Spa Night!!!

SPA NIGHT...

What can I say, it was a really good cucumber!

I have such fun girls

Nothing like a spa night & a little American Idol

These girls have SOOO much energy! I don't remember being this crazy!

I was in charge of painting the nails... This girl is one of my fav's she is the only one who will participate in my lessons on Sunday's...

All 5 of my girls, the one in the glasses was SUPER shy, she barely got in the picture without crying!

I have loved being with the young women, and my girls are sooo great!

It's been a while....

So it has been a while since I have posted. I thought I would show you pics of our new apartment... I don't really have very many but you can kind of get the idea.

Note: I havn't finished unpacking and have NO decorations up yet.

This is my new living room... I havn't decided if the carpet is purple or brown...

Maybe it's a Brownish-Purple :)

This apartment has 3 bedrooms, and they all have their own bathroom. I don't know what we will EVER do with 3 bathrooms, unless people start coming to visit us!!! (HINT-HINT)

Dan and I are loving Roosevelt!!! I didn't know whether or not this move would be all that great for us, little did I know that we would absolutely LOVE IT!

I am now working for an AWESOME dental office as their office manager.

Daniel is still working for Wheeler, and has really adjusted rather quickly to the small town life and has loved getting to know all the farmers around the area...

I was called to be the 2nd counselor in the YoungWomens, and Dan was called to be the Varsity coach for the YoungMen! He can't wait to take the boys to do all sort of fun things...

The one thing I have learned is that the Uintah Basin is one giant playground in the summer time...We are welcoming any visitors, like I was saying we have plenty of room for visitors and you wouldn't even have to share a bathroom....

Miss you all!!!

Rusty Michael Peterson

Seriously! I believe that Matt and Kelly sure know how to make the cutest babies ever! I am not sure how the rest of us are supposed to follow such a high standard of cuteness and perfection?

I don't think there is anything in this world that can compare to a brand new baby!

Anyway, just wanted to show off how darling my new little nephew is...

Have a great day!

A New Years Resolution

A new years resolution turned into reality?
At the beginning of the year Dan and I set several differnt new years resolutions... Little did we know that one of them would become a reality so quickly!

Over the past couple of months we have anticipated with the slow down in the economy that it was a very real possiblity that Dan could be laid off! Well, obviously since I am writing this post you are getting the gist that he did get laid off! We knew that this would be happening so it really didn't shock us, and I feel like we prepared ourselves the best we could.

The good news is.... Dan was really proactive and asked his supervisor if it would be possible to do an internal transfer instead of getting completely laid off! And they were totally willing! Sooo...

Dan and I are moving! Dan will be heading off to the great city of Roosevelt, UT on Friday of this week! I will be joining him in a few weeks, after I find a place to work over there...!

Dan and I are really excited, nervous, happy & sad with all of the new changes that are affecting our family! We went down yesterday and we were able to find a darling apartment and the greatest thing is, it has 3 large rooms so we are welcoming any visitors!!!

Have a Great week...
Love The Mitchell's


ROOSEVELT
In 1905, by an act of Congress, the unallotted land of the Ute Indian reservation was opened to homesteading. Several thousand hopeful twentieth-century pioneers congregated in Provo and Grand Junction with the hope of successfully drawing lots for a homestead in a fertile region of the soon-to-be-opened lands. Throughout the fall and winter of 1905-06 the settlers came to the Uinta Basin. The town of Roosevelt was founded in early 1906 when Ed Harmston turned his homestead claim into a townsite and laid out plots. His wife named the prospective town in honor of the president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. Within a short time a store, a post office, and the Dry Gulch Irrigation Company were in business in the new town. In 1907, the Harmstons donated two acres of ground for the town's citizens to built a school. The first class had about fifteen pupils, who had to provide books from their homes. Roosevelt soon became the economic center for the area, eclipsing Myton and Duchesne.

Roosevelt is situated on U.S. Highway 40 in the northeast corner of the state, south of the Uinta Mountains, at an elevation of 5,250 feet. The town was incorporated at a mass meeting of forty-four citizens on 21 February 1913. From 1906 to 1914 Roosevelt was in Wasatch County, but in 1914 Duchesne County was formed from part of Wasatch County, and, as the largest town in the county, Roosevelt anticipated becoming the county seat. However, when the total county-wide vote came in, the seat went to Duchesne. Roosevelt is today home to approximately 3,500 people but serves as the business center for several times that number from the many small towns and farming areas that surround the town. Roosevelt has become the region's educational center with Union High School, Uintah Basin Area Technology Center, and Utah State University's Uintah Basin Education Center all located there. Roosevelt is also home of the only hospital in the county, Duchesne County Hospital. The economy of Roosevelt is based on agriculture and the oil industry. Pennzoil Refinery is the largest single employer in the city.

The UBIC (Uintah Basin Industrial Convention) is Roosevelt's annual celebration. What started in the early part of the century as a yearly display of the latest in farming and industrial technology has developed into a yearly gala complete with parade, talent show, concerts, and dances.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the dominant religious denomination in Roosevelt, with two stakes centered in town; but the community also boasts Roman Catholic, Christian Assembly of God, Baptist, Jehovah's Witness, and other smaller denomination congregations. Located near the Uintah/Ouray Indian Reservation headquarters of Fort Duchesne, Roosevelt is a multicultural and polyethnic community, with Caucasians and Native Americans being the most numerous.

THE MOTHER OF ALL SWEAR WORDS!

OHH... FUUUDGGE!!!

On Friday night Dan and I were in a car accident on Bangater HWY...

It was the beginning to a CRAZY weekend! We were headed North on Bangater HWY when we rear-ended a BRAND NEW 2008 FORD PICK UP!

I was not wearing a seat belt, so in this next picture you will see where my face hit the windshield! The most amazing thing is that I didn't even bruise my face, Although my nose is HUGE!

As I look back at this situation, I can't help but be so very grateful to my Heavenly Father for watching over us... I know this situation could have been so much worse! It truly is a miracle that Dan and I were able to walk away from this with minamal injuries!!

Thank you for the Love & Support this past weekend!!!

Love Dan and Lora

Christmas Tree Hunting...

The weekend after Thanksgiving, Dan and I went hunting for the perfect Christmas tree with some of our friends...

Here are a few of our favorite pics!

Lumber Jack Dan ;)

The tree fell on top of Kirby! This is her getting mad at Aaron for not helping her...! haha

Daron & Lindsay- Cute Couple, and the greatest friends!

Me & My Guy!

Daron, Aaron & Dan... You can tell back in High School they used to cause a lot of trouble..

Thanks for the great weekend guys!!!

Be Where You Are...

One of the major reasons people fail to find happiness or to create that unique lifestyle they dream about is because most have not mastered the art of being.
While we are home our thoughts are still absorbed with solving the challenges we face at the office. And when we are at the office we find ourselves worrying about problems at home.
We go through the day without really listening to what others are saying to us. We may be hearing the words, but we aren't absorbing the message.
As we go through the day we find ourselves focusing on past experiences or future possibilities. We are so involved in yesterday and tomorrow that we never even notice that today is slipping by.
We go through the day rather than getting something from the day. We are everywhere at any given moment in time except living in that moment in time.
Practice being wherever you are.  If you are talking with a family member, friend or fellow employee give them 100%. Learn to focus on the current moment, and drawing from it all of the substance and wealth of experience and emotions that it has to offer. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there in the moment, we will never master the art of being.