Deadline

You have just a couple more days to get your lip sync song title to Kati for the reunion. Let me know before the end of the month! I have Jolyn and Val's and Remington and Tamara's - that leaves EVERYONE else!

Joe asked me to post this . . .

I hope it made you smile :)

I don't want to have lunch with any of those people :-)

Here I am!

Tonia is now able to post on the blog! Horray!

March Madness is Over!

Let's celebrate!

NCAA FINAL SCORES

Winner: Shane Atwood, both methods (no surprise)

Method I:

42 points: Shane

41 points: Jolyn

40 points: Jeff & Kati

39 points: Val

38 points: Christy

37 points: Rem & Joe

36 points: Joe Buck

35 points: Kristen & Tam

33 points: Weston & Kirk

23 points: Porter & Brock

Method II:

75 points: Shane

71 points: Jolyn

69 points: Christy

68 points: Val

66 points: Kati

65 points: Jeff

62 points: Joe & Joe Buck

60 points: Kristen, Kirk, Tam

59 points: Rem

45 points: Weston

28 points: Porter & Brock

Thanks everyone for participating and making it fun!!! See you next year!

Biscuits

Because three people have now called me for this recipe, here it is (Christy can add this to the recipe book also):

Buttermilk Biscuits – Alton Brown

Preheat oven to 450

Mix:

2 cups flour

4 teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon soda

1 teaspoon salt

Grate:

½ stick butter (4 tablespoons) this should be frozen and grate it like you would cheese. Then mix this in with the dry ingredients. Rub the butter into the dry ingredients until about half disappears and half is still the size of peas. Place this bowl in the freezer while we wait.

Beat together well:

1 cup buttermilk (as much fat as possible – none of this skim stuff)

1/3 cup plain yogurt (full fat or low fat – not skim here either)

1 large egg

Combine the two bowls by pouring the wet mix onto the dry and mix well. The dough will be sticky here but don’t add too much flour when rolling out. (Alton uses wax paper and folds it like a trifold wallet three times.) Bake for 15-17 minutes and you can brush them with butter when there are about 5 minutes left if you want.

Conference

So, not to beat a dead horse, which I've been known to do, but I noticed some peace promoting themes in L Tom Perry's talk on deliverance and Uchtdorf's talk on showing mercy in order to obtain mercy. That's all :-)

NCAA UPDATE-fifth round

Method I:

41 points: Shane

40 points: Jeff & Mom & Kati

39 points: Val

37 points: Rem, Christy

36 points: Joe, Joe Buck

35 points: Tam

34 points: Kristen

33 points: Weston

32 points: Kirk

23 points: Porter & Brock

Method II:

69 points: Shane

68 points: Val

66 points: Kati

65 points: Jeff & Jolyn

63 points: Christy

62 points: Joe Buck

60 points: Tam

59 points: Rem

56 points: Joe

54 points: Kristen & Kirk

45 points: Weston

28 points: Porter & Brock

Those not moving anymore: Val, Jeff, Porter, Brock, Rem, Tam, Weston, Kati

Those moving up if Kentucky wins: Mom, Shane, Kristen, Kirk, Christy, Joe

Those moving up if Kansas wins: Joe Buck

So, if Kentucky wins, Shane wins

if Kansas wins, Shane wins and Joe Buck moves to a second place tie with Val who is now in second place in the method two way.

Pretty much, Shane is our winner!!!

Good luck to all! I'm of course hoping for Kentucky!

Remember the Johnsons?

Just thought I'd give a little update for us. We actually had an eventful weekend for once. I went in on Friday for my annual cerclage. Everything went well with the procedure other than I think the spinal block has been inflamed the last few days. Making watching conference very uncomfortable. But enough about me...while we were waiting in the hospital, Kirk got a phone call from his principla, Shane, offering him the assistant principle job at AF Jr. So, he got a job which we are very thankful for and he gets to stay at the same school; our perfect senerio. So, we have had a good weekend and some big prayers have been answered. Thanks to all for your support through this process. Now, there is a very stinky smell that I have to go sniff out and clean up as my children have clean diapers, I can only imagine some furniture will need to be cleaned. Yea for unpottytrained children! Love to all.

Peter's Denial

john Hall and Andrew Skinner have written articles and discussed the idea that Peter's denial was commanded him of Christ, and not of any weakness on his part (as hinted by Spencer W Kimball's talk about Peter years ago). I like this a whole lot, but just found an article in the church news from 95 by Millet that points out that Joseph Smith and Joseph Fielding Smith taught that P, J, and J received their calling and election sealing on the mount of transfiguration, long before the crucifixion. That makes it pretty sure that there is no way at Peter denied Christ out of fear or weakness, but that Christ had commanded him to, to prevent him from losing his life as well.

See church news articles:

Andrew Skinner, Lds church news 2003 (January)
And
Robert Millet, church news 1995 (July)