Rachel's Birthday!!

Today is Rachel C. Jennings 23rd Birthday! She is always so fun to wake up in the morning.. she slowly woke up and I brought her up her birthday cinnamon roll, milk, and sang her happy birthday while jamming out to American Boy by Estelle/Kanye! Always so much fun to be with Rach, but especially on her bday!

She is the best wife and I'm so glad to spend special days like this with her!!

cougars..

BYU Cougars.. what can I say? That UCLA game last week was amazing.. that doesn't happen for the cougs.. amazing!! I'm stoked for the cougs, it's such a fun time. I hope they and the utes can both make it undefeated till that last game. What a game that would be! If they get Gameday to come I'm going!!

It's so much fun to actually know some of the guys on the team well. Dave Nixon is a good friend and Max Hall was our next door neighbor for a year (if you guys read this, I'm rooting for ya!) Max is a great competitor, we have golfed several times with some guys from our ward and also our bishop and Max has always come up clutch down the wire.. I doubt the Cougs lose this season with him at the helm.

The one thing I have to add is that it weird going to games no longer as a student.. seeing the social scene is funny and I love seein the row of Provo All Stars (guys that are 30+ that were there when I was a student) still there and being so glad that Rach decided to marry me!!

Life Updated

After reading Rachel's last post I guess I should comment/defend myself.. I am a person that is constantly getting introduced to new opportunities, decisions, and choices. Life with me is never the same two days in a row.. I personally enjoy it.

For others (Rachel) I know it's a little tough. Part of Rachel's personality is to crave stability and organization, and I think the last few months of me trying to determine what it is I'm going to do with my life has been tough.

With that being said, I think we are getting closer to having a "life's plan". Over the past few months (actually years) I have always seemed to remember everytime a new GA was called and he had been a lawyer. It always stuck out to me how many good men had chosen law as their profession, a little tingle always hit me when they would mention it. As my life has gone on those feeling have just magnified.

Our career plays a large role in determining the kind of person we turn out to be.. I personally have never dreamed about just having one career. My goals were and still are the following:

1. support my family so they don't want for the necessities
2. have time to make my childrens events
3. take them on vacations/ create memories
4. weekly date night with my wife
5. have time enough to fulfill church callings well
6. bless others lives with what I've been given

I know there are a lot of guys out there trying to figure things out right now amongst my friends, and I would just say that we have to keep first things first. If we can keep ourselves focused on our bigger priorities the hows will work themselves out.

I know I've been rambling, but i guess here is the point. I'm planning on attending law school Fall 09. Studying now and taking the LSAT in three weeks. Have some good "ins" at UofU and ASU. Not so sure about BYU becuase I don't really think I can handle going back to Ptown. Sometimes the spirit has a way of clearing a path. My partners at Imperium have gotten a grip of the company and are gonna do great in the future.. Google Imperium Smart Systems and you'll see what I mean.

On a personal note, Rach and I have been married for 19 months now, and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't thank the Lord for her in my life! I am so grateful for my wife and the positive infulence and guidance she provides me! If there are any out there thinking about life decisions I'd love to hear your comments.

My normal August 25th

...August 25th... I have been looking forward to this day for so long - a normal day, a normal August 25th. Today would be the first day in over 2 MONTHS that Tyler and I would be able to carpool to work together, meet up for lunch, make dinner together, have a normal evening together, eat dinner together, have a regular fhe, etc etc..


Oh, and what's been happening since June that's made it impossible to live this regular lifestyle? Well....


* 16 days of Tyler getting home around 9:30 or 10 from the Parade of Homes in Bountiful


* 5 days of Rachel on an audit in Michigan

* 4 days of going to hang out with our newly returned missionary brother - Troy!!

* 5 days of a great vacation with my family in Huntington Beach

* 16 days of Tyler getting home around 9:30 from the Parade of Homes in SLC

* 5 days of Rachel on an audit (and going to Wendy Hansen's wedding) in Minnesota

It's been an awesome summer!!! It's just been really busy and kept us away from home more than it ever had before. I got home from the wedding on Friday, we helped Tyler's family move all day on Saturday - and at this point I'm looking forward to some calm, relaxed regular life stuff!

So I'll tell you, August 25th was great!! We carpooled to work, went to lunch at Olive Garden together, went to Costco and got stocked up on groceries, came home and made dinner together and had a night together with no interruptions, meetings, or appointments!

Then August 26th came around... Tyler recently decided to take the LSAT so now he's in a prep class three days a week for three hours. He's taking the test in 5 weeks.

This also means, we might be going to law school in the upcoming years, so we're looking into schools, trying to figure out where to move, and how to get through 3 more years of school.

Then August 27th came around and we find out that we have to be out of this house in a month!

What did I learn from all this? Well, there went my normal August 25th!! Life is full of surprises, but in order for me to be happy, I've just got to enjoy the time we have together - and REALLY enjoy the August 25ths that come around!

But hey, I'm married to Tyler Jennings, and I should know that life will never be normal again - but I wouldn't have it any other way!

Life is amazing, we have no idea where we'll be in five years, let alone five months, actually after getting kicked out of our house, we don't even know where we'll be in five weeks! But, Tyler and I are doing all of this together - we're living together, we're employed, we're healthy, we want to start a family soon and couldn't be happier! Life is a lot of fun,

and it will probably be another 2 months before I have another August 25th...

Parade of Homes

Tyler will be spending the majority of his time over the next two weeks at the Salt Lake Parade of Homes. They fully automated home #16 and Tyler will be showing off their system in their amazing basement equipped with theatre room, basketball court, weight room and billiards room! The house is in Riverton if you want to stop by! Tyler has done such a great job expanding this company over the past year.


Click below to see pictures from the Northern Wasatch Parade of Homes which ended July 12th.

http://picasaweb.google.com/raychee123/NorthernWasatchParadeOfHomesJuneJuly2008

JENNINGS REUNITED

after 3 missionaries have come and gone, 2 in Chile, 1 in Costa Rica, 1 move back to Orem, 1 new addition to the family (me!) and one announced pregnancy the JENNINGS family is reunited after over 3 years!!!

Here are some pics of Troy's arrival home from Costa Rica last week... as you can tell it's already a party with the kids all together!!

Puttin out the vibe .... with "ghetto" Elder Troy in the back

American Idols!!

On July 15th we went to the American Idols Concert @ the E Center in SLC. It was quite the crazy scene up there!! Tyler was one of the few 20-something guys in the crowd. We were surrounded by three groups of people 1. screaming David Archulta or "Archie" fans, 2. their parents, and 3. the occastional boyfriend / husband that got dragged to the concert. Well in our case Tyler actually was excited to go, we were pretty into the show this year!! But then when we saw the crowds... he kinda got a little embarrassed, but its ok, he played if off that he was one of the 3rd "supportvie husband" type.

Either way .. the show was good! Our favs were Michael Johns, Syesha, and the Davids!!