This was them putting the fire out
Smoke settling
Trying to pull the cars apart
After lots of wind and rain, this is what you get!
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Whitetrash..... or Redneck?
So it was two years ago that Rian and I met at this wonderful event. Ever since then we have tried to make it a tradition to go back. This year's derby was rather eventful. We went down to Nephi early and I cut my sister's hair. She had invited some friends over for a bbq before the derby. We ate, laughed, had a good time. The weather was perfect for a derby. It was quite warm outside and the sun was getting close to it's setting time. Since my sister is on the Juab County Fair Board we got to sit in awesome box seats! We had shown up a little late so we missed the first heat. As the tractors were out pulling the cars out a dust storm showed up! It was miserable! There was dirt flying all over the place and the beginnings of a rainstorm coming in. Since there was lightening they had everyone exit the arena and go sit in their cars. It really didn't look like the storm was going to let up. We sat there for a good 15 minutes before we decided to head back to my sister's to play some games and see if the storm would let up. Back at her house all of the stuff in the yard (bbq grill, tables, lawn chair pads, etc.) had blown everywhere. Rian sat outside and cleaned up a bunch of the stuff before everyone else showed up. My sister's friends had run home to put their little kiddos in jammies and so as they were on their way back to my sister's house they stopped by the derby to see if they had started it up again. They had never been to a derby before so they called and said, "The tractors are out in the arena again doing the same thing they were before." He was guessing that it had started again. So we loaded up with lots of coats and a towel and headed back. The derby was on! We had heard from some other people that in the second heat there was a car that got tipped over. We were so bummed that we missed it. So we sat down and were watching. This derby did not disappoint. There were lots of cars and a lot of aggressive drivers. I would have to say that the 80s round was by far the best! In that round there was a fire so they had to stop the cars... Twice! And then in the Powder Puff round there was a girl's car that got hit on the driver's side and so they had the ambulance come in and had to work on her for a while. They never updated us if she was ok or not. We are hoping so though. And then in the Grudge Match there were ten cars so they were pretty squished in and hitting all over the place. It was awesome! There was an old car that had gone up and t-boned another car, and then another one came up behind it and rear ended it. That gave the car enough force to PUSH THE CAR OVER!! Haha. And then still with the force it pushed the other car on top of it to make it look like he was doing a victory lap on top! But then the bottom car started on fire and things didn't look so good for the drivers. It was pretty awesome though. We had quite the eventful time even though we had to sit through a dust storm and some rain. As far as a show goes, this was by far the best derby ever! We will definitely be back next year!
This was them putting the fire out
Smoke settling
Trying to pull the cars apart
After lots of wind and rain, this is what you get!
This was them putting the fire out
Smoke settling
Trying to pull the cars apart
After lots of wind and rain, this is what you get!
Thursday, August 11, 2011
When it rains..... It down pours!
So this last weekend started off great! I got up Saturday morning ready to head to Cedar to spend some time with my mom. Her and I were going to make the quilt and other bedding stuff for my dear sweet babe's crib. I was so excited. The morning was great. Rian and I got up early and went to breakfast and then I headed out. The drive went pretty fast, which was wonderful because I hate driving alone, and for some reason I have this curse that as soon as I get on the freeway in a car I want to fall asleep.
I made it to Cedar in a timely manner and then not too long after I got there my mom was finished with stake baptisms. We had planned it out that we would go up the mountain for the weekend to do our sewing and such. So we packed up and up the mountain we went.
Right after we got the truck all unloaded my mom suggested we should start on the quilt since we weren't sure how long it was going to take us to make the pieced quilt that we were making our own measurements up for. So she set me up with all the material and a rotary cutter and had me start cutting out all of the things that we needed. As I finished I would hand them to her and she would start laying stuff out and figuring so she could do the sewing. After the cutting was all done I got set up with the iron so that after each piece was sewn I could iron it flat to make the next sewing part easier. It went pretty quick and we got it figured out. We had planned for two and a half days to make this little beauty, so when it was completely finished in four hours we weren't sure what else we were going to do with our time. While my mom had been sewing some of the final things on I went up the mountain a little ways to call Rian to make sure everything was ok. He said things were great, but that there was a leak at our house with the main water line so we wouldn't have water until Monday.
The next day was Sunday so we just lied around and ate treats, watched movies, oh yeah and I broke the four wheeler. (So that part wasn't actually my fault. My dad drove me up the mountain a little ways so I could call my hubby and he told me when I was done to just drive back because he was going to go hiking around. So when I got done and tried to turn on the dumb thing it wouldn't do anything! I sat there forever trying to figure out what I could do and then finally just decided to walk back to camp. When I showed up on foot my dad came running out asking what had happened. So we rode back up on the other four wheeler to find the problem. We still aren't sure what happened, but after we found the pull start and it did nothing and we played around with some switches it fired right up!) We ate lunch, took a nap, and then packed up for home since my dad had to work early the next morning.
We got back to Cedar and I had this great idea that we should go visit my grandma and take her our cute quilt since she was the one who would be quilting it. We got up to her house and she was making banana bread and so she knew she had some time. She thought it was a novel idea to teach my mother and I how to quilt on this crazy machine that she has. But she wanted us to learn on my babies little bedding quilt. I passed. That machine was a little too intense for me. I can barely sew a straight line on a pillow case! My mom was brave though and she ended up quilting the whole thing! She did such a great job even though she was really scared. It was really fun to see and get in perspective the quilting that my grandma does for people everyday. We always have fun at our grandma's house.
Monday morning I got up early and started getting ready since I knew that my mom had some errands and things that she needed to do. As I had been up and moving around I felt like I was starting to get a little bit of a cough, but didn't think much of it. When I went upstairs to see what she was doing, she was working on the quilt. She decided to hurry and bind it so that it was all finished. So we sat down and she bound the quilt. It only took her a few hours and it turned out so great! I am so proud and so grateful for all the work that she did. She made that whole quilt and she even quilted it. Thanks so much mom! It is truly a treasure! We ran our errands and went to lunch. Then, of course, if you know my mother and I we had to take a nap and then it was time for me to head back to Springville.
