Thursday, April 15, 2010

Miscellaneous stuff

Just some miscellaneous stuff that has been going on as well as a fun activity I have planned do to for myself!

First, the insurance company that our funeral home uses, went into the funeral home a little while ago and did a nice video of the funeral home with Shawn narrating. It turned out nice.



Another "happening" is our crematory got a new chamber installed. It is rated to cremate up to 800 pounds!! The crazy thing is, they actually will need to be be able accommodate 800 pounds.
This is the old "standard size" chamber.


This is the new chamber. See how much bigger it is?!!!


And finally, click here to see what I plan to do some time in June!!!

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Interesting Weekend

We had a guy who died up here and the family wanted him buried in Southern California (San Bernardino). They wanted me to drop him off at the church between 1:00 and 6:00 P.M. on Sunday and then pick him back up at 11:30 A.M. on Monday. They had an all night viewing, but I didn’t need to stay for that. On Saturday, I set my alarm for 5:15 and planned to get up get ready, go to the mortuary and load then head down. Well, my alarm went off at 5:15, I got ready and left for the mortuary. About half way to the mortuary, I looked at the clock in my car and it showed that it was not even 5:00 yet. I looked at my cell phone and it said the same thing! It took a couple minutes then I realized that my alarm clock is a “smart” clock. It changes itself for the time change, but it is programmed under the old time change schedule. So a couple weeks ago, I had to manually change my clock when the time changed and then Sunday morning, it changed itself. So in actuality, I ended up getting up at 4:15!!! At that point, there was no sense in going back home, so I just got ready and left as planned and just got down to the church an hour earlier than I would have otherwise!
After I dropped the person off at the church, I had the entire afternoon to spare, so I went to a movie. About 20 minutes before the movie started, the theatre started to roll and shake. It lasted for about 10 to 15 seconds. I thought it was a little strange, so I just walked to the doorway and looked into the foyer, but no one seemed to be bothered by it, so I just went and sat back down and watched the movie. I never felt anything else, so I started to wonder if maybe it was just something in the building, like a bunch of people leaving at the same time or something. After I got back to the motel and logged onto the internet, I saw that there had been an earthquake around the California/Mexico border and that it was NOT my imagination and that I actually felt and earthquake!!! It was actually kind of fun and pretty cool!!!

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Girls Weekend - 2010

This weekend the Smith girls got together for our annual (or at least we try for annual) girls weekend. My trip started with some slight difficulties... While on Donner Summit I came across slushy roads. Easy enough to drive on, but my washer fluid would not come out and I had VERY poor wiper blades, which just smeared mud all over. I literally could NOT see where I was going. The first place I stopped, the gas station was closed down, so I found a rag in my car and poured some water on it and wiped some off the mud off. It didn't take long before it was just a bad again. I finally found a gas station and cleaned off my windshield. From there the drive was quite easy. After arriving, I found out that, due to some very unforeseen and unfortunate circumstance, Matti would not be able to join us. We were all very disappointed that she could not be there with us, but we also agreed that it was very important for her to be with her family this weekend. We did, however, have a good time. We played games, visited and ate LOTS of food! This year, Veronica was able to join us for her first time! We did have one boy there, though. Sawyer is the youngest of the clan and came to add to our enjoyment!

















Saturday, February 27, 2010

Woodworking Class

A few weeks ago I began a woodworking class. It is through the University here in Davis. It has been on Wednesday evenings for two hours each evening. We had a required project, a cutting board (see below). This project was so we could show we know how to use (and SAFELY use) the machinery. Now that we have gotten through that part we are allowed to go in at anytime and work on whatever project we want. It has been a fun class and I will probably sign up for another one next semester as well!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

The New Missionary!

My youngest brother, Neal, entered the MTC yesterday to serve a 2 year mission for our church. He has been called to serve in the Brazil, Campinas Mission. He was originally going to report to the MTC in Brazil, but his Visa did not arrive in time, so instead he reported the Provo MTC. We all hope his Visa arrives soon, because we all know how much he wants to get to Brazil. I wanted to post a little "tribute" to Neal, so here are some photos of his growing up years. I decided to mostly put family photos with a few others in between. Neal, I know you won't see this for 2 years, but you are a great person and will be an awesome missionary!!!







































Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Chirstmas 2009

This year for Christmas I spent the week at my parents home. I flew in on Saturday the 19th. Our entire family was together on Saturday night, when we opened our gifts from each other (the siblings had drawn names earlier in the year as well as the cousins). We currently have 27 people in our family with 2 on the way, which makes for quite a full house. On Sunday we had a wonderful Christmas dinner. After which, the girls escaped and threw a small baby shower for Melissa, who is due with-in the next couple weeks. We then went back for dessert.

We had a family photo taken after church on Sunday. As you can see, all the kids were tired and hungry, but the important thing is we were able to get a photo with everyone in it!


For my parents Christmas, my siblings and I gave them a gift certificate to a bed-and-breakfast in Palmyra, New York along with a gift certificate to a restaurant in the area. As you can see, they were pleased with our choice!






Sunday, December 13, 2009

Toffee!!!

Do you need some sweets for the holidays? Go to Bella Toffee. My sister-in-law, Matti makes some Amazing Toffee! It is as easy as going to her web-site, place the order, pick it up in the mail and enjoy!!!

Bella Toffee