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WEEK 27

2012-02-17T18:24:00.001-08:00

02/07 WEEK 27

Hello third trimester, where have you been my whole pregnancy?! I know I have like an eternity left of my pregnancy but I have finally made it 1/3 of the way there! I am in the third trimester and I have 13 weeks to go!! This week consisted of Baby registering! With baby shower s in the air I needed to get the show on the road. I have decided to register at Buy Buy Baby and I can’t decide where else to register. I know I need to register at more than one place but I just can’t think of where. Every place I think of I am unsure of. I like the idea of places like Wal-Mart, Target, Shopko, Kmart, JC Penney, Babies R Us, etc. I just can’t pull it together and decide. I have been very indecisive so far about everything baby. I don’t even have her room started…that’s right, nothing is done or decided! She continues to move a lot and I continue to be uncomfortable.

WEEK 26

2012-01-31T16:56:00.001-08:00

01/31 WEEK 26

Happy Birthday to me! I get to celebrate being 25 years old and 26 weeks pregnant. This week was pretty good. I think I had the flu for like two days. It was a mild version of the flue but none the less the flu. Azalia is moving around like a crazy person. She moves 24/7 it still kinda feels like grumbles in my tummy when Daniel feels it but at least he is feeling her move. We are getting very excited to have her arrive and I feel like its forever away. Even though the pregnancy is going fast the time it is taking her to arrive is long. I went shopping for nursery stuff and needless to say I bought more clothes to add to her already large ward robe. I still need a lot of stuff. Missy is giving me stuff she used when Teagan was born but I keep forgetting stuff she said she has and is giving me. Plus, she doesn’t move out here for a few months so I wont have it until then. We still need anything and everything. I feel like all I have are diapers and clothes….and not even a lot of diapers. Aunt Connie has done good with pre stocking our diaper supply! J I have been looking at bassinets, cribs, dressers, chandeliers, bedding, fabric, etc. I feel like it is a never ending list of things I need and that is just the beginning. We have NOTHING! I have a crib in mind and also a dresser or two…I haven’t decided if two dressers (a side by side chest of drawer with 6 drawers and a tall 5 drawer dresser) would be too much. Daniel doesn’t give much input. I think I might make him go to the fabric store with me to look at fabric for her bedroom. I think I have changed the colors slightly. I was going to do vintage white and lavender. I think I might do more of a bright white and different shades of purple from light to dark. I really like this idea and it doesn’t venture far from my original plan. Who knows though. I need to start buying stuff so I can have my mind made up.

My Bithday!

I got a ton of text messages and Facebook messages to wish me a happy birthday. I of course worked my normal day of work and then after work Daniel, Maddie, Jakob and my family went with me to have Café Rio as my birthday dinner. For my birthday I got a necklace and scarf from Shelly and Jake; a cardigan and a scarf with lace trim from Maddie and Jakob; a summer dress and caramel popcorn from The Valley Fair mall (my favorite popcorn place)from my parents and brothers; Aunt Connie said she will let me know when she has my gift and LaReine has something for me so I am super excited; then roses from Daniel and good old cash from my grandma Helen and also my grandma Nelta and Mike. I am getting a sewing table from Daniel it just isn’t here yet. It is a double sided craft desk for my sewing machine and my serger (my serger was also a part of my birthday gift; it was Christmas/birthday from my parents). With the money I am getting a Zebra print office chair to use with my new desk. I know it seems sorta silly but I am super excited for my chair and desk.

WEEK 25 and 2 DAYS

2012-01-28T16:25:00.001-08:00

01/26 BONUS…WEEK 25 and 2 DAYS

So, we just got some fantastic news at the doctor’s office. I am further along than we thought. So I got to take a bonus picture and post twice this week! We went into the ultrasound appointment first. The lady checked the height and said she was big and that I am most likely further along than they thought but she will leave it up to my doc to make the final decision. Then she checked all health related stuff. She looked at the lips and said they look great. Then the heart and said it has all the right valves and is fluttering great (it looked like a butterfly stick in a hole). She also checked all the chords and said they checked out great. Also, she is already head down so that was a bonus. The lady said she is still a girl and a healthy one at that.

We then went and had my blood drawn to test me for pregnancy diabetes. Every pregnant lady has to get this done because apparently you can develop it around now in the pregnancy. I had to drink a bottle of this orange liquid. It reminded me of those kool-aid drinks they used to have in the little barrels with foil to keep them closed. I was never allowed to have them because they had too much sugar. Ha! So, I found it funny that to test you for diabetes they make you drink liquid full of sugar.

After that we saw my doctor. He measured me and sure enough he changed my due date. The original due date was May 16 and he said I was roughly 10 days ahead of schedule so he moved my due date to May 8. I asked him how far he will let me go if she doesn’t come on time and he said he will induce me on May 15 if she hasn’t arrived. So either way she is coming before we planned even if she is late. He didn’t seem to concerned that she will be late. Daniel told him that him and I were both over cooked 3 weeks and the doctor said not to worry it won’t be happening with Azalia. Apparently now days they will induce you at two weeks no matter what. I am happy mine will induce a week later it is comforting. I asked my doctor about heartburn and he said to start taking Prilosec and not to suffer through the pain and if that doesn’t work then he will prescribe me some medicine that will help. So, after the appointment Daniel went and bought me some. We shall see if it works.

WEEK 24

2012-01-28T16:24:00.001-08:00

01/25 WEEK 24

I am getting there!! Closer and closer to the finish. I have a Doctor appointment tomorrow with the gender/size/health determination of the baby. Since we went to Fetal Studios to find out the gender we are one step ahead of the game. A little confirmation is always nice with her being a girl. You never know if 4 weeks will determine a different gender. We are still pretty positive though considering everyone that looks at the ultrasound pictures say there is no mistaking she is a girl.

The Lucky One

2012-01-26T20:15:00.000-08:00

Alright.....everyone knows I love Ashton Kutcher and Ryan Reynolds. Well, I have a new love..Zac Efron! He is in a new movie called The Lucky One. Just watch the trailer I wont have to say anything else. It does good all by itself!!

http://theluckyonemovie.warnerbros.com/index.html

Cali!!

2012-01-24T17:22:00.001-08:00

Leaving on a plane to Cali!!
We arrived in Cali at like 8:30 their time. The flights were absolutely horrible. We had a connection in Phoenix and the flight from SLC to Phoenix was the worst flight of my life. I sat down in the middle of these women who both had to ask for extensions on their belt buckles. Then as the plane took off it was a bumpy ride to say the least so I stated to get nauseous. Then I started getting hot flashes and I could barely squeeze my arms up to reach the air because of how tightly I was crammed in between these ladies. So I finally had air on my face and I was sweating so bad at this moment that I thought for sure I was going to faint. This happened pretty much the entire first half of the flight. The flight was only an hour and so for a half hour I thought I was going to die!! Normally I do wonderful with flights and I have never gotten sick from flying. I will say that the odds were against me this time. The second flight from Phoenix to San Diego was great. I was sitting next to Daniel and I the flight was smooth sailing…I think it had something to do with the fact that it was a female pilot! ;)

Anyway when we arrived in San Diego I was exhausted and Daniel practically ran to the curbside pick up to meet Josh and I felt like I was sprinting a marathon through the San Diego air port. I made him slow down because I could barely keep up. We waited for Josh for about 20 min from the time our plane landed and then we drove to their house. Right when we arrived at their house Josh was so excited to tell Daniel some amazing news that he could hardly stand it. He handed him a ticket to a concert. (Daniel had no idea that I had secretly been planning since July to come to California because his favorite band, Nightwish was performing. Missy bought tickets for her and Josh and she generously let me buy hers so Daniel and Josh could go together. We have been keeping it a secret forever! That is the main reason for this trip and Daniel had no idea.) When Josh handed Daniel the tickets Daniel was super thrilled and stared at them for a while to make sure they were real or something. Josh and Missy then gave Daniel and I a little basket filled with baby essentials and it was super cute. They even through in a joke with a mask and nose plugs and such for daddy Daniel. Then after all the excitement we went to bed to conquer the next day.

Friday morning we woke up and Josh was working so we went to lunch at Jack in the Box. It is Missy’s favorite place and there isn’t one in SLC so it was nice to eat somewhere different. Then we visited until Josh got home. When Josh got home we got ready and went to Sunset Cliffs and we hiked around there for a while and we even hiked down to the beach. It was quite funny because Josh, Missy and Daniel were all in charge of a child… I was considered one of the children to help up and down the massive cliff that we hiked. We took pictures and watched the sunset and it was very pretty. Then we went to dinner at Outback Steak House and ate until we were sick. I had two and a half loaves of their bread by myself thank you very much. It was absolutely amazing wheat heaven! Then we went outside and there is a giant chess set and Daniel and josh played a round of chess with the huge game board. While they played Missy and I went shopping. Then Teagan got her first haircut from me when we went home!! After that we called it a night and went to bed.

Saturday we woke up and Daniel could hardly stand the anticipation of going to the concert. We dropped the kids off at one of Missy’s friend’s house because they were staying the night. We drove to Costa Mesa to go to the Orange County swap meet. I almost cried because they were closed due to rain. It is one of my all time favorite things to do in Cali and I didn’t even get to do it. I was super sad and so was Daniel because even he likes the killer deals that are there. I was dying of hunger by this time so we went and got food. We went to Jack in the Box again then we headed to LA for the concert. Since our day was completely thrown off due to the swap meet being closed we got there very early. We went shopping and Daniel spent lots of money in the new element store that opened at the Universal City mall. I spent money on candy. Yum yum yum. Then we had dinner reservations at 6 at Hard Rock Café we walked around the restaurant and looked at music memorabilia. We had a delicious dinner where Daniel downed a 12oz steak. Then the boys headed to the concert to buy shirts and Missy and I went to shop some more. Missy and I shopped for about 15 minutes and realized we had now been to every store in the mall and we still had about 4 hours until the boys were done at the concert. We had planned on getting a pedicure but there was no salon!!! We were pretty upset. So we went to see a movie, we saw Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close with Sandra Bullock. She is my favorite actress but the movie was slow, boring and dumb in my opinion. Missy liked it and cried like a baby, I was there to give her tissues. The previews for this movie were outstanding however… there is a new movie coming out in April with my newest boyfriend Zac Efron called The Lucky One and can I just say H O T!!!! The movie is steaming hot with him in it. I will definitely be watching that movie on the big screen. Anyway…after the movie missy and I went and ate frozen yogurt for an hour and then the boys got out of the concert after we sat in the yogurt shop for about an hour. They were extremely excited and had their new shirts on we took a pic then headed home! It was like 2:30 by the time we got home and we all crashed to say the least.

On our day back to SLC Josh and Missy went to get the kids we went and ate lunch then they dropped us off at the air port. Hayden cried and cried and it was so hard to leave him. He wanted to “go to Dan-o’s house” he is precious. We checked in and found out our flight had been canceled so they moved us flights to a nonstop flight from delta instead of a 1 stop flight from US Airways. It was nicer that way too. So we had 2 hours before we had to leave the airport so Daniel finished some homework and I worked on crocheting a blanket for Azalia. Then we flew home and when we got here we were welcomed with 30 degree weather and I absolutely loved it. (I really do love the cold) Kelly and Chaz picked us up at 7:30 then we went to my parents to get my car and we visited with them about our trip until like 10:30 at night. We went home and crashed. We both took Monday from work off so that was very nice. Daniel still had school at 1pm but at least we got to sleep in.

WEEK 23

2012-01-24T17:19:00.001-08:00

01/18 WEEK 23

I never thought I would get this far! When I found out I was pregnant I figured it would go by super slow. So far, time is flying. I am sure it will slow down in the third trimester but right now I look back and time is zoom zoom zooming by! Not only am I over half way done I am a million times bigger by the minute I feel. I don’t think the pictures do my huge stomach any justice. In California I definitely look huge in all the pictures though and the beach is where my 23 week photo takes place.

Life

2012-01-18T16:29:00.001-08:00

Good bye Christmas. Daniel and I finally took down our Christmas decorations on Sunday. It was pretty exhausting. I like everyone to think I am fully on top of every new season and holiday that comes our way so I am always very good about switching out my wreath on my front door. So on New Year’s Day I put up my new year’s wreath. That stays up for about 2 weeks then it gets taken down for Valentine’s Day to take over. After Daniel put all the Christmas decoration boxes up he brought down the Valentine’s Day box. Yay for holidays….even though sometimes it can be exhausting.

Daniel had a meeting with his U of U advisor and instead of graduating at the end of this semester he is going to go two more semesters. We weren’t thrilled about this news but if he were to graduate at the end of this semester he would graduate with his Bachelors degree in his major with is Anthropology. However, if he waits and takes two classes this summer and two classes in the fall then he will graduate with a major and two minors. So, he decided it will be worth it. He will still be taking his MCAT this summer and applying to med schools. So, our life is slightly delayed in the means of his graduation but as far as him going to med school it is what we have planned for. He will start med school in 2013, I am not sure when we find out his acceptance but I am sure I will update when we are closer and when we know more.

Andrue (Daniel’s cousin) left on his mission Wednesday which is so wonderful. We are going to miss him at family gatherings. We know he is doing the right thing and he will be missed. Daniel and I went to his setting apart Tuesday and Daniel got to stand in the circle for his very first Missionary setting apart. The next circle he stands in for a Missionary will be Chaz. Which speaking of Chaz he starts the paper process in September. I can’t believe it and it kind of gives me anxiety and makes me sad and proud all in the same swirling emotions.

WEEK 22

2012-01-14T21:01:00.000-08:00

01/11 WEEK 22 So, we received another bag of clothes this time from Missy's mom Lorie. She had a friend with some little girl clothes and once again some of them are brand NEW!!!!

Side Note: Everyone that knows me knows I am very weird about used clothes or things for that matter...Well, I figure since I know the people giving me the used items its OK and not nearly as gross to me as places like the D.I. I know I am totally horrible for even thinking that the D.I. is yucky but I can't help it....I just can't. Don't get me wrong I was raised with a mother who loves yard sales and thrift stores, I however am the odd one out. I get made fun of by my family (mom, cousins, aunts, etc.) for not liking stuff like that. I do however like a good furniture/home decor steal at places like that because you can re-do it and make it how you want it. So no worried I am not nearly as judgey judgey as you thought.

(Sorry for the side note) Now, back to the matter at hand...clothes!!! We now have a total of two bags from people with stuff I totally fell in love with. Then we have some clothes I bought at Crazy 8 a couple weeks ago and then her first online order came in the mail from Carters. Little Miss Azalia got 60 dollars worth of adorable outfits in her online shipment. She is already a spoiled diva and she is only barely half way growing in my belly.

I still want slurpees from 7-Eleven all the time. Pizza was my main craving this week. My best friend=TUMS, can I just say heart burn/acid reflex is absolutely awful. Tums definitely help kill down the burn for a while but I really would love to just guzzle something strong enough to take the burn away for longer than 30 min. I got a couple new shirts this week and I am very excited to wear them. I am happy that there are some styles that are cute enough for me wear that I don't have to buy maternity!!

WEEK 21

2012-01-14T20:53:00.000-08:00

01/04 WEEK 21

I am still feeling the same as far as health goes. My clothes are getting much tighter and I am still hungry pretty much always. We have started to collect a small pile of baby clothes. One of my friends at work has a little girl that will be exactly one year older than Azalia. So she has been getting clothes together to give us. We got a whole bag of clothes that we went through and a ton of them were brand new with tags still attached. Oh how we love getting girl things! Next week hopefully my online order comes in! I forgot to mention on my last pregnancy post that Daniel felt the baby move the same day I did and he thought it was the coolest thing EVER!! Feeling 'daddy's little girl' was a very neat experience for him.

WEEK 20

2012-01-13T17:21:00.000-08:00

12/28 WEEK 20

It’s a girl!! Azalia Lorraine Ruesch. (uh-zae-lee-uh) I will spell out the spelling for those of you that can’t pronounce it. So, the belly continues to grow. I seem to be getting more and more awful stretch marks as the day’s progress. Lovely, I know. I think I felt her move for the first time. I pushed on my stomach and I felt a very small soft push back so I am pretty sure that she was moving around in there. We have decided to tear apart the house and switch our rooms around upstairs to make room for her. Her room will be in lavender and white and I can’t wait to get started on it. Also, shopping has become a bigger addiction than normal… I love baby clothes!! I am feeling pretty decent other than the continual heartburn and minor sleepyness!! J All in all I am feeling pretty good and I am hungry 24/7!

Busy Holiday Week!!

2012-01-13T16:40:00.000-08:00

Ashton's Birthday party from previously in the month.

Rachel graduated from dental school and I was there to watch. Such a wonderful thing for her to accomplish.

Now, here goes the novel of my busy busy week! It all started when we went downtown to temple square to see the lights with Shelly and Jake. We enjoyed taking a lot of pictures of course!

Then Wednesday night Daniel’s cousin went through the temple for his endowment. We of course went through the same session to share that awesome experience with him. Then after we went to Aunt Connie’s for desert it was delicious as always.

