Tuesday, July 21, 2009
our home for rent
This is a lovely home. We moved out of state and left the home to a management company who have let it run into the ground. We will take $200 off the first month's rent if you can get the lawn nice again. The home has to be rented(upstairs and downstairs) by separate tenants/families that are related(siblings, cousins, etc) for it to be legal. It is a wonderful neighborhood and ward. It is just around the corner from the football stadium and the Temple. Since we are living out of state, please call only if serious and we will set up an appointment for you to see the home. I have lots of great pics, so please email me to see them
Monday, July 20, 2009
Okay, it has been toooooooooo long! I guess my life has been a little busy, but I don't see it getting any less busy any time soon, so I might as well make myself write. I have been saving up my pics to share, but just haven't made myself sit down to put them on my blog. So hopefully soon(cause I am not doing it tonight), I will have some updated pics of my cute little fam.
But let me fill you in on the past few months. . .
In May I was able to go to Prom. I guess I am a lucky girl, cause I got to go to three proms while I was in high school, and now as an adult, I got to get all dressed up and pretty and go again. It was a Prom for the 16-18 year olds from church. It was sooooo much fun, and I just love getting to be with these kids. They bring such a great smile to my face, and then to see them all beautiful and handsome, was so great.
June held a few busy weeks for me. I went to Girl's camp. It was a week without tv, computer, kids, hubby, and air conditioning. It was sooo much fun. It was a great combo of fun and spirituality for our teenage girls in my church. They are such great, sweet teenagers!
The following week in June I went to a youth conference for ages 14-18. Again, I cannot say too much how impressed I am with the youth of today. If only people would give them a chance and try to get to know them, they would be so impressed with what good people they are. I am so blessed and lucky to call them my friends. I love them all sooooo much!
So we are now in July. Tomorrow is my 9 year anniversary. I am not sure what we will do, if anything. We are finally getting our own place!!!!(yay) We have been at my parent's place for a little over a year now, and our home in Utah has not sold. We finally just said we needed to move out before the school year started, or we could end up here for another year. Then a week ago we got a phone call about this place we could rent for way cheap. It is an older couple who have left the home vacant for 2 years and are willing to rent it to us really cheap in exchange for us doing handy work around the home. This is a great opportunity for us since we need a place, and a cheap one, plus we love doing handy work and have some experience, but are looking forward to gaining some new experience. So I imagine for my anniversary tomorrow, we will be painting. But we are all good with that cause that means we are that much closer to being in our own place again!
But let me fill you in on the past few months. . .
In May I was able to go to Prom. I guess I am a lucky girl, cause I got to go to three proms while I was in high school, and now as an adult, I got to get all dressed up and pretty and go again. It was a Prom for the 16-18 year olds from church. It was sooooo much fun, and I just love getting to be with these kids. They bring such a great smile to my face, and then to see them all beautiful and handsome, was so great.
June held a few busy weeks for me. I went to Girl's camp. It was a week without tv, computer, kids, hubby, and air conditioning. It was sooo much fun. It was a great combo of fun and spirituality for our teenage girls in my church. They are such great, sweet teenagers!
The following week in June I went to a youth conference for ages 14-18. Again, I cannot say too much how impressed I am with the youth of today. If only people would give them a chance and try to get to know them, they would be so impressed with what good people they are. I am so blessed and lucky to call them my friends. I love them all sooooo much!
So we are now in July. Tomorrow is my 9 year anniversary. I am not sure what we will do, if anything. We are finally getting our own place!!!!(yay) We have been at my parent's place for a little over a year now, and our home in Utah has not sold. We finally just said we needed to move out before the school year started, or we could end up here for another year. Then a week ago we got a phone call about this place we could rent for way cheap. It is an older couple who have left the home vacant for 2 years and are willing to rent it to us really cheap in exchange for us doing handy work around the home. This is a great opportunity for us since we need a place, and a cheap one, plus we love doing handy work and have some experience, but are looking forward to gaining some new experience. So I imagine for my anniversary tomorrow, we will be painting. But we are all good with that cause that means we are that much closer to being in our own place again!
