Joplin Missouri Tornado

The Man in this video works at Nestle with me. He is a QA tech.

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

I can only imagine how scary it was for them.

Fixing up the yard and planting edible plants

This year Matt and I have decided to pull out everything that does not produce something we can eat and replace it with plants that produce fruit. Down the south side of the driveway where we had rose bushes we now have blueberry plants. We have 11 different kinds of blueberries.


In the area under the kitchen window we had two evergreen trees and a bunch of gladiolia bulbs and tulip bulbs and have replaced them with two Pixwell Gooseberry plants, and two Goji Berry plants. Goji berries have more vitamin C than oranges and are very good for you.


In the area under our bedroom window there were strawberry plants, four more evergreen trees and some more Tulips. Now we have replaced those with a golden currant bush, a cherry red currant bush, two poorman gooseberry plants, two Jostaberry plants (cross between gooseberry and currant), and a black currant bush.


I will be planting the strawberries in front of the gooseberries and goji berries; I just havn't gotten to it yet. Then on the North side of the house we planted a blackberry bush and we have some raspberry plants that Matt's grandpa planted. On the South side of the house we have 8 or 9 rhubarb plants and will be planting our Male Kiwi vine, then on the other side of the sidewalk we will plant the female Kiwi vine, and three cranberry plants. We can't wait to start getting fruit from all of these plants. The pixwells,currants, goji berries, and 7 of the blueberry plants will give us fruit this year, as well as the raspberry bushes. Be expecting yummy homemade jam from us for christmas presents:)

The New Me

Well I guess since I have already been told by two people now that they are waiting for my update I better do it. This is for you Mom and Jen.

For the longest time I have been wanting to cut my hair short, but Matt hasn't wanted me to. Well on the last day that Mom and Jen were here for our mother daughter weekend They finally got me to do it. I haven't had my hair short since my mission, but I really love it. I can't believe how much Cooler I am at work, and it is so nice only having to wear one hair net and getting all of my hair in it.

When I got home on Tues. after taking Mom and Jen to the airport, I walked into the bedroom and Matt was asleep. I shook him a little and he woke up and did a double take when he saw me. Later he told me that when he first saw me he didn't recognize me. He was thinking "Who are you, and what have you done with my wife." I don't know why I was so worried about him liking it, because he likes it a lot. I'm so glad you guys got me to do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1