A Year & A Half..Already?

It has been quite crazy to me that we were married for a year but now a year and a half! Wow!

Its kind of hard to write how I have felt the last year and a half, just because it has been such an awesome time in my life!

Its crazy how happy someone can make you, how many times you can laugh with each other! Even when we have had bad days or bad weeks, we still can make each other find some happiness! I am so grateful for Kelly. He works so hard and has become so much happier since the couple months he has worked in Ogden.

I will admit that I have a list of things I would like to do better like cooking meals and being able to keep up on cleaning, laundry and organizing. But by the time I get home there is little I want to do besides cook some bagel bites and watch some Parks & Rec with Kelly!

Some of the things we have done in the last year & a half is:

Four wheeling
Camping
Spending time at my grandparents cabin
Double dating with all of our friends
California/Disneyland with my family
Watched multiple episodes of Parks & Rec
We love Netflix
Finished multiple projects in our house

A few of my favorite dates:
Get Air Trampoline Park
Movie Nights (at home, friends home of theaters)
BBQ parties with friends
Salt Lake City Creek

I am very happy that I have learned the things I have from Kelly, got to work side my side with him, talking with him, day dreaming with him and just being married to him for eternity! Okay sappy post is now over!

But look at him he's cute!

Vacation 1 Destination: Disneyland! Day 1

First off! California, California... HERE WE COME!

Sunday:

5 am comes way to early for me, considering I don't pull myself out of bed until 7:20 for work everyday! But we finally made it to California! Along the way we stopped in St. George at the temple and did a stroll around the Visitor Center, we met a elderly missionary from Sydney, Australia. He was very fun to talk to and I wanted to ask him if "42 Sydney Wallaby Way" really exists. Sadly, I didn't ask.

We stopped in Vegas for some lunch and then made the long trek after a potty break in Barstow, California to our condo. It was nice to finally get there!

Monday:

We got to the park before it opened so we got to wait around on Main Street for a few minutes before we could run into Fantasyland and did Peter Pan, Snow White, Pinnochio, Dumbo, Teacups, and the Matterhorn. Most of the rides we were able to walk on to or maybe a 15 minute wait. 

The walking began and the butterflies of riding rides came as well. Kelly & I stuck around with my family before we split off to ride bigger rides. I remember we did Space Mountain, Matterhorn, Teacups and Pirates of the Caribbean. I also went on Indiana Jones for the first time, I don't think I would of been so nervous if I wouldn't of been in line with my sisters and dad who were running their hands over me acting as if they were spiders and mice.

I definitely got "hangry" (hunger + anger = bad) I didn't have time to eat breakfast and we didn't take any Coke into the park, then once we finally ate we spent way to much money on eating a hamburger at the park.. it wasn't the best hamburger. Kelly fixed it though once I had some Coke in me!

We went over to Critter Country and did Winnie the Pooh with Kelsey & Curtis, I could tell Graham really knew the sounds of the voices & seemed pretty enthralled with it for being 11 months old. We also did Jungle Cruise which I had never done, it totally would be lame unless you get a good tour guide! We also did Space Mountain, can I just tell you how creepy that is when they change it to Halloween and the creepy skeleton hand looks like its going to touch you.. Although, it is probably one of my favorite rides, we did have a Fastpass for it!

Also I tried my first Dole Whip. It was something I had told everyone I was going to get, I had seen them on Pinterest. I needed to know if they were really all that everyone was saying. In fact, it totally was everything! Yummy! 

Pineapple Juice- Soft serve ice cream... I don't think there was anything better!

Marci, Landon, Kelsey, Curtis, Kelly, My dad & me all went on Indiana Jones (fastpass)...coolest thing ever. I had never been on it, I don't think I would of thought it was so scary if my sisters, dad & Kelly wouldn't been grabbing me and scaring me.


Haunted Mansion aka The Nightmare before Christmas in the fall time... is amazing! It was totally different inside. Its crazy how Disney does things, they changed it so much that I couldn't even remember what the Haunted Mansion looked like! Its funny how much longer the wait time is when its the Nightmare before Christmas than when its just the Haunted Mansion. But it was definitely worth the wait!

