Maddie's FCCLA Award Presentation at Mesa School Board Mtg

Tonight Madison was honored at the Mesa School Board meeting by Superintendent Cowen for her Gold Award Chapter Showcase win, representing Mt View High School, at the State FCCLA (Family, Career & Community Leaders of America) competition this spring.

To win she created a huge scrapbook (like 45 pages) of the years activities for all the different FCCLA programs at Mt View, like culinary arts, child development, fashion & interior desgin. The scrapbook has to meet strict criteria in appearance & content & they do a 10 minute oral presentation to the judges. They compete against all the different schools statewide. Believe me it takes hours & hours.

It's Madison's 2nd year being honored at the board meeting as she was the State FCCLA Showcase Gold winner last yr as well.

Last year she went on to compete at the FCCLA National's in Nashville, TN & this year she will be competing in Chicago. She's so excited to be going to Chicago! Whooo Whooo!

We love you Maddie & are so proud of all your hard work & all you've accomplished! You're the BOMB.COM!!!!!!!!

On Monday, we went to a CTE (Career & Technical Education) award ceremony where Maddie was awarded a certificate for completing the 2 year CTE program in Education Professions & recognized for her State FCCLA Gold Medal win at that ceremony as well.

"Out of the Park!"

Adam made a home run tonight in his baseball game. Look for him on the D-Backs in the near future! I love the "out of the park" cheering by Trevor C.:

The Justin Bieber Guide for Old People

With Bieber fever sweeping the planet I figured we, well those of us over 15, could use a little "Justin Bieber 101". Who is this kid that was recently on Saturday Night Live, has an upcoming concert tour, & will be a guest on Oprah in the near future? Luckily I found this "Justin Bieber Guide for Old People" to help us out:

Justin Bieber is the first "YouTube Sensation" to make it big:

Back in the old days, pop stars like Lady Gaga came up the hard way: After years of performing thankless gigs in small clubs they would eventually be signed to Island Def Jam Records. But Justin Bieber was signed to Island Def Jam Records just because a YouTube video of 12 year-old Bieber covering Ne-Yo in a singing competition went viral. A prominent manager randomly stumbled on it and now he's chilling with Usher. Bieber is in fact the first real YouTube sensation to cross over to the mainstream, and much of his appeal comes from this grassroots creation myth. (No, Susan Boyle doesn't count since the only people who enjoy her sincerely are you Old People.)

Justin Bieber is Canadian:

In the grand tradition of such Old People favorites as Alanis Morissette and Rush, Justin Bieber hails from Canada. He was raised in low-income housing by a very Christian single mom in Stratford, Ontario (Pop. 32,000). Now he lives in Atlanta, which you may remember from the time they seceded from the Union during the Civil War.

Justin Bieber Owns Twitter:

Perhaps you have experienced the phenomenon of logging into Twitter to see what brands of wine your friends are drinking only to be confused by the fact that "Justin Bieber" is a trending topic. He almost always is, for no reason except that every eleven year-old girl on Twitter appears to only tweet about Justin Bieber. (And everyone else is tweeting "Who is Justin Bieber?") Bieber has more than a million followers and, according to Perez Hilton, he gains 11,000 new followers daily. (FYI Old People: Perez Hilton is a widely-read blog famous for always being right.)

Justin Bieber Has Famous Friends Even You May Have Heard of:

You might know Ludacris best for the women he has in so many different area codes. But a new generation knows Ludacris only as Justin Bieber's friendly rapping sidekick on the summer hit "Baby". ("She had me going crazy, oh I was star-struck/she woke me up daily, don't need no Starbucks.") And Usher, who signed Bieber after hearing him sing just once, said of Bieber, "Sometimes he's like a little brother or a son to me." Bieber's toured with Taylor Swift, and sung the opening line on the new "We Are the World" remake that is probably on your "Chillaxing" iTunes playlist.

Justin Bieber's Hair is His Most Distinctive Physical Feature:

Justin Bieber Has Three Songs Every Young Girl Knows:

Bieber's first album, My World was released in November of last year. It went platinum. But all you need to know are the three hit songs and their corresponding music videos:

• "One Time" - The one where Usher calls Justin on his iPhone.
• "Baby (Ft. Ludacris)" - The one with Justin and Ludacris in a bowling alley.
• "One Less Lonely Girl" - The one at the laundromat.