Thursday we had an appointment to see the gender of the baby and it’s a girl!!! I got the ultra sound done at Fetal Studios in the mall and I ran into Chaz before the appointment. So I told him the good news about me being pregnant and he was shocked and then he went with me and got to watch the whole thing. She was moving so much it was so cute. After that we went and told the parents. They were pretty excited and my dad was the first we told he was super excited both my mom and Daniel’s mom pretty much told us they knew already. We also stopped by Aunt Connie’s and they were all as surprised as ever. So we had a pretty exciting Thursday night sharing the news with family.

Then Friday was the Christmas party on my dad’s side. We went to my grandma Nelta’s for dinner and dessert. Daniel played the trumpet and entertained us for a little it was pretty neat.

Then Saturday came and we went to Josh and Nicole’s for our Christmas Eve party we did the usual appetizer bar and dessert bar. I told all my family and cousins that I was pregnant and it was super fun. We did the white elephant game and Daniel and I ended up with stupid stuff that I left at the party. Then we rushed over to Daniel’s mom’s house because we were like an hour late to dinner. Daniel told his sisters they were going to be aunts and they all acted pretty excited. We had homemade wheat roll bowls and homemade soup…yum! Then we played scattegories and for dessert…cheese cake! We went home past midnight but it was well worth it because we had such a wonderful time!

Christmas was fun! We saw all the family on both Daniel’s side and my side. We had so much fun with everyone and we got some pretty awesome gifts! I got sewing stuff, shoes, earrings, clothes and a serger from my parents. Daniel got three video games, treats and clothes, my parents gave him new jeans and thank heavens cuz he needed them. Chaz got us shirts with his very own money and it was so cute to see how proud he was!! I love my little brother!! Then we got a few combined gifts…from Aunt Connie and the family we got diapers, a wipe warmer and baby clothes! LaReine made us a snuggle buddy thing that she sewed and it is so soft. Marne’ gave us a disc of Daniel’s first year baby book. It is amazing and it was such a thoughtful gift. My sister gave us a baby’s first book that she put pictures in and filled out slightly along with a teddy bear, a bow and an outfit that says something about her being the best aunt. Maddie and Jakob gave us a rice cooker which I have already used and it made some delicious rice. So overall Christmas was a blast and Daniel and I got all the things we could have possibly wanted and more!

After Christmas life went back to normal and I started picking up overtime shifts at work so working 8-8 is a very common thing these days for myself. Daniel’s friend Chad from high school got married and we went to the wedding with Marne’, Ciara and Maddie. It was downtown and the drive down there was a blast we visited the whole way…Daniel did most of the talking which is normal. Poor Maddie seems to not be able to get one word in bless her heart! We had a fun time visiting with Daniel’s mom and sisters!

New Years was next. We went to my moms and celebrated until midnight!!!!

WEEK 19

2012-01-13T16:36:00.000-08:00

12/21 WEEK 19

I look Huge!! Also, I want to eat all the time. I feel like I can’t stick enough food in my mouth. I feel like I eat and in the next 5 minutes I am hungry again. I get sick if I am not constantly eating. Not everything sounds good but I definitely am eating a whole lot more than I did the first trimester!

Week 18

2012-01-13T16:30:00.000-08:00

12/14 WEEK 18

Belly is a growing!! First picture!

Chaz's Birthday!!

2012-01-13T16:29:00.002-08:00

12/12 This past week was quite the busy eventful week. It all started on Thursday with Brock he had his first middle school orchestra performance and so Daniel and I went to that. Then the events kept rolling in. Chaz turns 18 on the 13^th of the month and he had a Smash Brothers tournament for his birthday party. The rules were you pay $2 to buy into the tournament then through rotation you see who is the best and the winner gets the all the money at the end. It came down to Chaz and two of his friends. One of the friends was the winner. Daniel did not do so well and he was quite disappointed in himself. He was out pretty quick and he is pretty good so he was upset to say the least.

WEEK 17

2012-01-13T16:29:00.001-08:00

12/07 WEEK 17

Well, I am feeling more normal than ever which is a good sign. Still I do not feel as normal as I wish. I still am extra tired but the good thing is food does not sound disgusting 24/7. Don’t get me wrong there are still foods that seriously make me want to gag but all in all I think I am finally getting my appetite back!! Hallelujah!

The Nutcracker

2011-12-02T16:17:00.000-08:00

Well, Daniel and I went to see The Nutcracker. He enjoyed the music and I enjoyed spending time with him. I am not big into the whole ballet thing and neither is he but he loves music. I sat their thinking how uncomfortable the men in those awfully see through tights must feel. I mean....maybe I am mean but one word came to mind..EW! I know I am mean but most of you probably think the same thing. Anyway all in all we had a nice FREE date compliments of my work! Here are some awful photos of me that night...Daniel looks nice but I look like poop! Oh well!!

I need to get better at car pics!!Me es no bueno!!! As Daniel was clearly telling me in this pic!! Ha Ha gotta love it!

WEEK 16

2011-12-02T15:54:00.000-08:00

11/30 WEEK 16

Nothing abnormal is happening other than the fact that people are noticing my ever so quickly growing stomach. I am not sure how much longer I am going to be able to hide this fabulous secret! I only need to hide it for three more weeks. We find out the gender in 22 days. December 22^nd I have an appointment to see the gender. It is so crazy I can hardly even wait. My tummy is definitely growing so I am hoping it slows down just a bit so we can hide it until Christmas Eve at least!! We might possibly tell everyone on the 22^nd so that way it is out in the open to at least our parents before we tell the rest of the family on Christmas. Anyway…if it is a boy the name is set but if it is a girl we have no idea what we will be naming her. I will most likely have Daniel make the final choice for the girl name since I picked the boys name and he didn’t have much of a say. I still have to pee all the time!! I literally could go to the bathroom and once I get out of the bathroom I feel like I could literally go again within that same second. I still think pretty much every food under the sun sounds disgusting half the time. I thought that everything was supposed to sound delicious and I was supposed to be able to eat anything I want and feel no guilt. What happened to that? Also, I am not gaining weight currently but my weight is shifting. My wedding ring does not fit and my gut is huge. Oh the wonderful life of being pregnant!! So, aside from thinking everything sounds gross a Reese’s milkshake sounded spectacular yesterday which is odd since from the start of my pregnancy ice cream, milkshakes, yogurt and most dairy has sounded quite nasty. So I decided to go get a McFlurry from McDonalds. I got to the window and the guy said, “it will be $2.69” so I gave him two dollar bills and three quarters. The kid looked at the money and looked at me and said “it is $2.69”, and I said “I gave you 2.75” he said “no, you gave me 2.55” I just stared at the kid like he lost his mind but I am sure he is right and I probably gave him two quarters and a nickel and then I replied “you know what, I totally believe you I am pregnant and apparently I can’t count and I am losing my mind”. The kid laughed and said “that’s understandable”. Then I started to look for the remaining change and I counted it out and for some reason I got to count the remaining and I just could not figure out how much money I still needed to pay the poor guy standing in the window. After shuffling around and fooling around with the change I looked up and asked him how much more money he needed he replied “.14 cents” and then he continued to laugh at me until my stupid pregnant brain got together .14 freaking cents. Then I pulled forward to the window only assuming that all of McDonalds was in there making fun of the stupid lady at the window!! So that is how dumb I feel being pregnant. I can’t even do simple math and might I add math was one of my best subjects!

What happens if...

2011-11-27T17:05:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving!

Black Friday Crew!!
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you tried to shove 20+ worth of potato peels down your garbage disposal? Well, wonder NO MORE...I have discovered what will happen! The sink pretty much explodes and your gracious husband gets to play handy man. This is the mess I created....

Under the sink completely flooded!

What a trooper!
Almost finished cleaning up and fixing my mess!
Shelly and I made Halloween crafts...we are planning ahead :) This is the process to total cuteness...
This is our finished product...

Its time to decorate for Christmas!

Our Winter buddies..
Daniel topping our tree!

The finished product of our decorating together!!!My awesome wreath I made..Shelly and I both made one!

The stockings hanging above our fire place...

Thanksgiving - Black Friday

2011-11-26T18:17:00.000-08:00

11/26

Thanksgiving! So, Daniel and I had two Thanksgiving dinners to go to. Aunt Connie’s was at noon and my families was at 3pm. The night before I got a call from my Aunt Jeni who said that her plans fell through for a church she had booked and we had to move our dinner to 1pm. I was so stressed to say the least. I had to figure out a way to make it to both. So Wednesday night I started prepping my food!!! To Aunt Connie’s we took Daniel’s family favorite…Pistachio dessert. We enjoyed our yummy dinner that Daniel ate two helpings of!! I had bread that is so yummylicious and potatoes that were made special for me since I don’t like mashed potatoes. Then we left there at 1:15 to head to Eagle Mountain for my family dinner. We arrived at about 2pm we were an hour late but they were expecting that. I had brought rolls, green bean casserole with green beans from Daniel’s grandma’s garden, mashed potatoes, a chocolate pie and drinks. Daniel ate a little but mainly he took leftover’s home and has been living on them lately. He loves leftover’s I think they are gross!! He took a little bit of everything since we were smart and brought Tupperware J. After dinner some of us girls made shirts that said “Once you go black you never go back…Black Friday 2011”. We sure did wear them shopping too!!

Black Friday---It all started Thursday at 10pm at Wal-mart so if anyone knows what that means it means we were really there by like 7:30pm on Thursday. We were positioned all over Wal-mart to get all the goods! Aunt Jeni, Aunt Jelaire, Dakota, Adrian, Nicole, Ana, Stevie, Jen, Maddie, Jakob, Brina and me, we had a small army!!! At 9:55pm the battle for the goods started and can I just tell you MEN who are 6’6” and weigh 250+ should not be allowed to be so aggressive. Brina got her finger sliced open and got sat on and pushed over and I got shoved and have bruises all over my body over a $3 item!!! After the craziness at Wal-mart we went and ate at I-Hop then we went back to Wal-mart for the Midnight sale. We bought more stuff there then we went to Target. We got everything we needed there even though we didn’t wait in the cold. Then we went to Smith’s Marketplace and waited in the car from 3am until 5am then me and Brina bolted in the doors and got exactly what we needed. Then I dropped Brina off at home and went to bed at 7:30am!!! I slept until 2pm on Friday then I finally unloaded my car and Daniel and I went out to the Dollar Store, Kohls and Wal-mart again!!! I am crazy I know!! That is my Black Friday 2011 experience….next year I just might do it online!!

WEEK 14 & 15

2011-11-26T18:15:00.000-08:00

11/16 WEEK 14

Ugh!? Super super sick!! I have been miserable!! On Friday I got to feeling really sick I woke up early and cleaned the house then all of a sudden it hit me like a ton of bricks. I got super sick. I was making dinner cuz Shelly and Jake were coming over and I started crying my eyes out to Daniel. Random pregnancy tears I am assuming. It was absolutely horrible. I needed to rest. I of course didn’t rest and it only got worse from there. I had picked up some extra hours at work on Saturday so I had to be there from 8 AM -9 PM. It was like murder. I sat in my char at my little desk with my blankie wrapped around me and had the chills and the sniffles and watery eyes for 13 hours. I am sure it didn’t make things any better with the fact that I am pregnant and can hardly take any meds. Plus, I thought I couldn’t take any kind of cold medicine so I literally suffered all day on Saturday before I called my doctor and asked what I can take. Thereaflu is one of the cold meds that I can take so you better believe I have been living on that this past week. Daniel set up the humidifier and I snuggle in bed every day when I get off work so I can try and feel better. Sunday I of course didn’t go to church I lounged around the house practically dying. The rest of this week I have been trying to overcome this awful cold. I am finally officially in my second trimester!!!! YAY!! You would think that the sickness of all kind would have stopped. We are in the countdown to finding out if this little bundle of joy is a boy or a girl. 6 weeks to go!! So far the votes are up there in the girl department. It wouldn’t surprise me but a boy would still be fun and is what my gut wants, either will be fun though. Also…heatburn….ugh…does it ever stop? I just hate it. I feel like nothing makes it better. Luckily my friend at work just told me tums are my best friend so ima go buy me some tums!!!

11/23 WEEK 15

Nothing has really changed. As a matter of fact I probably would say that the heartburn has been getting worse. They say heartburn means lots of hair…we shall see!! Aside from that I am achy and painy….BOO ACHES AND PAINS!!! My back might as well break…it would probably feel better!! I know it only gets worse from here but one word…UGH!!! Pants are getting tighter and it is getting harder and harder to hide the fact that I am pregnant. I need a new wardrobe! I am thinking we are going to go into the mall and go to a place called Fetal Studio and get the gender of the child the week before Christmas. I will be calling and setting up an appointment. See Daniel and I don’t have insurance yet and my insurance kicks in 12/05 Daniel’s kicks in 01/01 Daniel’s insurance is expensive and mine is definitely cheaper so I really don’t know what we will do!! The point of that is if I want to find out the gender through my Dr I have to pay almost $400 in December for a visit and an ultra sound. I can go to the Fetal Studio and find out the gender for $50 so I def think I will be doing that.

13 WEEKS

2011-11-10T19:05:00.001-08:00

11/09 13 Weeks! My clothes are tighter and my tummy is slowly growing. I knw there aren’t a lot of changes in how I feel this week from last but I am almost out of my first trimester. By the end of this week I am out!! They say at the end of week 13 you are no longer in the first trimester. I am hoping that my hormones and how I feels goes a little bit more normal than how I feel now. I feel sick still and I seriously think pregnancy is like puberty my skin is horrid!!! I have to wash my hair daily and I feel like I break out everywhere….I know TMI but for real this has to be documented that it is no frolic in the park!! Anyway 7 weeks to go until I get to find out the gender of this little one!! Daniel and I are finding more and more names we like which is good because variety is always a good thing. Daniel is still sad that lovey dovey is not my thing lately but he will get over it..ha!! That’s horrid for me to say but it’s true.

Happy Annniversary

2011-11-10T19:04:00.002-08:00

11/09 Happy Anniversary to Daniel and I and what a wonderful four years it has been. We are basically like a normal old married couple this year. We did NOTHING!!! We both went our separate ways in the morning and Daniel went to work, then school and I went to work. Later that evening I helped Chaz answer a girl to the Bingham Ball that had asked him. That was all sorts of fun and totally reminded me of high school. Then I watched Cassidy and we fell asleep watching Duck Tales “woo ooo” Ha!! (You would only get that if you watched Duck Tales back in the day) Anyway…nothing of much more excitement happened earlier this week! So See ya!!

Daniel and his family

2011-11-10T19:04:00.001-08:00

11/05 It is a miracle. Daniel called his mom yesterday and left a message and she called him back late last night so he didn’t get the message until today. So after he got off work this afternoon he called her. They talked for a bit and caught up in life. He told her how school and work is going and she caught him up on the life of the family and what is going on with his sisters. She also informed him how excited Ciara and Maddie were to hear that he had called. We are going to go over there for dinner when Nicole and Rylar come in town in the next week or so. That will be fun and exciting. I am so thrilled that we are going to have a relationship with Daniel’s family. It has been way too long and I am excited to get to know each and every one of them. I don’t know them and they don’t know me so it is hard and it always has been for me. Family is such an important part of my life that I can’t even grasp not being in contact with them for 4 years. Daniel is excited too he is nervous also since he feels like he doesn’t know any of them at all. It will be the best when we tell Marne’ she is going to be a grandma and his sisters are going to be Aunts. We are still planning on telling everyone around Christmas time. We will know the gender and Daniel is ecstatic to tell his mom. I have never seen him more anxious in his whole life. It’s cute.

HALLOWEEN PICS

2011-11-04T14:30:00.000-07:00

THE PUMPKINS WE CARVED!

HALLOWEEN

12 Weeks!

2011-11-02T19:23:00.001-07:00

11/02 12 weeks!! I had my first doctor appointment on 10/31 yes, that’s right Halloween. I figured it was appropriate since it is my very favorite holiday and I got to see my very first baby for the very first time that day. I was super happy and so was Daniel the little thing had its hand on its head the whole time so we couldn’t see the profile very well but it is so precious that I have a little baby growing inside me. Daniel wants a girl which makes sense due to the fact that he has all sisters. I want a boy because I am a little on the lazy side and they are easier. However we would be happy with either!! A baby is a baby and its our baby so we can hardly stand waiting to know the gender. At this moment in time we have a name picked out for both a boy and a girl. Boy=Zyker and Girl= Silver. They are unique and I picked the boy name and Daniel picked the girl name. I know that names don’t always stick before the baby is born but right now we have chosen those names. The doctor said everything looks good and he will see me every 4 weeks from now on. He also said that I could get in around the 22^nd of December so we know the gender of the baby before we tell anyone. We are debating on how long we are going to wait right now. We are thinking Thanksgiving at the soonest and Christmas at the latest. Everyone is assuming but it’s not official until we say. I am still super super tired and I don’t want to do anything my doc says that will ease up in the second trimester then the third I will get tired again. I don’t really like very many foods at this point and I haven’t gained any weight either. I figured since I started out the pregnancy a little plump then it would be helpful to gain as little as possible.

