Its not a 'Goodbye'....Its a 'See You Soon'....

I have to start off by saying how thankful I am for my family. My dad's family is so amazing! At the funeral service for my grandpa, my grandpas bishop, who was preciding the service, got up to make a few comments and he mention how he was so amazed at the Mortuary it was more of a celebration than a viewing. He said "I have never in my life been to a viewing that everyone was laughing, smiling, and crying. It really was a celebration. Usually you go to these things and everyone is so sad to see someone pass on but not with you all. You can tell just from being around everyone what a close family you all are." That I am very thankful for. The funeral wasnt so much us saying goodbye but a celebration that my grandpa has rejoined the love of his life, his father that died when he was 4, and his mother. If anyone has ever had the oppurtunity to be around anyone in my dad's family you will know what I mean when I say they are all very crazy :) They are such a close family and I love it! I love all 21 Aunt's and Uncles so much (yes, 21 AUNT Karen). Below are a few pictures from the viewing, the funeral, the lunchin.


At the Funeral before the Family Prayer


My Family at the Lunchin


My Uncle Mike, My Dad, and my nephew Aiden at the Viewing


My Dad's Family in the line at the Viewing

Orland Dean Gull

Orland Dean Gull St. George, UT - After waiting nine years, Orland Dean Gull was reunited with his sweetheart Helen, on November 28, 2008. Born August 30, 1924 in Hinckley, Millard, Utah to Irah William Gull and Reva Memmott. He married Helen Judd on December 24, 1943 in Spokane, Washington, and were sealed in the St. George LDS Temple on February 6, 1960. He served in the US Navy in WWII with an Honorable discharge. He retired after 36 years of service from Mountain Bell and was a member of the Kiwana’s Club. Favorite pastimes were spent with family, hunting, fishing, camping, gardening and other outdoor activities. He was an active member in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and held many positions.

He is survived by his 11 children: Helene (Edward) Nelson, St. George, UT.,Catherine (Randy) Holman of Sandy, UT., Richard Dean (Barbara) Gull, St. George, UT., Pauline (David) Isom, West Jordan, UT., Kenneth Irah (Becky) Gull, St George, UT., Kristine (Jeffrey) Groat, Moutain Home, ID., Steven Arma (Debra) Gull, Washington, UT., Michael Clarence, West Jordan, UT., Maidalyn Gull Starr, St. George, UT., Rochelle Gull (Robert) Adamson, Gainsville, GA., DeWayne D.J. (Alicia) Gull, Hurricane, UT; 52 grandchildren, and 79 great grandchildren. He is also survived by his half sister, Maxine Bennett Branagan, West Jordan, UT., and half brother, Ralph Bennett, West Jordan, UT. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife Helen Judd; great granddaughter Shaylee Nelson; and his brother Arden Gull.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, December 3, 2008, at 11 a.m., at the St. George LDS 3rd Ward Chapel, 200 W. 500 N., St. George, UT. A visitation will be held Tuesday, from 6-8 p.m., at Metcalf Mortuary, 288 W. St. George Blvd., St. George, UT., and Wednesday, from 9:30-10:30 a.m., at the chapel, prior to services. Interment will be in the St. George City Cemetery, under the direction of Metcalf Mortuary 435-673-4221. See Metcalf’s website at www.metcalfmortuary.com for condolences and full obituary and funeral listings.

We would like to thank all those care givers, Children, Grand Children, and Great Grand Children and those care giver at Red Cliffs Care Center, Medical Care givers, Dr. Thomas Jones, and other Physicians who cared for him with such love.

**You will be missed Grandpa**

The day I have been dreading since the accident 2 years ago as come true...my Grandpa Gull died this morning. I am so thankful that the family was all together for Thanksgiving to be with him one last time. He was in such good spirits eating his two pieces of chocolate cake with his fingers cause there werent any forks :) I will miss him so much! Thank goodness for all the fun memories that I have with him. He is happy and not hurting anymore. He has rejoined his wife whom he missed so much. I can only imagine the greeting her had on the other side. Reunions and Christmas Parties wont be the same.

I love you Grandpa and will miss you deeply but I will see you again.

**Family Wins**

Family is a gift, it never wears out
they care for you and hold you in your times of doubt
When everything seems hard and you want to be alone
Family will support you and be your rolling stone
They will comfort you and love you no matter what you may have done and against all the odds family is number one.
Even if you have lost one or some on the way
Family will guide you to help see another day
Family is irreplaceable, nothing can compare
So when your down and low at times
Just remember families always there.
- Author Charley

A while ago my mom had this poem on her blog. I was reading through documents I have saved on my computer and came across it. I love it!

