read the Book of Mormon

3. Exercise 3 times a week

4. Put a website up for our store

COPPELIA
1. I will lose 20lbs. through regular exercise, monitoring food intake, and meditation.
2. I will complete my first novel and send it out.
3. I will learn to remember names better by learning the name of everyone in my ward.
4. I take two family vacations this year. (Zion's Camping and Disneyland)

DANIELLE
1. Work 15 minutes on my thesis everyday
2. Read three books that are not school or work related
3. Do my physical therapy exercises at least 4 times a week

DAREN
1. Finish my album (8 songs)
2. Go big foot hunting(this is not a joke)
3. Read the book of Mormon
4. Learn to absail & learn to use our camera
DAVIS
1. Write every other day.
2. Practice martial arts daily.
3. Read at least 4 spiritual works.
4. Design and build a prototype of my fountains.

DECLAN

1. 24 chapters books in a year
2. Run a lap a day

DENNIS JR.
1. WEIGHT LOSS: To have lost 12% of my 1/1/2012 weight by 12/12/12. (Monthly goals of 1% by the 12th of each month.)
2. PRAY VERSE EAT: My version of Eat Pray Love. I too frequently forget to pray and study the scriptures, but I never ever forget to eat. Hence, at least 250 times in 2012, I will pray and read at least one verse of scripture before a morsel of food crosses my lips that day. (Monthly goal of at least 20 times each month.)
3. BLOGGERY: In 2012, I will post a new entry to one of my blogs at least once each week.
4. FITNESS: By 12/12/12, I along with Dennis Agle Sr. will have complete at least 250 combined Tai-Chi sessions. The rest of the world can take comfort in knowing that a Dennis Agle somewhere in the world is likely doing Tai-Chi on pretty much any given day. (Monthly goal of at least 20 times each month.)(If we reach the goal in any given month, only one of us will enter the monthly contest. Should that one win, we will split the "Grant").

EDDY
1. Lose 12% of body weight
2. 12 times in year temple attendance
3. Change a 1,000 diapers in a year

ERIK
1. Eat vegetarian breadfast, lunch and dinner one day per week.
2. Lose 11 pounds
3. Workout 156 times this year (3 days per week)
4. Cook dinner 24 times this year.

MOM/GRANDMA
1. Take the 12% in 12 months weight loss challenge.
2. Do a scrapbook of the 2011 Agle Family Reunion and complete 3 UFOs (quilt projects.
3. Attend the Temple 12 times in 2012.
4. Read the RS Daughters in My Kingdom (cover to cover), and all 12 issues of the Ensign (every article).

DAD/GRANDPA
1. To lose 12% of my body weight by 12/12/12.
2. I, along with Dennis Agle jr. will complete at least 250 combined Tai-Chi sessions. The rest of the world can take comfort in knowing that a Dennis Agle somewhere in the world is likely doing Tai-Chi on pretty much any given day. (Monthly goal of at least 20 times each month.)(If we reach the goal in any given month, only one of us will enter the monthly contest. Should that one win, we will split the "Grant").
3. To attend the temple at least 12 times by 12/12/12.
4. To read the Book of Mormon and the Pearl of Great Price, along with the Institute manual by 12/12/12.

JANUARY
1. Attend the temple 24 times by 12.12.12.
2. Scrapbook 8 pages per month by 12.12.12.
3. Exercise/stretch 3 times per week.
4. One Book of Mormon chapter per day and 2 personal prayers.

KATIE
1. Blog 52 times this year
2. Spend an hour a week planning for the next week
3. Read personal scriptures at least 4 times a week
4. Get a new job that I like and be outgoing at school and church to make new friends.

KEN
1. I'm going to attend the temple 12 times in 2012.
2. I'm going to read the 3.5 of the standard works in 2012 (all but the old testament).
3. I'm going to do the weight loss challenge.

KRISTIN
1. Floss every day.
2. Bench press my body weight by end of year.
3. Learn to paddle board
4. Lose 10 pounds by end of year.
LINDSEY
1. Learn how to bake a cake
2. Learn how to braid hair
3. Learn how to make a paper bird origami style

LIZ
1. Attend the temple 12 times by 12.12.12
2. Try and make 2 recipes each month
3. Scrapbook 12 pages by 12.12.12
4. Read 12 books by 12.12.12

MARK
1. Attend the temple 12 times by 12.12.12
2. Practice Spanish (via Rosetta Stone, Robert, etc) 8 hours per month (2 hours per week)
3. Complete Book of Mormon in 2012 (44 pages per month)
4. Do not want to lose 12% weight - workout consistently to get six pack. Complete Insanity.

MAYRA
1. Will run at least seven miles a week for the next year.

McCOY
1. Count to 100
2. Color 5 pictures a week

NATHAN A
1. I will write or draw every day.
2. I will work out every other day.

