Where There is a Will

As you all know the past 3 years I have let my hair grow out to it natural stress laiden grey hair. Many of you have had your opinions and comments on it and while I personally enjoyed not having to hassle with the dying of it, I must admitt the vain side of me missed how young I felt with it dyed. Many of you probably thought that I was forced into not dying it and that simply was not true, the fact was that my husband was one who claimed to not understand why women felt they needed to do that and he felt that he could and would love me just as much undyed as dyed, I believed him and trusted him and so I proceeded to grow it out, keep in mind everytime he would mention that he thought a woman looked nice I had to point out that there was a 99% chance that they dyed their hair. Well many times he has told me if I wanted to dye it that was fine, but he did not want to be the one to try and pick out a color. Well anyways this last week we got some movies in the mail from Feature Films for Families and there was this film called "Where there is a Will", well we watched it and the old lady in the film is the mother from "Happy Days" and she is looking rather old and haggerdly and is basically given up on life, until she is reunited with her grandson whom she has not seen since he was a child. Well she gets a new lease on life, has eye surgery, gets some hip clothes and dyes her hair and magically she becomes a new woman looking and acting 20 years younger. Well at the end of this touching movie my husband looks over at me, takes me in his arms and tells me he wants me to dye my hair and that he knows that it will make me feel better about myself! Not only that but he wants me to have it done at a Salon and he wants to come help pick out the color. So today we went to Mastercuts (where I get my haircut) and had my hair dyed professionally for the 2nd time in my life! It has been exciting to see how hard it is for my sweetie to keep his eyes off of me and I feel fantastic! So if I had Brent and Shayla's Monkey Meter right now I would have to give getting your hair dye a #5! Below is a picture taken a couple of weeks ago and one taken after the dye and cut! What do you all think?

Happy Birthday Logan!

Can you believe my Logan is 13 today? Where has the time gone? Happy Birthday Logan, hopefully one of your brothers will let you see this post! Logan has grown in so many ways in the last year, his voice has turned deep and he sounds like a man, he has grown like a foot and has passed me up and most importantly he has matured spiritually and intellectually in he role as Deacon Quoram President and in he grades in school. He is thoughtful of others and has a wonderful sense of humor and has brought much joy to our family! I will say it once again.....Happy Birthday dear Logan!

What it means to me to be a Mother

I was sitting there during Sacrament Meeting while they were giving talks about Motherhood thinking about what it means to me to be a Mom. I use to think that Mother's Day was kind of a depressing day, a day where all of the areas that you fell short in were pointed out and a reminder that you could never measure up, but recently in the past few years I have learned a greater lesson about Mother's Day and it has become more of a sacred day for me and for some odd reason I don't really feel like I don't measure up, but instead I just feel Extremely Blessed.

This is what I realized about Mother's Day (at least from a Mother's point of view), it is not a day to worship Mother's, but to find gratitude for not only having Mother's but for being Mother's, when I started thinking of all the reasons I am gratiful to be a mother (mostly my incredible kids), I started felling less sorry for myself and instead realized how incredibly Blessed I have been to be a Mother to the most wonderful children on earth. Over the years my children have taught me more about the Savior and my Heavenly Father then I could possibly learn on my own, and I don't just mean because I can relate more to him and how he loves me. I have had children who from a very young age taught me simple lessons of faith and trust in the Lord and while most children would use some of the things I have put them through as an excuse to turn away from God, they have been an example of true faith in God holding to the rod and setting an example of true believers. Now I realize that Heavenly Father had everything to do with placing these wonderful spirits in my home and because of that I would like to express my gratitude to him for Blessing me with the children that I have.

With that said, I will say I am not perfect and at times I find myself feeling sorry for myself for being so far away from them and not being able to spend as much time with them as I like and I ache for them in ways I never knew was possible, but I have been blessed with the time I do have with them and I know that they all love me and for this I am immensely grateful.

So for this Mother's Day I would like to pay a tribute to the reason I am a Mother, MY CHILDREN!!!!! I love you guys!

Humility!!

