Graduation!

It makes you feel so old when you little bro is graduating! I can't believe it! I'm so proud of him it was fun to watch him grow up :) What a man he is gonna be! We love ya bud.

First Ultrasound...

So this is our newest soon to be edition :) We tried to get it so you can hear the heartbeat. We are very very excited!! The due date is January 6, 2010. We get a new ultrasound everytime we go in so we'll try and keep it updated for everyone to see. I've been not feeling so good but hoping I get used to it or learn the tricks to pretending like I feel fine haha.

Nouveau Riche..

So I should have posted about our new lifestyle long ago but after reading one of our friends about Nouveau I had to post!! We have been to Arizona three times now for an amazing college all about real estate investing. We went to our first one last October and the latest the week before Easter. WE LOVE IT!! We paid for both Ryan and I to go for two years and I'm sure we'll keep paying to go after that. It is 6 days of classes day and night you choose what you want to learn and how many classes you want to take. The instructors are experts in the fields they are teaching, you learn so so much information your brain hurts!

We have grown up so much from the info we have learned but a lot of personal growth from being allowed to dream :) We have a dream board that shows what we would do and have if money was no option and that is a fun fun thing to do!! We also have some great relationships with other investors, that are like family now. Each of them is like another mentor you can call and ask questions or partner up to do a deal with. It's a great community for investors and business owners.

These are some of the pictures from all three colleges :) As you notice we aren't all work down there haha we have TOO much fun when we go down. Ryan and I usually take one day to go shopping and just play, but we usually barbecue after classes and play cash flow, or banannagrams! I'm bad with pictures so you'll just have to check out our friends' blogs for more pics!

The place we stayed at was amazing! we went on a midnight swim in the rain :)

Here are some of the boys talking "business" I'm sure :)

Here are some pics of everyone just chilling...

This was last college, the whole bunch of us and our AMAZING mentor Russ..

I'm gonna put a link on our page if you guys have questions please ask us!! We love our new lifestyle. I say lifestyle because it has taught us to think differently about a lot of things. We can't thank Brian and Katelyn enough for showing it to us!!

IF YOUR WHY IS BIG ENOUGH,

YOUR HOW WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF.

---Bob Snyder

Arizona here we come!!!

Monday morning!! We leave at 7:15 am to head down to Phoenix for school :) I will post pictures when we get back. I was going to post some pictures of the boys painting their office, but my camera was dead haha so, I will just have to put up pictures when it is all decorated! Instead I just got a video from Kel showing what she gets to laugh at. Its John helping with the garden

Prom..

Its been a long while since I've posted anything and its seems like so much has happened, but not alot that I got pictures of?? Joe and Britannia came up and stayed with us, but no pictures I'm not very good at remembering that :) We had a blast though we played A LOT of Halo3 which was fun but did some other fun stuff as well haha

The pics I do have are of Prom. No not for me but John and Kel!! We love these two they both looked amazing and I think they had a good time..Oh and her corsaige? If thats how you spell it, was done at Bowcutt Floral.. WOW!! It lit up! We called it her tracker so John could keep track of her but they did a great job on it. You can't see it very well though I'm not the greatest picture taker haha

I got a good one of little Taralyn :) although not so little anymore! She is growing like a weed!! And last but surely not least, we all spent a very very long day at Primary Children's. Love the hospital it does AMAZING things but it drains ya. John had another heart surgery that lasted for about 5 hours after he came around, then had to stay in bed for 4 hours before he could move. They went up his vein in one leg and an artery in the other to search through his heart basicaly. They found another spot in his heart that liked to jump into another beat pattern. We monitored it all last week and caught his heart rate at 270 which is outrageous. We are very lucky and thankful for the doctors and nurses (We had an awesome one!) They fixed him all back up and hopefully never have to endure another long day at the hospital!!!

Cedar Trip...

So we had to go down to Cedar this weekend for Ryan's grandpa's funeral. We decided to make it a weekend trip and have some fun along with the funeral. We stayed with Joe and Britannia two of the greatest friends in the world! We took over the house haha only in the making it a mess department :) But we had a blast! Kearney and Bryn came over and we grilled two nights, Halo 3 was on pretty much all the time and the boys were crazy. FYI the myth of cell phone waves popping a popcorn kernel..totally busted..I forgot my camera this trip or you could have seen all the other fun things we did. I did get a video of Joe and Ryan making snow angels haha. The funeral went really well, the things little kids say make it really cool. His little cousin was very worried about what they were going to do to grandpa. They explained they were tucking him in and then were going to bury him and he said "so Heavenly Father can come get him?". Later on at the cemetery he was worried and his little cousin turned around and assured him "its ok, we'll always be family" pretty annoyed he didn't understand it. Little kids know so much and teach us so much from being so innocent. Anyways it was a fun weekend we miss everyone in Cedar!

Notice Ryan never moves his legs and Joe is up and movins lightning fast!

de·ter·mi·na·tion: the act of deciding definitely and firmly ; also : the result of such an act of decision b: firm or fixed intention to achieve a desired end determination> This last week I was able to go to a business meeting, if you'd call it that, that was for women only. We talked about one certain topic and it was determination. We learned about the two people in the video at the bottom. Then talked about what we thought was the mountain in our life that we aren't climbing but digging a hole in front of. I think we can all learn some valuable lessons from watching this, for me it gave me a new front on life for 2009. I can not thank one of our amazing mentors Brittney Starnes for the empowerment she can give with a few simple words after we watched the video. We joined up with an awesome community of people that have made Ryan and I grow and be empowered to do great things. Thanks Brittney and everyone in Nouveau that are making our lives better! I hope you guys like the video. When your done watching think of what Brittney said to us. "So what is your mountain?" www.teamhoyt.com Some facts for you.. they were laughed and mocked in their first race and finished second to last... Dick hadn't rode a bike since he was six years old... Dick had also never swam before he started doing this.. Rick is currently working at Boston College designing a wheel chair that will move with movements of your eyes... They now finish in the top 25% of most races they run...