I just got my LSAT score--a 158. We're really happy about it. I've had higher scores on practice tests, but I've had lots of lower ones as well. That's good enough to get us into about 153 of the 186 schools, so we're quite happy. It's really a blessing for us. I've been studying like a Chinese kid for the last year.
Now we have to decide where to go to school... the tough part.
We had a great Christmas week. Emily got a sewing machine from her parents that she's dying to try out and lots of crafty stuff from my parents. She's been sewing, quilling, card-making, looming, etc. There's no stopping the craftiness! I got a tripod from Emily's parents and D&C study books from my parents. I've been reading the D&C books quite a bit. I'm really excited for SS this next year.
We ordered a really cool picture of Christ for Christmas and they sent us the wrong one, so we should be getting the one we ordered this week (which we're really excited for).
On Christmas, we built 12 enormous snowmen in front of Emily's parent's house. The snow was perfect for it. The picture really doesn't do it justice. They were HUGE!
Just wanted to show some pictures I got from my new camera today! The first one is of Chewwy just playin' in the snow and the second is of the Rexburg temple.
It's been a great week. We went to Boise this week and visited my family and then we went to Blackfoot to Emily's grandpa's funeral.
Boise was really fun. We enjoyed relaxing, doing the puzzle, XBOX night at Sam's, and everything else.
While we were in Boise I hunted and hunted and finally found the camera I've been wanting at the right price. The camera was VERY expensive, so I sold one of my old guns, two pairs of skis, etc to afford it. Our house was a major Craigslist liquidation site for a week. I got a professional DSLR camera (Canon Rebel XS), and I LOVE it. I'm excited to get to some picture taking with it. The squirrel picture is one of the first pictures I took with it.
The funeral was really nice. It was obviously a lot of work by everyone in Emily's family, but it turned out very nice.
I got called today to be the Sunday School President in our ward. I think it'll be a great calling for me.
We're sure getting excited for the baby. My good friend Clegg asked me to help him give a name and blessing to his baby today. Emily could hardly keep from snatching the little black baby for herself. She said she thinks that black babies are the cutest and that she wants one. Sorry Em... I don't think you'll get her wish.
Winter has definitely come to Rexburg. The leaves are almost all gone from the trees and we have to scrape our windows each morning. The picture is looking out from our back porch.
We were really blessed this week. Neither of us are working this semester so that Emily can take it easy with the baby on the way and so that I can focus on the LSAT. It's been great, but we were worried about money for next semester. This week I applied for a position with the safety council at the school as their Advertising Director and I got a call from the Dean the next morning asking me to be the president of the organization (which I hadn't applied for). So, it will give me a full tuition scholarship. We were sure relieved. We really didn't want to take out a student loan.
Emily and I have been looking like crazy for baby stuff. We spent the whole day yesterday shopping around. Emily has entered the highly uncomfortable stage of her pregnancy.
We've been looking at law schools a lot. It's sure a big decision.
I have to do a Media Management project for school. We are graded on how many people we can get to watch the video I made. Do me a favor and watch this a couple times?
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We had the ultrasound today. You can probably tell by the picture at the top what the gender is. We're VERY excited and working hard on names. So far we like Ruger James Harmer and Hyrum Porter Harmer.
I went to a mission reunion this weekend. It was GREAT to see everyone again and especially President and Sister Bertasso, who just got home two months ago. I wanted to share this video of a guy from my MTC district, Elder Bodine, who always did really funny impressions for us. I asked him to do the Book of Mormon one and Emily videoed it. Hilarious. The reunion was great, but it was A LOT of driving.
Emily and I carved pumpkins while listening to this last session of General Conference. Emily's is a lot cuter than mine, but mine is way more scary and disgusting.
I included two pictures. The first is a picture our our laundry party on Tuesday. I made a deal with Emily that I would wash all of the laundry if she would fold and hang it all. The picture is of the pile of clean laundry, but the sad thing is that there were STILL FIVE LOADS TO DO! We have WAY too much laundry. Wow. We're making another massive trip to DI this week.
The next picture is of our ultimate frisbee game from this week. We DESTROYED the other team (11-3) and we only had 5 players and they had 10. They switched out fresh players the whole time and had 2 more people on the field than us, but we killed 'em. It was awesome. Too bad pride goes before destruction...