Okay so I recall a few months ago Brent blogging about learning to accept being wrong even when he felt like he was right or something along those lines, well I have to write about my own version, It all started out tonight at work, well for those of you who do not know Darin and I both work at the same job in a duplex, we work the graveyard shift and he works on one side of the duplex and I work the other. Well for the last year since I have worked here his side has had cable and mine has not, well the boys over here have been wanting to get it and since we have a new PC they were told that it would be looked into. Well one of the boys on the other side decided to hook this side up to the cable they have on their side and in the process found out that the cable that they are getting is pirated from the neighbors next door, so for the past couple of days we have had cable. The thing is Darin has had cable and has watched it to help get through the night for the past year and there was always the underlying thought that the cable was not being paid for legally, when the boy hooked it up over here, we let the landlord, the PC and the Regional Manager all know about the pirated cable and they never told us to unhook it. Well tonight happens to be one of my double shifts and I only got a couple hours of sleep before going to my shift this afternoon at 2pm, so I was counting on that cable to help keep me awake, anyways I started to watch cable right after we got done with scripture study and a couple of minutes into it the cable went out, then Darin comes to my side and says he unhooked it, keep in mind his side is not unhooked even though he says he is not going to watch it, not only was I upset because I am tired and planned on watching it, I was hurt because of the lack of thought towards me and when I voiced my displeasure alls he could say was he was just trying to do the right thing. Well I know deep down inside I am wrong, but I was fighting the natural man inside of me and I was really mad. I know that this is a tempral thing and not even important at that, so why am I letting it bother me? As I try to humble myself I realize that it is Satan trying his best to put a wedge in between my sweet husband and I because he does not like it when we are doing good things and gratefully some very good things are happening in our lives that he does not like. So with that said I shall go apologize to my husband and have sweet heart prayers which by the way I have put off because of my wickedness, thanks for letting me voice my frusterations with myself.

The House!!!

As most of you know for the past 21 months we have been living in Darin's parents house while they were on their mission to Brazil, well they returned the first week in March and since then we have been living in their basement. Before we moved into their house we were renting one of the apartments that are subsided by the government for low income families (we only qualified because when we moved in I had not yet got a job), it was a small two bedroom apartment and cost us in rent $685. Well both Darin and I work in Ogden and our old apartment was in Layton and his parents are in Kaysville which is about 20 miles away. We thought about living with Darin's parents for awhile and save some money, but with the situation with Darin's girls, our living there has made it hard for his parents to have a comfortable relationship with the girls, being as their mother won't let them come to their house as long as we are living there, this along with the distance traveling helped us make a decision that we needed to move out. Well we did some research and found that if we bought a house close to our work, not only could we save a ton of money on gas each month we could also get a much bigger house with a yard and pay less a month then we would pay for rent. So for the last couple of weeks we have been searching for a house. We found a lot of houses listed for between 75K to 100K that we liked, but we found out quickly after a couple of hours of appointments last week that most of the houses listed as low as 75K had a lot of work to do on them. For those of you who have not been to the older part of Ogden, there are a ton of goregeous homes built at the turn of the last century, unfortuneately if they have not been kept up there is a lot of work to do on them. The house we found and decided to buy is about 104 years old, it is rather on the plain looking side compared to some of the decorative ones in the area, but it has all new plumbing, wiring, water heater, central heat and air, new double paned windows, tile floors, an added bathroom and remodeled kitchen and other bath. With a little imagination we believe we can add some character to the outside of the house to make it look as nice as the inside. We put an offer on the house this morning for 96.500 and had the offer accepted this afternoon, this house was listed for 120,000 originally back at the end of February. If things go smoothly we will be by the end of May, also it is fairly close to Weber State and we both plan on returning to school in the fall!

Service Porch and Back Door

Back Bedroom with view into bathroom

Back Bathroom between middle and back bedrooms

Middle Bedroom with view to bathroom
Front Bedroom and Closet Front Door

Front Room Bathroom Door

Front Bathroom
Kitchen
Dining Area
Living Room

Happy Birthday Kerstin!!!

I just want to wish my sweet Daughter Kerstin a Happy Birthday!!!! Hope you are having a wonderful day! Today I will do my best to find time to talk to you after a straight 36 hour shift at work, I love you!

An exciting week!

I would like to aplogize in advance for these pictures, while they are pictures that I personally took of these two temples in the last year, I did not have my camera this week while visiting these temples so they are not pictures taken at the time of the actual experience.

