Software For Starving Students

One of my friends at work helps with this S.S.S. project. Go to this site, http://softwarefor.org/, and you can download open source software for free. They have something that is just like MWord and it's even compatible so if I sent a document using that software you could open it with word. Dusty and I use two of their programs a lot. Gimp 2 and Inkscape. They are cool free versions of Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

Enjoy and tell me what you think. I did this with one of Dusty's photographs. It was way easy and we are going to use it on his website soon. It looks like an oil painting.

What do you think?

R.I.P. to our snake

We had a snake die today. Dusty took him to the vet because his head was swollen. They thought it ws an infection and that fluid needed to be drained from his head. When they went it, they couldn't find anything wrong. When Dusty went to pick him up today, he had just died. They are going to do a (necropsy) basically an autopsy to see what was wrong with it. Please keep your fingers crossed that it is not anything contagious that would infect the other snakes.

Thanks.

Hilarious Story from Jeremy

A father watched his young daughter playing in the garden. He smiled as he reflected on how sweet and pure his little girl was. Tears formed in his eyes as he thought about her seeing the wonders of nature through such innocent eyes. Suddenly she just stopped and stared at the ground. He went over to her to see what work of God had captured her attention. He noticed she was looking at two spiders mating.

"Daddy, what are those two spiders doing?" she asked.

"They're mating" her father replied.

"What do you call the spider on top?" she asked.

"That's a Daddy Longlegs" her father answered.

"So, the other one is a Mommy Longlegs?" the little girl asked.

As his heart soared with joy of such a cute and innocent question, he replied: "No dear. Both of them are Daddy Longlegs."

The little girl, looking a little puzzled, thought for a moment, then, took her foot and stomped them flat. "Well, we're not having any of that gay crap In our garden!!."

No need to explain, just check him out...

We Have a couch! We Have a couch!

Finally after many a night on a beanbag or iron kitchen chair...we have couches!!
What do ya think?

A Message from a Proud Dad! (Jeremy)

A Milestone for the Logsdon's

We've been richly blessed most recently with the new addition of Jackson to our family, but perhaps yesterday could have been truly even a greater milestone. At dinner yesterday my two year old, Isaac, says to me, "Hey Dad - pull my finger". He then proceeds to let a real one rip with the greatest degree of concentration on his face. It was his first time actually pulling it off. Children really do bring joy into your life. Learning to walk, saying their ABC's, and finally now Isaac successfully have me pull his finger. What a great life I have.

Bishop

Brotherly Love

Yesterday Jeremy called and had Isaac start singing the alphabet to me. I can't believe he know the whole song!!! That is so amazing. Well, I was at work in the hallway and I had my phone on speaker and I had to rush out into the lobby because people were peeking out look at whose phone that was. I was talking to him and then Kayla got on the phone. After we were done talking I told Kayla to give her brother a big hug and a kiss from me because he did such a good job. Jeremy gets on the phone and says, "Do you hear that?" I heard Isaac in the background saying, "No, no, no." Miss Kayla was doing what I told her to do and was going to give her brother a hug and a kiss from me. The next thing I heard was two kids screaming and crying. Kayla had tried to hug and kiss Isaac for me and Isaac didn't want her to and popped her a good one.

I felt so bad for Kayla...but it was really funny too! I'll never ask her to do that again.

Lovin the snow

I love living here when it snows especially because Dusty hasn't lived around snow and he loves being out in the snow and watching it come down.

Our Car

Some more pictures are coming soon as soon as it stops snowing.

My V-day Flowers

Here are some pics that I took of my V-day flowers...

They are a little rugged now but they were beautiful.

My Singing Telegram

One of my Valentines present's from Dusty was a singing telegram. It was a young women's fundraiser and so he had them come to our house on V-day and sing to me. There were three girls and two of them just stared at the ground and sang really soft...I KNOW they did not want to be doing that. The other girl was way into it and was doing steps and arm motions and I was cracking up. They sang LOVE Was Made for You and Me...or whatever that song is called.

After they left I looked at Dusty and said, "Wow! That was weird." I didn't even realize that that was straight out of the movie Elf when Will Farrell shows up as a Chrstmasgram and the dad says, "Wow! That was weird."

