I'm all fired up!

So, I have a hard time being the person who complains or simply states the truth about bad service, especially with places that provide me a service, aka the dentist or the gym. I have had some really nice experiences at a lot of places, and really try to go out of my way to let people know by saying thanks or if I deem it necessary, to write a thank you letter. I never have deemed it necessary yet, but I would if the service was that awesome. Anyway, back to my point. Golds Gym. Now, I am not one who would necessarily jump on the band wagon and say, "they're so prestigious, they must know what they are talking about, I'm going to join there!" No, first I joined the YMCA. Very family friendly. I liked it. But it was too far away from where we now live, so I started looking for a new gym that was closer, hence Golds Gym. Also, I knew some people who worked out at Golds, and thought it might be a nice change to actually work out with someone other than myself, because that gets a little lonely sometimes. Wow, sorry if I'm rambling. Anyway, had a bad experience when I went in for a free meeting with a personal trainer. The personal trainer was nice, but the guy who came in to pressure me to sign up for multiple personal training sessions was a pushy jerk who even said something degrading to me. Rude! So, I came home and immediately wrote a letter. 6 weeks later, I finally had the guts to go and give it to the gym. That was 4 days ago. I got a phone call from them yesterday and called them back today. The guy I spoke with was nice and simply LISTENED, which made me feel validated and like the person I should have been treated as in the first place. So, the moral of the story: I didn't need any compensation, I just needed to be validated that my problem was important to them, it was worth listening to, and that they valued my business. I just felt the need to share my experience.

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Here we are already in the last 2 days of June! Wow! 1 month of the summer already gone, and what have we done with it? Well, let me tell you:

- Done our visiting and home teaching

- Bought me a new/used bike to ride to work

- Had a weekend vacation/ family reunion

- Spent several nights watching movies together

- Performed with our ward choir together a couple of times! (Reed is a bass, we found out, and we like singing together!)

- Attended the temple together

- Reed has gone out of town 2 times for work

- Made a list of goals to help us realize bigger goals

- We've made from scratch 3 pictures TOGETHER! Reed is a quick study on the saw, staining

wood, puttying, and pretty soon will be v-nailing pictures himself. He's very proud of his abilities, as am I.

I think it sounds like we've had a pretty full month. How exciting it will be to see what will happen NEXT month! :)

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Well, Reed had a safe trip, and made it back on Friday night. We had a full and fun day on Saturday doing our various errands, finished up with an 11 o'clock run to the store for our weekly groceries.

I can honestly say, we LOVE our Sunday. It generally follows the same schedule. We get home from church around 1, eat, and then proceed to take a couple hour nap. I know, we are spoiled, and hopefully won't get to enjoy this schedule for too many more months.

Anyway, after our naps, we have dinner together, followed by the making of our weekly homemade treat, mountain bars, or no-bake cookies, whichever name you prefer. And we usually follow that up with a rousing game of speed, or monopoly, whichever one we're in the mood to play. We love the time we get to spend together on Sundays! And just to mix it up and keep it fresh, we like to go and visit family. Or ward members. It's the one day we have time to do everything we want to while keeping the sabbath day holy.

What's happenin' at our house.

Guess who is out of town this week.

I'll give you a hint.

He said he had to go out of town for work, but I

found this incriminating picture from a few months back.

She looks pretty pleased with herself. I'm not worried though. I hear she's as cold as ice. ;)

My Dad . . . . a tribute

I stole this idea from Amanda's blog, but it was such a good idea! My dad was a hard-working man, from what I remember growing up. Honestly, he had to be because he had 10 kids. He taught us all the value of work and made sure we knew what was important in this life, our family, the gospel and our Heavenly Father. I can remember my dad whistling every morning as he got ready for his day. I loved watching him tie his shoes, maybe because his feet were so large. Most of all I love the time that I got to spend with my dad, just making memories. I loved designing pictures with him and working with him to help finish a picture. I loved it when he would try and teach me things. He always was supportive and loving, in spite of my stubborness ( who me ? :) Never! ) and genuinely wanted to help others learn. Most of all, my father taught me so much and I am grateful to him for that. I am so proud and happy for my dad and mom as they serve our Heavenly Father in Corsicana, Texas. I know that my dad is having the time of his life getting to do full time that which he loves the most, which is sharing the gospel and sharing our Heavenly Fathers love for all of his children.

Our short weekend at Down-at-a Hot Springs

Well, it was short and sweet. We just got back! It was super fun. And sadly, I never got the chance to put new batteries in our camera, so there will be no pictures of us going down their 3 fun slides. Luckily, my sister took this one picture of us swimming, I think we spent most of our awake time doing that. That's us in the lower right hand corner with my niece swimming between us with a yellow swimming noodle. We had so much fun! We recommend at least stopping there for several hours for some good swimming, but don't waste your money on the very cramped camping conditions.

We're going away . . . . for the weekend !

My Dad's family is having a family reunion up in Downata Hot Springs for the next 2 weeks. I am so excited because there is a pool with a slide! Woohoo!! I'll try and post pictures.

Something to think on . . .

I have a great new analogy I want to share. Teaching primary is like having a baby. When you're going through the pain (of trying to teach a class that can't seem to focus) you think, is this worth it?!? But then, by the next time (or next week you get to teach) you've forgotten the frustration and pain and you think " this is gonna be great!" Think about it, it's true. :)