Putting up Christmas

This weekend I made the family put up Christmas lights, because...number one: I knew the snow was coming and if we didn't do it before that, then I knew it wouldn't happen at all...and number two: we didn't do it last year so I was going to make sure that it definately happened this year! I love Christmas lights! Hardly anyone does it anymore...holiday poops. Remember the good ol' days...like when all of Gentile was all lit up and everyone would drive down the road at night...way too slowly of course, but still that was the best. I miss those days when people actually got excited for the Holidays. Now days it seems like everyone dreads it, because of the retail craziness or the buying of gifts, whatever the reason, I miss it when everyone had their houses lit up and we couldn't wait for everything to start. I call for everyone, everywhere to try and enjoy this season...its up to you how you act and deal with the Christmas spirit. We must remember that it isn't about buying or honestly, even the giving of gifts isn't important. Its a celebration of the Savior and of loving one another, enjoying being with family and friends, loving every minute of the special feeling that can come if you let it!! So here are some pictures of our preparations.

I serioulsy didn't even get ready for the day....thats the reason I look ill....

Okay, I thought Tate was going to roll off the roof he was laughing so hard. When I looked up Dad was relaxing like this, so I asked him what magazine he was posing for and Tate about lost it!

I can't tell if they are arguing here, or discussing the best way to attach the shingle thingies to the lights...either way its a precious moment. haha

Working hard

I don't know where Tate thinks he's going to run to.

Catch up....

So October has been a crazy month for me....lots of happenings. Here is a review....the first weekend I talked my friend Beth into going on a road trip to San Fransisco with me...it was a blast...the best weekend I've had in a long time...one I will surely never forget ;) This is just a little of what we did. THANKS BETH FOR EVERYTHING!!!

The next weekend I was supposed to go to Omaha to visit a friend and while there was going to go to Nauvoo...unfortunatey I had to cancel because of some unforseen circumstances. Sad :( But I plan to go out as soon as I can swing it...hopefully soon. So those pictures will just have to be shown when I actually have them. haha

The next weekend I went to Wendover with some girls from work. It was a blast!! It was a much needed fun weekend away after a stressful couple weeks before that. So thanks to Aleisha especially and Makalah for that! (yes that is when I went to Chippendales...which was HILARIOUS, not gross)

Thanks to all the girls that have made this past month amazing!!! I love you all!!!

Okay this is the last one...this is my other favorite song. Its such an emotional song, I love it. You can't see Katie in this video, but its okay its still amazing!

This is my favorite song lately...one that almost perfectly describes some of my feelings lately.

This is who I've been listening to almost constantly lately!! Everyone should check it out! I love Katie Thompson!

A Priceless Miracle and Glorious Miracle

"There is a glorious miracle awaiting every soul who is prepared to change. Repentance and forgiveness make a brilliant day of the darkest night. When souls are reborn, when lives are changed—then comes the great miracle to beautify and warm and lift. When spiritual death has threatened and now instead there is resuscitation, when life pushes out death—when this happens it is the miracle of miracles. And such great miracles will never cease so long as there is one person who applies the redeeming power of the Savior and his own good works to bring about his rebirth. . . . "The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul. In a world of turmoil and contention this is indeed a priceless gift." --Spencer W. Kimball

This has given me such hope and peace. What a blessing it is to have this amazing gift to help us in our lives!

"An High Priest of Good Things To Come

Okay this is my favorite talk ever given. It has helped me through so much. As I have been needing heavens help recently, this talk has been on my mind every day. So I would like to share. Listen or read it. Its aweseome!!

An High Presit of good things to come

Grey's

Grey's Anatomy Season Premeire

All right...if you know me you know I LOVE LOVE LOVE Grey's Anatomy! So this Thursday is the season premeire. If you would like to join me for this monumental event let me know. I will be hosting a party!!!! Thursday night starting at 7:30 pm. Call me...text me...whatever...its going to be soooo good!!!

Can't Wait

We Won't Ever Forget

I am so grateful for those that have chosen to serve this amazing country. Whether by serving in the armed forces or the ones that just do what they are hired to do.

This truly is the Home of the Brave.

A Must See...

Okay... really there are no words just make sure you go see

"All About Steve".

Not only are both Bradley Cooper and Sandra Bullock gorgeous,

but man I was laughing so hard! Its not the greatest movie ever,

but it is good for a laugh and a good time.

