Projects...

Hello everyone! I posted some pictures of projects I've been up to to keep me busy on our blog. Check it out and let me know what you think. :)

Love, Crys

Budgeting Worksheets

I have talked to some of you about the Budgeting Program/Worksheets that I came up with. The program is very easy to use and really helps you to see where all of your money goes and to come up with a realistic budget. I would love to send it to anyone who would like it and help you to get it up and going. It takes concepts from the churches pamphlet, One For the Money, and other practical and realistic ideas. This is something we have been using since last May and has been a HUGE help and blessing for us. This is something I enjoy doing and am willing to help anyone who would like it. Call me and I can e-mail it to you. It uses Excel. Love you! Dori

I just wanted to let everyone know that we also have our own family blog. I am trying hard to update it often. I have been terrible about it in the past, so here's to improving in 2009. I just updated with a few posts to cover the last 6 months or so. I put our family pictures that we recently had taken and a few videos of Amber. So come take a look! Hope everyone has had a great week! Hope your first week back at school went well Utahna. Love you all!

Love, Crys

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You might live in North Dakota if...

One of my friends posted this on her Facebook page and it made Nick and I laugh. So we thought we'd share it.

Jeff Foxworthy's comments on North Dakota:

> If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 8
inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim
by, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If you're proud that your state makes the national news primarily
because it houses the coldest spot in the nation, You might live in
North Dakota.
>
>If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, You
might live in North Dakota.
>
> If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work
there, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, You might live
in North Dakota.
>
> If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, You might live
in North Dakota.
>
> If parking your car for the night involves an extension cord, You
might live in North Dakota.
>
> If you know how to correctly pronounce Medina, Cando, and Hebron, You
might live in North Dakota.
>
> If you think that ketchup is a little too spicy, You might live in
North Dakota.
>
> If "vacation" to you means going shopping for the weekend in
Grand
Forks, Fargo, Minot or Bismarck (while the kids swim at the Comfort
Inn), You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If you measure distance in hours, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If your family vehicle is a crew cab pickup, You might live in North
Dakota.
>
> If you know several people who have hit deer more than once, You might
live in North Dakota.
>
> If you often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same
day and back
again, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If you can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging
blizzard, without flinching, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If you see people wearing hunting clothes at social events, You might
live in North Dakota.
>
> If you've installed security lights on your house and garage and leave
both unlocked, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If you think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison, You
might live in North Dakota.
>
> If the largest traffic jam in your town centers around a high school
basketball game, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If you carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how
to use them, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If there are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Wal-Mart at
any given time, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If there are more people at work on Christmas Eve Day than on Open
Deer season, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, You
might live in North Dakota.
>
> If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
with snow, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and
road construction, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If you can identify a southern or eastern accent, You might live in
North Dakota.
>
> If you consider Fargo exotic, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to
your cottonwood, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If the sunbelt to you means Bismarck, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If a brat is something you eat, You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If finding your misplaced car keys involves looking in the ignition,
> You might live in North Dakota.
>
> If you go out to a fish fry every Friday, You might live in North
Dakota.
>
> If you find 0 degrees a little chilly, You might live in North Dakota.

Nick and I wanna add one...

>If you think "for cute" is an acceptable way to say you like something, you might live in North Dakota