Since I was already aware of the water situation I was expecting our yard to be all torn up with pipes laying all around. But when I got home everything still looked exactly the same. A little worry in my mind. Rian got home from work not too long after I had gotten back and he said they hadn't done a single thing with the water situation yet! We had a hose hooked up to an apartment building next door so that we could flush our toilet and that was it! All the water that we had. That night we went over to Rian's sister's house so that we could shower so we wouldn't stink for work the next day. As the day had gone on my cough was getting worse and my chest was hurting really bad.
Tuesday morning I woke up and had no voice. GREAT! This is the one week in how many months that I have to work four days in a row, and we have a girl at work that just got married so we are already short staffed anyway! So I got up, got ready, and went to work. As the day went on my voice started to come back a little, but where I was having such a deep cough I decided to go to the Dr. I went in there and this lady was super nice. But really the only thing she had to tell me was that I had a "pregnancy cold". Whoever knows what that means please tell me! She gave me a z pack and an inhaler and told me to use it when I felt short of breath. BUT I couldn't use it more than four times a day and not more than every four hours. A little bit restrictive. I went back to work and closed out my drawer and said I was going home for the duration of the day.
Again when I was arriving at home I was expecting the yard to be torn up with pipes all over. Still nothing! Awesome. We still don't have water. But as I got home the guy that my landlord had asked to come fix the problem pulled up at my house. I thought this was a good sign.
He walked around the two houses. Poked at some pipes. Pulled tiles up out of crawl spaces and looked around the yard. Rian got home from work not too much later and we decided that we should go back to his sister's house to do a batch of laundry and shower so that we could get out of her way. As we were walking out the guy told us that we had water at our house! He had come in and cut the pipe that feeds the water from the main line into the house and put a hose on it so we would have water pumping directly into our house! What a novel idea. We ran back in the house and did our laundry, our dishes that had been sitting in the sink for a week, and showered. We knew some of the neighbors wanted to come over and shower since they had been out of water too and still were.
As it came time to go to bed that night we started looking at how this man had jimmy rigged up our water and I got a little nervous. I seriously don't think the man thought about what he was doing. He strung the hose through the back door into my house. Making it impossible for us to shut our door. Fabulous. Now I get to go to bed with my back door what might as well be wide open for bugs and whoever else that feels like it to come in. And my sickness was getting worse. Settling in making itself right at home. It is one thing to have a cough, but to have a cough with a little baby sitting right under your ribs is not cool! I was developing some serious pain.
Wednesday morning I woke up and got ready for work. Rian was already gone. I got ready to leave and started to panic. I had to leave my house and go to work with my door open. No one here to sit and watch my house just in case some looney decided he wanted to come in. Oh and I had no voice whatsoever! I got to work and told my lead teller about my week that I had been having and asked if I could go home around two since we had another girl coming in at that time. She agreed and said that would be fine since it is a little hard to help people all day when you have no voice. And where about 40% of the people I help are above the age of 60 they definitely can't hear me! Well it is a dang good thing that I decided to come home early and take a nap to see if I could regain some energy from this sickness and not being able to sleep because of the night before with all of my horror dreams of people freely wandering into my house. I walked in and had seen that they had re-rigged up the hose so it was coming through the window (whew) so that my door could be shut. However, my dad has cursed me with this ability to hear things that are going wrong. I could hear water running in my house. Not only running, but puddling and dripping. Like it had been going on for some time. I went over to the hose they had hooked up and felt it and it was dry. I couldn't see water anywhere so I figured maybe the water was just running louder today than it was yesterday. I used the bathroom and sat around for a minute but I could still hear the water running and I knew it wasn't right. So I went back over to the pipe they had cut and sure enough. The part that brings the water into the house hadn't been capped and there was water, under pressure, coming up in my house. Not very quickly, but still there was water. I went over and got the neighbor and so he called the landlord. I think the neighbor downplayed it a little because four hours later, when they had said that they guy was coming back to fix it and he hadn't, I made Rian call the landlord and ask when he was coming. He said TOMORROW! This is where in my head (since I have no voice) I said, "Umm, sir? Do you realize that our house has water running freely into it? Yes, it is draining into a hole that has gravel in the bottom that is allowing it to seep under the foundation of the house. However, that hole is slowly filing up! And if you let it go for too long this house is going to settle and then you will no longer have a house that you can rent out!!!" Ya apparently no one cares but me! But the guy came over and fixed it a few hours later. This entire time I have been thinking, how does a plumber not know where the leak is and how to fix it? Well come to find out.... Our "handy man" is a landscaper! Which he does have to have knowledge of plumbing, BUT NOT LIKE A PLUMBER DOES!
Wednesday night. Rian and I are getting ready for bed and every time I cough I am almost in tears. My ribs feel like I have had the crap beaten out of me, my chest is still hurting, my lungs feel like they weigh 50 lbs each, and my throat is on fire! After trying to sleep for three hours I finally woke up Rian and I made him call the emergency room to see if it may be worth it to go in since I didn't really want to have to pay a $75 co-pay. After making five phone calls a nurse told him that there is a chance that I could have pneumonia and that it wouldn't hurt to get it checked out. We sat on the floor for a half hour trying to decide if we should go in. I called my mom and she said the same thing, it wouldn't hurt to go in and get check in case it is something serious. So, 3:30am we are on our way to the ER. We got there and thankfully no pneumonia, but I do have bronchitis and since I am pregnant there is nothing they can do. "Sorry for the pain and discomfort, but you are S. O. L." Awesome! So I got a Dr.'s note saying that I am written off for work for today so that I can hopefully get some rest to get rid of this sickness. I just pray the pain will go away! My poor little babe hates it so bad when I cough. She kicks me back after I cough because she hates that I am squishing her more than she already is, which I can't blame her, but it causes me double bruising on my ribs. Oh, and for the water situation.... Now us and the neighbors are hooked up to a hose sharing water pressure. So if I am in the shower and they flush the toilet, I get to stand under a sprinkle of water. I sure hope this gets fixed soon!
