HAPPY B-DAY JAROM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAROM!

We hope that you have a great birthday!

Love
Aunt Laree, Uncle Gary, Emmalynn & Daniel

Happy Happy Happy Birthday Jarom!!!!

Have a great day and eat lots of cake. You're a great kid and we love you!!!!!
All the Jorg Clan

Happy Birthday Jarom!!!

Jarom, Happy Birthday buddy! I can't believe you are already 11. It was just a few years ago when I remember you were born. I know Kyler probably warned you about what happens to you when you turn 11 by your Uncle Bryan. Well he is right. Jarom, I want to encourage you to get your Eagle before you are 13 and 10 months. I have a nice juicy steak dinner waiting for you. I might even be able to make it a little more juicy since I haven't had to pay to any of my other nephews. So I will raise the award for you. Steak dinner at Maddox - what ever size you want plus $25 in Cash if you are an Eagle scout by 13 and 10 months. I am here to help you anyway you want but will only help if asked. When I ask you how you are doing, I will only be asking to find out if I need to start saving my money. :-) Actually, it is because I am truly interested in your scouting success. The other real reason is that all the young men that I have been associated with that earned their Eagle also went on a mission.

Here is my top 11 things I look forward to seeing you accomplish:

Earn your Eagle Scout
Be ordained to the Aaronic Priesthood and become a Deacon
Become a Teacher
Become a Priest
Earn your Duty to God Award
Graduate from High School
Graduate from Seminary
Receive Melchezidek Priesthood and be ordained an Elder
Go on a mission
Graduate from College
Get Married in the Temple

Once you get these tasks done we can talk about others. :-)

Also, I would like to see if you can beat me in Racquetball. It is the only sport I might have a chance. :-)

We love you Jarom and are excited to see you grow up! Make us all proud!

Love, Uncle Bryan

I resigned from Micron Today!

I finally had it. I went into my boss and just unloaded on him of all the things I was tired of at Micron. I told him that I could not work another day for such a company. I told him I was tired of the top guys getting rich while the rest of us did all the work and didn't get anything. He was very surprised when I handed him my resignation and told him my last day would be this Friday. Oh did it feel good to unload and get everything out on the table. Before I knew it, I was saying April Fools!

Did I get you?

I didn't resign. I am hoping for positive things to happen and I am gainfully employed and appreciate and respect my boss and would not even do this to him. I just thought I had to come up with one April Fools joke.

I did call my wife to tell her I was in a car crash and that someone had rear ended my car and that she needed to come get me. Unfortunately, she figured it out before she came out the door where I was waiting to scare her. I had her going for a few minutes but she is too smart.

Kaitlyn had a great game today. She caught the entire game. She went 3 for 5 and drove in 5 runs. She is getting better and better everyday. It is alot of fun to see her play.

We hope all are doing well!

Love, Bryan

For all you weight loss people I have a really good website you can join. I have a friend who is a trainer. We have been working out together for a couple months. It has been really great (at least for me!) Anyway she told me about the website called sparkpeople.com It has a calorie counter, healthy recipes, exercise ideas and lots of people on that give ideas. It's really fun and it's free!

Thought I'd add some pictures this time. The first two are at Annie's baptism. Cute girls! The next one is Annie's basketball team. We are amazed at how tall she is growing lately! The next one is of Kyler and his good friend Shad. This is when they won the state AAU basketball championships. The next one is of Jarom getting his arrow of light last week. Brant's update is that he was named all-state honorable mention. He is playing varsity and JV baseball which is really busy. Like four nights a week he has games. Also his uniform is all white and is really awful for me to keep clean. I've used two whole bottles of spray already!!!! Keith is one week away from finishing his college class. This is a huge relief because it is his last class. He now has his internship that he was hoping to do next fall. However, they have announced that our school district has to cut 5.4 million dollars to next year's budget. This will probably mean no more internships. We will just have to wait and see what happens.

Hope everyone has a great week and think spring!! The snow has to go sometime.

Uummmmm...not neck and neck.....

Just weighed in this morning and I'm down another pound and an ounce. (that's like saying I'm 44 and 1/2) I hate to even challenge you Bryan because you so competitive I know I'll loose. I must be determined though because I had a dream last night that I was sitting in a train station and someone offered me sour patch kids (my favorite) and I turned them down. Dang it! Dream food is fat & calorie free. Makenzie is down 6 lbs. She's doing really well. She just bought three new pair of shorts for summer so I told her to slow down so they still fit by summer. Shawn is down 8 lbs and Kayden is still the same. Hummm....imagine that. Got to find a way to get that kid motivated!
Josalyn....Congratulations! I totally have that date saved in July. Do you want me to do your hair? Tyler is a lucky man. (he,he,he,he) Sounds like you have a fun ward. Love that!
K

Save the Date!!!

I wanted to share a funny story with you all! So some sneaky person in my ward has been finding pictures of a boy and a girl in the ward that are not dating but have a picture together, making up some sort of a wedding announcement with "save the date" on the top. It was quite funny to see the first few with funny pictures of different "couples" in the ward. But you can imagine my surprise when I opened the envelope that was on our door this morning and saw a wedding announcement for me! So Save the date, July 9, because Tyler and I are getting married :) It has provided quite the laugh, considering the only date Tyler and I have been made my bottom three list! I am glad to hear everyone is doing so well with the weightloss. I will have to jump on the scale and start keeping track myself! I love you all!!!

~Josalyn