moped

Family,

I am considering buying a moped... I have looked a lot, and found this one... Just wanted to know what y'all thought about it.

http://www.scooterdepot.us/Moped-Touring-150cc-Deluxe-Air-Cooled-p-318.html

I have looked it up on mapquest, and found that I can get from Chico to Fairfield in about three hours (which is less than an hour more of what it would take to drive in a car...) This is avoiding going on the freeway, which I think might be legal to do but just seems too scary.

I would need a motorcycle license (scary, huh?) and insurance... But, driving a moped would be way more dependable than I've experienced with these cars, and I'll spend about a quarter as much in gas each month.

I don't know. I just need feedback and for someone to tell me if it's a good idea or a dumb idea.

Tahoe Bracelets

Matthew, grace and me with our totally cool bracelets we made while in Tahoe. It was such a fun trip! :)

Happy Birthday Markie Moo!!

Coming Home

Hello family,
I just want to let you know I will be flying to Oakland on August 21st. I arrive at 7:55pm. Be there or be square. I will possibly stay until the 31st. I'll be in Utah the 20 & 21st and hope that will be enough time to prep my apartment and my self to get back to school. I'm planning to buy a car while in California so be on the lookout for good deals or whatever. I want something that's cute and completely reliable....preferably with a spoiler. They're pretty cool you know. My life update will probably happen tomorrow. It's kinda late and the "washrooms" finally open so I can get ready for bed. Love to all. I am jealous that you took a vacation the one summer I was away : ( but happy that u=it went well

Mark

i went to tahoe this week with mom but as you can tell by her post she was a lil more excited for bean. ;). it was fun, im working much at the kingdom, lifes pretty swell now

Tahoe Relaxing

Here I am sending my weekly BLOG.... The car will probably be fixed in a couple of weeks, way too much money to discuss, but my deductible is $500 only. I am in the process of trying one last time to get a loan for the house, but the mortgage rate went up again.... bummer...... Tahoe is very nice, Mark came for a couple of days, now Christine, YAH !!!! I feel very terrible, but I am going to the doctor on Monday, hopefully my diabetes will get more under control.... Love to all....

Now Marie is coming home the 21st of August for a couple of weeks, do we want to plan anything exciting? Or just a Sunday dinner? Please lets discuss schedules? I have school, but nothing in the evenings, maybe Matthew has a football game?

too good to be true

The stupid green car left me stranded at a gas station.

Mom's Car Accident

weekly update

I know it's been more than a week. Sorry. I just realized that if I waited until something cool happened that I could report on, then I would never write. So yeah. Don't have much to say.

Sara is spending the night tonight. Church is tomorrow. It should be good.

I have the green Karmann Ghia again. It has run for three days now, which is pretty good cause the first time I had it it broke down that same day. Frustrating. I think I hate cars.

Everything else is going okay in life. Some days are hard, some are okay. Life is just an adventure and we're here to learn I guess.

Something that I am learning lately:
Sometimes I guess we make right choices, and then decide that since we did that that everything should work out perfectly and we'll be happy (after all, we did do what we knew was right...) But sometimes we make right choices, make sacrifices, decide to choose the right even though it seems like it would be so much easier to just do whatever, and things don't just work out. Life just stays hard, things don't fall into place, and there's still pain when it seems like it would only be fair for Heavenly Father to make us be happy since we just gave up something for Him that we thought might make us happy. If choices were like that, where things just worked out perfectly after we did the right thing, then we would just do the right thing all the time. It wouldn't really be a matter of free agency anymore. I think it shows how much faith we have in Heavenly Father and how much we love Him when we do what He wants us to do, and still continue to do what He wants us to do even when life just stays the same or even gets worse. We have to be willing to sacrifice everything we have. He'll bless us and help us, maybe not in the ways that we want or expect or think should be, but in the way that we need. And life really is so short when you try to fathom eternity. I guess a little pain right now, a little sacrifice, won't really hurt that bad in the very grand scheme of things.

Okay, that's all for now I guess. I love you all and miss you all!

bean



"If it were easy, then everyone would do it..." (that's a quote from A League of Their Own.)

Photo Update Kids

Bareback Bucking Broncos: my favorite event at the Penoka Stampede

Penoka Stampede

Cardston, Alberta Temple

U.S.-Canada International Border from a boat on Waterton Lake

Pretty waterfall right in Waterton.

Cameron Lake, Waterton Park. The most beautiful place ever! Also, I almost got eaten by a bear here.

Panaramic overlook of Rockies north of Waterton (Click on photo to see it bigger!)

Cooking Lake, last weekend. Mud up to my knees; I lost a sandal.

Before the mud incident and the thunderstorm.

My 1st Canada cake. I finished it around 1 am : )

Markie's haircut

Mark's new hair cut. This is what mom says is the reason why never to make any decisions after midnight... But i think It's hot, and so does Alicia. :) plus It's growing super fast.

ree ree

thanks for finnally letting me be part of the family

We won our softball game

We won our softball game tonight. :) i had a lot of fun. Now We're going over to the church building to clean. Love you all!

Fom Mark

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July 2, 2008 3:36 PM

BEAN is soooooo cute

Loved your post, you are so cute.....

From my phone

Wouldn't it be cool if this works? If You're reading this, then it did! Yahoo!

weekly, even if my life's boring and I have nothing cool to say...

So, writing here weekly is hard, as I am not doing anything such as roofing a house or falling in love with a Canadian. Alas, you shall just have to deal with it.

Yesterday I went to the Butte Humane Society and spent some time with some dogs. It was fun, and I felt good after. Yahoo! :) Life is good when you find something productive to do. I kind of want a dog now though...

Sara is coming over any minute and we're going to go on a bike ride or swim or something like that. I am not sure yet. I am very grateful that I have such wonderful friends in my life right now. Like really, it is such a blessing. :)

I'm thinking I'll graduate not this december but the next, in '09. Hopefully financial aid will pay me to go to school for that long. Oh well.

My apartment is kind of lonely these days. Amanda has moved out. And Alicia has an internship in Sacramento this summer at an accounting place (or some other boring financial type business) and is only in Chico on the weekends. So now I spend my days just playing with Kari and other Chico friends (thing like swimming and bike rides), working, and doing church stuff. With student wards you can stay pretty darn busy. Tomorrow we have a softball game (last week's was cancelled because of the smoke). It is pretty fun to be on the softball team.

Brandon texted me yesterday and wants me to get a passport. He says that you can get it expedited and get it in fourteen days or something.... Kind of tempting.

I am excited to help fix up the house this summer and fall. I will do some research and learn how to spackle, and then we'll spend time painting walls very classy colors. It will be wonderful. It is a beautiful house, and I am very excited about it. And don't worry mom. It shall be wonderful and we will be together and it will all work out. It's great!

Good luck everyone with everything. Mom, I will try to post more often. And somebody, please show poor little mark how to post on the blog....

Love you all!
bean

p.s. I really think that it's cool that we had that huge game of Scramble on facebook with everyone. How fun was that?!?

Weekly

Matthew thank you for an awesome blog.... I think everyone should post at least weekly. I am signing the papers to accept the house inspection today, and yes the house has some problems, but that is why I can afford it. Summer school is over, but I still have 2 days of my masters classes.... love to all, Louise