Visitors from the East!

My sister Jessica and her husband and kids came to Arizona. Her father-in-law passed away and they came for the funeral and to be with family. They are currently staying with us and it has been wonderful to see them again, even though it hasn't been very long. Margaret and I have had so much fun playing and babysitting our niece and nephews. There are such cute kids! The other night we made cookies with them and their cousins from their dad's side. Our kitchen was a mess and I am so sad that I forgot to take pictures. They had awesome cookies. They will be here for awhile longer and I promise to post some pictures! Oh, and today is Tac's birthday! He is four and a cool kid! :)

Random Story From the Life of Hilaree aka RSFTLOH

I was just remembering and reflecting my long life and a story came to my mind! It's RSFTLOH time!

Once upon a time...

in a classroom far far away by the freeway. Students were reading and writing and mathing and learning many great things. In the corner, four girls (Hilaree, Jenny, Krystal, and Margaret!) were rebelling, ignoring their studies, and learning a game that would change their lives forever! This game takes great skills of quick thinking, speedy reflexes, and immense endurance! The game is called SPAZ! All that is required is a set of UNO cards, more than two people, and a fighting attitude!

This game is so much fun, it hurts. :) It has gone many places. To Girls Camp, family reunions, and game nights through high school! And it all started in Mrs. Wong's class many years ago!

How to Play!

Divide all the cards among the players. No peeking.

In a clockwise order take turns discarding one card facing up.

When two cards of one color are placed on each other, everyone does the color's action and whoever is the slowest to do the action takes all the cards from the discard pile!

Goal: Get rid of all your cards!

If a wild is discarded, everyone does all the actions. Slowest takes the cards!

Actions:

Double Green: Slap the ground or table in front of you! (hint to remember: green grass)

Double Red: Slap your chest! (hint: red heart)

Double Yellow: Slap your forehead! (hint: yellow fever)

Double Blue: Reach for the sky! (hint: blue sky)

Wild: All actions, Green, Red, Yellow, then Blue. Look out for your nose on the way up!

This game has brought a lot of joy to my life! I love it!

Classroom Decor!

I've been helping my dad decorate his classroom for the upcoming school year. It's a tradition that his daughters decorate his room every year. My older sisters did it before me and when they got older, Margi and I started doing it. I asked my dad what he is going to do when Margi and I get married and move away and he said he would probably retire! :) My dad teaches religion. He's known as a Seminary teacher and he teaches high school kids. This year the kids are studying the Old Testament! So there is a lot about the Creation and the prophets such as Moses, Noah, and Abraham. Margi and I had a lot of fun decorating and the last day Faith (my BFF) and her son, Lewis came and she helped us finish! I think it looks awesome!

Also, I was so focused on decorating my dad's classroom that I was surfing the web looking for ideas and I came across a few photos of just neat classrooms. I love the "old school" (haha pun!) look for classes. This one is my fave!

This is a traveling futuristic class. Neat, right?

And I loved this one too!

Just because!! HP7p2

I just wanted to share this since I've seen the last Harry Potter movie. I made this with Ashlee for Girls Camp 2011! We had fun working with the Dales, Sabrina, and Garrett. I did use some of the real shots from the original trailer to add pizzazz. (The original trailer is awesome!) I think our Harry Potter and Voldemort were better and our Ron and Hermoine were funnier! I had a lot of fun making this and thought I would share.

BFFiversary! 6 Years!

Yesterday, my BFF Faith and I celebrated our 6th BFFiversary! We celebrated by treating ourselves to delisous food at the Cheesecake Factory! I ordered the Pan Seared Salmon with mushrooms, spinach, and angel hair pasta! SOOOO YUMMMY!!! Faith and I decided that we deserved to treat ourselves to a good meal, so we ordered appetizers. We had the Avocado Egg rolls that were delicious. So good! We thought it would be fun if we got all dressed up and fancy! We ended up color coordinating! True BFFs!! :) We, of course, ordered cheesecake, but we ordered it to go because we had a movie to get to! We went and saw the Harry Potter movie! We went with my little sister, and friends, Ashlee and Holly. I thought this was one of the better Harry Potter movies. I am not the biggest fan of the 7th book, but I thought the movie was done well. The best part of it was the parts about Snape. I don't want to give it away, but if you have read it or seen the movie, I hope you agree with me! Alan Rickman is also one of my favorite actors ever since I saw him in Galaxy Quest (hilarious) and Sense and Sensibility (wonderful)! I think he was great as Snape and was the BEST part of the movie. Out of 5 I give the movie a 4 (thanks to Snape!) Faith and I had fun on our "date" and I can't believe that we have been best friends for so long! Yay for friends!!!

P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEANI!!!