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a little update

2012-01-04T15:19:00.001-07:00

So many things have happened, and unfortunately I just am not good with taking pictures, or writing on here. Here are some pictures of a few things I snapped on my phone.
I never wrote about our car we got! We bought a 2011 Kia Forte back in Nov! Its been good for us, except for when it decides that it doesn't want the cruise control to work, and this morning Jeff said that it got stuck in 4th gear. I took it into the Dealership, and they said they haven't found any of the problems we've told them about nor can they see anything wrong with it... Makes for a frustrating situation, when we know we aren't crazy, but they say if they cant duplicate the problem then there is not a way for them to fix something they don't know what is wrong. So pretty frustrating. We are getting the feeling as soon as we drive away from the place something is bound to happen.

Tacoah is now officially part of our family. Back in May we were foster care/babysitting her until her owner could find an apartment that allowed Cats. She was not able to by Dec, and she finally asked if we could keep her. :) Jeff is one happy little kid! haha. He LOVES Coah (we usually just call her Coah), and I think he loves her more than he loves me! haha. Anyways we bought her some Christmas gifts, new cat scratch posts, and she loves them! Finally something to keep her out of my tree, the stinker! She is a cute little cat, but she sure can get herself into trouble! very adorable little thing. I don't have much better pictures of her.

This is sweet newborn Brooklyn! My Cousin Karissa and her husband Jeff did a great Job!(we have a lot of Jeff's in my family, I have two cousins named Jeff, a cousin in law, and my hubby Jeff).

We bought a bedroom set with the money we were going to use to go on the Vacation trip Jeff had planned for me back in Sept, but ever since I got laid off we cancelled that. With the extra money we had, we decided to splurge a little on ourselves. It was well worth it! Sorry no pictures of this.

My Grandpa was helping out with the Idaho Falls Watch Patrol (sorry I forget its actual name) Anyways he worked very hard to get this guy to do his show in IF. He is a magician and an Elvis impersonator, he was so fun to watch and was hilarious. I feel so bad though, not very many people showed up to this, and my Grandpa spent a lot of money to fly him there and to pay for his time there. But I at least enjoyed it with my mom and best friend Ashlie :o)

Oh man... all these pictures of me below, really suck!!! Oh I hate pictures of me! My eyes are all squinty in every one of them! Oh well its of Ashlie and her baby Brody when he was just a week or so old. Oh he's the cutest thing! I love it when I get to see him. I cant believe that he is now 10 months old! aahh!

Eek! My crazy eyes! Oh well. Its a picture for ya :)

This picture is from back in the summer. Its grown quite a bit. We bought it from some Jewish New Yorker ladies that used to live on our street. They were moving and we bought this from them. I really like it.

Um... what else could I write about? Oh yes I've had a lovely time with family. We spent Christmas with both my family and Jeff's. It was so much fun, we did a combined Christmas dinner on Saturday, Brian, Lee, Julie (part of Jeff's family) and my grandparents, mom, April, CJ, Marisa, Tesha and her boyfriend all ate together. It was very nice to spend time with both families! And I got to meet Marisa's Fiance... I mean boyfriend. haha just playin with you sista! We enjoyed a wonderful meal, and had fun playing white elephant. I love that game! Jeff got me a Nook which we've both been having fun with!

New years Day I spent time with my mom's side of the family. A baby blessing (Karissa and Jeff's) and then cousin Andrew's farewell! I am so proud of him! He will be an amazing Missionary and I will miss him! I love spending time with family!!! Well ... that's about it, and sorry not many other pictures either. I really do suck at blogging.

Oh Yes, one more thing! I was called to be a Visiting Teacher for three other ladies in my ward as well as the Relief Society Board Activities Coordinator! Thats all folks!

Joy to the World

2011-12-03T18:17:00.007-07:00

I know, its been FOREVER since my last post. I couldn't find where our camcorders cord that connected to the computer so I could download pictures. I finally found it. I dont think I am the best blogger though, I read everyone elses and think... does mine even sound that interesting? haha. To be honest, I'm horrible with taking pictures. But these were worth sharing!! Jeff made these blocks that say Joy, I came home and they were sitting on our DVD case. I LOVE them! :o) He did an awesome job! he cut up boards of wood, painted them, made the sides all framed and then put vinyl on them, and curled up the wire in the back to connect them. How awesome!!!

Here is our 8 foot tree I bought at a yardsale earlier this year for $60 bucks! :) it was well worth it. Heavy and huge and difficult, but I love it.

I just liked the angle of this picture

My first Nativity scene. Thank you momma Julie for buying us this!!! I loove it

Closer picture, look at the detail! so cute!

tall tree

Sighs, Coah cant seek to keep herself away from the tree. kind of part of the reason for the stool under it, she steps on to the branch and tries to climb up. and she eats it! Naughty kitty!

:o) I love these, they say Cherish, Hope, Joy, Love, Peace. light glows through them at an angle and you can put candles in them so they glow more.

Jeff bought this awesome table at overstock while back and we found this perfect center piece, for christmas as well as the rest of the year :)

My sad looking penguin, but I still love him :)

My mom gave me a lot of decorations, thanks mom!!! Helps me out soo much!

This poor guy used to light up, it was really cool. I remember him ever since I was little. My mom gave him to me. he worked the past two years I had them. I turned it on and it worked for a few mins then stopped working. either the bulbs are dead, or he decided to stop working :(

ah, and my christmas tree forest I found at another yardsale. Thanks to my mother in law, Julie, I am going to be going to more yardsales to find more treasures for dirt cheap. $15 for these three. I looked at Tai Pan the other day, and they sold these for $30 each almost. I think I got a good deal. Oh and my 8 ft tree, could cost aprox $400 or so! eek.

:o) well here's my first post in MONTHS! and with pictures.

2011-09-15T15:18:00.000-06:00

I just want to say, I really didnt realize how difficult looking for jobs was going to be. Everything that I'm interested in, requires Bachelors, or 2-4 years of experience. I am hoping to get a job more in the psychology field, especially to help me get some experience. I just wish I had my generals done! I applied today for being a Family Advocate, at The Salt Lake Community Action Program/Head Start. Head Start was an amazing program for our family, I was even in it about 15 years ago! This would put my foot into the door for experience. So everyone cross your fingers for me :D

Anyways I now understand how difficult it is to look for a job. I really look up to my mom, must have been difficult for her to find one. Its also amazing even though I have all day to do things, I feel like I hardly have enough time to get them done!

By the way, for those of you that dont know, my mom finally got a job!!! Wahoo way to go mom! :D soo happy for her. I really am she's got an awesome job!

Update on my Uncle Gary

2011-09-03T21:16:00.001-06:00

My Uncle Gary has many broken bones after his horrible accident. His back is broken in 2 different places, neck is broken in 2 different places, broken nose, broken cheek bones and jaw - His teeth have been pushed back so he'll need a plate in his mouth and he'll have to have 6 weeks of baby food and liquids, broken hip, sides scrapped up and 6 broken rips. The doctor is worried about his lungs and his hips. He is going to go into surgery for his hips on Monday Sept 5th. These pictures I am posting are kinda graphic so if you have a weak stomach I don't recommend you looking at these pictures. Its a miracle that he is alive.
Gary and his coworker are Uhal truck drivers (Gary does a bunch of other things but I don't remember exactly what his title is), and they were both driving to Missoula on a job. In Dillon, MT, A semi-truck ahead of him tipped and rolled. A car in front of Gary got around the accident. Gary tried to avoid the semi and correcting but he hit the semi, and his co-worker driving behind him, hit Gary. The truck driver who caused the crash died. Gary and his coworker were admitted to Dillon hospital then to the Missoula hospital for further treatment. He was placed in a medical induced coma and on life support. This happened on Monday 29th around 7pm and our family didnt find out till Tuesday Aug 30th around 2ish. They only found out because Gary's boss looked around the news papers and found a crash that sounded like it could be possibly his employees. Anyways I might not have everything here exactly but I wanted to make sure I didnt post any false information, this is as close as I could get it. Below are some pictures.

This is the picture of the Truck he was driving.

The inside, he was wrapped around the inside of the vehicle. There is still some blood you can see.

Gary's amazing Elders who stayed by his side as much as possible. Jen, I thank you so much for being my family's angel and having these two Elders stay by his side, and then you there making sure everything is ok! thank you!

My Uncle with my cousin Alyse

They allowed him to sleep on his side.

This is a difficult picture to look at. Its not horrible, but you can barely tell the damage and its amazing how much the priesthood has helped in his healing and him surviving at all. I love him so dearly, he was like a father to me at times in my life, and I appreciate everything he has done for our family. Its good to know he is surrounded by the gospel and those who love him.

When it rains, it pours but sometimes its really not that bad

2011-09-01T10:31:00.004-06:00

We all have trials in our lives. Some may be extremely difficult. Others might not seem that hard and you get through them. Its amazing as to what we see as trials, and to others they think differently.

Well I've had two trials this week. My first one happened Tuesday morning. I got laid off from my job. But I feel proud of myself, I did not cry when they told me that they were downsizing the company, and fortunately there was no good way to say it, but they had to let me go. They were very nice, and so helpful. The VIP said that if I needed any help looking for jobs or needed recommendations just to ask him. I thought that was pretty amazing. They also offered Severance pay for a month, so that will also help out. It does suck because I really did have such a great job. But maybe this will open doors for other opportunities. Maybe I'll find something that I'll enjoy so much more? Who knows. Ok I do need to admit that I did cry when I got home and called my mom, but it was a good little cry that needed to happen. But after that I felt comfort, and I do not feel worried at all and I'm not mad that I've been let go. Maybe thats a good thing or maybe I'm still in shock?

Thing that was hardest for me was finding out later that day, that my uncle had been in a terrible accident in Dilan, MT and was at the Missoula hospital on life support. Fortunately enough, I had family in Missoula who I asked if she could help my family. Thanks to Jen, she made sure that my uncle had some one with him at all possible times and then amazingly was able to have some of my family members who traveled up, to stay at their in law's 5th wheeler. Thank you so much Jen, you made what could have been a hard and horrible experience for my family, into a wonderful and positive experience. We are so appreciative and grateful to have you in our lives. Thank you so very much. My uncle is now doing fine and will be flying to the Boise hospital for further help and so he is close to his wife and two kids.

Through all of this, I've been pretty ok. Was more difficult hearing about my uncle, and even more hard was that we couldn't make it to Missoula to see him and more family, we decided to turn around when we arrived to Idaho Falls, because we realized we'd be spending more money than we really should be doing at this time, with me not having a job and all. I so very wish I could be around family. But I have an amazing husband who has stuck to my side and has been there for me through all of this. He's even taken off the rest of the week for me. So we wont be going onto our planned trip to Zion's Canyon. that sucks because we were so looking forward to it! But we need to be more wise with our money for now, until we find a job for me :o)

Is anyone else as excited as I am...

2011-08-24T08:10:00.004-06:00

Is anyone else as excited as I am... For Halloween?!!! I'm seriously going nuts. I cant wait.

We saw some of the Halloween store's signs up about a week or so ago. Then I noticed the candy corn in the walmart... At first I thought, "Holy crap, summer isn't even over and I haven't even started school, this is ridiculous! They should wait till Sept for heaven sakes!"

But then... I started to think about what we would do with decorations this year and what new things they might have, and this year we could finally get the web gun since Jeff bought an air compressor earlier this year... ooh the possibilities! The fun decoration, the excitement! I LOOOVVVEEE Halloween!

As much as I don't want summer to end, and I am NOT ready for the cold or snow.... I cannot WAIT to get my decorations out!!! I have been looking online at the Halloween stores and seeing what things I might be able to afford to get, and little nick knacks. And how I want to put everything together! I even tried to go to one of the stores, but alas, they are just putting up signs and probably wont be open for several more weeks... but still!!!!!!!! Now they got me thinking about it all the time. And I know this sounds crazy, but some day I want to be those neighbors or people that have such cool stuff, that you have to go to their house to see what they did different this year, and how scary it is! I loved going to houses like that. haha I even want to do a haunted house maze thing for the kids, we had a neighbor who did that (the Egberts, love you guys!), and it was AWESOME!

Well, I guess I just have to wait until then...

Hunter July 4th

2011-08-18T19:34:00.008-06:00

Wow I know that I am HORRIBLE with posts, but they just take soo stinking dang long to load up all the pictures on here, and they always get out of order so I have to take time to organize them. And I just like to complain :o) So here is finally a post with pictures! I sadly did not take very many pictures... I always seem to forget about the camera. These are of my mom's side of the family, the Hunter's and this is the little reunion that we had. It was so much fun and so nice to see family! I wish we could have left earlier so we could have been involved with more of the activities! Here are some pictures of the falls and river. We had to take them, because a co worker of Jeff's did not know or believe that there was actual falls in Idaho Falls.. haha so we had to prove to her that there are Falls!!!

Yes my feet... uh dont ask:P

Nice white legs... gross

Brrr its cold!

These following pictures are part of the reunion, these are only the ones from saturday, and I should have taken loads more! Course, I didnt!

This kid is soo dang cute! Even more funny, he cant really say Dump Truck... he really think that he's saying that, but he's really not. We recorded him saying this, I'll have to figure how to get that on here too cuz its hilarious! Even more funny when we told him to say "your a dump truck" :o) love kids.

CANDY!

Then we had a huge Caveman Feast! My aunt planned an entire weekend full of fun activities. She had the family at the Dunes playing fun treasure hunt games and having to have "pirate gold" to buy their candy for a movie night outside, they had rented a HUGE screen to play movies on, was like being at a drive-in. Saturday evening (pictures above) we had a feast, duch oven chicken and potatoes, lots of pastas and mud pies for dessert (made by yours truely). It was soo very good. Later, my cousins introduced a game, I dont know the name, but I made one up. Redneck wars. I'll have to post this in another post because I want to post a video of a few. :o) Well there's some pictures, for now.