And one of the girls had a FAT sign on her that said, "I am a singing telegram" and she looked so embarrassed. I am glad Dusty did it because it helps them get to camp and we are in a poor ward as it is. That was something that I definitely won't forget.

A Message from the New Daddy!

Here's what the world has been waiting for - another Logsdon! Jackson Abram Logsdon was born Friday February 10, 2006. He and Mom are doing great. Makayla and Isaac are really excited to have him home. When they were first able to come up to the hospital, they saw Jackson getting his bath in the nursurey before they saw Chauntel in the the room. When I took them into the room, Isaac ran in the room and yelled as loud as he could, "Mom, Baby Jackson came out!" You know, in case she forgot.

It's a BOY!!

My sister Melissa has just found out she is having a baby boy...

Any suggestions on names for the new baby?

The New Addition to the Logsdon Clan

Congrats to Chauntel and Jeremy on the newest addition, Baby Jackson! Enjoy the pictures. He was 6 lbs 4 oz.

By The Way

Happy Valentines Day!

Thank you Dusty for my only V-day present that you left on my blog!! JUST KIDDING!

Long Time No Post...

I have had a crazy schedule lately and no time to blog. We got a new car finally and I will post pictures soon. They had total out my other car that I loved so much...sucky... It's a 03' Hyaundi Sonota and it's pretty slick looking and it has low miles.

As soon as we left the car lot Dusty made me/us go buy a couch set. I can't handle two big purchases in the same day. We sat on the couch in the store FOREVER and I was telling him all the reasons I felt we needed to wait (money...) and he was telling me all off the reasons why he was ignoring my reasons and going with his own (comfort).

Anyway, I love the couch set and I will post pictures of them too. It comes with a cool ottoman, table, storage thing...

I have to run cause I am just taking a break at work and I will post again soon.

Yoga and Pilates Class Tonight

So, my legs are pretty much jelly right now. I know that they already were...so all of my brothers can please keep their comments to theirselves... Anyway, I had an awesome hardcore class tonight and I feel great. I was actually the only student that showed up so we had a one on one class. She saw how flexible I was an assumed that I was like Miss. Little Yoga and we did a hard-core yoga and pilates class and I was LOVIN' IT! I have only had a few yoga classes so it took a lot of getting used to the way that she talked and described things...I had to really concentrate hard not to laugh at some of things she was saying. It was like straight out of like SNL or something. I am a quick learner so I caught on fast and I can't wait to go back on Thursday IF my legs will work again by then.

One Pumpkin Smash Please!!!!

This is a shout out to all of my brothers.................

I never thought I would see the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Jeremy and Chauntel,

Is the outfit that Isaac has on below the one where he told Jeremy he looked like a Bishop like you?

How Cute are these kids?!?!

These pictures are awesome!! They keep getting more and more cute everyday...

A message from Mike...

This was Blake's reaction when he saw a picture of Jeremy naked...

Please post your ideas

OK. I am calling for everyone to post as many thoughts as they have. I want people to leave ideas of original creative things they would see on a greeting card, bumper sticker, mug, t-shirt, button, poster etc. It can be on any topic, funny, sad, rude...ANYTHING.

I appreciate your help and I can't wait to see your responses!

Lissa and Nate's House

How gorgeous is this?!?!?!?!

I guess I can forgive her for going to live in Butt-Lick. (Lissa, remember when the Woodrums used to call it that?)

My Little Black Cloud...

Well, as you all know I have been dealing with a bunch of crap after the car wreck and all that jazz. Then my brand new laptop crashed and I had to get a new hard drive, now I am in a rental car that my work has so graciously provided for me and some one hit the rental car today!! I was really mad at first but then I realized that there was a note on the windshield and I realized how lucky I was that some one left a note. Otherwise, I would have had to shell out another $500 deductible. I called her and she was really apologectic and she has to pay out of pocket for it so I am trying to make it pleasent for everyone.