11 WEEKS!! I am having a Baby

2011-11-02T19:21:00.002-07:00

10/26 11 weeks!! Well I am having a baby!! I went off the lovely birth control on May 31, 2011. People said it could take six months to get pregnant. I however got pregnant in August…probably between the 17-24. Daniel and I have decided to keep this on the down low until at least the end of November. We are actually considering keeping it a secret until the gender of the child is known. People have stopped asking if I am pregnant and it is nice because I just don’t want anyone to know even though people are assuming. I had given up on getting pregnant near the end of July because I figured if I give up I will get pregnant. So, I gave up and started running. I was running 3.5 miles every day until my exhaustion hit and I gave up on that temporarily because I got pregnant!!! . I am hoping after the first trimester is over I can start on the treadmill again. I have a doctor appointment in a day less than a week. My first doctor appointment is on none other than my favorite holiday Halloween!! We will get the first ultra sound and also hear the baby’s heart beat. I am so excited. I will be almost 12 weeks on my first appointment. This puts me at 11 weeks today. I am hoping I will be consistent and post once a week. So far my pregnancy has consisted of exhaustion, nausea and more exhaustion. I am so tired all the time. I pretty much get home from work and lay in bed watching TV for the remainder of the evening. Daniel pretty much thinks I have turned into a lazy bum. I never thought pregnancy would make me this tired but it sure has!! Gotta love it.

October!!

2011-11-02T19:21:00.001-07:00

10/21 Friday was lots of fun. Shelly and Jake came over and we ate pizza for dinner. Then we had craft night for us girls and the boys played video games. Shell and I could not figure out what we wanted to do for the longest time. We went to Michael’s to brainstorm then we decided to make a heart with cupid on it and a Mummy for Halloween. We bought some stuff and headed over to JoAnn’s to get some fabric and a few more supplies. Then after spending like $6.50 each we were ready to craft. We went home and cut out hearts out of the wood and cut out the paper cupids. We then painted our hearts red and by that time it was sleepy time. So we will work on our crafts next weekend

10/22 Saturday I woke up and took grandma shopping. Then after that Daniel and I went to Shelly’s niece Brylee’s 2^nd birthday party. She is super cute and it was so fun to hang with the family. Then Daniel and I went home and I painted our pantry door. (I ruined it with cleaner a while back and so some of it was missing paint). Then we snuggled it up the rest of the night and enjoyed the rest of our evening.

10/23 Sunday was stake conference, I sure didn’t go because Daniel worked and I didn’t want to go alone. So, when Daniel got home from work we did a little cleaning and then we went to have waffles at Aunt Connie’s. Yum Yum!! We visited with them for a few hours and I helped pick grandma and grandpa Cosman’s garden. They sent us home with bags full of fresh veggies!! (How did we get so stinkin lucky) Also grandma gave me some fabric to help me finish my Halloween costume which I am more than grateful for because now I might actually get done on time. I really need to get better each year and make my costume early. It is slightly stressful when the week of I have pretty much nothing done and I am stressing to get it together.

10/24 Monday was work work work. Then I got to watch my cousins little boy Cassidy and we watched Surfs Up, Daniel and him played Donkey Kong on the Wii, we ate dinner, played outside then we fell asleep like little babies by like 9. Daniel stayed awake of course and waited for Rachel to get out of class and come get Cassidy. Fun day.

10/25 Tuesday was pretty boring. Normal day then I relaxed and watched some TV shows until I fell asleep.

10/26 Wednesday I watched Cassidy again and we visited my Grandma Helen for her 91^st birthday. She is still pretty active which is so good. I hope she lives forever!! I just love my grandma so much. We go shopping every Saturday that we can and it is so much time. I mean, you can never spend too much time with people in this world while we still have them. Daniel and I got her two books and some candy for her birthday. She reads a couple books every week so it is hard to keep up with since she goes so fast. After we visited with her for a couple hours I ran an errand with my aunt Jelaire and Chauntay because they are in town from their move to Cali. So I spent a little time with them then I went home and Daniel, Cassidy and I watched The Incredibles.

10/27 Thursday I got home from work and made myself some delicious pasta salad!! Then I made Daniel a dish out of a cookbook with the fresh squash from the garden that we had received earlier this week. I hope he liked it. Ha. Then I went over my Halloween costume and figured everything I need to do to get it done by Monday. Since I haven’t even started this should be fun….I need to not procrastinate.

10/28 Friday was relaxing. Normally I would have this day off but I went into work because I switched someone shifts. Then after that I relaxed at home enjoying the evening.

10/29 Saturday I woke up early to go to the Primary program practice. My I have five kids, Jack and Myles are twins, Jake, Will and Hailey. We practiced then ate doughnuts. After that I took grandma shopping, of course. Then Daniel and I went on a hunt to find a few last minute things for our costumes. Then we ate at Café Rio and we saw our little primary boy Jake and his family there. Then we went home and I started my costume. I finished the cape and started the dress. I got the top of the dress done and was so tired so I had to call it a night.

10/30 Sunday was the Primary Program my kids did so well, they probably have the most energy out of every class in the entire primary…actually they might have more energy than the entire primary combined. I love them so much though they are all now officially 5 and they are so much fun. They keep me on my toes at all times. We have four little boys and one little girl. As a matter of fact during class the little girl decided she wanted one of the little boys to be her boyfriend so she decided to grab his face and give him a huge smooch on the cheek. Then she wanted more kisses and had to tell her no more. Ha, kids are so stinkin funny. The primary president asked me if I have had enough of primary since Daniel and I have been in for just about two years. I told her I will never be sick of it and I meant every word of that. I love love love primary and I would be in it forever if I could. I even told her I would give a talk on the importance of a primary calling and how it should never be taken for granted. Anyway…after church we came home and ate lunch then we went over to Jake and Shelly’s to carve pumpkins. Daniel carved Parry the platypus, I carved Ariel, Shelly carved a haunted house and Jake carved a scary face. Then they made dinner for us we had BBQ chicken and cheesy potatoes…YUM!! After dinner we went home to work on our costumes. I stressed a little and finally got the dress finished. So we went to sleep to wake up for our long day of Halloween.

10/31 HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! I woke up early to get my costume on and went to work. Then there was the annual party at my mom’s house and Chaz and Brock has a bunch of friends over which was fun. Shelly and Jake and Maddie and Jakob came over to party hardy with us. Daniel and I looked pretty amazing if I do say so myself.

11/01 Tuesday I went to work and when I got home I cooked up my pumpkin seeds from carving pumpkins on Sunday. They were delicious!! I ate a bunch but considering I had 4 pumpkins worth of seeds and I am the only one that likes them I was in heaven!! Daniel and I cleaned the house and then we hung out with Maddie and Jakob for a bit. Then it was beddy bye time!!

I'm BaAaAck...

2011-10-14T16:09:00.000-07:00

Well hello to all! Many people would say I have fallen off the face of the earth that however is not entirely the case. I did although take a break from all social internet sites. I had no particular reason but I am here to say I am back!!
This time every year my family takes a trip to Cali. We are super sad we could not go but I started a new job and in the first 90 days there is no vacation. It totally blows but we will hopefully be looking forward to a trip sooner than later to the wonderful and dearly missed California. Happy Birthday to my dad yesterday, we are usually in Disneyland for his birthday so it was quite sad to spend dinner at Chilies rather than on Pirates of the Caribbean or Space Mountain. We will survive though.
My new job is working at Comcast and boy oh boy do I love to hate it. I don't know what it is about a call center but I will tell you this when I no longer need to work there I will never look back. It is a job and for that I am grateful but as far as enjoying my new job...its NEVER going to happen. People are quite annoying. I know, I sound rude but in reality people suck. Game over.
On a much brighter note....its OCT-freaking-TOBER!!!!! My favorite month, season and holiday are currently upon us. Daniel and I have decided on being none other than Red Riding Hood and The Wolf. We always have to go all out for Halloween since it is my all time favorite holiday. I will be working on my cape/cloak the next few weeks and Daniel's costume is coming along quite nice as far as ideas go :)
Well, until next time..see ya! XOXO

Staycation

2011-08-09T20:44:00.000-07:00

I changed my mind and posted SOME of the pics but they are in random random random order so enjoy...

So, I am very good at taking pictures but not as good at posting them all on here. It takes super long to upload all of them and I have sooooo many!! So, go look on Facebook and they are all there. I would say the beginning of our staycation was going to the Journey concert. Daniel LOVES them and he has such a fun time. I however liked Foreigner much much more than Journey. My friend Ashley was also at the concert and we met up and talked for a while. We went with my parents because my dad got tickets through his work for us to go for free!! Daniel was super thrilled and I am glad he enjoyed every minute of it.

Next Josh and Missy came in town!!! We were with them every second they let us be! We did fireworks on the 24th with Missy and the kids because Josh had to go back to Cali for a bit. Also, Aunt Connie, Uncle Chris and the kids were over at my parents for the 24th!! Its pretty much a tradition! :) Then once Josh got back more fun continued. They went bowling, mini golfing, to the movies, dinner, the beach, the pool...you name it we did it. Missy and I worked on crafts pretty much every waking minute we could. They are Halloween crafts and we made them because we saw mini sized ones at the quilted bear and I decided we could make them better, so we did. It was so nice having them here and not in California. They came out here with some pretty good news of them getting out of the Navy when their contract is up. That is super nice for us to hear because that means they come home to Utah and we see them more often!! I mean Daniel and Josh are 'brothers' and all so it will be nice to have them closer for family parties and such.

My Beach

2011-07-18T19:11:00.000-07:00

We went to our local beach today. It is in Herriman and Daniel calls it "our beach" We bought rafts to go out onto the little lake with. We all had so much fun! We floated around the lake talking and having a blast!!

This is Daniel blowing up our awesome raft!!
This is our raft named Yellow Thunder...that is what I named it, don't be confused with the lame name that was manufactured onto our boat. :)

Here are my quilts I have been working on. They now just need to be quilted together as soon as I find time and someone willing to help me out with this fantastic project I have started. Goal: Find a machine! :)
P.S. Excuse the messy house, I have been sewing!! :)
Have a great day! If you live near by go visit the local beach!! :)
XOXO

Harry Potter!!!

2011-07-17T18:44:00.000-07:00

The final show down finally happened Harry and Voldemort battled to the end.....Well, I actually enjoyed the movie. I have enjoyed the last of the movies more than the first movies. They stayed true to the books for the most part and that I liked. I am one of those Harry Potter geeks that waited up until midnight to get the books and I would have gone to the midnight showing but my awesome Aunt Jelaire got me and two of my cousins early tickets. We felt so cool!! :)

Geocaching....another one of my geeky desires. Daniel, my little brother Brock and I went Geocaching Saturday night. It is way fun. Its like a rush looking for things that are hidden amongst us and most people have no idea that this world wide hunt goes on. We went to 6 places in South Jordan all close to the Jordan River Trail. I really wanted to walk on the walkway so I could pick up golf balls that golfers hit onto the trail close to Mulligans. Don't ask me why I wanted to do that because really I have no idea. We didn't get a chance to because us oldies had to be home so Daniel could get to bed by 9:30.

Other than that its been the same old same old stuff happening. I have been putting feathers in a ton of peoples hair lately. Since I charge $5 a feather its quite the bargain and people are calling me like crazy. I love it! My favorite one is the one with feathers at the end of your hair braided. Neat-o!! Well, that's all for now. XOXO

4th and such, Family Drama-Rauma (Don't read if you will take offense)

2011-07-11T19:13:00.000-07:00

and such.....gosh Daniel has rubbed off on me these past years. That is a phrase he says! I notice I say things he says often.

July 4th was pretty freaking awesome as usual. I have lost my camera or I would post pictures. We spent the whole day in Sandy. We did the fair, the parade (Daniel was in it) and the fireworks. I really love my family. We are so awesome because Daniel has the loudest cheering crowd out of all the people in the parade. With a rough sum of 60 people cheering his name it is hard for him to focus I'm sure :)

On my free time, which is lots and lots lately I have been making a quilt. It is coming along nicely and pretty soon I am going to have to figure out a way to actually quilt it together. Doing it by hand would probably take me 10 years. I love to sew. I love doing crafty things really.

I put new feathers in my hair and I just love them. I have a braid that comes from behind my hair with feathers at the end of it and I have purple, blue and turquoise. I love it. Maddie has red, yellow and blue. I also painted my toes super cute and Maddie's to match. They are zebra and adorable. I saw the idea at a salon and I just had to do it.

I went visit teaching yesterday and we talked about families. We got pretty deep for a VT lesson. Even though the message was about temples it always leads to families. We talked about Daniel's family. As much I would like to say that things are fine and dandy they aren't. Daniel and I wish, hope and pray all the time that his mom will come around and be in our lives. My family is such a strong unity regardless of if someone feels offended or hurt that I just have wishful thinking that Daniel's could be the same. It is coming up on one year since the last time we have seen Daniel's Mom and sisters. We saw them at his sister Nicole's wedding back in September. I will usually voice my opinion about families but I never directly say Daniel's but 4 years with this kind of tension is ridiculous and it is on my mind more often then it's not. Especially with children in our thoughts I want everything fixed. I'm sure this will not be my last post about this but well, this is my blog and I have always been slightly careful with what I post. Now, I will say and post what I want. What I want right now is for Daniel and his MOM/SISTERS to be FIXED!!!!!!! Period. This is not meant to offend anyone so don't take it that way I just think things need to be evaluated and fixed. Daniel has some wonderful extended family that has reached out to him and I would never take that for granted or want to lose the relationships we have built with them.

Well, enough of my ranting!!! I am still working at CPK and I still want a different job. No worries I am actually looking!! Ha ha. I just need something to keep me busy for about a year. Then Daniel will be graduated with his Bachelors Degree!!!! YAY!!!

XOXO

LOVE IT!

2011-07-03T19:14:00.000-07:00

SO, I just love feathers! I know they are the total trend right now but I just love them. I have like 14 in my hair right now and I love each and every one of them. I have made some pretty decent money putting them in peoples hair and I have also sold feather earrings. They are a nice profit maker these days.

The 4th of July is tomorrow and I am totally stoked! I love the 4th! We go to Sandy and do a fulls day worth of events there. Daniel will be marching in the parade and we will have a blast.

I am still thinking about going back to school and I definitely am still looking for a new job! Ugh...same complaints post after post, I know...sorry!!

Daniel and I saw Transformers 3 with our cute friends Terrika and Andrew. I freaking LOVED it. I am a huge Transformers fan to begin with and I loved the first movie, the second was a disappointment and the third was a nice save from the horrible downward spiral they were going after the second. I even have a transformer license plate that says "My other car is a Transformer" Daniel bought it for me because of my love for Transformers.

Well, have a great 4th!! XOXO

Busy Busy Busy Week/Weekend

2011-06-26T17:07:00.000-07:00

So, a week ago it was Father's Day we went to see Uncle Chris and gave him his yearly awesome Dad's Day gift....a tie. They are too stinking cute because they gave Daniel a "good luck trying" Father's Day gift. They gave him the cutest tiny baby boy bibs and they are embroidering the names I would love to name twin boys. They made him these so we can have good luck because I really want twins boys. That family is so thoughtful and so clever. I am so lucky to have married into such a wonderful family! They are the best "in-laws" I could ever ask for! After we went over to Aunt Connie and Uncle Chris' we went to my house and had dinner with my family. My dad loved his tie and we also gave him a waffle maker because his broke and he makes waffles every Sunday. He loved it. We had stuffed red peppers and meat loaf, my dads request. Father's Day was a blast.

Then, Wednesday night Daniel has marching band practice. I was helping set up for Shelly's wedding and when I was finished I gave Daniel a call. He sounded pretty stressed and it was 9:40 PM and he still wasn't home so I knew something was up. He told me he lost his wallet and he did not know the last time he felt it in his pocket. He had been downtown all day for work, then school and then marching band practice in South Salt Lake. SO, we met home to double check and make sure it was not by some random chance at our house and sure enough it wasn't. Then my mom and I drove the streets of South Salt Lake at midnight with flash lights and my GPS trying to find his wallet. We had no luck and so we headed home. I went to bed around 2 AM because I was so stressed out and I was cancelling accounts all night. Then I woke up at 5:45AM to get ready for Shelly's wedding. I showed up at Shelly's to do her hair and sent her off to the temple. Then I did her sister Stacy's hair and her other best friend Anna's hair. Then we all headed downtown to the temple foe Shelly's sealing at 11AM. After the sealing we took pictures at the temple and then we headed to the luncheon at Jake's parents house. We then got ready for the reception at 6PM. We had a blast decorating the car and making sure the reception ran smoothly. Then we saw them off around 8PM and cleaned up as fast as we could so we could go home and sleep :) I was totally looking forward to sleep after only getting around 3 hours the previous night. Then on Friday I went and watched Shelly and Jake open their gifts and said goodbye to them and they are now on their honeymoon on a Caribbean cruise!!! I pretty much have been catching up on sleep ever since.

Daniel's wallet is still lost and we are in the process of getting all new cards and he will be getting a new license tomorrow. He had $70 cash which we pretty much kissed goodbye. Luckily there was no activity on the cards before I was able to shut them down. So our loss isn't as big as it could have been.

