hehe ;)

Eclipse Movie and Breaking Dawn

Oh, and this movie comes out Friday!

So excited!! :}

Just another day in Paradise!

So Maddy decided to take a little flying lesson of her own.. Thursday was quite the day already, work was busy, all these things coming at me at once. Decided I was going to try and stay as late as possible to get some work done before having to go visiting teaching. {to Ladies, whom I didn't even know I had until last Sunday! btw though.. they are wonderful} About 2:30ish almost 3:00pm, I received a phone call from the Missionaries "reminding you of the dinner appointment at 5:00" Panicking, because I had completely forgotten about it, I called Sam asking if he could be home by then. {Mind you, he drives from Provo every day} Realizing he won't be able to make it, and of course they aren't allowed to be there while a Priesthood holder isn't there. I decided to do takeout. I couldn't possibly cancel on them that late, and besides, I want to do whatever I can to help them out! I call my mom making sure Maddy is okay to stay a little longer at her house while I drop it off.
In the midst of all this, my dear mom is having a horrible past few days. I decided I would take her flowers. I ordered from Every Blooming Thing {my most favorite place for flowers! Thanks Jennie!} , had them delivered to me, so I could drop them off when I picked up Maddy! All is going as planned, ordered Cafe Rio online, check. Pick it up, check. Make it to their house by 5? well, almost, try 5:15, check! All in time to make it home by 6:00 for visiting teaching.. right!? hahaha that would be a perfect day! I get to my parents house, flowers in hand, I rang the doorbell. My mom answers the door, thinking I would get some sort of a surprise out of her.. but there was nothing. So I looked to see if she was crying, nope. A look of nervousness and almost in tears, she said: "I want you to know, she has finally stopped crying.." Oh great, I have heard those words before!! About 2 years ago when she had fallen down my parents entry stairs.. and ending up at Primary's for the evening. She proceeded to tell me that Madilyn decided to climb onto the back of her couch, lean over the railing, to see Tippy {their puppy.} Well, she must have leaned a little TOO far, and ended up in their Landing. My mom sat with her for several minutes before Maddy would move. I thought my mom was about to loose it! She was on the verge of tears anyway, and then to have that happen. My poor Mom!! Maddy could barely walk out of my parent's room, so I decided a trip to the Instacare/ER was in our near future.
I called ahead of time making sure we were okay to take her, and ended up at the Instacare. I thought for sure she had broken something. {Especially with me as a mother, and my past with broken bones} They quickly took us back, and luckily.. nothing. Just some bumps and bruises. I must say she has REALLY come far since Thursday! The Dr said she would be sore, which I only imagine falling down onto Hard wood stairs. She is SO lucky! I am so grateful that she was being watched over. She showed us Saturday what she had done, but wouldn't get near the banister. It is a wonder she didn't break her neck or something. She kept telling me that her "hip and leg was angry because she fell on it" She seriously makes me laugh!

Then comes today! As you know, Sam has had problems with his right leg. He is no stranger to Blood Clots for sure. Well a few weeks ago, he was tested for Factor 5 Leiden. The blood test took about 2-2 1/2 weeks to come back, and it came back positive! Next off to a Hematologist next Thursday to go over everything. Poor Sam! Just one more thing to worry about.

What next? Or maybe I shouldn't ask that... :} All in all I really am grateful for all our trials.. truly!! It only makes us that much stronger. We truly have been blessed, and I am so grateful for that. I am grateful that Maddy is doing better, and that we caught Sam's Blood Clotting disorder sooner, rather than later. Hopefully this is the last of their "competition" for Mommy's attention!

Our New Loves..

A little bit of updating on our family, we are all doing pretty well. Despite the 2 week long cold Maddy and I have had. Thanks to Daycare, and all the lovely germs Maddy loves to bring home! Don't worry we still love Teresa!! {just not the germs from the other kiddos} First bout of antibiotics, Z-pac, were a no go. Then on Monday, Augmentin. Can I say, HOORAY!? Despite the dizziness that still lingers, I am feeling better.. not 100%, but better! Madilyn was lucky enough to get Amoxicillin and that worked right off the bat. Sam on the other hand, lucky thing never had it more than a couple of days.. go figure.

