In Loving Memory

Jaymon Clark Fox, 17, returned to his Heavenly Father June 2nd 2011. He was born May 6th 1994 and lived in Cedar City Utah throughout his entire life. He is survived and missed by his parents, Douglas and Natalie Hunt Fox, his brothers, McKade Fox and Terral Fox(Mary Henke Fox, Ethan Cameron Fox), his sisters, Heather Fox Hall(Chris Hall) and Erin Fox Hanson(Corey Hanson), and by his Grandparents Wendell and JoeAnn Hunt. Jaymon enjoyed many extreme sports including snowboarding, skateboarding, long-boarding, mountain biking, BMX biking, and unicyling. He enjoyed traveling, being near the ocean, swimming, skim-boarding, and water sports. He also loved spending time with his friends. He loved music and won many piano festival awards. Jaymon had a smile on his face wherever he went, and could bring out the fun side in anyone. He was an active member in the Boy Scouts of America where he participated in many service projects and activities.
Funeral services were held Wednesday June 8th at 11:00 am at the 2nd/8th Ward Chapel. Interment was at the Cedar City Utah cemetery. In lieu of flowers the family asks for small donations to the Jaymon C. Fox memorial account at Mountain America Credit Union.

I miss you little Bro

The temporary grave marker Chris made

Our Friday Adventure

As promised, I'm writing the story of Friday, April 15th as it happened according to me(I put that in because Chris will argue with me about it later). Anyway:

We run a stretch of the Virgin River 3 blocks from our house pretty often in the springtime. It's was a nice balmy 85 yesterday so we decided the River would be fun. The stretch that we do was completely obliterated in December by a huge flood. We didn't think it'd be THAT different, and we were wrong. We were careful to watch for our take-out point. We found it okay and pulled our air mattress(yes I really did just say that) onto the beach. There was a dog on the beach that was in a tattered old doggy argyle sweater barking at us. He was matted and he looked pretty ragged. We kept our distance at first, I didn't want to get bitten by a rabid dog. The beach used to be a big sand hill with a gravel road coming out to it. It is now a dry river bed with piles of sticks and remnants of someone's home(that's for real too). We could tell the dog had been there for a while, his tracks were all over the place. He(we decided to call him Chewy because he was big, old, reddish brown, and matted) figured out that we weren't out to get him and eventually let me pet him and check his tags. I knew a dog with an argyle sweater and a tag would be missing his family. I read the tag and it said: Carson City NV dog license, with the phone # to the Carson City offices, and Chewy's license #. I told Chris that we were taking him home so that I could call the owner. Little did I know that getting home was going to be the hard part....
We always hike out on a dirt/sand road into a little subdivision in Washington Fields. We didn't worry about taking water or a phone because that stretch of the river is very short. The road is about 15 feet above the river. The flood had apparently risen that high because the part of the road we could see was completely covered in old standing water from the flood 4 months ago. It was 1-2 feet in most places.. Deeper in others. I told Chris: I am not walking in that @Q#$%(sorry for the language but it was nasty). It looked like there should have been gators in it. We walked around, hoping to find a dry road, but there was new undergrowth from the water and no road to be found anywhere. We knew that we couldn't trek in the undergrowth without getting hurt and lost, so we just went for it. It wasn't the worst thing I've hiked in(Terral and Mary will know that one), but it's in the top 3. Poor Chewy was struggling. I hung back with him to make sure he would follow me. There was muck as far as I could see and I was afraid if we left him behind he would just give up and never get out. I could tell he was either old or had been through some sort of ordeal. I figured since his tag said Carson City it was the latter. We eventually saw houses so we went straight for them. Houses mean streets! We walked through someone's backyard(You have to picture this first: I'm in a bikini and Chaco's, Chris is carrying an air mattress and an air pump, and we have Coby with a life jacket, and Chewy in torn sweater and matted hair) from there we found our car - thank heaven! We had taken a different route out that led us a lot further south than we had anticipated. I'm still feeling the dehydration effects, but it's wearing off. We put Chewy in the back of the 4Runner. We were planning on how we were going to take care of him. When we got home I opened the back and he was just lying there limply. Chris brought a bowl of dog food to him and he ate it right away. I left the back hatch open so he could jump out if he wanted to. I went back out to check on him about 5 minutes later and he was asleep with his head in the food bowl. I called the Carson City office and gave the worker Chewy's licence #. The worker said his name was 'Moose' and he was 14 years old!! He gave me the owners Cell phone so I called him. He lives in Carson City, but has a home in Washington. Moose had been exploring weeks ago and never came back. Ron, Moose's human, had to return to NV without him because of his job, but he had just gotten into town to look for him again. Moose recognized Ron's truck as soon as it drove up. We shook hands, and said you're welcome. He asked if we wanted anything for brining him back. I said absolutely not. I would hope that if anyone found Coby they would call me straight away. He said he was so worried that his 2 sons on missions would never see their childhood dog again, but was now so relieved. It was lucky that we just happened to be marooned out in the desert in the middle of nowhere and found this lost pup.
Later, Chris and I went to run some errands and when we came back Ron was at our door. He had a box of Ghirardelli chocolates, a thank you card, and a bouquet of flowers. I'm eating one right now. It's delicious. (The flowers are outside because they make me sneeze). What we did for Moose seemed so simple to me, even though we were totally lost, but Ron's gratitude will stick with me forever.