I thought it was interesting how I finally realized that you go underground for the ride... clueless to that two years ago.       

We also walked right onto Pirates of the Caribbean, it was towards the morning. I love how cool that ride is. The water totally makes it so cool, we also thought about eating at the Blue Bayou (the restaurant inside the ride). But we decided it wasn't worth it. We went to the Iron Man exhibit! Talk about cool! Corbin was sporting his Iron man Muscle suit the whole day. Inside there was a simulator where you virtually have a suit on you and have to practice shooting or flying inside the garage of Tony Stark's house. Corbin loved it... I loved it as well. They had real parts of suits that were actually used in the movies. Its crazy to see how much work and wires went into those suits. They also had full five suits to look at.


We went to dinner in Downtown Disney Napolini. It was so much more reasonably priced than the nasty hamburger we had for lunch! Plus, it was just us and my parents.. so much smoother and easier!
After, we met back up for our fast passes of Splash Mountain. It was about 80 degrees or so that day, it was hot compared to the cold weather in Utah. We were hoping to be able to go on before it was dark & well that didn't happen! I realize why that ride bugs me.. I don't mind getting wet but at night it is hard to tell when you are finally going to stop dropping plus they blind you with a flash.. so then you can see how ridiculous you look! Plus, I was wearing white... luckily I had a scarf! The girl behind us was laughing because I was so not happy once you get to the singing after you are drenched & of course Kelly made us be in the front! 


Everyone headed back to the condo while Kelly & I stayed for the last 2 hours. Kelly decided he wanted to do It's a Small World.. I know right! We waited a half hour & by the time the ride started Kelly said "Why are we doing this?" ...Exactly Mr. Nelson! It was fun to watch the kids on that ride and how there eyes light up & how they don't get annoyed by the repeating song. 

We walked through some shops & then walked back to the Condo where everyone was fast asleep.. its like we played all day or something!
We watched some Parks & Rec on my iPad and then off to bed to get up bright and early for California Adventure!

Hello October!

Its here! Remember that Green Day song "Wake me up when September ends"? Yeah, its never really been one of my favorites but I now know how it rings true! September has felt sooooo.... long! It's been a good month, its crazy how busy life stays! I was looking on my phone, it will tell me if I have anything for the upcoming hour or days! It says I have nothing, I am wondering if I should start following what it says?! I don't want to put in everything I actually have to do..but, dreaming of having a break would be wonderful.

Oh wait, it's October 1st. That means one thing and one thing only! Disneyland is in 5 days!!! AH....
Also, that means we will be going to Moab & New Mexico/Arizona this month! Its going to be an insane month of driving, laughing, vacationing. I decided our summer vacations are really this month! I filled out my time card for the month and realized I will only be working 13 days in October! Nuts! But, I am excited and well due for some time away from home!

Although, with all the vacationing coming on I can barely stand the fact of getting everything packed, cleaned and actually leaving. Plus, then coming home from the vacation and doing all the laundry! So if I start posting in December about all the vacations in October, I at least told you where I would be!

This past weekend we went to the Malad derby.. lets just say its pretty ghetto but Kelly's friends were competing. It was fun for me because I got to talk to Janae! We laughed and watched as the boys were crazy..

With it now being fall and the weather is changing so I can wear boots and warm clothes it makes me happy, and the fact that I can regularly drink Maverik Hot Chocolate gives me a perma smile! The only downfall with the cold is that the AC is off and we have turned on the gas for the winter. My hands are starting to dry and crack...boo! And if it wasn't hard enough to get out of bed and get ready for work its even harder now because my bed seems ten times more comfy!

I am sad we won't be home a whole lot because it means I don't get to enjoy all my Halloween decorations in my house. Like our blow up pumpkin ghost & all the fun and spookiness of this season!


Kelly was modeling these foam Halloween hats at Target!

By the way I bought these pants in Springville a couple weekends ago! I just love them! Don't you?

School Back in Session, A Time Capsule & Labor Day 2013

So, school is officially back in & that means I am back to work! Its crazy how fast summer flew by! I loved waking up around 10am and being in sweats instead of now waking up and getting ready for work! I do like having something to do during the day but, I am sure that I will start to get sick of never being home this year!

