I am a Marriage and Family Studies Major at Brigham Young University- Idaho. My favorite color is purple. Sunday, December 9, 2012.

Friday, December 14, 2012. Your family always maters more, that being said, you do have to have enough money to provide for your children. Family is always more important. Our actions or beliefs should be based upon theories or assumptions.

This blog contains thoughts, feelings, insights, and information regarding my Family 160 Family Relations class at Brigham Young University-Idaho. Hope you enjoy and please comment and share your feelings. Monday, December 10, 2012. One example of this lessening of importance can be seen in the marriage agreement itself. Saturday, December 1, 2012. He highlighted 4 different traits that a parent should pas.

Welcome to the fabulous compilation of my new found knowledge on family systems! I will keep you up to date on my insights as they relate to this course, along with my personal observations and discoveries! Please feel free to give me any feed back, and of course, to share my blog with others! I hope you enjoy! Tuesday, December 11, 2012. Oh, the dating life. We all have our stories, wether they be good, bad or just plain ugly! But a time to plan your marriage.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012. When thinking about this project I finally came up with the decision that I could relate my family to a tree. This concept may seem simple, but my family is related to a tree in the way that my father would be the roots, my mother would be the trunk, my siblings would be the branches and our kids would be the fruit. I really enjoyed writing this paper because I was really able to realize how much of an affect we have on each other as a family.

A blog of my thoughts and insights. Saturday, October 6, 2012. Saturday, September 22, 2012. Saturday, September 15, 2012. Finally got through the first week of the semester. Divorce, Remarriage, and Aging Families.

Friday, December 7, 2012. This week we talked a lot about divorce and remarriage particularly when it comes to blended families. A blended family is when a person already has children when they get married or married again. It gets increasingly harder when both people have kids and so more blending is taking place. I want to talk about divorce first though. Friday, November 30, 2012. Have you ever met a child that is so annoying you have no idea how to handle them? .