Fontana California Auto Club Speedway

As the kids and I watched the second Nascar Race of the season we were all glued to the TV in hopes of a glimpse of our missed Husband and father. Holding to this hope is one of the few ways we are able to feed our hunger for the companionship of him. With mixed feeings we are positive on one emotion and that is the utter graitude of blessings. The world today is in a constant downward spiral including the economy and work force and while we throughly miss our beloved Jeremy, as a family we bond together in knowing that we are fortunate for him to employed. That being said, Sundays Race at the Auto Club Speedway was accompined by some really cool events. Jeremy was able to hang out with some of my personal favoirte TV Starts including one from Heros and one from House.

Back at home in Denver, Nc the Pooler family is experiencing complete emotional withdrawl with the absence of a major piece of our puzzle, Jeremy in an innocent effort to band aid his emotional wound and withdrawl threw caution to the wind while mixing and mingling with some really cool people!
Now he's off to Vegas.....he leads such a boring sad life...how in world will he make it through the next week away from us?????

Things aren't always what they seem....

As Today began a Peaceful Sunday afternoon, Jc and Devlyn shooting some hoops together, Ashelyn quietly deciding to sit down and read some of her books. Taking advantage of this rare opportunity to leasurely browse the Internet with no goal or reason, I pull up a seat and lose myself in invalid mind numbing searches. Glancing back to check on Ashelyn I see her brilliantly playing perfectly content with her dolls. Peaking out the window I embrace a uncommon scene as the boys play together with the absence of violence and revenge. Smiling on the inside and out I return to my effortless addiction on Facebook. After a time it occurred to me that my very active, needy and as of late extremely loud, screaming drama queen 2 year old daughter has been quite for a suspiciously long amount of time. As I spin around in the ever so comfortable black leather computer chair my serene and tranquil moment comes to a screeching halt as I see............

So far 2009

Its been a while since I have posted on the blog. With finding Facebook I have been preoccupied playing over there and neglectfully not paying enough attention to my original blog!... Bad blogger I know!!
Tons have been going on, school, puberty, terrible twos, Winter and now a New President. History was made yesterday and yet again I was able to witness history in the making sitting in front of my flat screen and enjoy it HD style! My Granny on my mothers side who is still living strong at 98 years old was in amazement. She still recalls the days of segregation in its prime and now she is governed by an African American. Yes, that part is really awesome. I question the Character and excessive Liberal thought behind the man but am ready for him to show me what he's got!
Jeremy has been home straight since December and the kids has LOVED having him here on such a more constant basis. The season starts back up in Febuary so he will be gone ALOT again coming up soon. BLAH!
In complience with the guidence of our Church leaders we have been working on Emergency Preparedness in our home. "If ye are prepared ye shall not fear." It is alwasy a good idea to prepare for the unknown so to be in a position to survive and care for your family. "The Church and its members are commanded by the Lord to be self-reliant and independent." Having a supply of essential foods, clothing, fuel, and water will help us during times of personal and natural disasters. We must be prepared for calamities that may come our way. Having what we need and knowing what to do in the event of an emergency or other calamity can bring us peace and help us overcome fear. In such tumultuous times with wars and rumors of war it is not only wise to be prepared but almost a necessity. We as a family now have our 72 Hour Kits updated, complete and readily accessible with the exception of water. I haven't figured out how store that much water for a grab and run. We have our Car Emergency Kit in place. We have started our year supply of Food Storage and are preparing to take some CPR, First Aid and Emergency Preparedness classes. I already feel a small amount of peace washing over our home.

Happy Holidays!!!

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Ricks College (BUY-I) 1992

As we go through life there are certain moments in time that are defining moments of our selves. Places in the road of life that are critical to our outcome, molding our future. These moments are often unnoticed to us at the time. While we are walking our path we are unaware at the time how important a certain choice will be. It isn't until years later that we realize what that moment and time really meant to us. Its long after the moments have pasted that we can reflect and fully embrace how a certain time, with certain people, making certain choices was such a self discovery, one that helped us to grow into the person we are at present. One of these times for me was my time and the friends I made my Freshman year at Ricks College (now BYU=I) in Rexburg Idaho.
Growing up in a large Southern City (Atlanta, Ga) I had never left the East Coast, never flown on an Airplane and NEVER been surrounded by more than a handful of LDS friends at one time. My testimony was FAR from my own, I was 18 and still riding on the testimony of my Mother. I left my home, the wonderful and energetic city of Atlanta, and all my friends, friends that I went to Elementary, Junior High and High School with, to fly across county by myself and live in a dorm full of girls I did not know, a religion I barely understood, and to a small town half the world had NEVER heard of!
As I walked into my new dorm for the first time (which by the way was at the very TOP of a hill, an elevation I had NEVER been, I was now out of breath and my nose was bleeding) I was greeted by one of my new roommates. Shortly there after I met the other two roommates and they could not have been any more strange, unknown and foreign to me if they had been from a different planet all together. And in alot of ways they were. Two of the roommates were from some small towns in Idaho where the population was the size of neighborhood back home and the other was from New Mexico. They all had grown up completely surrounded by the church and its members, they were the reason the term "Molly Mormon" was invented! Not to mention the fact that I was completely dumb founded as to why in the world it was snowing in October and why my nose hair felt so stiff and weird! I was completely miserable! I cried for an entire 2 months straight, planning my escape out of this alternate universe every night! Trying to figure out exactly where Idaho was actually at on the map, and how I was going to get home from there.
On a cold winter morning as I was walking to my first class with my head down as to not look anyone in the eye ( like I always walked!) wearing my wool socks with my Birkenstock sandals, it all changed for me. Someone reached out to me and with four simple words, my Ricks College experience changed and as a result of that experience my life changed. I meet some of the most amazing people my short time out West. I made friends that I would hold in the highest regard for the rest of my life. Some I chat with through email from time to time, some I read their blogs others I haven't spoke with since 1993 and a there are a few that I have tried to find for years with out any luck. Yet every single one of them hold a special place in my heart and are in my thoughts often. You don't have to spend a life time with a friend to have a friend for life, time is invalid compared to the impact someone can have on your soul. To all of these friends that may find my words, know that I love you and you are a special soul that touched my heart in ways you will never know.

Fall In the South!!

With tween/teen hormones flying like crazy in the Pooler Home, we still find time to have some fun!!!!

Fall in the South..... With the world being as it is today its important to always remember the pleasures, beauty and miracles in your daily lives. Being born and raised in the South I have come to have a bit of a love triangle with my home land. A love hate relationship in some manners. The South has some of the kindest and most hospitable home grown people. We are brought up to say "Yes Ma'am and Yes Sir", we have been taught to love the simplicities of life and live accordingly, and being from the Bible Belt Religion is just a way of life. Being an LDS church goer in the Bible Belt has proven to have a fair share of challenges to say the least! Living in a large Metro Area I have the opportunity for diversity. Neighbors on one side of us are a very nice Homosexual older couple that have the most gorgeous landscape of anyone in the neighborhood, while on the other side of us our neighbors are some "good ole boys" that have a Rebel Flag flying from their porch, but they make some killers Fried Chicken! Life in the South as an active Latter Day Saint always exciting to say the least. So when fall time comes we take the time to admire the beautiful colors around us exploding from the many trees in our yard and on our roads. What we realized recently is that the beautiful colors all around us go far beyond the changing leaving on the trees.

Only 2 more to go!!!!

There are only two more Nascar races to go and we are all sooooo excited for the season to end and have Jeremy back home for a change! Carl Edwards is currently in 2nd place in the race for the cup, so make sure you watch and cheer us on to win the season!!!!