Our most recent purchases

So as of today we have no money, but a brand new investment property instead. This is the house that is next door to our Salt Lake Duplex where we currently live. It is a 3 bedroom, 1 bath home. The previous owner only had it for a little over a year and did the following renovations: all new windows, new paved driveway, new electrical, and had the furnace fixed. Sure we paid for his "fix-ups" considering we wanted to purchase this house before for a lower price, but I guess on the bright side we did not have to do all the dirty work and to be honest we really wanted the land more than the house.

Plus, we already will have new tenants beginning in May because as the Lord works in mysterious ways He's done it again. A family that is in our ward has been wanting a bigger place for a while now. My husband discovered this because he was doing he's home teaching as he should (it still surprises me when he goes, but don't tell him I said that) and they had mentioned it to him. John then told them that we were about to purchase this place and that they could move in to it. They decided they could afford it and so we'll thankfully be having a LDS family move in next door.

As for another "big" purchase we have failed to mention... John received an exceptional bonus this year from work. It was way more than expected. In fact, it was four times more than it was last year. We were very excited and decided it's time we reward ourselves for all of our hard work. John has been wanting a big screen HDTV since who knows when and I told him he could get one with his bonus from work even if it wasn't enough to pay for it. We got one of course. Well, John got himself one (I'm not too big on things like that...I'd rather have a nice and reliable car. So drop him a hint for me). It's a Samsung 52" LCD tv and Blu-ray movies look awesome on it. Movie party anyone? Pirates marathon coming soon. :)

We thought you all should know...

Friends and Family,

I don't know how to start this so I'll just come right out and say it... John and I are getting divorced. I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but let me explain. Over the past two years things have not been going as well as we have portrayed them to be. With John working so much it's just become overwhelming. We've had no time for each other. No time to grow. We'd been fighting a lot and we've decided it's time to move on. We've tried to work things out before and keep things going for Victoria's sake. We've even been in to talk to the Bishop, but nothing has worked. We've just got too many things going on in our lives separately that it's gotten out of control. We decided we will share custody of Victoria and that I will take one of our homes in Provo to live in. Perhaps I'll even finish school so that I can get a job. Who knows. All we do know is that we need your support at this time in our lives and anything you can do to help will be appreciated. Thank you.

Oh yeah, and ...

APRIL FOOLS!