apartment for rent!

fellow utahns/provo-orem residents/anyone looking for housing in this area:

our basement apartment is for rent. it is a 2 bed, 1 bath apartment with a washer and dryer. rent is $675 per month which includes utilities and wi-fi. it does not include a land line telephone. even though it is a basement, it does have windows with good lighting. it also has a good amount of storage space. parking is available behind the house so you do not have park on the street (unless you want to, of course). it is not approved for single byu students.

if you or someone you know is interested (or if you have any questions), let me know, or contact our landlord at 801.373.8848. ask for bill and tell them you are interested in the apartment.

this apartment is listed on byu's housing website, but i pretty much told all here.

:)

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it needs no words...

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so...i stole the quote at the top of our blog from someone else's blog. in all honestly, i don't know who it was. all i know is that it's from the blog of a friend of a friend. i really love the quote, so i put it there. i don't love where it is, but until i care enough to learn more about blogger to make it "pretty," it's going to stay there.

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hermano y hermana weidmer

...better known as addie and nana to me. they're my dad's parents. as you can see from the picture below, they've been called to serve a mission in bogota, columbia. my grandpa is a retired doctor and will be working as a mission doctor in south america with my grandma assisting him. i'm so very excited for them to go and serve in such a unique place! they leave at the end of april. maybe we'll be able to go visit them...


and since this picture isn't very good, here is another (still not-so-great) picture of them from my wedding. they're the ones on the left:

i had so much fun looking for pictures of my grandparents that i had to share them all with you:

me with nana (i'm around 1 year or so).

a family picture, probably circa 2004 or so...

christmas a LONG time ago. i'm probably, oh i don't know, two years old.

anyway, enough of my crazy family. we're excited for nana and addie to go and serve!

:)

politics

Those of you who know me well know that I am conservative. Jaclyn had this posted on her blog, and I like it. I agree.

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An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class.

That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride, too, so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame, and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

sinking

one of the presenters at the UDA convention used this commercial in her presentation. i thought it was pretty good.



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year in review

...for the chinese new year, that is. i've seen a lot of people do this at the end/beginning of the year, so i decided to be different and wait until the chinese new year. (and that's basically code for "i didn't get around to it in january, so i'm going to do it now.")

FEBRUARY
i was studying like mad for the many tests i had to take to become an RDH. this is what all of the studying did to me.
tyler was receiving law school acceptances left and right...and we decided BYU was the place for us.

we also went to st. george/zions/vegas (which i forgot until i looked at our pictures from the last year). greg came with us...which i'm sure was so fun for him. there's nothing quite like being the third wheel to a married couple. :)


MARCH
i took my written national boards. one test down, two to go.

tyler dealt with me taking my tests.

my dad got a motorcyle. (these are the only pictures i have from march.)
APRIL
i took my anesthesia test (and passed). i also found out that i passed my written national boards. phew! one test to go.
tyler graduated!!
we went to st. george again for conference/easter.

blake joined us.
MAY
i took my last test. i also graduated!
tyler was happy i finished school.

i went on a cruise. tyler didn't. :)

my sister got married, so we went out to california for a reception/vacation.the house i grew up in (if you're looking for a house to buy in california, this one's for sale!)big trees. love these kids.
JUNE
our car broke down in lovelock, nevada. car break #1 in the last 12 months.

i started temping as a RDH. learned a lot!

tyler worked.

JULY
ward campout, fourth of july!
we also celebrated our two-year anniversary. aw.

katelynn joined us.
AUGUST
i got my first real career-type job as a RDH in orem. i got my second job as a RDH in payson.

i turned 24. scary.

tyler started law school. 1L.
we went to lake powell.

SEPTEMBER
school. work. eat. sleep.

OCTOBER
more school. work. eat. sleep.

NOVEMBER
we enjoyed thanksgiving with my family. my aunt lisanne and her family came out to visit us.

we went to fish lake to get a christmas tree.
DECEMBER
christmas! i love christmas! the great thing about this christmas is that we got to spend it in cancun.
i <3ed our room.
my sister and her husband came out for christmas. that was fun, too.

camille joined us. (i'm sorry, i don't have a picture!)

JANUARY
back to work and school after two weeks off. boo.

tyler turned 26. he's an old fart.

car break #2. (car break #3 occurred this month - in february).

...and that's our year in review. after looking through all our pictures, we're ready to go on another trip!