tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196984542024-03-07T10:56:52.583-07:00The Painful HappeningsSome people call me random, I prefer to think of myself as "Well Rounded"jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.comBlogger2306125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-72006171372727512662017-03-05T18:28:00.000-07:002017-03-05T18:28:10.642-07:00A cycle of making and keeping sacred covenants - Sacrament talk - 23 Aug 2015
Towards the middle of my missionary service in California, I
was transferred to the Mohave Desert.
During my first Sunday in the new ward I was serving in, someone, I
don’t remember who, told us about a family they had heard about that wanted to
visit with us. A missionary loves to
hear that kind of thing, we headed over there as soon as we could. We met Jake and Lori, Jake hadjjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-30395833616162491482017-02-26T18:24:00.000-07:002017-02-26T18:24:12.396-07:00Spiritual Spurs - Sacrament talk - 24 April 2016
Spiritual Spurs
24 April 2016
The Spur
In the summer of 2002, I shattered my ankle playing
softball. I was taken to the hospital,
where they operated to put the ankle back together, and get me back on the road
to recovery. I spent a month in a
wheelchair, a while on crutches, and eventually got moving again. In October a year and a half ago, I dropped
something on that jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-82299017284775857772017-02-19T18:20:00.000-07:002017-02-19T18:20:10.066-07:00Gratitude & Thanksgiving - sacrament talk - 27 Nov 2016
Gratitude &
Thanksgiving
27 Nov 2016
Last summer, our family went on a road trip back East. I was not feeling well, I went to the doctor
the day before we left, and was diagnosed with double ear infections. I still thought we had everything taken care
of, and off we went. Because I was not
feeling well, Tara did much of the driving, especially on the first day. jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-35151182913605003602017-02-12T18:16:00.004-07:002017-02-12T18:16:54.150-07:00Listening to the Spirit - sacrament talk - 22 Jan 2017
Listening to the
Spirit will save all our lives
22 Jan 2017 – jjp
Fifteen years ago, Tara was back
East visiting my parents with the kids.
I was busy at work with a large time sensitive data center migration
project, working some long hours so that we could get done before the start of
Fall semester. One Sunday, in
Priesthood, I was talking with a few brethren in the ward jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-34344708297284635012017-02-12T18:13:00.001-07:002017-02-12T18:13:52.824-07:00HelloI haven't been here much of late. I've been kind of busy.
Last week, I was released from the Bishopric in our local congregation. I've been in the Bishopric 5 of the last six years, it's a bit of a time commitment serving, even as a counselor to the Bishop.
In addition to that, 2016 was an interesting year for health issues:
In January, I had surgery to remove a bone spur from jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-28677432530140267592014-12-08T22:59:00.002-07:002014-12-08T22:59:58.294-07:002014 Christmas Tree decorating
Somehow I got the video a bit out of focus, and it stopped recording on it's own, but you get the idea...
jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-37261304237648351042014-04-29T20:04:00.000-06:002014-04-29T20:04:00.053-06:00Published Author
This Winter, Mary became a published author! She won a writing contest, and they published her story with a bunch of others. (http://www.amazon.com/Sibyls-Scriptorium-Volume-1/dp/1494992914) It's called Fashtonella, and is published in a thing called Sibyl’s Scriptorium.
Nice job, Mary!
jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-38172232149810193932014-04-28T23:49:00.000-06:002014-04-28T23:49:00.022-06:00Massively Parallel Bedding - Part 2
I talked about triple bunkbeds before. http://sparbowl.blogspot.com/2013/11/massively-parallel-bedding-part-1.html
We had the solve the 'Noel climbs out of her crib with ease' problem a couple months back, the answer was another triple bunk. As is the case with all things I build, I thought of several ways to improve the thing immediately after I got it put up, but it was too jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-74390009685969800172014-04-25T11:30:00.001-06:002014-04-25T11:30:56.982-06:00BaseballLast week I had the opportunity to go to a San Francisco Giants home game. We had a great view, looks like nearly every view in the park is a great one. They played the Dodgers, went 12 innings, and eventually won the game. Good game. Those Giants fans do not like the Dodgers. We had a guy a few rows behind us that turned into a loud drunk by the 8th inning, fortunately hejjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-4460251733727129152014-03-31T15:31:00.004-06:002014-03-31T15:31:29.659-06:00Angel Moroni placed on the Provo City Center temple
Video by a rank amateur...
jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-29651550273785533392014-02-02T17:22:00.001-07:002014-02-02T17:22:32.984-07:00新年 好!jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-27931100173196501552013-12-14T11:44:00.000-07:002013-12-14T11:44:00.019-07:00Christmas concert
Kate's Christmas concert was this week. It's kind of nice the way her choir director does it, no extra monologue, no long explanations about the music, etc. (That comes next week at the elementary school concert.)
