Nicole

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Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:11:58 GMT

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Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:59:02 GMT

Nicole MoneySmith, wife, daughter, and puzzler, died Friday at the age of 25.

She died of a red vines overdose, while at home. Law & Order SVU was playing on Netflix when she was found.
Her last words were, "That's it; I'm dead." (http://www.planecrashinfo.com/lastwords.htm)

She was survived by husband, Collin Smith, 28; father and mother, Alan and Sandra Money; three brothers, Alan II, David, and Joseph; cat, Sneek; and dog, Mickie.

Nicole was born in Provo, Utah on March 13, 1984, but grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. She attended and graduated from Desert Vista High School and was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

She was attending Mesa Community College, planning to major in English and minor in Art History. She loved museums, Jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles, music, film, po-going and cats. She also loved traveling, and studied abroad in Ireland and the Czech Republic. She and her husband recently traveled to Mali, West Africa, and did assessments for a Non-Profit Organization in 7 villages in the Ouelessebougou region.

A favorite scripture and inspiration to her is from the New Testament:
"For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring."
Acts 17:28

Nicole's body will be donated to science, and there will be no headstone or grave, but there is a small plaque at the Arizona Historical Society Musem which reads, "Nicole E. MoneySmith, lover of clouds, french food, and city buses, died Friday, August, 21, 2009, but gives her heart to her best friend and husband, Collin Smith."

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:32:08 GMT

Happy sexy ole fourth of July.

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:43:05 GMT

Collin made me dinner. What a man.

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:03:36 GMT

Back to life; back to reality.
I find myself in America, and completely unable to be normal in social situations. I have a hard time expressing myself and what I have in my brains to people. They say, "How was Africa." I say, "Awesome. Great. Wonderful. Beautiful. Hard. Nice to be home."
We're heading to the gym all this week. We hope to stay skinny. But I just keep eating good food. I have to go to the cycling class now.
Collin's beard is hot and his hair is long. I love him. He is my best friend!!!!!!!
Self-reliance!
Photos coming.

Wed, 06 May 2009 03:48:43 GMT

On my last night in America for dinner I ate a giant salad, spaghetti, and a cheese tortilla.
I'm actually getting that "going on a trip" excitement feeling!!! Collin just said, "I'm kind of excited to get there, now!"
Seriously, we've been through a lot this week, and cried wolf to ourselves so many times that we won't believe it
till we set foot on Bamako soil.

We're going to practice singing our Nora Jones song. (Collin plays and I sing Come Away With Me.) ((We're super serious about our career.))

We don't have many assets to will to you all. Anne, will you get our affairs in order?
Record player and records to Anne
TV (with DVD player) goes to Aaron
Juli and Isaac, Collin wants you to have our bed.
Our fabulous wardrobes: mine to Morgan
Collin's to Aaron and Ryan Barnhart.
DVD and VHS collection has no monetary value. Please place your bid here.
Books go to Childrens Hospital throughout the US and Canada.
Everyone gets ONE piece from our beautiful and bright Fiestaware Collection. Please indicate here which color you prefer.
(Red, Orange, yellow, green, blue, dark purple, dark cinnebar)
I'll give my computer to Joseph Money.
Anne, please make sure our brains are donated to science.

The End.

Goodbye. Forever.

PS. Add Collin's livejournal. Carcassonne_Col

singing husband.

Mon, 04 May 2009 21:29:05 GMT

After the most stressful, disappointing and exhausting week of our lives, we got our documents on Friday. The pressure was off.
We spent the weekend at Collin's Aunt Katie's house, eating whatever food we wanted, ice cream twice a day, watching hours and hours of tv. We hadn't watched tv in months! HOURS OF MINDLESS TV!!
We're finishing up our laundry, then bus down to Provo where we will
-bank stuff
-Get something delicious to eat
-spy on the lady living in our home
-fear our debt but ignore it for now because we're going to Africa(yikes)

Tonight we're going to my cousin Jason's birthday party. We searched the house for an appropriate present.
An unopened Settlers of Zarahemla will do just fine.
"Is that stealing?"-me
"You can't steal from family."- Collin

We're going back to the program director, Jodie, and her husbands house tonight, then
one more day in the OUA office. I turned in my two articles for the newsletter, and I'll sit down
for a chat about them with lame girl.
Then Wednesday morning everything SHOULD go according to plan, and hopefully we will be on our way to Mali.
It's going to be hot and I can't wait.
I gotta go. Collin's about to die or something.

Sat, 02 May 2009 21:56:07 GMT

Charles de Gualle
Arc de triomphe
Notre Dame
Champs Elysee
Pompidou
Louvre (just look at the outside. We don't got the time.)
Memorial de la Shoah
Le Tower Effeil

Excellent, my friend. Excellent.

Then to Bamako and Ouelessebougou.

THIS TIME SHOULD BE FOR REALZ CAUSE WE GOT OUR passports and visas FINALLY!

rice with peanut sauce and vegetables we will be eating with our hands every day.
Interviews in French, English, and Bambara
MANGO TREE IN the yard of our compound!!

I'm excited, man. Only 4 weeks instead of 6. That's okay!

Love, Nicole

Ps. I'm pretty sure we're going to die on the plane ride. Hopefully it will be on the way back so that we can at least go to MALI!!!

Aladdin is so good. We watched it this morning.

WORK is over until June 23rd. Yessssssss.

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:51:48 GMT

TODAY Juli and Isaac King came over to my house I share with my husband!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a great night. Then my cousins made me Japanese food and we played my new favorite game, Munchkin.

GET HERE, TOMORROW, VISAS!!!! Hurry it up!!!!!

I leave for Mali, West Africa at 7am on Monday, IF WE GET THOSE VISAS tomorrow!!!!!!

