This week in Lubbock

I just finished my first summer term. Only one more to go, then fall, spring, and one more summer. Lest I think ahead too much, making it through this fall will be the trick. Carrie and I have a week off between terms for the 4th. We have tons of house projects left to finish. Hopefully we will be able to get them done and we'll get pictures up soon. We got some news about moving back to Provo. The Dean of the Business school at UVU was let go this week. He was our biggest advocate for starting a financial planning program there. We'll have to see what happens in the next few weeks. Carrie and I are still hopefully optimistic.
We have a new Mission President as of tonight. We have invited them over for Korean b.b.q. on Tuesday night with our missionaries. Korean night at the Sybrowsky home has become somewhat of a tradition here in Lubbock, so we have to do it every other transfer. We had 3 non-members at church today. That's great for us. Only two of them made it the entire three hours as we had interesting church talks today. Dan Brown, author of Divinci Code, would have understood every word. The rest of us, unfortunatly, struggled to grasp the spiritual significance. Why do these things have to happen on the one Sunday when we have investigators there!!! Trying to stay positive, I think that one of the two that made it will come back next week.
I think that the picture competition was a great success. We've got some good ones. I have to be honest, Chelsea's picture 'there are no words' of Christian was one of the, if not the best. Carrie and I laugh over that one frequently. There truly are no words to describe it.
Have fun in China you little world travelers! You had better start warming Dad up to the idea that we are all going to have to go to Hawaii and watch 'What about Bob?' for our next family trip. The blog polls have spoken! Be safe and we'll talk to you when you get back.

Moving :-(

Good'ay Mates!
We are leaving pretty soon, today was our last Sunday in the Dural ward. It was very very sad. Our feeling are comparable to what returned missionary's say, Happy to see the family, but heart broken to leave. Today I was released as 1st assistant and it was very sad. We all had to speak in Sacrament meeting, I'm glad there are only four of us here and not all nine, because it went for a long time as it was! I was awarded today My Duty to God Medallion, so It's nice to have that now checked off, next is....mission!! (Fun Fact: As of a week ago, I can now turn in my mission papers! But I think I'll finish High School first, just because its tradition.) After Church we had a "Linger Longer" pronounced "Linga Longa" and that was fun, but it really felt like you were at your own funeral. We have all been overwhelmed with stress this week, some managing it better than others, so its been like Saturday all week. The movers are coming on Monday, July 1st. However, what we discovered today in the car is that Monday July 1st doesn't exist! the 1st is Tuesday! So we have a whole day more than we thought we had which is great, so much pressure is off now! I recommend this strategy for all people with a deadline for something. The weekend has been especially tiring for me: On Friday I ran a 10k in 57 mins (Duty to God requirement), then as I was frantically packing for Monday, I got four hours of sleep, then went and Played in a four hour Basketball Tournament, then I was running around with friends and doing all kinds of things, then last night I got 7 hours of sleep :-) Congrats to the winners of the Picture contest! I think we all kinda won! I'll see if Mom has anytime to do some Blogging but if not, We'll see you soon!

Budgeting - clear and simple

Just a little finance lesson. We can all use a simple explanation on how to manage our money from time to time. Let's start with budgeting and we'll move on to investing later.

Carrie’s London Concert Debut

I’m taking a significant risk posting this video, but it is the best that I have. This is in the toy department in Harrods, London, during our trip about 3 years ago. We found this fun singing deer, so Carrie decided to sing along. Carrie’s fans (and the deer) have invited her back for another concert. Terms are currently being negotiated.

The sister you never knew you had...

and you may be happy about that.

Wow

There are no words.....

This is the little cupboard above the microwave at the little house. Cirque du soleil, here she comes! We got it closed completely very easily!

The Grand Finale

Here is my proposal. Submit your final two pictures by this Saturday. On Sunday, I'll set up a poll so that we can vote to see who won the picture competition. Everyone will get 5 votes (don't vote for yourself), the winner will get bragging rights for exactly 5 minutes. What say you?

Christmas Crackers

This one has made me laugh ever since I got to know Garry ...

He's so bugged about the paper crowns. Party pooper.

Merry Christmas

If the shoe fits ...

The Triple Alliance

I'd like you all to focus on mom sitting eating a huge pot of something, in the middle of all the presents.
We all love Christmas!
=)

Not so fast, Jacob!!!

Don't eat me!!!

Go speed racer!

I've got to try to find one for Dad in honor of Father's day. Have you been showing these to Mom & Dad?

Not so fast, Chelsea!!!

I'm not done yet! I just got a new program that Joseph told me about called Picasa2 (it's free), I'm sifting throught the 4,409 pictures on my computer. Also, Jed is on the blog now. Things are about to get interesting.

Rebecca? What are you doing?

Look who's pullin out the big guns now!

Rebecca: I love this.

