Deep Thoughts From The Course

Well, Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Today was the first Thanksgiving after my Grandma Foy died. So today after I got home from playing football with other members of our ward I turned on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, in memory of Grandma. While watching the parade I heard Matt Lauer start talking about a high school marching from a town that is nestled at the bottom of the Wasatch Mountains, this town is called American Fork; and I was excited for them that they could be there is that legendary parade. After that I turned on one of the THREE NFL games today, The Packer's vs. The Lions, which turned out to be a better game than it was when I first turned it on. Then before noon we went to Ann's parents house and had Thanksgiving Lunch with them. After eating and taking a small nap we went to the LA Auto Show. While there I got to see the new body style for the 2009 Nissan Murano, which will be released in February of 2008.

Well, I hope that everyone had a good Thanksgiving! I know I sure did and I know that there is a lot of things for me to be thankful for, so much so that I can't even begin to to list them. I hope that everyone continues to have a good weekend.

This is my wonderful Grandma Foy. She lived a wonderful life and seemed to enjoy every minute of it, even though she spent last part of it in pain. Although my brother, sister and I were the youngest of all the grandchildren (second generation) we were loved by her just the same as all the other, older grandchildren. I do have to say that it seemed like Grandpa Foy and her spoiled us more than the other grandchildren. I know that she enjoyed seeing and hearing from all of the grandchildren.

The other night, before she died, my aunt started to plan my Grandmother's funeral (the writing was on the wall this point) and asked my dad if I would like to speak at her funeral. Well when my dad called me and asked I said yes without even thinking about it. Yesterday I spoke with the aunt that was planning the funeral and she said that I was allowed 2-3 minutes, and I had to speak about the good and fun times with Grandma Foy. So tonight while thinking about those moments I found that there were way to many of those moments.

Here are a few of those moments:

1. Ann's and mine wedding. She was so paranoid about what was going to happen in the recommend interview that she called an uncle of mine that was a bishop to talk about what was going to happen in the interview.
   
2. The many times my family stayed there and the many times her and my grandpa woke us kids up while fighting of the breakfast responsibilities, meaning who was going to cook what.
   
3. The many times visiting her after grandpa had died and hearing her tell the same story over and over again as if she didn't know that we had heard that story before.
   

Well since the last time that I made a post there has been somethings take place. So here is the biggest news that might affect me the most. The crystal company, Schonbek, that I represent was bought last Monday, the Monday before Halloween. The company that bought us is one of the largest crystal companies in the world. They have tried to make crystal chandeliers before, but with no luck. They have been around for a long time, since 1895 to be exact. Okay, Okay, for those who don't know Schonbek Worldwide Lighting was bought by the Swarovski Crystal company, actually Swarovski US Holding Company (in other words, the American operation of Swarovski). It scared Ann, her dad, another worker from the factory that was here and I. We were scared because we didn't really expect what was going to happen, but then we thought about it a realized that they are not going to change things right away. Also if you are one of the best in the company there is really nothing to worry about, because most of the time when companies by other companies they don't get rid of the best of the acquired company. For those who was to read more about the acquisition here is a link to a news report regarding the acquisition...

http://www.pressrepublican.com/0100_news/local_story_304233200.html

The other news that took place was last Sunday, not two days ago, but the Sunday before that our Stake Presidency got reorganized. This doesn't happen that much, but now they have to reorganize our bishopric because they called our bishop to be the first councilor.