Didn't my mom do such an amazing job??
I made it to Cedar in a timely manner and then not too long after I got there my mom was finished with stake baptisms. We had planned it out that we would go up the mountain for the weekend to do our sewing and such. So we packed up and up the mountain we went.
Right after we got the truck all unloaded my mom suggested we should start on the quilt since we weren't sure how long it was going to take us to make the pieced quilt that we were making our own measurements up for. So she set me up with all the material and a rotary cutter and had me start cutting out all of the things that we needed. As I finished I would hand them to her and she would start laying stuff out and figuring so she could do the sewing. After the cutting was all done I got set up with the iron so that after each piece was sewn I could iron it flat to make the next sewing part easier. It went pretty quick and we got it figured out. We had planned for two and a half days to make this little beauty, so when it was completely finished in four hours we weren't sure what else we were going to do with our time. While my mom had been sewing some of the final things on I went up the mountain a little ways to call Rian to make sure everything was ok. He said things were great, but that there was a leak at our house with the main water line so we wouldn't have water until Monday.
The next day was Sunday so we just lied around and ate treats, watched movies, oh yeah and I broke the four wheeler. (So that part wasn't actually my fault. My dad drove me up the mountain a little ways so I could call my hubby and he told me when I was done to just drive back because he was going to go hiking around. So when I got done and tried to turn on the dumb thing it wouldn't do anything! I sat there forever trying to figure out what I could do and then finally just decided to walk back to camp. When I showed up on foot my dad came running out asking what had happened. So we rode back up on the other four wheeler to find the problem. We still aren't sure what happened, but after we found the pull start and it did nothing and we played around with some switches it fired right up!) We ate lunch, took a nap, and then packed up for home since my dad had to work early the next morning.
We got back to Cedar and I had this great idea that we should go visit my grandma and take her our cute quilt since she was the one who would be quilting it. We got up to her house and she was making banana bread and so she knew she had some time. She thought it was a novel idea to teach my mother and I how to quilt on this crazy machine that she has. But she wanted us to learn on my babies little bedding quilt. I passed. That machine was a little too intense for me. I can barely sew a straight line on a pillow case! My mom was brave though and she ended up quilting the whole thing! She did such a great job even though she was really scared. It was really fun to see and get in perspective the quilting that my grandma does for people everyday. We always have fun at our grandma's house.
Monday morning I got up early and started getting ready since I knew that my mom had some errands and things that she needed to do. As I had been up and moving around I felt like I was starting to get a little bit of a cough, but didn't think much of it. When I went upstairs to see what she was doing, she was working on the quilt. She decided to hurry and bind it so that it was all finished. So we sat down and she bound the quilt. It only took her a few hours and it turned out so great! I am so proud and so grateful for all the work that she did. She made that whole quilt and she even quilted it. Thanks so much mom! It is truly a treasure! We ran our errands and went to lunch. Then, of course, if you know my mother and I we had to take a nap and then it was time for me to head back to Springville.
Since I was already aware of the water situation I was expecting our yard to be all torn up with pipes laying all around. But when I got home everything still looked exactly the same. A little worry in my mind. Rian got home from work not too long after I had gotten back and he said they hadn't done a single thing with the water situation yet! We had a hose hooked up to an apartment building next door so that we could flush our toilet and that was it! All the water that we had. That night we went over to Rian's sister's house so that we could shower so we wouldn't stink for work the next day. As the day had gone on my cough was getting worse and my chest was hurting really bad.
Tuesday morning I woke up and had no voice. GREAT! This is the one week in how many months that I have to work four days in a row, and we have a girl at work that just got married so we are already short staffed anyway! So I got up, got ready, and went to work. As the day went on my voice started to come back a little, but where I was having such a deep cough I decided to go to the Dr. I went in there and this lady was super nice. But really the only thing she had to tell me was that I had a "pregnancy cold". Whoever knows what that means please tell me! She gave me a z pack and an inhaler and told me to use it when I felt short of breath. BUT I couldn't use it more than four times a day and not more than every four hours. A little bit restrictive. I went back to work and closed out my drawer and said I was going home for the duration of the day.
Again when I was arriving at home I was expecting the yard to be torn up with pipes all over. Still nothing! Awesome. We still don't have water. But as I got home the guy that my landlord had asked to come fix the problem pulled up at my house. I thought this was a good sign.
He walked around the two houses. Poked at some pipes. Pulled tiles up out of crawl spaces and looked around the yard. Rian got home from work not too much later and we decided that we should go back to his sister's house to do a batch of laundry and shower so that we could get out of her way. As we were walking out the guy told us that we had water at our house! He had come in and cut the pipe that feeds the water from the main line into the house and put a hose on it so we would have water pumping directly into our house! What a novel idea. We ran back in the house and did our laundry, our dishes that had been sitting in the sink for a week, and showered. We knew some of the neighbors wanted to come over and shower since they had been out of water too and still were.
As it came time to go to bed that night we started looking at how this man had jimmy rigged up our water and I got a little nervous. I seriously don't think the man thought about what he was doing. He strung the hose through the back door into my house. Making it impossible for us to shut our door. Fabulous. Now I get to go to bed with my back door what might as well be wide open for bugs and whoever else that feels like it to come in. And my sickness was getting worse. Settling in making itself right at home. It is one thing to have a cough, but to have a cough with a little baby sitting right under your ribs is not cool! I was developing some serious pain.
