My girls hullahooping

My girls hullahooping

Today is Sunday and yesterday we packed up the house to move to TN. So now our house is almost entirely empty. They have no toys except for the stuffed animals that Jessica (our friend upstairs) gave the girls and this hullahoop. Debbie taught Lacie how to spin it on her neck. Here is a little video of all my girls hullahoopin.

Moving is never fun

Debbie came down form Idaho (BYU Idaho) and will be staying with Cindy for the summer. She was kind enough to let us steel her for about a week to help us pack. Wow, Kiera and Debbie got so much done while I was at work. We have to be entirely packed and moved out by this coming Monday so we can start our journey to Nashville, TN.

I was excited because my manager at Prosper, Jason Emett, told me about a luggage carrier that attaches to the roof rack of my Dodge Caravan and that his friend bought it at Walmart. Here is a picture of what it looks like.



It is water resistant and I am hoping that we can fit two on top of our van. Well, wish us luck on packing.

LDS Talks: Hope in Christ

I sent out an email letting everyone on the email list know that I had finished a talk titled: Hope in Christ but forgot to post about it here. So please jump over to my LDS Talks Blog by clicking here and if anyone has thoughts about it just make a comment. If you would like to be added to the email list send me an email cconover2@gmail.com.

Change of plans, Going to TN

Well, last night we (my family and a friend's family that wants to sign as well) went to an APX company party and had lots of fun. Lacie rode a mechanical bull and the whole place went up in an up roar. Everyone loved it. Anyway, my old manager that is going to Nashville, TN called me and we met up to talk. He told me that he was talking to his Regional manager and his regional said that they need to make my decision a lot harder than it was already. The quick breakdown is that Kiera and I both felt better about the team going to TN but were torn because Florida seems like an absolutely fun place to be and the apartments need no introduction except, that they offer a maid service once a week to say the least. Photos are in the post below and so our decision was very hard. Anyway, my TN manager offered me $60 out of his own pocket on top of my commission for every sale I make during the summer. My goal is at least 100 and that would be an additional $6000 and he will front me $2500 up front to help with the moving expenses.

I talked to Kiera and she still wanted to go to Florida. I asked her what it would take and she said $100 per sale and so I told Andy but he could not do that. I went to the river behind my work and prayed. Kiera and I prayed together and then I prayed on my own. I felt strongly that we needed to go to TN and that we always knew our answer (We never felt that good about FL, which is why we signed with TN in the first place but the opportunity was hard to pass up since the apartment were so nice). I also felt that I needed to give Kiera a blessing and that there were reasons that she needed to go to TN. So to sum it up we are now going to TN. I have absolutely been floating because I feel so good about our decision.

I know that the Lord was behind this difficult decision of our and helped us to do this yo-yo decision making because if we had not done that, we would not have $60 per sale added commission. If we stay close to the Lord, he will stay close to us.

Going to Florida to sell Security Systems

We have decided to go to Tampa, FL to sell security systems with APX. Here is a video of the Resort like appartments that we are moving into for the summer. The video starts and sends with our appartment community but in the middle are some things that are coming soon. The parts about the rooms are the appartments as well. It is so cool and we are very excited.

Video: http://www.cayclubs.com/site/assets/video/clearwater.html

Man Vs. Machine

I am the trainer for our Salesforce.com software that we use to manage all our of leads. Before I became the trainer this was rolled out very poorly and the entire floor was untrained on this software. So we set up a company party and beat up a truck we bought to take out our frustrations on. It was a lot of fun. Here are some picture of our fun.

Cruising around the lot before getting beat down.


I had the luxury of doing the honors of beating out the front windshield. I used my team leaders bat that he brought and he told me that it is the same bat the he blew out this guys knee with. I told him that I could never bring myself to hit someone with a bat and then he said that if they had just hit you in the back with a chain you could. Anyway, back the the truck beating.


We all got together and flipped it on its side. I cut my finger during this stunt. One of the team leads brought his paint gun and unloaded on the truck and then glass got into the paint and I cut my finger on the glass. Not too bad though.


Everyone that wanted to take a turn on the truck with a sledge hammer could. I took a turn as well.




We then flipped it back onto its wheels went to town again.


One of the businesses called the cops on us and the owner here pretended to turn around and get handcuffed. It was great.


I took this one with my cell phone.


We had a blast. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. In the end Man won over the Machine.

Why Alexa does not speak Spanish.

Amber and Kyle came to visit from Arizona and to go to conference with us (Michelle came also. On Saturday right before Priesthood Session, Lacie asked Amber why Alexa did not speak Spanish? Amber said, "Because her mom and dad does not speak Spanish." She then said, "I thought that Brown people spoke Spanish."

When my wife told that to me I about died. She is a funny girl. She has asked several questions about why she is so much darker than her and Ashlyn.