"It is no small task to remain focused on the things of God in an often godless world, but we came from heaven with all the qualities required to accomplish this. Stay on the path of goodness, and there will be no opportunities lost and no blessings postponed. Do what is right, let the consequence follow, and all will be well."
---Kristin Oaks

Great Advice

I thought this was awesome advice...advice we should not only listen to but act upon!

"Be loyal to one another, your friends and associates. Look for the good in those about you, and emphasize that good. Never go around gossiping about your associates or speaking unkind words concerning them...What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that so permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another's virtues more than we speak of on another's faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears." --Pres. Gordon B. Hinkley

This is something that I constantly think about. The past couple years I have worked really hard on looking at the good of other people, instead of the bad. Even when those people have really hurt me, I still see the good in them over the negative and I've found that it makes the biggest difference in me and my spirit, it sure makes it hard to hold a grudge against someone that annoys me or has really hurt me. It makes the hard stuff easier to process and handle. But I also have noticed that while I see the good in people, I am very pessimistic about life and human nature in general. Its funny though, because when other people around me are having hard times and are pessimistic about their circumstances, I hear myself telling them to look on the positive sides. Sometimes I dont tell them but I think about the good things that the situation hold. So maybe I'm actually "A realist, masquerading as a cynic, who is secretly an optimist."(from the movie HITCH, lol)

So in short....I'm truly trying to continue to find the VIRTUES in people, while being and looking for the optimism in lifes circumstances. something we should all be trying harder to do. If we all really truly take this advice from President Hinckley to heart, then the world will be a much better place. I'm positive we will find that as we try to find virtues and optimism, pretty soon "try to find" will be replaced by "always see". Everyone will be much happier and the Spirit of the Lord much closer to everyone we come in contact with. A worthy goal, yes? So lets do it!!!!!!!!

Okay...seriously...shouldn't we have a judge on America's Got Talent....that is actaully talented?????

Thought for the upcoming weekend.....

" "Salvation is not a cheap experience." We should remember that. Never let any trial stand between you and your allegiance to your Heavenly Father. Never let any unintended slight or insult separate you from partaking of the sacrament and lead you to spiritual weakness and possibly toward spiritual death. Hold FAST and remember what you know to be true. A friend said it better: "If I don't endure now, I'll have ETERNITY to think about why I didn't." "

Thought for the weekend....

"All of us will experience difficult situations we desire to change. What the Lord may change is not our circumstances but our character. As our faith matures and or perspective broadens, our success in life can often be measured not in the outcomes we expected but in the attitudes we acquire--patience, love, caring, hope, and faith. We can measure our own progress by noting an increased capacity to be tolerant, to be spiritually in tune, to be in better control of our temper, to be more accepting and forgiving of those around us. We are meant not to mark time but to make it purposeful and make a mark on the world around us."

Something to think about

From my previously talked about book, "In her novel The Face of a Strangeri, Anne Perry, herself a single, faithful Latter-day Saint woman, writes words that had significance to me. She writes of Hester, who is fast approaching age thrity, and the advice given her: "Do i detect a note of self-pity, Hester?...You will have to learn to conquer that....Too many women waste thier lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Nearly all married women will tell you it is a blessed state, and you are to be pitied for not being in it. That is arrant nonsense. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outward circumstances, but mostly it depends on how you choose to look at things yourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not."

I love it!

Understanding...

So I recently had a conversation with a newlywed person (who shall remain unnamed), and of course the direction of the conversation was surrounding the subject of how to talk to a 'single' person. It also happens that same day that I bought this book directed to single LDS women and how to be happy in such a family and marriage oriented religion. Its basically like I wrote the book..I feel almost 100% everything that Kristen Oaks wrote about. (Sister Oaks married Elder Oaks of the Twelve Apostles after she was 50 years old) Anyway, this person asked me how to talk to her single friends without offending them and making them feel like being single was a bad thing. (okay--remember I'm single here)...then she said that she didn't feel like single people realized how much busier married people are and that basically their lives just don't take as much energy and we just don't understand that lifestyle....so NUMBER ONE--(if you dont want to offend a single person, DO NOT make them feel like their time in life isn't worth as much just because they aren't married, DO NOT tell them that they don't understand what its like to be busy...because the TRUTH is, we are just as busy, your day doesn't take more energy than ours, but really a single persons PRIORITIES in life just differ from that of a married person.. That's all it really boils down to...different priorities. (Luckily, I really wasn't too offended and I told her that by telling her single friends things like that, no wonder she can't figure out how to talk to them).

