The Wedding Cake

So Janet sent me this pic to put on here to see if Heather likes it. I think it is really pretty! It makes me hungry too!

What's been goin' down in E-town!

Hello dear family! I know it has been a long time since I have blogged. There are 2 main reasons for this. 1. I live in Round Valley, so I basically have no life now except for work. 2. Ok I am not going to lie, I don't really love to blog. Don't get me wrong. I think our little blog is super duper, but right now I am kinda feeling like a lame, lame loser. Everytime I get on here someone is engaged or pregnant or going to freakin Brad Paisley concerts! And what do I do? I go to work and help fat people get even fatter! So needless to say I haven't really felt like there is anything really worth blogging about!

Ok so it's not really that bad. Work is pretty lame though. I don't like the new owner of Molly's. He is the guy who invented the swimming noodle thing, and so he is super rich and super snotty, which results in him being super annoying! =) And it is kind of depressing going to school and hearing about food and not getting fat every single day, and then moving home and aiding in the outbreak of diabetes and obesity. I sort of feel like a traitor to my major....but hey, I need the money!

Church has been ok. Like the second week I was here Kim Hunt and I got called to be the young single adult reps for the stake. I shouldn't be surprised seeing as how kim's dad is the Stake Pres. but still, they can't even wait 3 weeks! It hasn't been too bad yet. We even had a FHE and there was more than 5 people there. So hopefully they keep coming. And yesterday I was blessed to recieve another calling! Any guesses on what it is!?? I am a DEN LEADER IN THE CUB SCOUTS! Ya I'm not lying. I want to die. Me and Janet are working together. I don't even know what that is or what I am supposed to do. They mentioned something about cubs and mountain lions and bears, or some other woodland animals, but I wasn't really paying attention. I was still shocked and wondering what the crap they were thinking making a 19 yr old GIRL A DEN LEADER IN THE CUB SCOUTS! Ya so this should be interesting. Serves me right for moving home I suppose....

Ya so that is what is going on with me. I have been able to have some fun while I have been home. I went to El Paso and saw Jas and Jen and the boys. We had mucho fun spending some time with them! Hence the pictures of Tallin chillin' with his favorite Aunt! And the other day Kim and I hiked Escadilla! Oh ya baby! We went all the way to the top! Ok, so it's not THAT hard of a hike, but let's be honest who just up and decides to hike a mountain on their day off?? It was pretty fun, and it was nice to be able to spend some time in nature listening to the birds and reconnect with ourselves. We even had a little butterfly guide. I am not lying this little guy followed us the WHOLE way! We called him our Holy Ghost. =) Ha ha ya we are weird, but we have to keep ourselves entertained somehow!

Anyway, I hope all is well with everyone else! I am a little sad I will not be able to attend the reunion! The Halls will be poorly represented without their funniest, smartest most beautiful child there. However, I am expecting the rest of you to step it up and make me proud! =) I love you all and miss you. Except for Scott and Kim, cause I see them everyday! Toodles for now!

Hey You Guys

Sherrie started a blog for our little fam, so check it out. Most of my posts on this site recieve ridicule and rebuke anyway. Hope you all enjoy. justinandsherrie.blogspot.com

Brad Paisley Concert

So for my birthday Jacob took me to Brad Paisley. The concert was last night and it was amazing! Even the openers were good, especially Jewel. I have a new appreciation for her. She actually yodeled. Anyway, Brad came on at about 9:30 and the concert ended about 11. He was awesome. He is even better live, and he is pretty funny too. Anyway, we took some pictures for everyone to see. I know Justin will be jealous. There are some songs that I haven't heard that I think Justin would really enjoy. One of them is about speeding and outrunning police cars. It was pretty good. Anyway, we had a great time! Definitely a wonderful birthday present!