My mom told me that I need to pass the test so I won't have to retake it. (in reference to all of the trials that I have going on lately) That really hit home to me. I have thought about that a lot and that statement has helped me CTR a lot more lately, think kinder thoughts and try a little harder in everything I do. It has also helped me recognize that through my trials other people are being blessed as they offer their services to help me in so many different ways.

Thanks momma for never missing a teaching moment!! That is exactly how I hope I can be with my children. I love you bigger than the sky!

Graduation Day!!

Since I am on a roll posting pictures, I thought I would post some graduations pictures. It was one of the best days of my life!!























I posted this pic with the purse because I was getting ready for graduation at Jeremy and Chauntel's house and Makayla was with me as usual asking me to put makeup and lipstick on her. I was running late (go figure) and I needed a small purse to keep a few things in under my graduation gown. I told Makayla to go ask mommy if she had a small purse that I could use to put a few things in. She looked at me with a face that told me she was thinking really hard and siad, "Hold on Amy, I have just the thing." She went into her room dug around a little bit and came back with this Christmas purse and said, "Here ya go. You can borrow this. Is this small enough? I don't mind if you use it. OK. " She was so serious and just precious when she was talking to me, how could I resist? It made for some interesting conversation during graduation too! Plus I had a little piece of grammy with me cause grammy gave her that purse!

Nate's New Bike

Enough said!!

J's New Bike

I have tried to post some pics and I didn't do it very well! I was playing around with La's pic using Gimp 2 an open source program just like Photoshop. It's free and can be downloaded from gimp.org. (Don't judge the program off of the picture above!!)

Well, I think this is Jeremy's new ride!! Check him out. I think all of the Logsdon boys have some motorcycle blood in them. I know little E-sock (Isaac) loves them already and it looks like Kayla is ready for a ride.

Chauntel, are you gonna take a ride? I am happy you finally got a bike. You have been wanting one for a while. Let me know how it rides!!

My Little Blakey Bee

I hear that he is the best baby in the world and he is so well behaved, funny, that he just laughs all of the time and that Mike doesn't deserve it!! I agree. I can't wait to see him and give him kisses all over his little (big) cheeks!!

I have some more pictures of him that I need to scan in and post cause they are even more cute than these if you can imagine!?!

Here she is again!!

Look how cute!!!
This is only 7 days after the picture below.

My Prego Sissy Wissy

Here is my prego sissy. She has tried for years to get pregnant and she finally is!! I know that she will be the best mommy in the whole wide world (besides me of course) and I am SO HAPPY for her. I am just sad that I can't be there for here during the pregnancy. I am going to fly out there this summer after the baby is born. She is going to get an ultrasound on February 9th to see if it's a boy or a girl.

Lissa, I love you very much and I am so happy for you and I can't wait till you have this baby. You have shown so much faith during this trial and I couldn't ask for this to happen to a better girl!!! God sure does have an angel in store for you and I know that he has many more. You are going to be the best mommy ever!!!!!!!!!!!!

go see Lissa's prego pics at www.samshotdogs.blogspot.com ( that URL name is another story for another time!!)

Can Anyone Explain How this is a Question?

You're in the grocery store with a broken cart. How will you ever be that hungry?

This is the stupid random question thing that they ask you in the profile section of this blog. I can't even figure out how this is a question. Can you? Please help me out?! My answer to this "question" is below.

I went through 20 questions, trying to get one that is half-way answerable and they all suck. It doesn't even make sense. I like random but come on!

Book of Mormon Challenge!

I am glad to say that I finished the Book of Mormon before the year was out. I thought it would never happen, but it did! I actually read it twice this year which is amazing to even think about for me!

Dusty bought me 100 Day Calendar of Study for the Book of Mormon and it is the coolest thing. It helps you get on a reading schedule among many other things. Take a look at what it looks like. I am just starting to use it. You can use it for yourself or with your family.

Just read it...

My brother Mike (and probably Jason, and dad, and mom...) used to say to me when I was getting on their nerves, "You're at about an 8 and I'm gonna need you at about a 2." The other day Dusty looked at me and said, "Amy, you're at about a 50 and I am gonna need you at about a 0.4." He was referring to my thyroid and the fact that I was getting on his nerves and it was really funny.