Okay, so NUMBER TWO....just go buy this book....HECK I'll let you borrow it! As I've read this book, I really have come to a better understanding of myself and worth in the Lord's sight..single or married. I truly feel that EVERY PRIESTHOOD leader and MARRIED WOMAN and SINGLE WOMAN or MAN should read this book. It will give you insight to our feelings and our struggles in this 'Mormon' culture. So seriously...I'm not kidding....come borrow my book..ITS AWESOME!!! Its called "A Single Voice" by Kristen M. Oaks

Come one...come all....

PIANO LESSONS

Beginning in September

Limited number of places open

Contact me ASAP if you are interested

in giving your child (or yourself) one of the greatest gifts ever...

The gift of music!

Just have to say...

Okay I'm just going to say this because its seriously been bugging me. Its not meant to offend anyone I just have to get it off my chest..so

If you are planning a wedding or know someone that is planning a wedding you really shouldn't put your own wedding video together OR have a friend do it either. I'm just saying...yes they are expensive but they are so worth it, especially when they are of good quality! So with that in mind.... (and I promise I'm not trying to get business here, hire someone else for all I care) I do own a business for wedding videos. I do it all...slide shows, actual live footage, whatever you want. And honestly it will be much nicer and better quality than what you think you or your buddy can whip up.

I know it sounds like I'm trying to get business but it not the case...I just know of a few people that 'hired' their buddy or themselves to put together their video or they were too stubborn to ask me and frankly they sucked. Sorry but its true. So even if you think you can't afford it....call me and we can work something out...I promise....you wont be disappointed.

Okay I'm stepping off the soap box now.

One last thing....if this somehow inspired you to want to talk to me about your wedding video (or your friends) you can call my cell or email me at capturingalegacy@yahoo.com
And I don't do only weddings, I put other video presentations together as well....graduations, eagle scouts, family reunions, whatevery you want...I'll figure something AMAZING out just FOR YOU!! (okay that was me totally trying to get business ;)

Georgeous George

Really there is not much to say...went to the George Strait concert last night.....what can I say but, AMAZING!! King George is one of the few that gets better looking and sounding with age so I'll just leave it at that....sigh.

I'll save all my ranting about driving drunk, sunburn pealing, crazy driving, and my new theories about life for another time...haha...lets just all savor this moment with George.

McKay Dee

Most of you know that I recently transferred to McKay Dee from IMC. I started orienting there 2 weeks ago and now I'm offically ready to be on my own (even though I've been doing the exact same thing for 9 months already). Anyway, I still work on the postpartum (mother/baby) unit, which I still love! Everything is basically the same from IMC, except a few little things that I felt comfortable with in a matter of minutes. This move is a good one for many reasons...1- Instead of a 35 min commute I now only have a 15-20 min one. 2-The shifts are 5pm-5am, which works out better for school and such. At IMC I worked 7pm-7am. So by the time I got home I might as well just stay up and go to my class at 10am instead of being groggy....of course those that know me know that most of the time I just ended up skipping class because at that point I had usually been up for more than 24 hours! So the 5 to 5's will be great because most of my classes in the fall dont even start until 11am, so I'll actually get some sleep. 3-It sure has a better view than IMC ever did. I'd much rather see a beautiful fountain than the trax train when I look out the window. 4- I can get over time without feeling like its a sin. 5- When my friends have their babies here, I'll be able to take care of them now!!

So even though there are all these good things about transferring to McKay, I still am finding it hard to enjoy working here. I miss my friends at IMC, but I am making new ones here. I guess it will just take time (like any other job) to feel comfortable and in sync with every one else. But so far its been an okay decision. It can only get better!

Koda!

Okay...most of you know that my dad and I have wanted a puppy for a long time, but my mom would not hear of it. Well today we saw some puppies for sale so we inquired about them. Of course mom said no at first. So Holly and I called back up....Todd and Kathleen said they would go in on the puppy...especially since he was so cheap compared to what most dogs sell for. So we all ganged up on her and she actually went for it. And just like we knew she would, she fell in love with him as soon as we brought him home. He's adorable. Kath wanted to name him Koda and we did. He is almost 8 weeks old, a lab/springer spaniel mix. So cute!! We love him already and he's been so well behaved, hopefully it will continue! Koda was bred to be a duck hunting dog so of course the boys are ecstatic to train him to go with them..we'll see if they actually do it. haha. Until then we are going to enjoy his cute puppiness!!

