To the man in the Home Depot parking lot

I don't know your name. I don't know if you're from around here or were just in town for the holidays. I don't know what business brought you to Home Depot on Saturday, but I would like to say 'thank you'. I know the odds of this man reading this are non existent, but I still feel like I should write this anyways.

 Let me explain what happened. My Husband and I had ventured out to Home Depot to buy some drill bits for a project we were working on. When we got into our car it wouldn't start. We jump started our vehicle and then foolishly put our 1 pair of jumper cables back in our truck and drove on to Home Depot. When we got into our car after we had made our purchase we discovered that our car wouldn't start again. And we had left our jumper cables at home. We flagged down a man and son who were parked by us but they didn't have jumper cables either. They seemed like they would have helped if they could have-so thank you  to them as well.   We decided that it would be easier to flag someone down to help jump start our car if we had jumper cables so we went back in to the store and bought some.  Before that though we were sitting in our car (because it was very cold out and we were looking up automotive places on our phones) with our hood up, and I was watching cars go past and not one of them noticed us sitting there in need of help. After we did our part and bought jumper cables a man in a truck parked by us. Thankfully the people who shop at hardware stores are generally the same sort of people so my husband communicated with this man through hand gestures without the man having to turn off his truck,  and he swung his truck around and helped us jump start our car and helped us determine if it was the alternator or the battery.  We then took our car to automotive places and got a new battery.
My point is that this man went out of his way to help us. He didn't know us, He didn't have to help us, but he chose to. In a world where most people only look out for number 1, its nice to see examples of  service still alive and well.
To this man, Thank you for taking time out of your day to help. It might seem like it was a small thing but it wasn't to us.

Merry Christmas!!!!

2013 was a good year for the Ford family. It started off with lots of school and ended with lots of school and we had a fun summer in between.

Jessie: I unexpectedly went back to school in January. I was working full time and took 9 credit hours. I had some hard classes (namely Psychopharmacology, which is the best class ever!) I was fortunate enough to be able to do all of my homework at work and I managed to get a 4.0 that semester! Then a few weeks after that semester ended I went back to school to take my statistics class. I failed it, but at least I qualify for the ‘don’t pass, don’t pay’ program so I can retake it for free. Work has kept me busy doing administrative work for my bosses and now I get to work with my departments budget.

Bryce: Went to school in the January semester and got good grades and he just finished up a really hard semester. He is working full time and was taking 15 credit hours! The past few months have been very difficult but we are very happy they are over!

Sasha: (our dog) Still loves to sass us!

Back in January Bryce got laid off from his job-all thanks to Obama and affordable care act. Bryce’s’ bosses didn’t want to let him go (it was HRs decision not theirs). They wrote him glowing letters of reference and a month later Bryce got hired on at Xactware! He has been there ever since and it’s a great job! During the summer we had quite the adventure. We stayed at a couple of hotels for our anniversary, went to Las Vegas for a day, and then when we got on this side of St. George, we discovered that we needed to go to San Diego to pick up Bryce’s sister.  So at around 8 pm we started the long drive to California. We drove through the night and tried taking turns driving and sleeping but that didn’t work out so well and we were both hallucinating by the time we got to his sisters’ house! We also didn’t have an overnight bag or anything because when we left our house we thought we were only going to Las Vegas for the day. It was a fun trip in San Diego. We got to play with our niece and nephews and then we went to the beach and saw Dolphins in the ocean! That was really cool. In October we drove down to New Mexico to visit Bryce’s brother and his family. We went to the Balloon Fiesta! It was very cold but lots of fun. We also went camping a couple of times over the summer. It was a very fun year and we can’t wait for more fun next year.

We hope you have a Merry Christmas!