I want to tell my family that I love them so much! I know I dont say it but I really do love them and dont know where I would be without them...especially my mom she has become my best friend the past few years and I really dont know what I would do she wasnt here to talk to everyday! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!

THREE MORE DAYS!!!!!!!

All I can say is I am so stoked for the Twilight Movie!! I was so excited when I passed my test because that meant I could start reading the books again....I am trying to finish the first book before the movie comes out but I get distracted too much so we will see.

**Thanks for the pictures Blaire! I stole them off your page :)**

8 Things...

Thanks Tiffini.......

8 TV shows I like to watch

The Hills
Big Brother
COPS
The Girls Next Door
Criminal Minds
Ghost Whisperer
Ghost Hunters
True Life

8 Things that happened yesterday

Drove to Work
Worked
Drove Home From Work
Watched TV
Read Twilight
Talked to Scott
Went to the store
Slept

8 Favorite Places to Eat

Olive Garden
Cafe Rio
Inn n Out
AppleBee's
Jimmy Johns
Italian Village
Vior's
Durango's

8 Things I'm Looking Forward To

Getting new tires on my truck
Getting a raise (hopefully)
Being able to do my own work and not be the assistant to everyone at work
The Weekend!!!
Sleep
Colder weather (Im so over it being so hot!!)
Filing Taxes (I sure need some money)
Christmas Time

8 Things on my Wish List

Move to California
I really want a vacation!!!
To go on a cruise (but Im scared of boats...Titanic HELLO)
To go back east to New Jersey (but Im scared to fly....911 HELLO)
Shopping Spree
Loose 15 more pounds (atleast)
A Chanel purse
A Juicy Couture purse
Tiffini, Kory and Hailey to move here!!!!!!!!! (See Kory I do like you :) ....sometimes)

8 people I Tag

Mom
Kesha
Kylee
Stephanie
Blaire
Alisha
Rae
Ashlie

Man, its not easy to think of 8 things.....

Twilight Quiz

Take the Quiz and Share Your Results!

You are observant, diplomatic and often aim to please. You are unaware of your
attractiveness and despite being uncomfortable with any form of attention, people enjoy your company. You can be impatient, stubborn and headstrong, but you are true to your word and mature for your age, often taking care of your family and enjoying a good book over chatting with girlfriends on the phone.

***Thanks to my cousin Sheena I will be going to watch the Twilight movie November 21 at 6:20!!!!!***

Extensions

For the past like 6 months (maybe longer) I have had short hair and have not enjoyed it....just ask Tiffini :) Due to a hairstylist (not Tiffini) that has A.D.D. my hair was fried because she left the bleach in my hair to long....needless to say I finally let Tiffini cut my hair......

I cried when I first looked in the mirror and saw how short it was I thought I looked like a boy!! Oh and Thanks Kylee for telling me I looked like a boy :)

Well Tiffini, Kory and Hailey came down last week so on Saturday I asked Tiffini to come with me to go look for some extensions. This is the end result.....

I LOVE THEM!!! They were $80 at Sally's. Its all real hair so I can straighten, curl, wash and do whatever I want with them. This is my congratulations for passing my test :)

As a recipient of this award I must answer the following questions with ONE WORD answers and then pass it on to 7 more people to do the same.

1. Where is your cell phone? purse
2. Where is your significant other? who??
3. Your hair color? blondie
4. Your mother? loving
5. Your father? worker
6. Your favorite thing? family
7. Your dream last night? tests
8. Your dream/goal? money
9. The room your in? work
10. Your hobby? shopping :)
11. Your fear? death
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? happy
13. Where were you last night? home
14. What you're not? rich
15. One of your wish list items? vacation
16. Where you grew up? Utah
17. The last thing you did? application
18. What you are wearing? clothes
19. Your TV? small
20. Your pet? dirty
21. Your computer? stupid
22. Your mood? happy
23. Missing someone? always
24. Your car? Pathfinder
25. Something you're not wearing? dress
26. Favorite store? Charolette Russe
27. Your summer? fast
28. Love someone? alot
29. Your favorite color? pink
30. Last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? yesterday (I was happy I passed my test finally)

The bloggers I'm nominating:
Rae
Mom
Tiffini
Kesha
Missy
Brittany
Sandy

Now, for the recipients of this award, Display your award, Nominate at least 7 other people, Enjoy your award!

