Overcome...

Anyone know who sings this song??? This group was one of my favorites when I was going to school at SDSU waaaaayyyy back in 1996. Overcome is sung by Live. It's not my favorite song by them but the title kind of represents my thoughts this late Friday night as I think back over the week I just went through at school...just glad to have overcome it! Anyway, the song is really awesome. They wrote the song back in 1995, long before 9-11 happen, but the song has become sort of an anthem to some since 9-11. Here is a great video of the song if you feel like listening to it. Overcome on YouTube

School was a nightmare this week. I had a test in Discrete Math and Educational Psychology, along with a PowerPoint game due. The PowerPoint game gave me some trouble when I couldn't figure out how to get some shapes to disappear. I'm sad to say that I did figure out the problem and it was my Mac. Apparently the Mac version of PowerPoint doesn't allow you to put that kind of an animation on a shape, the Windows version does though. Lucky for me I have a Windows machine upstairs that I was able to use to complete the game. I must say, its an awesome game to use for Algebra students and I will be saving to use in my class...what I finally have my own class.

My Discrete Math test was HORRIBLE!!! I don't see the point of Discrete Math. It makes no sense to me as far as its use in the real world. My professor even told us the first day of class that as Math Education Majors we would never use this stuff! Then why do they require I take it????? Any how, hopefully I did well on it, I hope to find out Monday.

My Educational Psychology test was pretty easy, open book and all! Still, you just never know when the professor will throw in a tricky question. Also hoping to find out that I did well on it Monday afternoon.

I took a Trig test a week ago today and found out that I aced the test! Oh yeah! I was one of two people in the class of about 40 that got 100% <~~~~ yes that says 100%!!!!!!! Yeah me!

In other news...Asher now has 13 teeth, yes I said 13! I found 3 new teeth last night. Now he has 7 on the bottom and 6 on the top! The kid has so many teeth he could probably chew steak!

James and his dad are getting a tractor tomorrow. They are both really excited about that. I'll post some pictures this weekend of it once we get it home. Its an old tractor but James is looking forward to fixing it up and making it look new(er).

I talked to Bailey the other day, he seems to be doing well in Indiana. He is getting good grades and went to a dance a couple of weeks ago where he danced with GIRLS!!!! UGH! aren't boys suppose to think girls have cooties at this age?

We haven't heard much from Sabelle this week so she is probably just busy with school, work and Chad. Oh and her new puppy she got a few weeks ago.

Josten is working out everyday. We were looking at pictures of him from a few years ago and its amazing how much weight he has lost and how grown up he looks now. He is still trying to find a job but in the meantime he is getting registered to start SUU in the winter. So glad for that.

Jadeth, Whitnee and Jade are doing awesome, at least they were last weekend when we were up there visiting them.

Jared is busy working and learning all the tricks of the trade. I think he really enjoys learning and working.

Well now you are all caught up with the lives of the Sherratts (and Amo). Stay tuned, you never know what will happen around here tomorrow, or what song I might come up with as a title! :)

Days go by...

Hey, isn't that part of a country song? Days go by, I can feel them flying like a hand out the window in the wind as cars go by...Keith Urban! What a great song! That is not what this post is about however. I have such a hard time with titles, maybe I'll start making every title to a post from a song. Stay tuned, see how many I can come up with.

So, the this last weekend flew by. We decided to head up to Utah County to visit Jadeth, Whitnee, Jade, Jared and Tami. We got up there around 8pm Friday night and met Tami and Andy for dinner at a little Thai place by her house. It was yummy! Saturday James woke up and went over to the yard where Jadeth and Jared work. For most of the day they worked on shutters for our house. They are so awesome looking. Here are some pictures.

If anyone wants some made for their house go to www.davincidoors.net

Saturday night we went up Immigration Canyon to this great diner called Ruth's. The food was great and the music was awesome, but the best was the company. We had everyone hanging out with us, I loved it! Sunday morning we woke up and went over to Jadeth and Whitnee's to visit with them. Later that afternoon we ran to Target and then we went to Wingers for lunch. I love Winger's, their food is really yummy. After lunch we said goodbye to Jadeth, Whitnee and Jade and headed home. It was a great weekend. Here are some other cute pictures from the weekend.

This week is a rough one for me. I have two big tests, Discrete Math and Educational Psychology...can you say YIKES?!?!?? I did awesome on my Trig test last week so hopefully I will continue that trend this week. Well I'm off to watch my favorite show, Biggest Loser, and then it's off to study some more. Have a great week everyone.