Emily here. I teach a 15 minute lesson in school this week. I'm teaching about tooth care. I'm going to have the class make an origami tooth to take notes on and have them smell their breath by scraping a popsicle stick on the back of their tongues. It's gonna be cool. That's it. Oh, and I saw a really big spider tonight and Jim wasn't here to smash it (he was at stake priesthooooood). I think it was a hobo.
Here are some pics from last week. The whole family came over for Landon's name and blessing. Emily wants to know why BJ and Rachel's baby is bulimic? Come on...
We had a garage sale yesterday to try and get rid of some of the clutter in the garage. We filled our car and part of Jacob's truck and sold $250 worth of stuff in one morning. The trouble was that it was a ward garage sale, so there were several other people there selling stuff. Unfortunately they had some cool stuff, so we ended up shopping as much as we did selling :-) There goes the idea of getting rid of stuff! Just kidding. We only bought a couple things that we "had" to have.
One of the items that I had to have was a really nice Simmons gun scope. We went shooting last night and I got sighted in. Hailee was here visiting, so she tried it out. Apparently the M-44 was a little larger than she had anticipated, so it really knocked her around.
I think we're gonna try and have another garage sale in a few weeks so that we can actually park in the garage during the winter.
DANGER! I wouldn't recommend that any of you try this at home:
Jim is taking 21 credits of 300 level classes this semester. That means 21 hours per week are spent in class and 63 hours a week are expected to be spent studying per week. YIKES! Also, I have to test out of 12 credits of Portuguese this semester. Also, I have to take the LSAT this semester (which I study 1 hour for each day). It's gonna be WILD, but it will be worth it.
Emily is very pregnant and frequently gets very sick. Despite this condition, she is taking a full semester load and taking care of the house and her husband.
So like I said, I wouldn't recommend that any of you try these stunts at home--DANGER!
I had a wild week hunting in McCall, Idaho with my brothers and dad. We left on Monday at 3 AM for the opening week of bowhunting season. Thanks to Emily, I had tags for deer, bear, elk, and mountain lion.
On Monday I was sneaking around on a trail and suddenly saw a flash of bear fur on a little ridge about 20 feet from me. I stepped off the dirt road (illegal to shoot from a road) next to the steep embankment so that I could shoot as soon as the bear showed himself. That was stupid. All of the sudden, the bear came out of the bush and I was FACE TO FACE with a bear. AAAHH! I drew back my bow and put the pin on its vitals when I suddenly realized that it was a cub. I came down on my bow and stepped away from it just as 250 lb momma bear burst out of the bushes behind the cub. I scrambled for my bear spray that I was wearing on my belt and pulled the safety pin. I sprayed out a little pepper spray and the bears sprinted away. WOAH!!! My heart was pounding for an hour.
Later in the week I shot a deer from 45 yards away. The unsuspecting deer immediately bolted and it made the arrow hit a little far back behind the heart and lungs. My dad, Ben, Sam, and I followed the blood trail for FOUR hours. There was a lot of blood, but it ended in a large grassy field and we couldn't find any more blood. Despite our best possible efforts to recover the deer, it ended up being bear bait.
Immediately after shooting the deer, I sneaked down to where I shot it and grabbed my arrow. I stepped back about 20 feet from where I'd shot, and suddenly another bear appeared. I drew my bow and waited for it to come out from a bush. My arm started trembling because I was nervous and the weight of the bow. When it stepped out from the bush, I let the arrow fly... right over the back of the bear. NUTS! I was too nervous.
On Thursday I got my last chance at taking a bear. I saw two bears fighting, so I drew back and shot at one of them. I was sure my arrow hit him, so I started snapping pictures of the bear--thinking that the one I shot would soon die. After waiting 30 minutes and the bears having walked off, I went down to get my arrow and then skin my bear. SURPRISE! My arrow was clean, there was no blood trail, and there was no dead bear. I had missed! All that time snapping pictures, I could have taken another shot, but I thought it had been hit! NUTS! I guess that's one goal I'll never knock of my list of 50 things to do in life.
I'm just trying to decide on a design for this thing, so I'm writing this post to see what it looks like. Hopefully it's not too ugly, but I think it's a bit special. I'll have to keep working on it.
