Best Duo Game

The best duo...
Sonny and Cher OR
Batman and Robin?

Family Reunion this Summer

Hi Family,

We have looked into the cost of hawaii, and agree as a family that it would be too expenssive and not the best place for the children. So GOOD NEWS .....

WE ARE GOING TO DISNEYLAND. YAHOO!!!!!!!!

The date we are looking for is the second half of June. (Before David leaves on his mission). I am checking on two bedroom suites near the main gate. Very inexpensive. Look at the timing, and let us know what you think asap, so I we can reserve the suites befor the prices go up.

Let us know what you think.

SPEAKING OF CHILDREN ...

Six Reasons Not to Mess With Children.

A little girl: was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher: said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl: stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher: reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible. The little girl: said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah". The teacher: asked, "What if Jonah went to hell?" The little girl: replied, "Then you ask him".

A Kindergarten teacher: was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl: replied, "I'm drawing God." The teacher: paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like." Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl: replied, "They will in a minute."

A Sunday school teacher: was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to "honor" thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?" Without missing a beat one little boy: (the oldest of a family) aswered, "Thou shall not kill."

One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?" Her mother replied, "Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white." The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, "Momma, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?"

The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. "Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.' A small voice at the back of the room rang out, "And there's the teacher, she's dead."

The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: "Take only ONE. God is watching" Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had written a note, "Take all you want. God is watching the apples.

Lots of Love,

Dad & Mom

Overzealousness Runs In Our Blood

Okay, so for anyone who didn't know, Kimmi is running for Student Body President this week and I am running for Student Nurses Association President this week. Dave made Kimmi a website for her campaign and I thought that was pretty cool, so Jared put one together real quick for me. I encourage you all to check them out. I know Kim's is way better than mine, but I only have to convince about 250 people to vote for me-Kimmi has about 2,700.

www.vote4kim.com

http://webpub.byu.net/hollyjb

So remember....Vote for Us.

Love, Holly

Funny sites

O.K. when I do something it's always over the top. I have gone a bit overboard with this blogger thing...
Chad has a comedy blog which is funny
http://comedythinktank.blogspot.com
We write funny things our kids do
http://kidsarefunny.blogspot.com
We have a thing called Parables from Parenthood
http://parablesfromparenthood.blogspot.com
And some weird woman has a site
http://somemormonlady.blogspot.com

Check us out!!

Has anyone else called the Morrises and had Kirtlan answer the phone? It made my day. Little high pitched Kirtlan voice, "Hello?"

Holly

Hey Family!

I just thought I'd post a blog about what's going on in my life. I'm running for ASB president, so vote Kim Brown (she'll take you to town). No, that's not my slogan. In fact, I don't have a slogan. If anyone comes up with one, please share.

So there is me and my friends (sorry, my friends and me...correct grammer) at Winter Formal. Actually we are at Target. We had time to kill before dinner, so somehow we ended up at target. Does that dress look familar to anybody? It should! I think the gloves added a bit of me to it, so I'm my own self. At least I like to think i'm my own self. I bet i'm more like the rest of you than I think. The other picture is of James and I at dinner. We have two friends that cooked and served dinner to us in a friends house. It was really fun.

Well, I miss you all. I can't wait to see you again.

Kimmie!

Links

Hey everyone I wanna put links on of anything you want but first you're gonna need to tell me what to link it to (and if your really savy feel free to create the link yourself)
Shelly

Hi Im David :-)

Hello (for those in the ward that don't know me) my name is David Brown

Shelly has asked me to blog about myself

Things are going good here in mo-town, that's Modesto. Im am going to school full time and I have two jobs. One at Jiffy Lube and the other throwing papes with the family. I play soccer every monday night and go bowling every wednesday night. I stink at both sports. I spend most of my time fighting the boys off of Kim. Hey guess what! The other day Kim and I were cleaning out the garage with dad and we were murmering like lamen and lemuel and Dad said he wished we were more like the three older siblings who have good work ethics and never complain. So that's a compliment to you older sisters. I am taking a piano class at The JC and it is surprisingly easy! Do you guys remember those piano lesson we had as kids. Ya i know i quit early but what little i did learn helped me alot to work on my music skills. And moms candles help me work on my numchuck skills. Well life is good here so no worries. Love all you guys soooo much.

love
David Paul Brown the first

Who would win a fight between...