B is for Back to School

Hey everyone,

We had a great weekend, I'll post more about that later. But for now I wanted to let everyone know that Stacey has another great scrapbooking kit out! It's the "B" in her alphabet series, B is for Back to School. I know that the kit would be great for back to school pictures but I couldn't find any of Bailey's back to school pictures and Asher hasn't started school yet so I found some other pictures that worked great with the kit...see how versatile it is???

Some great new kits by Stacey's Scraps!

Hey everyone...here are some great new kits by Stacey's Scraps over at www.scrapthatidea.com.

This kit, For Mason, is for a very special cause. All the proceeds for the sales of this kit will go to "Autism Speaks" in the name of Mason, a son of one of Stacey's good friends so please go buy it!!!

Here is a layout I did with the kit "For Mason"

This fun kit, A is for Autumn, is the first in a series Stacey is doing. She plans on doing a kit for every letter of the alphabet so stay tuned...I've seen all the way to D so far and they are great!!!!

Here is the layout I created with A is for Autumn. And in case you couldn't tell, right now my blog was created with this kit!!! I love it. Of course, fall is my favorite time of year, that could be way I love it so much.

Labor Day Weekend Festivities

Its Monday at 10:15pm and I'm sitting here thinking what a jam-packed, exciting weekend it was for us. I thought I'd share it with the blog world.

It all started Friday after work/school when James and I decided to head down to St George for the evening. We like to drive down there once in a while, eat out some place we don't have in Cedar and just take in the busy-ness (that's not really a word is it?) of St George. We had a good time, just the 3 of us, hanging out. We finally made it home just before 10pm.

Saturday morning James had to head back up to Brian Head for work. My good friend Patti had mentioned to me that they were having a baby contest at the Iron County Fair and that she was taking her adorable little boy Jacoby and asked if we wanted to join them. So after sleeping in until a little after 8, Asher and I rushed to make it to the fair ground in time for registration.

Here is a picture of Asher, wasn't he the cutest??? He didn't win though :(. After the contest I took Asher to the petting zoo and for his first ever ride on the Merry-Go-Round. I don't have any pictures of these events because the camera decided to stage a protest and stopped taking pictures! UGH!!!! After that fun we went up the hill and met James for lunch. It was so nice up in Brian Head, I love it up there when its so hot in Cedar. I did notice that the leaves are starting to change color...woohoo bring on Fall, my favorite time of year! Later that evening we headed back to the fair to watch the rodeo. Our nephew Cody rode a BULL!!!! He is a crazy kid! He didn't stay on very long, but like James keeps telling him, "Dude, I'd never get on one, you did awesome just by sitting on the darn thing!" After the rodeo James took Asher for another ride on the Merry-Go-Round

(which of course the camera was working for...so here is a

picture!) After that long day we were all exhausted, we finally made it home around 9:30. Asher went to sleep and James and I stayed up doing a little homework.

Sunday started out kind of lazy. James built some new shelves in our closet...we so needed it. Then we went to church at 1 for a family members confirmation. After church we went over to Aunt Mary's house for a dinner, that was a lot of fun. I have to admit I wasn't really looking forward to going over, but I had the best time chatting with everyone. Aunt Mary makes me

laugh, she has the best gossip! :) hehe! Once we got home from Aunt Mary's we sat down and watched a movie, and then off to bed because we had a big Monday morning to prepare for.

Today (Monday-Labor Day) we woke up at 7 and got ready to run the Iron County Fair 5K! At the beginning of the summer James and I decided to train to run at 5K at the end of the summer. Well training didn't go so well but we did run! Although neither of us ran the whole thing we did finish (and we weren't even last!) After the run we came home, showered and went to lunch with James' parents, then it was back to the fair we went. The horse races started at 1 and we barely made it in time for the first race. I'm pretty sure those were the first horse races

I had ever been to and I LOVED them. How fun! I can't wait to go to another one. After the horse races we went in search for funnel cakes...yummmm! By this time Asher was exhausted and ready for a nap so we headed home.

While Asher was asleep James and I watched 88 Minutes. I really liked that movie...it was intense! Around 5:45pm we headed out again, this time we went to a park in Cedar City to meet our good friends the Wellers for a picnic and kite flying. James bought two really adorable kites at the fair and Cedar is the perfect place for

kite flying, its always windy here! What a great way to end a really fun holiday weekend. Here are some pictures of the kite flying.

Oh yeah, and I almost forgot to mention that one of the kites got stuck in a tree and Josten had to climb it to help get it out, and then Josten fell out of the tree! Nothing is ever boring with us!

I had such a great weekend! I hope everyone else did as well...now its off to get some homework done!