We have more kids in Resource this year and have a few others that I am sure will be tested in soon! The new kids are adorable and fun to be around! I even was happy to see some of the kids from last year! Although, I know its just the "honeymoon stage" we use that term quite often, especially with the new kids we know that have had behavior issues. The honeymoon stage gives a few weeks until we will see the real them! It will be a interesting year, one thing I do like about resource every day is a new day and new things happen all the time!

These are pictures from our classroom this year! Its a Dr.Seuss Theme!

Dance has also started up, its going to be a busy season! Oh wait when isn't it? We are doing a "Boys of Broadway" theme for our production/novelty dance. I think the girls are excited about it and so am I. Alexa, Lisa and me have come up with some cool ideas for it, its just teaching it and putting it all together! This year I will have more hours at the studio which I am excited to do! I didn't get to be with our oldest girls last year and this year I will be! I don't know if I will teach them much but, it will be fun to watch them! I really do love teaching dance, at first it was a big transition to get use to. But, now I think I have got it down. I hope that I will be able to be prepared and have new ideas flow throughout the year!

Kelly is enjoying his job at Questar! In fact, even better news to announce he worked for one week and by the second week they bumped him up to his first promotion! So we are back to being a Senior Utility worker! Yay! He likes his new boss a lot and I think his boss has made him work really hard to prove just to see how hard Kelly will work! Which, it didn't take him long to know that he constantly works! Kelly has been in Vernal this week doing some work there. I think he likes doing all the little trips but I do miss not seeing him everyday and having to run the house by myself!

Nala has finally got her second rabies shot and a bordetella shot for when we leave to Disneyland next month. My mom was so nice and took her in to get her shots done. I guess some clerks thought she was a puppy still, which isn't too shocking because she's nothing close to what a Boxer normally is being almost 2 years old. She yelped at the rabies shot, my mom felt bad for her which I am sure I would of as well. They tried giving her the second shot in oral form, I guess she pulled a funny face and spit most of it out. The vet said out of all the times he's given that shot he had never seen such a funny face! I wish I would of been there! Since my mom had Stuart and Nala there neither of them took any treats from the vet which makes me laugh because Nala has the same treats at home!
I do love Nala, she is a lot of work and time. Especially when we are leaving for a weekend and need someone to watch her. I am thankful for Kelly's parents who have watched her multiple times along with Kelly's brothers who have as well!

For Labor Day weekend we went to the cabin. It was the first time we didn't work!!! Yay. Okay, I mean Kelly & my dad didn't work! I enjoyed being around Marci and her kids, they make me happy & are just to dang cute! On Sunday we went to the Mountain Man Rendezvous with our friends Steve & Janae Moss, Dan & Carli Weller and Janae's sister. It was definitely a man thing, at first it was really cool to see all the tents set up for things mountain men would of used but after seeing about 85 tents and they were all close to the same thing! There was some guys walking around in loin cloths.. with their bums completely naked and they weren't young kids whatsoever. I kept thinking I would run into some relatives since every time I have been around my dad's family they remind me of mountain men. We took Nala to the Rendezvous as well, I am shocked at how well she did considering she's not on a leash much. Tons of people came up to pet her and ask about how old she is, they were shocked when I said she was almost 2. Lets just say she isn't anything close to normal boxer's. Which I love that she is smaller, its nice for the fact she sleeps with us and can stay in the house because of her midget-ness. :)

I love taking naps at the cabin, I know Kelly thinks its annoying but I swear you sleep better in the mountains! Plus you eat so much I don't know how he likes to go hiking, fishing and fourwheeling. He is a funny adventurous guy for sure! I am glad he is patient with me when I am cranky and not happy!

