I wrote these up when coming up with the January Family History Activities sheet… This was the initial draft that just ended up having way too much content for a one-page activity sheet for kids. So here’s the longer version! Ten Ways to Do More Family History this Year Set the Family Tree app as […]
10 Commandments of Good Sportsmanship
My son is in the Golden Knights Youth Hockey program and his awesome coach was sending these out to the kids one per week and I am obsessed with them. His coach said that they came from a hockey magazine he has, but didn’t know who wrote them. I scoured the internet for these 10 […]
How to Get Your Kid into Youth Hockey with the Golden Knights Program
So about a year ago, we were desperate for information on how to get our kid into the Golden Knights kid hockey program, and it was very, very hard to obtain. You would think there would be a website that very simply laid out how it works to get your kid into hockey in Las […]
A Regular Dude’s Guide on How I Lost Over 50 lbs on Keto
In April of 2021, a good friend of mine started doing Keto and somehow talked me into doing it with him. I usually HATE diets, never have time for working out (and feel like working out never works for me), and generally didn’t care to try and do anything about being overweight. There was also […]
The Power of Singing the Hymns
The intermediate hymn was “Ye Elders of Israel” The most popular song in 1833 was a song called “Long, Long Ago” written by Thomas H. Bayly… guess where the music for ye elders of Israel came from?? Here’s what I hope to convey today: let’s all sing. We will be blessed by singing the hymns. […]
How to have a Unique Secure Memorable Password
Every day we have more and more and more online registrations which means more and more and more passwords to try and memorize… We know this is normally an impossible task, but I may have a potential solution. Instead of thinking of a pass-“word”, I recommend changing it to a pass-“pattern” (or algorithm, but I […]
Bishopric How-to: Working with the Youth
After scouring the handbook and jumping from one reference to another, I decided to take my notes from trying to figure out how to manage the youth and simplify it into my own format… Here it is in case anyone else needs a reference point as well. I will primarily reference all sources from the […]
600+ Ways to Make Money from Sticky Notes
In the UNLV class I’m currently teaching, the midterm is a challenge that we started at the beginning of the semester. The challenge was to take a stack of sticky notes and generate real money by doing something that involved the sticky notes. The key is not to focus on the sticky note, figure out […]
Fixer Upper Things to See in Waco (Map!)
When planning our trip to Waco there wasn’t anywhere I could find that mapped all the locations to visit in one single place, hence, this: (click on the full-screen button in the top right corner from mobile to open it in Google Maps) Fixer Upper Show Must-Sees This is in order of priority based on […]
How to Export iMovie File to iPhone
You would think iMovie would export perfectly to the iPhone… but alas, it does not. But getting it onto your phone so that you can post to Instagram or one of the other apps out there, the process is pretty straight forward. A couple of assumptions being made about this post: You own an Apple […]