Warning: Now someone declare me the dang winner and I will spare the rest of you. If not... your pictures will come too.

Rebecca: Hahaha.... mom wants to know where you are? Ha...haha.....HA.

What Carrie doesn't like birds???

Diggin' in

I'm sorry Jared, I didn't think that it would come to this. I suppose its best that you know now. You had long hair as a baby and .. well .. we just couldn't stop you sometimes.

My favorite neice

Hahaha!

From A Family of Runners!

Now that's dedication to her training routine ... which is why Skinny Lynnie won the bronze medal at her first official 5K!

Baby Hope

Hope at Valley Forge, showing solidarity with the Revolutionary forces.

Don't tell mom ...

Funny Picture Contest

Can it be a motion picture? If not I'll find another one, but here it is!

The Alternative Title is: My First Kiss

Help Me!

Hello, I know I've been bugging a lot of you about this but I'm kind of worried about it. I am going to the American Idol concert in Salt Lake on July 14th. Mom and Dad and Jared are all leaving for Jackson on the 12th. So I am looking for a way to get up there, hopefully on the morning of the 15th, or even very late the 14th. I would just like as much time up there as possible. So if any of you are planning on driving up on Monday (14th) or Tuesday (15th) of that week PLEASE let me know, because right now I'm not sure how I'll get there. Thanks!

My picture for the competition

Well, I guess it's all about Jed when it comes to funny pictures. I too am waiting to whip out the real big guns though... All I can say is bring it on because I have some mighty fine ones!

Things here are good, we are all very busy packing, cleaning, and being tourists. We've been doing a lot of "lasts" lately. Which is always sad. We are excited for Jackson though, and Jared and I want to go to Disneyland this summer as well.... so if anyone is interested, let us know! It is a lot easier to leave a place when you have lots of things to look foreward to.

I may be quite busy this coming semester seeing as I have one job already and I'm possibly going to pick up another one. This job is 5 days a week 9-10am, as a music/piano teacher at a high school for ...basically teenage girls with babies. I would really like the job, even if it means that I can't ever fake sick and sleep in! So between that and 2-4 hours a day of RESEARCH, and school... I think I am going to be pretty busy. I'm about to sign up for 2 or three EASY online classes to complete over the summer. I thought about doing jogging online... sounds easy haha. But really, I'll take a few classes online, now I'm just rambling since I think I ran out of things to say a while ago. Ok good bye.

New blog ideas & pics

I've made a few changes to the family blog. I'm trying to get more interactive links, but my blogging skills are not that good yet. I'm calling for a family funny picture competition this month. This is my first entry - "Jed in Irag", later on I'll pull out the big guns. Everyone share your favorite family pics on the blog. Also, let me know if you have any ideas for family polls, etc....
As for me this week, I'm a batchelor again. Carrie flew to California last night to visit her sister. On Wednesday she is off for Utah for another Sister's wedding, then its off to Idaho to help her parents get ready for the wedding reception. In the mean time, I'm going to work like crazy, trying to get through my summer classes and get ready for Fall semester. I do get to join Carrie in Utah this weekend for the wedding, so, I'll see the Utah crew then. Good luck with everything and keep on bloggin'.

Oops ...

Well, school is out. I finished cleaning out my room yesterday. I was offered a position next year. They gave me a raise, which was nice. So, yesterday I was out gardening, pulling weeds and watering. We have a REALLY mean bird that swoops down at us like it is going to attack is. So, I stayed out as long as I could before I thought the bird was going to kill me. It had a little baby fall out of its nest yesterday and I was running in the backyard to turn the water off, which I will get to in a second, when I saw the baby and the big mom bird swooped down at me and I could feel and hear the wind from the swoop as it brushed across me about 1-2 inches from my head. I know it is just protecting it's babies, BUT it is still a little frightning!! Anyway! So, another funny thing happened yesterday. After I finished weeding and planting in the garden I decided to put the sprinkler on the grass. I went in to take a shower while I was doing this. Well, as you can probably predict, I forgot about turning off the water and I left to work at school and run some other errands. Well, about 6 hours later, I remembered that I forgot to turn off the water. So, after about 6 1/2 hours, I raced home to turn off the water. Our yard was pretty flooded. The big problem is that there are water restrictions around here and I went WAY over and watered during the time of day when you are not supposed to. So, anyway! Our water bill is definitely NOT going to be a nice sight. Jacob, being very nice, said it was kind of funny. So, hopefully he'll still think its funny when we get the bill. Well, anyway! I better get going.
Have a great day!!
Carrie

Texas Tech University: Jacob!

Texas Tech University :: APS :: Division of PFP Look! Jacob is on the Internet! I was just looking through iTunes at the Texat Tech Uni and then I clicked a link and it led me to a photo of my Brother! Exciting eh? Although I'm sure that a bunch of you all are on the internet, but it was just cool to see that. I'll write more later.