Here's how this game goes. The first person posts "Who would win a fight between..." and puts two people. The next comment answers and then posts their own "Who would win a fight between..." I'll do the first two so you can see how it works.

Who would win a fight between Big Bird and Elmo?

Hey guys. I need some more time to figure out how this website works! It has taken me 12 or so tries to send this out.

Here is a picture of Kylie when she took her aunt Sara for a walk by our home. I'll have to send the rest out when I can!

We enjoy reading all of your posts!

Love Lisa 

Waxing Elequent

O.K. so the title is a bit misleading. Here is something that I sent to BYU Magazine but I'm sure they're not going to publish. So, to heck with them, I'll publish is here (oh, the joys of vanity press) and submit all of you to my endless diatribes....

What I Learned in My Field of Study that Helps Me in My Field of Lifeby Shelly Morris
Acting can lead to lots of rejections. It’s an ugly but necessary part of the field. While studying at BYU one of my Theater professors, in reference to this fact of “the business”, talked about how “Being told that we aren’t good at something” is incredibly stifling to our creative selves. She believed that children are born thinking that they can accomplish pretty much anything. It’s experiences that begin to shape whether we believe we can accomplish things. If we are told that we are not good at drawing then we might stop trying.
This conversation changed the way I care for my own children. I’m very careful in how I respond to their creative attempts to draw, or sing, or dance. I applaud their efforts to make-up stories, build with clay, or pretend to cook. I’m cautious not to be negative. I try to praise with honesty their attempts to bravely be themselves. I’m so proud of them and glad we have creative time as a chance to reaffirm that they are unique, clever, children of God, with talents all their own.
This truth also relates to the way they feel about themselves in general. I try to make sure that they understand that I believe that they are beautiful and good. I try, the best I can, to create an environment where they can see themselves as God sees them. They ARE capable of pretty much anything. God knows that. Sure we have our limitations, but why dwell on them? We might be surprised how far we can reach.

MySpace

O.K. I'm totally addicted to MySpace (just ask Chad) But I would totally love if Holly and Lisa were on it (spouses as well but lets just say Chad won't do it.) Kimmy's there, Dave's got 2, Johnny, Timmy, James, Marissa, Kira, Kristy, Britney, and Doug Bay. It's really easy to sign up (and totally free) but it is a fun little time sucker. So do what I did and take Hearts off your computer and sign up for MySpace. Come on, everybodies doing it...
Shelly
check out mine (and from there, everybody elses)http://www.myspace.com/shellymorris

Jared and Holly's Christmas Break

Hello Family!

Just wanted to give an update about our little trip. It was quite the adventure and we got to do lots.

It was a long trip there in this little car. We ended up staying overnight in a middle-of-nowhere town and our total driving time was about 21 hours (it was supposted to be about 14).

We had Christmas with Jared's family, then went up to Seattle for a day. We went to the SpaceNeedle (not on it, Holly's kinda cheap like that) and we went to Pike Place Market (where you don't have to spend any money), then we met Gail, Mariah, and Amber in a restuarant nearby. Afterwards, we did a session in the Seattle Temple. We didn't know we would travel so far to see Provo's sister set-up.

We got to visit lots of people while we were in Southern Washington. We saw Greg and Stacy in Sandy, Liz and Steve and Xilone Puffer in Mollala, and Briana and Dave Butler in Hillsboro (Trenton is still as crazy as he was at our reception).

We went through the Portland Temple just before we went home making it so Jared has only been to one more temple than I have-Jordan River. Maybe you can help me with that one, Emily and Travis.

We are currently just getting ready for our next semester. We love you all!



Holly and Jared

The Morris Bunch

Well here's a cute family in pieces...

Divine Comedy Pictures

Here are some Divine Comedy pictures that were easy for me to get off the web and try out this "add picture" feature

Our own Site

Hey Family! I thought this would be a great way to keep in touch with one another. It's sort of like Lisa's newsletter but with a lot less work from Lisa and no postage! I'll throw one up this week but right now I'm really tired. LOVE YOU ALL!!!