I guess I will take the risk of loosing some of you to heart attacks and send a little note to all of you. It is nice to be able to get a word around to each of you, all at the same time. I worry a little about the "teacher" looking over my misspelled words, punctuation errors, and poor grammar but she will just have to deal with it. I have many other shortcomings. First, 31 years IS a long time but it has gone by really fast and it only gets better. A lot has changed in this old world since your mother and I got married and those things are a big concern to us. I really don't want my first addition to this blog to be preachy or gloom and doom either so just take it for what it's worth. Every one of you are (is?) making huge and important decisions right now and I think you are doing great. It is really comforting to know and feel that each of you have your feet on a pretty firm foundation of a testimony and you know where to go to get help for the big things. Every other decision seems to be down the list if you keep and improve on that foundation. I wish sometimes that we were rich and I could help you more but I don't really think that would help. I do hope you struggle and worry a little before you make some of these big financial decisons because a little caution now could save you a lot of worries later. To quote our leaders, "BE WISE" and don't let them talk you in to something that you really can't handle. They probably don't realize that you are planning on taking 10% off the top for Tithing and we all know that it really comes to more than 10%. President Hunt is taking the next 5th Sunday to talk to each of the wards and he is really concerned about the economy. He said he is going to emphasize 4 things and they are all what the Prophet has been saying all along. #1- Pay your tithing. #2- Food Storage for 1 year. #3- Get out of debt. #4- Save some money. I don't know if they are in the proper order but I am sure that #1 is right. It is really hard to do all of those things at the same time and they can't be accomplished all in a short time. It is a life long process. But some effort and sacrifice now can sure make it easier in the future.

OK, enough of that. Mom and I are sure looking forward to the next few weeks. We are blessed beyond what we could ever imagine. It will be so good to be together and we couldn't be happier, especially for you Heather!!! Then in August I am going to check out my horse training skills on this horse of mine. He is going to be a champ. I may have to split a little time with Mom's project in that bathroom remodel but hopefully there will be time for both. Then in October it only gets better. We will be making another trip.

Anyway, it's been 31 years and it seems like a long time but you will soon realize that it flies by before you know it. And it is official, your mother is now over the hill. But I think she is probably good for another 30 or so. Hope she doesn't run me off.

Heather, you may regret now setting this up and giving me such an easy means to use to preach to all of you and in the future I will try to lighten up a little! Sure Love you all!!! Dad

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!

What better way to acknowledge to beginning of out little family than our family blog?? I just wanted to say Happy Anniversary. We are all so glad that you guys made the decision you did. Look what it got you...the greatest kids EVER! (well, at least in my case). Never mind the fact that they just suck time and money from you (well, at least in my case). Anyway, happy 31st?? (I think). We love you guys!

Wedding Stuff

I'm sure you're all thrilled to look at this stuff, but I need Mom to look at some of it, and the rest of you are welcome to comment if you would like. The first is of a centerpiece (capitvating for you, I'm sure). What do you think? Are those ok? Do we need something else with it on the table? The second is the beginning of the dress. I think it's going to be really pretty. The last few are engagment pictures. We took quite a few, but these were some of our favorites. Sam wants to redo them, but I like them. What do you think?

More Updates

The blog has been dormant for the last little while so I thought I'd at least try to show some activity. First rant, and I say this as a minor tribute to Dad's b-day, is there any way to stop the damn music from busting your ears every time you get on here? What's the point anyway? Can't we just tell people what our favorite songs are and leave it at that? If not, can we make it a friendly option on our site and not compel every viewer to have a brief stroke every time they come to visit? I have Jason-Bourne-like flash-back attacks to my Junior High days, riding in the truck with my older sister, afraid for my life, in a brown chevy luv, rocking back and forth as she approaches a stop sign at the speed of light, while she alternates slamming on the gas and then the brake, all to to the rhythm of the Judds. I think the engine finally blew on that truck because, as dad would say, the damn radio was turned up too loud. In all fairness, it was a tough truck for a woman to learn to drive, but it was possible to navigate without such chaos, and all that required was to turn down the damn radio and listen to the engine purr.

On a totally unrelated note, I think we finally found a town house to buy. The only homes around here that are in our price range are all pretty old, so we are probably going the "glorified apartment" route. The one we found is 2 bed, 2 bath, comes with laundry room, 1 car garage, new carpet and wood flooring, and they repainted the whole thing. It is super clean and affordable. The loan process has been an educational roller coaster, but hopefully we're not getting screwed. So that's all for now. Consider this post a petition to the site administrator, whoever that is, to turn off the damn music. If I wanted to listen to music I'd listen to music. It is almost BYU-like to compel each visitor of our site to such mind-numbing fanfare.