I am blessed

2011-06-28T09:31:00.005-06:00

I have always known I've been very blessed in my life. So much, that I begin to wonder if I'm too much blessed... but I wont question it, and will be grateful for what I've got. I've always thanked God for everything he does. I always thought I was pretty humble. But not as humble and thankful as I was yesterday.

Yesterday, I went to school, parked my car, and started off to class for the evening. Half way through the campus... I realized that my necklace chain was slipping down the front of my shirt. This was the necklace that Jeff bought me for our 1st anniversary, yes the diamond pendant. My first reaction would have been going down my shirt to grab it.... but there were a bunch of guys outside awaiting for their gym or soccer or something outdoorsy to start. I wasn't about to do that in front of them! So to avoid the pendant slipping down, I put my arm around my middle hoping that I would prevent the pendant falling out of my shirt. I hurried across the campus, and into the school, and went into the lady's bathroom.

To my dismay, nothing there but the chain! I rushed my things over to a classmate and asked her to watch them while I go outside and hoped to possibly find it on the parking lot ground! As I walked back, I realized that I had also walked across the grass. If you can imagine, my heart sank to my stomach. Oddly in a way I didn't panic too much or freak out, but was thinking.... I have to find this!!! I would die if I lost this! Got back to the car, and nothing around the parking lot area. I had traced my steps just almost exactly. Maybe it broke while I was in the car? Maybe its in there? I don't have my keys. So turned back to class still searching hoping it would be in the parking lot area. Grabbed my keys, and searched again. Nothing. I scathed the parking lot, nothing. I thought well maybe someones already picked it up, but fearing they may have and wouldn't turn it in?

Finally I had to go back inside for class. I called Jeff several times, and sent texts for him to call me so I could figure what to do! I did say a few prayers asking Heavenly Father to help guide me or inspire me, or someone else to find it and some how return to me. I even say I may not deserve such a worldly possession, but it means so much, ... and it does cost quite a bit too! Finally Jeff called and asked what was wrong. Before he called, yes I was worried, but I didn't feel like I was going to unravel and break down crying over it... but when I spoke with him I just about had my melt down right there. He told me to not worry, and that I'll find it. I thought... How am I going to find it?!!!! Its lost somewhere in that grass and I'm never going to find it! He told me not to worry and get back to class and that he would call up the jewelers to see if the warranty would cover this since technically this constitutes for "lost diamonds".

I sat through the whole class thinking what I should do. Get flyer's out all over that section with the pictures of the pendant and saying how significantly important the ring is and begging to return with a reward, notify the school admin. Jeff called and said the warranty will cover lost diamonds, but if the whole thing is lost, its not covered. Jeff did stress that the chain's broken 3 times already and we just got it fixed earlier this week, and I just had wore it for the first time after getting it fixed again. He said for us to come in, and bring in the warranty, and we would contact CS to see if there is anything they could do since they would not give me a new chain, and instead just fixed it again (when I brought it in last, the lady told me that after 5 times of it breaking and getting repaired, they would then finally give a new chain, other than that they will not replace it).

I called my mom to seek comfort and ask if posting flyer's would be a good idea. I was going to walk to the School's front desk to speak about lost and found, and I just decided to go back out the same way to my car instead. I was telling my mom that my necklace broke and lost the chain. I explained the situation, and we were both hoping that the Jewelers would replace the lost pendant. I just happened to glance on the ground.... AND THERE IT WAS!!!!!! OK... yes... a very lengthy story to tell you how I lost it... but, my main point of all of this, is how blessed I felt. I felt joy and happiness, and just glad I had found it. I actually couldn't believe it! Shocked, surprised... yes very happy.

I said my thank you prayers and called Jeff with the wonderful news. He just said, see I knew you would find it. Got home and we talked about it. Jeff is so amazing. I need to learn to listen to him more often, because he's always right! (especially with him telling me that I would find it and to not worry about it). But he made some good points. The reason he was not worried about it, cuz if God did not want me to find it, then I would not have found it. And if he wanted me to, he would make sure I did. Thy God's will be done. Yes I am blessed enough to have the opportunity to find it, but this was also a lesson for me. He did this, for me to have more faith in him. I do have faith in him, but not like I should. I also need to be more positive. I stress about things too much. I know I shouldn't, but sometimes I make it into a bigger deal than it should be. I also know that I need to be more grateful in life, and seek opportunities to serve others, and overall to do better. We all falter or fail, but he always gives us opportunities and opens doors for us. We just need to open our eyes for these signs. Sometimes we may thing its hard going through our trials, but he truly does love us. It was a pretty big eye opener for me, and its amazing how God works. - Yes, very lengthy read... and no pictures I am sorry, but I thought to share.

Dear God,

2011-06-23T12:48:00.004-06:00

I really miss him today, and am having a hard time with it. I read some old emails he sent me, it was really tough, because even just reading them, I could hear his voice, as if he was talking to me. Made me fall apart today. It still really hurts. I know I will see him again someday, but I really want him back, he was someone I could pour my heart out to, which I did often. Yes, I know I can talk to Jeff, and do just about the same thing, but in a way it was really different with him. So if you could, tell him I miss him a lot, and there are so many things I wish I could have changed, but I most of all that I love him, and he was one of my very best and close friends. Thank you for getting me out of my rough spots in life, you kept me going through emails and calling me or texting me. I miss your jokes. I am really proud of you, but I miss you so much. I regret the most, is that I got too busy with work and my life, and I never made any time to see you, you always tried to see me whenever you could. It really seemed like things were getting better, and I didnt worry about anything because I saw you getting through all of it. I dont know what I was thinking really. Many things I wish I could change, but I cant. So I'm sorry for that. God, I appreciate your healing, but I'm still having a hard time. And I always will.

Plank :o)

2011-06-05T16:31:00.007-06:00

It took me forever to post these, but here they are finally! not as creative as everyone elses! But we did some :D

Down Under Plank

Whats hidden in the closet Plank

Chinese plank

Acrost the beams plank

Throat plank

STUPID Blogger!

2011-05-24T13:05:00.002-06:00

Well for some reason I cannot post any comments to anyone's blogs. its extremely annoying and irritating!!!!!! grr you!

END OF THE WORLD!

2011-05-20T19:54:00.005-06:00

Yes, tomorrow is the end of the world. I predict that aliens will invade us, and take over. So we have prepaired ourselves!

I dont want any Aliens reading my thoughts

they dont want to be reading his thoughts!

Raarrr!!! lol

RaNae Hunter

2011-04-18T11:18:00.003-06:00

Today is my Grandma ReNae Hunter's birthday. She is this wonderful beautiful sweet lady! She always makes sure that you are well fed, and even when your full, she'll be sure that you have snacks to snack on! She has some of the most amazing meals, such as two of my favorites, Poppy seed chicken, and hamburger .... well I dont know the official name, but has hamburger and cream of mushroom... aaahhh soooo good! All of her food is to die for. Its amazing. I've learned many things from her. The good old movies, with Audrey Hepburn, Veronica Lake, Gene Eliza Tierney and a few others that I cant quite think of. Musicals. I love Phantom of the Opera! The newer one is pretty good, but boy the original, with Sarah Brightman as Christine!!! Oh her voice! Amazing! I love, love, LOVE that! They also bought me the soundtrack to that. This is one of the most memorable for me. I've learned to be loving, forgiving, kind, happy, helpful to those around. My Grandma is one of the most loving and giving people I know! She is always serving others, and making sure that those around her are properly taken care of. She and my Papa, served a mission together. She loves all of us grand kids, all of us! They are always getting us all candy and little gifts here and there (and thats a lot of kids!) She is one amazing person, and some day, I hope to be just like her! I sadly dont have any pictures of my Grandma! I did not realize this until today. So I stole some of these off of my family's! :o) Say ello to my aunti Vivian, Kasz, Brittany, Grandma ReNae, and little ReNae! :o) I love my grandparents personalities. My Papa just makes me laugh, and my grams is soo adorable! haha.

Family is so amazing, and my Grandma ReNae really made it perfect that way! Through all of her struggles, she has made a wonderful family. I truely look up to you Grandma and love you so very much!

Tiled Bathroom :o)

2011-04-17T15:22:00.014-06:00

Tiling, I tell you what, its a long process. Now I've been meaning to post this for months.... but just takes forever to download pictures! I wish i knew an easier way to get them all on here. Anyways I finally took the time to do this today. Also, I'm really bad with the before and after pictures. This is all the before, and putting it all together. My camera isnt the greatest either.

Poor Jeff, he was getting a bit tired of doing all of this, and he likes things to be exact and perfect.

See, perfect!!! he uses this! But he did a wonderful job!

When I have some time I'll post pictures of the finished after product! Since it took me soo long to get all the pictures up on here.

Keys, they are important.

2011-04-09T21:44:00.002-06:00

Well its been a while since I have posted. I have quite a bit I've been meaning to post too. its just called laziness. Well, Tuesday morning, we got ready for the day, like every day. Well we have a spare key for the car. Jeff uses that to start up the car in the morning. He handed me the house keys. We get in the car, and Jeff locks up the garage door. At that moment... I realized I had accidently locked our house keys in the house. I left them on the table. Big oops. We left for work. Most of the morning, i had tried calling around our insurance to see if they might possibly cover for getting the Locksmith. Well, I've learned after spending an hour with them on the phone getting no where, that they probably wont cover it, and only way to find out is if I file a claim. Which isnt worth it. So finally, I spend the rest of the moring looking up locksmiths. Found a good locksmith. He met me at the house after work, and was able to let me in! :o) Yay! Big relief. Lets just say, i wont let this mistake happen again, and if so, i'm gonna have a few friends and family have spare keys!!!! So, hopefully this will be a reminder to those who do not have spare keys, to make sure they go out and make a few ;)

Jason Schenk

2011-04-08T12:15:00.013-06:00

(Hope, if you are reading this, please understand I do not intend anything I say to be offensive. I love you. I am so sorry for your loss. You still will always be in my prayers) Its amazing the emotions you will go through when you loose someone. Last time I lost someone, was almost 5 years ago now, my cousin Daniel. That was pretty hard. You go through just about every emotion imaginable. I'm not a poet, nor am I a very good writer, but I'll explain it as best as I can. First its shock, and disbelief. Moments after, when reality hits you, it hits hard, like a wave of emotions. You feel a pit at the bottom of your stomach, and it stays there for a while. You feel complete sadness, and cannot control it, as hard as you may try. You cry, until you feel like you cant cry anymore, then you cry even more. And cry even more. Then, when you think you have everything under control, and have to face people. But you start to notice just little things that remind you of that person, makes you cry even more. You get teary. When someone asks just a normal every day question, such as, "Hey CB, how you doing today?" You can't control it, and you start to cry even more, and then having to explain why your crying. Its a good thing to take off the rest of the day, because you will not be able to control it. You'll also cry some more on your way home. It's difficult. Even if your surrounded by loved ones, and those who care about you, that's hard as well, to not cry. They will do their best to keep your mind distracted, and make you happy. They may do a pretty good job, but they cant take way how you are feeling, depressed. They may make you smile, but you still cry a little bit. You just feel numb. And cold. And its still hard to believe. Even though you know the truth, you don't want to believe it. Its hard to imagine. You feel anger and sorrow. You know that they are in a better place but you think quietly, still it wasn't their time. Its hard to tell people about it. You may get distracted for a little while and not think about it. But later that night when you crawl in bed, its all you think about it. I would suggest taking a sleeping pill at this point, it helps. The next day, you don't feel as depressed but you are still glum. You may have a little bit of composure, but not much. Especially, when the company has bought you some flowers. You'll feel loved and appreciated that your work cares so much for you, but just getting those make you cry. Hard thing is, when people ask what the flowers are for. They'll ask, "Oh, is it your birthday or a special occasion." I simply have learned to say its the opposite of what they think, and then you have to tell them why you received it. But, this will help you a bit, more you talk about it. Still hard to not tear up about it, but it becomes a bit easier every time you have to explain. I'm sorry to have my readers read all of this, but I feel better typing it out, and getting it off my chest. This is only the beginning of what I am feeling, and I'm sure its going to take a while to control my emotions. This post, is for one of my very good, and best friends. He struggled with Stage IV metastasized Melanoma. One tumor in his brain and 7 in his lungs. He received extensive full brain radiation. June 2010, they said that there was nothing else they could do, but He and his wonderful Wife, pushed on with other remedies, such as some surgeries, and natural supplements. He was an amazing fighter, and went through so much. His wife was by his side through every moment of this, and she too an amazing fighter. He passed away this last Wed, April 6Th 2011, around 4pm. Jason Schenk, I love you soo much. You have been a great friend, advisor, and supporter to me. You've been there for me through thick and thin. I met you at EFY, and ever since, you've been an amazing friend. I remember the time that you and Steve drove all the way from Logan, up to my house in Idaho Falls, then all the way back down to Farmington, to go to Lagoon on a group date. You won a plastic air filled bat, and gave that to me. You also won me a big purple and pink fuzzy hat. I remember poor Steve getting sick, and we had to take him back. You were amazing to drive me back to my Aunt Nancy's in Logan. The next morning my Aunt woke me up, and told me that you had slept the night over on her couch :} then you took me the rest of the way back to my house, then you went back home. I remember you giving me gifts, like the round tin can, that had cinnamon popuri, and that you had put money in there for me. I held onto that forever, and the money always smelt like cinnamon. I always got something from you, and it was fun. You taught me new words, like "yoink"(however you spell that I am not sure) and taught me that it means that I can take whatever I wanted, and was officially mine. Also taught me, "What happened? I blacked out". That was my favorite to say. Our jokes that we've had, and the things we've made up, I will never forget. I will never forget how many times you would drive up just to see me. I enjoyed your company, and having you around. I even remember when you met Hope, and how happy and excited you were. I was so happy for you and so proud. It was the first time I really truely saw you happy, and that made me happy. You have inspired me. I am extremely sad that you are gone now. I will forever miss you, but you will never be forgotten. I pray that you are by Hope's side when she is having a hard time, and that you will be there like my cousin was there for me when he passed away.