My week started out fairly normal, but by the middle of the week it was pretty caotic, as some of you may remember just a month or so ago, I had some changes at my other job and got a new manager there, the change had it's challenges, but in the long run I think it will be a good change. Well at this job I am at right now (the one that both me and Darin work at) we had some changes of our own 2 or so weeks ago, out of nowhere we were told that our manager was no longer working, this made things a little crazy, but our regional manager has been great through it all, luckily we still had a couple of assistant managers around to hold things together. For the last couple of months one of these assistants has made life miserble for most of the employees, by undermining our postion with the boys we work with, making it very difficult to work, well on Wednesday some of this undermining came to a head while I was at work and I got very frusterated (almost to the point of putting my 2 weeks notice in), due to these frusterations and some of the behaviors of one of the boys that assistant got into an argument with the regional manager and ended up calling him a few choice things then quiting very unproffesional like, right in front of the boys, which in turn caused some problems. As difficult as the behaviors of the boys may be, the staff has been very relieved and we finally have a work place that is practically stress free. Hopefully by the end of the week we will have a new manager, we could use your prayers as Darin has applied for this position and will be interviewing on Tuesday. If he gets the job we hopefully will be purchasing a home close by here in Ogden in the next month or so. On Thursday I had the opportunity of meeting Matt, Skyler and Seth at the Salt Lake Temple and going through a live session for the first time, this was a very interesting and wonderful experience and I would encourage anyone who can to take that opportunity sometime in their life to do so. On Friday night CC and Joe flew in from Vegas and on Saturday morning I drove them and Matt back to Rexburg, on the way we stopped in Idaho Falls and went to the Temple there, it was an interesting experience too, because it was much like a live session in that you went through 4 different rooms, but they still used the movie, it was an awesome experience also, although it seemed a little smaller then what I expected. After the Temple we went to Red Robin to eat then headed back to Rexburg where we dropped Matt off, then ran to the store for CC and Joe to get some groceries, after I dropped them off I had to head home to make it to work by 10. I think we had a great time and I am grateful for the time I was able to spend with them.

Food can be Art

This week we were blessed to have some extra visitors for a few days. On Tuesday Benji, Tim, and Logan came up for Easter break. unfortuneately we had to both work, so we were not able to spend as much time with them as we would have liked, but really did enjoy the time that we got. On Wednesday afternoon the boys caught the Frontrunner (the new train running between Ogden and Salt Lake) and went down to Salt Lake to Temple Square and the Joseph Smith movie, they had a good time, then on Thursday morning they drove up to Rexburg to pick up Matt, Cynthia and Joe, they drove back that night. Matt left for Alabama early the next morning to visit an old missionary companion and will return on Monday. Friday we spent most of the day with the kids visiting, eating and playing games. The picture is Luke"s representation of our dinner we had last night in Celebration of Easter. We sure hope the kids had as good a time as we did.

Easter Egg Hunt

This year a long time tradition and favorite of mine is not going to happen for the first time in about 23 years. As much as I would like to have my grandkids and others around to share this fun activity for me, living states apart and having no one who lives close enough to come, has made this decision at least for this year a reality. I have had many questions though, from participants of the past and I would love to share my ratio, techinque or whatever you would call it along with the history of my egg hunt with you. About 24 years ago our ward in California had an Easter Egg hunt for the kids in our ward, I was excited along with my two children at the time (Brent and Kerstin), unfortuneately to their dismass neither of them found a single egg at the activity and they were both heart broken, so I went home and decided that I would put on my own Easter Egg Hunt where no child would go home without filling their basket with eggs. The first hunt was realitive small only 5 children involved, my 2 children, my friends 2 children and a boy I babysat, it was a success and thus the Egg Hunt was started. I had a ratio of approximately 2 and a half dozen eggs per child. Usually I would hide plastic and hard boiled eggs and since eggs can be expensive I would have the children exchange their eggs for the prizes. The prizes almost always were quarters, dollars, candy and prizes or small toys. Every year I would assign different eggs different prizes, some years the hard boiled eggs would be the prizes or small toys, other years it might be a certain color of plastic egg, this is entirely up to the person holding the hunt. Generallly for me most of the eggs would be money, with candy and prizes being around the same amount (no one wants an overload of candy before Easter). Sometimes I would get my prizes at Oriental Trading, but most of the time I would watch at the store or go to the dollar store and find small fun items costing anywhere from a dime to a dollar for the prizes. As hard and confusing at times it was to do the prizes or small toys, this was one of the favorites of the egg hunt. I hope this post was helpful to some who have been asking and hopefully not to late in coming....Enjoy and happy hunting!

