James doing Standard

A friend took this picture. It looks really great!

A couple of pics of James and Ashley

James Standard Timpview Competition w/ Jessie

James Latin Amateur Timpview w/Ashley

Dance Competition at Timpview HS

We had a fun day at a ballroom competition. Some fun pics and videos.

Cool New Toy at School

Today I opened the box with a document camera for my class today. It is so cool. We were taking notes and having a great time with it today. I guess it costs around 600 dollars. I get to use it because I took this class this summer. Lucky me.

Half a lawn

Dad transfered thick sod from Stan's yard to the new fenced in area. It looks cool. It raised 1/2 of the yard a half a foot, I think. Thanks Stan and Jess!

Funny mix up of words with Bob

Yesterday, dad had some rebar put in the car to take to Stan's house for his shed project. Bob was involved with this. So, today I am driving to Aunt Pearl's house because I was going to get some rhubarb that she was harvesting. So this is the conversation: All this time, Bob is thinking I'm talking about rebar. "Bob, I'm going to go to Aunt Pearls for some rhubarb. We are going to cut it into pieces and cook it. Dad likes it with strawberries." "Really mom, can you do that?"."Oh yeah...its a little sour, but if you put sugar with it...its good." "Mom, why would you want to do that". "Some people like it, especially dad". "It sounds horrible." "No, its not too bad". "If you boil it, it will soften after awhile, and its like sour patch kids." It took us awhile to get that we were talking about two different things. It was a pretty funny conversation.

Dad's UEA projects

Phil finished the little fence. Ella can go out and play now. He put two gates in. One on each end. He also built a big door on the storage unit in the back of the yard. He is also trying to get the big truck to inspection level. Libby read Fablehaven. Its a good book. She did a little shopping too. The boys mowed the lawns for the last time, we think. It was a beautiful outdoor day.

Elder McShinsky Oct week 3

Dear Family,
Everything is going great here in Russia.
He wrote about his favorite talks, that had a delay of a week, from Conference. He said that everyones costumes sound like they all will be great. He said he got some awesome looking ties.

UEA weekend

School is now out until Tuesday for the kids. It is a fall break for them. Rich had a great standard lesson tonight with Andrea Hale. It is looking good. This is a pic of his teacher when she danced pro.

Stranded at BYU

James walks in the door..and opps..he left Richard in Provo. He didn't remember that he was supposed to bring him home. Dad made a run to Lindon and met up with Richard's partner. lol

Bob's 3D map for school

Bob had to create a map of some type. He made Pizza Peninsula. He made salt dough mountains, rivers, cities, etc. He labeled everything with pizza names. He had a great time making it.

Bob has a new dance blog of his own

Bob and Mom created a blog for Bob tonight. It is at bobballroom.blogspot.com
Check it out and leave a comment for him. He also has a poll...so don't forget to vote.

Fun Word site

Check out this site and make cool stuff!  http://wordle.net

Gardner Village

Last night I went to Gardner Village on 7800 South to see the witches with an old friend from Oregon.  We had a fun time walking through the shops and looking at the bigger than life witches they had all over the village.  Here are a few pictures of some of the witches.  

Fence Building

We are putting a fence up.  It is right outside the middle door.  It is turning out really nice.

Elder McShinsky Oct week 2

Dear Family,

This last week went by pretty fast and good.  I haven't seen conference yet, but we get to see two sessions on Sunday of our choosing.  We met with a lot of good people this last week and found a some good investigators.  

Lol, I'm not sure on what to write...you'll have to ask me some questions or something :)  Everything is going really good.  We're finding and teaching and coming home tired.

Love,

Elder McShinsky

Bob found this rainbow..big

Rainbow in the desert on the way home out the window.

Here are more red rock pics

These are beautiful!

Conference Weekend

This post will show pics of going with G & G to St. George.  Bob and I traveled with them and Aunt Beckie.  We stopped at a red rock canyon and took amazing pictures.  Bob took some for reflections.  WoW is the theme..it works

Elder McShinsky Oct. 1st week

Hmmm..I 'm happily engaged in this blessed work.  Sometimes we're out here really tired and hungry, but we keep on working with a smile and a special message and at the end of everyday, it all pays off....I love sleep, but the beds aren't so good here :)

Have fun, be good.

Love, 

Elder McShinsky