{"id":93,"date":"2008-01-27T21:09:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T05:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/27\/congratulations-to-rebecca-carlson\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T16:19:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T23:19:47","slug":"congratulations-to-rebecca-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/27\/congratulations-to-rebecca-carlson\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Rebecca Carlson!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised (though, rather later than promised), Rebecca finally receives her prize for successfully identifying the song and album that are the source of our very appropriate blog tag-line. What is the amazing prize? Why, a post on our fascinating and exiting new blog, with readers across the country, dedicated entirely<\/em> to my amazing sister-in-law! So, here goes…<\/p>\n

Rebecca J. Carlson<\/a> is the oldest of six children born to Roger and Kathy Hoffman. With an airline pilot and a marine biologist turned super-mom for parents, Becka had adventure and creativity stamped on her destiny in bold type. She spent her childhood in Utah, Arizona, and Texas. Later, she pursued scientific studies at Brigham Young University<\/a>, where she met a brilliant mathematician named Russel Carlson<\/a>. It didn’t take long for Physics and Math to notice each other and, during Becka’s Senior year at BYU, they were married in the Portland LDS Temple<\/a>. Together, they’ve taught ballroom dance classes, written and published The Journal of Extraneous Scientific Topics (JEST)<\/a>, and moved from Utah to Oregon, back to Utah, then to Arizona, and finally to their current home in Nevada.<\/p>\n

Rebecca & Russel spend a significant portion of their time raising their five children. This generally includes a conglomeration of homeschooling, music lessons, science projects, family prayers, various pets, and wholesome recreational activities. Becka keeps a running commentary of these adventures on her blog, “And Now, For My Next Trick…<\/a>“. She plays the harp, and has even built several of them<\/a> herself. She is an avid reader, and often takes the time to write insightful reviews<\/a> on what she reads. Her literary interests have prompted her to experiment with her own authorship<\/a>, and she is currently attempting to publish a young adult novel titled, “Society of Peregrines, Book One: The Key to the Corridor<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Here are a few things her family members have said about her:<\/p>\n

“I could not have hand-picked anyone better than this remarkable young woman to be the “ring-leader” of my children! She has been a constant source of inspiration, creativity, and fun to our whole family.” – kathy<\/p>\n

“Rebecca is amazingly creative, a problem-solver and a natural leader. She’s intelligent yet sensitive, scientific yet spiritual, talented yet humble.” – russel<\/p>\n

“She is a brilliant person – a genius when it comes to science and physics and all that. She’s an inspiration to me artistically, and has been the trail-blazer in my family.” – jon<\/p>\n

“(intelligence \/ n(projects)) + (courage (action + vision)) + (mom-of-the-year x 5) = Rebecca”<\/p>\n

We love you, Rebecca! Hope you like your prize \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As promised (though, rather later than promised), Rebecca finally receives her prize for successfully identifying the song and album that are the source of our very appropriate blog tag-line. What is the amazing prize? Why, a post on our fascinating and exiting new blog, with readers across the country, dedicated entirely to my amazing sister-in-law! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14],"tags":[77,81,78,114,79],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-1v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}