Wednesday morning I woke up and got ready for work. Rian was already gone. I got ready to leave and started to panic. I had to leave my house and go to work with my door open. No one here to sit and watch my house just in case some looney decided he wanted to come in. Oh and I had no voice whatsoever! I got to work and told my lead teller about my week that I had been having and asked if I could go home around two since we had another girl coming in at that time. She agreed and said that would be fine since it is a little hard to help people all day when you have no voice. And where about 40% of the people I help are above the age of 60 they definitely can't hear me! Well it is a dang good thing that I decided to come home early and take a nap to see if I could regain some energy from this sickness and not being able to sleep because of the night before with all of my horror dreams of people freely wandering into my house. I walked in and had seen that they had re-rigged up the hose so it was coming through the window (whew) so that my door could be shut. However, my dad has cursed me with this ability to hear things that are going wrong. I could hear water running in my house. Not only running, but puddling and dripping. Like it had been going on for some time. I went over to the hose they had hooked up and felt it and it was dry. I couldn't see water anywhere so I figured maybe the water was just running louder today than it was yesterday. I used the bathroom and sat around for a minute but I could still hear the water running and I knew it wasn't right. So I went back over to the pipe they had cut and sure enough. The part that brings the water into the house hadn't been capped and there was water, under pressure, coming up in my house. Not very quickly, but still there was water. I went over and got the neighbor and so he called the landlord. I think the neighbor downplayed it a little because four hours later, when they had said that they guy was coming back to fix it and he hadn't, I made Rian call the landlord and ask when he was coming. He said TOMORROW! This is where in my head (since I have no voice) I said, "Umm, sir? Do you realize that our house has water running freely into it? Yes, it is draining into a hole that has gravel in the bottom that is allowing it to seep under the foundation of the house. However, that hole is slowly filing up! And if you let it go for too long this house is going to settle and then you will no longer have a house that you can rent out!!!" Ya apparently no one cares but me! But the guy came over and fixed it a few hours later. This entire time I have been thinking, how does a plumber not know where the leak is and how to fix it? Well come to find out.... Our "handy man" is a landscaper! Which he does have to have knowledge of plumbing, BUT NOT LIKE A PLUMBER DOES!
Wednesday night. Rian and I are getting ready for bed and every time I cough I am almost in tears. My ribs feel like I have had the crap beaten out of me, my chest is still hurting, my lungs feel like they weigh 50 lbs each, and my throat is on fire! After trying to sleep for three hours I finally woke up Rian and I made him call the emergency room to see if it may be worth it to go in since I didn't really want to have to pay a $75 co-pay. After making five phone calls a nurse told him that there is a chance that I could have pneumonia and that it wouldn't hurt to get it checked out. We sat on the floor for a half hour trying to decide if we should go in. I called my mom and she said the same thing, it wouldn't hurt to go in and get check in case it is something serious. So, 3:30am we are on our way to the ER. We got there and thankfully no pneumonia, but I do have bronchitis and since I am pregnant there is nothing they can do. "Sorry for the pain and discomfort, but you are S. O. L." Awesome! So I got a Dr.'s note saying that I am written off for work for today so that I can hopefully get some rest to get rid of this sickness. I just pray the pain will go away! My poor little babe hates it so bad when I cough. She kicks me back after I cough because she hates that I am squishing her more than she already is, which I can't blame her, but it causes me double bruising on my ribs. Oh, and for the water situation.... Now us and the neighbors are hooked up to a hose sharing water pressure. So if I am in the shower and they flush the toilet, I get to stand under a sprinkle of water. I sure hope this gets fixed soon!
Didn't my mom do such an amazing job??
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
And the winner is...
A little princess pie! We went to the doctor yesterday and found out we are having a sweet little girl! I am afraid that our little girl is going to be a shy one. The ultrasound tech had to sit there and rub the little thing on my tummy to try and get her to move her leg so we could actually see what she was. And then when we tried to get a picture of her cute little face she wasn't going to have any of it. She put her arm up over her head and turned her face to my back to hide. The little stinker! But, luckily, the tech didn't get all the measurements that she needed so we have to go back in 4 weeks and try again. Hopefully she will let her mamma see her little face next time around! I have been so busy looking for deals to buy stuff for our little girl and I must say, so far I have been pretty successful! I can't wait to get her here and dress her up in all sorts of fun outfits!!
Monday, May 2, 2011
Princess Pie...... Or a Star Athlete?
