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Monday, May 4, 2009

* Tage's Rabbit

Rabbit has been your imaginary friend forever! You never blame rabbit for doing stuff.... you just always want to take care of rabbit, and always need him to be with you. I love you sweet boy! Never let go of Rabbit! Hugs!

Click to play this Smilebox slideshow: * Tage & Rabbit

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Sunday, April 19, 2009

* InkYouBater ! Reaching your potential.

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To you my grandson! You are amazing. It has been an amazing ride having you here at gramah Jackie's school. You have reached your full potential each and every day! It's time for you to begin 3rd grade in your neighborhood school. I will miss you. I wanted to give you a message of reflection on the days we've had together.

I have thanked Heavenly Father each day for the blessing of having you and your family visit my classroom. This is a world where there doesn't seem to be enough time for all that my heart desires to do. I desire to be the best Gramah I can be. To learn about my grandchildren, to show my spirit and love to them each day. Because I have to work, it is very hard for me to fullfill the desires in my heart. Having you here at school has been a win win blessing that cannot be measured. I've felt I could give more, be more because you were here.

On the days that you and your family stayed after school to "visit" you spent time writing and illustrating stories, creating alphabet characters, drawing, making puppets, practicing math, reading books, finding joy in the learning process. While other kids were home watching TV or playing video games, you've been here soaking in education, and loving it! I have treasured these times watching you learn.

I have especially treasured all the notes of love you have left for me. I have saved each and everyone of them. They are worth more than silver and gold.

Never once have you wandered around the building bothering teachers, the office people, or the custodians. You've always kept yourself in the right place at the right time. You never once came to me during the school day during learning time or recess. You are a special young man, and I love you so much.

Your teacher is proud of you. You are reading on a 4th grade level. You go to the public library and pick out 20 books, take them home, and read and learn from them.

I thank you Dax, for being here. Teaching is a rough and tiresome journey, but you have made these past few years almost perfect!

When Mr. Bryner said it was time for you to go to your neighborhood school, I knew he was right! There are friends in your ward and neighborhood that you need to meet, making GOOD friends who will bring great joy and blessings to your life. But there was a part of me that hurt so bad. It was my heart. I hadn't prepared myself for your leaving. I went to my classroom, went in my closet and wept and wept. I felt like my happy place was gone.

Looking back, I realize it is not gone. Making good life-long friends will bring YOU great joy and will bring GREAT blessings to my heart, far more than I can ever imagine. I am anxious to watch these tiny miracles in your life as you grow!

Always remember to thank your teachers for all they do for you in the learning process. They are good people who give so much. Always be a good student. Learn and practice good things. Listen to the spirit. Be where your Heavenly FAther would have you go, be His Ambassader. Be an example to your friends, and your teachers.

Walk in the light of our Savior's love.

I love you! I miss you! Come and visit ANYTIME... My door is ALWAYS open!

Loads of Love...Gramah Jackie

Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter Shades!

* Reflections of Christ

Gather your family around your monitor.
Turn up the speakers.
Click on the Reflections of Christ picture and enjoy some of the most incredable photograph's of our Savior's life shot by Mark Mabry.

It is amazing.

I know my Savior lives.
I know He loves me and knows me personally.
I know He suffered deeply for each one of us, that we might have the blessings that can be our's if we follow the commandments every day in our lives.
I know He will come again.
I love my elder brother, Savior Jesus Christ.
I am in awe of the love He has for me and for each one of us. Happy Easter !
May our journey always be blessed with thankfulness, gratetude, charity and humbleness.
***Click on the enlarge button to watch it full screen. You'll be glad you did. Hugs and Much Love!

The Blessings of The Day

The Spoiled Under 30 Crowd
If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious!!!! If not, send it to your parents! They'll think it's funny! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning .... Uphill BOTH ways . Yadda, yadda, yaddaAnd I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in heck I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a dang Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!

1. When I was a kid, we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the dang library and look it up ourselves... In the card catalog!! (Do you even know what a card catalog is? Didn't think so!)
2. There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter... With a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!3. There were no MP3's or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the dang record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up!
4. We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
5. And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
6. We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics were horrible! Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
7. When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!
8. Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!And there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons!
9. And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a fire ... Imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid JiffyPop thing or a pan with HOT oil and Real popcorn kernels and shake it all over the stove forever like an idiot.
10. When we were on the phone with our friends and our parents walked-in, we were stuck to the wall with a cord, a 7 foot cord that ran to the phone - not the phone base, the actual phone. We barely had enough length to sit on the floor and still be able to twirl the phone cord in our fingers. If you suddenly had to go to the bathroom - guess what we had to do..... Hang up and talk to them later.That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled!! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
Regards, The over 30 Crowd

Probert's Heart Beat

Monday, May 4, 2009

* Tage's Rabbit

Sunday, April 19, 2009

* InkYouBater ! Reaching your potential.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

* Chicken Dance

Monday, April 13, 2009

* Easter 2009

* Adorable Little One Month

* Make a Wish

* Reflections of Christ

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