Pictures worth a thousand words...

Well it's been a long time since I posted and a lot has happened. So where do I start? We had a fun summer at Lake Powell, riding the motorcycle and just hanging out in the canyon and at the pool. This fall we bought Utah football tickets and had a lot of fun watching the games. Gent looks good in Utah red!






So what's new? Gentry graduated in December which was exciting. May 1st I'm done and we will be an educated family... ya I don't know what that is going to do for us, but it will be nice to be finished. Gentry is hoping to teach in the fall and I'm debating a Masters degree.

Since our last post some important things have happened in our life starting with buying a house. We ended up not building and instead found a really good deal on a house in Cedar Hills. I left QuicKutz last year and started a new company with a few of the guys I had worked with at QuicKutz. So far it has been a lot of work and I'm hoping we can continue to grow. We are both ready for summer and warm weather and hopefully some fun vacations. I will try and post more often, but you know how it is life gets away from ya.
A pictures worth a thousand words right? So here are some pictures we missed.





Also if your interested I started a professional blog for the small business consulting and sales that we do for our company. If you interested check it out and pass it on. Posting again soon Thanks for stopping by!
http://thedailygrind.posterous.com

UTAH FOOTBALL

Once again it's that time of year. Just a little humor to start off the season. Let's do it again! GO UTES!!!

Funny!

Here is another funny clip.

Just thought I would post something funny everyone needs a good laugh every day! Enjoy



Part 2...

It's been...

I have noticed that the theme of this blog has turned to "It's been awhile since I last posted." Life is busy as you all know and I have been terrible at updating the blog. I'm guessing this will get worse as the weather gets better. A few months ago I posted information that we were starting to build a house and guess what..? We still haven't broken ground. However I can see light at the end of the tunnel as we get started it looks like we should break ground in the next couple weeks. Hopefully we will be in by Christmas. We will keep our fingers crossed! I thought I better keep a journal of the progress and pictures from start to finish. So here is the lot!


See that tree in the middle of the lot towards the left. Ya I had to chop it down this week. It took 3 days to finish and a sore back, but we are one step closer...





I will continue to post pictures as we get closer and closer!

QuicKutz

I thought some of you might be interested in this news clip. This is one of the products I sell for work and it was featured today on KSL. Enjoy!

Guatemala

Once again it has been a few weeks since I wrote and during that time a lot has happened. At the end of February I had the life changing opportunity of going to Guatemala to build houses. On the 13th 8 of us took off on this adventure with no plans on where to help or who. We spent 10 days helping build houses, stoves, walls and other odds and ends for people who just don't have the money to help themselves. One of the first days we were in the country we drove out to the coast where the poverty level is absolutely unbelievable. We were told about a women whose husband was murdered last year and she was left a lone with 5 kids under the age of 12. When we arrived she was so surprised to see 8 gringos ready to build her a home and help her family. After talking with her for a few minutes we noticed there was no food to be found. I asked her how long it had been since they had eaten and her response was a punch to the gut. "tres dias" 3 days since they had last eaten... Since this women has no way of working outside the home with so many kids and no husband we decided to build her a stove where she could cook and sell tortillas for the neighbors.

The following day we met a family that lived in a small home... when I say home this was a mixture of sheet metal, cardboard and old wood that was about 15x15. 4 Families lived in the small area with about 10 kids. They had a table where they cooked food for the family and another similar for cooking tortillas to sell. As we were looking for things we could do to help we came across one of the husbands laying on the dirt floor. Come to find out he had fallen from a tree 3 years earlier and was paralyzed from the neck down. The hospital told him to go home a die, but he has survived for 3 years passing the time on the ground. Amazingly enough he has tried to do his own therapy in the back yard on make shift therapy wood bars. During this time has been sleeping on the floor and was bruised up and down his back. Long story short I have never seen anyone so grateful to have something so simple as a new bed. I had to leave the room he was so overwhelmingly excited and grateful to have a bed to sleep on you could see the emotion as his eyes swelled with tears. This trip was truly eye opening and life changing.
It's humbling to see how most of the world lives and what they live without. It has helped me realize how much I don't really need and more important to appreciate the simpler things in life. I'm grateful for the many blessings that I have and for the opportunity to help these people as they blessed my life more than I ever thought possible.

If you are interested in donating money to this cause or joining us next year we are setting up a organization right now to help the many people who are in need in Central and South America. If you want to help let me know. Thanks!