Bear Lake 2010

Hello everybody. This year for week-long scout camp, the teachers and the deacons went to Bear Lake together (as is the tradition to do so every two years in our ward). I can honestly say that this was the best week-long i've gone to yet. I was able to complete some merit badges, complete the mile swim (with many not-mentioned complecations), and have a lot of time to hang out with my Varsity team. I would tell more but its mostly just inside jokes you wouldn't get so I'm going to show some of my best pictures (my mom let me take our nice family camera for photography).

Hours and Hours of Childrens Card Games!

My tent

Pretty.

   We put this picture on the spirit thingamabob (It was a swim noodle. Not a stick. Go figure) the first day we got it. What a big ego the other troops thought we had.

My dad caught me doing this. He says it's my GQ look.

This was when we went to the Ice Caves.

Even Prettier.

This was our skit dubed 'Red Jacket, Yellow Pants'.

This was the night we got the spirt thing.

It's become a tradition now for us to bring it home.

I'll never reveal our secrets.

Youth Conference 2010

                                                                         Testimony!

This is a picture presentation of how this Youth Conference went down.

This is our priest quorum dancing to thriller within the first 10 minutes of our arrival.

My "mommy" with my real Dad.

Stickpull!

Some Medival Knight Helmet thing one of the camp organizers brought.

Swim Noodle War!

More Swim Noodle War!

Ninja (fun game)! In the Rain! 

It's Sethie! Actually Smiling For the Camera!

Priest Quorum Dancing thriller as mentioned above

Jake Bowman (nicknamed 'Jayonce') choreographed this dance all by himself.

FINALLY!

SCHOOL IS OUT FOR THE YEAR! I can honestly say that I'm not sure if I'm any smarter than when I started the year. Middle school can do that for you. The only things for sure that I got out of 9th grade were no extra friends then I started with, an award for being the best in my technology class (not really sure why), an award for getting a 3.7 or higher in all of my middle school years (I homeschooled my 8th grade year so I don't know why I got that one either), a bottle of Sprite, and a 9th grade day at Lagoon. That happened today. We did the typical stuff, me and my friends went to all the rides (the Samurai was the best), ate lunch, nothing special. It was fun. I don't remember any other details.

-Coy Christensen.

Sorry if anybody thought that was too brief. This is a day later. I had just gotten home and was really tired. Everything above is true except that I am about to list more stuff about Lagoon. The Samurai really was the best. Despite popular belief, it is NOT as scary as it looks. It felt kinda like the Spider on steriods,  a roller coaster with the motion of the Space  Scrambler. When we went there, it was having it's 'Student Day Special' so all of the kiddie rides were closed (including the Zoo Train) and there were about 3 or more school districts there so there were some long waits. Minus the kiddie rides, we went on just about everything else except the Rocket, Rattle Snake Rapids, and the Jetstar 2 because the wait was too long. The bottle of Sprite was when we were leaving, I was dying of thirst, and I couldn't see any drinking fountains. Only this vending machine. I thought that my not dying was worth $2.50. Things are so overpriced there! The $5 Footlongs were $7!

Till next time,

-Coy Christensen

Haileys Comet

Miracles

Two new things I neeed to record for posteritys sake.
1. My cat had kittens today. It looks about 3 of them. We have to many cats already so please if anybody would take them please comment and say you would. Please do. They're adorable.
2. If you would look at my last post, would would be reading about ahat will be known as THE GREAT COOKIE PROJECT!  It was extremly successful. We raised about $4,550. Thank you to everyone that participated in the giving. We gave them the money today and they cried and thanked us over and over again for about a half-hour. Spirtual Experiences all around.
That's all for now, folks!

-Coy

COOKIES!!!

This is something my mom came up with. It's pretty self-explanitory.

Two families in our Bluffdale area have recently suffered devastating medical setbacks.  One family has already made a pilgrimage to the Mayo Clinic, and the second is trying to prepare to go. One is a young mother of 5 whose stomach has stopped functioning, and she needs to get there as soon as possible. It could make all the difference.
We love these families and don't want to just watch them suffer; we want to do whatever we can to help.
Graciously, the Lofthouse cookie company has donated a generous amount of soft and scrumptious pink sugar cookies to our cause.  We are so excited and are so grateful to them!
We are hoping to exchange these cookies at a rate of $5 per box (slightly more than store prices), with every penny passed on to these sweet families.


A little from all of us will make a huge difference to them!


Cash is preferred, but a check can be written to Funding the Cause, (a non-profit organization).


If you wish to purchase any, please e-mail me at askforthemama@gmail.com or call at 446-3518
Please feel no pressure at all! If it’s not best for you, that’s fine!

Thank you!

Love, The Jeff and Jana Christensen family

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

              Not much has happened recently. I finished my third quarter of school. I passed with straight A's. I finished the first half of my BYU math class. I got an A-. I went to the Court of Honor last night. I got my last three requireds and the Scuba Diving merit badge. I read the last Fable Haven. It was well written. The ending was full of pointless drama though. There was a lot of pointless romance that diddn't fit with the rest of the series. I'm good with life right now. I'm content and peaceful.

-Coy Christensen

SHHHHHH!

Guess what everypeoples? I'm a Beta Tester! (For those that don't speak nerd, I get to try out a online computer game before everyone else and say whats wrong with it.) I get to do Lego Universe, a popular soon-to-be-released game! I would elaborate about how awesome it is, but I've been sworn to secrecy.

CHECK IT OUT! (Lego Universe.com)

Mac got a Blog!

(codename Joseph) Got a blog!
http://josephsrockinjabber.blogspot.com/

Funny!

Guess what Seth's new word is? (see title) I've been having a jolly-good time as of late. I get to drive home from school every day, finally beginning to keep up with my life, and I just went on a overnight scout camp. It seems at times that we have so many things going on that we have to be super organized to remember all of our appointments, events, partys, responsibilities, and still be able to relax once in a while and hopefully sleep in. It feels very good to be able to enjoy a movie or a game with your family/friends without thinking of the end-of-the-year project due tommorow. My advice on how to be able to have time to do this? Plan ahead and do what-you-can-put-off-til-tommorow today so the time saved will add up to a afternoon with nothing to do but relax by the weekend.

The scout camp was fun. We started driving about 4:00 and stopped at 4:30 for dinner at Subway. We were feeling really lazy about cooking. We got up there and built snow caves. I was able to carve and sleep in my own. I slept better in that then I have in my own bed as of late! We then had doughnuts and O.J. and Oatmeal for breakfast and went home cause we had nothing else to do. Quality camp-out if you ask me. I'll show some pics when I get them.

Genesis 17:17  (To the first comma)

Rrrrrrrrrrrrr-reurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-wrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

So, I just got my learners permit so I can drive. Sweet. My mom thinks I'm terrible even though I was 5 feet away from that gate. Also, I'm in the worst predicament I can imagine. MY MOM THINKS I"M TO PERFECT! She wants me to sin or something to make sure I'm not translated. What do I do? Please help me!

-Coy

Check this out

http://www.questionable-legibility.blogspot.com/