Since we all have been sickies around here, we have picked up watching movies more! Let's just say when you ask Maddy what movie she wants to watch, she will say "Batman! Batman!" No more Princess and The Frog, it is Batman. Aaahh yes, Batman :]




Quite honestly, who could resist right? Val Kilmer.. makes a pretty nice batman! So I don't mind one bit! It is cute at the end of the movie when Batman is running with the bat signal behind him, she gets all excited. She gets this goofy grin like, yeah he is cute. {it's hard to explain, but I am sure for all of you that know Maddy, you know which smile I am talking about!}

Sam still in love with his guitar's, Facebook, and anything computers, guns, hunting, or fishing :)

One of his Guitar's:


Trying to imitate This guy..



{If any of you know Sam, the Beatles are his most favorite Band of all time!}

As for me.. This is my new love, and before you ask that one question you KNOW you are probably asking... No, the answer is no. :}




I found a jar of these babies in my fridge from my Dad's Birthday last month, and I think I may have almost eaten the whole jar. They are soo good! Maybe it is because I can't really smell or taste anything, but none the less.. I am in love. :]

Along with these...


Yummy

These,


Heavenly

These Guys...


"Hey Soul Sister"

And Him......


Enough Said


Oh, and I am in love with these two too! :] {OF COURSE!}

Been a LOOOONG while!

Wow, where to even begin. {I must warn you, TONS of pictures! I have you get you caught up right!?} Yes, we are still alive and thriving! Just been WAY too busy for our own good. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years.. all were great! Here is a re-cap of what has been going on:

Thanksgiving was awesome! We spent the "feast" with my parents this year. {We rotate every year to make it fair.} Christmas.. wow, what a blast!! Maddy got her Barbie House and Barbies that she wanted for Christmas. When you would ask her what she wanted she would say "Ummmmm I want a Barbie House..... ummmm some Barbies, mmm some ponies, annnnnnd a pony house. And that's it!" As you can imagine she had that look of deep thinking, it was adorable!




A group of my Highschool friends have decided to do a get-together once a month. We just recently decided on the name... Sophisticated Mama's! How might we have come up with the name you might ask? Have you ever seen The Wedding Singer? There is a part when Jimmie Moore is performing "Ladies Night" in it it goes "Romantic Lady , single baby, Mm sophisticated mama, Come on you disco lady yeah." Lindsay was actually the one to come up with it.. it was so funny when she "re-inacted it" We thought, even though we definitely aren't single, all of us happily married... we are definitely Sophisticated Mama's! I have pictures from November & December's Ladies Nights. {December was Ugly Sweater Night}

{Warning, some of these pictures were taken late at night..}




New Year came and 2010 got off to a pretty good start for us! Spent lots of time getting our house back into order. We took a "break" during the Holiday's in having it up on the market. Needless to say it helped! we have already had more people look in the past few weeks than we have had in Months! We have had an offer on it, and I am sad to say that we had to decline it. I hate it!! I wish someone would just come upright and buy it. The people wanted us to do a lease option to buy. It really sounded like a good plan, and we were about ready to accept it, but then realized the $4,000 grant to build a new house, was no longer available. We were counting on that so that it could help with a down payment. We realized there was no way we could come up with $7K in 3 months while the house was being built. If the grant would have been available, we could have easily saved up the $3,000. After lots of prayers, and days making myself sick about it.. we both know it was a good decision. Right now we are focusing on getting more a down payment saved up so we can be ready for the next offer! I figure now, I figure we are just going to make the house the way we want it. I wasn't wanting to put TOO much work into it if we were just going to sell it, but it looks like we will be here for a while longer-so this is some of the things we have done!