I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!.....

So I FINALLY did it.....I passed my Insurance Test. I am officially a licensed Property & Casualty Insurance Agent! I never understood why people had lucky numbers or favorite numbers but I now have a lucky number 5 :) Yes it has taken me 5 times of paying $88 to take the stupid test (Thank you Tiffini and Kory for the last 2 times). All I can say is I am having a little bonfire in my backyard to burn the stupid book :)

Picture Tag!!!

Rules:

Open your pictures folder file

then go to the fourth folder

now go to the fourth picture.

Post that picture and tell us a little bit about it.

Tag 7 people.

This picture was takin at the 2007 Sema Show. They revealed the new Dodge's so Scott had to get a picture next to it.

FYI....Scott got confirmation of our tickets yesterday so Nov 6 & 7 I will be at the 2008 Sema Show.....I am so excited. Last year we met Tyson Beckford (watched him get a ticket for doing a burn out of his crotch rocket), Lil Flip, Frankie J, and a few others. Their fun...if you have have the oppurtunity to go to the Sema Show take it....if your into cars that is :)

I now tag: Rae, Tiffini, Kesha, Sandy, Mom, Missy & Stephanie.

In Memory of Julie Schmutz

It seems like only yesterday my mom was helping Julie wrap her arms and going to Sonic on a daily basis to get their Route 44 Diet Coke with lime..... I cannot believe it has been one year since Julie passed. I dont think I will ever forget that night....I was sleeping on the couch and woke up to Tiffini shaking me telling me, "walk up Julie just died, mom and dad just went up to say goodbye". It was the day that I hoped and prayed would not happen but it was true as much as I didnt want to believe it Julie returned home. It was a bitter sweet feeling, she wasnt hurting anymore and thats what mattered the most.

What I would I do if I didnt have the memories....wow I am so thankful that my mom and Julie were best friends. I looked to Julie as a mom. When my mom got surgery on her knees or anytime she was in the hospital Julie was the mom. I will never forget the umbrella! I was terrified of her for so many years because she would tell us if we don't help out she will hit us with her umbrella. Wow was I really scared of her!

To this day it is still hard for me believe that she is gone. I keep thinking she is just at home in bed and will come down any day to say hi. Im still waiting for that day....

Julie, I love you and miss you and hope to see you again.

Fun Times

So here are some of the pictures of mine and Heathers adventurous night :)

At the Temple (first time I have been here in 4 years)

Yummy McDonalds (the only time I ever eat there is with Heather)

Gotta Love Applebees

We had to steal a napkin just for the picture :)

**Kisses**

In the middle of the road in front of the temple

Trying to be seductive....not working....obviously!

**oops**

There is obviously not much to do in St. George :)

Gotta Love Friends

My best friend in the whole world came down from Ogden this week. For any of you who know Heather Buatte, its kind of weird that me and her are best friends. My mom use to babysit her when we were little and I absolutley HATED her. I use to call her "socks", because she use to wear her dads socks or something (they were very long) and I guess it didnt bother her that they didnt fit on her feet and would flop around....this drove me freakin crazy!!!! I would always yell at her to pull them up and just to bother me she never would. I remember one day she was fighting with my sister Kesha, Heather told her she was stupid or she was wrong about something, well me being the big sister and overly protective of my family I went right up to Heather and slapped her across the face and told her to be nice to Kesha. She never picked a fight with Kesha ever since :) Anyways we never really liked each other until High School and even then I forgot we were friends.

**Enough of the random details of mine and Heathers friendship I will post some pictures that we took of us tomorrow.

Tuesday Tell All

What do you remember about your childhood summers?
-friends, vacations, activities.

My most favorite memories of the summer time is(there are two).....for one of my birthday's my family went to Disneyland with my Grandma Bone and Stephan McMullin. It was the last trip with my Grandma, she died not too long after that. I remember the matching out fits my mom made for all of us. It was the best birthday EVER!!! My other summertime memory was only 3 years ago....My Uncle Richards last wish before he died from colon cancer was to go to Disneyland with all of his brothers and sisters and their kids. So in July we all hoped into the 15 seater Van, Frank & Connie's Van, and Dale & JoAnne's car and headed to California. It was probably the best Disneyland trip I have had. Its always an adventure when you get my mom, Aunt JoAnne, and Aunt Beverlee together you never know what they will do or say :) Word of advise if you watch one electric wheelchair goes off the sidewalk and gets stuck....probably not a good idea to follow right behind....I have never laughed so hard in my life watching my mom and Aunt JoAnne get thrown out of their wheelchairs :)

Memories with my family are the memories I charish the most! I love you guys!!!!