Tenneessee Travels

Me and Dolly

Tara & I at the University of TN
Do I really need to tell you about this one?

The cute apartement I lived at in Marion.

It was so beautiful while I was there...blue skies and green hills! Miss it already.

Jenny and I.

2006 Mazda 3 For Sale

I'm selling my car. Here are the details. 06 Mazda 3. Body is in great condition as is the interior. It will be in need of a rebuilt or new transmission in the next little while. We have had quotes on that repair and it might range from $2500-$3000. But it still drives great for now!! There is about 50,000 miles on it. Automatic windows, locks, CD, remote entry, great AC!, alloy rims. It gets fantastic gas mileage!! I bought it from the LDS church, it was a mission car. I love the car and am so sad to say good-bye to it, but the reason I'm selling it is that I just want to get out of debt a little quicker. I'm asking $12,000. I won't be ready to get rid of it until the end of the month so if you need time then thats fine.

For Sale

So I'm thinking about selling my car. Its a 2006 Mazda 3. If anyone thinks they might be interested, then please let me know and I can tell you more about it. Pictures and details to come soon!

Tennessee

Okay I had the best time in Tennessee last week!! I'm so happy I went. I am in a much better place. Anyway, I will post pictures soon!!

VACATION

So I know I'm leaving in a week to go to Tennessee...but currently I'm dying to go to Disneyland!!!!!!!!!! Anyone want to join me!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Life Out There

She thought she'd done some living, But now she's just wonderin' what she's living for. Now she's feeling that there's something more. Is there life out there, so much she hasn't done. Is there life beyond her family and her home. She's done what she should, should she do what she dares? She doesn't want to leave, she's just wonderin' is there life out there. She's always lived for tomorrow. She's never learned how to live for today. She's dyin' to try something foolish, do something crazy, or just get away. Something for herself for a change. Is there life out there? So much she hasn't done. Is there life beyond her family and her home? She's done what she should, should she do what she dares? She doesn't want to leave, she's just wonderin' is there life out there? There's a place in the sun that she's never been where life is fair and time is a friend. Would she do it the same as she did back then? She looks out the window and wonders again. Is there life out there, so much she hasn't done? Is there life beyond her family and her home? She's done what she should, should she do what she dares? She doesn't want to leave, she's just wonderin' is there life out there?

I've always heard that witnessing someone die can be a spiritual experience and I've never really doubted it, but its one thing to hear about it and another to actually be there when it does happen. Today I was able to be present when my sweet grandfather passed away. It was a very touching moment. He passed on to his next life while the hymn, "Be Still My Soul" was playing in the background. It is something I will always remember. I'm so grateful that he is finally back with my grandma and they can be together forever. What a blessing it is to have this knowledge! The Gospel is true!! How wonderful that God loves us so much that he lets us live together forever with the ones we truly love. It should be a sad thing, but I'm truly happy for him and my grandma. My heart is at peace and I'm just grateful for the awesome experience I had today!

When I grow up...

I've always been very interested in the life of Emma Smith, wife to the prophet Joseph Smith. Her strength and courage often overcomes me. I just cannot imagine having the life she had and being able to survive and survive with the faith and happiness that she did. Recently I watched the movie "Emma Smith: My Story". While not all of the timelines were accurate, I truly am touched by her faith in not only the gospel, but in her husband Joseph. Her good humor, patience, courage, and fortitude make me want to be like her.

She went through so much while on this earth, not only while she was married to Joseph, but after his death as well. It has always bothered me greatly when people say that she lost her faith, or that she turned her back on the Gospel. I truly believe this was not the case.

While on my mission, I read a very good Ensign article all about Emma and her life after Joseph's death. It was written by one of her ancestors and said how much she really did suffer after he was martyred. It said something like after all she had gone through, it wasn't that she didn't believe in the gospel anymore or that she didn't believe Brigham Young was to be the prophet or whatever other rumors people spread, but that she was so tired and worn out from all the hardships she had passed through that she just didn't feel the need or want to move yet again. I wish I could remember the month of that article because I would want everyone to read it.

Anyway, I don't think any of us can judge her state of mind after the prophets murder, or at anytime of her life for that matter. I mean, how many of us have lost more children that raised? Have been driven from home to home, city to city? Have taken people/strangers off the streat and given them our bed to sleep in? Have seen our husbands and loved ones beaten and ridiculed, then murdered in cold blood?

