Redemption

Dearest Family-

I thought I ought to redeem myself from last week's entry. Although I did spend all day Friday and Saturday in the library, and much of Monday was spent doing things of a similar vein, I did celebrate the holiday by watching a movie...by myself...on a computer on my bed. Oh sad, it sounds like I am a freindless loner. I don't feel that way. (But maybe I am just in denial.)

School is going very well. My classes are really enjoyable; I have great teachers and friends in almost all my classes, which is nice. One that has been especially great has been my beginning volleyball class. It is very low-key and we are all friends. We spend about 40 min. after class just playing 6 on 6 (ish) and it is very fun. That has been key to my remaining in a happier mood and, take this how you want, it has also been key to my wanting to continue being around people.

I have had some difficult emotional roller coasters to ride this week. I imagine they will keep coming for the rest of the semester and until I leave on my mission. But, lest you think me dumb, it isn't that I believe that once one is on a mission the roller coasters are gone. Life is great!

My job is also going really well. It keeps me busy with lots of tasks, which is good and nice. My boss is named ("is named"??? that is correct grammar, right? But,how? "is" is in present tense and "named" in past. How does this work?) Wally. I am pretty much his personal assistant (he has two, me and my old roommate who works in the afternoons). Every morning we sit and chat about his schedule and about whatever else he feels like going off on. He is very gentle, laid-back and a great people person, so he is very good for me. He is also extremely supportive of my mission.

Oh, I think I have personally told everyone now, I am serving a mission. (!!!) I get very happy every time I say that and I love preparing for it mentally as well as spiritually. It will be so wonderful. I begin my papers tomorrow!

Life is going well. Oh, (this is the redemption part) last night I went to a Latin culture night on campus, which included poetry reading and national dances. It was all in Spanish. How glad I am I have put so much effort forth into learning Spanish and that the Lord has given me the capability and the opportunities to do so. It's a shame I will be learning Portuguese on my mission. Then I went and hung out with some of my freshman roommates. It was good to see them. Funny what life experiences teach and bring us.

I love you all. Families are great!

Angela

ps. I sure do LOVE being in a class that tells me how great marriage is, since I didn't already know that. Maybe someday I will start to actually want to be married. :)

Family Survey results!

The long awaited results are in. No hanging chad left on these votes! Play your own personal Family Feud game. We love you all!

Emily and Doug

Bekah's Latest News

Bekah gave her first talk in primary on Sunday! It was hard not to cry when I was up there helping her with it. The theme this year is "I am a Child of God" and she wanted to talk about Christ's visit to the Nephites and how He blessed the children. She wasn't nervous at all and was so excited to finally get the chance to sit up in the front and use the microphone. She is also SO excited she's in CTR5 now.

On Saturday night I got tired of too many tangles in Bekah's hair despite lots of conditioner, so I chopped it off to her shoulders. She was a good sport and it actually went really well...I think it's about the only cut I can do for a girl but it was fun to experiment. We'll upload a picture soon to the picture website.

Bekah's first year of preschool has been so good for her (ends in April) we decided to try to enroll her in the summer pre-kindgergarten class from late-June to early-August. We think this will help her when the baby arrives since she'll be on a schedule that's familiar to her, have friends to play with, and keep her from getting bored. We'll find out by May 1st if she's accepted for that class.

Jason and Bekah like to make count-down chains for holidays and last night they made one for the baby--one chain for each day left until July 25th. It's quite long, but it's fun to look at. We have lots of things we're waiting for this year!

My Saturday Night

Well, family, it is Saturday night, my second one in Provo, Utah in over 6 months. It is almost 8:30. Currently, I am sitting on the floor in some discreet hallway in the Wilkinson Center, listening to music. Yes, I am cool. So, I have a ton of homework and spent all yesterday evening in the library working on it and have spent all day today and afternoon and evening still working on my homework.

I actually just finished a paper and needed a break, so I came to the Wilk for some food and to listen to music to get me pumped for the next few hours of more paper writing.

I do not write this for some kind of pity or ANYTHING like that, I simply thought to myself, I should write something on the blog one of these days and then I thought, why not right now?

Anyway, life is good. I like my new major. I don't really know what we are all expecting from this blog. Is it meant to be meaningful things put on here? (If it is, sorry.) Just pictures? Or what? I don't have any pictures to share. Sorry. Um...if you really want to know what is going on in my life (although, from the sounds of it, if I am spending my Friday and Saturday nights in the library then there probably isn't anything exciting going on) then you can call me.

Families are great. Yay for them!

Angela

Our family's church schedules

Thanks to everyone for replying promptly to my email request of church schedules. I am posting the info on the blog in case in the future you would like to know. Here are the results!

Mom & Dad: 1:30 - 4:30
Nikki & Jason: 11:00 - 2:00
Russ & Anne: 9:00 - 12:00
Doug & Emily: 9:00 - 12:00
Angela: 9:00 - 12:00

Hello All

Just thought I would write to say Emily and I are excited about the family blog. Maybe this will encourage us to post our pictures and stuff. We love you all!

The family pictures are ready!

As I write this I am uploading the family pictures taken by Taylor Gibb onto the photo website...

Family Photo Direct Link

Enjoy!

MOM

It's A Wonderful Life

How to get started contributing to the new family website

Here's what you need to know in order to be able to post and comment on the website:

1. You must have a google account.
If you don't have a google account, use the following link to create one:
google.com/accounts.

2. After you have a google account, go to blogger.com and sign in with your google account.

3.After you can login, send me an email (jdoug@byu.edu) with your google account name (this should be the email address you used to create the google account).

4.I will add you as an author/editor of the blog. This should send you an email invitation to become and author. Just follow the links and you should be ready to post.

5. Then you can go to: thefamilyburnett.blogspot.com
In the upper right hand corner should be a sign in link. Go ahead and sign in. You should then be able to use the "Post" links to add your own new post or you should be able to add comments to previously posted items.

If you have any specific questions you can email me and I will do my best to help out.

Enjoy!

Hello from Mom

Thanks to Jason we now have a family website!