I am still looking for a job and I have actually started looking. So, wish me luck because I really, really am trying to not work in the food industry ever again ASAP!! I am hoping that whatever job I get I can get full benefits also!! KSL job search is my new best friend!

2011-06-22T12:11:00.000-07:00

Well, so far I have had zero luck with finding a new job!! I wish that a full time job with benefits would just fall into my lap because I certainly hate looking. I should probably go back to school but that is just very unlikely right now. Possibly if I got a full time day job I would be able to do night school and finish up my associates. Considering I am only 4 classes away from completion It could be very quick. Its only a matter of actually doing it.

Shelly is getting married tomorrow!!! I have a full day of events starting very early....like at 7 in the morning!!! Wish me luck!! :)

Saturday Bloggin'

2011-06-18T11:31:00.000-07:00

Its that time of year!!! It is the Victoria's Secret Semi-Annual sale!!!! I just love it when they have this sale. There is nothing like a new bra also, a little lingerie is always a plus too. This year not only did I get a bra and lingerie I got a silk robe!! :) For mothers day Daniel got me a long black silk robe and it is super comfy but when I saw a shorter silk robe I just had to have it. LOVE!!!

Daniel is once again doing band for SLCC playing his trumpet. He will be doing a couple parades and is getting paid to do what he loves! Fun for him.
Green Lantern hit the theaters and can I just say I loved it!! It might have something to do with one of my boyfriends play in the movie...RYAN REYNOLDS hottie! He looked mighty fine also! He is a close second with my #1 boyfriend Ashton Kutcher
Also, Blake Lively is in Green Lantern and she is gorgeous so it gave Daniel some eye candy. Also, the fact that Daniel's favorite actor is Ryan Reynolds and it was a superhero movie are a couple reasons he loved it as well.

Shelly's wedding is Thursday and I can hardly believe it is finally happening. Jake and her have been together for like 8 years off and on but mostly on. SO, ITS ABOUT TIME!! HA!

I still want another job and Daniel still enjoys his but other than that nothing is new.

HAPPY FATHERS DAY tomorrow to all the dad's out there and to the best dad in the whole world my dad. He is the best dad any one could ask for and as far as super hero's go he is mine!! :) I love you dad!

XOXO

Over Half Way There

2011-06-16T11:08:00.000-07:00

We are now over half way to 2012....what does this mean you ask? My NEW new years resolution. I don't even remember my first one, probably get healthy and organized which I am slowly failing at both!! Who else is failing their New Year goals right about now?? Probably most of the world. So....I bet you are wondering what the new goal is... It is to get out of the restaurant industry and never look back!!! I am done serving tables. I am done with hearing obnoxious people eat. I am done dealing with the joyful lousy tips some people leave no matter what the circumstance. I am done! :) There are perks to working in the restaurant industry and my perks have been as follows: 1: I met my best friend and now husband from working at Wingers and I got to work with him for 5 years 2: I met one of my best girl friends Maddie working at Wingers (by me meeting Maddie I introduced to her to my friend, and now her husband Jakob, which I met while working at Taco Bell...restaurant...ha!) 3: I got my brother Chaz and my cousin Sabrina jobs at Wingers and worked with both of them for over a year (family Wing-a-dingers yup yup) 4: I also made some very close connections to who I still talk to often from restaurants I have worked at, the Jen and Jess sisters and baby Ashton, Terrika, Alexa, Katie and many more 5: I still work with Maddie and I have worked with her in 5 out of the 6 food places I have worked. Given all the perks I still want out!!!! So, there ya go my half way there NEW new years resolution!! My solution to all this....get a new job!!! HA. XOXO

Moms

2011-05-07T21:14:00.000-07:00

It has been about a month since my last post and I would love to say I am completely dedicated to posting more often but in all honesty it slips my mind most of the time.

Mothers Day is tomorrow and I sure am grateful for my mom. I am actually grateful to all the moms out there who love their kids no matter what. I recently met someone who actually was in Daniel's ward when he was little and he was about Daniel's age. He has strayed from the church, picked up some nasty habits such as drinking and smoking but is one of the nicest people I have ever met. So out of curiosity I asked him why he left the church and he was more then willing to tell me his story. It was pretty much the typical story you hear "my parents forced the church on me" and " I never felt like I had a choice so I rebelled" and so on. Then he continued to say how no matter what he could have done his parents still loved and most importantly accepted him despite their disappointment. It goes to show me that there are moms out there that would rather be in their child's life than let wrong choices their children have made prevent them from knowing their children. This person has no intent in changing his life style and his mom and him came into CPK to eat together in celebration of Mothers Day today. They have a wonderful relationship and his mom is always quick to remind him that she loves him and will always be there for him through thick and thin. She treats all her kids equally and some have turned out more spiritual than not. Being a good mom can not be justified if you help out some of your children and throw the others under a bus. Being a good mom requires all of your children to be treated with love. So, I know their are good moms out there who look past their differences with their children so they can know and love them for the children of god they are. My mom has always been a very accepting and loving mom and for that I am extremely grateful. I hope I can be everything my mom is and more when I am a mom. Also, there is another mom I would like to recognize and that is Aunt Connie. She is such a wonderful mom to her children and equally as great of a mom to Daniel and I. She knows us better then we know ourselves and she is one of the most intelligent and wise people I have ever met. I am grateful to both her and my mom and their moms and their moms and generations down who have been such wonderful women. So, Happy Mothers Day to all the great moms in the world!

Little Bit of Info

2011-04-10T20:47:00.000-07:00

Rah rah shish boom bah! Alrighty, well I am still loving CPK and the more I work there the more I love it!! The people are great the food is great and work is great!! I wish I could say the same for Fin and Norah's but I am not particularly liking that job!! I actually want to quit and I can't even tell you why I am still there.
Shelly is getting married in two months and I am loving any wedding stuff I am able to be involved in. It is so much fun! She got really cute bridesmaid dresses and I need to go running so I look fantastic in it but my motivation in miles and miles away from me in California! Missy! She seemed to be my motivation the last time I got active but since she is not here I am not motivated! Depressing right?!? Sad but true.
Daniel is still busy with the normal days of work and school. He is absolutely loving not working at Wingers anymore. The stress was just too much and now his life is great!
I wish I had more to write but really life either stays the same or drastically changes! :)
XOXO!

Life as we know it NO MORE!

2011-03-27T17:55:00.000-07:00

Well, I graduated high school in 2005 and since then I have had two constants in my life one ASWN and two Wingers. The last few years have been rough in the world with the economy and well ASWN saw it coming first. Architecture, Surveying, Land Development, Engineering, Etc. probably suffered first and that is exactly what ASWN is. They are still holding on but they separated the Surveying department from their company. So, that helped my dad to start back strong in his company Bromac. He has had the company for over 15 years and now he is back strong doing that. I go in and work for him whenever he needs me and whenever the work is there. So all in all I am no longer with ASWN since December and I have been with Bromac since January and I work as needed. Then Wingers....Daniel and I are finished with serving there. Which is one of the best things that probably has ever happened to us. Daniel is full time with his CNA job and he is getting closer to having his Bachelors Degree. Next year at this time he will be graduating. With my free time I have decided to work at two restaurants. I work at Fin and Norah's during the morning and I work at California Pizza Kitchen at night. I am just starting at CPK so we will see how that goes!! I am excited for the change!

So, Daniel and I are doing great. We are getting excited about our future and we are loving everything that comes our way.

Lets Play Catch-Up

2011-03-06T20:02:00.000-08:00

Catch up time :) Well, my birthday was January 31 and I worked on my birthday since it was a Monday. So, Tuesday we celebrated my birthday. Daniel bought me 2 pairs of heels, 2 movies and a HD camcorder. I really wanted a camcorder so I was very happy to get one. Then we went to Olive Garden for dinner. Maddie, Jakob, Shelly and Jake came with us. Shelly and I have been friends forever and her birthday was Jan 23, our saying is and forever will be that I am 8 inches taller and she is 8 days older. I love my Shell!! They gave me a gift card to Forever 21 which is my favorite place! My family gave me a gift card to Olive Garden and a daisy shaped platter for food which I desperately wanted. Then we move on to Feb which is Daniel's birthday. It was on a Sunday so we did a homemade pizza bar and created personal pizza's that were delicious. I made him a Ninja Turtle cake and grandma got him a ice cream cake. He is always spoiled. He got money, gift cards, a ps3 case, new laptop case and a kindle. Then Aunt Connie and the family made a big deal of his birthday and mine. We went to their house the following Tuesday and they had made us a family home evening chart made out of wood which was so cute and they gave us more food storage then we know what to do with and our favorite treats. Aunt Connie is so awesome and she knows us so well with all of her thoughtfulness. I am extremely grateful to her and the family for making such a big deal of our birthdays since on Daniel's side that is all we have.

Friday I went in to this new restaurant called Fin and Norah's and I got another serving job. I am excited to work at a new restaurant! That is pretty much everything up to date.

XOXO

Anniversary

2011-01-09T17:48:00.000-08:00

Happy Anniversary to my wonderful parents!! Today I made dinner for my family. I made chicken tacos...mexican style, chicken enchiladas, and a hard shell beef taco/soft bean burrito bar. We had everything from my famous homemade salsa to a beautiful fruit platter Daniel made. Daniel helped me so much with all the cutting of the veggies for the salsa, the fruit, lettuce and more. So we cooked all of dinner and brought it to my moms house and had a spectacular candle light dinner. Tomorrow I start my first day at BROMAC, it isn't anything I haven't been doing in the past. It is the same drafting I have always done except now it is for my Dad's company. I am excited. So my goals for this week are to organize one of our spare rooms also known as the office. Wish me luck :) XoXo

New Year...

2011-01-05T15:56:00.000-08:00

Well, it is a new year and things are slightly different in my life. I have actually had time to clean my house and do the small stuff I have wanted to do for a while. I am having fun shopping for new things for my new bedroom set. I am going to put together some pretty neat things for it. Daniel never got to go skiing last week because they got snowed out. So, him and my brother are going today instead. Fun for them...work for me. Daniel is hopefully going to do Because We Sing this year. It starts tomorrow and as long as his Uncle can turn in his check and get his music he is going to do it. He is excited especially since last year he was sick and wasn't able to perform at the final concert. Well...short post, I know! I will post more later! :) XoXo

December Ending

2010-12-29T11:23:00.001-08:00

So I decided the worst thing about blogging is I can NEVER think of a title to my posts. Ha! Like, shouldn't there be something else about blogging I dislike more? Nope! Nada! It is creating a title, so when my title sucks you all know why! Ha!

Well, I for once in my life have quite a few things to blog about.

First. Christmas. It was quite eventful to say the least. There was a slight amount of family drama which I will not be going into. It was extended family so no worries there. We spent the night at my parents house Christmas Eve and woke up with my little brothers and opened gifts. Daniel was spoiled and I was close behind him. Daniel got....PlayStation Move (Game, Navigation Controller, Motion Controller and Eye, which is a camera), RockBand3 with the new Keyboard(PS3), Assassins Creed Brotherhood(PS3), Donkey Kong Returns(Wii), Epic Mickey (Wii) and 007 GoldenEye (Wii). Those were his 6 video games and accessories to hold him over for a while. He also got some really nice sweaters, not like old man sweaters or Argyle print or anything. They were brands like Volcom, Element, Empyre and such. He also got a new coat, house slippers, Supernatural seasons 4 & 5 and more I probably just cant remember. To say the least...he scored this Christmas!! I got a workout outfit to match my Nike id's that I never use but full heartedly want too. I got a Garmin GPS, Slippers, a Laminator (I asked for this he he), Apples to Apples Disney, Vera Bradley Duffel, Vera Bradley tool bag and more that I am forgetting. I was only shorted 2 things from my Christmas list and those were a Camcorder and a Canon Rebel Camera. So not too shabby.

Second. My bedroom. I want to re-do it. Right now it is Black, Pewter (which is goldish silverish ya...) and a really pretty shade of lavender. I want my room to be purple and green. Not like crayon box purple and green but purple and green very similar to the picture below. I have really expensive black curtains so I am going to have to figure out a way to tie them in. Good luck to me. Third. Baby. I am wanting a baby. So, long story short I have enough birth control to last me until June and then no more after that. I think that is pretty much self explained as to what Daniel and I decided :)

Forth. Job. I no longer work for ASWN+ because the company decided to put an end to the department I work for which is also the department my dad is the boss of. So, my dad is going to start his business up full time again. I will most likely work there once all his ducks are in a line and he is able to start hiring people. I am helping him with some of the marketing things such as business cards, flyers, email and web. His company is Bromac and he has had the company for 15+ years. It is Land Surveying and Engineering and I will be the Lead Drafter again once things get moving. It will be the same position I had at ASWN+. For now though I am just looking for a job to replace Wingers so I can eventually leave that dreadful place.

Fifth. New Years. I of course work. So does Daniel but he leaves early so he can get up at 5AM to get to work. My new years goals are as follows....train myself to eat healthier so I don't die of a heart attack or some dreadful food caused disease and so I am prepared to get pregnant. Second put my Nike id's and new workout outfit to good use so I don't die of a heart attack or Lazy Person Syndrome or some disease alike. Also, exercise is one of my New Years goals because my OBGYN made it one of them. He wants me exercising now to prepare myself to exercise through my pregnancy if I happen to get pregnant in the new year. Two more goals are to money manage better and to keep my house friggen clean. The last two goals will be the hardest. So...pray for me! :)

Sixth. Ski. Daniel is going skiing tonight with Chaz. Fun for them. Chaz is a boarder though but they can keep up with each other. They always go once a year. Good brother bonding time. I am not sure the main different between Snow Boarding and Skiing but I know they both have tons of fun. I also know I can't do either of the sports but I wish I could ha ha. I need me some lessons! :)

Anyway. That's my forever long blog. XoXo

I am a slacker...

2010-12-22T13:57:00.000-08:00

OK, so this is what my tree is supposed to look like. Although, this year we do not have a tree displayed. I have no excuse. I just suck at Christmas this year. I feel like all I have had time to do is shop for Christmas. I have done most of my shopping online so it has been pretty simple. I started shopping for everyone in October and still today I have a few last minute things I need to pick up before Christmas morning. With all the hustle and bustle of Christmas decorating my house was the last thing I needed to worry about. It made Daniel sad because he loves Christmas and he said that November 1, 2011 our tree goes up since I didn't have the time this year. I figure that is fair. Tacky, but fair. This picture is from 2008 I couldn't find one from last year. So Merry Christmas to all!

2 For 2

2010-12-21T13:14:00.000-08:00

This is now post 2 in 2 days...go me! Well, my mom and all her siblings are changing the Christmas
Eve traditions we have had for ten plus years so that's a bummer. I am not finished with my Christmas shopping so there is another bummer. My sister and her husband will be in Cali for Christmas, another bummer. Josh and Missy live in Cali so they wont be here for Christmas, another bummer. Work is really slow, another bummer.

On the plus side we get a new primary class in the New Year which will be a fun new adventure! We miss miss our old class though. Daniel works Sunday mornings until 10AM which will be sad cuz our ward starts at 9AM in the New Year so he wont be going to sacrament meeting with me.

Christmas is getting closer and closer by the minute and I get to spend it with Daniel so I am pretty happy about that! :)

I am religiously looking for a different serving job so if you hear of anything just let me know! XoXo!

Wishful Thinking

2010-12-20T14:03:00.001-08:00

So I was reminded yesterday by Aunt Connie that I hadn't updated my blog in a while! I am pretty sure she is the only one that regularly checks it and that is one of the many reasons she is so amazing! So, a special thanks goes out to her especially this time of year for being the best! I have always limited how much I write on here about Daniel's family but I have finally decided this is my online "journal" and for those people who don't want to read it, they really don't have too. We were invited by Aunt Connie to come over on Christmas. This was no surprise to me because she always includes us in every holiday and always remembers our birthday's and anniversary. I just find her heart bigger and bigger the more I get to know her. She has accepted me as a part of her family and my appreciation to her will never be able to show as much as I would like it too. We are very excited to visit them on Christmas and we are happy they will be in town this year.

With Christmas just a few days away I always am a wishful thinker and I hope that Daniel and I and his immediate family would be able to get together. Watching Daniel not have a proper mother/son relationship is hard. Especially since my family is so extremely close. I want to be able to go and see his mom and sisters a well as my family. This is not my place though and I understand that. It is something that needs to be fixed between him and his mom and no one else. I have never written anything like this on my blog because I was always cautious of what people would think if they read it but I have given up caring it has been over 3 years and there has been no conversation between Daniel and his mom. Its sad really and I know Daniel wants things to be fixed. He is just scared of rejection and that is perfectly normal. Hopefully things can be fixed sooner than later and this feud can finally come to an end.

My family had an early Christmas with Jelaire and Kelly since they will be in California. It was a fun little dinner and gift exchange.

Daniel and I are anticipating a very exciting 2011! Shelly my best friend from High School (we have been friends for like 50 million years) is getting married in June! We also hope many more great changes will be happening! I will keep you posted and I will try to acquire a list! Until then! XoXo

Sickness, its that time of year!