Great Deals :o)

2011-02-03T08:21:00.003-07:00

I just LOVE great deals, and saving money!!! OK so everyone enjoys saving money, but when you can save between $70-$140 on something for school, that is a stellar deal! So I've been wanting to buy the Microsoft software for school, but its SO dang expensive! $150 for that, just doesn't make me want to buy it. While ago I found out that they will give out a student discount, but that's still $80 bucks! Which isn't bad, but still a lot of money. So I have put it off. Well, found out this morning, that with my company corporate discount, I can get it for... drum roll please... $9.95!!!!

Ten bucks!!!!!!! WHO can complain for only ten bucks?!!! Not me! So I am stoked! Way happy. So today after class, I am going to download it onto our laptop. WAHOO!

I should probably let ya'll know that I got a new job

2011-01-25T13:28:00.002-07:00

Ok peeps,
Sorry I have been very very bad at keeping my blogs updated. And I've realized that I didn't blog about my new job! I am still with Overstock.com, but no longer in their Fraud Prevention Dept. I did enjoy this department extremely, alas it was time to move on. I heard from a co worker that the position in Accounts Payable became available. So I applied for it (this was like Wed Jan 5Th. Thursday they interviewed me and Friday they accepted me! Seriously was such a rush. But was good I got a little bit of a raise, and its totally different from what I was doing. and I still got to keep my hours (love 6am - 2:30) which also has helped me with keeping my school schedule. I help set up new partners for the company, and handle some billing things for the parnters, and answering emails. So I am now a "PAP" (Partner Accounts Payable I believe). Yes, you can laugh, that is what I am. I am a PAP Analyst in Partner AP!!! haha. so there ya go, now ya'll know! Now, its time for me to go back to work. Oh, and Kari, I've posted 3 blogs for ya! haha.

I'm even more spoiled :D

2011-01-23T09:56:00.002-07:00

I know its been forever since the last time I've posted anything! But this is what Jeff got for me for Christmas! And it matches my ring! He had bought me a necklace several years ago, that I really loved and used to wear all the time. Well one day it had gotten a knot in the chain, and Jeff was trying to fix it, and well, he accidentally dropped it down the sink. We were not able to recover it. So few years later, he bought me this! :) yay! Don't Worry, I will make sure I am never near a sink with this! But its absolutely beautiful. I know I am VERY spoiled with Jeff :S

:D Thank you Baby! Love it!

Ya know, I am very spoiled.

2011-01-21T20:06:00.004-07:00

Jeff bought me this wonderful desk, put it together and had it ready for me after I got off class. This is so much nicer than me sitting on the couch and trying to study. What a wonderful husband!!!! Thank you baby!

Christmas Pictures

2010-12-25T12:29:00.007-07:00

I have many more posts, but I felt I should do this one. Thursday I had the opportunity to have my siblings stay over with us thursday night. We had fun just goofing off. Marisa made some christmas ginger bread nativity scene. Jeff helped a bit with his creative side. Friday, we went and got our pictures done for our family! Its been a while since we've had any updated family pictures. We are going to be giving these out as christmas gifts. I'm so happy how good these turned out. The kid who did them, Joe, did an amazing job. We were hardly out for more than a half hr. And he edited all of these yesterday, so I could give them out today. Thank you Joe! So I am very excited to give these out to my mom and grandparents! I noticed that a lot of the pictures I didnt smile, and totally looks bad. So I guess even though I think my fake smiles look bad, actually smiling looks loads better.

Halloween decorations

2010-11-13T09:53:00.005-07:00

It has been forever since I have been able to Blog! And I haven't been very good at taking pictures of things. But I did for Halloween! We have even more pictures of how we decorated outside, but I cant figure out how to transfer them from the camcorder to the computer... Anyways, there are a few pictures of what Halloween looked like this year at our place! I LOVE Halloween and decorating for it.

This pumpkin does different colors, couldn't capture it on my camera.

Lol, these are some glasses of mine that Jeff put on the skull. Ha-ha, looks just like me!
This pumpkin is so cute, you cant tell in the picture, ut I put a flame-less candle in there and it flickers, looks pretty good.

Jeff got so creative this year! He drilled some holes in the skulls and put these candles in them, then he melted some wax and had it drip down the skulls.
Okay so this isn't part of the Halloween decorating, but we bought it at the overstock warehouse, Jeff also bought a mini matching pen holder and he has it at work. We thought that they were pretty cool.

My Mom came down, and she helped me make this cute pumpkin!!! We didnt have enough material, but I love it. I'm gonna have to find some more paper twist to be able to make more pumpkins, but paper twist is pretty hard to find now days.

Outside:

We had a red light behind the tombstone to try brighten up our porch. I wanted to do a black light, but we werent able to do it. And underneath this, we had a fog machine!!! It actually looked pretty cool.

You can hardly tell that this cauldron is a little mini fog machine. I would say more of a "smoke" than fog, but does all sort of colors. Pretty cool :D One of my favorite things we did this year.

Then we did some skulls that hung down from our porch area, they hung above our heads. We also had a scary/creepy head that was hanging above our porch area. Seriously is a pretty sick looking head. The missionaries that we have over said that we should have some fake blood dripping down, but I think we would have freaked out everyone. Sorry, I don't have pictures of those, well I do.. but they are on the camcorder.

And this guy is above all, my most favorite decoration!!! I still have him up because I enjoy him so much. Ha-ha. We had quite a few trick or treater's this year, but we thought we would have a lot more. As it got darker, people didnt come to our house. We figured it wasnt bright enough for our porch, which was frustrating. O wells. So we'll have to make some changes for next year.

Did I mention...

2010-08-03T21:55:00.003-06:00

That I am going to start school Aug 25Th?!!!

This time, I'm REALLY not Kidding!!!!! :D ha ha even though I'm only starting out on my generals, I'm super excited about it!!!! I'm actually enrolled to start out on a 6 hr credit Math class (bleh), and communications. So there is 9 credit hrs already. Wahoo! Anyways, I had to share that at least. :o)

And.... I really should probably go to bed.... Night!

Be Kind Rewind

2010-08-03T21:27:00.005-06:00

"Video store employee Mike (Mos Def) can't believe his bad luck when his buddy, Jerry (Jack Black), accidentally magnetizes his bran and inadvertently erases every video in the store. Now, they're pressed to produce their own low-rent remakes of every erased film. (And, Yes, that includes classics like Ghostbusters, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.) Danny Glover, Mia Farrow and Paul Dinello also star in this comedy from Writer-director Michael Gondry."

Okay, I just got done watching this movie, and honestly, I have to say... I loved it! You know Jack Black and be sometimes rude, crude and disgusting. But I thought he was good in this movie! It is PG-13, but I thought it was really good, and it has a heart "feel" good ending. You don't have to watch this, but I just wanted to say, it was a really good movie, at least I felt it was. It was entertaining to me and made me laugh and was fun to watch. Never the less,.... Jeff went to bed right when this movie started, ... We do have different opinions, but then again he didnt even give this movie a try.

Anyways if you are bored, I'd suggest renting this movie. Just give it a try. I think I might just buy it :o) But that's MY opinion.... and you don't have to agree with me.

Cabinets & Drawers

2010-07-24T14:10:00.004-06:00

Well today we finally decided to add handles on our drawers and cabinets. Jeff has been busy most of the morning with marking them correctly and drilling the holes. We've got the drawers all done... but the cabinets may take some time. Jeff's not too happy to remove all the cabinets, but its gonna look so great when its all done! Here are some pictures haha

He did NOT like me taking his picture :)

I don't know if we'll get them all up today... Jeff's having a hard time deciding if he really wants to the cabinets or not.. but we'll see. At least the drawers look great!

These are the top cabinets, these will be the "before" pictures, and if we get these finished, I'll try to remember to post the "After" so you can see how amazing they look! Wish I did a before/after pictures, but oh well, at least I finally did the post :o)

Sea World!!!

2010-07-06T10:56:00.000-06:00

This is extremely late (uhh... about over 2 months now???!) Anyways, there are some pictures from when we went to Sea World back in may, think it was the 7th. Jeff was on some heavy meds so that he could at least somewhat enjoy the day. It was sooo much fun!!! I have to say, my favorite animal is now the Sea Lions!!! I love them! :o) look at the cute little guy awe he's soo cute. and we watched one of the shows they put on, and it was soo funny, even Jeff thought it was cute. We missed some of the show, and sadly, didnt have enough battery time to take pictures or record the show. I 've got a lot of movie stuff that we captured, but I cant figure out how to get it all on here. Here are some random pictures from the day. I have a ton of them... but well I dont really want to post them all on here or else would take forever.

AAAAAAHHHHHHH! Sharks! Was soo awesome, we were in a little tube and these amazing sharks were swimming all around us. was almost spooky. But totally awesome :o)

Ooops, we forgot to zoom out haha :) but i love the picture.

Funny thing about this, we didnt realize that we were in the wrong spots. So Jeff is Penny and I'm Pete haha :o)

awe, he's sleeping

Okay this has to be one of the funniest posters that we found at Sea World!!! Jeff and I stopped dead in our tracks and about died with laughter. Still makes us giggle quite a bit, so I decided to share this as well :o)

Well if you want to see more pictures, you can check them out on my facebook page, I just have soooooo many, that it would take forever to post on here. and well lets face it, I'm behind on my blogging so I finally worked on this last night

Guest Bedroom and some flowers

2010-07-06T10:55:00.007-06:00

Well Here are some pictures of what our plants USED to look like!!!!

Here is our new entertainment center which has been very nice lately.

New curtains and sheet set :)

New rug.

some more flowers of what they USED to look like. Not anymore they look like dead weeds. but they are more spring time. Oddly enough, these ones only last for spring. we saw a whole ton in my mom's neighborhoods that lasted just fine. o well

Sadly, none of our flowers look like this. In a way, I dont wanna post any sad looking pictures. again, this is only a few.

Bite?

2010-06-23T19:34:00.004-06:00

I know that I have not posted any of the rest of the trip and a few other things I would really like to blog about, but.... I cannot until I find my USB cord to my camera and the computer so I can download those pictures. So until then....

Yesterday morning I wake up to this red circular looking thing on my arm. I didn't know what it was. I honestly thought Jeff had given me a hickey on my right arm. I thought that's odd, looks like something bit me. But there were not any bite marks or anything!!! So I thought "okay whatever". Then it started to itch like a mosquito bite, just really itchy. I didn't think anything about it and went on with my day. Later I asked on of my sup's (she's called momma D.... ha ha we all ask her all sorts of questions,) what she thought of it, and if it needed attention. She got worried about it and told me to mark it, and if it got any bigger to go into the doctor. She thought it was a spider bite, and was really worried it would get very serious. I spoke to several other people worried that it was a spider bite and they told me to take this serious.
Pictures below of Tuesday:

Okay those are the 3 pictures I took on Tuesday. I would say it was bigger than a fifty cent piece or so.

Below are pictures from today, wed. I woke up this morning and noticed that it was much bigger than what it was yesterday. you cant tell that much from the first picture, but if you look hard you can slightly see where the first markings were, and where it is now. some odd reason it looks different in these pictures than the ones earlier. Not sure why the earlier pictures turned out so red and these ones didnt.

Can you slightly see the few black faded dots? they are almost slightly in the center of the redness... you can hardly see them. but it mainly grew from below the earlier dots. Below is me marking it

I marked it some more to see if it would get bigger... , Which it did about a half inch or so. I don't have a Picture of what it looks now, but its slightly half inch from where you see the marks.. so total of one inch or so that its "expanded" from what it was 24 hrs before.

Finally everyone was pretty worried about it, and advised me to get into the doctors. I would have never thought that I would need to go in for something like this. Honestly... if I didn't mark it, I wouldn't have known it got so big, and probably wouldn't have gone in to the doc's.

Anyways, I set up a doc appointment and the doctor didn't even know what it was! She sat and asked me all sorts of questions. Have you been camping. No. Have you been crawling around near bushes or on the ground. No. Have you put any patches on that area. No. Have you worn any clothing or jewelry. No, and no. Only thing we could think of, is that we left the door open that night to let some cool air in. It def looks like a bite... but there are no bite marks. It's not a rash or something I would have gotten irritated from,... it shows signs of infections.... but, nothing to show what it is, or what it is from. Jeff thought well maybe this could be an odd mosquito bite. I've never had a mosquito bite be sooooooo flat against my skin. could be a first... but is very doutful. She had some concerns that there may be some blood clotting, but she said since it doesn't hurt to squeeze my arm, its not likely. So she advised us to watch it. mean while, she gave me some horse sized antibiotic pills and some cream stuff to put on it to help reduce the swelling and itching. Hopefully it will work! Anyways,... other than a few things I would like to post.... that's my highlight for now.

Until next time....

ER Run!

2010-06-02T07:17:00.003-06:00

Thursday May 6Th, We woke up to a beautiful morning! Jeff was saying that he wasn't feeling too good. We were not sure what the issue was, but his manhood was feeling like someone had kicked him pretty hard down there. We were supposed to go to Sea World, or at least we were planning to. We had woken up a bit late. I figured well maybe we get some breakfast and see how we feel later in the day. Jeff seemed to be okay to me (he doesn't really show a lot of pain or discomfort). He had mentioned about him possibly needing to go to the hospital. I don't know exactly what I was really thinking at that time, but I didn't think that he would have to go to the ER. I thought well, maybe its one of those pains, where it hurts for a while, then eventually goes away.

So I said I was gonna get some breakfast before they closed the breakfast bar, and then we would see how he's feeling. So I walked over and got some breakfast and not even five Min's latter, Jeff comes walking through the other door with the keys in his hands and said, Okay lets go now! Its gotten bad! He said that the pain was getting so bad that he had thrown up several times out side.
Uh-Oh! So with our wonderful new GPS I looked up ER's, and found the closest one to us. We got to the hospital, and they told us where to go. So we started to walk down there, and he's feeling much better! So I told him okay, well just to be sure, lets just sit around for a few Min's, and see how he feels. Ten Min's later, he felt much better and said to go back to the hotel, maybe we could make it to Sea World.