The End.

Keeping up

I decided I really need to keep this updated. Chris and I usually go on adventures with other members of our families who post on the adventure, so I don't really feel the need to post. However, with us going forward with adoption, I feel like it really needs to be kept current. Here are some pictures of our recent excitement!

I do ballet as a hobby, kind of crazy I know but it has been amazing!

Literally an hour after the ballet picture was taken(right after I had performed at a Christmas Festival) we drove down to Vegas to catch a flight to Seattle. We drove from Seattle to Bellingham, WA to stay with Chris's Brother & family. It was a really fun trip! Cold, but exciting!

This is my cute little neice Erica.

We were so lucky to have the 'Locals' to point us in the direction of the coolest places.
Who knew the best seafood in the WORLD comes out of a double-decker bus? It was SO good!

We saw so much in that short week that we were there! Here are some more highlights:

The Vancouver Canada Temple

Feeding 'Popeye' the Harbor Seal on San Juan Island

My adorable nephew, Robert (AKA Bob Toupee')

I think I have a thousand pictures from that trip (on facebook). We had so much fun up there.
Thank you Andy and Jenni!(pictured below)

My Other Blog...

I can't lie, I actually pay more attention to my other blog than this one. It's a food/cooking blog. I LOVE food so naturally I should have a food blog. haha. I do it with my Brother and Sister-in-law. Check it out: http://decravedchef.blogspot.com

My new thing!

I'm teaching Tap at a studio in St. George. Please 'Like' my Facebook page so I can get the word out and get some more students!! Thanks!

Grilling...YUM!!

Many of you know about my addiction to food. I love to eat it and I love to make it! I made the BEST grilled dinner tonight and had to post about it. Chris is supervising a job on Highway 89 so I decided to try something. I have been doing veggies like this all summer, but the sandwich is new! I like to try things when Chris is gone so if they flop, I can just heat something up.
This, my friends, was a hop - not a flop. 

First:

Add a few herbs together to make a rub. 

dash Sage

dash Rosemary

dash Garlic

dash Thyme

Parsley(A LOT of parsley)

dash Salt

Ground Black Pepper

(will stay in fridge for up to 6 mos)

Second:

Put about a teaspoon of olive oil in a baggie, add Vegetables of choice. I like asparagus, mushrooms, onions, and sweet peppers. Add enough of the rub to coat, and shake. Let the herbs soak/marinate for about 10 mins at least. I have a grill saute' pan that I got at Bed Bath & Beyond for $6. It works amazingly well! 

Third: 

Do THIS: I hope the video works.(I use butter on my sandwich instead of olive oil)P.S. This man is my hero.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lExOzLxM5r4

                                                     and this:

Fourth: EAT. 

*Note: If served with an Otter Pop its Kid Friendly Too!!

Some New Before and Afters!!

Here are some more pictures of the house!

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

The house needed MAJOR lighting change. Its pretty obvious in the pictures. haha

We've been busy!!

We bought a house, YAY!!! Its a neat little place, but needed some TLC. We have been going back and forth from home to apartment the last few weeks. St. George this time of year is so FANTASTIC it makes the air mattress-sleeping totally worth it.  
                   

Before

During

I only have Before and During pictures right now. Hopefully it'll all be done soon!!

