The way we are headed

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before,
but had once failed an entire class.

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That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.


The professor then said, "OK,
we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".


All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.


After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.


As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D!
No one was happy.


When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F..

The scores never increased as bickering,
blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.


All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.


Could not be any simpler than that.

Dumpster Diving

So this weekend I had a wedding and I went down to the wholesaler where I always get my flowers. Apparently the truck did not bring one of my items (the most important one) and would not be coming in until the next morning, which did me no good. The bride wanted red roses with stephanotis. Stephanotis is really a one of a kind type of flower and you cant substitute it without most likely upsetting the bride.


Here is the stephanotis, you have probably seen it before, its a very popular special wedding flower.


So i had to do some searching and found a different wholesaler in Salt Lake. So Amber was nice enough to come with me and we found ourselves a sweet little treat in the process. (Just to clarify, i did NOT get the stephanotis out of the bride, i would never use garbage flowers for a client!) I dont know if it was just because it was right after valentines or we just happened to be in the right place at the right time. As we were leaving the parking lot of the new found wholesaler, the dumpster right outside was FULL of bundles of roses. HUNDREDS of roses and hydrangeas. We grapped about 8 bunches (which is about 16 dozen)! Jealous right? Well we did have to go through the garbage but who cares. I put together a sweet little arrangment for myself, and one for amber too. I was seriously so giddy. I might drive up there again to see if i get lucky again.




These arrangments have about 70 roses in them and would normally cost about $200!

Faith and Prayers

Just in case you wanted to ball your our eyes out, and if you have some time on your hands. These stories of such strong mothers will undeniably change your perspective on life and your children, even your unborn children. Because I am not a mother...yet...and it already makes me want to be a better one and to NEVER take life for granted. Reading these stories have strengthened my testimony of prayer and faith, I cant comprehend how much faith these mothers had.

This first link is to her blog, go back and start reading at DECEMBER 24th
Natalies Blog

This second link was a link from natalies, she is still fighting...
Bronsons Story

Wish List

Here are a few things that are on my furniture/decor wish list...can you catch my style? I love all these pieces...and I want my whole house to coordinate with them. Enjoy :)

All Moved In.

These didnt post in the order I wanted, for some reason when i post pictures it only shows the HTML so i dont know which pictures are which...but none the less....here is what you have been waiting for! Moving in went really fast, we thought we had alot of stuff, but now that we have more room than we know what to do with and spreading our stuff over 3 floors doesnt seem like we have so much stuff anymore. Only two bedrooms have furntiture in it, but thats okay I have so many decorating ideas. It will take me along time to be able to afford to fill the rooms but I cant wait! Tyson and I are so happy to be in our new home and are so grateful for being able to make the next step in our lives! We were lucky enough to get some money back from the sellers and were able to buy a new couch, dining room table, washer & dryer, and fridge. Hope you enjoy these pictures and for all of you who live far away...we now have room for you to visit!! So come see us!

Crapola

Soooo...I am going to have to be a really lame blogger for the next little while until i figure out a solution or get a new camera. Apparently we one have one ethernet cord in our whole house and its downstairs where our TV is. So there is not place in our whole house to set up a desktop computer and have access to the internet. Since my camera is so old, i can only download pictures to my old computer because our laptop has windows 7 and there is not a software for my camera to download that works with windows 7, atleast not yet. Who is there right mind only puts one ethernet cord in a three story house? REALLY!? does anybody know if you can take a phone jack and get an adapter to make it an ethernet plug in? Or any other solution besides a new camera? I want to post pictures so bad!