Not more than an hour later, his pain got really bad, so we ran back to the ER. It took them a while to finally get him in with a doctor. They didn't have me go in with him. I sat in the waiting room for 3 very long hours not knowing what in the world is going on! I was thinking, okay... is he in surgery?! What in the world is going on. I'm going nuts by now. FINALLY, a nurse comes back and asks me to come in and sit with Jeff. He's on one of their little beds, in their gown things. He told me that they tested his pee, ran a Cat scan, and had about 3 ultra scans!!! WHAT! and they still don't know what it is. We sat there for about another hour, and then finally one of the specialists came back and told us it was a kidney stone, and that he'll be fine, all we have to do is just give him pain meds and hopefully he'll pass the stone in a few days! :( not fun stuff at all!

Poor Jeff, and he wasn't happy about the picture. So there ya go, we went to the ER while on Vacation! how crappy is that?! Oh well, at least we didn't have to have surgery or anything.

To LAX!!!!

2010-05-30T16:52:00.005-06:00

On Wednesday May 5Th, sadly Jen, Blair and their kids, had to leave back to the Long Beach airport to head back home to Montana. It was so much fun having them with us. The previous night, Jeff's parents let us borrow their GPS so we could use it to get around Anaheim, and also to be able to get to Sea World. Which was so wonderfully nice of them! Well Tues night we decided to go to this wonderful Sea Food Buffet called Todai (or something like that). I thought that we would be driving, and had the GPS in my purse. Well, Blair decided he would drive he said it was just right down the road. So we piled into his car, and I decided that well its dumb having my purse on me so I'd leave it in there, but hid the GPS a bit just in case.

All I have to say is, OH MY GOODNESS! DELICIOUS! I've never had such good sea food! I have to say, eel is wonderfully good. Oh I loved the stuffed blue crab, and the lobster was Divine! So much good food. Well any how, we enjoyed our lovely meal and then went back to the hotel and soaked in the hot tub which was lovely evening.

So we waived good bye to Jen Blair and the kids. We were pretty sad they had to leave so early. So we go back into our room and watched a bit of TV. We didn't really want to go out that night, just because it was Cinco De Myo (sp), and just didn't sound fun to drive around with all the drunks and that sort of thing. So we get settled. Later on, it hits me.

I forgot the GPS in the Rental car! EEK! So, Jeff and I went to Walmart, and bought a new GPS for ourselves! Because there is no way we would have been able to get ourselves to the Los Angeles Airport!!! I called up the Rental place Jen & Blair had dropped off the car. They searched where I had put it, and gratefully found it and said that we would have to come pick it up. So we headed out on our Jorney to LAX!

I hate to admit, but I was kinda grumpy that day. Jeff did a good job catching my grumyness. I was trying to figure out our new GPS (which was kinda exciting). We sucsessivly were able to get the GPS and headed back home. It surprisingly took up most of our day! So thats our story for that day ha ha :)

Tuesday in CA :o)

2010-05-30T14:16:00.004-06:00

Okay so its been a while since I've been able to post. We've had a pretty busy weekend. This was Tuesday May 4 when we were all up in Anaheim CA. Tuesday, we first went to the beach. We discovered a hermit crab. It was pretty awesome. Spent some time on the beach. Did you know that clams dig into the sand?! so we were all playing on the beach trying to find some neat sea shells. We get out in the water, and noticed those pretty little tiny shells that were together. Later on, we noticed they were live clams! We thought oh, that's pretty cool. So I dropped one of them back. We just stood watching it. Seconds later, we noticed it was digging itself into the sand! We dug a little and saw hundreds of them! Thought that was pretty neat to share.

After the Beach, we went to a Kids Discovery. That was really cool. They taught ya how tides work and the waves, and how tornado's and hurricane's work, and also had an earth quake simulator. I guess California has already had a few earth quakes this past year! Its so crazy. I forget that they get them all the time. I couldn't imagine experiencing a bad earthquake. Would be so scary. Also was talking with someone there, they were saying that they are all preparing for an earth quake that is supposed to be as big as the one that happened in Haiti, within the next year or so. : So glad I don't actually live in CA!!! Anyways, these aren't all the pictures for Tuesday, but here's a few :o)

Here I am laying on a bed of needles!!! It was kinda painful, not too bad, but its crazy how if you lay flatly on a bed of these that they wont pierce you even though I weigh quite a bit. Was pretty fun. And no one else would do it!

After, we had to take Brian, Mom and Dad Bean back to the airport :(

It was so much fun to have them there with us, wish they could have stayed a little while longer with us. They really made our trip such a wonderful time!

Disney

2010-05-25T19:19:00.005-06:00

Disney!!!!

We went to Disney on Monday May 3rd. Oh what a blast! But oddly enough, I thought Disney was supposed to be this HUGE park. It is pretty big, but not as big as everyone told me. Then again, we didn't go to California Adventures, but we will one of these days. So I guess I can only say I've been to part of Disney, at least the old part. Jeff and I kinda got tired after being their the first 5 hrs, our feet started to hurt. :) we are kinda whiners, but we did our best to be happy and have fun. We went on Indiana Jones, Pirates of Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, Buzz Light year, Space Mountain, Jungle River, Splash Mountain, Rodger Rabbit, Matterhorn, and... I cant think of anything else. There were a few places that were closed like this race car/bumper thing and another splash ride thing that was closed, cant remember those names. I think there were a few others that we did. We also got some gifts and fun things. Oddly enough, I didn't see ONE Disney character. Jeff saw Goofy, but I didn't! I was kinda disappointed. But oh had so much fun!

Okay, I am NOT a huge fan of my own pictures, especially this day. I didn't wear any make up, but wore sunglasses to cover up. Ha, that hardly worked. o well :)

I realize I didn't take hardly any pictures while we were at Disney. I'm kinda surprised but oh well.

I have to say I love this picture with my little niece, Brooke! I hardly took any with Alex or Brant or Dane :(

:) Jeff's sexy pose, or something but I love it. Even though he's trying to be funny, I think he's so hot!

Oh I just look bad without those sunglasses that day!

Okay Jeff sometimes hates posing for the camera. So at first we were pulling funny faces. Picture below, someone captured this one pretty well. I'm licking Jeff hahaha. By his expression on this, he didn't like it too much. :o)

And course... more flowers. We just LOVED them though! I mean, if we could we would have spend a whole day trying to take more pictures of the foliage. Nothing like it in Utah.

Okay that has to be it for today. Trust me I have a TON more pictures, and bit more of our vacation, but its taken me forever to post these. So thats it for now.

Cali part two....

2010-05-25T18:42:00.006-06:00

We arrived Saturday May 1st in LongBeach CA airport. My in-laws picked us up from the airport. We actually missed the 10:36 morning flight because it was booked full and we flew standby. It kinda sucked because our friend Adam had dropped us at the airport, and the only next flight out was at 7:20. We tried to stay there at the airport ... but we got super bored after the first 3 hrs. Finally we decided to just rent a car back home. So we got a car, came back home and watched a few movies. Then headed back to the airport, returned the car and berly got onto the flight that evening!!! These pictures are on Sunday, May 2nd. We went to church on sunday, it was actually so awesome, I really enjoyed it. Afterwards we headed to the beach :o) Oh, how I love the beach! These are only a few of them.

hehehehe

I realized that I didnt take very many pictures of everyone or even ourselves. But... we had a ton of fun! We found lots of sea shells :o) Some really cool looking ones too! I believe this day we found a big dead crab. OH, and the bathrooms at the beach, were DISCUSTING! Like big time!

California!

2010-05-25T17:09:00.011-06:00

I've finally got (first part) of our California pictures! Only 446 Left to go! Okay, maybe I wont post every single picture... especially because almost all of them are just foliage pictures ha-ha :) And this is only part of day one.

Above is the hotel we stayed at, Lemon Tree hotel. We stayed in Anaheim

This is what the front of our little hotel room looked like :o)

Balcony upstairs see pretty flower-vine plant, I loved it. Made this place look like something in Paris or Italy... :o)

Okay yes,... not the best picture, but I'm not the best Photographer. Jeff thought it was funny that i got some random dead looking tree here but trying to show the whole view.

Another view of our hotel.

These were pretty neat flowers

There were soo many different kinds of palm trees! It was so crazy. Palm trees, bushes, and some were just stuff I've never seen. Like these ones. this is something I would think I would see in maybe... a jungle.

:o) Sweet Brooke!

This is the palm tree I was talking about. SO many different Palms!

They look like they are bleeding sorta. Brant and I thought it was cool. Below is a snail on one of these flowers.

Some fish that were in this pond thing at the hotel, oh I so wish I would have taken pictures of the Lilly pads! They only opened later in the morning, and we were constantly running around.

Did someone hit the "slow" button?!!!

2010-04-22T12:54:00.005-06:00

Wow, today has gone by extremely slow! I'm super bored at work. And yes, I've been horrible with my posts as of late. I just usually like to post things with pictures, just makes everything more excitable! For now, this will have to do.

I just wanted to brag about my little sister Marisa. I've already done a post to April, but now its Marisa's turn. She will be turning 18 this Nov (which I cannot believe!). She won her campaign for one of the spots to be on the student government, she is in control of most of planning their senior year dances. She's always busied herself with school activities and has had a fun dating experiences and spending time with friends, also working and saving up money for a big fun trip to Europe sometime in June. AND she made Bonneville County JR Miss program, she was number 4 in the finalists. She did such an amazing job too! She hurt herself two nights before the big event (pulling her hamstring), and still did such a good job! I am so very proud of her and she looks so beautiful. I am so proud to be her sister, and with all of her accomplishments. She is extremely amazing.

Here is a list of her, and all the girls that were in this program:
www.ajm.org/about/state_programs/idaho/local_programs/bonneville_county/contestants/

She is the 9Th girl down.
:o) I love you Marisa! I wish her to accomplish all of her dreams (which I know she will), and to live your life to the fullest, and learn how to not stress out so much ;)
I love both of my little sisters so extremely much. They mean everything to me, and I am so proud of the both of them. I don't know where I would be with out them. They are both so extremely beautiful sisters, and they've got amazing sense of humor and personalities. Thank you for everything you have done for me.

K thats it for this post for now, maybe I'll try to put up her video {Kari, I think you'd like to see? :o) }

Everything is okay!

2010-03-26T15:23:00.006-06:00

Jeff is so wonderful to me. He's been so good to me this whole week and especially today. I had to admit I was pretty nervous, but I didnt freak out or anything. I felt like crying, but proud of myself, I didnt! Okay I teared up. But Dr Flint was soo good! They put the finger monitor on, and when I heard my own heart rate going, kinda made me even more nervous. But he said, well I do this all day, every day. Trust me we know what we are doing, and you'll be fine. So I breathed in the oxegen and after he got the IV in, I was just fine! Relaxed and next thing I remember is Jeff holding my hand, and i was in a big comfy chair with a nice thick blanket. Was good. Jeff Brought me home, got me all bundled up nice comfortable and warm. Got my meds and more liquid things for me to take. So far, its been a really good experience. I'm pretty happy how its all turned, and how painless its been :) Okay thats the big thing I've been worried about, but like Jeff has said, it wont hurt and everything will be fine :) Anyways here's some pictures. Not to bad eh?

So, I've been really behind my blogging...

2010-03-25T11:40:00.004-06:00

And I really should be working right now, but I'm soo not in the mood to. So tonight, I'm excited to go see Alice in Wonderland in 3D! Yippy! It should be lots of fun for me and Jeff. I have heard it is pretty weird movie, but I've always loved Tim Burton, and his stuff. So I'm still hyped up to go see it.

I'm just too excited. Like a little kid :D

Tomorrow I get my wisdom teeth removed, yes all 4 of them. I am not at all excited for that. But don't worry! I will have an IV and anesthesia so I'll be knocked out and not aware of anything! And Jeff has tomorrow off as well, so he'll be there for me all weekend and be taking care of me! So I'll be eating mush foods. Hopefully I wont be in too much pain. Oh, dont worry Jeff will be taking pictures and possibly video, to see if i say something funny. :o)

Sorry this is so short, but I do need to go! Love all!

....

2010-01-07T11:34:00.002-07:00

I am SO bored!!! So extremely bored at work. Right now we are a little overstaffed, and dont have any work, orders are slowly streaming through. I've tried to do as much as I can... but right now there is NOTHING in there to work on. So ... I'm looking busy ha-ha. I would post other things... but I dont want to get caught at work blogging. Once I get pictures from Jen and Blair, I will gladly post the wedding and describe how amazing and beautiful it was! Because truely, my family (everyone) did a great job!

Anyways.... So far that will be it for today. Sorry its so boring!

I'm so behind on blogging!

2009-12-19T22:13:00.004-07:00

Wow I am totally behind on blogging and pictures, and everything!!!! Sorry everyone! And for some reason, my blog is being weird. When I post my pictures, it comes up as link or something... which is frustrating. and my thingy... dunno what it is called, but I don't have the buttons to change gong or colors :'( sad!!!
I've just been busy, and well just haven't really been online in a long while. Which I'm surprised I haven't gone insane yet. I love ready every one's blogs (I sound creepy) and posting blogs.

Well, we are finally moved into the house and actually have pictures all up and things (mostly) put away. Feels good to be settled in!!! Its surprising how all the little things you need, really add up. Like soap for two more bathrooms. light bulbs (lots of light bulbs!) But its soo nice to be settled in and comfortable. And we get free Internet and cable! That's always nice!

Julie and Lee came down yesterday, and brought a Christmas tree my Mom has been dying to get to me. We were going to buy a tree several weeks ago, but we realized that we spent a bit more than we planned, so we decided we'd just wait till after Christmas to get one. My mom got a tree, that's normally a $350 or so tree couple years ago after Christmas, for only $39 bucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its a beautiful tree. Anyways, she was excited to find out that we we're going to buy one right away, and wanted to give us her old one. Her old one is pretty nice too, but one section is out, and she was never able to figure out why that little section never works.

