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Happy 65th Dad!



Recently I made a scrapbook for all of us to give my dad for his 65th birthday.  It was titled '65 Reasons We Love Dad' and it came out AMAZING!!!  I've used iPhoto on our Mac before for photo albums, but this time I used shutterfly.  I think I am sold with shutterfly!  I can't argue the simplicity of iPhoto or the quality, but I am SUPER pleased with how shutterfly's turned out.  The book is hard bound and the pages are thicker.  Just overall, LOVED it!!  I made a layout for each of the six kids {grandchildren included} as well as my mom with each of our reasons why we love dad.  The #1 Reason was because he married mom & the #65 Reason was from my mom "Because he takes me fishing."  Here are some of my favorite pages in the book!

Tagged Again

Fill this out about your Senior year of High School!  The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be.  {I was tagged by Tiffanie}

Name of your high school and graduating Year:  Chugiak High School 1997
Did you marry someone from your high School?  No
Did you car pool?  I guess, my mom was a Special Ed teacher, so we drove together.  Beats riding the bus!!  But occasionally I'd ride with Colby Thurston from early morning seminary to school.
What kind of car did you have?  'The Mitsu' a Mitsubishi Galant.  We were one of the few then who had a sunroof!!  
What kind of car do you have now?  Toyota Landcruiser
What kind of job did you have in high School?  None technically, but cleaned a galls house every week.
Were you considered a flirt?  Probably, I had lots of boyfriends.  Jason says I was 'hot lips' when I was in HS.  But he likes to exaggerate :D
Did you get suspended or expelled? No, but got a few detentions for tardies.  I ALMOST did one time for wandering the halls after school and bouncing my volleyball on the floor.  The janitor told me to stop and I didn't, then wanted to confiscate it.  So I ran away outside, and he got my name from a schoolmate and I had to go to the principles office the next day and he made me apologize or get suspended for three days.  Dumb I know, but my freshman year I was kinda a punk.
Can you sing the fight song?  Chugiak mustangs hats off to the, to our colors true we will be . . . Fight, fight, fight, put your ______ to the test.  Rah, Rah, Rah for CHS, Rah, Rah, Rah for CHS, Rah, Rah for CHS.
Where did you sit during lunch?  Cafeteria until I could drive or go with someone who did.  Senior year was in the senior hall by my locker.  But my favorite was when I'd take off to my dad's CES office and see if he'd take me to Garcias for lunch and then ask him to sign me out for the rest of the day.  I'm sure I took advantage of that a lot, but it was honestly good daddy/daughter time!  That happened a lot my junior and senior year.  
What was your school mascot?  Mustangs
If you could go back and do it again, would you?  I don't think so.  Too confusing, too dramatic.  But it was fun.  I like not being so immature.  College was better.
What do you remember most about graduation?  My tan I got that week from Halibut Fishing!  Speaking at Seminary Graduation.  Oh, and also wearing my 'QB' boyfriends letterman jacket - who was from our Football State Championship Rivals, Palmer High - {who we lost to that year} to our High School Senior Grad Blast.
Who did you take to the Prom in your Senior Year?  My previous boyfriends' little brother.  
Do you still talk to the person you went to prom with?  Only if we see each other.  


Letterpress


Jason's cousin, Cameron Moll, is one of the most talented and smartest persons I know when it comes to graphic/web design!  He works for the church designing their website, has a marketing & design blog Authentic Boredom, public speaks on things I cannot comprehend, and has his own publications. One of his latest posts is this AMAZING 16"x24" Letterpress that he designed with limited editions for sale.  It's absolutely stunning & only $50!  He's taking names/email for his next printing edition available mid December.  Click here.  

DJ Smeds



We love music & we LOVE to dance!  Our family's favorite activity is to turn on iTunes and get cRazY!  Our callings have changed in the past months.  Jason was in the Stake YM Pres, then was called to be the Priests Advisor, and then a few weeks ago they called him to be Nursery Leader.  Before you get all sympathetic, Jason's favorite thing to do at church is eat snacks and play with kids!  He couldn't be happier.  He has two other men in there with him.  He looks forward to lax sundays and just being a Big Kid!  I on the other hand am still 2nd Counselor in YW.  

While Jason was in the Stake, we occasionally subbed for the DJ's when they were out of town.  So two months ago we got yet another calling to be the stake DJ's.  Another dream job for Jason since we both LOVE to dance.  We've been seen to jump off the stage and get down with the youth ourselves!  We love being with the youth and this is another way we can be "cool" and still feel young.  

The girls announced on sunday that there was a dance this saturday and that Sister Smedley was 
DJ-ing and all of them started 'rais'n the roof' and chanting "woot-woot"!  So they made me gangster talk . . . I told them it'd be "off the hizzle fo' shizzle"!