Friday, April 3, 2009
Matthew's Funny Moments
This past week Matthew has said a few things that have made me laugh and I thought I would share them becuase I figure they will bring a smile to your face as well:)
On Monday we were talking about the Temples our church has. We discussed why they are so special to us, what you have to do in order to go inside and some other things. We mostly spoke about how they will get to go in once they get ready to go on their missions, but they know they will also get married in one someday. When we were finished with our discussion, the boys ran off to go and play. Right before Matthew went, he said to Sean and I that he couldn't wait to get married. He has said that before and I always love hearing that. As he ran off to play, Sean asked him who he was going to marry and he said, without hesitation, 'Mommy'. --so here is the time you say awwww, how cute:) But then, like 20 seconds later, he stopped riding his scooter and said, "nope, actually I change my mind, I am going to marry Anistan"(sp?). Sean and I just burst out laughing, it was quite funny:) (Anistan is a little girl that we go to church with)
The other funny thing happened yesterday. I was reading a story to Matthew out of a little church magazine for kids. It was about how Christ died for us all so that we could live with Him and our families again. So I started explaining how we will get to see Sean's brother who passed away before Matthew was even born. Matthew started asking all sorts of questions about death and beign buried, and I realized he has never been to a funeral and we haven't talked a whole lot about them. So he asked where Ira(Sean's brother) was right now. I told him his body was buried in Salt Lake City at the cemetary. He then asked, "well where is his head?" I was baffled by his odd question and said again, his body is buried in Salt Lake. Then I realized...I told him his 'body', but I didn't say anything about his head:) It still cracks me up thinking about that question:)
On Monday we were talking about the Temples our church has. We discussed why they are so special to us, what you have to do in order to go inside and some other things. We mostly spoke about how they will get to go in once they get ready to go on their missions, but they know they will also get married in one someday. When we were finished with our discussion, the boys ran off to go and play. Right before Matthew went, he said to Sean and I that he couldn't wait to get married. He has said that before and I always love hearing that. As he ran off to play, Sean asked him who he was going to marry and he said, without hesitation, 'Mommy'. --so here is the time you say awwww, how cute:) But then, like 20 seconds later, he stopped riding his scooter and said, "nope, actually I change my mind, I am going to marry Anistan"(sp?). Sean and I just burst out laughing, it was quite funny:) (Anistan is a little girl that we go to church with)
The other funny thing happened yesterday. I was reading a story to Matthew out of a little church magazine for kids. It was about how Christ died for us all so that we could live with Him and our families again. So I started explaining how we will get to see Sean's brother who passed away before Matthew was even born. Matthew started asking all sorts of questions about death and beign buried, and I realized he has never been to a funeral and we haven't talked a whole lot about them. So he asked where Ira(Sean's brother) was right now. I told him his body was buried in Salt Lake City at the cemetary. He then asked, "well where is his head?" I was baffled by his odd question and said again, his body is buried in Salt Lake. Then I realized...I told him his 'body', but I didn't say anything about his head:) It still cracks me up thinking about that question:)
Thursday, March 26, 2009
A good storm
We moved back here almost a year ago, and I have been awaiting some severe weather. Texas can have some pretty crazy weather, and I have missed that the last 8 years I have lived away from here. But since we have lived here, we have been in a drought and had basically no rain. Today we had a good thunderstorm. With it comes lightening, thunder and rain. We also had some hail. In our town, we were issued an emergency warning to expect wind up to 100 miles and hour with hail baseball size. Thank goodness that just missed us, although that would have made for a fun afternoon:) I have attached some photos, not from me, but from right around here.Saturday, March 21, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Good Times
Sorry I haven't written in ages. We have been fairly busy, and I just haven't taken the time to post. I have some pics back from Valentine's and from our visit to the RainForest Cafe, so hopefully those will come soon.
