Help Us Find Susan Cox Powell! (new posts below)
Mother of two from West Valley City, UT, Susan Cox Powell, has been missing since December 6th, 2009!
The Police and the Cox family are working hard to locate her and figure this out. They need our help! Here's how you can help:
- If you Twitter, tweet about her as much as possible using the hashtag: #findsusan
- If you are on Facebook, join the Friends and Family of Susan Powell group here: http://bit.ly/findsusan and read the topics under Discussions to learn how you can help!
- Send an email to findsusanpowell@gmail.com and let them know you want to help!
- TELL EVERYONE! Hand out fliers (found on the FB Group Page). Do anything you can!
Thank you so much for all your help! We will find Susan! We Must!!
A couple weeks ago, we were blessed with the opportunity to make a long-awaited trip to my home state of Washington! It had been over 3 years since my last visit and I was severely missing it. All my family is up there as well as many long-time friends and it was so great to reunite. My love for Washington is something that is tough to really put into words. I think that many of you, if not all, know how home feels. Maybe not your current residence, but home – where you’re from.
Shortly after Rachel and I were married, her dear Mother passed away. In an effort to be helpful to her family, we decided to move from Tacoma to Sacramento. This would allow us to be close enough to provide help and support to her sisters and Father. It was with a lot of hesitation and prayer that this decision was made. After about 4 years, we moved to Utah and we’ve now been here just over 4 years. I’ve mentioned that I like Utah much more than I did Sacramento. It held no magic for me. Nothing to grasp onto. I was there to help out family. I got a great job as well that really set me up for the long-term. Utah does have some magic. It has excellent scenery and so much family-oriented activities. I have been much more content with my station in life, here in Utah. But it’s still not home. My homesickness hasn’t been nearly as strong as it was in Sacramento. I was always wanting to leave. Get out of town. Go somewhere else. In Utah, I’ve really enjoyed it for the most part. Utah is not, however, without it’s faults. I don’t want to get into that here and if you know me, you probably know how I feel.
We’ve planned this trip since two years ago. When Chas, my youngest brother, went on his mission, we felt like we should join him for his homecoming. Plans were made, work requested off, money put aside (psh! yeah, right!) and then it was just waiting. Luckily, we were waiting through fun stuff like Disneyland trips, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and such. Then the time came and we set off. We decided that to drive would be tough, but much more affordable than by air. It’s about a 15 hour drive (given many stops). We planned a stop-off in Spokane to see Rachel’s Dad, Pete. He let us sleep at his home and we had breakfast and then headed the rest of the way, about five hours. Joe, my brother, invited us to a nice (aka: FREE!) Valentine’s dinner at his church. We made it in decent time and enjoyed the meal. They invited us to live in their home for the week we were there and were outstanding hosts and very hospitable. Thank you, guys! We brought Lexie, our puppy, with us as a week without her would be tough. My Mother let us keep her at her house for the week. She gets along really well with animals and loves Lexie. Tons of gratitude to my Mom for watching her for us!
Marini & Shumate Families
While there, we joined up with many old friends. It was great to see Mary Mortensen, Brad and Becky Lee, Brian Mackley, Cori Kloepfel, Phil & Josey Schaub, Darleen and Mike Allen, and many many more. It was really a lot of fun and was very memorable. This just made me extra-dedicated to making things happen for us! We were able to visit the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. The kids loved that. The weather was great the whole week. Joe took us up to the mountains to shoot some guns, which was fun, but gave me a couple strange dreams. Chas gave a great talk in church about his mission and how the Lord’s work will push through any obstacles.
It was really good to see Chas and how he’s grown through his experience in Cleveland. He seemed a lot more grown-up and mature. There was a calmness he had that was new. He did a great job and served the Lord well. He’s now pursuing work and looking into further education. I look forward to hearing more good things from him. Mom was really happy to have him home. She’s been living by herself in that big house for two years! Bless her heart!
Thank you all for your friendship and support! It was so good seeing you all!
Rachel, Wyatt and I have spoken from time to time about moving to Washington. Rachel has always expressed her support and desire as well. It looks like we will be moving this Summer. We are beginning preparations with the house. We will have some garage sales between then and now. We have some repairs to make. It looks like the housing market will improve as well. We need your prayers and support to help us make this transition. I’ll keep you posted on things!
-Timmy
Hi, friends! I just wanted to take a quick moment to give you a little insight into what KXRT and the Timmy LIVE! Show are all about. If you’ve known me much at all, you’d know that I have a lot of interest and desire to work in radio. I got the bug way early in my childhood when listening to the DJs spin the hits in the 80’s up in Washington. It was something I wanted to do and as soon as my dad bought me my first dual-deck portable stereo (read: boombox), I was creating my own radio station in my bedroom! As I grew and my interests developed and my ability to drive around improved, I found a small AM radio station nearby. I started hanging out with the DJs there. I started to really see how radio worked. I hung around enough and actually got on the payroll. I started by recording commercials from reel-to-reel tape to their tape cartridges to play on-air. Then I was able to provide fill-in and some basic operating roles. I ran the board for local high school sports games. I was so excited. Then I ended up getting into some trouble as I got caught being on the air after-hours and was let go. read more…
Hi there this is a test posting from my Droid mobile!!
Nights In Rodanthe was a pretty lame movie. With Diane Lane and Richard Gere, you would think it would be pretty good. Having never read the book by Nicholas Sparks, I wasn’t tainted by that typical “the movie’s never good as the book” stigma. I still felt like the movie clipped along too quickly leaving behind a lot of story and, more importantly, character development. I never felt like they fell in love. The emotion wasn’t there. 2 open squiggly brackets out of 5: {{ .
Ghost Rider, starring Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes was a fun movie to watch but really delved into the darkness of evil. The story was about a boy who made a deal with the Devil to have his dad’s cancer cured in exchange for his soul and to become ol’ Scratch’s bounty hunter. Sure enough, his dad was healed as promised and that same day, died in a motorcycle stunt accident. The story continues when it’s time to play his part to hunt down the beast’s son and kill him. Nicolas Cage’s head turns into a flaming skull and his bike looks like something from an 80’s heavy metal music video. He is successful and when Mephistopheles offers Cage his soul back and to remove the curse of being the Rider, he refuses and vows to use this curse against daddy evil forever more. Effects are cool, story is typical, Eva is hot and Nick gets to use his dramatic finger-point move he likes so much. 4 out of 5: {{{{. read more…
Here it is almost dead-center of January! It’s like the time has no consideration for anything. You’d think at the beginning of a new year, time would slow down a bit to allow us a little time to reflect and savor the feeling. BUT NO!! Time just floats by same as always, relentless. Just like you’d hope time around a holiday or a birthday or some big event or trip, you’d wish time would relax just a bit. Of course, it does not and we have to run sometimes to keep up.
Days, months and years just tick by like clouds in the sky, like songs on the radio, like the second-hand swipes by on a clock…
Interesting to consider that depending on what’s going on time can really feel like it’s just rocketing past you or slower than the snow and rain erodes a mountain side. I found that most times when time goes too fast is looking back on things. When I served my two-year full-time LDS Mission in Florida I look back at that time as it was just a brief instant. While I was in Florida, there were times that I would just explode waiting for the next hour to go by. I still feel that way at times at work or the dentist! read more…