Jeff was wonderfully nice and gave me some money to buy lights and bulbs for the tree! I got to decorate it all by myself, and I feel proud of myself! I've never decorated a tree before. I think its lovely. My phone doesn't take the best pictures. And I cant find my cord to my charger for my camera.... its in a box somewhere.

Okay so if you haven't heard the news yet, Jeff and I are finally getting married. I believe everyone that reads my blogs, know by now. ( I hope. I've been behind on things). Its a week away! I'm so excited too. My Uncle Kerry is going to be marring us. I'm so glad he was able to get things done so he can. My Aunts are so amazing. The other day, my aunt Nancy called me just to say that she loved me and congrats. Made me feel good! My aunt Leslie, she's helped me out with my wedding dress and bouquet, which will be a pleasant surprise for everyone, I'm actually pretty excited about that. and I think, my really great best friend, Kari, will be doing my hair (maybe ... I hope so cuz she is just the bestest!) Julie and Lee have been such great support as well. I really appreciate their help in this. Julie's in charge of the cake. And Jen has been amazing help with the announcements. There was some big mis-communication on the announcements, but o well, cant do too much about them, and I'm not gonna worry about it because, I really am not worried about it! As long as I get married, that's all that matters. Jeff's family has been so amazing to me. I appreciate family during these times. They really do jump in and do EVERYTHING they can. I feel loved and really appreciate everything.

We decided to do the reception in the spring time, but I want to make this a little memorable. Its not going to be fancy, and its basically only the ceremony. But I'm so glad to have family there. Hopefully Jeff wont get too overwhelmed. I've been doing my best to try not let him know too much about anything. So... if you love Jeff as much as I do... Please don't mention anything to him... if that makes sense. He doesn't know that we are having a cake, nor does he know that there's going to be a dinner afterwards. But I want the dinner to be relaxed. Its not a wedding dinner, mainly a family dinner.

If you understand Jeff, you'll know why I am trying to keep most of this all hush hush. I sound like a horrible person keeping most of this info from him.... and some days, I've kinda lied to him. But honestly, its the best thing.. because he'd freak out. ha ha poor thing, just too much stress for him, so I don't even mention things around him. And here I am blogging about it. Oh well, its a good place to get everything out. I'm thinking of getting him a better ring too, the one that he has, really doesn't fit him at all! too thick, and he doesn't like wearing it. I want him to be comfortable wearing the ring and to actually like it. I've got an idea what he likes. Sadly, I may not get it for him till after the wedding, but I might be able to get it before. I've found a few at a reasonable price, and they are the tungsten-titanium rings.

Okay, I've probably blabbered enough for now. One of these days, I'll get pictures up of our house! Jeff got some good ones on his phone. Oh boy I'm tired. I love ya'll and hope your doing good! K gotta go!

Warmth is Good!

2009-12-03T06:19:00.004-07:00

Well we had another fun thing happen to us Monday after work. We got home and noticed our gas was shut off. OOps! Cailey and Jeff forgot to switch our utilities to the new address. They said it would cost about $100 to have someone sent out that night to turn back on the Gas! We decided that we would wait till next day to have it turned back on. Yeah the house got down to 49 degrees :( was pretty dang cold.

We got home after work, and still had issues trying to get it turned back on. Find out that they just "unlock" the gas but they don't actually turn it back on for "safety reasons". Which just made this suck and took the place FOREVER to finally get all nice and warm. But I have to say, that I am ever so grateful that we have a nice warm house to be in, and grateful that the gas works, so I can even cook and use the stove! I am also excited to have the fridge this Saturday and the washer and dryer on next Wed!!!

*Jeff did an amazing Job yesterday cleaning up the house, I got home and it looked so nice! It actually felt like home! He's so sweet and kind to me. I love him so much.*

Oh and PS
We met several neighbors so far, and we really like the place so far! Everyone is so nice to us. I just cant wait this sunday to go to our new ward! Just seems so exciting, like a whole new leaf for me and Jeff. New start on life. It really is exciting and I'm very happy :o)

2009-11-27T09:18:00.003-07:00

Okay sorry everyone, I've been just busy and unable to post anything, but I'm finally giving an update. I believe last Saturday, Jeff and I bought a fridge, washer and dryer, and we now have all new appliances! Wahoo! After signing for the house and giving over the check for the down payment (which was a LOT of money), I almost felt like we should be stinking broke! All exciting though. Kinda funny story, after we got done signing, the Lady who was having us sign all the papers at the title company, asked us if we wanted Champagne. Jeff and I didn't know what to say, and Jeff just blurted out, "Um, we both have to drive home".

Ha ha, turns out that they give you a bottle of either champagne or sparkling cider after you sign with them. kinda felt awkward walking out with that bottle. Another neat thing, is that our broker and agent had a truck for us to use to help us move! They have a moving truck for anyone who buys' or sells a house with them! That was very nice, sooo much better than renting one at Uhal and stressing about getting everything done all at once! they are letting us use it for a week!

Well We got the keys to the house Tuesday, and poor Jeff moved most of Wednesday all by himself for most of the day. He got to a point where he just felt like he couldn't do anything else, and got really overwhelmed. I feel pretty bad about it, I was stuck at work and was not able to help him till after work. He didn't even want to move the couches, so we decided that we would do that on Saturday.

While we were moving stuff into the new house, we found out that they Winterized the house. Which really sucked for us because we didn't have any water to go to the bathroom or any water to actually drink, so Jeff and our good friend Adam decided to go grab some drinks from the gas station. While I was packing things into the house, the upstairs smoke detector was going off, and I knew it would drive me nuts. Only problem is that the celling is Very High, and we would need a ladder to actually fix it.
Knowing that Jeff would never ask a neighbor for help, and knowing that we probably wouldn't get to it for several days, I decided to take matters in my own hands. I went over to our next door neighbors, Nancy and Steve. We had met her earlier, she was just coming home and she introduced herself and she was very friendly. She had her husband grab their ladder and we went over there and he had to disconnect it from the wall. Oddly enough it was still going off even without being plugged into the wall. Come to find out there was also a battery in there, and was dying. So nicely enough the neighbors got a battery and was able to connect it back to the wall. Before we got done, Jeff got home and was confused as to why I asked them over. ha - ha sorry Jeff! I just know you too well and know that we'd never get around to doing it and would drive me nuts.

Well we had unpacked some things and I had called the people who winterized our house to see if the can turn on the water or if we needed someone to come out and do it or if we could just do it ourselves. Lady said that it would cost between $75-100 for someone to just come out and help us! She did explain it would be easy for us to do as long as we had no major leaks. Jeff and I just weren't sure how to do it and well, we weren't able to lift the main top and weren't sure if we would get into trouble doing it ourselves, so we contacted our Agent and he said he would have someone over in the morning. Thank you Doug!
Only thing is, we had to go back to the apartments to spend the night over there, since there was no plumbing available at the house. Was not extremely comfortable for us though, we slept on a foam topper, which didn't do much to make the floor comfortable. And we had stayed up late with me cooking and prepping food for thanksgiving. So we were pretty tired the next morning.

Gratefully the guy came over was able to get our water turned on Yay working water is good! Thursday I hurried up an grabbed the food I made the night before, and we rushed over to my Dad's place. My food was a pretty big hit and I'm pretty proud of it now. I agree with Jeff probably shouldn't have cooked so much food, but it turned out to be just fine.

Well enough of me blabbering on, but Hopefully I can get the rest of our stuff bagged and over to the house. We've gotten to that point where you dont organize your packing and just throw everything in bags an boxes and just try to have everything over and done with. Jeff is more excited about the unpacking and decorating. He's always loved that.

Packing is NO fun at all!

2009-11-20T14:06:00.002-07:00

Needless to say.... I think thats all I'm going to say... I could blabber on and on... and not pack (which I'm supposed to be packing, and havent been for the past hour... and what do I do? Get on the computer!) Yay for distractions... real bad for me.
*SIGHS*!!! k fine, I'll go and get more boxes and stuff them with stuff. bleh!

Good Appraisal :o)

2009-11-10T17:32:00.002-07:00

I just cant wait till this is all done and over with! We got the appraisal at $206! I'm SO glad its not less than what we offered. And in the report, they said that if the basement is finished, it would be appraised at $229,435! No joke!!! and compared 3 other homes in the area, ours seemed to be the best! Makes me so happy!!!

We've sent in almost all the stuff they require, such as the copies of the cashed escrow, gift letter and explanations of funds and stuff. crazy all the stuff they need. What I'm really hoping is that we can close sooner than the closing date, which is the 25Th, but our broker said there's a real good chance that we can get this done sooner. I get more and more excited every time someone asks, so when do you move in? Hopefully soon! :)

Sorry this is so short but don't really have too much new news or anything. Hopefully I can get some pictures of the place so everyone can see them. Might not be till our final walk through or when we move in. *sighs* so exciting yet so frustrating.

We Made An Offer, They Accepted, We Have the House! :)

2009-10-29T19:09:00.003-06:00

HOLY COW! so happy and excited! cant believe it! We put in an offer for a place on Tuesday, and they accepted our offer today. We just got back from our broker, just signing contracts and all that Jazz. A ton of signing! I really like the place though and very excited about this. Now cross our fingers that nothing will interfere this time!

So there are not any pictures of this place, sadly... but I might be able to get some sometime soon up here for everyone :D It is 2469 sq. ft. , 3 bedrooms, 2 bath upstairs, main floor is the amazing kitchen and amazing living room with a half bath, and downstairs is not finished, but its perfect for us!!!!! No, there is no yard at all, like maybe that patch of yard in the front, and a skinny... tiny strip in the back and then the fence. so pretty much we don't hardly have any yard. Sadly, no small gardens, but all well. We close Nov. 25Th! So I will try to keep everyone updated with pictures once I am able to. So extremely happy!

Even though this is a TownHouse, its been the best house we've seen from all the houses we've been looking at, and its newer.

State Fair

2009-09-21T07:06:00.006-06:00

Okay these are sooo not in order... but they are fun :o) This is at the state fair with Mike and Brian. And for some reason I cant move any of the pictures into order... so here ya go. at the end there is a video of a lamb sneazing. I thought it was funny :p

To get one or not... that is the question

2009-09-18T09:04:00.004-06:00

Okay, last night, Jeff and I went to the fair with Mike and Brian. Was loads of fun. Then, I was introduced to the Sugar Gliders!!! I WANT ONE!!! Ever so badly. Jeff didn't oppose on me buying one, all he said is, its your money and its up to you, I am not going to help you make the decision. I hate when he does that, cuz... well I am terrible making decisions for myself. Anyways these little guys are super cute and adorable. They are $150 each, and they offered a deal where I get the cage, some food, toys, bonding pouch, sleeping pouch and few other things for $400. Jeff thinks we can find a cage much cheaper than that, and save bunch of money. I've done a bunch of research and reading about them and the care, and maintenance of the creatures. But... I really don't know if I really should buy one. I am an impulsive buyer. I'll jump at things that I think are a great deal and later find that it wasn't that great or... I think I'll love it and use it all the time..., and I really don't.

So if you think about it, getting a dog is fun because they are cute sweet and lovable. . they live between 10-15 years, depending on the dog. Some dogs prices can range from free, or if you want a pure breed, it ranges from (lowest I've seen probably could do better) $300-$1450 for just a puppy. But with dogs you have to get their shots, which costs as low as (from what I've googled)$100 or more, and there are a few different kinds of shots that they will need to get vaccinated for. You do need to train them, and that can take a while but they are an overall great pet!!! Feeding them is easy, and great companions!

Okay with Sugar Gliders, they can live between 10-12 years, about the same as of a dog. You don't have to get them shots or anything, and they clean themselves. They are pretty clean pet, and they don't stink as long as you feed them properly (giving them veg one day, and fruits the next. Not mixed that's when they start to stink) they require a lot of bonding time, but that's mostly when you put them in the bonding bag and have them next to your body, so they smell you they hear you, so when you take them out of the bag they get to know you. You can even take it to work with you and it will be just fine in its little bonding pouch its in!!! I've read a lot of different sites about these guys... and ... I think I can handle these little guys and love them. But... I'm not sure if I really should do this. I may have to buy two of them, for companionship... but I've read as long as I give it lots of attention and love, that it can be just fine by itself. If your interested to learn a little about them, this is a good site. www.sugarglider.com/archives/ruth/

I read a bit more that I didn't know, most of it that I already knew after reading a paper that the store owners gave me.

I don't know guys!!! I can see ups and downs of owning one. Personally I think I'll enjoy love owning one. But I don't know. They don't seem that high maintenance... well at least for me. Please give me some opinions and in site. I'm going to call later to check out more info about these guys.

Refreshing

2009-09-10T05:55:00.005-06:00

Last night Jeff and I met up with our new real estate agent and his broker. I have to say... it was a great experince!!!! No offense to our last agent, but I feel soo much more comfortable with our new agent, and broker! Our previous Broker, pretty much we hardly spoke to him. One of our visits with him, he was on the phone for 45 mins before he spoke with us, then we only spoke with him for maybe like 5 mins then left. So crazy enough I wanted to blog about this just because our overall experience was amazing! I'm actually excited to go look for houses and confident our agent is going to do all he can to find us an amazing deal on a house. He actually mentioned to check out some homes in Lehi. We looked them up after our meeting with them and the first house that we found, was this:

http://www.utahrealestate.com/886902

K and if you look at these pictures, wow!!! http://www.utahrealestate.com/reports/photo/index.wfr?types=&find_listno=886902&ptype=p_res

I have to say.. I am in love with this house. Not saying this is the one... but holy cow! I think it would be soo nice to have a house like this. and actually in our price range. We want to stick to homes between $170-$190, but this is still within our price too.
Here is another one:

http://www.utahrealestate.com/845065

http://www.utahrealestate.com/reports/photo/index.wfr?types=&find_listno=845065&ptype=p_res

This one is pretty nice too. But anyways who knows where we will be. Today Jeff and I will be driving down to Lehi after work to see just how bad the commute will really be... hopefully not too horrible. That is probably the only reason we arent sure if we would want to live in Lehi.... but I want to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we will see!!! I'll try to keep everyone updated. I'm super happy and excited.

