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A Few More Things...

Life has been so busy lately that I've only had time to do a few updates every once in awhile.  So here are a few occurrences of my life over the past week.
  • Danny and I got new Church callings!   Remember how I said the calling that makes me most nervous is teaching in Primary.  Well guess what, we are now Primary teachers, haha.  We are teaching the 9 to 11 year olds, so the oldest class.  I actually feel like I do better with younger kids, like sunbeam age (3-4), so we will see how this goes.  I'm glad Danny and I were called to teach together.
  • Speaking of kids, we have this darling little neighbor boy around the age of 2 that just cracks me up. I was going out to my car when I caught a glimpse of him giggling in his driveway.  I looked closer and saw his hands were full sprinkler keys.  It looks like he went around our little complex collecting them from all the neighbors.  When he saw me he proudly announced, "I got two!"  He had a few more than that, very funny.
  • I was sitting at my desk yesterday when one of my coworkers came up and asked me how my hands were.  Odd question.  "Umm, fine" was my response.  He replied, "Great, do you want to be a hand model?  We need a shot of someone flipping through this pamphlet."  Heck to the yeah!  (Ok, I didn't really say that.)  Not sure of how to prepare for hand modeling and I asked, "So should I wash my hands or put lotion on or something?"  That made my coworker laugh really hard. I think he thought I was joking.  I was kind of being serious.  Anyway, I can now put hand model under "skills" on my resume.
PS  Last night Danny and I finished a small home project which I will post soon.  I was quite pleased.

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  1. That is awesome that you got to be a hand model. Have you seen this weird video of the interview with the hand model?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hN89U_XD9E

    very funny. You are going to be awesome primary teachers. That was my favorite calling when Nathan & I got to team teach primary.

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  2. Hand modeler? What a career!
    How did Primary go? That's a challenging class, but a husband/wife team is about the best you can have for that age group. I hope you enjoy it. I'm sure you all will be fantastic!

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  3. I immediately thought of you getting a special air-tight case for your hand like that guy in the cemetery in Zoolander....ha ha ha. It was fun to see your new digs on Saturday morning.

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  4. Haha, thanks for the video, Erin! That lady is a little crazy, haha!
    Thanks for all the support in our new calling, it went really well! The kids are cute and excited. We had fun.
    Thanks for visit us Ben! You and your fam are welcome any time!

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