End of Summer....

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
 - Helen Keller

 Goodbye Summer 2011!  May we "Party Rock" all Fall long!

Blogging: Sunday Edition

In Relief Society we have this thing called, "Tender Mercies Moment" we also have at least 3 other "sharing moments," but this is the most important one because it's what we do first and it always involves the most oohing, aahing, and general gasping of all the females in the room. I told Adam about this and introduced him to the idea and we thought we could do the same for our blog.  We hope that it causes you to ooh, aah, and gasp in happiness at the the amazing things we find to be grateful for each week. 

Things we are grateful for this week

1. Adam is alive.  More details to come but let's just say Adam could be mistaken for the "Boy who lived"..... (TEASER ALERT!!)

2. Shark week has changed us for the better.....

3. Jodi turned another year older.....well, almost....

4. Having a place to live..... well, for the next four days

5.  Work.... ( Sometimes if I say things enough it comes true.  Love my work, love my work, love my work...)

6. Gentry really, really, really remembers his girlfriend's birthday.

7. Mothers and the way they supports us (shout out Mommy Gina and Mama Chris)

8...... ellipsis. Gosh I love them..........

9.  The red line that appears when you misspell a word...like ellipsis.....

10.  All 15 followers and how they tell their friends:) hint, hint ;)

11. Gentry's secret love of Dashboard

12. Amanda's secret life

13. The fact that it's impossible to not smile after watching the Snicker Serenade....

14. Tim's Mad Interpretive Sign Language Skills

15. MONDAYS(Since it's technically a Monday now.......................)

The Ratings Boost: I've Got a Fever, and the Only Prescription is MORE GENTRY!!!!

So after reading the Princess' heartfelt letter to me, I thanked her in person for her thoughtfulness instead of blogging about it (sorry M.A.P followers!  But, the good thing about Marissa is that she is so full of goodness that I'm sure I'll get the chance to write her a letter via blogging on numerous more occasions!).


From her letter, I learned a trio of things:


1. I now have 7 more items to beef up the old resume (IN YOUR FACE FAILING ECONOMY!!!!)


2.  Marissa really is a princess and a saint, and will hopefully let me use her pool by her mansion in the next life for when I get hot....


3.  Apparently when a blog post says "Dear Adam," people not named Adam are very respectful of other people's letters and elect not to indulge themselves to read it. much.   In fact, our stats say that the post  only had 1 page view ( In an effort to make myself feel cooler, I tried to click on it twice,  but I think blooger.com can tell when your trying to be pathetic.)


In other words, we really need to boost our numbers here lately....


So, I looked at our dats again (cause I'm a nerd who wears 3D glasses when blogging), and looked for the post that had the most page views.


Lo and behold, the numbers point to one thing that boosts are ratings: GENTRY DAVIES!




 (The "Happy Birthday Gentry!" post is just KILLING!)

(the look of sheer blog following magnetism)

So, from here on out, anytime we feel that what we're writing is getting long and boring, we will immediately type GENTRY! just to keep you paying attention.( In other words, you'll be reading a lot more about GENTRY! :)


In honor of this celebrated ratings booster, I've broken down his conversations in pie chart form (I already mentioned I'm a nerd right?)




Enjoy!






GENTRY!!!!!!