Crawdads!!!

2009-09-04T13:37:00.016-06:00

Well over the weekend, Jeff and I went with Larry to go camping in Scofield. I tell ya what it was quite a bit of fun!!! Its about 100 miles south from here. Larry brought out his boat, and we brought our fishing gear. We got there, set up our tents and got the boat down to the docks. Larry was having some issues getting the boat to start, seemed like the battery was dead, but they got the boat going and we all jumped in.

We were out hardly 15 mins when Larry decided to do a quick 180 turn, to drench me in water. After him doing that.... killed the boat. Quite funny actually. Poor Larry was so upset and frustrated. He burnt his fingers twice while trying to switch batteries. Larry's kids, Alyssa and Kylie, were kinda freaking out. We probably sat out there for some time and finally we decided that we would have to paddle the boat back to the dock.

At least we weren't that far away from the docks. Probably took us around 20 mins to paddle the boat, Jeff with a small oar, and Larry and I with some water ski's, paddling (wish I would have had my camera, would have been so funny to have all that recorded.). Probably was hilarious to watch us doing this, there were quite a few people fishing who saw the whole thing and watched us paddle our way back. Finally we got the boat back to the dock and onto the truck!!!
We then decided to try Crawdad fishing. Back in July, Jeff went up with Larry and the kids, and they saw a kid with some string and just holding onto it on one of the docks. They watched as he pulled up the string, and had some chicken tied to the end of it. On the chicken were several Crawdads holding onto it eating the meat!!! The kid had a fishing net underneath them while pulling them out of the water. Cuz once they are out of the water they just let go and drop back into the water. So Jeff made sure that this time we brought chicken, string and a fishing net.

We caught at least over 100 of them!!! Not mare than five mins, we would pull up the strings and you could see a bunch holding on!!! At least 3-5 at a time. It was a blast. The kids had so much fun as well. I loved it. Larry had to go get a big cooler to put them in, because I had only brought a 5 gallon bucket.
We brought the crawdads back to camp, and realized we really had a lot. There was no way Jeff, Larry and I eat all of that by ourselves (the girls were sickened to the idea of us actually eating these). One of the camper/neighbors had actually given us some tips earlier on how to clean and cook them. He told us his family eats them all the time and loves them. Finally convinced Larry that we should give them to the family, since they would appreciate them more than we would. we watched them rip apart the tails and clean them like it was nothing. They cooked up a few for us and they were pretty dang good!!! ( I have to say, not at all like shrimp or crab, but not bad)

Next day we decided to fish, and caught absolutely nothing. Cant say it wasnt eventful though. Kylie almost lost her fishing pole and surprisingly Larry saved it!!!! Unfortunately, she lost her lawn chair. Larry and Jeff spent almost a good hour trying to see if they could fish for it. A while after this, Alyssa was trying to get her feet in the water. Earlier Jeff had warned her that she was going to fall in the water, and he teased her that if she fell in he wouldnt get her. Sure enough, She fell in the water!!!! :o) it was pretty funny. She at least had on her lifejacket, and Jeff pulled her out. Oh we all had a good laugh. She was a pretty good sport about it she didnt cry and didnt freak out being in the water. All in all it was so much fun. Wish we could do it again this weekend, but we both have to work. But was very nice seeing Jeff's dad, Lee, and going out to dinner with him and Larry's kids at Joes crabshack. LOVE that place. sooo deliceious! :) Sorry none of these pictures are really in order, the ones at the bottom are the beginning pictures.

Happy Labor Day Everyone!!!

2009-08-14T09:58:00.006-06:00

~*~ This is one of the pictures from my trip to Vegas, I just have not had internet access at home to actually load them all up. So.... here is one of em :o) ~*~

So I am very excited to start out school, but not sure exactly when I will start here. I'm going to have to get a few things in line before I can do that. Such as, set a date for me and Jeff. Who knows when we will finally do that. I'm hoping to do that this weekend. :p

Lately, I have really been wanting to quit my job. I'm not sure how much longer I will be able to stand it. But I got to stop being such a grump about it and get over it. But I really do see how much I've gotten worn out working here. I was hoping to last another several years till I am done with school and get a job, something that's in my Major area. As great as my job has been, I don't believe that I can last here much longer. And/or fear of being laid off. That's always in the back of my mind.

Also, I've really been wanting to move back to Idaho. I'm really sick of Utah. I just miss my family, and well its prettier in Idaho. And buying a house is so much cheaper. But, we wont be buying a house for several more years to come. I just hope after our lease is up (10 months) we will finally find a bigger apartment. I'm really sick of 1 bed 1 bath. But till then, we will stay cramped.

Well some good news, I've been trying to eat healthier at work, rather than drinking all the pop, and eathing chips from the vending machine. I bought some Slim fast mix, and bought some milk for work. mix together the Slimfast mix with the milk, its pretty okay. And at least this way I am getting milk. I rarely drink milk. Which is totally bad, so I decided that I need to start being healthy!!! then I've been eating little Jimmy Dean Crossant sandwhiches for breakfast. Okay not the healthiest, but its pretty good, and well its better than a bag of chips! Some mornings when I have time I'll actually make a sandwhich and eat it for lunch lol. Wo, there ya go! I'm atempting to be healthy. Better than what I was doing before!

:o) Oh and excited, going to a movie this weekend with Jeff! HA I know surprise!~ lol. I'm excited. And apparently we are invited to a birthday party, ... but Jeff isn't huge on things like that so we probably wont go.

Oh (I say OH too much he ha ha ha.) and how do you change your background for your blog?!!! how the heck do I do that? I've seen some blogs with the pictures of your kids in the background, how the heck to you do that?!!! I want to know cuz mine seems lame and boring. So got any tips let me know I would love it.

Some good thoughts.

2009-08-06T07:29:00.003-06:00

I've learned a few things this past week. Make sure you are always on the same page with those who are important to you and don't assume things. Just because you can hurt yourself pretty easily.

Here are some good quotes

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”
“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”
“If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.”
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”

New Car

2009-07-28T09:56:00.004-06:00

(*Crazy enough this is what our car looks like. No not actual picture of it, I googled it but amazingly I found it. Not as shiny as this one but close enough... and I think its more of a pearl white than this white white color.. but close enough*)
:o) Wahoo for Jeff! He bought a new car. I'm sure most of you heard the good news, but if you have not, he finally bought one! He bought (us) a 97 Lexus ES 300. And I love it! So very much! it so awesome! We've never had a luxury car before, and this car is just perfect for us! We can finally fit 2-3 other people with us in the car. Unlike his or my car, you would not be able to do so very comfortably.
And some other amazing features are:

a Sunroof
Automatic locks w/panic button lock-y thingy

Automatic windows

AMAZING AC!

6 disc CD changer, also a tape deck... which is cool cuz I can hook up my iPod to it

big trunk

and lots of leg room!!!

ha ha I'm so happy about it. And, after driving it for a while... I so don't like my car anymore! ha ha! So now of the process of getting the title in his name and insuring it! And... not sure what we are going to do with his Camaro. :( Probably just keep it for now, Jeff doesn't really want to get rid of it.

Anyways its been a while for me blogging but there's finally something for me to blog about and get posted on here. When I get home I'll have more blogging to get to... that's if I ever get to it.

Tootles everyone :o)

School

2009-07-02T13:31:00.005-06:00

Well I havent posted anything in a while. I've kinda just gotten busy with living life and working and spending time with friends and family. :o)
But somethings thats been on my mind for several months now, and well now I'm finally deciding that I need to do this finally. Go to school! I've been putting it off for almost 3 years now, I think mainly because I wasnt ready to actually do it, I knew myself well enough and knew I didnt have the desire to do it. Well now I finally actually want to go, and have thought and talked about it for several months. I think I also had to get over a few big fears that I've had.

So anyways, right now I'm trying to decide what school I should go to. I was originally planning to go to the Salt Lake Community College... but then I've just recently stumbled accross University of Pheonix. I'm trying to debate if this school will be good for me or not. Good things about it, is that I can still work my full time job, and not worry about having to work part time to just be a full time student. Also another thing I kinda liked, is that they have you take one class/credit at a time, for 5 weeks instead of the normal school routine, of doing it seasonally. So I am deciding to start pretty late, and it is getting a little too late for me to sign up for fall classes... but with Pheonix, i can start any time, and sounds like its a bit quicker. I like this because it works with a lot of my needs.

I still need to investigate everything though. I've been talking to two of my Aunts, they are actually both have majored in Psychology... which is the direction I've been thinking about going into. My aunt Karen gave me a lot of good advice and things I just didnt think about ... and dont know if I would have until I ran right into it. I dont have to decide right now exactly what major I want to do, but to just get my generals done, and that way I can get an idea of what exactly I'm more interested in and wheather or not if Psychology is a good path for me. Anyways, basically I'm glad that i'm finally actually wanting to go... this way no one is making me or forcing me, and this way I have a desire to learn, and to work hard.

I know its going to be a lot of work.... but I want to get a job that I really enjoy and where I can be off of phones. I am quite a social butterfly at times and just sitting at this desk all day.... just isnt something I can do for the rest of my life. So, cross my fingers hopefully I can figure out what school I want to go to, and hope I start soon, and really hope that I can afford this financially! : So lets hope so!

Fathers Day Weekend

2009-06-22T07:02:00.009-06:00

This Father's day weekend was pretty good!!! I had a pretty good time. Well Friday, I went to Lagoon and had a fun time, Jeff actually came with me! SURPRISE huh!?! ha ha but we didn't stay too long, the lines were so long and we got pretty tired. Also Jeff wasn't feeling too well. It was still pretty fun. He was surprised how good Wicked was, but all the rides after that just didn't seem as good. :o)

Saturday my Dad and Julie got sealed in the temple, and I got to see my Aunt Karen and Uncle Ruben (dad's side of the family). Anyways, I haven't seen them for years and years!!! I mean, I honestly don't remember the last time I saw them, which is really sad if ya think about it. But I love them so much, we had a great time talking and spending time with each other. It really was a great day. I've missed a lot of my family, haven't seen them in years and years! My aunt Karen mentioned to something to me, we were talking. She asked how old I was, told her only few weeks from being 21. Then she asked if I remembered her daughter Brooke, my cousin, she passed away when I was 11 yrs old in a bad car wreck. I told her of course I do! I loved her so much!!! She meant so much to me and she spent a lot of time with me and my sisters and brother.
Karen went on saying, how much she loved spending time with us kids, and how we were some of her best friends. Then she said, you know that this July 17Th, it has been 10 years since her car accident? Not only that, you are exactly the same age as she was 10 yrs ago.

Wow, that was just a huge Epiphany for me. I don't know why, I cant really explain how I felt, but in a way I felt connected to my cousin Brooke. I didn't realize how young she was when she died!!! My age!!! She is one of the most amazing family members that I know. Ruben and Karen also shared some stories of her. Made me cry a lot, it was really hard. I know its been 10 years since her passing away, but I don't know how Karen and Ruben do it. I miss her so much. I remember I cried for years after. Deaths have been hard for me. My Aunt and Uncle did say, the lord does provide comfort for those who are close and are our loved ones (there was a bit more, but that's the gist of it). I cried a lot that night and felt the spirit very strongly. Its kinda been a while since I've felt the spirit. It was very pleasant. Anyways I wish I had a picture of Brooke, but I'll have to get it from my aunt.

Family has been so important to me, always have been my whole life, and the older I get the more I realize how much they really mean to me!!! So much love in our family. And both sides of my family is very large, My Mom's and Dad's side, I have a LOT of cousins (1st, 2nd and even 3rd cousins), aunts and uncles. But I know just about every single one of them. Some of them its been almost 10 years since I last saw them. Some of them I haven't met their kids they have, but Facebook and blogging has helped me keep close to those that I love.

I also want to let the Bean Family know that I love them so much and appreciate them for their all their love they have shown me. I honestly feel like I am apart of the family and feel comfortable being with everyone. Jeff has an amazing family, and I'm super excited to become apart of this wonderful family!!! I really do love you guys, and miss you all lots! Even the kids are wonderful to be around. Jen, thank you for your advice for me and Jeff and telling me to stay strong with him, Stephanie thank you for your love and kindness and I love being around you, Alisha you are so amazing, and I always know that I am welcome being around you and feel that you "gals" are my older sisters. I also love your children and husbands. :o) I had a blast paint balling with them (even though I got bruised pretty bad), I loved spending time with them. Greg, even though I haven't seen ya that often, I miss you and Hayley!!! I remember, several years ago when Jeff brought me up to your place in Provo, and we had fun playing Sardines! Oh my goodness that was a fun night, you to are a fun couple to be with. Mike thanks for being inspiring and you have been an awesome brother to Jeff, and he honestly thinks of you and Brian lots. Brian, I haven't been around you much but I don't feel uncomfortable spending time with you. Lee and Julie, you are the most amazing parents for Jeff! You two have done so much for him and as well as me and it means a lot to us. There is so much more I would like to say, but I'm at work, and I've already taken a lot of time just to write this, and well now I'm just blabbering on and probably boring everyone. I just wanted you guys know that you mean a lot to me, and I love being with you all I really do! I've never felt so comfortable with another family :o)

My youngest sister

2009-06-18T07:42:00.003-06:00

Okay, April is growing up SO much!!! I was looking at some of her pictures on Facebook, and holy cow, she kinda almost looks like me!!! ha ha! Except I wasn't that cute when I was her age. She's so beautiful. I love both of my sisters. Anyways, I just wanted to say how proud of my siblings I am :o) I love them so much, and they are the most amazing family I have. I wish I was closer, so I could do more things with them. Like steal them away from school and take them out to lunch.

