It's a Family way of life

  Self-Esteem #1 on my list! Raising your children correctly so that they are: ·        Obedience ·        Hard working ·        Self-motivated ·        Humility ·        Resilience ·        Respect for others ·        Quality of courage ·        Responsibility ·        Cooperation ·        Self-esteem they see themselves in a positive light. While I like this list and everyone of them is important when raising children, I think the one at the bottom of the list should actually be the first on the list. Having self-esteem is different then being prideful.   You can have self-esteem and be proud of who you are and know what you are capable of, without being pr...

  MC Date Night These past few weeks we have learned some very important things for us to keep moving forward with MC Date Night. The first and main thing that was learned is how important it is to communicate effectively between departments. The ticket office has been selling tickets only to people on actual dates and turning away others if they were not on dates.   This was never the intention of the $6 date price.   It was the intention to encourage dating, but not to turn people away. The second thing that was learned this week is the importance of having everyone feel like they can attend the event.   While we want to keep the name MC Date Night, we are going to need to do a better job at marketing what MC Date Night includes, and it not just for people on dates, but an event where students can come and connect with each other as well as an inexpensive place to have a date night. The past date night on March 13 th we added a singles “lounge”.   Tab...

Good Communication Takes Practice This is one of my favorite pictures of Arya- -my sweet granddaughter. In the past few months she has started "talking". It is fun watching her trying so hard to mimic the mouth movements. I like to watch her when I repeat LaLaLa. She tries really hard to move her tongue. She gets the biggest smile on her face when she thinks she's conquered it.  Most recently she has started to giggle. It is the sweetest sound I have heard.  Pure joy to my ears and hers, she seems so proud of herself. So what happens between learning how to mimic mouth movements, to making sound, to learning how to talk, to actually talking and communicating.  You would think that by the times we are adults we should have mastered the art of communicating. In fact just this morning Matt and I had a disagreement that had everything to do with miscommunication. I had woke up about 30 minutes prior to him waking up. I was laying in bed reading the news when he got up, left t...

 It's how you look at the situation.... Matt and love to road trip and take car rides. A few years ago, for my birthday we decided to head south a few hours to my parents’ home. Mom had offered to fix me my birthday dinner, Matt and I decided to take the long scenic way.   We were in our new Ford Explorer. I called this my fancy car; it had all the bells and whistles on it. It drove beautifully, it had no problem getting up to speed and passing cars on the back country roads.  As we were flying past a slow-moving car, probably going the speed limit we see a car in the distance coming toward us. Sure enough it was Idaho State Patrol clocking us going 88 in a 55. YIKES! The trip to my parents house for dinner cost us $155 in a speeding ticket. Earlier in our marriage this would have caused us a great amount of stress.  The extra $155 out of our budget that we did not have, a speeding ticket on Matt’s driving record would have ruined our day.  But it was intere...

Date Night Cruise Night *these pictures are before the event Haylee did a great job creating, organizing, and producing Date Night Cruise Night.  Unfortunately we had an extremely low attendance. We are still getting the response from students that they didn't know events were taking place on campus.  We are restricted on how we market and to what extent and this has proven difficult to reach students. Haylee and I  sat down with our social media marketing student to come up with a plan for better reach.  We are going to do a live takeover on our Instagram for Date Night on March 13th. We are also doing a ticket give away, (tag two friends for a chance to win tickets). We met with University Relations to finalize our branding design, and pull up banners.  We also have created a how to file on the google drive along with hard copies of pictures and instructions for each of the games, activities, and decorations for the different themes.  Creating a new event...