She made it!

Shayne made it on Exec. Council! She is the Service Supervisor. She will be over every service project they will have. Which is good because they only do one service project a year. Tuacahn High is required to do one a month! So, Shayne is seeking now for things to do this next school year. She wanted to be involved in the say of what activities happen and she also wanted it to look good on a resume'. This position lets her do both!

She is excited and is taking suggestions on things that she could do. Got any ideas?

Exec. Council!

Shayne decided to run for Exec Council for next year. So, the first step was to get 2 teacher references. She took one into the Principal, Mr. Mees, and he said that she was the first person to ever give one to him to fill out and would be happy to do it. The next thing was to come up with a Spirit Week agenda. So she planned a weeks worth of activities and based them all on getting to know other kids in other grades and unifying the students. I thought it was genius. Then the next thing was to make 10 posters and 2 banners to hang up in the halls this past Monday morning. So, she instantly asked James and Jason if they could help her out. They came to her track meet at Desert Hills and planned when and what. Then Sunday night they came over and busted them all out. They were awesome and saved us a ton of time. It's amazing how James' mind eye can see things that we couldn't even imagine. When Shayne and I do a poster we have to prewrite everything in pencil to make sure it fits and stays straight. It takes forever and we are not creative. We would have just written it plain and simple and that's how they would have looked. She also wrote on her car windows. Here are some pics:

The 2 banners turned out awesome. Top 10 reasons to vote for Shayne and top top 10 reasons to vote Beckstrand.

Shayne:
1. Reads Mark Twain
2. Won't complain
3. Grandma's name is Elaine
4. Is not insane
5. Loves to entertain
6. Likes to go down memory lane
7. Great Grandpa flew Lindberghs plane
8. Will refrain from being profane
9. Won't give you a migraine
10. Hope you like this campaign

Beckstrand:
1. Loves Disneyland
2. Can do a handstand
3. Sometimes wears a headband
4. Likes to build castles in the sand
5. Wishes she owned a hotdog stand
6. In the summer gets suntanned
7. Can play a baby grand
8. Can shoot a rubber band
9. Bike has a kickstand
10. Will completely understand

It was really fun to help her put them up in the High School.

Wednesday she had and interview with the 2 advisers over Student government, the current Student Body President and our athletic director who is like the vice principal. They asked her all sorts of questions and told her that she did a great job. Afterwords, Shayne went to Seminary which she has with the student body president and he told her that she rocked her interview. So she was really happy.
Then today was the final thing. The assembly! She had to prepare a 2 minute talk to give to the entire student body. We weren't really sure what to do so we kept with the rhyming theme. But changed it a little like in the movie Private Eyes with Don Knotts and Tim Conway. If you haven't seen it then you are missing out. Here is her talk:

As you can tell from my posters, I like to rhyme,
I think it’s fun and you should try it some time.
I’m running for Exec Council because I love this school,
We all know that the students here are really awesome.

The unity and support that we give to each other,
Make us feel like a sister or brother.
Our classes are great and with a backpack,
We will learn and achieve cuz we’re on the right trail.

Our football team is so strong,
All that muscle just can’t be wrong.
Our basketball players are tall and lean,
Plus they’re so nice they’d never be rude.

Our golf and tennis could never be better,
And the swim team is wet and couldn’t get wetter.
Our cross country and track are number one,
No matter how fast they can’t be out raced.

And when it comes to giving us school spirit,
Dance and cheer are the ones to do it.
Our soccer team is top class,
They love to go and kick some butt.

Our wrestlers can rule on the mat,
They can lay there opponent out flat.
Baseball and softball just can’t be outdone,
I love when they hit a ball over the fence.

Band, choir, and orchestra bring music down the hall,
Our drama department has a great curtain call.
Pine View High School has great unity,
Join any club and you will find out.

Next year will be amazing just wait and see,
Don’t forget to vote for me!
Shayne is my name and I don’t mean to gloat,
But I’ll do a great job just cast your ballot.

Vote for me and we’ll have a great time.
And now sadly I’ve come to the end of my rhyme.


Right after the assembly they were allowed to vote. They have all of today to vote then the posters come down and they find out on Monday who won what.
I say who won what because it isn't all about votes.
50% in votes
25% interview and references
25% Spirit week assignment

The person with the highest accumulative points is the president. 2nd is Vice and so on. I do think that the final decision is up the the advisers.

So Monday we will find out what happens. She'd love to be president but just being involved would be fun.

