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I opened a shoe box of mine last night and perused the contents. Birthday cards, letters, notes. I read them randomly (and purged a few from ex-boyfriends without reading haha) and turned to ask Eric, "when did people stop writing hand written notes?! when did everybody stop doing nice things for each other?". My conclusion was about 2005. I had notes saved up through my sophomore year of college. I think a large part of it is facebook. Instead of sending my sisters a funny news clipping or a letter full of movie quotes, I simply post on their walls. And I don't think this is an awful thing. I just noticed, that's all. I have often thought that people don't do nice things for each other as much as they used to, but as I sat and thought last night and today I realized that it's not other people not doing this anymore... It's me. How long has it been since I wrote someone a note just to compliment something I admire in them? I had a bad day a couple weeks ag...

Do you ever just connect with a song? You know, feel like whoa. This song was totally prophetic for my life. I have a song like that. It goes like this: (weiner weiner weiner weiner weiner weiner weiner weiner) I know a weiner manHe owns a weiner standHe sells most everything from hotdogs on down (Hey!) Someday I'll be his bride I'll be right by his side Oh, how I love that weiner man! (mormon mormon mormon mormon mormon mormon mormon mormon) I know a Mormon Boy He is my pride and joy He know most everything from Alma on down (HEY!) Someday I'll be his wife We'll have eternal life Oh, How I love that Mormon Boy!

If you haven't looked at KSL , NBCsports , Seth Davis' tweets , ESPN blogs, or various other sources this week then you missed what's been going on in our life. This week a girl named Michelle wrote in to the Daily Universe condemning those of us that are in love with BYU basketball and the glorious Jimmer Fredette ("Cut it out with the Jimmer worship. Last time I checked, idol worship was very much frowned upon in the scriptures"). Ba ha ha ha! We read this article and were so amused we decided to go look her up on facebook. When I looked her status had 13 comments about Jimmer--- but by the next morning it had hundreds of comments. Eric decided to make a video response to invite Michelle to the remainder of the home games for BYU. Jeff recorded, Eric begged, and the video exploded along with the rest of the Michelle got Jimmered fiasco. In the first 24 hours, Eric's youtube had roughly 25,000 hits. Yeah, not 2,500, 25,000. We just died laughing. Funniest ...

Alright it's Eric here taking another stab at this blog thing. Life has been so busy these last few weeks I honestly can't keep track of the days sometimes. But it's good to be busy, makes us both feel useful and needed. There is a lot to get to so lets jump right in. Since the new year Holly and I have been nonstop. I think it's really good for me. It has helped me out with dealing with my mom passing. But it's all going to be fine. I think about her all the time and still find myself picking up my phone to call her when I hear something about BYU or do well in school or want to get her opinion on a spiritual topic. But I think I am doing just fine with it all. Speaking of the Cougs, they have been getting a lot of love. Playing great ball and who is this Jimmer guy? I was talking to my buddy Brady about it the other day and told him I was little irritated with all these "new fans" that want to share in the love. "BACK OFF", I've been here f...

It is so hard to put into words the feelings I have about temporarily losing Peggy in our life. My mother in law passed away December 18th. I might think of something to say in the future, but right now all I can think to do is post the few pictures I have of her from my perspective of life. She lived so much more than I got to see, but here is my small tribute to her. Tom and Peggy are two different people that work great together. They are wonderful. She was one of our four very supportive and loving parents that got us to the temple and stood by us at our sealing. There weren't very many members of my own family in the temple with me for my endowment; I remember distinctly looking over when Peggy and my sister-in-laws walked in and feeling overwhelmingly grateful that they were there and a new part of my family. The whole Glem Crew. Peggy's prides and joys: husband, parents, children, grandchildren. <3 Don't they look so much alike?! This was the family hanging out ...

I will journal this blog because I certainly have not in a while. First of all, you can all come to my rescue. I am a very good speller, if I do say so myself. And on occasion I have an error on the blog just because it is difficult to write and edit when you are posting for everyone to see. But I can never remember if it is "a while" or "awhile". HELP ME!!! I don't know if they both are legit, if they are what's the difference? What's wrong with me?! The BYU basketball home opener went really well. It sold out and I honestly attribute it to Eric and Brady for all their hard work on the videos (besides word of mouth and camping). They worked really hard and it was an awesome game. Definitely haven't stopped working, but I am glad that we are getting into the season and it isn't the all consuming force in our lives that it was before Nov. 12th. Eric had a new great idea for the Arizona game on Saturday--- a little motivator to entice students to ...

For some reason this is my favorite video. But in case any of you were feeling unsure about how to go about getting tickets.