2010-11-17T13:55:00.000-08:00

Well, Daniel and I did not dodge any bullets this year with illness. Daniel ended up getting sick the beginning of the month and I shortly followed. Then with luck we were well for our 3 year anniversary!! THREE YEARS, I can barely believe it. I have been happily married for quite some time now which is more than most people can say these days since divorce is on a rise. We have both our parents to thank for our knowledge of good marriages. We are 3 years into the marriage with forever more to go, which is totally awesome. For our anniversary we went to Rodizio Grill, I got the salad bar of course and Daniel ate enough meat both of us. Then we went home and watched Toy Story 3 for the first time. We thought it was cute then the rest of the night is history :) ....... After that our week went back to normal. Full days of work and no time for play. Saturday night Daniel worked and I helped my mom make gingerbread couples out of felt to decorate for a young single adult dinner she is in charge of. Those took forever and I started getting sick. So I rested that night went about our Sunday duties as primary teachers, went to my parents for dinner, finished the gingerbread couples, went home and went straight to bed. I ended up getting very sick that night and taking the day off both my jobs, which I never do. Then the sickness has carried on and I am still trying to get over it. My mom thinks I had the stomach flu with a head cold. What a nice combination...right? HA! Well, other than my sickness nothing is new. Thanksgiving is right around the corner which is every Vegetarians favorite holiday. Smile. I will look forward to planning my Black Friday attack with my crazy family that day. Until next time...see ya! xoxo

Halloween!

2010-11-10T10:22:00.001-08:00

I love Halloween as everyone knows it is my favorite holiday. We made our costumes once again. They turned out pretty spectacular. I was up until 4 am the night before finishing up but it was well worth it. All my best friends were there with me on my favorite holiday and I couldn't have asked for anything more! Happy Halloween! The pictures say everything so here ya go...

California

2010-11-10T09:51:00.000-08:00

So, I am finally updating my blog from October! :) We went to California the week of my Dad's birthday. We all drove there as a family. Day one we went to the Orange County Sawp Meet and the Dana Point Harbor. I absolutely love both of these places and I went crazy at the Swap Meet and bought tons of things...of course!

Dana Point Harbor

Then the next three days we went to Disneyland. We stayed in a hotel near Disneyland and we walked there every morning. We were at Disneyland for my Dad's birthday and we all had so much fun! It is Daniel's all time favorite place so he lived it up to its fullest and did everything he wanted to do.

Disney Castle

A Bug's Life

Waiting for The Haunted Mansion ride

Toon Town

The beginning of Disneyland

Tea Cups!

Mater and Lightning McQueen

Jail Time

My Dad is STRONG

Daniel and I goofing off

It's a buggie bug world

Then on day five we went to Universal Studios and it was my first time there. Daniel had been there before. It was pretty neat taking the tours and learning about movie sets.

Driving there

Shark

The Flinstones

Despicable Me

Hollywood Baby

Day 6 we went to the San Diego Zoo and Sea World. I had never been to the Zoo in California and it was HUGE! We didn't plan for the size of it. I plan to go there again because I didn't even see all the things I wanted to see.

Ploar Bears

Giant Elephants

Daniel liked the big Cats

Sea World

Dinner our last night in Cali

We all had so much fun and hopefully will be able to do more vacations like this one with our families.

MOTIVATION

2010-10-20T14:56:00.000-07:00

Blah Blah Blah! I pretty much have had no motivation to go running. Ask me how my half marathon training is...better yet don't ask! Pretend you did ask and also pretend I said it's going fantastic!
We went to Cali last week and I will post more about that later.
Monday our lives went back to normal, only it kinda didn't. I got rear ended on the freeway and now my arm is messed up. I am hoping it heals but dang it hurts. I am driving this ghetto rental car that has stained seats and is yucky. I don't even want to think about having to get in it shortly.
I haven't started on our Halloween costumes because I am BUSY! Story of my life...hopefully I will attempt to work on them and finish them this weekend.
Pretty much we are boring for now so that's all you get until I post about Cali!

Costumes...

2010-10-04T11:16:00.000-07:00

So, I have been contemplating our Halloween costumes pretty much since last year. Since last year's costumes were so stressful I thought I should go easy on myself. Here are all the ideas and the order in which they popped in my head...

The Riddler~Poison Ivy (This costume will happen one day when I am as skinny as a rail)

Mr & Mrs Incredible (We need a Jack-Jack)

Peter Pan~Wendy (Daniel did not want to wear tights or anything like them)
Eric~Ariel (I just am never sure about this one)

Woody~Jesse (This was the final decision until Daniel mentioned something else)

~Jack Skellington and Sally~ This is the winning costume. It shouldn't be that difficult. I know I could totally go out and buy these but I just don't think that will seem very "Jessica like" since I like my home made costumes. So, wish me luck because I am going to need it. We leave to go to California on Saturday and then when we get back we have to plan my Grandma's 90th surprise birthday party. So I have a total of zero time. Last year I had zero time also and I survived with a fantastic Halloween costume to show off. I just LOVE Halloween :)

Crazy Weekend :)

2010-09-28T12:08:00.000-07:00

So we didn't have to work this past weekend at Wingers. Yay for us right? Well sorta Yay. Ha ha even though we didn't work we had a weekend full of events. Thursday I had my friend Kara's Wedding. She got married in the Salt Lake Temple on September 23. We attended her ceremony, luncheon and reception so that was a full day of fun!
On Friday, September 24 Daniel's sister Nicole got married. It was so lovely and fun. They got sealed in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. Then they had a luncheon in there honor at there ward house. There reception was at Daniel and Nicole's Aunt Jan's house. It was done up really cute. We were really excited to spend that special day with them and be able to see Daniel's family.

Daniel asked Nicole for a special dance that they shared together

This is Daniel and his sister Maddie, they are twins!

Daniel's sister Ciara she is so cute and fun

The bride and groom with us before they left on their honeymoon

Then Saturday after the wedding my cousin Gage got baptized. My cousin Chauntay had a party for turning 3. Another cousin Drake, turned 18. Then, my sister turned 21?!?! We went to dinner and a movie for her birthday and it was such a fun day.

Halloween Decoration

2010-09-08T09:06:00.000-07:00

So, Halloween is right around the corner and this past weekend I went to Swiss Days and saw some adorable Halloween decor. The main thing that stuck out in my head was a $50 chair. I totally would have forked over the money if it didn't seem so easy to make. I also figured I could make it cuter and I could probably make a little something to match it and that is just what I did. I made a Halloween chair with a cuter chair frame and cuter fabric and I made a wall hanging to go with it. I took the pictures with my phone so they aren't high quality but you get the just of it. These were really fun to make and I love them more since I made them.

MOM'S

2010-09-07T14:22:00.000-07:00

So, I came across this age break down of how we think of our mothers. I have seen similar things before but this is almost exactly how I thought at each age so I found it comical and decided to post it.

At age 4: Mom knows everything!

At age 8: Mom knows a lot.

At age 12: Mom doesn’t really know everything.

At age 14: Mom doesn’t know anything because I know everything!

At age 16: Mom doesn’t exist because she is embarrassing and lame.

At age 18: Mom is controlling.

At age 21: Mom probably knows something about this.

At age 28: Mom knows a lot. I need to call her.

At age 35: Before we decide, let’s ask Mom.

At age 45: I wonder what Mom thinks about this?

At age 75: I wish I could ask my Mom about this.

I found this funny because the younger I was the more I looked up to my mom and then through my teenage years well, I didn't think my mom was cool. At all. Now I need her for everything. There are times that we disagree with certain subjects but overall her advice is great. There are a lot of moms that need to be taking notes on how to be a good mom and I could name a few of them. I got lucky enough to know a few of the great moms in the world. I am glad to have my Mom, Aunt's and Grandma's in my life! :)

Gotta Love It

2010-08-24T10:09:00.000-07:00

I really hate cops. I will tell you I have been pulled over and ticketed in my life more times then I have fingers. Recently it seems my luck has improved and Daniel's has rapidly plunged into the ground. He has been pulled over and ticketed twice within the past six days. He got pulled over on the way home from work for going 16 over and his ticket just happened to be for 16 over. The brainless cop couldn't even find it in his heart to reduce the ticket speed. Daniel didn't even realize he was going so fast considering he just turned a corner and he is still unsure since he never saw his speedometer reach 46 mph. The cop also so kindly gave him a warning for not having the proper address on his ID. Seriously? Does the cop not have internet access? Daniel changed it online since it would be useless to pay for a new license. He hasn't lived at his parents house since he was 18 and he has changed his address 3 times online since then. Did the cop not get the memo in his computer? Then today he gets pulled over for speeding and Daniel said the cop was nice and lowered it to 5 over from whatever speed he was going. I don't think that is a nice cop, a nice cop would have given a warning and let him get to school since that is where he was headed. Two tickets in six days, gotta love it.

In my personal opinion I think cops are retarded. If they actually did their job and protected the community from crime then I would not have a problem with them but they insist on ticketing the hard working citizens instead. Blah!

Anyway, this is the first week of many where Daniel and I will see less of each other. School started, Daniel's new job started and my schedule changed at Wingers. Daniel is taking 5 classes this semester most of them are Anthropology which is his Major. He is enjoying all his classes so far and he is also enrolled in a research group which will help him when it comes time to apply to med school. Daniel has been getting up extremely early to be at work and extremely early is defined by 5AM. Then he goes to school from 12:30 PM-5PM most days and then Mon-Sat he works at Wingers 5:30PM-Close. He is a very busy person right now. Since he doesn't work everyday at his CNA job he is working at Wingers still. Once he goes full time at Sunbrook he will only work probably 1-2 shifts at Wingers. I only work with him 4 shifts this week out of each of our 6 shifts which is sad and in a few weeks it will go down to 1-2 shifts. Sad. Its alright though we will have Tuesday from 5 until night then Saturday and Sundays from Noon to night with each other.

New York!

2010-08-23T13:30:00.000-07:00

New York City was absolutely lovely. I would move there tomorrow if I had the chance. I loved everything in, about and around the great city. I wish I could say the same for Daniel but he just didn't enjoy it as much as I did. I am sure it had something to do with the fact that he went with 3 girls and we shopped all the time...it is one of my guilty pleasures.

We left for New York Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 5:00 PM Utah time and arrived in New York around 11 PM New York time. They are 2 hours later than us so it only felt like 9PM. So we took the subway and went and checked into our hotel. Then we went outside and walked around times square. No one was sleeping and no one looked tired it was crazy. Once we were finished browsing around times square we went to our hotel and crashed. When we woke up the next morning there were still a ton of people outside. Times square is always busy.Then we took the subway to go shopping and to Central Park!We then went to 5th Avenue for Central Park and shopping. We saw this globe thing outside of the subway and I still am not sure what it is. Everyone else probably does but I don't because I didn't pay any attention to what it was.Then we went to Central Park and it was so huge. We walked around for a couple hours and we barely walked any of the park. They had bicycle people who would give you rides and I am pretty sure we should have done that to see more of the park but we didn't.
Then we got hungry and everyone got a hot dog and I ate this nasty cheese filled pretzel. I was going to take a picture of Daniel's hot dog but he ate it in less than a second because he was so hungry.
Then we finally went shopping :) See the gorgeous store below. This is just one of the many gorgeous stores we walked into. They had everything it was like heaven on earth. From Gucci, Prada, Louis Vuitton, Christian Louboutin to Chanel. They had EVERYTHING!
We saw a lot of Cathedrals in NY and they were all so beautiful. We shopped until we dropped on day one and it pretty much was the time of my life. Daniel and I are across the street as we are heading home from our long day. Sabrina and I lost our minds a little while Shelly was in the shower and we made Daniel be our photographer. We were jumping on the bed and being crazy for probably 20 minutes and these are only two of the bundle of photos Daniel took of us ha ha. On day 2 we had a lot of sites to see and aside from times square our second site of everyday was a subway. We went to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island and Lady Liberty is much smaller in person then I would have ever expected. It was neat and Daniel really liked it because he likes history and stuff like that. We obviously thought the subway was pretty neat. Then we arrived at Ground Zero and got to learn more about the monument that they are building here. They are building Freedom Towers in remembrance of 9-11.

Then we experienced our one and only, expensive, 5 minute Taxi ride! YAYAYAYAY!
China Town
Little Italy. It had some yummy food there.Then onto day 3. We started our by going to Madison Square Garden, which was a hot and sweaty tour because the air in the building was not working properly.
Then we went to the Empire State Building and Top of The Rock at the Rockefeller Center. They were pretty much the same exact thing but it was cool to see the city from up so high.

Then We went to the Library which was a dud. Someone said it was cool and it wasn't. We are thinking we went to the wrong one...Radio City was neat to see and from here we just finished up the day with more shopping.
The final day we woke up later in the day and went on a Circle Line Sight Seeing Cruise. We took a 3 hour cruise around Manhattan and it was pretty neat seeing all the bridges and the city from the water.

This is Daniel sleeping. We went on like 6 boat rides when we were in NY and he took a nap on every single one of them.
Our last night we saw Wicked. Daniel absolutely loved every moment of the show. I also liked it which is surprising considering my outlook on musicals. I am glad we were able to end the trip with something that Daniel absolutely enjoyed.

Then we headed to the airport at like 2:30 AM NY time and arrived in Utah, Wednesday, August 11 at 11 AM. We slept all day Wednesday when we arrived at our house. The trip was such a blast and totally wore us out :)
Thursday I went with Maddie to the Zoo for her 22nd birthday and we also visited Aunt Connie for her 42nd birthday! Yay! They both got some pretty cute purses from NY lucky them and lucky us to have them in our lives! :) That is the end of our vacation.

Running!

2010-08-19T16:09:00.000-07:00

I am going to turn myself into a runner if it is the last thing I do. I am literally dreading Sunday because I start my half-marathon training and that is stressful! (sigh)

So...SO

2010-08-18T15:27:00.000-07:00

Well, we are home from New York and I loved every minute of it. I will tell everything I can remember about New York on my next post. This post is to briefly brush up on our lives.

1. Daniel has a new job as a CNA at Sunbrook Home Health and Hospice. He is excited to begin his journey in the medical field and is even more excited that Wingers is not in his future. I can't say I blame him either.

2. I am looking for a new job. I am still at ASWN and I am going to continue to work there as long as possible. As for Wingers, I am hoping it will see the last of me soon. I am going to apply at different Restaurants in hopes of serving elsewhere. Surprising? I know! I thought I would be a server for Wingers until the end of the world.

3. Even though we just got home from vacation we wish we were with Daniel's family in California. His Aunt and Uncle took the kids there and we considered tagging along and if it weren't for Daniel's new job we probably would have. Jealous.

4. There are 4 weddings in September that we know of and that is just crazy.

5. FAT a.k.a WEIGHT. Yep, I said it. It's words that pretty much all girls hate and even some boys. Daniel hates it because he can't gain any....muscle...fat...nada!! I just think its funny how Skinny=Fat, Fat=Fat, Obese=Fat, Average=Fat. Seriously world?!?! Is everyone fat? I can honestly say NO and I can honestly say that there are people who have zero fat on them... So, if that is the case then why do I hear skinny people say they are fat? I guess I will never know!

6. I start my 10 week training for my half-marathon this Sunday, August 22. Scary right? Before I left for NY I ran 5 days straight for 30 minutes each day. Ask me how much I have ran since I got home....NEVER! I am screwed. So, I might just die in the next 10 weeks from exhaustion. I love you all...JK but really I need some luck.

7. 7 1/2 weeks until we will be in Cali! YAY!

Anyway. I'm out.

Family

2010-08-04T10:42:00.000-07:00

I always think about family, whether it be a single person between our families or family as a whole. I even have friends I would consider family. I don't think I could ever distance myself from any of these people I call family. I love them all too much. I come from a very good family. We are not quick to judge, shun, disown, belittle or dismiss. We are there for love, support and strength. My immediate family is the base of what I grew up knowing. It is my core and it is part of what made me the person I am today. I also grew up very close to my extended family. If there is a family party you can bet all my family would be there. My Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Grandparents, and even friends of all these family members are accepted with open arms. My Grandma Carol is my Moms, Mom and between her six children there are a total of 21 and we are the cousins. The 21 of us range from 30 years old to 2 years old four of those cousins are currently married and seven of the cousins have been married. Sadly three of the marriages just didn't work out. So that makes a total of 25 cousins because once you marry into this family you are without a doubt a member of the family. There are also six children amongst the cousins and we count them in the number even though they are the next generation. 31 cousins and we are all so tremendously close to one another. We would seriously do anything for one another and it doesn't stop at that ANY member of the family would do anything for anyone of us.