 We scraped off the Popcorn ceiling, and put on a new texture. Took out the awful 80's drop ceiling, and painted pretty much everywhere. Chris just got done putting in an awesome wood floor(okay its just laminate...but it looks nice)! I can't wait to put pictures up when everything is done.

Before

During

It still looks a lot different....

The Kitchen is the biggest transformation. I don't have any pictures of the new one yet...I'll post those next week. Here are some pictures of the yard, my favorite part of the property. 

Love to you all!!

Heather

Wolf Creek

We went to Wolf Creek 3 weeks ago but I wanted to post on it. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I love it there!! This was where we went fishing. Amazing sunset!

This fox lives at the resort. All of the people that work there call it Foxy. It'll go right up to you if you have food. Ironic?....(I know none of you wanted to see Jaymon's underpants but It walked right up to him and I had to show all of you).

This Jaymon and Chris on the hood of Erin's car. Yes we were actually moving...

I looooove Halloween

Terral had a Halloween party at his house again this year. Chris was being a bum. He's never really liked Halloween so he went duck hunting & fishing with my brother. So Wendy was my date to the party. The party was a blast and I made yummy pumpkin rum cake.

I was Tinker Bell and Wendy was Persephone

I had to do the little fairy stance

**Yummy pumpkin rum cake recipe

1 spice cake mix

oil, water, eggs(see amounts from the box)

1 tablespoon pumpkin

1 tablespoon rum

frost with cream cheese frosting

SO GOOD!

This blogging thing..

It's so fun! I just can't get the hang of it. I can't get my pictures to work. Ever. I need a blog tutor or something.

Goodbye.....

I've finally done it....I got rid of my Myspace page. Laura is going to make fun of me for this, but I've actually managed to delete it. I kept it mostly for Nostalgic reasons....but all of those are gone too so here I am....with a Mormony blog...oh dear. haha. Well so long to MySpace..it was great while it lasted! Since 'The place for friends' no longer had any of my friends...it was retired.

Halloween!!

Halloween was so much fun! Friday we had a party at Terral and Mary's house, then
Saturday we had a Murder Mystery Party at my house.
Kristin Killed Erin! haha. Here are some pics.

(From left to right: Scott and Kristin, Mary and Terral, Me and Chris, Erin and Corey, Wendy and McKade)
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I was the 'Boring Housewife'

Fifth Grade Democracy

-First : I'm a Christian, Conservative, Heat-Packing Patriot...So if you support Obama then tough beans, you should probably stop reading. Or better yet, you should read.
-Second: I'm not trying to start an argument, just showing my views.
-Third: This is an AWESOME article!

Canada's Free Press

Democratic Socialism 101

By JB Williams Saturday, October 25, 2008

(with the help of my son)
For the record, economic conditions don’t trickle up. They only trickle down…

If you don’t believe me, answer how long it took for the Democrat manufactured economic crisis on Wall Street to trickle down to Main Street? Good or bad, economic conditions always flow down hill. It’s gravity, stupid!

This is reality: economic conditions trickle down. Our only options therefore are these:

Do we want trickle down prosperity, or trickle down poverty?
Do we want trickle down freedom, or trickle down socialism?

Americans too young or too ill-educated to know that there is no “fairness” in socialism, aka communism-lite, or theft by quasi-democratic process, should spend a little time with my eleven year old son who already seems to grasp the difference between “freedom” and “free-stuff.”

Maybe a little Fifth Grade lesson in “mob rule” is in order here…

A Fifth Grade Lesson for Voters

From the mouths of babes – My son Joseph was dismayed by a few schoolmates who were regurgitating Obama campaign rhetoric on the school playground.

As a general rule, I answer my son’s social studies questions at homework time, but otherwise tell him that politics is not really for the fifth grade playground. Fifth graders can’t vote and they should really be focused upon simpler pleasures.

But he was very curious about this particular election and very disturbed by what seemed like obvious untruths to him. He had some good questions that deserved some honest answers… As is a habit of mine in such situations, I asked the questions so that he could come up with his own answers.

Question – What’s the difference between freedom and free-stuff?

Joseph – Freedom means I can be anything I want… There’s free-stuff? What kind of stuff is free?

Question – If you and two friends are visiting a fourth friends house and he has all kinds of cool stuff that none of you have, can the three of you simply take your “fair share” of his stuff so that you will all be equal?

Joseph – No… that would be stealing and not very nice!

