Thanks to Brians help above, I was able to fumble my way and figure out how model something fairly simple.   Since I dont fully understand how vertex modeling works, I find I wreck the model quite easily and tend to undo a lot or worse case scenario start over again.

Now the model I created I'm almost happy with.  The problem is once I rendered it I noticed that the fidelity on it is not the greatest.  I read through the manual and noticed in the Spline Editor there is a Geometry setting which allows you to increase fidelity.

I need to increase Fidelity.   Right now I have

Polymeshes: 3
Polygons: 56
Edges: 150
Vertices: 100

Now I did the same shapes in another app and imported into Carrara and the counts are much higher.

Polymeshes: 1
Polygons: 105976
Edges: 160554
Vertices: 54584

I dont need the counts to be that high, but I need them to be better than they are now. 

I figured out the Decimate function reduced the fidelty.