Bizzert

I’m starting to do a little study of the candidates now that the field has narrowed quite a bit and we are getting closer to February 5, “Super Tuesday.” I am not registered under any party, so I will not be able to vote in the Republican race. The Democrats will let me vote, so [...]

I think I heard Hillary say, “I TOTALLY tried to shake Obama’s hand, and he, like, totally turned the other way!… Oh, I’m gonna be late for class… Text me!”

I did it.  I went to read the Seven Steps for this week and did one of them today!  These are all of the expired medicines from my cabinets.  I thought the little trash can would hold it all but had to expand to the shoe box.  The oldest thing I found were some cough [...]

This morning was Hunter’s first violin concert. He did an awesome job. I just wish I had brought the video camera! They played through Jingle Bells, Twinkle Twinkle, Two Step March, and Ode to Joy. Rob and I loved watching him play and were so proud! He hates to practice of [...]

A few weeks ago we had a satellite Stake Conference and our prophet, President Gordon B Hinckley, spoke to us. He looked a little unsteady, but delivered a wonderful message about the importance of respect within marriage and family. It was pretty clear that his testimony and concern for all was still strong [...]

I have a wonderful sister and fabulous sisters-in-law, but I’m writing today about one of my local sisters. On Friday afternoon I got a call from my friend Heidi checking in on me because she knew I wasn’t feeling well. She said, “let me come get your kids for the afternoon, we’ll go to [...]

So, an artist named Scott Johnson had some free time and decided to draw up cartoons for all the different types of geeks he could think of and post them on his website here. When he was done he had 56 of them. I first thought I would take a look and see if I [...]

My Mom has revived her emergency preparedness blog, Totally Ready! She will be posting regularly about tips and steps to take to be ready for disaster or tragedy. Her first campaign is to get everybody rolling on preparing themselves and their families by using baby steps. Every Monday she will list 7 things [...]

The government just lowered interest rates to save the market from it’s downward spiral. Economists say that the housing market slump will not be helped much by it, and that more reductions are expected. I can’t help but think they are going about this all wrong. Does it help the homeowner (who [...]

Tonight was Emma’s “Great to be Eight” night. All of the children in our stake turning eight years old this year came together to learn about what their baptism will be like. There were several speakers that gave short talks about different aspects of baptism and the logistics of their actual baptism day. So [...]