There is no way I could have the strength to live through all Emma Smith did. I only pray and hope that I can be like her as I grow up. With faith,patience, strength, courage, good humor, love and charity. She is an example to me and I hope to you.

Her mother-in-law Lucy Mack Smith said,

“I have never seen a woman in my life, who would endure every species of fatigue and hardship, from month to month, and from year to year,” she wrote, “with that unflinching courage, zeal, and patience, which she has ever done.”

Sorry this is getting so long, its just been on my mind for a while now. There is a song that I think describes my feelings about this. Its off the ablum "A Nashville Tribute to the Propeht Joseph".

EMMA
Written by Jason Deere
Never had an ordinary day

Never lived your life in an ordinary way

For everything you loved you paid a price

But you couldn’t let the world see you cry
Never had a moment of peace

Never felt the sunlight

When the worries set you free

Every time your life turned a page

It seemed like your heart might break
With the world on your shoulders

When the nights had grown colder

You seemed to weather every storm

With a queen’s grace

When you lost your husband

When you buried your children

I’m sure the angels stood in reverence as you prayed

How much can on heart take
Never had a day to call your own

When so many needed your warm heart as a home

Whispering a mother’s lullaby

As you sat alone by the fire
And I’m sure your heart breaks,

when some people still say

Somewhere down the line you lost your faith

How much can one heart take

How much can one heart take

TN here I come!!!

So I've been dying to go back to Tennessee since I came home 2 years ago!!! And I finally am going to make it happen! I decided I just have to do it!! So May 20th-31st I'll be back where my heart is! (And I'll get to celebrate my 25th birthday while I'm there!!)

YEAH!

Wedding Day

Here are pictures of Todd & Kathleen's Wedding Weekend!

We had a dinner the night before.

This is the head table.

The guest tables.

The wedding day at the Mt. Timpanogos Temple

Mr. & Mrs. Baxter

Countdown to wedding day

Well there is only 4 days to go until Todd is an old married person!! Wow, time has really gone fast!!! I can't believe it. We got our dresses back (early) and now they are being altered (again) and we'll have them on Wednesday. Kathleen went to the temple for the first time on Saturday, it was a great session! Now we only have to pull the dinnr off and the wedding day!! I'm crossing our fingers that everything will still continue smoothly. The only thing that could potentially be a problem is the weather, but I'm really thinking it will be okay! Anyway, see you all on Friday.

Bridesmaid Dress Disaster

Okay so the wedding plans have been pretty easy actually. Everything has pretty much just fallen into place. And of course we were talking about this the other day so something had to happen to put us in our places.
We ordered the bridesmaid dresses at the beginning of January so that they would have plenty of time to get here. (most dress manufacturers are in china and it was the chinese new year like all of january so we needed to order them on a special 4 week rush). Anyway, Latter-day Bride was supposed to call me the first week of February to tell me I could come pick them up...finally the second week I called them to find out if we had our dresses yet, they said they were and had been there for a few days. That should have tipped me off right there.
So on Presidents day, Mom, Holly, and I went to pick them up. I gave the sales girl my name at the front desk and waited for them to bring the dresses out. When they did, I about threw up! The dresses were Latte (like a gray-ish color). THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE CHOCOLATE BROWN!!!! So I tell the girl this and she just acts like "oh well these are your dresses." So I flipped out and told her she had two weeks to fix this mistake and it better be fixed! She leaves me in tears in the lobby and comes back like 10 minutes later telling me that they were talking to the manufacturer in China and that they could get the dresses to us on March 3rd at the latest. (The wedding is on March 6th!) So after being reassured and apologized to for another 30 minutes we left the store, with really only a hope that we will have the correct dresses by the wedding. How can a mistake like that happen you ask? I've asked the same thing. The only thing that anybody could come up with, is that the girl who ordered our dresses was new and assumed that she knew the color name of the dress we wanted. The funny thing was, was that we tried on the floor model and they were EXACTLY what we wanted...style and colors! So how you can mess that up is really beyond me. So here I sit with basically one week til the wedding and a horrible feeling we'll end up wearing ugly gray dresses that don't even match the rest of the wedding colors!! This is what I do know...if and when I get married I'm just going to elope. No one will know I'm getting married and I'll just show up with a ring on my finger!