Under the Weather

The first day of spring started out beautiful and we had tempatures in the 70's for the first time this year, even our apricot tree had started to bloom, but it was short lived when two days later we were hit with a storm, we still had hope, cuz the snow was light and the tempatures did not go lower then the 30's. this weather hung around for a couple of days last week and then finally by the weekend we were starting to warm up again and have some clear skies, we were stoked. Then when I was on my way home from work on Sunday morning at around 7am I notice the weather was awesome it was 50* and I thought to myself .....yes....spring at last, I got home and laid down for a couple of hours and got up for church to find these weather conditions before me, aproximately a foot of snow and tempatures in the 20's. As the day went on after Fasting and attending a very spiritual Testimony meeting I got contemplating the weather cycles we have been experiencing lately and found myself comparing them to my own life and the recent events. I realized a couple of things about life, First I learned that when you think that things could not possibly get any worse, the Lord shows us that they can, but along with that he shows us that with our trials come great blessings and lessons learned, perhaps the biggest one being that if we allow him to, he will help us get through anything. Second I learned that how we view life is largely on what we focus on...the good or the bad, most truly happy people recognize their trials as blessings and an opportunity to grow, while a miserable person facing the same trails may view life as unfair or themselves as a victim.

I know it has been awhile since I have posted, partially because I did not know how to express what we are experiencing without sounding depressing. Well first off Grandma and Grandpa arrived home safely from Brazil and have been absolutely wonderful to us, not one negative word about the condition of the house or the yard, we have been truly blessed. Second we have been blessed to have Luke visit again during track break, it has been fun although we really haven't had the time together that I would like to spend with him, maybe this week! Third on the 24th of March we had our pre-trail in regards to our custody battle with the girls and while some might say they thought this was over and behind us, unfortunately we were forced to settle at a pre-trail, the good news is the legal part has come to and end (no more Guardian at litem , no more court or lawyer fees) the bad news is the stipulations remain the same (paid supervision and thus Darin's rights still limited) but since we will not be seeing the girls anyway for awhile this reallly does not matter. Fourth we will not be moving anytime soon, because we feel at this time it is important to keep in place health insurance for the boys (since they will be losing their primary insurance April 6th) and with the economy changing jobs seems a bit of a risky bussiness, although we do know that we do need to move on and find new jobs eventually. All and all even though our lives at times seem a bit boring, we have been extremely blessed and find great job in our family!

The Home Coming!!!!

The day has arrived and Grandma and Grandpa Watts will return from their mission at approximately 2:30 this afternoon. As you can tell by the cartoon, it should be an adventure fitting their 6 pieces of luggage the two of them and Obpa into our fairly small SUV. I am happy to have every last minute staying at home trying to finish up on the 1,000,000th thing that we have not quite got put back into order before their return. We did manage to get the upstairs done, but the outside (yikes) and the downstairs (where we will be living for awhile) still have a lot of work to do on them. While it has been a tremendous blessing to have been able to stay in their home while they were gone, I would not recommend it to anyone, it is extremely stressful living in someone elses house, especially family, you have to live with them for a very long time. Stay in tune to see if we survive their return or whether we will be dis-owned and are living out on the streets.

Death of a Snowman!

This post is dedicated to Luke and his Snowman who has finally died and left this world! We will always remember him and the joy he brought us this winter!

Talented Daughers!

I have two Lovely Daughers that I gave birth to, and as I contimplate each of them and who they are I am amazed at how very blessed I am to have them for daughters they are truly amazing and here are a few reasons why.

Kerstin

1. She is the best Sister ever, she takes her time out of her busy life being a mother and wife to call and talk to her 7 other siblings, I don't know many other married people who take the time to stay in contact with their siblings as often as she does.

2. She is a wonderful daughter and probably my best friend (other then my husband) she calls me just to talk to see how things are going and makes me feel important

3. She is an awesome mom and makes sure that her kids get to do fun things like take swimming lessons or go to pre-school even if it means she has to do without

4. She has a talent for Style and makes sure that her family is always looking good (she has been like this since she was 2 years old)

5. She can scrapbook like no other and has blessed our house with many wonderful pictures masterfully designed.

6. She has a talent for trying new things and almost always is successful, when she sees something she likes, she is willing to learn or at least try to learn to do something.