Question – What if you all took a vote to decide what’s fair?

Joseph – That sounds fair…

Question – So three of you vote to divide up your friends stuff more evenly.

Joseph – Yeah…

Question – And the fourth friend, the one who owns all the cool stuff votes no?

Joseph – I would if I was him!

Question – Your friend just lost his cool stuff… You three outnumber him and by democratic process, you now have a right to your “fair share” of his stuff.

Joseph – But that’s not fair to him at all!

Question – But it was completely democratic. How could it not be fair?

Joseph – Didn’t our democracy just steal his freedom, and also his stuff?

Dad – That’s democracy! End of lesson…

Sadly, it seems that too many American voters have somehow lost sight of what my fifth grader was able to reason through, on his own. I guess common sense isn’t so common after all… at least beyond the fifth grade.

Intellectual elites aren’t overlooking such a simple common sense principle of freedom as well as cause and effect. They simply seek personal wealth and political power from promising to rob some Americans for the alleged benefit of other Americans.

And with pure democracy, what Thomas Jefferson referred to as “mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” – any numerical majority can run roughshod over any remaining minority. Since most people are not “rich,” that makes “rich” folks the minority easiest to run-over, democratically of course.

There’s a reason why Obama and other leftist Democrats promise to tax only 5% of Americans. The reason is “mob rule.” If the other 95% of the people are willing to allow 5% of Americans to be robbed on their behalf by democratic process, then “the mob” will make sure that Obama has the power to do so, and Obama can count on their support on Election Day.

Fortunately, 95% of Americans are not yet that well-indoctrinated. Only about 50% are. But imagine Obama promising the opposite…

What if Obama was running on a platform of taxing 95% of Americans for benefit of the 5%? Could he get more than 5% of the vote on Election Day? Mob rule won’t work that way. You must pander to the mob, not the minority.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5810

The Danger of Wal-Mart

If you actually enjoy going to Wal-Mart there is something seriously wrong with you. At least in Cedar and Orem anyway..I can't count the times I've acquired bruises by being run over by carts. Probably because I don't pay attention...But if I was a woman late for PTA meeting, had to make dinner for someone in relief society, and had 4 screaming kids with me; I'd run over a few people too..

But yesterday was the scariest of all.

Of course it takes you more time to get to your car once you've left the building than to do your shopping. I always wait for someone else to dart out in front of a car before I cross into the black asphalt mine-field. Well, yesterday was no different, there were herds of people bustling around so I felt it safe to cross. Just as I saw from my peripherals a Sequoia coming straight at me. The driver's eyes darting everywhere except where I was trying to cross (That's why insurance is more expensive for men).

I wasn't the only one crossing, obviously, but I was closest to the Sequoia. The first thing I did was step back a few steps but the Sequoia was going too fast so I started yelling. Okay, so it was more like panic babble...Anyway, there was an old man next to me that was yelling too. By that time, the grill was about 3 feet away from me and still moving.

I leaped back just as the old man leaped in front of me to shove me out of the way. A stranger was willing to put himself in front of a moving car for me. I can't explain how that feels..But, luckily the drivers window had been open and realized what was happening and slammed on his breaks with enough force to screech to a stop(after all, how fast can you dirve in a wal-mart parking lot). No one got hurt and I will never forget that old man.

Somewhere I'm sure that someone has been offended by, gotten upset with, dissapointed by, or is holding a grudge against this man. So If you actually read my psycho babble, promise me that you'll forgive someone who has offended you in the past, because they may have just put themselves in front of an SUV to save the life of a 23 year old girl.

Awesome Jeep Commercial

I liked this video so I had to post it. It's pretty true to what goes on in our Sand Dune trips....

I'm Blogging Again!

I'm blogging again! I am at home most of the time these days so blogging will keep me busy. I just have to learn to take pictures more often! I always forget to take my camera places. Don't know why I have the stupid thing....

Anyway, I have some pictures from Grandma Gibsons property at Kolob that I wanted to post. It was rainy most of the day, but it was almost worth it for the pictures I got! I absolutely love it up there and I really really really want to go again before winter. So if anyone wants to go camping or just go up for a day trip with me just let me know. I've been actively looking for excuses to go up there, I just can't find a good one. .

First Blog

We're not very exciting but I dig blogging and it's an excellent way to keep in touch with friends and family!!