I tried capturing it on video, but I didn't have the tripod, and Noel kept trying to get my attention, so the results in the video vary...
jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-84111233185758565032013-12-13T14:20:00.000-07:002013-12-13T14:20:00.668-07:00Old videos #9
Mary performing in the living wax museum - or whatever it is the school calls it - 20 March 2013
This is the last in a series of old videos that had been sitting on the camcorder. Hope you enjoyed them.
jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-36974244282131524272013-12-12T14:06:00.000-07:002013-12-12T14:06:00.197-07:00Old Videos #8
Spontaneous dance party - 11 Nov 2012
jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-33563009936136969382013-12-11T13:57:00.000-07:002013-12-11T13:57:00.176-07:00Old Videos #7
Try not to get sea sick.
jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-36467560957805666992013-12-10T13:41:00.000-07:002013-12-10T13:41:00.352-07:00Old Videos #6
All the way through the 2012 school year, Tara and the kids took piano lessons. At the end of the school year, they had an outdoor recital - 29 May 2012. Then the piano teacher quit...
jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-22637032993763024132013-12-09T13:14:00.000-07:002013-12-09T13:14:00.280-07:00Old Videos #5
Ruth's first grade play - 23 May 2012. The video is a bit long...
jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-8234145895643273732013-12-08T16:56:00.000-07:002013-12-08T16:56:00.186-07:00Old videos #4
Mary at a school dance festival - 6 April 2012. This was 4th grade. No dance festival for Emma last year, the Chinese program didn't do it...
jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-26752857933479687552013-12-07T12:51:00.000-07:002013-12-07T12:51:00.060-07:00Old Videos #3
Mary and Ruth in a school talent show - 24 Feb 2012
Now with shaky cam!
jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-61522356099204629642013-12-06T12:47:00.000-07:002013-12-06T12:47:00.300-07:00Old Videos #2
Emma creating a snowman - January 2012:
jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-54729548958171956142013-12-05T12:36:00.000-07:002013-12-05T12:36:00.581-07:00Old Videos #1
I found some old videos on our camcorder, that were never posted here. Today's subject? Noel as a baby, October 2011:
jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-79639628716275682142013-12-04T15:05:00.000-07:002013-12-04T15:05:00.109-07:00Setting up a Christmas treeSetting up a Christmas tree at our house is a bit of an event, with so many hands wanting to help, and so many ornaments to put up. It's so big, we have two trees. Usually, the trees get put up, the lights on, then I have the kids line up to get ornaments to put on the tree. They put their ornament on, then go to the back of the line. I also tell them to alternate trees, jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-54494663603534629192013-12-03T12:06:00.000-07:002013-12-03T12:06:00.855-07:00Random picturesTurns out that out camcorder takes pretty poor pictures, but here are a few I found:
One day this will seem like a picture from long ago.
I have no idea when, what, where, or why. There were several like this.
This is actually a pretty cool effect. I have no idea how it was done. Maybe it's time to finally read the owner's manual.
There he is againjjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-42037518838549630972013-12-02T16:29:00.000-07:002013-12-02T16:29:00.159-07:00It's you, Dad!Tara has made several little books with pictures of the family in them. Noel like to go through them identifying each person. If that person is around, she will run up to them. "It's you, Dad, it's you!"
Lately, she's been going through other books as well, when she finds someone that looks halfway like a father figure, she comes and finds me, and says "it's you, Dad!"
Noel jjphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09618278105871279979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19698454.post-81862604875441336342013-12-01T21:57:00.000-07:002013-12-01T21:57:00.146-07:00The Fall
Cleaning the leaves out of all the hair afterwards took several days.
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