We are so excited to find out what our little babe will be. We get to officially find out on May 17th and Rian is counting down the days. Almost literally. We went to the doctor a couple of weeks ago and got to listen to the heartbeat. It was so much fun to be there and listen to it. Rian wasn't able to come to the first appointment and so he was super excited when he got to hear it. He wants a boy so bad. All he talks about is having a little buddy to play with. Sometimes I think that is exactly what he doesn't need! I don't really care either way. I just want to know so that I can start planning things. We have officially started buying diapers for our little one. And dang they are so expensive! Hopefully we can get our little one potty trained fast! Haha. I am starting to show and it doesn't look like I am pregnant. I definately look fat! It is awful! My clothes are starting to not fit anymore and I really don't want to go buy nasty prenant people stuff. So instead I try to use rubberbands to hold my pants shut because it's the next best thing I can think of. Rian thinks that it is funny and he tries to tell me that my fat stomach is cute. It doesn't ever make me feel better. Hopefully soon I will get past this stage. I am almost half way done though, and I must say so far it hasn't been too bad. My little babe just thinks that it is a good idea to sit on my sciatic nerve a lot so every once in a while I almost fall to the floor in pain. But that is something I would much rather handle than throwing up!! I'm just sayin!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Sickness
This last week I have been crazy sick. On Sunday I went to the Instacare because I thought I had an ear infection. The doctor told me that I had fluid on my ear and that I was fine. He said to go home and take a few hot showers and I should be ok. Well as part of my becoming sickness I had a cough, sore throat, and was beginning to get sinus pressure. Monday morning I got up and went to work as if all was fine. Tuesday morning I did the same thing. With my job I always have Wednesdays off and at this point I was very grateful because I felt as though I was getting worse. All day Wednesday I laid around sleeping and coughing. That night I started to get paid in my left eye. It was red and was putting out some pretty nasty goopy stuff. So I went to bed hoping it would go away. The next morning my eye was so swollen it looked like I was in a fight with Rocky! My eyelid had swelled up so tight that the skin was shiny and very red. My eye was glued shut and I could even keep it open. I grabbed a hot washcloth and put it on my eye thinking it might change something. I called into work and said I would not be coming. During the day the swelling went down and my eye was starting to look a lot better. It was still very red, but it didn't hurt and was on the mend. Later that night at about the exact same time my right eye did the exact same thing! It started to get red and was doing the nasty goop thing! I couldn't believe it. So this morning I decided to go back to the Instacare to see what the heck is going on with my eyes. I didn't think it was pink eye because that is supposed to be very painful and make your eyes really red. Mine only hurt when they were doing the goop thing and then they were just red. So this morning the doctor proceeded to tell me that my oxygen level has gone down 6 points and I need to be careful because that could lead to pneumonia, and I have some something with conjunctivitis. That is why my eyes are all red and swollen. He gave me a Z Pac and also a prescription for my eyes. He said to only take the Z Pac and if it doesn't start to get rid of the redness in my eyes to fill the other. I told him I have to go to work tomorrow and said I wear contacts. He told me with the eye drop prescription he gave me I would have to take my contacts out to put the meds in, and then said he didn't know how much better I will be by tomorrow. Thanks a bunch doc! Now I just have a bunch of worrying to do and still have these crazy red eyes and what feels like the whooping cough!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Almost a year!
So this weekend Rian and I will have been married for one year! WOW! I am not sure how time flies by so quickly. I keep thinking that it was just last month that we were making wedding plans but really that was a whole year ago. Everyone says that if you can make it through the first year then you can make it, Rian and I looked at each other not to long ago after being told that and said,"Well dang this will be easy then!" Haha! We have had a great year. Mostly ups and some downs. We have both had trials in finding jobs and trying to make enough money to afford our very inexpensive lives, but it is all for the better. We love where we are at right now and we couldn't be happier with our life together. It sure is fun hanging out with your best friend every day!
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
I looked out the window and what did I see.......
.... Wait a minute! Snow flakes falling on the apricot tree!
Spring has brought me such a nice surprise.... SNOW flakes falling right before my eyes!
I could take an armful and make a treat.... A snow cone ball? I guess that works for me!
It wasn't really so.... Oh wait, yes it seems to be!
SNOW FLAKES FALLING ON THE APRICOT TREE!
So it's not really an apricot tree. It's just a peach tree, but it still works right? Winter isn't officially started until December 21st so I guess this is just a little preview! Happy Fall!
Our peach tree!
Lots of snow!
Spring has brought me such a nice surprise.... SNOW flakes falling right before my eyes!
I could take an armful and make a treat.... A snow cone ball? I guess that works for me!
It wasn't really so.... Oh wait, yes it seems to be!
SNOW FLAKES FALLING ON THE APRICOT TREE!
So it's not really an apricot tree. It's just a peach tree, but it still works right? Winter isn't officially started until December 21st so I guess this is just a little preview! Happy Fall!
Our peach tree!
Lots of snow!Sunday, December 12, 2010
Much too long!
So it has been much too long since the last time I have posted anything! I feel really bad about it. And I keep thinking about posting stuff and I get lots of ideas about posts but then I just don't ever find the time to actually post my idea! Since my last post we have had a lot of changes in our lives! I got a new job at a Credit Union and I am now working 6 days a week between my two jobs. Rian has gotten TWO new jobs and he is staying busy with school. He works at the school as a lab aide and so he gets to use his computer skills everyday. His other job that he recently got was for a company in Spanish Fork. He edits already drafted houses. The plans get sent to him and then he goes in and makes changes to them so then they company can build the house! He is absolutely LOVING his job and he loves that he gets to use his drafting skills. We are getting so excited for the holidays and can't wait for Christmas to come. It has been fun shopping for all of our family members and trying to find ideas for gifts that they would want. This is our first Christmas being married and we are looking forward to it. Rian was super excited to have our first tree and put up Christmas lights up on our house. He kept telling me "I have never had my own Christmas tree.......... Christmas lights." He makes me giggle. He took pictures of the tree as I was putting it up. Just a little under 4 weeks ago we took Rian's little brother to the MTC. It was so much fun to see him get ready for his mission. He has been so cute sending us letters each week and keeping us updated on the new things he is learning. He is going to the Michigan Detroit mission. We keep teasing him that he better not get shot! Rian and I got the privilege of taking him to the temple when he was receiving his endowment. The little old ladies were so cute and so excited to have us there. They kept coming over to us and making all sorts of cute little comments. Rian's grandpa is a worker at the Manti Temple and that is where we had gone. We were getting ready for Riley to go get his stuff started and so one of the ladies said she would take me upstairs. So she was leading me up the stairs and saying hi to everyone and we came upon this one lady so we started talking to her and I stopped. The little old lady kept going. So when I came around the corner I heard her telling other temple workers that MY SON was going through the temple for the first time tonight. I ran around the corner and peeked my head and said, "Umm..... He is not my son. I mean he is a really good kid and stuff but he is my little brother-in-law!" The lady was so embarrassed. She appologized to me like 10 times! I was trying so hard not to laugh my head off. I then later was thinking geez how old did she think I was? Haha! So I guess I look like I could have a 19 year old son. We are going to try and do better and post stuff more often on here! I really love to read other people's blogs and I know that I need to keep mine updated too! I hope that you all have a wonderful holiday season!
This is our Merry Christmas Tree 2010!
