Dwight & Angela

During my mission everyone always wrote me about this new show "The Office." When I got home I was addicted and introduced it to Jimmy when he got home from his mission. Although The Office hasn't been as funny lately, we've remained loyalists through yet, another season.

And for Halloween, per the request of so many, we went as....drumroll....DWIGHT AND ANGELA.

Thanks for the fun party Frangels!

It's hard to be angry all the time

The real Dwight and Angela

Vegas

Hands down--I love Vegas. I think I could live there (and actually UNLV is in our top 5 for dental school so maybe we will be living there!). We went to Vegas and met up with a bunch of our friends from Utah (Allison, Rod, Jon, Karen,), some friends in Vegas (Natalie and Sean) and my brothers Daniel and Travis. BYU slaughtered UNLV (and we all won $$$$ on the game).

Here's the gang at the BYU v UNLV game

Daniel's face is perfect here!

So we got the gambling bug. This casino gave us all $10 FREE to gamble and Travis and Daniel ended up winning $35 playing poker. Wait isn't Travis only 18...hahaha

Me with my boys

Travis, Daniel, and Jimmy in front of the pirate ship

My favorite--the Bellagio fountains (Daniel, Travis and Jimmy had never been here before)

Eiffel Tower (Rod, Allison and us)

It took us like 5 tries to get this picture because of lighting

New York New York hotel

The sign in the back says it all...

Me and Allie---yes that pumpkin is real! 890 lbs!

Gotta Love Those Boys!

Oh how I love boys!

Saturday Night Live Skit

Maybe I don't need to worry so much after all...

Please Vote on our Halloween Costume

What should Jimmy and I be for Halloween?

1- Beyonce and a Karate Guy (yes my hair will look like that)

2- Suzzane Somers and Richard Simmons (anyone have a thigh master I can borrow?)

3- Dwight and Angela (from the Office)

4. Jim and Pam (from the Office)

Please vote in the comments section. Thank you for your advice!

Amen Amen Amen

You've probably heard the story of the ant and the grasshopper, now this!!

MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.'
Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group curse God for the grasshopper's sake.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote...

In Light of Terribleness

In light of all the terrible things our country is going through (the lack of leaders, Obama debt that our grandchildren will have to pay, the turn to socialism, health care bill, natural disasters, etc) here is what President Harold B. Lee said on America:

"Men may fail in this country, earthquakes may come, seas may heave beyond their bounds, there may be great drought, disaster, and hardship, but this nation, founded on principles laid down by men whom God raised up, will never fail. This is the cradle of humanity, where life on this earth began in the Garden of Eden . This is the place of the new Jerusalem . This is the place that the Lord said is favored above all other nations in all the world. This is the place where the Savior will come to His temple. This is the favored land in all the world. Yes, I repeat, men may fail, but this nation won't fail. I have faith in America; you and I must have faith in America, if we understand the teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ . We are living in a day when we must pay heed to these challenges. I plead with you not to preach pessimism. Preach that this is the greatest country in all the world. This is the favored land. This is the land of our forefathers. It is the nation that will stand despite whatever trials or crises it may yet have to pass through.
(Ye Are the Light of the World , 350-51)


Onward we go as optimistically as we can!