A New Post??

Well, normally I don't blog because I don't feel like, or seem to have time. I belive I do have a little time on my hands now!

So lets see, what things have changed since I last blogged.... I became a Mary Kay consultant. Um, yeah that was a random choice but so far it's been surprizingly fun! I've got this giant shelf cupboard thing in my office full of MK product. Brock recently went to Las Vegas and came home richer than when he left! Yes, he gambled... probably only because I told him too. I have to live my life through Brock. (haha just kidding). I have one semester left of school and a summer class I need to find motivation to finish. It's due in August and I haven't done anything on it since last summer.

Howie met some girls and I believe his teenage horomones are kicking in. He's been a little tempermental sometimes but he is the best decision Brock and I have made! We love that little fellow SO MUCH!

Also we bought a Jeep Cherokee, and sold our Mazda! It all happened so fast, but we got a really good deal on this jeep and we decided to try and be better at "provident living" so now we don't have a car loan. That actually feels really really good. And I don't mind having no A/C for now and getting up at 6:30 to take Brock to work. (you have to understand getting up for me is really hard because lately I haven't been able to sleep till 1 or 2am.)

Well if anyone wants to come to our house we would love to have you over. I was finally able to buy new furniture (first time!!) since we've been married and I love my front room. It's exactly what I pictured it looking like! We'd love to come visit any of you and go on a vaction, so any ideas would be great! We are going to California for Danielle Torres and Michael Klappoth's wedding July 22ish so that should be a good vacation.

Thanks for reading!

Our New House

OK, so i'm so sorry it's been too long since my last post... I'll tell ya though, school has kept me busy. Linear programing, isoquants and isocosts, stock market investments, exchange rate determination using valuation equations, and retail market theory has surely kept me busy. (Yes, I was trying to impress you with how smart I sound).

But on to the news....Brock and I think we're ready to go public.... we're buying a house!! We are SOOOO excited, and love absolutely everything about the house, except for the big mortgage that comes with it :) I wanted to post some pictures of the house. It's basically in between the Logan hospital and USU. Right now we're at the stage where we are waiting on the underwriters to take a look at our loan, then the title work/paper work will need to be done and we will be the proud new owners! Brock's birthday is also coming up in about a month (May 16th) and I know he's super excited to be getting house stuff- the manly kind of stuff like power tools and whatever.

Anyways here is our baby!!


They ripped up the carpet and professionally restored the beautiful hardwood floors.
Brand new kitchen... the appliances haven't been used!
Pink tub is the best :D
Party basement...


Big backyard, with a huge garden...
So there it is... hopefully things will go by fast so we can move into our new home as soon as possible. We're so excited and so glad we've got our families close by to share the fun with us!

Enjoy! Let me know what you think!

Free Blog Backgrounds

So I found this new website where you can get cute backgrounds, it's called myblogmakeover.blogspot.com I didn't want to tell anyone about it so I would be the only one with cute backgrounds so people in the blogging world would think i was cool for being original BUT now i guess i'll just have to be cool because i was the first person to hear about it... or was i? :D There are other places like, "cutest blog on the block" and stuff that you can use as well. Funny enough I found this via craiglist. 

It's funny I'm not currently using a background from this because I just changed it to this cute pink one that I really like. BUT check out MY OTHER BLOG and you'll see one of my favorite backgrounds from that new site. 

and yes, I am due for another large blog about things that are going on... that is yet to come. Good thing spring break is here, that should give me some time. 

iPhone is MyPhone

So I’m getting an iPhone today. In fact it is 11:45 AM and I am meeting my parents at La Tormenta in 15 minutes to have lunch and then drive over and make the purchase.
My stomach is doing back flips- and I have no idea why. Is this excitement? Anxiety? Am I spending too much money when I should just be saving it? I took a women’s one-a-day today (well half of one) because I decided that would be my excuse for why I feel so crazy. This phone is SO cool, and I hate my old phone. Stupid T-Mobile shadow. I wouldn’t suggest to anyone to buy the brand name phone that is made by your carrier. Buy a phone from a company that specializes in phones like Blackberry, Motorola, or LG. Ok well I can’t say the necessarily specialize in cell phones but they’ve done a lot better job that T-Mobile.
So my Dad asked me why I want an iPhone, what does it have that my current phone does not. Well for one, my old phone doesn’t really work and I need to send it in under the warrantee to have it replaced. The camera doesn’t work, whenever I text it spells words that are beyond my comprehension- it is not very smart at guessing what I am trying to say. I can get on the internet but it isn’t very reliable (wireless only). These are only a few. The iPhone on the other hand, well lets get real. There are thousands of app’s you can download that do anything and everything. There is an app that allows you to blow in the mike, and play it like an instrument. There’s an app so your iPhone can act like a level so you can hang pictures, you can budget your checking and savings accounts, check stock prices, exchange rates, give you recipe suggestions, you can even tell it to “fake call” you at a designated time. WOW this is not a phone, this is the world at my fingers!
I had thought of something profound in the shower today but now I can’t remember what .
Well I’m back! I’ve had lunch, and ate an apple- more like I am now a consumer of the iPhone! How cool! More to come!

Stem Cell Research

So I am teaching my class in a week about Stem Cell Research, and can I just let everyone know something....

I am Pro-Choice. If you choose to have sex, then you choose to live with the consequences of that choice. Which means creating human life. Once you have made that choice abortion is not an option.

Why do so many people think you can do things with out having consequence. If I want to jump up, I have to realize that because of gravity I will come back down. Intercourse leads to pregnancy, it's a simple fact.

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Christmas Parties

So Brock and I went to the Allen Christmas party tonight at my Aunt Brenda's house. It was a lot of fun! I brought my cello and my dad and me played Christmas songs- he played the trumpet. Usually every year the kids put on a "play" of Mary and Joseph and stuff... BUT this year my aunt decided that the "married people and older" were going to do it.

We decided that my Grandpa Allen would read from Luke 2, and every few versus we sang songs that had to do with what he was reading. So I played my cello to songs like, Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, Away in a Manger, Far Far Away on Judea's plane, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Joy to the World, and I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day. Wow, it was so amazing and I couldn't hold back the tears. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day is my FAVORITE song and we all sang the first two verses while my Grandpa sang that last ones. I played my cello and it was amazing. I didn't really know the notes but it just came to me and somehow my fingers moved and it translated into the notes of the song. I felt so overwhelmed, and so happy. I love my families so much, life means so much to mean and I am so happy to belong to the true church of Jesus Christ. I am so grateful for his sacrifice for me individually. I know he loves us all, and wants us all to return to live with him. What a wonderful plan of happiness we have. I know it is worth all the sacrifices we have to make to stay on the straight and narrow. This was one of the best Christmas parties i've been to with the Allen family. I love my Grandpa and Grandma- I was thinking about how he sealed Brock and I in the temple about 2 1/2 years ago... what a wonderful experience! I'm so excited to start a family (hopefully soon) and am thankful for this season.

Tomorrow we have the Champlin Family Christmas Party- wahoo! That will be way fun! Monday is the Roberts Family Party. Brock and I are going to be partied out!

Thank you everyone for your love and examples to me, what a wonderful life!!!