3. I will get to school on time every day

NATHAN P
1. work all semester to make honor roll
2. Do an act of service each month.

QUINTON C

1. Practice piano 5 times a week
2. Read 10 pages of Book of Mormon a week
3. Run 2 miles a week
4. practice sport 5 days a week

QUINTON G
1. Lose 12% body weight
2. Read the book of Mormon
3. Exerciese 3 times a week
4. Draw/paint 2 pictures

RHIANNON
1. Take the 12% in 12 months weight loss challenge.
2. Attend the Temple 12 times in 2012
3. Do the family history research and have 12 Family names receive Temple Ordinances in 2012
4. Read 12 books in 2012 two of which will be religious

RUTH
1. My primary goal will be to lose at least 12% of my body weight by Dec.12, 2012

RYAN
1. Become a Life Scout by the end of the year.
2. Earn 6 more Eagle reuired merit badges.
3. Cook a family meal 12 times this year.

STEVEN
1. I will be ready for school on time every morning (not necessarily there on time, something might come up. Just for me to be ready to leave before we need to go.
2. I will write something (in a novel, piano music, or maybe even drawing something) five out of seven days of every week.

SUZANNE
1. Attend the temple twice a month, once for temple work and once to work in my favorite place, the laundry room.
2. Read one book a month.
3. Redo our wedding album. The original fell apart at the beginning of last year!
4. Redecorate my bathroom, the laundry room and Kate's bedroom.

TRAVIS
1. Do an act of service each month.
2. Work all semester to make honor roll

KATIE & DAREN'S FAMILY GOALS
1. Attend the temple 12 times throughout he year and be on time to church at least 35 weeks of the 52 in the year
2. Read the Book of Mormon to finish by the end of 2012
3. Have FHE 24 times this year- preferably 2 times a month
4. Learn to make 12 new meals together

EASTER BONNETS ? ? ?

Not quite Easter time, but lovely hats, nonetheless
Steven, Katie,Aria,  Sashy & Davis.
Taken at Aunt Julie's home in Sacramento @2000.

Easter our first year in Hawaii.  1966

DISNEYWORLD- HERE I COME!

Well here is some very exciting news.  Sashy will be moving to Florida in September for 5 months to participate in a internship program that allows her to work and also to take 2 classes on line for her college credit.  Because they have to bring quite a bit of their things with them, (bedding, etc.) Suzanne and Sashy are going to make it a fun Mother/Daughter road trip and drive there.  It sounds so fun to be able to see the country, visit and yak a lot and enjoy a special bonding time together that will probably never happen again. 

So here in Sashy's own words:

For those of you who don't know, I was recently accepted into the Disney College Program in a restaurant internship. I am absolutely ecstatic and from what I've heard, working in the restaurants at Walt Disney World have an incredible energy, atmosphere, and level of kindness.

However, those accepted into the college program have the option to audition for face and fur characters, (for example, Tinkerbell, Pluto, Darth Vader... etc.). And unfortunately, when I learned of this, and additionally learned that there was an audition in Salt Lake City no less, I had to go.

I despise auditions and generally do not talk about them or let people know when I'm going to go to one or have had one just because it has a huge potential to be awkward if I don't get in or something like that but this audition was totally different.
IT WAS THE FUNNEST AUDITION EVER!!!!

My number. Out of 170-something.
CATTLE CALL.

Seriously, it was a blast and I wish I could tell details but Disney has a very strict 'Integrity policy' (to keep the magic alive, ya know) so I'm not allowed to share details but I will say that this girl made it through a plethora of cuts.

And then, just today, I recieved an email stating I had been cast as a performer. I got the part! (Part being unspecific. Generally, most characters (that's me) play multiple parts while they are down in Florida.) While down in Florida, my roles and responsibilities will include signing autographs, posing for pictures, dancing in parades, and etc for about five whole months! I am beyond excited and grateful for this opportunity and truly cannot WAIT for September 5th! (My arrival date.)

A big thank you to my wonderful family and friends who helped me get to this point! (Both literally and emotionally.) I couldn't have been given this chance without them!

And might I add from all of us, well done and congratulations, Sashy.  We're very excited for you.

 

BATS IN HER BELLFRY.

If you didn't know before, you know now that Ruth HATES BATS and cannot stay in the same house with them.  As you can see from the picture of her home, she has a drop dead gorgeous attic.  The kind you see in the movies.  Because the house is old, it is also appealing to bats.  Last Autumn she had the real "batman" come and take care of plugging up all the places the bats could enter but apparently one was still hiding in the attic.  (Well, let's hope the is just this one).  Here is an account of a recent event.

