Art Camp

The past couple of weeks I've been helping out one of my teachers with an arts camp for kids at SUU. It was so much fun! There were 31 kids ages 6-12 and they were so cute and super smart and super creative. We learned about photography, print making, they made masks, sketched, and all kinds of fun stuff. We dyed scarves with kool-aid (see here) and turned the masks into puppets which turned out pretty awesome and the kids went on a parade with their puppets around campus. They also learned about different artists and went to the art museum and practiced looking at the different elements of art in different pieces. It was so much fun.

One cool project they did was a stop motion movie. They started off making flip books to learn about animation and how to make their pictures move. They then broke off into groups and were given two parts of a song called "Colors". They illustrated their part of the song on a white board and took a picture of it. They then changed a little bit of it and took another picture. The teacher then took all the pictures and put them into a slideshow to make a movie. It turned out so cool. The kids were super excited about (especially super excited to be on youtube). On the last day, they had an art show for their parents where they showcased all their art and their movie. The kids were so cute and kept pointing out everything they did the movie.

You can watch their movie here. Every picture in this movie was taken by the kids. The self portraits they did was on the photography day where they learned about the rule of thirds and how pose to make the picture more interesting. They crack me up.

Once upon a time I bought a cell phone charger and then went to Wal-Mart

I caved and bought a new charger. All I have to say is that my old one better not be showing up anytime soon.

I went to Wal-Mart to buy some salad dressing. While I'm in the salad dressing aisle, I overhear two old ladies talking. (Confession time: I tend to eaves drop more than occasionally.) Old lady 1 was telling old lady 2 that her nephew just had a baby girl. She looks just like her mommy and weighed 8 pounds. Old lady 2 asked her what they named her.
Old lady 1 said "They named her Elizabeth."
"Ew, really?" said Old lady 2.
"I know, not my first choice. I always thought that was a whorish name." (K, at first I thought she said horrid, but then I heard the next line)
Old lady 2 said, "All the Elizabeth's I know are just so loose jumping around from man to man. I don't know what parents are thinking naming their daughters that."
Old lady 1, "Hopefully this little girl will go by Liz or something, or maybe her middle name Rose."
Old lday 2, "Rose, I've always loved that name. They should have named her that."
Then they caught me listening and muttered something about inconsiterate young people as they walked away.
Then I bought my salad dressing and went back to my apartment and laughed about it with my roommates. We decided that old people are awesome.
Sometimes I can't wait to be old and say whatever I want. Haha
p.s. I don't think I've heard anyone say "whorish" besides Angela from The Office. Maybe these old ladies watch every Thursday.

Lesson learned

I have learned an important lesson this week. Most things in this life are temporary and only bring temporary happiness. Let me explain:

1. I lost my cell phone charger. My phone is 100% dead. The only communication I have with my life outside of Cedar is through the internet.

2. My computer is super sick. I have a killer virus or something. I was able to save my all my stuff onto a portable hard drive so I am all set, except for the part where my computer randomly shuts down while I am checking my emails, and checking facebook, and reading blogs, and listening to my music, and watching youtube, and doing my homework.

3. Ice cream is delicious. Ice cream is not delicious when you are up all night puking it out. Sorry for that one.

4. I checked out a book at the library. It was awful. I didn't finish it. I dropped it in the toilet at the school. I have to buy the library a new awful one.

But, even all these things are temporary.

So I am going to the rodeo tonight. I've never been so I am super excited! I will take lots of pictures!

By the way, have you seen this? It certainly is about time Disney!

Jakey (I may have cried when I wrote this...)

( Jake and I at my seminary graduation. I don't have a more recent one yet.)
This last weekend, I went home to see my little brother graduate high school. HIGH SCHOOL! It was the craziest thing. I love him so much and I am so proud of him. He's worked so hard in everything he's done. He graduated with 2 medals as an International Baccalaureate and just the stuff he had to do to graduate with that is really mind blowing and I doubt I would have done it as a high schooler such as taking super hard classes, paying lots of money for super hard tests, 100 plus hours of service, and writing a huge paper that was graded by super smart people in Europe (he wrote about the physics of golf) . He also graduated as a Utah State Scholar. He received high honors and is also a seminary graduate. He got accepted to the University of Utah and is going to study Biomedical Engineering. Because of his IB stuff, he is all done with his Gen Eds, which is basically awesome, so he can focus on his engineering classes. This time next year, we will all be anxiously waiting for his mission call...bah!

I can't believe my little brother is all grown up now! He made us all cry at his graduation, including my grandparents I have never seen cry. He spoke, which was super gutsy and so not Jake, but he did amazing. I don't have the video, but you can watch it here on my mom's blog. It's not too long so you should all watch it.

We are all so proud of him, even if some like to make fun of him. (They're just jealous, Jake) He is off to bigger and better things and will accomplish even more and I am so excited to see it all.

I love you Jake!

(k, I may have lied. This is a more recent picture of us)