Recently I have thought more and more about how grateful I am to be put in such an accepting family. I am not a person who has ever had trouble being accepted in any aspect of my life but I see people everyday being shunned by the very people that call themselves family. To me the word family has always meant a great deal, it has meant dedication, love and acceptance. I have seen pride rip apart families and keep them apart for years. It is not the act that offended a person that keeps two people apart, it is the pride that each of them hold too dearly to move forward and love each other. Mothers, Fathers, Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents these are all people we think of as mentors or older people to look up too. They are the adults and they should be the first to put aside differences and do whatever it takes to make sure their families are united forever. If these people are hurt or offended by their child, niece/nephew or grandchild they should be the first to put their best foot forward and move on. If the situation happens where the child is offended I still believe the older person should take charge and try to fix the situation. People are pathetic though and they obviously don't believe family is as important as I do. One of the main foundations of the church is family. We base our whole lives around family and having an eternal family is our ultimate goal on this earth. If the people who think that they can ignore, push and shove their children away think that they are good people, they are wrong. They need to toughen up, move on and bring their family close. I am lucky enough to be close to my family and to Daniel. I was raised in well and that I am grateful for. I pray for every broken family in this world to be fixed, mended and restored. Hopefully every day there are answers to my prayer and I truly believe that there are. I also hope that the families I pray to be mended the most are mended sooner than later because you never know in life what is next to happen.

Fun Time!

2010-08-02T12:02:00.000-07:00

So the count down begins, we have 5 days until we will be in New York. I seriously couldn't be more excited. I want to see everything there from the Statue of Liberty to the Christian Louboutin store! :) Oh geez, I am like a little girl counting down to Christmas. I have good reason because New York is one of my dream places to visit alongside Hawaii and Europe.I have started running...yes running. I run as often as I can to prepare for a half-marathon. I start my official 10 week training on August 22. I think I have officially lost my mind but that is OK because I will cross the finish line and hopefully my mind will return to me after I have accomplished such a great goal. I am running two miles which I know sounds like nothing compared to the 13.1 mile run I have ahead of me. That is the distance of a half-marathon and a full marathon is 26.2 miles. I am going to try to make it a goal to run a marathon before I have a kid. I mean if we get surprised with a child then there is nothing I can do about it but if there is no surprise then my goal is to complete a marathon before children. I want to be trained and ready to run a marathon by next fall. It seems so close and who knows what my commitment level will be by then but as of right now that is my goal. I purchased some Nike ID+ shoes which I personally designed and they will track my distances. I don't get them for over a month but I am really excited about getting them. They are bright blue and neon yellow. I couldn't get a big picture of them so there is a mini one below :)Daniel has an interview for a new job today and I will soon know how it goes which makes me nervous. Who knows how our lives will plan out if he gets a new job. It is a CNA position so if he gets the job he will surely take it because it will get his foot in the medical field. So good luck to him.

On a random note...our house is almost completely clean :) YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!

24th Weekend

2010-07-26T09:16:00.000-07:00

After I got off work Friday night from Wingers I went home and got ready to party. My cousin Sabrina and her daughter Chauntay went downtown for the 24th of July Pioneer Day parade, which was Daniel's last parade. We planned on sleeping down there and waking up for the parade. Well, that plan didn't go over so well because it ended up being impossible to sleep. So we napped for about 45 minutes and then we waited for the parade to start at 9am. The parade was really slow and nothing I imagined. It took forever and they didn't even throw candy or anything to make it exciting. I enjoyed watching Daniel but this will be the only year I go to the Days of 47 parade (I am not sure why it is called that but it is) Then I took a 2 hour nap that day and got ready for a party at my parents house with Daniel's Aunt and her family. I was pretty much a zombie at the party but I still had fun and I hope everyone else did. We lit off fireworks, had snacks and visited. I sure do love my in-laws. They are so awesome and so fun :)

My Recent Addiction!

2010-07-22T14:18:00.000-07:00

So I have always loved to shop! For real, I could do it for a hobby, sport, job or for no reason at all. It is not so strange because my mother likes to shop also. I was born and raised to shop. I would not say I am as extreme as Rebecca Bloomwood (a.k.a. Isla Fisher) in Confessions of a Shopoholic. Although I could very easily become that addicted if I didn't have bills to pay and if I believed in credit cards. Since I think credit cards are a waste of money and too much stress I don't have as big of problem as some people do. My problem however persists in WANT, which turns to desire and then turns into need. For example I want this gorgeous pair of Christian Louboutin shoes. Then I began to desire them, think of them more often and now I just strait up need them. Daniel and I are going to New York for fun and they sell them! They sell Louboutin shoes within walking distance of where we are staying. You better bet I am going to go and look at them. Daniel is my anchor because he wont budge on letting me buy shoes for as much as Louboutin shoes run. For those of you who are not educated on high fashion glamor I will tell you the cheapest pair would probably cost around $600 U.S. cold hard cash. The particular pair I need run about $1000. Will I ever own a pair of Louboutin shoes? Yes. Will it be in the near future? Probably not. I will have to wait until Daniel is a rich doctor and I am a wealthy business owner of the most fabulous reception center in Utah. My sister thinks I have a problem and she says that my personality resembles Khloe Kardashian and my shopping habits compare to Kim Kardashian. She watches Keeping up with the Kardashians and she laughs because she says I am a combo of two out of the tree of the girls. Don't get me wrong though, even though my shopping is a little extreme I still love a good sale. Daniel says I will buy just about anything and if it is on sale then it is a for sure sign I was meant to own it. I am a hard worker and I feel like I deserve to have anything that I want. Daniel deserves it too and he is just as superficial as I am just in a different area...Electronics. He has to have the best of the best and wont settle for anything less. I love it. I got new luggage for my birthday back in January and the luggage was one of the things that consumed me until I found a reason I needed it and then I bought it. Gotta love addiction :)

Our Lives The Past 3 Months

2010-07-20T09:08:00.000-07:00

Well, back in April we found out that our friends Josh and Missy are pregnant with a little girl. They are going to name her Teagan which I think is way cute. We went to Virginia from May 6-10 and we had so much fun. On the first Day we went to dinner and went bowling. Day two we went to the beach that is probably 2 minutes from Josh and Missy's house and enjoyed each others company for the rest of the day.
Then on the third day we went to Busch Gardens amusement park and it was such a blast it had some great roller coasters. On day four we went to the Virginia Zoo and it is so nice. I am used to the Hogle Zoo which is nothing compared to how pretty the Virginia Zoo is. Then on the last day we went to Virginia Beach and it was perfect. The sand was was soft and the waves were wonderful. I wanted to rent a four seat bike but no one else wanted to so we walked along the shops and had such a fun time until we had to leave to go to the airport. Our plane ended up having technical problems and so we flew to Georgia for the night and then they flew us home a day later than expected. Which was fine because we got to spend one extra vacation day with each other. After we got home regular life started school and work once again consumed our lives. I went on a 5k walk with my cousins which was really fun! In June we broke out of our usual routine and went mini golfing with our friends Chad and Shelly. Daniel joinied the Salt Lake Community College summer band and he is also in an all mens choir. He ended up getting really sick with Virtigo and wasn't able to preform at the final concert for the choir and he missed two parades that he was supposed to be in with the band. It sucked for him and it took him a little over a week to fully recover. He was luckily better by the 4th of July and we had fun celebrating. We spent our day in Sandy as usual and went to the fair, the hotel room my family always rents so we are walking distance from all the festivities, watched the parade and the fire works. This year Daniel's Aunt and family came to watch the fireworks which was so great! Daniel still has a couple parades left until he is finished beign in the summer band and I thought it was pretty neat watching him preform since I am not used to that kind of thing. He does really good and I am glad that he is involved in something that he enjoys.

Busy as a Bee

2010-04-28T13:33:00.000-07:00

1. I feel like a complete failure at blogging. I never upload photos and that is a big part of blogging. Also, my goal was to post every week this year. I think I have such a boring repetitive life that I am not worthy of posting once a week. My blog would read like a broken record sounds. Ugh. I need to get better at this

2. I am busier than I have ever been in my entire life. I am working 80 hours + in a week. I am also going to try to go back to school. I know that I am just a few classes away from getting my associates degree in general studies and I need to do that. There are so many people....women in my life who are graduating from college and I should be one of them. I should have continued going and never stopped. I am still young and I know I can finish school so that is my goal. I doubt being so busy will ever stop but I wanted to vent about it. I feel like I am always venting about it. Ha ha.

3. My house is such a mess I am embarrassed for myself to see it. I seriously feel like a slob. I know most people that know me won't even believe that my house is messy but trust me. I don't even think I can walk in my room without stepping on something. I am disgusted with that and I don't even have time to clean.

4. My car is equally as messy as my house but people can actually look inside and see what a slob I am and that sucks. I am not being sarcastic either. About 3 weeks ago I spilled my face powder in my car and to this day I have not cleaned it up. I am just living in the filth. Gross. I know.

5. I work too much. Ha ha I repeat myself a lot but it must be something that is on my mind. I literally have no Jessica time. I will tell you a break down of my week and if you don't care skip the rest of #5. Sunday I sleep in until about Noon then I go to church from 1PM to 4PM and Daniel and I teach our primary class. At 5PM we have dinner with my parents and immediately after Daniel leaves to go to choir practice from 6:30PM until 8:30PM. During that time I visit with my family. Then Daniel and I go home and that is my Sunday. Monday I work at ASWN until 5PM or 6PM and I go home and spend the night with Daniel (this is the only "free" night we have) Then Tuesday I work in during the day at ASWN and I manage Wingers at night until about 11PM. Wednesday I work during the day at ASWN and the night at Wingers. Thursday I work early in the morning at ASWN and a double at Wingers, depending on if I manage or not I also go back to ASWN in between my double. Friday I work early in the morning at ASWN and a double at Wingers. Saturday I take my grandma shopping in the morning and I work at Wingers at night. Then I repeat my week. I live a repetitive life and I need to slow down somewhere.

6. I am about to admit defeat in getting my mother's day gifts done on time. Thinking I have royally blown my chance of having the gifts finished makes me grateful I have such an understanding Mother and "Mother-In-Law". I know they will understand because they know how constantly busy I am. They are probably two of the top 5 people who truly know everything that goes on in my life. I talk to both of them all the time and I am so happy that they are here for me. I am grateful for all that my mom does for me and all that she is willing to do it helps so much and I can not do enough in this world to show how truly appreciative I am. Life would be and would have been impossible without my mom. Also, to my "mother-in-law" she knows who she is and I am eternally grateful that she has chosen me. She got to choose to be so close to me and I am more grateful than she will ever know. She does so much for Daniel and I both and I am glad she has mothered Daniel and has chosen us to be united with her family in the way we are.

7. Josh and Missy find out the gender of their baby tomorrow. That is just something that excites me so I wanted to put it in my blog.

8. Daniel has finals this week and next. Then two weeks off and Summer Semester will begin. Yahoo!

9. Our Virginia vacation is a week from tomorrow and I am totally not prepared. I have a list of things to get done and if I accomplish even half of them I will be grateful. (sigh) I need more energy and longer days.

10. My mother thinks I have anxiety, I think I have busy person disorder. She wants me to have an anxiety screening done. It runs in my family but I don't think I have it. She always thinks I have something. I am busy and energetic and easily distracted but I don't find anything wrong with any of these traits. She thinks it sums up to be anxiety or A.D.H.D. I refuse to believe that.

11. I miss T.V.!!!!! How pathetic....I know! I am so worldly with television. I need it, I love it, I crave it, I am pretty mush obsessed. I know I shouldn't be. Especially with how little time I have that is one distraction I don't need. Also, it's not like I am interested in the discovery channel or history. No I am obsessed with DRAMA!! It's like I am in high school. I mean do people ever grow out of this? I have a show I want to watch on almost every day of the week. Monday: One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl; Tuesday: 90210, Melrose Place, Glee; Wednesday: America's Next Top Model; Thursday: Vampire Diaries; Friday: Wizards of Waverly Place. Also, I want to start watching The Biggest Loser I just am not sure when it comes on. Don't even worry Daniel and I have 2 DVR's and we record all of these plus his shows. I have a problem. Oh and why do I even like Glee?!?!?! I dislike musicals and that is what it is based around. My sister thinks I like the drama. Ha, typical me.

Well, that is pretty much my life in a nutshell and a half at the moment. I love the fact that I am busy as a bee I am just hoping it will slow down for me to breathe sooner than later. So my little vacation is something more than exciting to look forward to. :) Xoxo

La te te da

2010-04-07T14:59:00.000-07:00

OK, well it has been an interesting week. I will start with the not-so-good news. A close friend of the family and one of Chaz's closest friends past away Saturday afternoon. His name was Russell Anderson and he died from an ATV accident over spring break. He was such an amazing person, friend, brother, son, uncle, etc. He is already greatly missed and I just wanted anyone who reads my blog to put his family in your prayers. He was 17 years old and an outstanding person, I know deep in my heart that the lord needed him for greater things on the other side. He is far too precious for this world.

Russell you will truly be missed.

After the devastating news of Russell passing I went to be with my family Saturday night once I got off work from Wingers, which was midnight. I spent about an hour with them and discussed memories of Russell.

Then I went over to Aunt Connie's because we had been planning a New Moon party. Yes, we had a party dedicated to The Twilight Saga: New Moon and it was fun. Everyone but me makes fun of the movie and I sit there and enjoy the hotness of Jacob and about half the other characters in the movie. I do want to get this straight....I am 100% perhaps even 110% TEAM EDWARD but I am also equally TEAM TAYLOR :)

Why would you want, want to look at or even touch this....
When you could want, look at or have this....

Goodness people lets be for real. There is nothing I find attractive about Rob Pattinson as himself or as Edward. I know that pretty much the whole world hates the fact that Kristen Stewart is Bella except for maybe her family and close friends, I mean even she doesn't seem to keen on the idea of being Bella. Except I am having less and less of a problem with her. I mean I remember Bella being described as awkward, clumsy and none the less kinda average....well that my friend is Kristen in a nutshell. Sorry but I have to admit to that. So, while everyone made fun of the movie I enjoyed food and snacks that Aunt Connie provided. Daniel and I went to bed around 4 in the morning Saturday.

Then we woke up around 10 am to be at my parents for Easter. We had a full day there with the family and later that evening Daniel and Kelly went to choir. We were planning on stopping by Aunt Connie and Uncle Chris' but there wasn't enough time in the day. I took a nap while Daniel was at choir and then when he got home we visited with my Aunt Susie and my cousins Chelsea and Nathan since they were in town from California and then we went home and pretty much went strait to sleep.

Monday Daniel got his Phlebotomy certificate in the mail and we were pretty happy about that. We spent more time with our visitors from out of town and we also went to The Cheesecake Factory. Overall I didn't like the place, I mean it was nice and everything I just don't think I will ever return. I would rather go to Olive Garden everyday :) Yesterday was pretty much a normal day and the rest of the week should be close to normal other than the funeral I will be attending. Next week I plan on working close to 80 hours since some extra shifts became available, so that should be fun. Daniel and I are now on count down until we see Josh and Missy which will be tons of fun. Virginia better do its best to prepare for us. Anyway high ho high ho it's off to work I go :) Xoxo

~Our Lives~

2010-04-02T09:44:00.000-07:00

Well, I have been completely horrible at updating this blog the past month...Ya its been a whole month. Not too many exciting things have happened though. Daniel started and finished his Phlebotomy course and is just waiting for his test results and he will be certified in phlebotomy. He is also starting an I.V. training course this month. Once he is finished with this course he will have three medical certificates that will look really well when he applies to med school. He will have is Certified Nurses Certificate, National Phlebotomy Certificate and I.V. Technician Certificate. He is or has done all these classes on top of his regular schooling at the U of U. Daniel also joined the Because We Sing choir with his Uncle, two cousins and Kelly our brother-in-law. As if he isn't busy enough, right? Ha ha we live busy lives.
Daniel and I are both part time managers at Wingers now. We fill in for managers that are sick or leave on vacation and it pays pretty well so it was a good thing. We have been managing quite a bit lately and serving and we are pretty much exhausted. This week I worked full time between both of my jobs. Usually I work full time at one and part time at one but this week I was full time at both. I am tired but it keeps me busy and I love that.
We finally paid off my car and now we own both our cars. It is a pretty good feeling to own two cars and not have car payments. We both drive Toyota Corolla's mine is a 2006 and Daniel's is a 1999. In the next year or so we will be looking to get me a SUV. It will probably be a new Toyota Highlander. They are really nice, durable and they will be family friendly for when we start having kids...which wont be for awhile.
Easter is coming up and I should be back to the blog shortly after to tell about all the Easter fun. Until then have a good day. Xoxo

Daniel's Birthday Weekend

2010-03-03T09:08:00.000-08:00

So, this past weekend was Daniel's birthday and we celebrated it for three consecutive days. It started out Saturday morning when my family came over to watch Daniel open his gifts. He got plenty of shirts to last him for quite some time. I also got him Operation the game since he is going to be a doctor he should get in some practice now ha ha. Then I gave him tickets to see Disney's Broadway Musical The Lion King. He was happy about getting those tickets but he is sad that he has to wait until August 31 to enjoy them. My parents and brothers gave him the softest most comfortable robes in all of the world. I was going to get him one because he really wanted one but my mom beat me to the punch. He has worn it everyday since he got it.