This is our Merry Christmas Tree 2010!
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Adventures :)
I think that we all enjoy adventures. We all go about them in different ways too. Some people like to set dates and plan and save money, others like to be spontaneous and follow a snappy idea. Well, I am not sure that Rian and I are really either one of those. We try and plan and save, and then the date all the sudden shows up and we're not ready for it. And to be spontaneous you have to have money to be able to afford the "come on let's just do it!" adventures. Which Rian and I have absolutely no money. So we mostly do stuff like "Let's go get a drink at Walker's" (the gas station down the street from our house that we visit so often everyone there knows us by name). That is about the extent of our adventurousness.
About once every other week we meet up with my Aunt that lives about a half hour away from us and we go to the temple together. Sometimes we go up and see her at the Timpanogos Temple or sometimes she will come down and we will go to the Provo Temple. Earlier this week we made plans with her that we would go up there and go do a session together. Well, last night while I was at work she text me and said she had some things come up and she would only be able to go either at 7 a.m. or at 5 p.m. Rian had to go to work at 3 p.m. and so I opted for the early time. She told me that she would meet us in the lobby at 6:40 a.m. Those of you who know me know that I am not fast at getting ready. I get distracted by the smallest things and I dread it anyway. Plus we had to schedule in time for the drive. So that meant that I would be getting up at 4 a.m. to be able to get ready and go for the travel. Rian was at work when I got home and so as I was waiting for him to get off I was planning out in my mind how I could break it to him that I signed us up for an early meeting. He isn't a morning person and so I knew he wouldn't be too happy about it. He didn't get home until 10:30 from work and I knew he would be tired from the whole day. I was bored out of my mind from sitting in my house for so long and only able to watch so many movies for so long. When he got home he said that we could go for a ride or something and that there was some great lightening going on out west of town. As we were walking out the door I told him about the temple situation in the morning. He wanted to just go to bed right away after that, but I wasn't wanting to sit at home for another minute. So we drove down to Wendy's and got some food and then went across the street to Walker's to get a drink. As we were leaving Walker's Rian had this great idea that we could go stay at my Aunt's house so that we wouldn't have to get up as early and then we would already be there. I was all surprised that he had come up with such a genius idea. We decided to follow the whimsical magic of the lightening and be spontaneous. So we ran home and started packing. I called my Aunt to let her know we were on our way. Well she didn't answer her phone but I wasn't worried that we wouldn't be able to get a hold of her. (this is the beginning of our adventure) I kept reassuring Rian that she would answer her phone because she always has her phone on. She is a phone junkie. As we are driving I kept calling her to see warn her that we were on our way. Well right before we were there I called and her phone went straight to her voice mail and Rian panicked. We got to her house and we were able to get into her garage, but I knew from living with her that she still locked the door to the house from inside the garage. So we tried it anyway and like I thought, locked. We knocked on the door a few times, found some keys and tried to force them into the lock, searched the garage for a hide-a-key, and there was pretty much no way that we were getting in. At this point Rian was mad at me. I felt bad because he was tired and we had to get up early and I knew that he was going to have to work tonight. He asked if we should just go home but he didn't really think that was a good idea either because we would get home really late and have to wake up even earlier just to drive back up there. So we talked about sleeping in the car, and then the garage, thought about a motel for about 5 seconds, and then opted for the car.
The car. Oh the car. My car is not very big and Rian is really tall. So I took the front seat and said that he could lay down in the back because I knew it would give him more room to stretch out. It was not working out. I didn't have anywhere to put my legs, my head was too level with my body so my nose was getting plugged up, and I don't know about you but sometimes I wish I could sever off an arm because they just get in the way when laying down. Needless to say..... It was rough. So I had this brilliant idea that my back seats lay down and then we could have more room to lay down because then we would have the space of the trunk too. So we got out and layed the back seats down and then layed the front seats down thinking it would make more room and then maneuvered ourselves into the car. I have a father that is always making sure that his girls are very well prepared for any sort of car breakdown. Thus meaning I have tow straps and jumper cables, a tool box, windshield washer fluid, a quart of oil, and many other things that I couldn't even name. We didn't have anywhere in the car to move those things to, so we had to try and sleep around them. As we were laying there I was laughing my head off. I thought that it was so funny and just our luck that this would happen. Rian on the other hand, wasn't laughing so much. He told me that maybe in 30 years it might be funny(meaning right now it is not funny at all). We were laying there, not comfortable in any way shape or form and I decided that we should go knock on my Aunt's front door and ring the doorbell. Surely that would wake her up. It would have to. So Rian and I wiggled and wormed our way back out of the car. We rang the doorbell like 6 times. Nothing. Geeze that woman can sleep! We went on another search around the front yard trying to find a hide-a-key, but I knew better and knew there was no such one. So back to the car. Scrunching ourselves and stuffing body parts into crammed spaces. I finally had to ask if he wanted to go to a motel. We whipped out my phone and Googled like 5 different motels. Oh nope! All of them were booked for the night. More luck just running our way. So the car it was. I could not get comfortable and I could feel my nose stuffing up because I didn't have a pillow. And for some reason Rian had decided to pack towels, however, they were in the garage. We had decided the leave all our stuff in there. So back out it was for me to try and find something more comforting to sleep on. By this time it was 1:45 a.m. We had to get up in three hours. We didn't sleep. It was a really rough night. I was freezing cold and Rian was sweating. He is just way too big for that car. The alarm went off at 5 a.m. and I was sure that my Aunt would have to be waking up soon to get ready. So we rolled and pushed back out of the car and rang the doorbell. Nothing. Great! I had to pee so bad so we decided to go find a gas station. We drove to the nearest one, closed. Went across the street to the grocery store, close. So off we went to Wal Mart. When we got back to my Aunt's house I just knew that she had to be awake. Lights still off, Aunt still sleeping. So this time I decided that I was going to brake down the door knocking if I had to. I went up and rang the doorbell and had it out with the door. About 10 seconds later I see my Auntie peeking through the blinds so I waved with a big smile on my face. She opened the door shocked to see me. So I told her what happened and she said she had just checked her phone about 10 minutes before to make sure that we didn't back out on her and she didn't have any missed calls or messages. WHAT?? I had been calling all night long! She let us in and would not stop apologizing to us because she felt so bad that we slept in the car. Turns out her phone malfunctioned somehow and all of her services were shut off. She couldn't call out, no one could call in. No one really knows how or what happened. Just somehow God wanted Rian and I to spend the night in the car. We went to the temple and had a great time. Then she took us to breakfast and the food was great. We took a 2 hour nap at her house and then headed back home so that Rian could get to work. She sent us home with lots of food for the next week and yummy treats that she had made. Oh yes, and a key to her house so that in case we do ever decide to venture up to her house without her knowledge again, we could get in and be able to sleep on a bed. Our little adventure was interesting. Today Rian was able to laugh about it and say that it was funny, even though he didn't think so last night. I think that is why it is called an adventure. Expect the unexpected, be prepared for anything, and I know you just have to laugh. It makes it seem so much better. Everything that could go wrong did, and somehow, in that tiny car with my cute Rian, I had so much fun. Life is all about the adventures and the way that you take them. So take the whimsical adventures and have fun, even when everything goes wrong.
