A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes

For whatever it might be worth, I'd like to mention that THIS is how you build an indoor pool.   This is the Indiana University Natatorium, where the Indianapolis Grand Prix is being held held this weekend.  World records might be made here.  Micheal Phelps has already been beaten here today.  Olympic hopefuls will move one step closer to London here.

Look at the beautiful pool arrangement.  Look at the ample spectator seating.  Look, it is enclosed to make it operable in all sorts of weather.  Brilliant, considering Indianapolis is prone to winter weather at times too.

How cool would it be to see THIS kind of facility take shape when BYU finally tears out it's 60 year old pool facility?!  Then the annual State High School Swim championships would REALLY be held in high style.  Then Utah county would have a facility equal to that of Davis County's beautiful aquatic center in the Bountiful Recreation center.  Then, maybe our city officials could see the advantage of building better than they think we need for our city--and our kids--and our high school.

I can only dream.

Tuesday Night: Brushes With Greatness

Tuesday night I went to SLC with two of the three other musketeers, I mean, our YW presidency, for our annual auxiliary training.  It was terrific.

See that nice lady in the center of the photo...in the black blazer?  That is Sister Dalton, General Young Women President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  She is amazing!

 Everything they said reaffirmed everything that we are already doing.  Actually, it affirmed just how inspired our Stake Presidency really is.  They were on the right track years ago. Now the general directions we are getting from the church are lining right up with what we've been instructed to do already.

See this nice lady?  The one smiling so big, leaning over to talk to the other nice ladies seated for the meeting?  Yep.  That is Sister Dibb, 2nd counselor in the YW General Presidency.  Oh, and she's the prophet's daughter.  She is just as smiley and friendly in real life...up close and personal.

There were a few hundred ward and Stake YW leaders in attendance Tuesday night for this training.  One woman was there from Sweden.  The church is true all over the world.  And Heavenly Father loves His daughters, wherever they live.  I love knowing that.

I feel very honored, privileged and supremely blessed to get to work with the Young Women right now.  I think this might be the greatest calling I have ever had int he church.  The fact that I have been in this spot for nearly six years now, I only feel more blessed.  I have seen some of these young women all the way through their YW experience.  That is a treat that is unlike any other I can think of.  Getting to do this while The Girl is in YW is even more sweet.  I can see, as a parent, what we do as YW leaders and how it affects each of these girls.  The girls are individuals--remarkable, unique, and divine with so much good to bring the world.  Serving in the church gives us opportunities that I might not have had any other way.  Even my PTA work--with junior high and high school kids at this current point--only gives me so much contact with the kids themselves.  That contact is fleeting.  But in YW, I see these girls growing and learning and developing into just who the Lord needs them--and knows they are--to be.

Clever Children

This is a campaign poster from one of our darling friends.  He has been in school with The Girl since kindergarten, and has been supremely charming ever since.  High school hasn't changed that part of him.  He is running for the events commission.  A perfect fit.  How can you pass him up with a poster like this?  Sure a hundred years more advanced fro my 6th grade student council attempt--for Student Body secretary...when I spelled secretary "S-E-C-R-A-T-A-R-Y" on all my posters.

I took this little photo while I was at the high school today trying to get The Boy's fall schedule settled.  Genius Golfer and The Girl tried getting his schedule done online for him, while he was at soccer practice, when registration opened on Tuesday afternoon.  Then today, I met with the counselor after trying to work it out on line most of the day yesterday and getting nowhere.  The Boy needed Spanish 2 so he can be "done" with his foreign language requirement. But he also wanted a Tech Design class, and s certain teacher--whom he heard was "easier"--with his buddies for English plus the standard math and history.  Plus he will have Chemistry for science with The Girl, so she can help him along--like she has most of this year with Biology.  Well, to get all that he NEEDED, some other things got switched up...you know, not the "easier" English teacher, and the Tech Design class got switched out for a Commercial Art class.  (Seeing as he is interested in Graphic Arts...this is the class he needs to try it out.)

Needless to say, The Boy is  irritated at me for mucking up his schedule.  He certainly doesn't see it as "fixing" anything.  Clever, he is, but more than a little touchy too.

Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery?

I know that I have gone on and one over the last two seasons about my love of Downton Abby, the PBS shown--BBS made serial melodrama/soap opera of the World War I era country family and their servants who live "below stairs".  But this is just funny.

http://screen.yahoo.com/downton-arby-s-28723019.html

Noticing Differences

Just because THIS photos doesn't have any girls in it, I know that girls CAN be pretty stupid too.  Like when they are over-thinking relationships, or under-thinking their schoolwork, or just letting others dictate how they feel.  Girls do all that, at one point or another.  But sticking your tongue to a metal pole in freezing weather?  That is for the boys.

Video Sunday

See this LINK for a terrific story about the popular posters that originally read "Keep Calm and Carry On".  Brilliant!