2 weeks ago for Family Home Evening we went on a drive and decided to talk about nature. Benjamen loves nature and is always trying to preserve it and such, so it is a great topic in our family. We decided to sing the song "Whenever I Hear The Song of a Bird..." whatever the actual title is, I don't know. Anyway, when we were finished with our discussion, for fun we decided to put in our own words to that song. We tried to cater it to our lifestyle and climate here in TX. It was sooooo funny. We each took turns coming up with phrases in the song. We talked about the cactus and sticker burs, the scorching sun and rattling snakes. We went on and on. I really should have written it down. I think if we are ever in a talent show we will do this for our family act:)
2 weeks ago for Family Home Evening we went on a drive and decided to talk about nature. Benjamen loves nature and is always trying to preserve it and such, so it is a great topic in our family. We decided to sing the song "Whenever I Hear The Song of a Bird..." whatever the actual title is, I don't know. Anyway, when we were finished with our discussion, for fun we decided to put in our own words to that song. We tried to cater it to our lifestyle and climate here in TX. It was sooooo funny. We each took turns coming up with phrases in the song. We talked about the cactus and sticker burs, the scorching sun and rattling snakes. We went on and on. I really should have written it down. I think if we are ever in a talent show we will do this for our family act:)
Friday, February 27, 2009
Sizzlin'
It got to 91 today. I can't believe we are still in Feb and getting such high temps. I sure hope it isn't a sign of what is to come!!!
Spotlight
Supporting Fisher House™ and Hero Miles
Following their volunteer efforts, San Antonio-based staff stand with a house guest in front of the Lackland Fisher House
When wounded servicemen and -women return home for treatment, they often face weeks and months of rehabilitation at a veterans or military hospital. During this time, having family members close by is essential to their recovery. Fisher House™, one of the firm’s long-standing nonprofit partners, provides military families a place to stay, free of charge, via ‘comfort houses’ located at most major military and veterans hospital campuses.
Booz Allen’s partnership with Fisher House™ offers staff a variety of ways to help. Last fall, Booz Allen volunteers in the San Antonio office cooked dinner for residents, packed boxes in preparation for an upcoming renovation of its facilities, supported the organization’s major fundraising event, and helped with holiday decorations.
“One soldier told me that he knew of Booz Allen’s work as a government consulting firm,” says San Antonio-based Associate Bethany O’Day, “but he was unaware of our commitment to relationship-building within the community. It was great to demonstrate another side of the firm to him.”
In addition to onsite volunteering, staff also can participate in the Hero Miles program. Administered by Fisher House™ for the Department of Defense, Hero Miles allows individuals to donate frequent flier miles with participating airlines—enabling families to visit their wounded heroes. Starting March 2, staff can choose to support Hero Miles by voluntarily donating their unused airline miles.
“I’m sure many staff members are like me and have unused miles that are set to expire or a small number of miles with a little-used carrier that may go unused,” says McLean-based Principal Joe Suarez, community relations director. “What better way to use those accumulated miles than to donate them to help someone in need?”
Participation in Hero Miles—a joint initiative of Community Relations, the Armed Forces Forum, and the Travel team—is easy. Visit the Community Relations iShare site for frequently asked questions and instructions for donating unused miles.
Annually, the Fisher House™ program serves more than 10,000 families, and has made available nearly 2.5 million days of lodging to family members since the program originated in 1990. Read more about the San Antonio office’s volunteer efforts with Fisher House on the Community Relations iShare site.
Following their volunteer efforts, San Antonio-based staff stand with a house guest in front of the Lackland Fisher House
When wounded servicemen and -women return home for treatment, they often face weeks and months of rehabilitation at a veterans or military hospital. During this time, having family members close by is essential to their recovery. Fisher House™, one of the firm’s long-standing nonprofit partners, provides military families a place to stay, free of charge, via ‘comfort houses’ located at most major military and veterans hospital campuses.
Booz Allen’s partnership with Fisher House™ offers staff a variety of ways to help. Last fall, Booz Allen volunteers in the San Antonio office cooked dinner for residents, packed boxes in preparation for an upcoming renovation of its facilities, supported the organization’s major fundraising event, and helped with holiday decorations.
“One soldier told me that he knew of Booz Allen’s work as a government consulting firm,” says San Antonio-based Associate Bethany O’Day, “but he was unaware of our commitment to relationship-building within the community. It was great to demonstrate another side of the firm to him.”