For young woman's this week the girls made "time capsules". It was so fun to see what they put in their cans. They had what colors they want their wedding to be, what their dress will be like, pictures they want with their husbands also things for their kids like future room colors to names. Letters to their future husband and to themselves. Our Young Woman's President made them handkerchief for the temple that they also put in their can. We also had a lady make a vinyl cut out of the Salt Lake Temple to put on the outside. It was fun to see the girls dream of their own futures and be so happy and carefree!
Although, throughout the night I couldn't help but think that I had made one of these "time capsules" when I was in YW's. I decided I would look through some stuff when I got home just to see. I have a couple boxes full of childhood clothes and blankets. I pulled a few things out of the box and saw a can that said: "Don't open until wedding day!" "Made on October 24 2007" ...I started to laugh and be giddy that I had one! I would of been a Miamaid (coincidence that I am an advisor now?!) so 16 years old. Kelly would of been home from his mission for a year...(quite the age difference right?!) Since Kelly is gone to Vernal, I called him and told him what I had found. He told me to open it and tell him what was in it. I was shocked at the things I wrote to myself and that I had my first tap shoe and a jazz dance shoe in the can with pictures of me and the miamaids in my class. The coolest thing about the time capsule was the note that my mom wrote to me and the one I wrote for my future husband. Kelly wanted me to read the letter I wrote to him on the phone but I knew I couldn't make it through it without crying. But I can promise you everything I wrote to him is completely true, he is everything I dreamed of at 16 years old! (creepy I know!)

It was fun to reminisce back to when I was a Miamaid myself and how my mentality was and the love I had for my family, friends and dance. After opening my own I got even more excited for when my young woman will open their own time capsules! I wish I would of remembered I had mine when we got married but being almost a year & a half late isn't too bad right?!

Fall is on it's way and I can't be more excited to wear sweaters and to be cold instead of dripping in sweat mostly all the time. This summer has been the hottest ever, its broke every record. I would just love for it to be in the 70's everyday instead of high 90's!

Come on fall!!

The Final Answer.

31 days ago Kelly interviewed for a opening at the Ogden Questar Operations. As I said earlier he felt like he did really well with the interview & felt great about it, but that lasted about a week or two until you start to question everything. We were then notified that they wouldn't be able to take him straight across because of funds, at that point 3 out of the 6 guys who were interviewed pulled their names. Kelly didn't second guess himself to keep his name in, I know he "ran the numbers" like he always does but, I think secretly he felt confident about himself. Other than it being a pay cut it also would drop him from being a Rep. 3 down to a Utility Worker. (which is what you are when you are first hired) Although that is a set back in those to ways, instead of driving 36 miles to Salt Lake it would be 6 miles from our house.

I think that was the biggest thing that made us okay with the change in position & money is we knew if he got the job things would work out for the best! After knowing what could take place, Kelly received a couple emails about his application, he had forgot to check that he had a current drivers license. Which at that point it had been almost 3 weeks since he interviewed. I instantly thought, they wouldn't have him go back and check that he did if they weren't seriously considering him.. then we waited some more & heard they had to get it approved from the Vice President of the company & still had to meet with the people who interviewed to decide..

In all reality every day felt a little worse for not knowing, we had started talking about looking at other companies & jobs. I think Kelly got annoyed by me calling him at work and always asking if he had heard anything.

Although on Tuesday July 23, 2013 he found out about 15 minutes before work was out he found out..........HE GOT THE JOB IN OGDEN! As he called me Tuesday on his way home like he typically does, I didn't even think to ask him if anything was said. All I remember him saying when I answered was "Hello Pretty Girl, Guess what?" I replied, "What up?" ... He then shouted "Ogden called and... We're going to OGDEN!" .. I instantly stood up and started screaming and jumping! It was such good news to here & dreams were coming true!

I honestly think I have been a little more excited about the whole thing for several reasons because I knew that he would be close to home. He wouldn't have weird shifts anymore, he wouldn't have so much drive time everyday & we could go to Salt Lake without him hating it as bad, and there would be less meters he would point out to me that he's worked on! I think I instantly started dreaming of having him closer when we decide to have our own children, but also knowing that if I ran into a problem with my car or even just going to lunch with him on a Friday. Or just the joy of driving by Questar trucks by our house & having it be a possibility of it being him!