7. She is a good friend and has kept in contact with many of them as far back as her early childhood.

8. She is a good wife and is an example of what it means to be your spouses best friend.

9. She loves the Lord and is always willing to serve when called to.

10. She is the smartest in the family, but is willing to let Brent pretend he is.

Cynthia

1. A peacemaker, she doesn't like it when someone is unhappy and will do what she can to make them happy.

2. An awesome babysitter and has been since she was about 2 and she would want to change Benji's Diapers.

3. She is one of the least judgemental people I know and tries to love and care for people for who they are.

4. Plays the piano by ear and has a natural talent for it.

5. A natural blonde (that truly is a talent these days)

6. A hard working student, when studying never came that easy to her, she always put out the effort and it has paid off for her in college.

7. She has awesome handwriting.

8. She has become a pretty good cook. (or so I hear)

9. She is a faithful Temple attender.

10. She Loves her husband with all her heart.

Talented Daughter-in-law

As I have been reading blogs lately I have noticed a few about talents or should I say the lack of talents and I realized that often times we don't see our talents as well as others do. As mothers and wives I think at times we need a reminder from those who see our talents for us to recognize them (not to say father's and husband's don't need strokes, I just think they aren't as hard on themselves as women are). I have One Very Beautiful and Very Talented daughter-in-law and I would like to mention some of the many talents that I have noticed in her over the last couple of years.

Shayla

1. Although she will claim that she is not crafty, she has the most beautifully decorated home, this is an amazing talent, and as far as crafts go, I have never seen one she has tried that hasn't turned out.

2. She is a loving and patient mother, not once have I heard her raise her voice at one of her 3 children (that would include Brent)

3. She has a talent for humor, while I love my son Brent dearly, anyone who knows him knows he can be very silly at times, Shayla knows how to enjoy the humor and give it right back at him.

4. She is a loving and kind person, I have never heard a negative word come out of her mouth in regards to another person.

5. She plays the piano masterfully ( a talent I have always longed for)

6. She is perhaps the smartest person I know, but has a way of making everyone else feel just as smart as her.

7. She has a talent for blogging, there are always interesting and fun things to read on her blog.

8. She has a talent for shopping, one of my best shopping trips was last year after Christmas with Shayla and Cynthia, we had a blast (or at least I did)

9. She has a talent for throwing parties, just like her skills in decorating she can put together an awesome party, whether it is a bridle shower, Birthday party or whatever.

10. She has a talent of faith, I have watched over the past couple of years, both Shayla and Brent face some challenges, but they have remained optimistic, faithful and upbeat through them all, whether it was a child's health, a move, the economy or any other test they have came up against.

Look for my future posts on Kerstin and Cynthia and their many talents

Friday the 13th and Valentines Day!!!

Yesterday was Friday the 13th and while I am not a supersticious person it seemed that the day was starting off on a bad note. I had a VERY busy day and had a lot of things to get done in a limited amount of time. First at work the drivers that were suppose to pick up the guys at my job and take them to work, did not show up till late so I was running behind from the start, I had to get home pick up Darin, get the car serviced, pick up Valentines for the kids ( sorry they will be late), be to a meeting by 12 noon, then be to a training by 3pm and then to back to work by 8pm, the thing is I hadn't had a shower in almost a week ( I really needed one) and I hadn't eaten since lunch the day before. So this is how it went.. I finally was able to leave work by 9:20 and arrived home by a quarter to 10, where I quickly fell into tears (was overwhelmed and hormonal at the sametime) Darin consoled me and we hurried and did our couples prayer and headed out the door for Big O tires by 10:15, in which they told us it wouldn't be to long, so we went across the street to the store to mail some bills and buy Valentines, when we were done we went back across the street and it seemed everyones car was done but ours, so we waited and waited and finally at about 11:20 Darin asked when it would be done they said soon, they had to go out and get a filter, we got done at 11:35 and headed to Ogden for our meeting, we showed up there just in time, at about 2:10 I am getting nervous (our meetings never lasts longer then 2 hours), I have to be back in Layton for my training by 3, 10 minutes later we are done and on our way, I hadn't eaten so we stopped at A&W and then Darin dropped me off at my CPR training at 3:05. There was only 3 of us there so we figured it would go fast, finally at 6:35 we were done, Darin took me home I jumped in the bath and was done and ready to leave for work by 7:30. As you can tell Friday the 13th was a very BLESSED day for me. Today I woke up at work to Snow (YUCK) and it has been snowing all day, me and one of the guys from my work went home so I could make Sugar Cookies for Darin's home teaching families, Darin bowled with the guy from my work while I made the cookies, as we were getting ready to head back to work Darin surprised me with one of my Valentines presents, a Build a Bear tiger he named Yobo, I loved it, now I am back to work and when I get off to night at 6pm we are going to the Brazilian Grill, it should be wonderful! Life is great and I am so grateful for all of those who have shown me Love throughout my life

Finding the Silver Lining!

