Moms time in Bubble Land

As Neil already posted about our time together in Rexburg I must add my two sense. I also had a great time being in his world. He's doing great with good room mates, nice friends, great job, good ward, very nice clean apartment for a group of men, and happy with life. I so enjoyed my time with him. I always refer to Rexburg as "Bubble Land" because what other campus in the world lets kids prop open buildings doors and play in them at 11 p.m. and beyond. Or leave their house doors open with no care and keys in plain site! There is no other place in the world!
I realized it was my 30 anniversary as when I was dropped off there. Oh how far I have come in my life. When I arrived I spent the first two weeks crying almost non stop. I even moved apartments because I couldn't cope living with strangers. I met a girl from my stake on the street, hung on to her and begged to live in her apartment who had one spot opened. I really had no coping skills but knew I couldn't go home so worked through it. The blessings it brought in my life by staying. Meeting Darwin from his sister who lived next door, a great room mate (Teresa Loveland) who was my maid of Honor at our wedding. By the way after 25 years of only Christmas cards, we met for lunch while I was there. It seemed we had never been apart and talked for hours vowing we would do better to stay in contact. She is a professor at the university herself for the past 2 years. What a great person she was for helping me grow up in many ways. I sat there at the Les Schwab, because my rental car had a flat, and reflected on the growth in my life. Thirty years ago, no skills to now when I booked my own air ticket, rented a car in Boise and went to see my sister Shirley, drove to Rexburg 5 hours away, entertained myself and made my way around with no worry of fear in any way! I stayed with Jeff and Debbie Hochstrasser. They are dear friends from many years past and he was in the stake presidency when I served for almost 7 years as stake primary president. He challenged me to grow in many ways with that calling. They are gracious, lovely people. I loved the Rexburg temple! What a great spirit I felt from my ancestors who settled that town.
Most of all I loved seeing how Neil is nothing like I was. That's how I really knew I had grown as I tried hard to push my children to be able more to stand on their own and boy can he. Good job son! What fond memeories playing silly games late at night with happy people and dancing at a concert. We also had Lisa (Joels daughter) and Shavonne (Susans daughter) over for dinner Sunday. It was good to see them.
Thanks for the great time son! MOM

Older and still a Baller!

Well, I'm still living up my glory days of football while in college! Yes I know that I'm not quite in the shape I was in high school, but we had a good week. I did give up tackle football, but I'm playing on two flag football teams here at school. This week we went 3-0. That's 3 wins, no losses if you didn't catch it. I scored at least once in everygame and ended the week with 3 interceptions. I even had a few tackles, I just can't help it sometimes. So that's my bragging moment for the week. Do you think I can consider myself a college athlete? NFL here I come! (I wish) I wish I had more to brag about, but that's about it for now. I love you guys. Have a great week.

I need some help!

For my English class I had to do an online project with something about what I am going into as a profession. I decided to make a professional blog about current events in the financial world. My blog has three purposes: to help show that I keep up with current events in the financial world (that's the part of my assignment), keep our family posted on market and economy situations, and most important, I want to hear from you guys about your thoughts and feelings about what's happening. I know you guys have an opinion and insights that I don't. Please comment in response to the questions I post. Let me know what you see in your lives and professions. Let out any frustrations you have, agree or disagree with what I write, and correct me on anything I have that could be better. The more participation I get on my content of my blog,  the better it will be. Also, you can post on your own blogs asking your friends to comment as well. Once again, the more comments the better. Whatever they have to say is better than nothing. You can put a link on your blog too if you want. I want to make this good and keep it up for a while. Thanks for all your help!

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On a more personal note, Mom was able to come visit me in Rexburg this week. It was a lot of fun to have her here. I'm glad she was able to see a little of my life here. School is really busy, but we had a good time and were able to do some funs things together. Some highlights were watching the movie Forever Strong and playing sardines in one of the buildings on campus friday night, going to a fiddle concert on Saturday, and of coarse eating well. Mom made the best roast dinner ever and it was a huge hit. Thanks so much for visiting and having a good time Mom. I love you all and wish you all could have been up here for a weekend. But it will have to wait for another time. 

Have a great day and I love you guys!

General Conference

Another great Conference Weekend has come and gone. I felt like the over all themes were Hope, Staying Strong Through Adversity, and Missionary Work. It was wonderful wasn't it?! One of my favorite talks was Lawrence E. Corbridge's talk on Saturday Afternoon. He talked about Jesus Christ being the Only Way. He bore a beautiful testimony. He said that Exhalation is "achievable by everyone, not because we are able but because [Christ] is." And life is hard, but the Gospel is not. Get on the path and never ever give up. There is only one way to happiness, it is through Jesus Christ. Every other way, any other way is madness.

I love how powerful his talk was. It made me feel uplifted and confident in my relationship with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. If you'd like to watch it again click here.
What was your favorite?