Its funny how life changes when its suppose to, Kelly interviewed a few months for Ogden before we were married & didn't get the job. I guess we were suppose to stay in Salt Lake for that time, maybe it was to teach me to not be as clingy. Now, Heavenly Father is totally blessing us with something that means a lot more than the fact that we will have a few more sacrifices, although for some reason neither of us are very scared for the pay cut, I think that is because we kind of felt that if we paid our tithing & lived as best as we could, that things ALWAYS work out! We are so BLESSED! I am so grateful that we have a different view of life & that we can stay positive about things.

I keep dreaming that with all the time he will save driving home every day will make the kitchen change faster, light fixtures will change & maybe some more paint on some walls... but, the best thing will be having him home more! I think he will create great friends & have better opportunity's  in the long run.

\I still have my job at Sunset Elementary & Dance Image.Which I should maybe get a few more hours at the school this next year & a few hours at the studio! Kelly has done amazing at Skid Steer work this summer & I am sure it will continue to happen! Plus, with Ogden he will be "on call" every 6 weeks & he will have some more time to go work in Moab! Also, from the sound of it they told Kelly there won't be much of any wait period to get him back to a Rep. 3!

He should be starting around August 15th! ...The countdown begins.

This picture of me was taken Summer 2011 after I had first met Kelly. Some of my friends and me were riding in his car to go dumpster diving in Layton, I don't remember what we were wanting. I was in the back & there was this hat. I put it on & someone took my picture. I never thought then that I would know care as much as I do about Kelly's job & let alone OUR life. YAY Questar.

This picture of Kelly was taken before we were married I believe. I think he was just getting home from work! Lets be honest who wouldn't like this cute boy working on their meter & appliances. He definitely makes the uniform look pretty good considering he is in jeans and a Questar tshirt 95% of the time! I Love him!

Becky Smart... "Though she be but little, she is FIERCE!"

Becky Smart was a beautiful, smart, crazy, lovable, funny, kind, compassionate, adorable..Alright, just think of any amazing adjective work and I am sure it would describe her!With that being stated of course living with her was awesome. She loved Johnny Depp, her cat, and playing pranks on us, she also had a great taste in music and movies, she played basketball a lot with Markell & Dani! Becky also attracted the guys I remember being jealous of how she was with guys all the time, it was probably because she would NEVER go anywhere without being completely ready! (Unlike myself I didn't get ready for many classes in college.) I absolutely love her! I only got a semester with her but I learned more from her than I think she ever knew!

A few memories of her, I remember her mom sent a package down for Halloween that had a clown in the box, Becky would hide it around the apartment and hang it from the ceiling, it was beyond creepy! I didn't know this but when she was little she hated clowns and her grandma made the clown, she still hated it so she would hide it for her mom to find and then her mom would hide it once she found it! I thought it was so interesting she was doing the same thing at our apartment. Becky graduated from Snow this year she had hid it once she got home and her mom has yet to find it at her funeral her mom said that Becky will get the last laugh! She had a contagious laugh and a gorgeous smile!

I remember having a late night craving for brownies so Becky, Cassey and me stayed up to make a pan and then eat them all, I remember talking with them about boys at school and the snow ball fight we recently had with some neighboring boys! I remember learning a lot about her that night and thinking to myself about how I was recently getting engaged and praying that my roommates would find someone that made them extremely happy just because Becky always made me so extremely happy!

We would make animal sounds to each other & joke about each others wedding night, I don't know why that came along but it just did. I remember going on drives with all of us roommates for the Late Night Denny Runs, I remember wondering how Becky always was so skinny because that girl could totally pack in a lot of food! I was always jealous of how cool her name was mainly because of her license plate was "B SMART" I mean that is freaking awesome, tells you how easily entertained I was!

Becky was little when her father passed away from Colon cancer, I don't remember her talking much about him; but a few months ago she started asking her siblings and mom about how her dad was and memories of him almost as if she was forgetting about who he was and was trying to remember him. It's safe to say she is now with him! I think that was the most calming thing of the shock of her death was knowing she woke up not only with Heavenly Father but with her dad as well!