This last month I have been blessed with experiencing some fairly interesting and stressful things at work and have been doing a lot of soul searching as to why? I think in one of my recent posts I mentioned that I had had my schedules changed the same week for both jobs, what this did was basically put me working 6 days a week and having virtually no time during those days with my sweet husband except enough time Monday - Friday to maybe have breakfast and say prayers. What I didn't mention was that with his parents coming home in about 3 1/2 weeks, we had been praying and trying to decide what we were going to do when they get home, we have fasted and prayed and both have came up with the feeling that we definately need to move out and move some distance away and the place we felt inspired to do so is the Provo/Orem area. The problem is, with the economy the way it is, finding new jobs (difficult being so far away and having virtually no waking hours to do so) and finding the time to move our stuff. I have felt rather overwhelmed and even have broken down in tears lately (almost daily) which had brought me to the point of asking myself what is it the Lord wants me to learn from this experience? In one of my jobs my manager has decided to step down and there has been a great deal of pressure for me to take on her job, well this last week while she was out of town I have been given the opportunity to fill in for her while she has been on vacation (what an experience). This is what I have come up with:
1. The Lord wants me to trust him and do as he asks
2. The Lord wants me to realize that I do not have to over-work myself to make others happy
3. No amount of money is worth taking me away from my family
4. When you get to the point where I am there is nothing to lose from standing up for myself and thus I refuse to be threatened or walked on at work anymore
5. A dollar more and hour ($9.25) is no where near enough to take on a Manager position.

The Surprise!!!

Thanks to all of you Obpa had a wonderful Birthday! Not only was he surprised by all of your kind wishes, but he also was blessed with a surprise we were not expecting when he got a call from Macie and Carlee late Thursday night, this was nice because although it was very nice to be remembered, (I had to work all but 3 hours that day) and at least two times he broke down in tears because he missed his little girls, finally he said a prayer and a few hours later the call came. We still are celebrating here, yesterday we had a little celebration at work with cheesecake (Darin hates cake) and today I am taking the afternoon/evening off so we can go to the Temple then finish the celebration. I actually told him though that when you get that old (he is 41) the celebrationg lasts a week. The video's of the grandkids were priceless and the kind words were appreciated! We love you all!!!!!

Obpa's Birthday Surprise!

Next week on the 29th of January is Darin's Birthday! I really wanted to throw him a surprise party, but almost everyone that he would want to be there lives out of town and couldn't come, so I thought maybe cards or emails would be a great surprise for him and make him happy! I don't need to tell you that he is feeling a great void in his life right now with not seeing Macie and Carlee and could use any thoughts and kindness given to him, he really wants to be part of the family and mentions a desire to build a relationship with each of you often. I know not many people read or respond to my blogs, but this would really mean a lot to me! His email address is richardwatts929@hotmail.com and our home address is 128 E. Mutton Hollow Rd, Kaysville, UT 84037 for anyone who prefers the mail system! Thanks!

Life is Busy!!!

You might say how can life be so busy when you really don't have anything interesting worth saying or anything exciting happen worth telling, so thus the reason for the gap in posts. Well the fact of the matter is both of my jobs suddenly changed my schedules, which means I am working in the days and don't have the luxury of being on the computer ( only a short time really Friday night or Saturday afternoon). This means that I get to see my sweet husband in passing and the work around the house is not getting done...... due largely to the time issue and because of that most of our spare time in the week together is spent doing one of the two things below!

Mom and Dad Watts will be home in about 6 weeks and we have basically destroyed their house and could probably use the next 6 weeks 24/7 to fix it and still not be done, so we do what all 16 year old kids do when they get stressed out.........get out the Wii. So basically for all of you who have been wondering what we have been up to..... it is this....... working and working again and the rest of the time is spent at the Temple or playing the Wii, you might think ....what a waste of time, but you should see how good I am at bowling now, even with my left hand! Don't you think our Mii's look just like us? Boy have we become competitive......

Pay It Forward!!

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