Conference Weekend

On Thursday our Young Women's Presidency (Stefanie Turek, Sarah DeMille and I) went up to Salt Lake to the Young Women Leadership Conference. We left at 5am and got back at 7pm. It was really fun and a great bonding experience. We were able to listen to the wonderful Young Women Leaders of our Church and learn better ways to serve the youth of our ward. After it was over we went to the LDS Distribution Center where I was able to buy a set of scriptures for Eric. The sun was out and it was a beautiful spring day.

Yesterday and today I was able to listen to the 181st annual LDS conference. I LOVE Conference! It is always an incredible thing to be able to sit and listen to the Prophet and the leaders of our church. It is a humbling and spiritual thing to know how much the Lord loves us and cares for each of us. These wonderful leaders are truly inspired by Lord to let us know exactly what we need to hear to make us better people. This time there were a lot of talks on helping others and of course on the importance of families.

If you want to know more about what I believe in then click on the link on the top right side of my blog and it will take you there.

ERIC SET A DATE!

About a month ago I talked to Eric about how Satan wants us to fail and when we are getting close to something good he tries to break us down. Like when I get ready to go to the Temple something always comes up but I have to push through it and go to the temple to do what is eternally important. Eric called me up the other day and told me that he couldn't wait until June to get baptized (he wanted to wait for school to get out). He said it needs to be as soon as possible because Satan is working overtime on him. So, I said that we could cancel our plans for Easter and come then. He called me the next day and said that he had set it all up with the missionaries and that Joel could baptize him on Saturday April 23rd and confirm him on Easter Sunday, April 24th! What a great way to spend Easter!

Every year we spend Easter at my parents house because it's my Dad's favorite holiday. All the grand kids think he's the Easter Bunny. He always goes all out and hides hundreds of eggs and candy in his backyard and grandma hands out bubbles and bouncy balls and fun little toys. It's a huge tradition. Easter and Thanksgiving are our main trips up to Lehi. We never miss it. But this year we will. The kids were really bummed about not getting to do the hunt and to not get all that candy and fun stuff from grandma and grandpa. But after explaining that this will be a very special Easter and will be a great remembrance of the real reason of Easter they were no longer sad and are now getting really excited to go.

Shayne said that at Alex's baptism his girlfriend spoke about baptism and tried not to cry but her dad gave the talk on the Holy Ghost and cried like a baby. She said that Eric had better ask some of his friends from Arizona to do the talks because if she had to then she'd never make it all the way through.

We are blessed to have Eric in our lives and know that the Lord has great plans for his life. He is already a great example to his family and non-member friends. I will blog about it more when it happens. WE ARE SO EXCITED!

Long Course Kick-off

Shayne's 1st meet of the Long Course season was at SUU this past Friday and Saturday. We were there from 3-10:30pm and then came home and ran back up the next morning at 7am. This meet is put on by us, SUSA, for anyone who wants to come. So, we had South Davis, Clearfield, American Fork, Vegas Storm and a couple others that I can't remember right now. This is our Easter Meet. We pass out Easter eggs to all those who win there heat and have an Easter Egg Hunt in the pool for the swimmers and one out side for all the siblings who don't swim. It is always so much fun. It was just really long and we didn't even stay the whole time. Saturday had a morning meet from 8-1pm and then a afternoon meet from 3-8pm. We didn't stay for the afternoon one because one of Shayne's friends, Alex Jones, was getting baptized at 4pm. Alex is one of the kids that Shayne used to eat lunch with everyday and talk about religion. He said that Sunday Night football was his religion. But since then has had a lot of righteous influences in his life and got interested. Shayne said that there were so many kids from Pine View High there that they had to add extra seats. AWESOME!!

Soccer Practice

Eric's Dad, Rafi, helped Josh and Sophie out the other day with some great moves for soccer. Rafi was a semi-pro soccer player in El Salvador and Josh loves to hear his stories and look at his trophies.

This was on Thursday and on Saturday Josh scored his first goal! I wasn't there but I heard that it didn't just roll into the goal. It was awesome, hard and went into the top right corner with attitude! He was so excited to tell me all about it. I'm so grateful that it has boosted his self esteem. As soon as Rafi got home from work Josh went over to tell him the good news.

Preference Pictures

Here are some picture - finally - of Preference with our favorite person Jordan Vane.

Jordan is a crack up. He is the youngest in his family and all of his siblings are married except his big brother who just left for his mission so Jordan loves to come over to play with Josh, Ben and David. He doesn't really care for the rest of us. He just uses us for the little boys. They love it.