Celebrating Something Everyday!: hgm holiday party

Thursday, January 15, 2009

hgm holiday party

Well, we attended Joe's holiday party last Saturday and it was lovely. I was able to see or meet some of the bosses I haven't and a handful of co-workers. The food was delicious! They had a slide show from employees and a few prize games. We sat my a man and his wife and Joe got to know more about him. Dennis is the one that goes out in the field and does the measurements on the bridges and comes back and gives them to Joe to plug in to the computer and analyze. He was really nice. The funnest part of the evening for me had to be dressing up! Brianna helped me look for a new top. My purpose was to make Joe's jaw drop. I think I got a better reaction than I expected when I walked out of the room, ready to go, and his eyeballs popped, he gave a whistle and continued to give many sincere complements the rest of the evening :) Oh, as you can tell, I don't get to dress up (or sometimes put make-up on) very often, so that was part of it too :) So of course I took a few pictures.... The last one I like because it is artistic.

It is just nice to know, that even though I change diapers, referee children, do dishes and scrub the toilet that I can still look good when I try :)

4 comments:

Tracey said...: Looking good Jenni! Isn't great to knock our husband off their feet every so often;); January 15, 2009 at 2:51 PM
Josie and Wayne said...: Wow! Man, I wish I could still look good if I tried. In fact, I wish I had a reason to try sometime. You guys look great!; January 15, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Unknown said...: I think you are super hot! When I try to dress up a little for a night out I only end up feeling fatish and tired. Way to go!; January 17, 2009 at 9:40 AM
zoandquanda said...: those pics are way too hot!!!!; January 19, 2009 at 12:57 PM

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Thomas S. Monson

Professor Harold Hill, in Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, cautioned, “You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you’ve collected a lot of empty yesterdays.”

There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.

I remember reading the account of a man who, just after the passing of his wife, opened her dresser drawer and found there an item of clothing she had purchased when they visited the eastern part of the United States nine years earlier. She had not worn it but was saving it for a special occasion. Now, of course, that occasion would never come.

In relating the experience to a friend, the husband of the deceased wife said, “Don’t save something only for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion.”

That friend later said those words changed her life. They helped her cease putting off the things most important to her. Said she: “Now I spend more time with my family. I use crystal glasses every day. I’ll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket if I feel like it. The words ‘someday’ and ‘one day’ are fading from my vocabulary. Now I take the time to call my relatives and closest friends. I’ve called old friends to make peace over past quarrels. I tell my family members how much I love them. I try not to delay or postpone anything that could bring laughter and joy into our lives. And each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special day. Each day, each hour, each minute is special.”

-Thomas S. Monson, April 2008, Ensign Magazine