The rest of our engagement pictures

Here are the rest! I hope you all like them. Announcements will be going out in about 4-6 weeks and I need addresses for everyone. Please email me at mdgroves1@yahoo.com so I can make sure you get them!

Candy recall

I know many of you have kids that will be trick or treating on Halloween. Please be careful and check their bags for little chocolate coins

For those of you with little ghosts and goblins in your lives.





Hello everyone: the following recall is confirmed by snopes. Read and pass on especially if you have or know little ones.....

Don't eat these!

The little chocolate coins are not safe for kids to eat this Halloween.






They are made in China and contain the Melamine that childrens deaths were
related to recently.





!!!!!!!

With Halloween coming soon, pass this on to your family and friends.








Sherwood's Milk Chocolate Pirate's Gold Coins from China contain
melamine.





It is true, Read the full story at the following link from Snopes:

http://www. snopes. com/food/warnings/coins. asp


These were basically distributed in Canada, however they were sold through the Costco stores, so some may have found thier way in bulk to the stores here in the United States

What our great Nation has come to...

I was sent this in a bulletin on myspace by a good friend and I think it pulls everything into perspective

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:

Boy am I confused.

I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the
Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.



I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.



I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they
are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them.

I have
included the URL's for verification of all the following facts

1.

$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each
year.


Verify at: .. http://...com/zob77

2. $2.

2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as
food stamps, WIC, and free school
lunches for illegal aliens.


&n bsp; Verify at: ..
http://www.
cis. org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.
html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.


Verify at: ..
http://www.
cis. org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.
html

4 $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they
cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at: ..
http://transcriptscnn.
com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 0.
html

5.

$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born
children of illegal aliens, known as anchor
babies.


Verify at ..
http://transcripts.
cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01.
html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.


Verify at:
..
http://transcripts.
cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01. html..

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.


Verify at:
..
http://transcripts.
cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01.
html

8.

$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers.


Verify at: ..
http://premium.
cnn. com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.
01html

9.

$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by
the illegal aliens.


Verify at:
..
http://transcripts.
cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01.
html

10.

The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and
a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.


& nbsp; In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional
crime problem in the US
Verify at:
..
http://transcripts.
cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt. 01.
html

11 During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that
crossed our Southern Border also, as many as
19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.

Millions of pounds of
drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed
into the U. S from the Southern border.


Verify at: Homeland Security Report: ..
http://...com/t9sht

12.

The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass
deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion
or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five
year period.

'
Verify at:
..
http://www.
nationalpolicyinstitute. org/pdf/deportation.
pdf

13.

In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to
their countries of origin.


Verify at: ..
http://www.
rense. com/general75/niht.
htm

14.

'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Near ly One Million Sex Crimes
Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United
States '
Verify at: ..
http://www.
drdsk.
com/articleshtml

The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

Are we THAT
stupid?

If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message.

If, on the other
hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward
it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in
Washington, D.C.

- five times a week for as long as it takes to restore some
semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.

A sneek peek at our engagement photo shoot

While talking to a friend of mine on myspace about our wedding plans (he is getting married on november first) he asked me what we still had left to book for our wedding. I told him that the one thing we were worried about was the photographer, because we still hadn't found one that we liked. He offered me the contact information for a woman named Melissa Palomo who would be sooting their wedding and had also done their engagement photos. After looking at their pictures and the pictures on her web site www.melissapalomo.com I was very impressed and decided that this was the person that I wanted to shoot my pictures for my wedding.

Low and behold, after looking through more of her site I found that I had known her from junior high and that she dated one of my best friends! I was so excited to contact her and set up an appointment so that we could meet. With in seconds of seeing her, I had made my decision. I was going to hire her to be my photographer. My mom came with me to the meeting and was equally impressed. So without any further edu, here are our sneek peek of our engagement photos! With out hesitation I would recomend her to all my family and friends. She is a wonderful person, and she made us feel very at ease. She even managed to get john to crack a smile, which is almost impossible to do when taking a picture of him!


Thank you Melissa for taking such wonderful photos of us!

Birthday weekend rundown

Oh the wonderful memories we made!!!

John's brother brian
The Guys being dorks
Jayson, being his patriotic self yelling "God belss America" out the window in traffic on the 91 freeway

Me and John <3
Me and Jayson

The whole group on my birthday

Bryan, John's Brother
Me and Brian On my birthday. 10/10/2008
Chanin, My niece's friend Heather, and My Niece Elysia
John, His Cousin Jayson, and Brian doing the Captain Morgan
And me being a goober

We came down to Southern California for my birthday this weekend and boy, did we have a Blast! Lots of wonderful times and lots of wonderful gifts. I got a new digital camera from my mom this weekend for my birthday and I am so excited. I don't think that thing has been more then 6 inches from me since I pulled it out of the box! We also went to Knotts Scarry Farm on Saturday night. John's brother Brian, His cousin Jayson, Jayson's girlfriend Yvonne and Yvonne's friend Karissa went along with us. I was a little disappointed because It took us over Two hours to get through the gates once we got in line, and we only got to ride Boomerang and the Log Ride by the time we got in to the park. I got to get my funnel cake finally though, so that made it all worth it! We all had a blast, and I'm so grateful that I'm surrounded by such wonderful people who did everything in their power to make my birthday great!

Birthday in T -9 days

I have come to realize that my 23rd birthday is in 9 days. lol, who am I kidding?! I start counting down to my birthday with in seconds of it being over. I love my birthday and I love making a big deal of it, be it with a party, a big group event somewhere, or a lot of people watching me crawl across my best friends front yard because I cant seem to remember how to walk (21st birthday at Tammy's house anyone?)

Any who, I very excited this year because John is taking me down south for it. Its been hard being away from everyone, and I never in my life thought that I would say this, but I REALLY enjoy vacationing in Lake Elsinore!

To top things off, on the night of the 11th John is taking me to Knotts Scary Farm. As anyone who has known me for more then thirty seconds will know, I love Halloween Haunt! Its been a tradition for some time now to go every year, and untill 2005 I had not missed a single Haunt since the age of 8. Im so excited that we are going to this. John doesnt particulary like going, but he knows how much I love it, and it makes this that much more special to me because of that.

As far as other things go, I think I have a photographer picked out, and Im very impressed by the caliber of her work. I didnt realize it until after I had requested a quote from her that we attended Junior High and High School together. We didnt float in the same circles, but we did exchange the occasional hello. Her website is www.melissapalomo.com
Go check it out if you have a second.

I also have all of my brides maids, and they know what their dresses look like. I dont see a real need to have them get them right this secound. The wedding isnt until April, and I think that January would be soon enough.

Other then that, I've been stuck at home for the last few days (only missing one day of work, thank goodness) with some kind of bug. Sore throat, BAD headache, sore all over and an upset tummy too boot. John has had something close to this, but he is without the sore throat. Even though he has been sick also, he has made sure that I have eaten, that I'm getting plenty of fluids, lots of hugs and kisses, lots of "I love you"s and lots of giggles. He even went out and rented a chick flick that I had really been wanting to see! He is so wonderful, and I dont know what I would do with out him! I am truely blessed to have him in my life, and to have him be my future husband!