Maddy has been in preschool and loving every minute of it. We just got her "mid-year" report card, check-plus on everything! {which is the highest you can get.} She is only 3 1/2 but going on 17. She is complete girl through and through. Her personality is surely showing through: Drama, Princess, goofiness, you name it! She has grown up so fast, and I can't believe she will be 4 in June!! Where did all this time go?? Here are some pics of her throughout last year:




Sam, still working for Utah County Health Department {Hence the reason for wanting to move!!} He is doing well! We both have started weight watchers first part of January. He has lost 9 lbs so far! I'm proud of you Honey!

Me, well I am alive and here! I am still working for Intermountain Healthcare's Recruitment part of HR. I have decided that I need to make time this year to keep up my blog up. They say it is a form of journaling. Since I suck at keeping a personal journal this will have to do! I started weight watchers with Sam, and have done pretty well. I weighed in this morning and I lost another 1.6 lbs. Making that a total of 11. something lbs! Slowly but surely it is coming off.. hooray!
We actually got back from Las Vegas this past Monday. Can I just say I honestly do NOT remember it being that dirty of a city. I mean dirty as in people basically handing you pornography as you are walking down the street! We walked {about 12 miles mind you!} down the strip, and they have these people that slap cards and then try to hand them to you. Well if take a look at what they are trying to hand you, {I highly suggest you DON'T!!} It is of women. This guy tried to slip on to Sam as we were walking past, and Sam was like "DUDE, I am with my family, NO!" The air is just gross from all the smoke. Here I am trying to be a good mom and shield my child from all this crap! Mind you there are some fun things to do there. The Mandalay Bay has a Shark Aquarium.. absolutely SOO COOL! My pictures didn't turn out so well because you walk through a few tunnels that are surrounded by water. I highly recommend it! The Mirage has a really cool Seigfried & Roy's Secret Garden. A Tiger & Dolphin Refuge. That was awesome! Maddy LOVES Dolphins as it is, so she really enjoyed it. Another thing Maddy enjoyed was Circus Circus's Trapeze Artists! We actually stayed at Circus Circus and let me tell you.. DO NOT stay in the Skyrise Towers. Umm let's just say we got in about Midnight, got our keys, the room was NOT cleaned. Beds weren't made, beer bottles, porn, and drug paraphernalia on the night stand. It was utterly disgusting! Obviously we complained and got upgraded to an amazing Room! They had recently remodeled their West Tower, and that is where they sent us free of charge. Knowing what I know about the other room.. I am SO glad it wasn't cleaned!! I don't think I will stay there again!! Anyway, here are some pictures from our trip!



Whew! I think that is all.. more to come as more events unravel!

Happy Halloween!

What a day.. we sure had fun... well until Bedtime when Maddy was sick and puking all night! Other than that it was a delight. Madilyn last minute decided she didn't want to be a Bee.. she wanted to be Belle. So we proceeded to whip a Belle costume together in about 20 minutes. It was too hard, since she got a Belle costume earlier this year in Disneyland. We did her hair.. and wala!! There was Belle!
Maddy and her friend Savannah made beautiful princesses! They went out despite the cold and had a great time. Grandpa was the greatest to take Maddy out with Me. I think he had just as much fun. I must say she came home with a TON of candy. More than I would like in my house! It is hard to believe that October is now officially over, and it is NOVEMBER!! Now it is time to think of Thanksgiving.. Black Friday Shopping {Which by the way I am COMPLETELY Excited about!!!!} Oh and how could I forget...... New Moon!! Yea, I am one of the crazies that will be heading out Friday November 20th to see it! However I am completely excited to go. My friend Candis is doing a Werewolf Breakfast {for Dinner hehe} and fun New Moon festivities. Then come 2:00am... we will be watching the movie! Can I just say.. I have high hopes it will be better than Twilight.. or so I hope! Either way it will be fun to try and pull and all nighter again... well at least try to. haha. Then comes good old Christmas.. can you believe it is only 54 days away!? Man, time flies, it seems like we just did this! Eh oh well, I love this time of year! Well I hope everyone had a great Halloween, enjoy the pics!

Big Slacker!