Becky had the cutest boyfriend, I never met him but I was looking forward to when I would see she was engaged because they were one of those couples that you love to watch. Cody was with her the night she died, he wrote on his facebook: "I sent an angel to bed with a smile on her face. She woke up in her fathers arms. I'll never be the same and will miss her like crazy. I know you'll always be watching over me just like your dad has done for you. I love you Becky Smart!" Absolutely made me love him, he had some amazing stories of her and how they had decided on wedding colors and were going to look for a ring the weekend she died, instead he picked everything out for her funeral and did it in the colors they picked! 

He shared how one Sunday he wanted to skip church to go rock climbing and was trying to get Becky to go with him and she told him no! She gave him approval to go with a friend, after church they were sitting down and he was telling her about rock climbing and he could tell she was upset & he said why are you mad at me you gave me permission! She responded; "Cody I want to know if you are going to be the type of guy who will put his Priesthood responsibilities aside for your own hobby's and joys, because if you are I will not marry you!" I absolutely loved hearing that, it reminded me of Elaine S. Dalton's talk this past General Conference... "Not only did she know who she was, she knew WHOSE she was!" 
Becky was a Daughter of God and she didn't ever falter on her choices and wasn't going to take anything less than what she knew she deserved! I loved learning more about someone who I loved! 

They still aren't sure what caused her death the autopsy came back negative for a stroke, blood clot, heart issues or drugs.. I instantly thought that sometimes when Heavenly Father wants you he won't make you suffer, I can't imagine how peaceful it must have been for her to meet those waiting for her on the other side!


To end the funeral her cute boyfriend/fiance Cody drove her to the final resting place in the back of his truck! I thought it was so cute and heart warming! I absolutely love everything that he was to Becky! I am sure Becky has told her dad everything about Cody & even though I don't know him I am sure he approves of Cody!

Another little thing about her, the family got approval 6 days after she died to go to the Draper Temple and do her Endowments! I loved knowing she was completely where she needed to be and in the most perfect state, as hard as it was to hear she had passed on, I was so comforted that she was where she needs to be & I can't wait to embrace her tight "Becky hug's"... no one I have ever met gives a hug like she did! I love you Becky, thanks for teaching me so much about life & being the example you were to everyone around you! 

Lucky for me I have a picture to cherish of hugging Becky.. sadly it was the day I moved out of the apartment and one of the last times I saw her but luckily I will never forget her impact on me! :) LOVE YOU BECK!

( I could go on for hours about this girl! )

Summer Vacations!

Welp, I at least feel a little bit better about how I have been a slacker on posting because we have been pretty busy throughout June & July!

Some of the things we have done this summer: Bear Lake with Kelly's Family, Fourth Of July parade & Demolition Derby with The Weller's, Drive in movie, Projects around the house, Yard work, BBQ's with family, Kelsey being here for the month of June, CT scans for Kelly, Dance recitals & auditions for the 2013-2014 team, Youth Conference, Organizing & Cleaning out rooms, Kelly's applied for a job in Ogden (Questar), I spent time with some friends from college as well! ...busy summer!

Now that you read the paragraph above you can either quit reading or let me babble on about it...

Kelly's family has always had a tradition of going to Bear Lake, his brother in law Chris grew up in Laketown & his parents have a lakehouse their with a private beach! We went last year and weren't sure if we would be able to go again because they were going to sale the house but we were in luck and they still have it! We spent a weekend up there with some of his family, we hiked to Bloomington Lake on Friday & got shakes, once we finally made it to the house it was starting to rain so we couldn't go out and play. Plus we were beat! Saturday we spent the whole day at the lake, I was smarter this year and wore sunscreen! I hardly got burnt although I was hoping to still get some color it didn't happen. We went out on the sailboat that Andrew has.. only bad thing is you need wind we were stranded for a good hour in the middle of the lake because the wind instantly stopped! Although it was still fun and calming. I love having such a good second family, they are so fun to be around and are very welcoming! I absolutely love our niece's and nephews, sometimes they will never leave me because I guess I am the "cool aunt" and other times they just will play with themselves.