Be Still My Soul

Last year was a very eye opening and tough year for me. It seems that ever since I came home early from my mission with health issues I've been spiriling up and down and all around. Even two whole years later, I still feel like I don't have any answers to anything that has happened since then or more recently in the last year. I learned quickly who I could turn to in times of need, namely- my family and the Savior. The other day I was driving around running errands and this hymn started playing. (I highly suggest listening to the version that is on the "Reflections of Christ" soundtrack) I've always liked "Be Still My Soul", but as I listened intently to the words, I felt the spirit so strongly telling me that I do have the Lord on my side and He is guiding my path(past & future). I hope that everyone remembers this is true, no matter who you are the Lord loves you and is on your side! And remember-- "Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come."(Elder Jeffrey R. Holland)

Be still, my soul: The Lord is on thy side;
With patience bear thy cross of grief or pain.
Leave to thy God to order and provide;
In ev’ry change he faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul: Thy best, thy heav’nly Friend
Thru thorny ways leads to a joyful end.

Be still, my soul: Thy God doth undertake
To guide the future as he has the past.
Thy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake;
All now mysterious shall be bright at last.
Be still, my soul: The waves and winds still know
His voice who ruled them while he dwelt below.

Be still, my soul: The hour is hast’ning on
When we shall be forever with the Lord,
When disappointment, grief, and fear are gone,
Sorrow forgot, love’s purest joys restored.
Be still, my soul: When change and tears are past,
All safe and blessed we shall meet at last.

Gilmore Girls

Hilarious, entertaining, addicting, fun! Really, what else can you say about Gilmore Girls?!

I'm quite saddened that it isn't on t.v. anymore...if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

I have all 7 season and never get sick of them because the wit and clever dialogue keeps my head spinning. Lol.

Anyway, that's all I have tonight. Not much going on in life right now, sorry! ;)

5 am thoughts....

Here I sit at work, with really only about 5 mintues to write the thoughts that are in my brain at the moment. So here it goes....
1. Maybe I should change the name of my wedding videographing company...any suggestions? Stick with Capturing a Legacy?....or something new?
2. As much as I love my job, I kind of want a new one...not sure what...because I really do love working graveyards and with newborns, but I need something a little more lucrative. I would love to be able to only work part time and do my videography full time so anyone need a wedding filmed anytime soon????
3. Why are there only married doctors around here?
4. Why do people ask stupid questions in my math class? They only confuse themselves more and then start confusing other people that understood it in the first place. LISTEN TO THE TEACHER!!!! FOCUS!! Then maybe seemingly difficult concepts would actually make sense.
5. I really need to memorize my drivers license number.
6. I'm so excited I finished some wedding videos I've been trying to finsh for sometime now, but everytime I tried to finish them something would stop me...such as the computer crashing, the programs I need not working properly, the printer not printing. But alas, my rage paid off and everything is done now! YEAH!
8. I want to go to the temple...but when I ask?
7. How can get to my bed faster than normal? When my shift is done this morning I really just want to crash in a hospital room but we are FULL...YES FULL. TOO MANY PEOPLE HAD TOO MANY BABIES TONIGHT. I'm exhausted. Is it possible I could drive any faster than normal? Highly unlikely I think at this point.

Okay I'm done. Sorry for the randomness....but seriously you're input on the business stuff would be truly insightful I think. Leave your comments below! ;-)

I think I do my best thinking in the middle the night!! Don't you? (being very sarcastic)

2009---The Beginning

Well, the first week of 2009 is pretty much over and I still have yet to come up with some good new years resolutions. Of course I have the basics in my head such as "lose weight", "find a husband", "stop drinking Dr. Pepper", "figure out what I'm supposed to be when I grow up", you know all that fun stuff. But I've decided I really need to come up with some good ones!! Lol. I think they need to be more specific, not necessarily realistic though. Such as, "lose 20 pounds (at least) by Todd's wedding in March", "Replace Dr. Pepper with a REAL rich Doctor that is also looking for a wife so I don't have to pick a career and I can live off his hard work"(that takes care of both the husband and becoming something when I grow up and the Dr. Pepper).
Seriously though, I did come up with some real resolutions.
1. Read the Book of Mormon (if not for myself, but to help Tate get ready for a mission, which he only has about 5 months before he puts in his papers..ahhhh!!)
2. Actually go the gym at least twice a week, preferably 3 times. (I mean I pay the place! I should start to get my money's worth!)
3. Go back to Tennessee before the end of the year.
4. Get out of debt.

So that's about all I can come up with for now. HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I hope you all can come up with equally ridiculous resolutions to fail at this year as well!!! ;)