Alright, I know, I am the BIGGEST slacker when it comes to blogging. Lots of things have happened since my latest post. I know what you are thinking... pumpkins, fall, isn't that a little TOO soon!? Well, I have to say, that Fall is one of my most FAVORITE times of the year. I absolutely LOVE IT! THe colors, the smells, the warm sweaters, leaves changing, *sigh* it is perfect! So i thought I would get started early. ( I even have my house partially decorated! ha!) Where to begin. WEll, first off, Sam had surgery on his leg Friday July 31st, to remove a vericose (sp?) vein. All was well, he was taking great advantage of being laid up! lol Then Monday rolls around for his checkup appointment, and they found a blood clot. Well needless to say that was a kicker. Maybe I should rewind a day or two. Saturday (the day after his surgery) I got in the car ready to go over to my parents house, and wa'la... the "check engine" light comes on in the Jeeo. Now as you all know, that jeep has been more trouble than I would like to admit. HOWEVER, it was doing well for the time being, until that moment. I just wanted to cry!.. and I did. Then Monday taking the Jeep in to be looked at, my mom taking me back home so I could get Sam to his follow-up apointment to find out the blood clot. The Dr put him on blood thinners (coumadin) and Lovenox shots to help thin the blood. Can i just say.. OUCH! Sam's stomach after that first week looked like a battlefield. I felt so bad for him! He was a trooper I must say, he ended up giving himself the shots not only once, but twice a day! So on the way home from the Dr's already stressed about the blood clot, and Jeep. We get a phone call of some people wanting to look at the Jeep. We were completely honest in saying it was in the shop, but we were getting it fixed. Once we found out it was just a sensor, we called them back and they drove all the way from Cedar City to look at it! After a drive.. they loved it! Took it home that night. I was COMPLETELY shocked and excited. Grateful for the timing because that left us with one car, Sam on bedrest/home from work for the next week. That next Friday we were on crunch time finding a vehicle. The Doc had given Sam the "okay" to walk around and do normal things, just not to "over do it." Sam went out looking for a vehicle. I had attempted several times during the week with my dad to look at some vehicles, with no luck. I must say, I am VERY proud of Sam, he found our new car for us! A 2006 Black Saturn VUE. LOVED it! I really wanted a 3rd row, but decided that where we are at in our lives now, one child.. why did we need it. I was just trying to plan for the future, but we love it!
Secondly Maddy Started pre-school!! I had called about a month back, and they said they were full. I was really bummed! Madilyn is extrememly smart for her age. (No I am not just saying that because I am her mom, she really really is!) I am amazed at the things she says and does at 3!! I really felt like she needed to be challenged. Well over Labor Day weekend, we were headed down for my cousin Sheri Ann's wedding, and I got a phone call from Jolene. They had an opening. I was so excited! Of course, so was Maddy. She get's to go to school like the other kids at her Daycare. Her first day was the best! I took a break from busy work, and dropped her off. She had the BIGGEST grin on her face when I said goodbye. It made me cry! I can't believe she is already old enough to be in preschool. Then in a short 2 years, she will be in school. It makes me incredibly sad!! She has had so much fun, and thanks to my mom for dropping her off and picking her back up again. (Thanks Mom you are the best!) I need to find a more permanet fix, but for now, it works. :]
Lastly.. well that is about it! We are just keeping busy between work, dance, church callings etc. Yes, we still have our house on the market.... gr! haha We now have lowered it to $165K. So if you know of anyone looking for a house, send them our way! I have been busy with painting the upstairs, and we finished the basement a few months back. (Pictures to come) Now all we have to do is wait, and put our trust in the Lord that he knows best. In the meantime Maddy keeps on saying "Mommy, I really really want a new house in Lehi by James and Chomper." and I keep on torchering myself by looking at all the cute homes for sale! Our new kick.. is building a new home with Salisbury homes. It would be awesome! *sigh* well all in due time. Right now, we are trying to enjoy life to the fullest. Being happy and content where we are. Our goal.. to be in a house by Christmas.. that would be the best gift! Sorry for this being so long and boring.. hopefully some new exciting things will happen in the next little bit!!