About once every other week we meet up with my Aunt that lives about a half hour away from us and we go to the temple together. Sometimes we go up and see her at the Timpanogos Temple or sometimes she will come down and we will go to the Provo Temple. Earlier this week we made plans with her that we would go up there and go do a session together. Well, last night while I was at work she text me and said she had some things come up and she would only be able to go either at 7 a.m. or at 5 p.m. Rian had to go to work at 3 p.m. and so I opted for the early time. She told me that she would meet us in the lobby at 6:40 a.m. Those of you who know me know that I am not fast at getting ready. I get distracted by the smallest things and I dread it anyway. Plus we had to schedule in time for the drive. So that meant that I would be getting up at 4 a.m. to be able to get ready and go for the travel. Rian was at work when I got home and so as I was waiting for him to get off I was planning out in my mind how I could break it to him that I signed us up for an early meeting. He isn't a morning person and so I knew he wouldn't be too happy about it. He didn't get home until 10:30 from work and I knew he would be tired from the whole day. I was bored out of my mind from sitting in my house for so long and only able to watch so many movies for so long. When he got home he said that we could go for a ride or something and that there was some great lightening going on out west of town. As we were walking out the door I told him about the temple situation in the morning. He wanted to just go to bed right away after that, but I wasn't wanting to sit at home for another minute. So we drove down to Wendy's and got some food and then went across the street to Walker's to get a drink. As we were leaving Walker's Rian had this great idea that we could go stay at my Aunt's house so that we wouldn't have to get up as early and then we would already be there. I was all surprised that he had come up with such a genius idea. We decided to follow the whimsical magic of the lightening and be spontaneous. So we ran home and started packing. I called my Aunt to let her know we were on our way. Well she didn't answer her phone but I wasn't worried that we wouldn't be able to get a hold of her. (this is the beginning of our adventure) I kept reassuring Rian that she would answer her phone because she always has her phone on. She is a phone junkie. As we are driving I kept calling her to see warn her that we were on our way. Well right before we were there I called and her phone went straight to her voice mail and Rian panicked. We got to her house and we were able to get into her garage, but I knew from living with her that she still locked the door to the house from inside the garage. So we tried it anyway and like I thought, locked. We knocked on the door a few times, found some keys and tried to force them into the lock, searched the garage for a hide-a-key, and there was pretty much no way that we were getting in. At this point Rian was mad at me. I felt bad because he was tired and we had to get up early and I knew that he was going to have to work tonight. He asked if we should just go home but he didn't really think that was a good idea either because we would get home really late and have to wake up even earlier just to drive back up there. So we talked about sleeping in the car, and then the garage, thought about a motel for about 5 seconds, and then opted for the car.
The car. Oh the car. My car is not very big and Rian is really tall. So I took the front seat and said that he could lay down in the back because I knew it would give him more room to stretch out. It was not working out. I didn't have anywhere to put my legs, my head was too level with my body so my nose was getting plugged up, and I don't know about you but sometimes I wish I could sever off an arm because they just get in the way when laying down. Needless to say..... It was rough. So I had this brilliant idea that my back seats lay down and then we could have more room to lay down because then we would have the space of the trunk too. So we got out and layed the back seats down and then layed the front seats down thinking it would make more room and then maneuvered ourselves into the car. I have a father that is always making sure that his girls are very well prepared for any sort of car breakdown. Thus meaning I have tow straps and jumper cables, a tool box, windshield washer fluid, a quart of oil, and many other things that I couldn't even name. We didn't have anywhere in the car to move those things to, so we had to try and sleep around them. As we were laying there I was laughing my head off. I thought that it was so funny and just our luck that this would happen. Rian on the other hand, wasn't laughing so much. He told me that maybe in 30 years it might be funny(meaning right now it is not funny at all). We were laying there, not comfortable in any way shape or form and I decided that we should go knock on my Aunt's front door and ring the doorbell. Surely that would wake her up. It would have to. So Rian and I wiggled and wormed our way back out of the car. We rang the doorbell like 6 times. Nothing. Geeze that woman can sleep! We went on another search around the front yard trying to find a hide-a-key, but I knew better and knew there was no such one. So back to the car. Scrunching ourselves and stuffing body parts into crammed spaces. I finally had to ask if he wanted to go to a motel. We whipped out my phone and Googled like 5 different motels. Oh nope! All of them were booked for the night. More luck just running our way. So the car it was. I could not get comfortable and I could feel my nose stuffing up because I didn't have a pillow. And for some reason Rian had decided to pack towels, however, they were in the garage. We had decided the leave all our stuff in there. So back out it was for me to try and find something more comforting to sleep on. By this time it was 1:45 a.m. We had to get up in three hours. We didn't sleep. It was a really rough night. I was freezing cold and Rian was sweating. He is just way too big for that car. The alarm went off at 5 a.m. and I was sure that my Aunt would have to be waking up soon to get ready. So we rolled and pushed back out of the car and rang the doorbell. Nothing. Great! I had to pee so bad so we decided to go find a gas station. We drove to the nearest one, closed. Went across the street to the grocery store, close. So off we went to Wal Mart. When we got