I'm completely hopeful and faithful, though!

That boy is cute in my bed.

Tender Forever and Mirah

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:22:16 GMT

Snacks N

The demon sky and storm on our way to Salt Lake.

The amazing Tender Forever.

Cape

Some videos!

And the beautiful Mirah. I still love her even though she hates tall people.

Cute little Mirah and giant guitar.

The most awesome song ever.

Finding Tacos

Snow in APRIL NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:05:48 GMT

The WORLD RECORD for most consecutive jumps on a Pogo Stick is 177,737!!!!!!!!! It was set by Gary Stewart in 1990 at Huntington Beach, CA!!!!
It took him 20 hours and 20 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The record for longest distance Pogoed was 23.11 MILES! Ashrita Furman, New York, 1997!

I think I got a shot, boys. Syke. But serious, this makes my 449 look like used-up floss in the sink.

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:22:19 GMT

Collin left for a conference in San Diego about 12 minutes ago. I miss him. I'm sad.
This will be the longest we've been apart since we were married.
I need to get productive while he's gone:

apply FAFSA
find somewhere for us to live
clean the house
do the laundry
register for classes
work Tues, Wed, Fri
getcha ready for Easter
play video games with David Money
bake something delicious
POGO

It's 8:37am. I've been up all night because of these jerks:

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:45:58 GMT

Me getting Yellow Fever shot. Breath in and out.

Yellow Fever:

Hepatitis B and Meningococcus. The Hep B hurts SO BADLY. It has kept me up all night!!!

Hepatitis A, Tetanus, AND Polio -No biggie.

We started taking our very high-maintenance Typhoid pills this morning. Collin has no clue. You have to do it on an empty stomach, so I woke him up, we took it, and he's out cold again.
Malaria pills coming soon.

I'm such a complainer. Next post to be positive and uplifting, I swear!!

I saw The Haunting in Connecticut.
It was kind of freaky, man.

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:58:00 GMT

Today is a bummer.

Got 5 shots. Hep B is the most painful thing ever.
Plus Yellow Fever yesterday makes 6 and $800.
PLUS Typhoid pills and Malaria pills that will COUNTERACT my birth control pills
AND could possibly cause BIRTH DEFECTS.
great.

Had to walk home (10 blocks) with a billion pounds of groceries
and my shots arms hurt.

BUT a Nigerian man pulled over and offered to drive me home.
I told him he is kind.
He said, "God is kind to me."

Long Live Journal Post. I hope it's worth it, my friends.

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:45:54 GMT

The stars of the Show:

Las Vegas as the sun went down

Visited my childhood home:

MEANWHILE AT DISNEYLAND!

We want the Haunted Mansion chandelier!

MY HOT Husband

Heavy!

Loveballs

I'll live there someday.

I won!

SCARY!

Happy BIRTHDAY!

Oh sweetness. We were so sleepy after Disneyland.

The next Day was colorful at VENICE BEACH!

POGO FLIP!

Beachy

A drive through Malibu and what a view!

Uh huh

The Los Angeles Temple the next day. It was absolutely beautiful and wonderful.

On the road again

He was sleepin

And I was mad because traffic was BAD

Crazy with the melted Junior Mints

Our campsite was full so we slept in the bed of the truck!!!

Beautiful Boulder Beach, NV

Secret City of Boulder, Nevada, in the Mountains

To church Sunday morning.

What a sex pot

To Hoover Dam!
Traffic, OF COURSE!

THIS AWESOME freaking huge bridge being built!!

You don't want to take your roller skates down there

To St. George! Stopped by to visit Carla and babies!
This is one of the twins, Ryan. His brother,

Visited the St. George Temple! My Grandma and Grandpa Money were married here!
It was the first completed (and still standing) LDS Temple.

Threatening. Time to get home.

nooooooooooooooooooooo but pretty.

Sun going down

We were practically home.

Good night.

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:04:58 GMT

You know, Livejournal, I love you. But working with you means working with photobucket. I'm really trying here, but photobucket just isn't making things easy.

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:14:02 GMT

The weather here is freaking crazy. After a freezing cold winter (and no car, so walking back and forth to work everyday), it has finally started to get nice. It was sunny and in the 50s-60s all week! And the other day was the first day of Spring, so we naturally started busting out the shorts and picnics.

BUT today was super chilly-windy-RAINY. AND it's supposed to accumulate 2 inches of snow tonight!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And it is supposed to snow every day this week. I just might die.

Good thing we're going to Disneyland on Thursday.

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:53:51 GMT

I won't give you a bloody nose.

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 08:31:17 GMT

We are going to Mali in April!

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:34:08 GMT

Let me tell ya, friends: the real world isn't easy.

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:05:22 GMT

Genital Geniuses.

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:25:52 GMT

ME:

1. love texts.
2. newly committed to crest whitening strips
3. dryNESS
4. Alma 3
5. love love love love love
6. happpyyyy
7. gooooooooood
8. grooooossssssssssssss burgers
9. let's go back to WAFFLES

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:23:24 GMT

It's getting cooooooooooooooooooold!

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:46:48 GMT

After starving myself for weeks, we took our photos last night.
To celebrate, I ate a pumpkin pie shake, fries, a corn dog, cheese tortilla, and an otter pop. I hoped the yellow otter pop was pinneapple, but it was banana. I didn't care---I ate it anyway.

It was AMAZING having a professional take photos of me, and I think I'll go into it for a living....but I guess that means I'll be starving for a while longer.

Hmmm..I'll have to think about it.

As for me, I'm good, but jobless, penniless, friendless----love? I got it.

You are the woman that I've always dreamed of. I knew it from the start. You said my name and that's the last I've seen of my heart.

Time to contribute.