Our Prophet

SALT LAKE CITY 29 January 2008 With arrangements for the funeral of President Gordon B. Hinckley under way, tributes from the Church leadership to President Hinckley’s life and service were issued today.

Tributes came from President Thomas S. Monson, who served as the First Counselor in the First Presidency, and also President Henry B. Eyring, former Second Counselor. A tribute was also issued from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

President Thomas S. Monson:

“It was my privilege to know and love President Hinckley long before either of us was called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles or the First Presidency. Through the years I have sat next to him, have served with him and have learned from him. I am a witness to his prophetic calling.

“President Hinckley was prodigious in his work ethic and was totally dedicated to the gospel of Jesus Christ. He was a friend to one and all and a leader who inspired spirituality. His outreach on an international scale was unprecedented. He was truly a prophet for our time. Like the Master, he devoted his life to doing good, and God was surely with him. His life was a gift to the world.”

President Henry B. Eyring:

“President Hinckley had the gift to make people want to do better and to feel that they could. Last Tuesday I sat in a meeting with him as he considered and then decided matters of great importance, some about individuals and some affecting the entire Church. He was pleasant, incisive, and clearly inspired. For me, he raised the standard of what it is to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, giving all.”

The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles:

“Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles express our heartfelt love and admiration for President Gordon B. Hinckley and the singular life of service he lived. He was our prophet, our leader, our brother and our friend. We feel a deep, personal loss at his passing. He unfailingly demonstrated his devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ, whose witness he was at home and abroad.

“We will miss his wit and his wisdom, his leadership and his love. However, we cannot but rejoice in his reunion with his beloved Marjorie, with his parents and other family members who have gone before, and with the prophets of God, both ancient and modern, among whose eternal ranks he now stands. As the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles we echo the voice of the Master, ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant. … Enter into the joy of thy Lord.’ ”

JLynnPhotography

I LOVE photography and have recently started to experiment with photoshop and my new digital camera! I just set up a space online to showcase my photography work so far. I put a link to the site under our sites.

Here are a couple of pictures that I just worked on from our new surrounding area of La Quinta! I hope you like them...visit my site to see more of my work.

Ridiculously Expensive!

Travis just started a new semester of school this month and he had to buy books for all of his classes. As I am sure most of you know what this means! You better pull out that money honey! Of course the professors have to all use new editions....so that means you can not buy the books used...you have to get the new copies, which of course are outrageously priced! 

I HATE buying books!  

As you know we have moved and Travis is attending school in San Jacinto, which is about an hour drive from our house. He had to take an assessment test at the Menifee location so that is where we thought that we would find all of his books but of course they didn't have half of them and Travis had to get to work so we could not go to the San Jacinto campus to check for the rest of the books, so we had to take more time, money and gas to go out the San Jacinto campus and thank goodness they had the books he needed...we called ahead to ask if they had the books there, but of course no one answered! It's ridiculous (the price of books) but what are you going to do? He has to have the books for his classes. I just thought that I would vent a little frustration about the college expenses! I forget how it is until every start of semester we are blown away at the prices again. 

My 24th!

One more attempt to get this posting thing down! Travis took me to the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway for my big 24th birthday (I am getting old) seems like yesterday I was so badly wanting to be 18. Anyways, the tram takes us up like 6000 feet it was awesome, scary, but awesome.

We went at night which was really cool because we got to watch all the tiny city lights as we went up and it was a full moon! We were up so high we went through the clouds that had come in! It was totally cool.

We did a ride and dine package which means we got to eat dinner once we got up there which was cool. 

It was freezing, there was snow all over the ground which was weird to come from down the mountain where it was like 65 degrees to up the mountain to freezing temps. and snow! We ate dinner and then we went out to the little decks that over look the mountain, very cold but fun. 

Then we got hot chocolate It was a very fun birthday dinner and a really cool thing experience. There are alot of cool things that we could do out here in the desert like rock climbing and you can also ride the tram up the mountain and go camping, hiking, and cross country skiing. I really want to get out there and do some more things in nature while we are out here. The sun sets are awesome and the mountains are very unique. I have taken some pics but I will post about it when I get some more.

Hmmmm...

Am I an idiot or what? I don't understand how my posts and pics always turn out to look so dumb! What am I doing wrong? I write some text and then I put in a pic to go along with it but somehow it always turns out wrong and looks totally not the way I want it to! I am getting sooooo frustrated with it! Do you know something I don't? Any help would be appreciated Thanks!

Finally Moved!

Finally we are done moving! After packing most of the house by myself since Travis has been away working I am soooo glad it's done! Yay! 

We are so excited to be in our new apartment in La Qunita CA! It's totally a desert out here...reminds me of living in AZ! The weather is perfect right now but the summer will be something we are definitely not used to (three digit temperatures)!

We had soooo much stuff! I threw out a TON of crap! Our apartment is just one bedroom and the guest house we were living in was a two bedroom and it had an attic. I was afraid that we would not have enough room for all of our stuff! After throwing out alot and giving alot away we had just enough room in our new place!

                                                                                                     

We are happy to be out here after months of planning and hours of packing and loading and unloading. 

It will be fun to be in a new place and meet new people. 

We went to the ward that we thought was ours but it turns out they just split the ward and we found out that we were not only in the wrong ward but the totally wrong building! 

Anyway, we are excited to see what our new ward is like this coming Sunday! 

I also went to apply to the school district and the Temecula District made it sound so easy to transfer but of course it is never that easy.

I have to still get alot of things together for the application! Oh well, it won't be too long til I am teaching again! 

I love my job it is totally flexible, I can work when I want and however much I want and I can take vacation anytime! 

I love it! 

Travis also loves his new job going from a monstrous Home depot store being a manager to managing a small truck stop for Loves is alot easier he says. 

We are happy to finally be in our new place!

We love to TRAVEL!

We had our first major international trip in Dec. of 2006. For Christmas we went with my family to London and Norway for 10 days! It was so awesome! I loved it! We only got a couple of days in London though, I totally need to go back. To the left is a couple of photos we took while in Norway and one from London!
















So last year we spent our anniversary at the Marriott villa in Newport Beach and we bought a timeshare with them and we just booked our first vacation villa to PARIS for the first week of November!! I am soooo excited! It will be so fun, and since France is so close...we also booked a couple day trips to London and Brussels! I can't wait! I am totally counting down! We also booked a trip to New York for our anniversary this year! I have never been and Travis and I have always wanted to go! I can't wait to start our traveling this year! I need to buy new luggage! LOL! To the right is a photo of the villa in Paris France that we will be staying at!

Travis' 22nd Birthday!

Travis Just celebrated his 22nd Birthday! He has been training for his new job in Northern CA for the past month and a half...so I have not seen a lot of him lately. So I decided to make him a cake as a surprise when he finally came home!
I made and decorated it all by myself...I think it turned out pretty good for my first time! I have always wanted to take a cake decorating class, sounds so fun...maybe some day!

Quick Update!

Lots of new things have happened and are happening in the Tuckers lives! I have been working as a Substitute Teacher last year while also teaching piano lessons and starting to experiment with digital photography...which I am loving!

Travis just accepted a new job for the Loves company and we will be relocating to Palm desert area...which we are totally excited about! We are just waiting for an apt. to become available. Travis is also finishing up his AA degree...one step closer to a BA!

We got the chance to go up to Utah to spend time with Travis' family this Christmas which was really fun. We haven't had a chance to see his whole family in a while and it was nice to spend time with all of them!