Kelly had some time off for the 4th of July we hung out with our friends Dan & Carli, I love these two. I wonder why we have such great families and then how we can have even better friends! We went to the Kaysville parade & to the Hot Rockin' Fourth Demolition Derby. Let me just say, I am not a fan of  watching parades its insane to me that kids & adults fight for a piece of Salt Water Taffy or a Frisbee. I guess I haven't had to experience watching a normal city parade because I grew up in Hooper where you knew everyone & well its like a 15 minute parade max. plus I am use to always being in the parade. We didn't do any parades for the Studio this year, it was kind of nice but I do enjoy being with my dance girls.
The derby was fun but it was HOT!!! I am not a fan of the crashing cars at least to the point when someone gets carried out on a stretcher, I kept telling Kelly we can go to these but he's not doing one, luckily he got it out of his system before we were married, he swears he didn't like being in it, so he can be part of a
pit crew! While we were at the parade I ran into Markell Anderson, my roommate from Snow! Wow, I have missed her! She was with her family sitting close to us, I kept seeing her dad but wasn't sure if it was them, it didn't seem like an event they would go to, I was wrong they have gone every year and they bet on the cars. I talked with her for a good portion of the night! It was Kelly's second time being around her which was odd because I feel like they know each other pretty dang good!

Is it bad but I cringe at these two words YARD WORK. I don't know why but I am not a fan of it, maybe because of my dad and his way of always making me help and mow his yard! I sometimes make Kelly bribe me so I will mow the lawn or help with weeds. Our house is already landscaped quite well thanks to the people who lived here before that had a landscape business, I have always wanted to change some plants and add some others but I realize that won't happen until I become an avid lover of working out there. Kelly has fixed multiple sprinkler valves and does a big portion of making everything stay nice! Thank goodness! We also bought new patio chairs from Target that I kind of was whining for, we got a Pink, blue, orange & Green one! Now we are going to spray paint the table we have to make it look even cuter and to match the umbrella Kelly bought me last summer!

Since its summer and I only have dance a few mornings & no school Kelly has been nice and started some projects inside the house...he says I have a list of things... well what girl doesn't? He has a list of stuff he wants outside! But we have almost finished our railing & banister he sanded it a while ago but we finally have got around to painting it grey & white. Its taken some getting used to and some serious time between the prep work to the coats of paint and then the clear coat! It makes our walls look grey and it makes me happy to have it look more modern than the oak look! Krystal (Kelly's sister) is a thrifty person and almost every other sunday we have to stop at her house so I can see the projects she is working on, she sprayed paint some lights for her kitchen in bright blue! I loved them & so it made me want to spray paint our light in our entry way, Kelly finally had the time to take it down and paint it for me.. it is now RED! Crazy how much a light thats bronze and ugly before can look so different after a 3 dollar can of spray paint and well I had to get new light covers as well but I love it! I now have been on a kick of painting my bathroom in the hallway, at one point I wanted mint or coral and now its red; I don't know if it will ever happen but I can cross my fingers right? I also have wanted to paint the wall behind the TV in the family room and of course one day we will tear into the kitchen... I dream about granite counter tops and bead board... what is wrong with me?

We have been married almost 15 months and is it bad that I am finally organizing a couple of the rooms, I will admit it is horrible but I have been in a big mood of throwing everything I haven't touched in 6 months away, I have successfully made the craft room not look like an atomic glitter bomb anymore & I finally bought some hangers so I could get my hoodies out of a storage box & I finally moved some of my childhood things down to the basement! Kelly has been shocked I think that I have gone through so many things this summer & I can tell because he doesn't shut the doors as much to the two rooms! I like having it organized I hope I learn how to keep it that way when I go back to work in August.

I have been busy with dance... oh wait when am I not busy with it or coming up with something to teach... yup, NEVER! But, we had the recital for my competition teams and well us Alumni girls as well.. I can be totally honest I was a little nervous its been over a year since I have performed, but once I did it I loved it! We did a lyrical, tap, jazz & hip hop. I remember being on the comp team and watching alumni and thinking that I wanted to be on it one day...its funny how those dreams come true and that I now know my left from right! haha. I was very happy at how my girls did in the lyricals that I taught them a few weeks before the recital, they did awesome... I love lyrical, when a slow song comes on the radio Kelly will look at me and ask if I want to get it for a lyrical next year! The best part of the recital was that me and Alexa did a duet to This Woman's Work by Greg Laswell, we have wanted to come up with one for over a year and never had time so about a week before the recital we met up twice and had the whole dance done, I think some of our girls were shocked that we did it in two practices & I can't lie I was shocked myself that I remembered it for the most part.