In addition to onsite volunteering, staff also can participate in the Hero Miles program. Administered by Fisher House™ for the Department of Defense, Hero Miles allows individuals to donate frequent flier miles with participating airlines—enabling families to visit their wounded heroes. Starting March 2, staff can choose to support Hero Miles by voluntarily donating their unused airline miles.
“I’m sure many staff members are like me and have unused miles that are set to expire or a small number of miles with a little-used carrier that may go unused,” says McLean-based Principal Joe Suarez, community relations director. “What better way to use those accumulated miles than to donate them to help someone in need?”
Participation in Hero Miles—a joint initiative of Community Relations, the Armed Forces Forum, and the Travel team—is easy. Visit the Community Relations iShare site for frequently asked questions and instructions for donating unused miles.
Annually, the Fisher House™ program serves more than 10,000 families, and has made available nearly 2.5 million days of lodging to family members since the program originated in 1990. Read more about the San Antonio office’s volunteer efforts with Fisher House on the Community Relations iShare site.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Only in Texas
I just want to preface this entry with this: it seems like in Texas we have every rodent and bug and just plain yucky and harmful thing. Seriously, we have well over 100 different types of snakes, with like 1oo of them being poisonous. We have scorpions and spiders and tics and lizards and bats and roaches and and and...... you get the point.
Okay, so I think this is hilarious, mind you gross and disturbing, but hilarious. So the other day I put something in the microwave to heat up. When it dinged, I opened up the door to get my food and out crawls a roach!!!!!!! I KNOW!!! I guess it is true what they say about roaches being indestructable.
Okay, so I think this is hilarious, mind you gross and disturbing, but hilarious. So the other day I put something in the microwave to heat up. When it dinged, I opened up the door to get my food and out crawls a roach!!!!!!! I KNOW!!! I guess it is true what they say about roaches being indestructable.
Happy Anniversary!!!
My parent's anniversary was Feb 18th. It was their 35th anniversary, and they wanted to have a nice dinner with their family. We all went to a restaurant in San Antonio called the Rainforest Cafe. I have heard a lot about it, but it was sooooo much fun! It is themed after its name. They have done such a good job with the atmosphere of the place. They have a thunderstorm every 30 minutes and every 10 minures all the animals come to life. It is such a kid-friendly place to eat and have fun. While we were waiting for our food we walked around and took a million pictures. Our kids loved it. Anytime any one of you comes for a visit, we will definately have to take you there. The prices are a little high, but the food was good and the fun time with our family was definately worth it!!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Flowers, and Flowers, and More Flowers...
My mom owns a flower shop here in our small town. She stays fairly busy throughout the year, but there are definate "peak" seasons, one being Valentine's Day. She ordered her flowers quite a while ago, and just picked them up this past weekend. I think my dad said something like 70 dozen roses, and like 40 dozen carnations, then all the baby's breath(white small flowers) and the greenery to go on top of that. My mom commented and said that is actually quite a small order for a flower shop, but she is a very small shop and not a huge chain like a lot of companies. Anyway, the first two pics are of the flowers crammed into one of her coolers, just the way she picked them up. Then the next two are what she creates with them. She is actually quite talented, and I am a bit sad that I did not obtain any of her creative genes when I was born. ***Disclaimer***Sean wanted me to show all these pics and tell you all that this is what he did for me for Valentine's Day:) He is such a joker.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
New Beginnings
Tonight our Young Women had their New Beginnings. I was so proud of them! They did everything themselves, start to finish. They came up with all the ideas, practiced, and the end result was fabulous!
I love so much being back in with the youth of the church! They amaze me every time I am in their presence. It really gives me comfort as a parent of future youth to know that they will have a network of friends that will be unmatched by any other.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
A Few Months Ago...
The other day Sean and I were talking about our friends back in Utah. Before we moved down here to Texas, our friends put together a little going-away party. It was sooooo nice! Our neighborhood consisted of 3 blocks of homes and then another side street. I would have to say that we had anywhere between half of our neighbors to 3/4 of our neighbors there. It makes me feel so good knowing that we were/are loved so much. Friends are so important in everyone's life, and we just hope that we are the kind of friend to others, that others are to us.
