Tragic Event

I woke up Monday morning with a phone call from one of my good friends that I used to work with at Focus Services. She informed me of some very tragic news. But first, I would like to give a little background information.

The two of us had worked together on a humanitarian project for Focus last year before I went to work at Mills Montessori. Basically, we came up with activities to raise money and talked with big companies about donating prizes to give away at our bowl-a-thon. Every year, Focus uses this money to go to Guatemala and help build homes and schools as well as bring supplies to a village in need.

This year, they did the same thing. They raised money and then they flew out certain employees of the company to go help this village. Unfortunately, a plane that was flying my former employees into the small village crashed before arriving to their destination. Many were screaming for help when the plane crashed, but only 3 survived because the plane blew up into flames 10 minutes after the crash. People tried to save them, but could not get them out of their seat belts.

Only one of my former employees was one of the survivors, the C.O.O., Dan Liljenquist. He should be back in the States soon, but severely injured both of his legs. I personally only knew one of the other three Focus employees who didn't make it. His name was John Carter. He has three kids and a wife, who I am sure miss him very much. I'm glad to say that I joked around with John a few times before I left Focus. He was a good guy. There is a fund set up in John's name at Zion's Bank if anyone would like to donate some money.

I'm just glad that they left this world trying to serve others. They will be missed and always remembered. Please say a prayer for their families.

Lia Sophia Party

Most of you have already been told about the party, but just in case I haven't talked to you I wanted to make sure you knew about it. On

Friday, September 5th at 6pm

I'm having a Lia Sophia (jewelry) party. Even if you don't want to buy anything, you might as well come because they play games and do raffles to give away free jewelry & it's really cute, nice jewelry. If you want to come and need to know the location, just give me a call or leave a comment and I'll give you the address because it's not going to be at my house. If you've never heard of Lia Sophia, here are a few of their pieces:

Empress
I'm actually getting this one myself because I'm loving the purple and graphite!

Glitterati

Tahoe

Fall/Winter 2008 Catalog

The New Cut

Kenzie, Clint's sister, is going to hair school right now. She just gave me the CUTEST new hair cut. I absolutely love it. I thought I'd post the pics to let everyone see.

It's extremely nice to have someone in the family who knows how to do hair! I used to spend a fortune to get my hair done, so I'd go a LONG time before getting another style. While Kenzie's in school it's VERY cheap..only $6.00 for this cute hair cut. Plus, she gave me a manicure. I'd highly recommend you to get your hair done by her ! :)

Ichiban Sushi

For my birthday, Clint took me to a sushi restaurant in Salt Lake called Ichiban Sushi! It was DELICIOUS. I had the Mia Roll, which has grilled eel and avacado on top, with crab mix and shrimp tempura. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my camera, but here's pictures of what Ichiban looks like and what my yummy roll looked like!

I also had the Miso soup, and for dessert the Banana Fernando. This is probably the best dessert ever. They make it like a sushi roll, but it's bananas rolled in a fried crust, with cheescake inside, topped with caramel, and served with vanilla bean ice cream.

Finished Yard

FINALLY, I'm showing you guys our finished yard. Of course, the bushes and trees are small right now. I couldn't believe how much bushes and trees cost! It's expensive to have a semi-decent yard.

ReVaMpeD bLoG!!!!

Okay..so I've been seeing my friend's blogsites and they're SO cute! I would look at mine and think, "Man, this is so boring and lame. Where are they finding these cute backgrounds?"

I got on the Internet and searched several different times, and I could never find anything. I could tell that the backgrounds looked almost like scrapbooking pages. So finally on my fourth attempt, I finally found some of these cute backgrounds by searching for scrapbook blogger backgrounds. The specific site was: http://www.thecutestblogontheblock.com/

Tell me what you think of the newly designed blog site by either leaving a message or taking a vote on my poll!