The last week of June their was a job opening in Ogden for Questar that Kelly applied for their was 6 guys that put in for it and then it dwindled down to 3 once some things were said about how it would be a pay cut for 5 of the guys! Kelly left his name in, we figured things out and believe that it will work out with how much skid steer jobs he has had, with my coaching and me going back to aide at the school in the fall! Its funny how I feel like that's a blessing because we've paid our tithing! Kelly felt way good about his interview and was pumped up about it he has interviewed for Ogden a couple of times, its hard to get there even though its the same company because Salt Lake doesn't like guys leaving; they have sure taken their sweet time at deciding what guy they want, we know they have met several times to talk about those who applied! We haven't heard anything yet but sure hoping we hear something this week!
I would love if Kelly got into Ogden, it would be a 10 minute drive from our house instead of the 2 hours he spends every day working in SLC. He would get better hours and not have weird shifts & have a lot of on call/ overtime! I would love it, and I know he would too, I think it would be the cherry on top of a long awaited ice cream cone!

In August my mom & me spent time down in Springville babysitting Marci's kids while Landon & her went to Kansas! It was a fun time but boy were we tired! We went swimming one day after Aria & Corbin had swim lessons, that wore them right out! We were happy because that meant we got a nap time as well! Although, the funny part of this vacation is neither my mom or me packed a swimsuit, so we had to go shopping for one with three kids! It wasn't necessarily cheap because we just went to Dillards but I at least walked away with a swimsuit I liked (plus, Princess Aria approved of it)! Aria definitely has some sassy attitude, she knew how to run the house while we were there! We went to Macey's to get some grocery's for Marci when they got back. I had Siri telling us where to go but Aria insisted I turn that lady off and let her give us directions! Aria got us there all by herself! As we walked into Macey's she told us we couldn't get anything until we got an ice cream cone first. But being the sly older child she told us Corbin gets the tiny one and she gets a big one.. Corbin balled once he realized Aria had a bigger one, but once I shared mine he was fine!

Kelly had a CT scan done on his neck and brain... come to find out nothing is wrong and the neurologist said he doesn't need to see him anymore unless his headaches get worse... I can't say we were happy about that appointment because we are even more lost on what to do now, especially after spending the money on all we did to get nowhere. The good news is Kelly has felt like his headaches aren't as bad & he thinks clearer..which makes me happy. He is wanting to go see his ENT to see if he thinks there is anything on the scans. I also bought Doterra Oils for headaches, Kelly didn't really want me to but I figured we might as well try what we can.. he hasn't had serious enough aches to use them on although it helped when he hurt his back picking up a sledgehammer at work, my mom has also used them on her hips to get sleep at night!

Kelsey came to visit for a weekend in August! We met Marci at Scheels and went to a Mexican restaurant plus Ikea! Man, I love that store its a good thing it isn't that close to me! Max & Graham are so cute, and that proud grandpa! It was a fun day! Plus we were all together for national sibling day!

Okay, this is dragging on longer than I thought it would... too much is coming to my brain..


I also got to do lunch with Kenzie Butler after Becky's funeral...It was fun to talk to one of my best friends.. I miss her and wish I lived closer to her!

Keli Riley also came to my house & we talked about married life and laughed and laughed and laughed at pictures she had from college, man I was a little poop! We had to much fun! She wasn't sure if she had found my house and then she pulled in and saw the Ephraim sign hanging in our garage and she said "She knew she was HOME" ... not very many people have that in their garage! :) I love her! I was so blessed to have the roommates I did & to be able to have them as great friends, if only I could relive the college memories and soak them up more than I did!

Here are some pictures throughout the summer:

 

...well, I think that is all I have for this novel if you read this whole thing give yourself a pat on the back! :)