Food and Fun

On Friday, the 23rd, the ward met at the church for a kind of Opening Social/Get to know your neighbor. They played games and ate pizza. It was a great evening. Haws and Harrisons

Jordan and Sunshine are master of Settlers of Cataan

Candace can do it

Marc and Jenna take on the T-shirt game

Brock and Kinsley having a little "Elefun"

Steve and Veronica know just the right logo for the T-Shirt

Brisa is so very carefully

Daniel, Katie and Mitch play X-Box

Greg is having way too much fun

Jorgensen enjoy some pizza

Brisa and Rob (does he or doesn't he wear glasses, I can't tell)

Blake and Micah discussing the big adventure

Just getting to know their neighbors

Zach and Mariah (he can really sing)

Lise and Mike

Rob and Rachel

Thanks activity committee for a fun evening!

Relief Society Fun

The Relief Society held their 2009 Opening Social/Visiting Teaching Conference in the lounge. It was an enjoyable evening as those who attended played a few games and got to know each other better. Then a Visiting Teaching challenge was given while they made flower pens for each sister. Of course the evening was finished up with a few treats. Admitting to either having lived outside the country or gotten a speeding ticket.

Amanda, Mary Alice and Meghann filling out their "something no one knows about you"Even the kids had fun.

Lauri, Amanda and Mary Alice

Pj and Abbie enjoy a fun moment

Can you say "Citizenship" correctly?

Rachel, Abbie, Jenna and Sunshine

A visiting teaching challenge

Trying to figure out who really got lost on their date.

Laurie is a terrible liar

Even Kinsley gets involved.
Salina, Jasmine and Ashley intent ontheir flower pens.

Relief Society is a great organization and visiting teaching is an important part of it.

Post CES Fireside Rootbeer Floats and Ice cream

At the start of each semester the Church broadcasts a fireside for CES students and any other student who would like to watch. The Prophet, President Thomas S. Monson spoke at the last one, after which we the met at the church for rootbeer floats and games and to just get to know each other better.

Hailee and her dad

Mingling

PJ is a serious game player, but how well can her husband lie?

Do we have to stay and clean up?

Jake is propping his eyes open, I think the bishop works him too hard.

The Garners, one of the newest members of the ward.

Hailee and Cooper, friends forever.

The Bishop meets the new people.

Jordan reveals a painful secret .

Rohers, wonder if iou have an extra bed.

All the way from Norway, Lise and her Husband, Michael

the Jensens

Andersons

and a serious game of Apples to Apples.

and Albert and Stephen take it very seriously.

Cooper and Hailee playing the baby game, can I try your pacifier.
Not often, maybe once or twice a year, the bishop leaves the house before seven in the morning, and passes back through the door after putting in fourteen hours in the service of the Lord. It is tiring, but oh so worth it. He never complains. So if you should see him standing up, eyes closed and almost asleep it might have been one of those days. Just prod him gently so he doesn't accidentally start snoring.

Blue Screen of Death

The year has started out with a bang at the Beazer house. It began with the "Blue Screen of Death" and of course it wasn't properly backed up. First we heard some strange clicking that came and went. Our immediate reaction was to back up and shut down, only this was not what it wanted to do. It locked up promptly, something it likes to do when it's feeling stubborn. Then came the evil blue screen with something about an unmountable boot sector proudly displayed on it.
Luckily we have another computer, which was used to research out what this lovely error message could possibly mean. It didn't look too serious just time consuming. We put a call into our specialist, (after the bishop is barely computer literate and I am only a few grades ahead of him), who walked us through some fairly simple steps. How hard could it be to drop in a CD, click a few keys and sit back and wait, and wait, and wait. Several hours later, the screen said all fixed, just restart. Hah, what a laugh. No such luck. The blue screen presented us with a new message, winsrv can't be found and must be reloaded before it will agree to work. Another call to the specialist, who help us with some good old-fashioned dos commands to hopefully fix the new problem. Again failure, what could this be? This was now serious and it sounds as if it will need a complete overhaul. But what about the important files that weren't properly backed up. With computers side by side, we downloaded software on to the cooperative computer that could possibly breath enough life back into the obstinate one to retrieve the precious data. First attempt failed, of course. Second attempt took a while, but it somewhat worked. It's a good thing our specialist is from the old school, and knows linux commands.
Now we are waiting until the life support team comes up to vacation so we can transport it down to Utah to the specialist, who will do a more thorough check up, run more tests and determine what kind of transplant surgery will be needed. It's very likely that it will come back, after a long recovery period, as good as new, except it will have lost it's long term memory.
Please be patient with the bishop as he has to share computers again.

PS. The specialist just happens to be the bishops brother who is a computer program with a masters in computer science. The only draw back is he lives in Orem, luckily we come and go from that direction often enough it shouldn't take more than a few months.

Stake New Years Eve Party

Happy New Year

The Stake sponsored a party and what a fun party it was. The only thing wrong with the party is that there weren't alot from our ward to share in the fun, dancing with a live DJ, a cake walk, Wii, guitar hero and Xbox, board games, giant Twister, Karoke, and lots of pizza and munchies. Kimballs were on the planning committee. They did a great job.

Barry coached Natie, who didn't play like a dork, in a Wii activity.

Kimballs, when they weren't taking care of games, took a turn at Guitar Hero

Barry did real well at the Limbo.

Nate and Katie taking a refreshement break.

Sunshine and Jordyn waiting their turn at Karoke.

Amanda helping Krista as she belts one out.

Barry came in third at the giant Twister game. He can twist into shapes I didn't know a person could do.

Even the Bishop got involved and he did rather well, almost a natural.

Jorgensens enjoy pizza before a hot game Mario Cart.

Erin is a serious contender.

Barry and Audra taking their turn at Wii.

Steven and Krista taking a turn at Mario KartSunshine and Jordyn take their turn at Guitar Hero.

FYI:

The Bishop can do the "Chicken Dance."

Barry, is one limber dude, and does the Numa Numa on a competitive level.
Sister Clark (stake primary president) can do the "Evolution of dance" better than any one else.

Krista has a lovely voice.

Thanks to everyone who came, helped and enjoyed.

Lets do it again next year, same time, same place.