Dress Size
I know I just submitted a post about how much weight I have lost over the past few months, but I have had a lot of people ask me how many sizes I have gone down. I haven't been really paying much attention to it, so I thought I would go and check. In pants, I have gone down 3 sizes, and in my skirts it has been 4. I feel so good and am so happy with my results. It is also such a great example to my kids to be active and they love exercising as well.
Sean's job
Everyone always asks what Sean does for work. Here is a little snippet that was in a paper explaining what his company is.
Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of strategy and technology consulting for more than 90 years. Every day, government agencies, institutions, corporations, and infrastructure organizations rely on the firm’s expertise and objectivity, and on the combined capabilities and dedication of its exceptional people to find solutions and seize opportunities. Booz Allen combines a consultant’s unique problem-solving orientation with deep technical knowledge and strong execution to help clients achieve success in their most critical missions. Providing a broad range of services in strategy, operations, organization and change, information technology, systems engineering, and program management, Booz Allen is committed to delivering results that endure. With more than 20,000 people and $4 billion in annual revenue, Booz Allen is continually recognized for its quality work and corporate culture. In 2009, for the fifth consecutive year, Fortune magazine named Booz Allen one of “The 100 Best Companies to Work For,” and Working Mother magazine has ranked the firm among its “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers” annually since 1999. To learn more about the firm, visit www.boozallen.com.
Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of strategy and technology consulting for more than 90 years. Every day, government agencies, institutions, corporations, and infrastructure organizations rely on the firm’s expertise and objectivity, and on the combined capabilities and dedication of its exceptional people to find solutions and seize opportunities. Booz Allen combines a consultant’s unique problem-solving orientation with deep technical knowledge and strong execution to help clients achieve success in their most critical missions. Providing a broad range of services in strategy, operations, organization and change, information technology, systems engineering, and program management, Booz Allen is committed to delivering results that endure. With more than 20,000 people and $4 billion in annual revenue, Booz Allen is continually recognized for its quality work and corporate culture. In 2009, for the fifth consecutive year, Fortune magazine named Booz Allen one of “The 100 Best Companies to Work For,” and Working Mother magazine has ranked the firm among its “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers” annually since 1999. To learn more about the firm, visit www.boozallen.com.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
A Dream Has Come True
What an amazing day! How far this country has come! I don't care what your political views are, today was a day for all of us to remember and to be proud of. I like to judge whether the things I am doing or not are good by the things my children say or do. Tonight Benjamen prayed for our new President and his family. He also thanked Heavenly Father for the first brown man to be president. You cannot get more honest and true than a child. Benjamen does not care where a person is from. He does not care what color skin they may have. He doesn't even care what religious affiliation, if any, one may have. All he cares about is what he is hearing is good and nice. We hear a lot of ideals. We all have them, but I think when they are spoken of on a large scale, most of us tend to be cynical and shoot them down. I love how children rejoice in goodness and have hope for a brighter tomorrow. I wish we could all embrace that as easily as our kids do.I also wanted to make mention of how gracious the Bush family seems to be. This is a great photo of how sincere I believe it to be. Just look at the girl's faces as the former President is speaking to them.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Home For Sale
Well we finally put our home on the market. It sure is rotten timing, but we are hopeful, and VERY prayerful. This is the ad I ran. If you know of anyone who might be interested, please give them my info!
Beautifully updated 1957 Rambler on a .21 acre lot in a family friendly neighborhood close to BYU. 2700 sq.ft. with 6 bedrooms, with one having built in desk and built in shelves. 1 1/2 baths up and 3/4 bath down. Two car garage with extra built-in storage. Bright and open interior with full-size windows throughout, including basement. Spacious kitchen with tile, granite and updated appliances. Basement is 100% finished with R1.6-A zoned mother-in-law apartment. Large covered deck with fully-enclosed backyard. Fully-landscaped with automatic sprinklers. A Must See! This is great for a professor, parents looking for a place for their kids, and for a new homeowner needing the extra income from the basement to help pay the mortgage. By appointment only--(801)-885-0405. No agents please.
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