Quirkey

Definition of quirk:n.1. A peculiarity of behavior; an idiosyncrasy: "Every man had his own quirks and twists" Harriet Beecher Stowe.2. An unpredictable or unaccountable act or event; a vagary: a quirk of fate.Rules: Link the Person who Tagged you. Mention rules on your blog. Tell about 6 quirks of yours. Tag 6 fellow bloggers to do the same.Leave a comment to let them know.
1-I cannot stand waiting for people to go anywhere. (If you say we are going to go then LETS GO)
2-All the clothes and shoes in my closet are color cordinated so I know when anyone takes something (Kylee and Mindi think they can get away with taking stuff)
3-When I get ready in the morning I do it in the same order every morning (straighten hair, brush teeth, put on make up and then fix hair)
4-I will only write with a certain pen while I am at work (it writes the best)
5-I refuse to drink from a cup at a resturant.
6-When I go to a resturant I wont order it if it doesnt have a picture.

No one ever reads my pointless blog so I wont tag anyone :)

**Study Tips**

I need some help......I am preparing to take the Insurance Exam for the 4th time (its not an easy test) and need some ideas on good ways to study and help me remeber everything for the test. I have had people tell me to do flash cards but if you have ever read your Insurance Policy you would know there is WAY too much information to know and not enough flash cards :) So if anyone has any good ideas I am willing to try just about anything!!!!!!!!

PROTECT OUR CHILDREN AGAINST ONLINE PREDATORS, SO IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ, AND POST ON YOUR SITE, IF YOU CARE ABOUT OUR CHILDREN!!!

Get the "SENATE BILL 1738-THE PROTECT OUR CHILD ACT" to pass.

Last year alone, U.S. law enforcement identified over 300,000 criminals who were trafficking in movies and pictures of young children being raped and tortured. Experts say that one in every three of these criminals has local child victims. Child pornography trafficking over the Internet has given us a trail of evidence that leads straight to their doorsteps, but the vast majority of these children will never be rescued because investigators are overwhelmed, outnumbered and underfunded.

The PROTECT Our Children Act will: Authorize over $320 million over the next five years in desperately needed funding for law enforcement to investigate child exploitation.Mandate that child rescue be a top priority for law enforcement receiving federal funding.Allocate funds for high-tech computer software that can track down Internet predators.Unless we come together, you MUST repost this & tell everyone to go to OPRAH. COM and click on the link to "Pass the protect our child act" it will give u a link to find your local Senators E-Mail address. We must E-Mail them & ask, Beg & Plead to get this Bill to pass. Please hurry & get as many people as possible to E-Mail their local Senators.

This is very important to me there are movies out there on the internet with WEEK OLD INFANTS BEING RAPED BY MEN. ALL AGES OF CHILDREN ARE BEING TORTURED WITH FOREIGN OBJECTS & WITH BAGS BEING PUT OVER THERE HEADS & ARE SCREAMING IN THE VIDEOS FROM PAIN. This takes 5 minutes of your time & we could be saving hundreds of thousands of childrens lives. Imagine you have a sea of children infront of you begging to be saved & you turn your back on them? Please hlp pass this Bill 1738.

YOU MUST REPOST THIS

Nature Walk

So today I went to pick up Scott at the Ivins car show which was held at the Santa Clara Park, well I was forced to take a detour. This little detour took me to where the nature walk is......Im am sad to say that the nature walk is gone!!! They replaced it with a stupid road!!! I wanted to cry when I saw it. I took Scott by it and was telling him of the fun times I had when I would go with my family on the weekends to Grandma Bones pick cherries in her trees, walk to the gas station, and go through the nature walk. I remember we would hid on the picnic tables or behind bushes trying to scare each other. The place where I have so many fun memories is now a road :( I am very grateful that my memories of the nature walk will last forever.......

My sister Tiffini!!!

My Sister Tiffini is the coolest bestest biggest sister ever! She is so cute and I aspire to be like her! She made this awesome background for me that I just LOVE!!! Go tell her how cool she is!

I finally gave in and decided to get a blog so my sisters will really see how boring my blog will be :) Lets just hope that I can figure this thing out.....so far its not working out too well!