Then after gift opening Daniel and I went to the mall and got him a few more shirts and a new hoodie since he didn't get one this year and I am big on hoodies. After that we went to his Aunt's house to pick up his gift and so they could see him on his birthday. They were going to come over but it worked out better if we stopped by there. His Aunt, Uncle and the kids gave him so many of his favorite goodies it was unbelievable. Then they also gave him a sanitation toilet kit which is so neat. She showed us one a while back and I wanted one. It is incase of a disaster and its a portable toilet filled with all the sanitaion supplies you need to survive without a working toilet near by. Such a thoughtful gift idea. After we went to his Aunts we went to TGIFriday's for dinner. It was delicious, Daniel of course got steak and enjoyed every last bite.
These are all the people that went to Fridays with us...Maddie, Jakob, TJ, Rachel, baby Ty, Daneil, Me and Kare. We had such a blast and he got some gift cards from his awesome friends at dinner.

Then we went and got a movie at Redbox. We rented Surrogates and I thought it was a stupid movie but we had fun taking pictures in the process of renting the movie.

This is Daniel with his gifts minus his gift cards and checks he got.

Then on sunday we went over to my parents house for dinner and my mom had made Daniel this ice cream cake, it was so yummy. She also served one of his favorite meals....meatloaf.
Mom, Dad, Brock, Grandma and Daniel getting ready to eat Daniel's bday cake.
Chaz and I since Daniel wasn't paying attention it is just us two that are cool :)

Then Monday we went over to Aunt Connies for FHE and Daniel's birthday celebration with them. This is the cake that Aunt Connie made...Daniel's favorite, it is the kind with sprinkle things in the mix and the frosting.

Then Daniel and I goofed off on the couch for a minute
We sang happy birthday to Daniel
I made him pretend to blow them out for picture purposes :)
This is him full from dinner and moving onto his favorite cake and favorite ice cream...mint!
We then played a really fun game that had a bell. I like to ring it and I actually won one round.
You would think we are very serious game players
I am pretty sure everyone was sick of my picture taking skills. I didn't even post half of what I took at the game table.
We needed a new picture since a new player who didn't even play joined :)
This is the end of his three day birthday with his Aunt Connie. They totally look related.
We had so much fun with everyone and Daniel is grateful to all those who wished him a happy birthday. Special days like this are worth celebrating and I have always loved birthdays :)

Activities!?!

2010-02-25T10:54:00.000-08:00

Welp, another enjoyable week went by. Daniel has been consistent on p90x and has not missed a day so far. He wants to get huge and he is eating like a horse. He eats all the time now. The other day he finished a huge bowl of blackened chicken alfredo and a half rack of ribs in one sitting. Doesn't everyone in this whole world wish they could eat that much and stay as slim as Daniel. I sure know I wish that. We just bought a treadmill for me and I can't wait unitl that gets delivered. I figure since Daniel gets p90x and its like $200 then I should get something to workout with that I will use and we found a really nice one on sale for $300. We do have a workout center at the clubhouse near our house but I don't like going there. For one, I bet it never gets cleaned and for two the only time I have to excersice is late at night and I don't like the idea of being alone in a club house late at night.

My apron is finished and I have pictures of the progress....

Here are most of the pieces after the ribbon was placed on the ruffles.

Here is the start of my wonderful apron...
Two ruffles on is quite the progress :)
Almost finished......
The finished product! I now have an apron :)

These are the headbands I have been making. I am learning to do all sorts of fun things.

This one is the flower I do the most I think it is cute!

This is for a boy. No flower.

This one I made for my sister with a cute flower.
Here is a beanie I made. I also have one with a bill on the front. Here is my friend KaRynn modeling one that I made.

Here is my friend Carmel modeling headbands I made for her and her niece.

I still haven't even started on my two quilts but I plan on doing that very very soon. I am active active active and I wouldn't have it any other way. Daniel's Bday is Saturday and we are going to dinner at 6 but other than that I think he pretty much wants to be home relaxing before and after our dinner plans :)

Valentine's Day, Etc.

2010-02-18T13:08:00.000-08:00

Well, nothing in our boring lives has changed but we did spend another wonderful Valentines Day together. Daniel had 18 red roses sent to Wingers on Saturday and when I got there he gave me them and attached was a cute little note that said how much he loved me and how special I am to him, all that good stuff :) Once we got home from Wingers I gave him his gift which was a new watch and a gift card to Game Stop so he can fulfill his nerdy desires to have more and more video games. Not that he has time for that because for an early birthday gift Daniel got P90X. On Valentines Day we went to church and taught our darling primary class. Yep, you heard it we got a new calling to be teachers for the CTR 7 class. They are so cute. I was a bit scared they were going to put us in sun beams or nursery as a hint to prepare for some little ones. Ha ha, when Daniel and I were set apart for our calling the bishop asked what age group we are teaching and when we told him he was shocked because they were actually calling us for sun beams. The primary president decided that position was for someone else and we got the wonderful CTR 7 class. It was so fun teaching them and we gave them a little Valentines treat. Technically you aren't allowed to give treats out in primary but I justified by saying it was a holiday :) I told my primary president to expect treats for holidays and she laughed. After church we stayed home and relaxed and I started feeling sick. So I spent the last hours of Valentines Day sick. My sickness continued on Monday through Today!!! I am finally getting over it. I think I jinxed myself because I was telling people I never get sick and here I am sick. It was some lame cold that gave me a headache, cough, sore throat and upset tummy. All symptoms are gone and now my throat is just itchy from healing.

Daniel started the P90X workouts Tuesday February 16 and so far has been diligent in working out for two consecutive days. I am scared to start it because he says he can't even do some of the things they do on the video. If Daniel can't do it there is no way in my right mind I should think that I could do it. I will of course give it a shot but I am scared none the less. We know that it is a good healthy form of exercise and the results are real. We have seen friends and family succeed with this program. You can get out of it whatever you want. If you want to change your body image or just get in better shape, your goal is accessible.

Well Daniel is going to be 22 at the end of the month. So far we don't have any big plans but I think he wants to go to TGI Fridays for his birthday dinner. Other than that the day is up to him. We have the whole day off from work and I am sure he will want to relax and perhaps play a video game. I still have not decided what to get him for his birthday. I usually have the gift bought and wrapped by now. This year is hard because he has pretty much everything he wants or needs. I am just going to have to think harder to come up with something to get him.

I have made myself extra busy with crocheting headbands and beanies and selling them; Preparing to make a large quilt and a baby quilt out of fabric and making myself an apron. Yes I do this all in the free time that I don't have but I just love staying busy. I finished my apron the other night and I will post pictures as soon as I take one of the final product. I took several pictures along the way. I am still keeping busy with the rest of the projects and I was talking to Daniel about two more projects I need to start and finish. When I have ideas I just can't wait and these two gifts need to be finished in time for the two special ladies in our lives for Mother's Day. Daniel likes the ideas and I might just let him help pick out the stuff needed to fit each of their personalities or I might just have them fit mine and Daniel's personalities so they are reminded of us often :) They are already reminded of us often and they know us so well, we are lucky they are in our lives. Yay us!

Well that about ends all the activities and events for now. I will be back to discuss the Birthday celebration sooner than later. Until then have a wonderful end to February :)

My Birthday

2010-02-03T14:02:00.000-08:00

Daniel and I on My 23rd Birthday...I am an OLD woman :)

So I love birthdays, there are many people who do not care for birthdays since it means you are getting older. I am one of those peoples that takes full advantage of the fact that there is a day dedicated to me. If a birthday was a holiday then it would be my favorite (with Halloween at a close second since it is my favorite holiday). For my birthday I got some pretty thoughtful gifts. From Daniel I got two new hoodies, a poster of Jakob from New Moon (a joke), $50 to Forever 21, new luggage, a pea coat (the paisley one seen in pictures, compliments of Missy finding it) and then a card. Then for Christmas I had gotten a new sewing machine from my parents and with the money my Grandma Helen gave me I returned it and upgraded it for an intermediate sewing machine. My parents and brothers bought me a case to go with it and that is something I desperately wanted. Aunt Connie, Uncle Chris and the kids gave me such a neat-o gift. They are so observant and awesome I could hardly believe that they pay such close attention to me. They put together a goodie bag full of favorites. I got stuff to make my two favorite types of meal Mexican and Italian; a bag of potatoes and seasoning because I love 'taters'; my three favorite candies Nerd Ropes, Twix and Reese's and my favorite soda Dr. Pepper. It was such an awesome gift. Then I got quilting supplies from my Grandma Nelta, Grandpa Mike and Mama. It is so nice because I am going to start quilting. I also got a customized picture frame from Shelly. My sister and Kelly gave me an Angel statue, I had one and it broke and I was depressed but my sister gave me one just like it so I am happy again. Then Maddie and Jakob made me my favorite food....Mexican. There was cheese Enchilada's, Spanish rice, beans and grapes. So delicious and I knew it would be since Maddie is the best cook in all of the world. Since she doesn't read my blog this is not considered kissing up to her so she will cook for me more often. :) I had a wonderful birthday since I didn't have to do much and everyone stopped in to see me. I didn't get pictures of everyone that came by but I was thrilled that they all did. Best birthday to date. Thanks everyone for the Facebook messages, text messages, cards, phone calls and stopping in. I love you all.
xoxo

Maddie and I with the cake she made me and the eclairs my mom made me
Daniel claims he didn't know he was in the photo

Jelaire, Kelly and I
My dad with his mom and Mike
(grandpa Mike nad Grandma Nelta)
My brothers being dorks... I don't even know...
Jakob, Madaline and my mom.
My mom and I

JANUARY

2010-01-25T09:40:00.000-08:00

Well I have come to grips with my last post. We will be moving to California if Daniel gets into one of the med school there. I am good with that happening and I am kind of excited to not have to deal with the snow.

January is a busy month for Daniel and I because of birthdays. We celebrated Jakob's birthday on Monday the 18th. His birthday is really the 21st him and Brock share that birthday. We went downtown to Rodizio Grill. It is a Brazilian steakhouse and they have some delicious food. I get the salad bar and Daniel gets the "full Rodizio" which is all you can eat meat and salad bar. Daniel out ate everyone, he had two huge plates of meat and by the time he was finished eating he was stuffed to the top. It is always fun to go there since Daniel is such a meat eater. The salad bar is small but has a ton of good things and since I am vegetarian it is super yummy to my taste buds. Then we went to Marble Slab Creamery and had the best ice cream in the world. I usually get coconut ice cream with marshmallows and sprinkles but this time I got cake batter ice cream with sprinkles and Daniel and I shared it. So delicious. Mmmm good.

Daniel and I
Maddie and Jakob

The whole group at Rodizio Grill
The boys at Marble Slab

Mad and I at Marble Slab
We are so cute :)

Then on Tuesday the 19th we celebrated Shelly's birthday at The Olive Garden and it was so good. I am addicted to that place and pizza lately. Yum Yum. Shelly's birthday is on the 23rd but she will be in Vegas so we had to catch her before she left. We had a really good time with her.

Daniel and I with Shelly for her Bday celebration

All of us at The Olive Garden for Shelly's 23rd Bday

The rest of the week played out normal, we went to work and carried on with our busy lives. My family came into Wingers on Brocks birthday to celebrate. We have been pretty busy at Wingers lately so we didn't get to talk much when they came in.

My birthday is coming up next. I am staying home and doing nothing all day :) That is all I really wanted for my birthday is a day of relaxation. People are going to stop in if they want to see me but I am not leaving. I know Maddie is planning on cooking some yummy Mexican food for me and I am pretty excited about that. She is a freaking good cook and I am thrilled. I am anxious to see what Daniel is getting me for my birthday since it is such a big surprise. Daniel and Maddie are going shopping today for my present. Yay me.

Saturday night after I got off from Wingers Maddie and I went to Wal-Mart to buy some yarn for headbands we make and sell and on our way back to my house I almost hit three deer. Then Maddie and I stalked them and took pictures. I was a little shaken up but they were so fun to follow. That was really exciting so I thought I would share it with everyone ha ha. Well I am off to another fun filled week that will end with my birthday so until next time have fun with life. You only live once :)

2 of the deer I almost hit

Daniel's Schooling and so on...

2010-01-11T14:18:00.000-08:00

I am here mainly to talk about Daniel’s schooling.

First off, he is officially a registered Certified Nurses Assistant (CNA). He got his certificate in the mail a while ago and I forgot to tell everyone.

Second, Daniel is going to be taking a Phlebotomy course at the beginning of April and that will look really good on his application when he applies to med school.

Third, Daniel has decided his major which is a huge relief for him. He has decided that Anthropology with Health Emphasis is what he would like to do. Most medical schools are now looking to accept people who have unique majors versus the typical Biology or Chemistry major. For those of you who don’t know, Anthropology is the scientific study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of humans. The University of Utah said the study of Anthropology with Health Emphasis is to teach the interactions between biological, environmental and social factors influencing health and illness; human adaptation and maladaptation from an evolutionary perspective and how systems of medical knowledge and health care vary across cultures.

Fourth, I have been researching med schools. There are a total of ten med schools in California. Two of which specialize in osteopathic medicine so that leaves eight medical schools that Daniel will be able to apply to in California. There are five different University of California medical schools UCDavis in Davis, UCSD in San Diego, UCLA in Los Angeles, UCSF in San Francisco and UCI in Irvine. Also, there is KECK University in Los Angeles, Loma Linda in Loma Linda and Stanford in Stanford. When the time comes he will apply to all eight of the California med schools and also to the U of U. We will most likely relocate to California for him to attend med school. I am slowly coming to grips with that idea, though leaving family is one thing that makes me sad to think about it. I was born in Cali and I absolutely love it. Half of my family still lives in California so it won’t be that hard of a move…I hope. My great grandma had two daughters Carol and Bonnie. Carol is my grandma and she along with her six children and their children and their children live in Utah. Then Bonnie and her five children and their children live in California. I consider them Aunts, Uncles and Cousins because that is pretty much how we were raised. Also, my Aunt Susie and her kids live in California. So, I would be moving to California still having family to see often if I needed too. I figure if Daniel can still get his bachelors degree in the time we figured we will be making the big move to California either at the beginning of January 2012 or the beginning of May 2012. We have planned for none of this to happen but it seems like it will be the right thing to do and so far it looks more and more like it will one day be a reality.

Fifth, almost everybody knew we were going to start trying to have a family at the end of 2010 but due to the change of events in our future we will have to postpone it a bit longer. We figured that it would be smart for us to wait and when the time is right we will know. So, we really don’t know when that will be but we are going to assume it is longer then we had been planning. We are good with all the changes that will come in the future and we can’t wait for what more exciting surprises are ahead of us.

December to an end and 2010 begins.

2010-01-05T14:40:00.000-08:00

I haven't blogged in so long I had to pull out my 2009 calendar so I make sure not to forget anything important. Well Daniel finished school and starts up again on January 11th. School is going well for him. I am getting nervous about medical school because the odds of him getting into the University of Utah's med program is slim to none. I really don't want to move out of state but it is not looking in my favor to have the luxury of an opinion in this matter. Sad, I know.

Daniel and I went to the Living Planet Aquarium for Baby Ashton's birthday celebration. He turned one year old. He is our favorite new one year old out there. The aquarium was pretty neat it had quite a bit of fish and soon there will be a penguin exhibit. I can't wait for that since the penguin is my favorite animal. This is a picture of Daniel and I with; Jess who is Ashton's aunt; the one and only Baby Ashton and Jen who is Ashton's Mom. We love them so much they are all our family. On December 21st Chaz had a concert at Bingham High School. He has first chair for the Bass. He did really well and Daniel really enjoyed being able to go back to the school he graduated from and listen to their perfomance. It is called the Candlelight Concert and they always perform it before Christmas. Chaz was looking pretty slick in his Tux and we enjoyed his performance. Daniel got to sing in the last song and that is what this picture is he is on the right hand side next to the Harp in this picture. Chaz is in the picture below looking pretty studly.

This is our Christmas tree. I am not sure why I even bothered to put it up this year because I felt like I never got to look at it and it was taken down before I even knew it. I sure do love Christmas though and that is probably why I put it up.
We celebrated Christmas with all the usual traditions. First is our huge family part at my parents house. All the cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents and family friends get together for a huge party. We all bring appetizers and dessert. The kids have a gift exchange and the adults play the White Elephant game. We all leave the party having had a blast and with gifts in arms. We love it. Then Daniel and I spent the night at my parents so we could wake up Christmas morning and open gifts. I got a new sewing maching and a gun. Yes, a real live gun....it was a bit scary. Daniel got video games and the Wheel of Time series (it is a book he really enjoys..12 books) We had a really wonderful Christmas and went to my grandma Nelta's for dinner and visited with everyone there.
After Christmas we drove to Idaho. Yup, that's right on the 26th of December my cousin Stevie got married in the Twin Falls temple. It was a gorgeous temple and Daniel and I had fun spending time together. This is us at his reception.
Daniel and I had the whole last week of December off and we saw three movies, all of which I probably enjoyed equally. We saw Avatar, Sherlock Holmes and The Princess and the Frog. All three were good movies. On New Years Eve we went to Teppanyaki Steak House they cook the food in front of you it was so much fun. The three pictures below are us having fun at dinner.
That evening Daniel and I had a party at our house. Everyone played board games and rock band. I think everyone had a good time. We loved bringing in the new year with all our closest friends and our family of course.