Dont be mad

Alright its been too long since I have blogged with so much I need to blog about. We have been really busy around here. Unfortunatly we dont have internet and cable set up and our old computer which has my camera software on it is the only one I can upload pictures to. I am currently stealing whatever network i am on. I will give more details and pictures as soon as we get "our" internet! SO many good pictures to come :)

Temple Square

Even though technically it was our turn to go to Tysons family this year, my family came to Utah to help Brian and Becky with some home upgrades. It was so nice to be in Utah for Christmas AND get to be with my family. Wednesday night we all went to the Salt Lake Temple together and did Baptisms. That was only the second time I had ever been inside the Salt Lake Temple and the first time doing baptisms there, it was so neat to see all the details and how beatiful and ornate it is. I feel so blessed to be able to go in the Temple with all my family, the only exception was Dan, who we got to talk to Christmas even via video chat from the Philipines. Afterwards we saw the lights for a few minutes and walked around temple square. Since Tyson was still in his suit and looks like he is 20 everyone thought he was a missionary..haha he gets that alot. Aftwards we went to P.F. Changs it was so delicious! I forgot how good it was.

Coming soon

We had a great Christmas Morning and Holiday...I will post more once I can find my Camera! I cant find it! Stay tuned

The Wait is OVER!!!

After 6 Months of Looking, Searching, Short Sales, High Hopes, and Disapointments we are finally done! As of today, Tyson and I are officially home owners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last wednesday I was looking on KSL, just perusing the classifieds, and I came across an ad for some townhouses we looked at this summer but were a little more than we wanted to spend. Now, 4 Months later, they were offering a $5,000 builder incentive AND a $4100 grant from their lender, AND the basement came finished, where before when we looked at them they didnt. Plus on top of that we still get the $8000 tax credit. Thats a total of $17,100!! We felt like it was a deal we just couldnt pass up and so we decided to ditch the short sale and make the plunge. Today we signed the papers and our closing date as of now is set for January 6th. We were hoping to be in by the end of the year but because of the Holidays the process will take a little longer.

We are so excited to finally have a house of our own and cant wait to move in and decorate! Seriously my mind runs crazy with ideas...oh and the storage! Its a 3 story townhouse in American Fork, it has 4 bedrooms, and 3.5 baths, 2 car garage, clubhouse with pool and hottub, and its in a gated community. Something else we excited about it is just being done with the whole process and not having to work with our realtor anymore! It has been a nightmare for me. Enough talking here are a few pictures of the model house (not Ours) but OF COURSE we will post pictures of ours as soon as we can!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

I just had to do it..

Now I am All Decked Out

Decking The halls

I couldnt wait until after Thanksgiving. I tried, but I was just in a festive mood after church today and had to put up my wreath atleast. I got this wreath, and most of the ornaments and such at Tiapan after christmas last year. I think the wreath was like $7 and with all the accessories probably another $15. I have been wanting to put it together for awhile now but who wasnts to make something and then put it in a bag and shove it in the closet. When we get back from Wyoming for Thankgiving I will put my tree up! I cant wait

Grandma's 80th Birthday

Grandma Showing off her Clogging Skills....still tappin' at 80!


All the Brothers and Sisters


All the Girls: Grandmas, Moms, sisters, cousins, aunts, grandaughters, great grandaughters


Grandma and Grandpa


Everyone at the Party


Blowing out the candles


Throw your hands in the air! And waive 'em like you just dont care


There were so many people for "Thanksgiving" Dinner we had tables set up outside too, it was still warm though because we had patio heaters, I think i want one of them in my house!

Last weekend Tyson, Chelsea, Brian, Becky, and I took a road trip to Oregon for my Grandma Georges 80th Birthday. She said all she wanted for her Birthday was for ALL of her family to be there. All 7 of her sons and daughters were there and all but about 3 grandchildren who couldnt make it. (Daniel being one of them) We had a huge party on Saturday with about 100 family members and guests. We had a little program with singing, dancing, stories, and Grandma even did some clogging! Can your grandma do that? Sunday since we had everybody together and it was the week before Thanksgiving we had a big Thanksgiving dinner. It was so great to see everybody and have everybody together. There were several cousins I had never even met yet! Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for raising such a beatiful family and bringing us all together. Right after dinner we had to get back on the road to be back for work on monday...well atleast some of had to. (hehe, not me)