back to my Aunt's house I just knew that she had to be awake. Lights still off, Aunt still sleeping. So this time I decided that I was going to brake down the door knocking if I had to. I went up and rang the doorbell and had it out with the door. About 10 seconds later I see my Auntie peeking through the blinds so I waved with a big smile on my face. She opened the door shocked to see me. So I told her what happened and she said she had just checked her phone about 10 minutes before to make sure that we didn't back out on her and she didn't have any missed calls or messages. WHAT?? I had been calling all night long! She let us in and would not stop apologizing to us because she felt so bad that we slept in the car. Turns out her phone malfunctioned somehow and all of her services were shut off. She couldn't call out, no one could call in. No one really knows how or what happened. Just somehow God wanted Rian and I to spend the night in the car. We went to the temple and had a great time. Then she took us to breakfast and the food was great. We took a 2 hour nap at her house and then headed back home so that Rian could get to work. She sent us home with lots of food for the next week and yummy treats that she had made. Oh yes, and a key to her house so that in case we do ever decide to venture up to her house without her knowledge again, we could get in and be able to sleep on a bed. Our little adventure was interesting. Today Rian was able to laugh about it and say that it was funny, even though he didn't think so last night. I think that is why it is called an adventure. Expect the unexpected, be prepared for anything, and I know you just have to laugh. It makes it seem so much better. Everything that could go wrong did, and somehow, in that tiny car with my cute Rian, I had so much fun. Life is all about the adventures and the way that you take them. So take the whimsical adventures and have fun, even when everything goes wrong.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
The day has come!
My niece is now six years old and for the last three years of her life we have been convincing her that if she would stop sucking her thumb she could have her ears pierced. You would think that this would be an easy task. However, Daisy and her thumb have a very special connection that could not be broken. Ever since she started school she has started to peter out the thumb sucking. She would tell us that at school as they were reading stories she would want to suck her thumb, "but I just kept it in my mind." We were very proud of her for being conscious of this habit that we so very much wanted her to kick. As I was preparing to get married I tried to get her to stop so that she could wear pretty earrings with a matching necklace and be a part of my line. That still didn't work. But now the day has come that on her own..... THE THUMB SUCKING HAS STOPPED!! I was sitting at my mother-in-law's house and I had Daisy with me. She looked at me and said, "On Friday I am getting my ears pierced at the mall." And being myself I didn't believe her. I teased with her a little, but then when I got back to my sister's she asked Daisy if she had told me the good news. I asked Natasha if I could come along for this very exciting event!! I was so excited that you would have thought that I was the one getting my ears pierced. So I took many pictures of this very brave girl!! Daisy we are so proud!!
Waiting in The Hot Seat
Drawing on the dots
Dots in place!
Ready one, two, three
All finished
Pain settling in
Brother so happy to watch
Proud of my girl!!
Another happy brother
Rian had a state competition that he attended for most of Friday. After watching Daisy get her ears pierced we drove up to Salt Lake to the Awards Ceremony... Unfortunately we didn't come home with any medals.. But we still had fun!!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Bridals
For my bridals I had my most favorite photographer, Karl Hugh from Studio West Photography, take my pictures. He did such an amazing job. I had some crazy ideas and it was stuff he had never done before but he thought it would be fun to try it out so we went along for a ride. We had so much fun and the weather was fabulous! You would never guess that it was the day before Thanksgiving! I would have posted these earlier, but Rian wasn't aloud to see my dress before the wedding.. So here they are now.........!
My mom suggested this picture so we took it to humor her.. Love ya mom!!
This is my #1 man Winston.. My cute little dog!
Karl had me walk through the ashes and I couldn't even stand up.. I was sinking all over the place and trying my best not to make faces because I knew he was taking pictures of me!
My mom suggested this picture so we took it to humor her.. Love ya mom!!
This is my #1 man Winston.. My cute little dog!
Karl had me walk through the ashes and I couldn't even stand up.. I was sinking all over the place and trying my best not to make faces because I knew he was taking pictures of me!
Wedding Day
Rian and I got married in January and we have just barely started to receive pictures from our special day. My regular photographer was out of town for my wedding so he had his friend take our pictures for us. It was a very nice thing for him to do, however, he was not a very personable man and he didn't want to take anything that would have been original to this specific couple. He had his routine spots and poses and that was all he was going to do, and he was going to do it as fast as he possibly could get it done.. Which was rather convenient considering we had other places to be soon, but as a result of the pictures they didn't turn out all that well and I am quite disappointed that this is all I have to show for my wedding day at the temple.
Us with our cute friend Chantel
Rian's parents
My parents
All of our friends and family
Us with our cute friend Chantel
Rian's parents
My parents
All of our friends and family
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Birthdays!
So Rian's sister and my sister share the same birthday.. Who would have known? Randi (Rian's sister) turned 20 and Chelsea (my sister) turned 25.. We live about 3 hours away from each other so this is how we celebrated separately!
Randi
Randi's dog Daphnie
Birthday Girl!
Making faces at Rian
Friends and family
Happy Birthday!
Birthday Dinner
Proud parents
Randi
Randi's dog Daphnie
Birthday Girl!
Making faces at Rian
Friends and family
Happy Birthday!
Birthday Dinner
Proud parents
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