We were able to see Daniel's Aunt, Uncle and their kids on New Years. We had dinner with them and visited with them about the holidays. We didn't see them for Christmas since they were in southern Utah visiting Grandma and Grandpa Ruesch. We are grateful to have all of our wonderful friends and family. We are grateful to bring in the new year healthy and happy. We love you all.

Temple Square Lights

2009-12-09T11:49:00.000-08:00

About three weeks ago Shelly planned a double date for Daniel, Her, Her new boyfriend and Me! She planned it so far in advance because Daniel and I always work and her boyfriend Neil works lots too. Our schedules do not mix well. So Shelly and I planned to go to dinner at the Olive Garden, go to Temple Square and go to Frogurt. Despite the fact that it snowed and was below a temperature worth going out doors, we went. We ate dinner at Olive Garden and it was so delicious! I was able to harass Neil about wanting to join the Air Force. (No one wants Shelly to leave Utah or anything of that matter and if things got serious enough between them that would have to be an option. LAME!) I was also able to give him grief about many other things to see if he could last through me. He did, he passed with flying colors and I like him. After the Olive Garden we headed down town. Since the roads were slippery we decided to take Trax. That was a horrible mistake on my part because they are gross! I didn't even want to sit on the seats! They were stained and yucky and I will never take Trax again.

We had to walk fifty million miles once we were off Trax to get to the temple lights because we got on the wrong train so we wouldn't have to wait 15 minutes for the next. We were freezing cold by the time we got to Temple Square! So we went in the visitors center and got warm and listened to some people playing flutes! I liked this Christmas tree so we took pictures by it!

Then we started walking around the Temple. It was so cold but I wanted some cute pictures so no one would out their hats on until I got my pictures. Everyone froze to death but I got my cute pictures! They are even more cute because you can see the temple behind us in a couple of them.
Daniel doesn't like to take pictures where you are just smiling so we took a cute/funny one as well. I know he liked that since he got to have fun in the picture.
We got a group picture of all of us together but it is a little blurry since the person who took it didn't hold very still and I am bummed! but you can still tell who we all are. That might be my best friend-in-law one day. Its a good possibility.
I really wanted to take a picture next to some blue lights and this is as close as we got. They were a light green with little light blue also. They were cute enough for me to want pictures by!

Here are all the dorks bundled up after the pictures! They all put on their beanies and they said they were warmer. I of course didn't believe them and I left my hat just the way it was because it looked cute :)
This is Shelly and My famous picture. We always have to get one. Even on my wedding day she made me stop and pose like this for one.
After the Temple we went to get frozen yogurt at Frogurt! It is the yummiest yogurt place ever. We are crazy though because we went out for yogurt after being in the freezing cold for over an hour! It was just too good to pass up! So after our double date Daniel and I talked and decided Neil is good enough for Shelly and we are happy she finally met someone that treats her how she should be treated. Also, I decided that I am never riding Trax again, its dirty!

December here we come!!!

2009-12-03T14:47:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I am totally lame and I don't have any pictures! My Aunt Jeni has some pictures from Thanksgiving on her camera and in order for me to get them I will have to travel out to Eagle Mountain since she doesn't know how to upload them. So...as soon as I get the pics I will post some. Oh! I just remembered I have one picture from My Aunt Karen's Facebook...There I am not totally lame anymore! Ha ha. So November kept us pretty busy with our anniversary, New Moon, Thanksgiving and Black Friday! (I capitalized this because to my fam it is a religious holiday). Daniel and I went to see The Twilight Sags: New Moon film Saturday November 21. We went with family and of course Shelly and we had so much fun! It was way better than the first movie, we both agreed on that. Then we celebrated Thanksgiving, by celebrated I mean we traveled among 3 houses to make sure we saw all our loved ones. First we had Thanksgiving dinner in Eagle Mountain with all of my moms family. After dinner all of us peeps got together to plan our Black Friday event. Then Daniel and I went to West Valley to visit my dads family. We visited there for a while and my grandma Nelta showed me some of the quilts she has made and showed me examples of quilt types we are going to make together. After visiting there we went to Daniel's Aunt Connie's and visited with them for the rest of our evening. Well, it was the rest of Daniel's evening. My day had just begun. I went and picked up Maddie and my cousin Brina and we headed over to Wal-Mart at midnight! We stood in lines and mapped out the whole thing. Everyone got everything they wanted due to our Black Friday expertise! Daniel and I got a 40" LCD HDTV, Sony Bravia 1080p for our bedroom, we already have a 52" for the family room. That was the main thing that I was after but of course I ended up spending double what the TV cost on other things that were great deals. Next year the family has decided to make t-shirts they will say "Once you go Black you never go back....Black Friday 2010" ha ha ha it is so true too! It is such great fun with us! We kinda lost the rush this year since we didn't have to wait in the cold and rush through the doors, but shopping at Wal-Mart you are pretty much guaranteed your item if you wait in line starting at midnight.

Daniel is almost done with school and we have decided to take a week off work at the end of December which will be nice. Daniel's best friend Josh is coming home from the Navy for 17 days and so we will look forward to spending some time with him. My cousin Stevie is getting married Dec 26 and I will get to see the Twin Falls, ID temple which I am excited for. Then of course Christmas is also at the end of December. I have quite a bit to look forward to in December and I will post more pictures soon! Also of our house at Christmas time with our TREE!!??! I put it up Nov 29 and I absolutely love it! Well ta ta for now! :)

~Anniversary~

2009-11-12T09:11:00.001-08:00

2 years down, forever more to go!! :)

November 9 was our anniversary and we had such a wonderful night together. When I got home from work Daniel had surprised me with a dozen roses. They were so pretty and I love getting roses, red is one of my favorite colors and I seriously love red roses. The only thing better than a red rose, is a black rose. They are seriously my favorite flower ever!!! Roses do not truly exist in black; they are actually such a deep red that to the eye they seem black. You can buy dyed black roses and they are gorgeous, but the truly amazing black rose is deep in red or purple color. I have always loved them.

The roses Daniel gave me!

Anyway, Daniel and I drove down town to Rodizio Grill for dinner. It is a Brazilian steakhouse and they walk around with meat on big skewers and serve it to you at your leisure. It wasn't badly priced either, it cost us $70 dollars with tip. I thought that was a pretty good deal for all the food they serve you. I got the salad bar which is not a typical salad bar. They have some of the basics to make a salad, but mostly they have pre-made types of salad to choose from. My favorite was the mozzarella salad. It was huge pieces of mozzarella with tomatoes and some seasoning. They also had a few warm salad bar items and I ate their alfredo and some rice. Our server looked at me like I had lost my mind when I said I only wanted the salad bar due to the fact that I am vegetarian. Daniel ate more meat than I have ever seen one person eat in their whole life in one setting. I am pretty sure his favorite was the turkey wrapped in bacon he ate until he was border line sick. We passed on dessert and decided to go get some later when his stomach settled. Overall it was a nice place to spend our anniversary with stuff we both liked for dinner. After dinner we went to The District and saw the movie A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey. It was a good movie but it was a little on the spooky side. There was a scene where I just about jumped out of my seat because the theater was silent and then one of the characters got really loud. In my opinion Jim Carrey did an excellent job portraying the ghosts and also Scrooge. We saw the movie in 3D which usually gives me a headache but it wasn't too bad. It takes my eyes longer to focus and I am usually sick by the end of the movie. This movie was fine though and Daniel and I got a picture in our rockin' 3D glasses.

We look kinda funny but oh well. After the movie was over we walked over to Marble Slab and got some ice cream. They have both our favorite types of ice cream. My favorite is coconut ice cream with marshmallows and sprinkles and Daniel's favorite is peppermint. We took our ice cream home and ate it in our comfy bed. We had such a great, fun time with each other and we can't wait for the many more anniversaries we have to look forward too in our future.

Daniel and I being goofs with one of the roses Daniel gave me.

My Favorite Holiday!

2009-11-04T11:16:00.000-08:00

Well, my favorite holiday has come and gone already and Daniel and I sure did have fun! There was a ton of stress I put on myself to complete a very detailed costume in a week. Daniel and I had decided what we were going to dress up as for Halloween months ago. Since I crammed our month of October so full of events we didn't get a chance to start working on it until Sunday October 25 after church and after family dinner. You better believe I was stressed. I have not sewn anything with detail for about 2 years and I have never sewn anything with that much detail. I took a sewing class back my junior year of high school which was 5 years ago, so I had really set myself up with this costume. I bought most of the fabric on Saturday for my costume so I was ready to sew. Then I went to Savers (which is kinda like a D.I.) and found some stuff for Daniel's costume. I don't go to Savers or the D.I. except to drop stuff off so my mom and my sister had a good time making fun of the fact that I would not touch anything. I know I am lame, my whole entire family loves the D.I. they say they find cheap treasures there. I myself am not a fan of the place so I had Daniel do the rest of the shopping for his costume himself. There is reason I am not a fan of the place, it is yucky. When we walked out of Savers there was this lady sitting on the sidewalk with two children, she was hacking up a lung and she had abrasions all over her face it was gross and scary. If Maddie was with me she probably would have ran away because she thinks she is going to get a disease from people that look like that due to the amount of CSI television shows she watches, I can't say I blame her.

Anyway, after my eventful day shopping on Saturday I began working on my dress Sunday. I cut out all the pattern pieces that I needed and began to cut out some of the fabric. Once I was finished doing that cutting it was late and time for bed. I worked Monday and after work went and picked Maddie up to come help me with my costume. She did most of the cutting while I did the pinning and sewing. I had a Simplicity pattern and let me tell you how not simple they are. It was the hardest thing I have ever had to read in all of my life and I am a good reader. It took me all night Monday to get the bodice sewn together. I wanted to rip it up and burn it by the time it was finally together with the lining and all!

Ta, da!!! My finished bodice!

Once the bodice was finished we called it a night and went to bed. Then Tuesday came around and I went in to work and asked my dad if I could leave early to work on my costume. I left around 1 PM to go pick up Maddie. We ran a few errands to pick up some stuff that I had forgotten for the costume and went to my house to slave away on my costume. We got pretty much everything cut out and I worked on trying to read the pattern. It was pretty late and I had done nothing new to my dress and was so frustrated I thought I was never going to finish, so we called it a night. Wednesday morning I went to work and left early again. I felt like such a slacker because I never take work off, I don't like not working. I went and picked up Mad and called Aunt Connie. Her mother-in-law (Grandma Cosman) lives right next door and she is marvelous at sewing. I knew someone would be able to assist me if I went there. So, I went there and Grandma Cosman explained everything to me in ways I could understand. Even they said the pattern didn't make a whole lot of sense and it was even missing a part. After receiving some sewing advice we went to my house to tackle the project again. I took the night off from Wingers and I finally got the dress put together!!

Full dress missing most of the detail! Yay!

I didn't work on the dress on Thursday since I actually went to both of my jobs and stayed the full time!!! Yay me!! Friday I woke up early and added all the black beads to the arms and added all the beading to the bodice. I also made a collar which I forgot to bring to my moms house for the party. I was pretty bummed about that! It still looks pretty awesome. From head to toe I match Tim Burton's version of The Queen of Hearts as much as possible. I painted some of my ankle boots gold and put a black heart on the toe like hers and I even ordered the same tights as she has on. I say it turned out pretty well. As for Daniel's costume we made his hat from poster board, foam board, fabric and lots of hot glue. He has sewing spools, a pink collared shirt, colorful bowtie and stuff hanging from his pockets. Daniel pinstriped the pants himself since he couldn't find some already pinstriped in the right color. His Jacket was bought but altered to look like the Mad Hatters. Lucky him he found some boots that matched pretty close and socks too. Everything on him matched Tim Burton's version of the Mad Hatter as close as we could get, and that is pretty close if I do say so myself!!

The final products...FINALLY!!

We went to my parent's house on Saturday night for a Halloween Party. Most of my family was there since Halloween is pretty big to us. My dad was a Karate Guy and my mom was some sort of Ghoul. She always calls herself Jewel the Ghoul at Halloween.

Chaz decided to match Kelly and they dressed up as Mr. Ping and Mr. Pong they thought they were like some sort of Ping Pong masters. Brock was a Ladies Man...leave it to Brock to be something "cool" for Halloween. He was trying to master the pimp status without actually using the word pimp since the mom says its not appropriate :) ha ha he did good though!

Jelaire dressed up as a Lady Bug. I don't think she has ever been something ugly, scary or evil for Halloween. She is always something cute, pretty and nice. We are always opposite ha ha.

My sewing partner and one of my best friends Maddie and her husband Jakob came to the party. Jakob and I have been friends forever, I am actually how they met :) They were mobsters. You should have seen her shoes they were awesome with brass knuckles as the heels.
Jessica, Jen and Baby Ashton stopped in for a while. They are friends of the family and we love love love it when they have time to come and see us! They are sisters and Ashton is Jens baby. He is so cute! Don't you just want to kiss his cheeks? I sure do!! I told Daniel that next year we should be Mr. and Mrs. Incredible and steal baby Ashton for Jack-Jack :) look at the head it says Jack-Jack all over it. Then my sister said Jen should be Violet and all we would need is a Dash!! Happy little family.
Halloween is just about over. Here is a picture of our costumes again. You can see my shoes and tights in the picture with Jelaire and Kelly.
Here is a close up of what we look like as The Queen of Hearts and The Mad Hatter.
We were so tired at the end of the night and Jen decided to put herself in the hat that we made and we all though it was hilarious!! I mean look at it ha ha ha!
When everyone went home all the family stayed up until 2 in the morning watching The Nightmare Before Christmas. "This is Halloween, this is Halloween lalala lalala lalalalala" Then we called it a night! Now to start planning for next year so I don't stress myself out at the last minute. We have a couple options one is to be The Riddler and Poison Ivy from Batman and Maddie and Jakob will be Harley Quinn and The Joker. So far that is the one we are considering the most, but we have a year to decide.

Daniel and I will be celebrating our 2 year anniversary this coming Monday and we are pretty excited about that! Then New Moon is out in theaters on the 20th. After that it will be Thanksgiving...not my favorite holiday since I am a vegetarian, but I like the quality family time and also planning Black Friday!! Woot Woot!! I can't wait for that! Anyway I need to get going have a wonderful November!!

Temple Sealing and October coming to a Close

2009-10-27T10:53:00.000-07:00

Snow!!! Yes I said it snow! It is falling from the sky coming down and probably screaming my name to torture me! I do not like snow, don't get me wrong it makes things beautiful but the thought of having to drive on it seriously gives me a stomach ache! Driving in it makes me sick and by the time I get to my destination I am so sick to my stomach I have to spend 30 minutes in the bathroom because driving had worried me so much. This year Daniel went and had snow tires put on my car for safety purposes but I just want a new vehicle. I want a SUV preferably a Lexus RX I probably wont be getting it but I can wish right? We do plan on getting me an SUV before we have kids but that isn't for a couple years. Anyway, enough about me being terrified of the snow.

Daniel and I were sealed on October 17, 2009. We were so grateful that we were finally able to go through the temple together. There were so many loved ones there to share the experience with us. We are now stuck with each other forever :) We wouldn't have it any other way. We just got the pictures back from the day we got sealed so I decided I would post a little about the day and put up the pictures. There are many more pictures on my Facebook account then on here since I try to limit the amount of pictures I post on our Blog. Daniel's Aunt Helen came in from Louisiana for our sealing and we were so blessed to be able to have her there. There was quite the turn out at both the sealing and the dinner of both friends and family to support us. We are very grateful to those people who were able to attend and who did everything they could do to spend that day with us. It is such a special time for Daniel and I and for both of our families because now I am eternally linked to his family and he is eternally linked to mine. We will be forever with each other and with the others families. Pretty special huh? We missed all the people who could not attend and we know that there were many people with us that day in spirit. We have some pretty awesome friends and family!!

Here is a group picture of most of the people that were at the temple with us, some people bailed before the picture was taken.

This is Us with Daniel's sister Nicole. She drove from Ephraim to be here for us on this very special day and we are both grateful she showed her love and support by being at the temple that day.

This is us with my siblings My brother in law: Kelly, Sister: Jelaire, Brother: Chaz and other brother: Brock. Their ties are pretty cool huh?? Meant to match :)
This is my family with my Grandma Helen outside of the temple after our sealing.
Once again my family but this time with my Aunt Susie and Cousin Nathan
Daniel's Family: His Aunt and Uncle with their children
I love this picture of Daniel and I It will probably be our Christmas picture.
The dip :) LOVE!!!
This day was very special for Daniel and I both and we are happy it could happen. Since then we have been continuing with our daily lives with work and school. Daniel just finished midterms last week and he is now back full time at Wingers with me. He is a trained Manager and will be able to step in as a manager whenever needed. So he is a server full time and a fill in manager which is perfect for us because then I don't have to transfer Wingers. If he was a full time Manager then we would not be able to work with each other. Wingers is getting busier and we are loving that. Halloween is Saturday and the costumes are coming along. I still have a ton to do for both of them so I am praying I will finish in time for Halloween!! I will post sometime after Halloween. Until then have a great week and a fantastic Halloween!! :)