This Is Us

Last year Nick and I made it to the Temple every month, until everything shut down. Then because of everything going on and Nick being out of town so much, we weren’t able to go until last night. It was so wonderful to be back in the Temple. For me there is always peace in the Temple. I always feel loved, welcome, home, and closer to Heavenly Father and Jesus. I feel like they are sitting right next to me, and that is so comforting! I love being able to go with Nick and feel that eternal connection with him. We aren’t much of selfie takers, put I did get a couple pictures of the temple. Temples are so beautiful!

On May 27th Brichette graduated from Seminary! Yay! Great Job sweetheart! Thanks for listening to us and taking seminary. We know the experiences you had there will help you through your whole life! We love you!

  Last year we were told that the elementary school that the kids go to might end up being shut down, because they didn’t have enough students attending. They would have to go to a different elementary. One reason, there are 5 charter schools within 5 miles of our house. Anyway... I emailed the school board and told them why they should keep our school open. There are several reasons we wanted our school to stay open. One is that within the boundaries of the school they would keep open and our children would have to attend is there are 21 child sex offenders. YES! Twenty-one!  Also, the school has a security system. They said that it was a good thing because then the kids would be safe. Um... that doesn’t make me feel safe! We don’t feel comfortable sending our kids to a school with that many sex offenders in the area and them having to have a security system. The school board ignored my email and everyone else’s. They decided to close our elementary because the other school h...

  In our daily scripture reading we came across this scripture: There are lots and lots of powerful scriptures, but at this time this scripture really stuck out to me. Let’s break it down some... “If all men (meaning everyone) had been, and were, and ever would be (so everyone from the time Adam and Eve left the garden to the time Jesus comes again), like unto Moroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken FOREVER (I capitalized this); yea, the devil (satan) would NEVER (I capitalized this) have power (so he can’t persuade, influence, seduce, etc.) over the hearts of the children of men (everyone on earth). WOW!!! Can you imagine this? How wonderful would that be? Think of all the love, caring, help, ministering, charity, kindness, peace, etc. there would be in the world!!! No one thinking they were better than anyone else. No violence, rage, anger, hatred, cruelty, etc.  So please, as you go about your days, weeks, months, years, think about this scripture! Th...

Well, Nick and I have decided that we'll wait to buy a house. We'll get all of our other bills paid off first, then buy a Brand New House. We went looking at some new houses the other day, and fell in love with one. It has an awesome floor plan, a little over 2,800 square feet, and is only around $40,000 more then a used house. Plus they will give us a 10 year warranty, and we can do a lot of sweat equity. So anything we know how to do, or want to do, they will let us as long as we don't have to be licensed to do it. So Nick will frame the house, then we'll do the dry wall, paint, tile, cabinets, electrical (just in the house), and all sorts of stuff like that. So we'll have done most of the house ourselves! We are so excited. We would have had our bills paid off before, but Nick, with the construction, kept being out of work, and then he got a cut in pay, then I lost my job, and it just seemed no matter what we do we can't get a head. But now it seems ...

Wow... Can you believe it's 2009 already? It's so crazy! It's going to be a great year... Nick got a new job. We are hopefully going to buy a house in 6 months, and I get to be home with my family! We are so blessed... I knew that Heavenly Father would take care of us, and help us find Nick a new job, and he has. I wasn't worried for one minute! And this job is the best one he has ever had. I never lost faith, which has also made my faith stronger. On Saturday Troy, Marchezt, Kaedance, and Landon came over to play. We had so much fun (but silly me... didn't take any pictures. What is wrong with me?)! We had lunch, and then played the Wii. It was hard for us to get Troy to play Guitar Hero, but once we did, he didn't want to stop! :) It was cute... Troy was playing with Xander and he said to him "You're going down Charlie Brown!" Xander looked at him and said "I'm not Charlie Brown, I'm Xander!" We laughed... but then ...

On Halloween, when we were on our way to Brichette's school for her parade, we saw the most beautiful sunrise. My camera didn't quit capture all the color... The clouds were so Yellow, and fluffy... It was just gorgeous. Brichette and Xander were so excited about it that they had me take picture after picture after picture. I told them it was enough, but they didn't want me to stop. They wanted to make sure I had enough pictures that they could remember it forever. The things kids say!!! Anyway this is the first shot we saw of it, and then the yellow color started to fade. It's amazing how quickly sunrises and sunsets change. Here are a couple others:

I was sent an e-mail today stating that MSNBC is conducting a survey of the phrase "In God We Trust" that is on our money. They want to know if it should be left on or taken off. Here is the website... please vote. It's phrased different then you think so please read the question before you answer. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10103521/ When I voted about 20 minutes ago it was 34% to take it off and 66% to leave it on. I just can't believe that, that many people would want to take it off. How ridiculous is that.

Today on my way to work I was able to see beauty in some of Heavenly Father's creations. The Sun, Clouds, Sky, Rain... So breathe taking. They aren't the best pictures, because I was taking them as I was driving. Don't worry I made it to work safe and sound... without any tickets, or accidents, because Heavenly Father kept me safe. Just after these were taken, it poured rain.