Baby Grant

A Few Pics of The House

Morning view from our back yard.

I'm still going to do some painting and glazing in the bedroom, but here's a pic or two anyway.

The following are just a bunch of the main part of the home. I'm done glazing here, so you can get an idea what the rest will look like.

Front Room. The painting is a print of an original of my brother Jason's.

The Ugly Duckling.

It's pretty plain on the outside, but eventually we'll do some things, but right now we're more concerned with getting the inside put together and the upstairs finished. We even referred to it as the ugly duckling when we went to put an offer on it, but as Lindsey always reminds me, the ugly duckling becomes a beautiful swan :)

New House, New Baby, New LIfe

Josh and I have not blogged in a very long time. When we got back from Memphis, TN we were homeless and spent all of our spare time searching for a place to buy. We finally found one in Lehi and moved into it on October 28th. A few weeks later Josh and I went to California where Josh experienced Disney Land for the first time. We've celebrated Thanksgiving, Christmas, and both our birthdays since we last blogged. I guess the biggest news of all is that we are going to have a baby boy sometime around July 6th. After five and a half years of marriage we finally figured it out:) For right now we are calling it Alfred. If all else fails Josh says we can name it Bruce. Obviously we may need some better suggestions. Here's to our New House, New Baby and New Life!!!

Just A LIttle Update.

Josh and I are back from Memphis, Tn. Hurray!!!! The downside....We are homeless. Before we moved to Memphis we put everything in storage. We are staying with my parents in West Valley and we are commuting everyday to Utah Valley (Pleasant Grove ant Provo). We feel very displaced. Our things are scattered between my parent's house and our storage unit. The house hunt has begun but it is a lot harder than we thought it would be. We want to buy something in Pleasant Grove, American Fork, or Lehi. We just haven't found the right one yet. Wish us luck!!

Madea Goes To Church?

Ok so her name wasn't Madea, it was "Apostle Shockie D. Weathington," pastor and overseer of New Hope Ministries in Memphis, Tn, but what a resemblance to Madea on left. And the similarities weren't in appeance only. The woman will tell you where to go and how to get there be it Heaven or Hell! I first met Ms. Weathington about a month and a half ago when I installed an alarm in her home. While there we struck up a conversation on religion and she invited me to her church. I didn't think much of it until about a week and half ago when I showed up to an install and it was her little church. So, today we visited their Sunday Services, and it was all i'd imagined and then some.

While the congregation was a bit taken back when five white people walked in they were extremely welcoming. Their choir of 4 women could outsing three LDS ward choirs, and there was less false doctrine than in our ward's Sunday School. Though the delivery was very different! After all it was an Apostolic church, and they don't exactly whisper in there congregations. There was lots of Praising(Yelling). It was quite the experience and before the end of the service I was called up to sing"Amazing Grace" and all of us shared our testimonies. All of which were confirmed by applause and "praise God" and "amens" galore!

It was really a fantastic experience which will not soon be forgotten, and we made some great friends!

Dr. King

Last week, Josh and I went to the Lorranie Motel. It is the motel where Dr. Martin Luther King was shot. The motel has been turned into a museum about the history of African Americans. Before you enter the museum they have you watch a documentary on Dr. King. It was really good and has won a few academy awards.

One of my favorite things in the museum was a bus that was similar to the bus Rosa Parks was on when she refused to give up her seat. If you sat at the front of the bus the bus driver would ask you to move to the back. The warnings got more and more harsh. After all the warnings it was explained that if you hadn't moved to the back of the bus you would have been arrested.

The museum has renovated the rooms that Dr. King was in before he was shot in exact replicas. They have coffee sitting on the nights stands, shaving supplies in the bathroom, shoes on the floor, etc. While the motel has had to make some updates they have kept a small part of the original concrete with Martin Luther King's blood on it.

The motel/museum also owns the building across the street from the motel. It is in that, building they believe, James Earl Ray shot Dr. King. This part of the museum talks about the actual murder of Dr. King. It has the gun and other evidence on display.

The museum made us appreciate Martin Luther King's life and what he stood for. I hope his dream will continue to push forward.

Shitty Shitty Bang Bang!

Ok, so I apologize for the mild vulgarity, but those were the words and that was the sound as all 200+ pounds of me came crashing through an unsuspecting customers ceiling. Yes, that's right, laugh it up, I was the doofus everyone makes fun of because he mis-stepped. Well in my case I slipped, but either way it kind of sucks. I did catch myself so really it was just my legs that came through, but oh the gasps I heard in the living room below. You know, the worst part is really the half second after it happens when you realize what just happened and the fact that you have to deal with the aftermath. Yes, it's true, vulgarities did escape my lips, but can you blame me really? Long story short, it wasn't beyond my skill set to repair the ceiling rather swiftly.

Now, i'm pretty sure we've all had one of those "Oh Sh*t!" moments whether it be wrecking a car, starting something on fire, spilling grape juice on moms white carpet, etc., etc..... So, I'd like to here about them. Comment away!