These kids are so good and they are so cute and beautiful :o) I'm extremely proud of them. I truly miss them so much. I cant wait to see them this weekend. I wish I had some more pictures of my little brother CJ, he's the sweetest guy you'll meet. Yes he can be obnoxious, and ya wanna strangle him at times, but I love them soooo much!!!!

Anyways, Vote and let me know if she really does look like me or just my sister. I dunno totally looks like me. lol I think so.

Trying Times

2009-06-09T07:02:00.003-06:00

We all go through trying times. But its really to see your loved ones to go through rough, and difficult situations. My mom and little siblings have been through so much. And still going through hard times. Divorce is hard enough on a family. We've been through it and still struggling with it. It has come with blessings though, my mom is happier than she has ever been, and is living in Idaho next to our grandparents. My Dad remarried and we have an amazing step family!!!

Its just so hard to see someone that you love so much, lose a job. My Mom lost her job this past week, and I've seen how its affected my little sisters. Marisa, who is the second eldest, is having the hardest of times. She called me up Friday, and we talked for a good hour. She told me how her dating life has been going, difficult times with school and frustrating friends, and all of the things you go through as a young teen. Then she broke down, with all the stress she has, and worrying about money, and stressing out thinking that since she's the only one who has a job, she now has to support my family and all these things.
I told her that she needed to go get a blessing, they always seem to help. I kinda bore my testimony to her, and told her that God has always supported us in our life, and helped us through it all. At the time these kinds of things that happen, we don't see a good reason as to why they do, and they seem so difficult to us and we wonder, "Why Me?!" But we need to keep our faith in our lord strong and to allow him to help us. So even though this is going to be difficult, I believe that in a way its a blessing. My mom wasn't getting paid nearly enough at the job she was at, and she was stressing out that here in two years, she was going to have to find something else, because of child support would not be enough, after Marisa turning 18. But my mom loved her job so much, she even said that she would have to get fired to leave that job.

Anyways, I'm blabbering on, but I think that we all have blessings in disguises. Its so hard and so difficult, and sometimes seems unbearable, but I don't think God would put us through something that we cant bear, and sometimes rewards us with things we never saw coming.

Hawaiian Fraud Day

2009-06-05T07:28:00.005-06:00

Today our department had a Fraud Friday Fun Day. Our Managers decided that every first Friday of the month, we would have a department party thing, were everyone signs up to bring food, and we relax for some time after we get our work done for the day. So the theme for today's is this Alouha. So I got creative and wore my bikini top (with a shit over course) and a grass skirt, and cute flower thing I got from Walmart. I brought some extras for people at work so they can be a little in character. It was fun bringing some things in, and wearing a grass skirt and stuff, I think I'm the only one here who is. Anyways I'm gonna take some pictures and I'll have them posted later. But here's one from my phone, its a terrible one, but kinda fun lol.

The Middle

2009-06-03T08:56:00.000-06:00

I want to post this song, its a good positive song. Everyone's life has ups and downs. Sometimes I just have really bad days or really bad weeks. I've been trying to stay more positive and happy, but sometimes its just super hard. I was listening to this song, and forgot how good of a song it is. Just reading the lyrics, seems like its more of a personal message. Anyways, I'm posting this, hoping that people will realize to not be so hard, to live laugh and love. Great song.

Jimmy Eat World

"The Middle"

Hey, don't write yourself off yet

It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on.

Just try your best, try everything you can.

And don't you worry what they tell themselves when you're away.

[Chorus] It just takes some time, little girl you're in the middle of the ride.

Everything (everything) will be just fine, everything (everything) will be alright (alright).

Hey, you know they're all the same.

You know you're doing better on your own, so don't buy in.

Live right now.

Yeah, just be yourself.

It doesn't matter if it's good enough for someone else.

[Chorus x2] It just takes some time, little girl you're in the middle of the ride.

Everything (everything) will be just fine, everything (everything) will be alright (alright).

Hey, don't write yourself off yet.

It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on.

Just do your best, do everything you can.

And don't you worry what the bitter hearts are gonna say.

[Chorus x2]It just takes some time, little girl you're in the middle of the ride.

Everything (everything) will be just fine, everything (everything) will be alright (alright).

Tagged I'm It!

2009-06-01T11:44:00.000-06:00

Here be Da Rules:

1. Mention the person who tagged you.
2. Complete the 8's.
3. Tag 8 other bloggers.
4. Tell them they have been tagged.

* Kari Tagged me :)

Eight Things I Look Forward To:

1. This weekend, because we are planning to go to the Aquarium, *squeals with delight*

2. Vegas baby!

3. Trip to DC with Jeff and his parents in September

4. Weekends

5. To see my family

6. Seeing my friends

7. Starting up school

8. Spring/ Autumn

Eight Things I Did Yesterday

1. Went to the Hogle Zoo with Jeff!

2. Took pictures of the Animals

3. Watched the Bird Show

4. Watched baby ducks around the apartment

5. *Even though this was Saturday* Went to Joes Crab Shack w/Jeff (yummy)

6. *Even though this was Saturday* Played Gears of War w/Jeff

7. *Even though this was Friday* Helped my Dad and Julie pack/move to their new home

8. Got Jeff's car fixed.

Eight Things I Wish I Could Do

1. See my friends and family more

2. Travel more

3. Expand my education

4. See my friends

5. See my family

6. Make more money

7. Get a pet!!!

8. Set a wedding date... lol.

Eight Shows I Watch

1. Bones!!!

2. News

3. Simpsons

4. Discovery Channel

5. History Channel

6. and depends what else is on TV.

7. Mainly watch movies

8. And more movies lol.

Eight Friends I Am Tagging:

1. Kari

2. Jen

3. Alisha

4. Hayley

5. Kira

6. Stephanie

7. Mike

8. And whoever else wants to!!!

'99 Camaro Issues

2009-05-29T07:31:00.000-06:00

This picture is close to what Jeff's looks like. But I don't remember the air thing on the hood,... but closest i could find.
I swear we run into more and more car problems!!! So as I said we took Jeff's car into the shop on Wednesday, and well its still not fixed! We didn't get any calls yesterday, and later in the evening, they called Jeff and said they found another problem with it. They had worked all day Thursday, and found something else that needed to get taken care of. Which is good to get it fixed, he hasn't done any tune ups or anything on that car pretty much since he's gotten it, other than the reg oil changes and stuff.

I felt more bad for Jeff, I mean this is kinda getting harder for him to deal with. He's usually the positive one in the relationship, but all last night he just kept talking about how he just wanted his car back and everything. Its been pretty frustrating, especially that we already have put down a thousand down on that car and didn't even fix it. Now its in there, and just feels like, okay what else can go wrong and how much is it gonna be this time? *sighs* Just hard to tell him everything is going to be fine, when he doesnt want it to be just fine, he wants his car and not any more money spent or issues. bleh.

So anywhos, they should totally have more 3 day weekends. Makes the weeks go by much better!

Thursday

2009-05-28T07:30:00.000-06:00

Well, yesterday was an interesting day!!!

First off, Lagoon never happened. I was so excited about it too. But happen to find out that Lagoon isnt even open till after school is out, so that is like next week :( So we got Jeff's car into the shop!, And again of course, it is going to be expensive. Probably wont be done till later today (hopefully).

We went to the mall and Jeff bought some shorts and I got this extremely cute swim suit on clearance for only lik $10 bucks!!! and some cute flip flops for only $5! Holy cow was I very happy! I have not boughten a swim suit in years and acutally like it as much as I do.

I also went to the eye doctor yesterday, because I've been having some big issues with my contacts and couldnt take it anymore. So pretty much the contacts that I bought on 800-Contacts... yeah I should have just stuck with buying my prescription at the doctors. Which sucks because I already spent over $130 or so for a 6 month supply!!! :'( so frustrating, because my glasses are about $218 (because I'm so freaking blind) and now I'm going to have to buy another 6 month suppply, and that gets pretty pricey. *sighs* Wish my insurance could cover it, but they dont accept it. *sighs* all well. :D

I hope that the ones I picked out are cute, I am terrible with making decisions, and the lady who was helping me said that they did so I thought, um okay i guess i'll get them. So I really hope I do look okay in em.

Wednesday!!!

2009-05-22T07:00:00.000-06:00

So this upcoming Wednesday, Jeff and I are going to Lagoon! WAHOO!

I'm actually pretty surprised that he wants to go, but he wants to go before all the kids get out of school and where its not a busy day out of the week, and he has Wednesdays off. So I am super excited to go, because he usually never wants to go or do things like that. So I am super happy!!!

I also get to go again this again on June 19th for Overstock's Customer Service day thing that they doJeff doesnt want to go then, and I dont blame him at all, its always super packed, because we have our whole company there, but its still fun!!! Last year I took my little brother CJ, that was a blast. I kinda did want to go home after waiting in line for our first ride for Wicked, but I was there with CJ. Lines were terrible, but still was super fun and it was free, even the food. So I guess I cant complain too much! :D

For this year, I'm trying to decide who I should invite, I'm not sure how busy my little sisters are, I might invite them and maybe a friend or two, but who knows. Well all-in-all, I'm excited :o)

Dreamy Clouds...

2009-05-14T08:17:00.000-06:00

The clouds look so amazingly beautiful today! I am looking out of my window at work and it looks so beautiful, they are in this really neat looking pattern? I don't even think that is the right word, but they look awesome, they have all morning. Loved it first thing this morning, beautiful blues and turning a little purple and pink, I love sunrises and sunsets.

So I am extremely excited for July!!! Me and my extremely good friend, Kari, are planning to go to Vegas! Wah0o!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am ecstatic! Its gonna be me and her and some friends. Its mainly for her hair show. (she's an amazing hair stylist! And bonus, she even has her permit-thing to prove it!) But even so, come on a chance to go to Vegas! HECK yes! I rarely travel, and I love traveling. I really really want to go to Italy, but at the moment, money wise, that's not gonna happen. So Vegas it is!!! I'm also excited that I'll be able to have a girls weekend away, I love Jeff w all my heart and probably will constantly text and call him missing him like crazy, but I am ecstatic!

My Hero

2009-05-04T12:13:00.000-06:00

Here are some pictures of April. My little Hero. haha or I'm her Hero. Anyways these are pretty old. not extremely, but she's got this adorable short hair cut and she looks amazing with it! she also colored a bit of her hair with purple and pink and white, not the whole thing and its not permanent stuff but still. Anyways she's adorable and I need to post about her. Love her so much!!!

Our Pictures

2009-05-01T07:26:00.000-06:00

Well I finally put them onto my computer. This is not all of them, but they are fun. The last picture is of all of Jeff's family, well excluding his brother Greg, and his wife Hayley and their child Emiline. But I'm posting them on here.

Okay, this one here is one funny picture. Poor Emily, She is on the far right, right beside Brant, do you see someone behind her?! Yes that is mommy! She did not want her picture taken at all!!! I'm sorry, but I thought it was hiliarious that Stephanie tried so hard to get her in the picture. Oh its a classic. LOVE it.

They are adorable all the kids!!!

And sweet Greg Hayley and Emiline!

Locked out of Car

2009-04-30T11:05:00.000-06:00

So yesterday I had a fun experience that has topped almost every Blond moment I've had. Let me explain:

I went up to Idaho Tuesday night for my little sister April, one of her classes every year they do whats called Hero Club. Its actually really cool. They have the kids pick out someone that they look up to as a hero, and they will send this Hero a thing letting them know that someone thinks they are a hero, and they'll send clues such as what their favorite color is and favorite candy bars and different things. After several months they have a revealing party. Well April had no idea that I was coming up for this, she thought I wasn't able to get time off work. But I did!!! :D I arrived about an hour early before this Hero revealing party started and I hug out with my friend Nichole and her mom. My mom and sister were both calling/texting me that they were having a really hard time to get her to go to this thing, she didn't want to go, since I wasn't going to be there and it would be pointless... yadda, yadda ya. But they finally got her out the door. I sat by my mom and waited for April to come out and read her thing she made me, explaining why she chose me for her Hero. She got up there and started to read it looked up and saw me. The smile on her face was priceless and was happy to see me. Then she read her thing, and it made me cry! I knew that she loved me and all these things, but its even better when someone writes it down and what she said is something I will always cherish. I even framed it!!!

Anyways, back to my blond moment, Wednesday I started to get ready to leave back to Utah, decided to go to Walmart to buy a frame for the Hero letter/thing, also get some pictures printed of me and Jeff from the other week. Well guess what Smart old me did!!!! I locked myself out of the car! I was listening to a song, and got distracted, I didn't want to bring in my purse, so I grabbed my debit card, and wasn't thinking, locked my door and shut it. Then I realized it was pretty cold outside, AND my music is still playing I thought... wait... CRAP! yeah so the key was still in the ignition, engine not exactly running but my battery and music. yeah. So I went inside Walmart called my mom and she said that she knew a guy who would be able to do it for free. So I thought Yay!

DJ, (my mom's friend, he actually was the one who sold her the van) called me and asked me a few questions about where my lock was in the car and what not. I was thinking okay yay, someone to the rescue! Well anyways so I waited about almost a good hr, and he called me and said wait which Walmart are you at? I said oh, your probably at the one in Ammon, I'm actually at the other one. So anyways, while I waited for him I went to go get my pictures and realized that I cant get them because they needed the copy right :( sighs. Well I waited for this guy for about another hour an half, and was thinking sheesh it takes this guy a long time to get here! I finally called him and he said yeah I was over there a while ago and there were about 30 cars in the parking lot that were Toyota's and Teal colored. I was thinking, Okay why didn't you call me when you got here!!!!!! So he said he would be over in 20 mins. By then I was cold, irritated, mad, wanted to ball my eyes out, and just wanted to come home. My mom got off work and called a neighbor of hers to come over as well to see if he could help out. DJ got there and took him and my neighbor almost twenty mins. So total time from me locking myself in the car, and actually getting back in... 3 hours. yeah it really sucked. Was pretty funny though, but I was irritated and wanted to cry. Anyways, from now on, I will have a spare key for the outside of my car, one for my mom (so if i ever do this again in Idaho) and also one for Jeff lol. I wish I would have taken more.

