One Trillion

So heres a thought.  Have you ever considered how much one trillion is?  1,000,000,000,000  It's a lot.  Like, a LOT a lot. One million millions.  I recently discovered that if you were to make a replica of the Sears Tower, it would take approximately 2.3 trillion pennies.  That's a LOT of pennies.  To put it into a slightly less abstract form, one trillion pennies, stacked into a cube, would make a cube that had dimensions of slightly larger than a standard football field (end-zones included) on every side.  Again, this is a LOT of pennies.  Ok, how about distance?  Well, that's a bit tougher to describe, actually.  One trillion miles is like travelling to Pluto about 250 times.  It's also the equivalent of about 2 light months.  That is, travelling at the speed of light, it would STILL take 2 months to travel that far.  As long as we're thinking of time.  One trillion seconds is equal to about 31,690 YEARS.  Another interesting estimate is that there are approximately 3.5 trillion fish in all of the oceans on earth.

There are about 300 million people in the united states.  I'm no economist, but I think that if the government decided to split 1 trillion dollars evenly to every single person on the condition that they have to spend/invest that $3333.33 within one month, we'd probably see a decent little jumpstart to the economy.

Just a thought.

Our plans for the next 3 months

So, we've finalized some plans for ourselves! : ) It's been sooo good being about to talk together and get on the same track. So what follows is what we're planning.

-Finish school- April 20
-Go to Toledo to go house hunting- Maria April 20-25, Weston April 22-25, Morey parents April
20-?, Grandpa Coltrin April 22-25 (Thanks for your help!)
-Weston finishes work- May 15
-Camping trip to Yellowstone and visit Carter parents- May 15-June 2 (these two trips may be
flopped order-wise).
-Present Research poster in Anaheim CA- June 7th (participate in other parts of IFT)
-Pack up and clean our house and enjoy relaxing in Provo for a couple days- middle of June
-Welcome Barbara to Provo!- around June 19th
-Pack truck and leave Provo- before the end of June

You may not be interested in any of that information but it's there if you are. : )

This weekend was amazing : ) On Friday we went to the MOA (Museum of Art on BYU campus). There are some amazing works of art in there! Yesterday we cleaned for a couple hours!!! It was sooo great! Our house is the cleanest it's been in months!!!!! It's sooo great! Weston was soo helpful and he did a lot of it while I was at a stake relief society activity. Then we had Weston's cousin Julie and her husband over and they are amaing people that are just so uplifting to be around! They make us feel comfortable and good about ourselves. We wish we can be like that for other people. We made homemade pizza which turned out superb! It's the best one we've made yet! So that was exciting : ) and we were able to let them do their laundry so we felt good about helping someone out.

This next week will be a really busy one for me. So, any prayers for help would be extremely appreciated! But for the most part I'm excited about what I'll be doing this week so that should help I hope. On Thursday I'm going to go up to the family history library in SLC and do some hours of research on Denielle's family line for an assignment. I'm so excited! I've been able to find a her great grandfather in the census records I believe and then find him as the son in a another family and both of his wives and all their children! It's really fun actually! But, I need to confirm that they are the right people by trying to find some birth or marriage certificates or something because right now they are just educated guesses. Everything seems to fit but it's a little hard because the names are spelled slightly differently and it's so hard to read the records and the isn't an 1890 one because it was burned in a fire, and that was around the time when they would have gotten married... so... I'll have to see what I can find. I'm also starting the taste panel for our syrup! I'm way excited to find out the results and see what people think about it! I also have to grade tests and do like everything on the results of my steak research. So, we'll see how all of these big projects that I've been working up for go.

I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Handmade Handkerchiefs!

I figured out how to use my serger foot (or a sewing machine foot that cuts and does seams... I guess seamer would be a better name for it).  We made handkerchiefs for the Draper temple dedication today!  (We forgot to buy new ones yesterday so our friends the Pendleton's loaned us some white fabric and we made some!!!)  I feel handy.  : )  and...  guess what...  Weston made one too!!!  I showed him how to use the sewing machine and his was actually a better square than mine was!!  I just had to help him when things stopped working  : )  GOOD JOB WESTON!

~Maria