Justin Bieber Literally Causes Riots Among Said Young Girls
You are old enough to remember the Watts riots, right? Bieber had one of those! Last November, during a scheduled appearance at a Long Island mall, a riot broke out among the 3,000 attendees when Bieber wasn't allowed to perform because of safety concerns. A handful of fans suffered minor injuries and an Island-Def Jam VP was arrested for not tweeting that the show was off. Yes, Old People, it's time to wake up to our scary new world where a YouTube sensation has supplanted social justice as the only reason anyone riots, and you can be arrested for not tweeting. Welcome.



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In complete honesty I didn't need this guide at all... I've been fully Bieber educated by my darling Ashely who is JB's #1 fan & I MAY even have one of his songs as my ring tone but hopefully the rest of you who aren't so lucky found it helpful.

Happy Birthday Ryan!

Happy Birthday to my dearest husband! Words can not adequately express how blessed I am to have you for my companion for the eternities. You're not only a wonderful husband but your a SUPER dad! We love you! XoXoXoXo

Eclipse Director Tweets Funny 'Eclipse' Trailer Spoof!

David Slade, who is the director of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, just tweeted this funny Eclipse trailer spoof:

Happy Birthday Faith!!!

Our sweet little Faith Alice is 10 yrs old today! I can't believe it! Faith is our 4th child & the 4th daughter. She was born at our home on East Pepper Place Monday, February 28, 2000 at 11:42pm. She was due on leap day, February 29th, but came just 20 min before. She is our only child that came right on time on her own. I wasn't even expecting her because I was always overdue. I remember the day clearly because I started to sort through all the old baby clothes thinking I still had a week or so to go when I started feeling mild contractions. Needless to say I was shocked.

She is a bundle of fun & a great big sister to Adam. Faith is a VERY organized person. Her school teacher is amazed at how perfectly clean her desk always is & she hates to have a thing out of place in her bedroom so it works out great that she shares with Madison bc Faith helps keep Madison organized whether Madison likes it or not.

A story we will never forget about Faith was when we went on a Disney Cruise 7 years ago. Faith was a quiet & shy 3 yr old at the time. My mom went with us & Maddie & Sara stayed in her cabin. Ryan & I were in a different cabin, a few doors down, with Ashley & Faith.

Early one morning our cabin phone rings waking us up. It's a the ships security asking us if Faith is in our room. I thought that was strange...of course she's in our room...silly me...I said "yes" thinking Faith was in bed but when I checked she was NOT there or anywhere in our room! Ahhhhhh!!!! I went & checked my Mom's room & she wasn't there either. Apparently Faith woke up on her own, unlocked the door & decided to go visit Grandma but couldn't find the right room nor could she find her way back to our room either & was found wandering around. She wasn't telling the Security her name so they were calling rooms of people with 3 year old girls to see who she belonged to.

Not only was it bad enough that she ran off without us even knowing but the cherry on top was she was only wearing a pull-up at the time. Yes, she was out roaming the halls in only a PULL-UP! It didn't even hit me she was only in a pull-up until I saw the Disney t-shirt that she was returned to us in, along with the stuffed animal they gave her. What an experience.

Faith loves softball, collecting stuffed animals, fixing her hair & color coordinating her outfits. She is a great help to our family.

We love you Faith!!!!

'Team Jacob' This One's For You

Once again I was doing a little too much You Tube surfing & came across this little gem that merges two of my favorite things Twilight & Taylor Swift songs. Personally, I like my men cold, dead & sparkly but for all my Team Jacob friends (wait...I have team Jacob friends?) this one's for you:



If you need the lyrics here they are in this video below:

Funny Super Bowl Commercials 2010

A lot of people just watch the Super Bowl for the commercials or DVR it so they can fast forward the game & go straight to the commercials. Well none of us here at our house even watched the game so I went online to check out some of the ads we missed...

Dave Letterman, Jay Leno & Oprah:



People are calling this one historic. If you know anything that's been going on in the late night wars the last few weeks it is pretty colossal.

The Green Police:



Ok this one totally reminds me of "no burn" days. Neighbors turn neighbors in if you are burning your fireplace on the wrong day. Seriously it happens.

Snickers Betty White:



Don't ya just love Betty White! She's hilarious! And wasn't that the guy that played Fish on Barney Miller?

Volkswagen with Stevie Wonder & Tracy Morgan:



Love the ending!

Mans Last Stand:



Nuff said.

Etrade:



Awwww...so cute!

Doritos - Weight Room:



This wasn't Doritos only Super Bowl commercial, they had 2 more that were also great but I really related to this one...hmmm...wonder why?


Did you have a favorite one? You can view all the commercials listed quarter by quarter here.