Super Excited!!!

2009-04-20T07:31:00.000-06:00

Oh my goodness I am super excited to go up to Idaho this week!!! I am sitting her at work not wanting to do anything so he he he, I'm posting a blog. Any who I am just super excited to see Jeff's family and get away from Utah and what not. And I found my camera! so that's a good thing, because then I'll get more pictures! I love pictures! I just wish we had more time off of work to go up, but 5 days is good for me :D So once I get up there, I'll take lots of pictures of Jeff's awesome family and hopefully some of me and Jeff, we hardly have any, and when I try just taking them, he looks at it and says no way and deletes it lol. *sighs* so any who So happy to go up to good old IF!

Easter Sunday

2009-04-14T07:11:00.000-06:00

Okay yes I am a few days behind to write about my Easter sunday, but I really enjoyed being with my family. Jeff actually came with me and it was even enjoyable for him :D yay! lol anyways we went over to my dad's and had a bbq with my step family, everyone brought their own meat and a salad of some sort. Jeff and I brought thick steaks for my dad to grill up and we made a really good salad that my family makes. I dont know what it is called, but they usually have mandarin oranges, but I kinda changed it up. It has cottage cheese, cool whip, raspberry jell-o mix, raspberries and black berries. And it was a nice hit! I think a good majority of everyone liked it. I felt good because I am no chef or cook, and hardly make fun tasty things that everyone looks forward to eat.

So it was super nice to be with the family and catch up with everyone. My step brother and wife are going to be moving to NY sometime July, for a little bit of schooling and their jobs. Step sister Shannon is dating this guy that she brought with her, he seemed really nice and her kids also likes him. Everyone else seems doing pretty good as well. We also played catch phrase for a while. I suck at that game! Ha - ha. Well sorry no pictures, I havent been able to find my camera for a few weeks and have no idea where it is :'( big sad face.

Update :o)

2009-04-11T11:16:00.000-06:00

Jeff is so funny. So I've kinda been helping him with his blogs, and trying to explain how to do things, but of course he wants to do it all by himself. So today, I said okay here ya go, do what you want and post what you want since its yours. Well so he spent I believe a good hour who knows doing what. He gets done and I wanted to see what he's done. He deleted his blog!!! He said, well it was too frustrating to not figure out and just a big pain in the butt. OMG! He is so silly. I was thinking, Jeff, you are crazy silly! *Sighs* I still love him :o)

Anyways, besides that I need to at least give an update.

So I think I have explained that Jeff and I have decided to wait on getting a house for now, we are going to wait. Its been a frustrating experience, but in a way its been a blessing in a disguise not getting a house. After we decided to not get a house, seemed like one thing after another came up. Jeff needed to get some teeth extracted, and that cost a lot, and also time off of work. Then my car almost broke down, and I had to get my CV Joints fixed, which cost $425. Then Jeff's car has been giving him problems and issues, back firing and not starting and different things. We finally took his car into the shop, and they told us that well looks like its both the throttle positioning sensors and the whole system. The system thing (who knows what it is, I dont know anything about cars), is going to cost over $700, and they dont make hardly any of Jeff's car parts, so they have to ship this part from Texas! Holy Cow!!! And then here in a month or so, I am going to have to get my wisdom teeth extracted as well. So, what I'm trying to say is if we had a house, we could never afford to get Jeff into the oral surgeon, or even fix either of our cars because of how much the monthly mortgage payments would be!!! Now I am glad and feel that this has been a blessing in disguise. Before I was all sad and butt hurt that we werent going to get a house within a year, or anything. But now we are able to get things done, that we would have never been able to do with a mortgage payment. I just wanted to express my graditude and how thankful I am.

Lets see, what else has happened... Not too much. A while ago we decided to buy some things for the bedroom, was fun we bought two dressers and put them together, and they look amazing in the room! I love it! We kinda got sick of saving all this money, it was nice to spend some money on ourselves and splurge a little. Oh and we've been painting. I bought some more canvas (they are kinda expensive!!!) and some crackle paint. Last night we sat together and just painted away. Was so much fun to spend time together, rather than to just sit infront of the TV and do nothing. I love doing little activities like painting with Jeff. We may not be artists, but its been fun doing this together. One of these days I'll have to post pictures of them. right now I dont feel like taking pictures of them and waiting forever for the laptop to load the picts on. So another time.

Jeff Finally has a blog!!!

2009-04-09T06:46:00.000-06:00

Hey Everyone, just letting you know that Jeff has a blog set up!!! So check him out at http://jeffleebean.blogspot.com/ and follow him or something. I'm trying to help him set it up and teach him how to use it :o)

Finally Friday!

2009-03-20T10:28:00.001-06:00

Its finally Friday! Well I have been meaning to put up some more pictures, and here are some back from July 2008, Jeff's family reunion.

This is Emma, this is Alecia and Josh's little one. They have another little boy Jackson... but I dont have any pictures of him during this time. And little Smalls that I have yet to see.

The next 3 below are Blair and Jen's kids, they do have one more Dane, but he wasnt here during these pictures:

Brant

Say Hello to Alex, she is such a cutie,

And love Cute Brooke

These next two are Stephanie and Adam's kids. they are really shy but adorable as well.

This is Sarah, and her cute sister Emily. (Stephanie behind her.)

Well that is it for now, I guess I have to go back to work.

Engaged!!!

2009-03-09T07:18:00.000-06:00

I am officially Engaged! :D I am SO happy! Jeff asked me Saturday night, it was the sweetest thing ever! See, we both knew that we were getting married, and well he's been telling me I cant say that I'm engaged until he officially asks me. And I always thought okay, when is that gonna be?!!! hm mm! But totally worth it. Saturday night he finally asked me well do you want it? After me trying to make a decision, he walks down the hall to the safety box and bends on knee with a small box in his hand. Oh my I couldn't stay standing up. I cried and cried while he asked. Its so beautiful, here is a picture of it I found online, this is it!

He told me that he felt that it was extremely un-romantic and he had a whole thing planned out for me, he said that he wanted to ask me when we were going to get the house this friday, but since things with the house, we dont know when/if we get it. And he was also too excited from putting it onto my finger :D. He told me that he was going to ask my dad at the final expection for my hand in marriage, then the day we get the keys and we walk in he was going to have Red Rose's in the livingroom, then he was going to propose, and say Baby I want to start a whole new life, and have you with me forever. Or something like that.

Oh gosh, I am so happy! I've never been so happy before. Even though I knew that this day would come, i've never had such feelings, feel like i'm on cloud 9. I dont even want to be at work today, i'd rather just snuggle up with him.

Okay, dont know what 2 do now...

2009-03-06T10:19:00.000-07:00

Well we checked out some houses last night and I was surprised, they were nothing that we liked and not at all kept up or other things that we didnt like. Our agent said that it is possible to get the cute house and what not, just need to do things before we can. I dont know what to do. so frustrated.

Problem with the House

2009-03-04T09:06:00.000-07:00

Well huge problem with getting the house. Jeff and I found out that we pretty much cant get the house. So here is the deal. The guy (seller) only got the house in his name in Dec.
And FHA requires him to be on title for 90 days other wise they consider it a flip and wont allow our loan for that house. 90 days is up on 3/31.

That means that our lock expires and with more recent changes to FHA, Jeff would have to get his credit score up about 40 points, which means we may not qualify for a new loan. On top of that if we wait until the end of the month we can see if he qualifies but that means we can not take back the notice to vacate at the apt and if we can not find a house or qualify for a loan at the end of April we have to find a new place to move...., which is something that we do not want to do.

So we are going to cancel the contract with the house and keep looking at some more homes. Its probably a good thing though, the yard on that house is going to cost a bit to re do it, its dead and full of weeds, plus we would need to fence the rest of the yard and level out the side of the house, so basically... this is probably a blessing in disguise.

Here is a house that we are looking at that is right around the corner. Its a bit bigger and looks like we dont have to worry about saving the yard, it has landscaping done to it already, also fully fenced. Link: http://www.utahrealestate.com/863856
The only thing is its a short sale, which is a wonderful thing at the same time could be a huge problem. Its great that its short sale, means that the seller is selling the house much less than what they bought it for, but short sales tend to take longer. Hopefully we will be able to look at this house Tuesday (tomorrow), but we'll see what our agent can do for us.

Here's another one: Link: http://www.utahrealestate.com/846720

This one is okay as well, but the basement is only 50% finished, which isnt something we want but still considering it, and will probably look at it. But I love! the kitchen, and the tiles on this place its beautiful and this house seems pretty spacey, well only cuz downstairs isnt finished. :p

One More: Link http://www.utahrealestate.com/836438

This one is okay as well, But the basement as well isnt finished, which is a bummer as well. Its also near some tracks, which might not be enjoyable but you cant judge a book by its cover. So thats why we got to look at them all then we can judge and decide.

WE GOT THE HOUSE!

2009-02-13T07:20:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we got a call from our agent Michelle, and the seller accepted the offer! Wahoo!!!! So happy! Closing date is March 13th!!! So happy! Now all we need to do is have a house warming party! :D

The house I want

2009-02-11T07:50:00.000-07:00

http://www.utahrealestate.com/846970

Okay here is a link to the house that we put in an offer for. If you go to the link and check out Property Tour, you can check out the virtual images, and it almost better than the pictures they have, because you get the round about feeling and almost see everything. Oh love this home! I will seriously be all bent up if we dont get it. I know I sound like a 2yr old throwing a temper but this is what I want and we can afford it!!! So why not be excited about it?!!!

We are still waiting to hear back from the Seller's agent, Our agent Michelle, has tried calling him to get ahold of him to find out if they accept our offer. *sighs* so frustrating all of it. And they'll probably counter offer, so that will take another few weeks, then inspections, etc. Blah.

Still searching for a House (blah)

2009-01-29T08:00:00.000-07:00

Well this sucks! This whole house searching thing. I'm tired. I'm extremely disappointed with the house we looked at. Even though it was only one, just the house was disappointing and makes you wonder if we are even gonna find what we want. Just want to find a place with good size living space. Is that too much to ask for?

**(hour later)**
So I just got off the phone with my mom, she is so awesome and so positive about things. I always feel better after I talk to her. She just said to be positive about this whole experience thing and not to stress out about it and have fun with this. So she is right, we'll just take things as they come and things will be okay. So anyways I have to get back to work, but things are okay. :)

Jeff and I Duck Hunt, Oct 4th 2008

2009-01-27T13:31:00.000-07:00

I like this picture better than the other ones :)

Well this was back in October but I Love these pictures!

This is a pretty good picture of all of us. Love Jeff's family!

Most recent ones of me.

2009-01-23T09:36:00.001-07:00

I'm not really all that great at posing

Well these are the most updated pictures of me, which were almost a year ago. lol sad huh.

One to the left I like the most

Perfect Credit, & A New Start On Life

2009-01-21T06:57:00.000-07:00

Me and Jeff are pre-approved for 225k for a house! Can you believe that? I almost cant! Its so exciting and I am so happy how things have worked out! We've wanted a house for quite some time, but doubted ourselves. But because of my perfect credit, and how much money he makes, we are able to get something that we want! We are going to stay between 180k-200k, we decided that's what we will be able to afford. Jeff talked to a broker the other day, Michelle, and she was able to get everything figured out for us! How exciting.

We are both so proud and both so excited that we are doing this by ourselves as well! As much as we love our parents, we've always relyed on them to support us or to do the dirty work, if you know what I mean. Buying the cars, or lending you the money, or being a co-signer for you, filing taxes, things like that. I mean its wonderful that we have had them there for us, but now its a relief to know that we can do something by ourselves! We did this whole house thing and it was easy! Now the fun of finding a house that we like. Now thats going to be exciting and stressful!

But at least this all means that we are going to finally get married. We have been through a lot. Thick and thin, we made it. There were a lot of people who doubted us, and there were many times where we needed to work things out. Times we drive each other nuts. "What ever it takes"got us to where we are. Even though we hurt each other badly, we were able to build something so special, and support each other through things that were hard for the both of us. I know that me and Jeff are to be together. Not that its destiny, or fate... but that this is right. And I know that we are not perfect at all and have a lot of things that we need to work out.

Here's an old picture of the both of us, And I really dont like how I look in this picture, but I need something of us on here.

So sick of work

2008-12-30T12:07:00.000-07:00

Well hello again. I am done working for today so I decided to play around with this blog thing ha ha! I love pictures of friends and family, so lets see how this goes! Kari, I have a cd with these pictures, but this is for you!

Russel and his friend ( I dont remember who) playing with sticks around the fire.

Cute Kari
Whoa too much caffeine!

What in the world is that?

This one is kinda funny, if ya zoom up in this one, you can see that I'm chewing gum ha ha!

Well thats all folks for today :) There were a lot more but this took me hours to do lol. So sad I know!

A few pictures

2008-12-30T08:36:00.000-07:00

My little Nephews and Nieces :D

My step family

Look how Cute!

2008-12-09T13:29:00.000-07:00

So not computer iliterate (sp)

2008-11-24T12:35:00.001-07:00

So really, how does this all work? ha ha I feel so lame, at this game. Oh and guess what! I had to find out by reading Kari's blog to find out that she's 3 months!!! What?!!!! crazy! ha ha anyways I'll have to talk to her later about that. So weird this feels like its a diary, not a blog ha ha.

My first blog

2008-11-19T07:10:00.000-07:00

Well everyone this here is my first blog, never had one but pretty dang cool! I am at work, its about 6:11 am, and I'm pretty tired this morning. Jeff has the day off because he has been working 4/10 hr shifts, and lucky him has Wednesdays off! Well anyways I better go for now. Until later! :)