Last night it was just after 9:00 and I was getting ready to go upstairs to bed when I heard little sounds, indefinable sounds, suspicious sounds, coming from behind me. "Please, let that be a cat..." I prayed. But, NOPE!!

IT WAS A BAT!!!!! A BAT!!!!!!!!!!!

I cowered in the corner of my kitchen by the fridge, the bat swooping back and forth in and out of my line of vision. The phone was too far to reach, laying five feet away on top of a stove burner (as all phones should) for me to get with the bat flying willy-nilly in that room alone. "I can handle this" I thought to myself silently. "HELLLPPPP!!!" I inadvertently cried out loud, sounding for all the world like one of those little old ladies with the alert necklaces.

Having last seen the bat fly over towards the sink and not back again, I knew that my only option was to go upstairs and into my bedroom and that now was my chance. My bedroom had the two things I needed most: The bat net AND a phone. I'm sure I made quite the picture, scrambling up the stairs BACKWARDS. I closed the door, warily eyeing the considerable gap underneath, waiting for the inevitable leather-like claws to come crawling slowly in before flying right directly at my head. I grabbed my little corded princess phone, plugged in for emergencies when the power goes out, and dialed Julie and Scott, gasping as if I'd run a marathon.

Bless their hearts, they agreed to come right over (even though they were watching "The Apprentice" and it was near the end. Who got fired? They'll never know). It took awhile because Scott had to put his boots on, so I did what all grown women do in perilous situations: I called my mom and dad. "Why don't you take care of the bat yourself?" WHA - ? Until you've been ALONE in the house with a bat, I don't think you have an idea of the magnitude of fear that comes upon you. It's not that you need someone to protect you; that's not the only reason for company, it could be someone YOU feel the need to protect, thereby becoming braver yourself because you have someone to be brave for. At the very least, someone to share your fears or to call the doctor when the bat bites you with its bloody fangs would also be nice.

They talked to me until Julie and Scott arrived and made me feel much better. Alas! It was discovered that my side door which is frequentlly un- was left locked, and I knew that my front door was too. The only way for me to let them in was to GO DOWNSTAIRS, LAIR of the BAT, and let them in myself!! So I grabbed my net and my tennis racket, tucking the racket under my arm so I could wield the net with an arm and a half. From the top of the stairs I saw the bat fly into the kitchen from the living room. I waited a bit, didn't see him fly back out, so I quickly descended and when I got to the landing went backwards to the door. I am SO CALLING that Bat Guy today!! The guy that I paid $550 to bat PROOF my house!!!!

I armed Scott with the net, he clomped through the house turning on lights as he went, ending up in the kitchen where the bat was last seen. It took a little bit, but we finally heard, "Hey, mister! He's making himself at home here!" The bat was hunched over, sitting on the sill of my large window in the kitchen, CLAWS in front and darting his tiny tongue at Scott. Scott put the net over him, and the little bugger was so small he got out again! (in my defense, they don't LOOK small when they're SWOOPING around!!). Brave Julie took the racket and went into the kitchen. Julie screamed a teeny bit, I could hear her from my courageous vantage point by the front door. Next thing I know, Scott comes clomping up and down the hill of stairs in his boots, little bat softly screaming a tiny bit, trapped between the net and the racket, a bat sandwich, if you will. I opened the front door and stood back. WAY back. Scott took him out the door, down the stairs and across the street. He flew towards the neighbors. So long, suckah!!

I decided to stay at my own house last night after heartily and multiple timesy thanking Julie and Scott. I am armed once again wherever I go with a racket, stopping and starting at every little sound. It took me a long time to go to sleep, because every time I closed my eyes I thought to myself, "Wait! If my eyes are closed, I won't see if there's a bat!" Finally dozing off around 12:30.

OY.

Let's hope this isn't the beginning of another saga of bats. How they heck did he get in? It's hard knowing they can squeeze themselves through a hole no bigger than a pencil eraser. We'll see what happens today - TONIGHT.

Here's a note from Ruth tonight.

From your lips to God's ears, as the day is slowly darkening once again and it's time to take up arms.  Or at least find my tennis racket (I don't need it during the day).

I was just reciting that Maori war chant I learned for the May Day celebrations for who knows what grade.  Maybe THAT'LL make me brave, should the need for bravery ever arrive again!  Or it'll at least bring the neighbors.

We'll see what happens!  Wish me luck! 

LOVE YOU!

TEA TIME WITH ERIK

Last week Erik was over in our neck of the woods and invited us for lunch.  We met up at the Spectrum and decided on P. f. Chang's.  They make the best sweet & sour soup and lettuce wraps ever..  He ordered a wonderful lunch for us and there was plenty to take home for lunch the next day.  Thanks, Erik.

Erik teaching us some more things about our new phones.

Parting shot.

NO NEWS MEANS . . . A BLAST FROM THE PAST.