Happy New Year!!

First I just want to wish every one a happy New Year! I hope everything went well for everyone this past year and i hope all goes good in 2009! Now for the update on New Years Eve Brandon is getting a Cornea transplant. I don’t know a lot about it (other than the pamphlets the doctors have given us and what I have googled) and we are a little nervous. I was wondering if anyone knows someone who has had this procedure, and just wanted to know a little bit about what it was like and if they are happy with the results. Please let me know because the pictures I googled kind of freaked me out!

The Last of my Christmas Craftiness

I came up with the idea of a memory christmas tree skirt. It doesnt look like much now, but i am going to quilt a bunch of squares onto the white part of the skirt, and then each year i am going to iron on a picture of us christmas morning. So by the time i am 50 years old the idea is that it will be covered with pictures of every christmas morning that we have ever had together and the we can look at how much we have changed each year. I think it is a fun way to put memories on something that i will have forever. I hope it turns out, and that i keep up on it!

Okay here is the picture of our stockings i made, I messed up on the letters a little bit so i just covered the paint with glitter and it looks so good! I am learning to sew, and this was my first thing i tried. Not too bad!

This post if for Rachel, this is how my "JOY" turned out. I didn't put the leaves or the bells on because i didn't have glue, and i was afraid it would look cheesy. I thought it turned out cute, although i could not find the gel stain you were talking about and the workers at Michael's looked at me like i was crazy when i asked for it. So i ended up using an antiquing stain (I think it was the same thing, but it made the white parts on the "O" a little to dark so I had to re-paint it). Anyways love ya! Thanks for your help!

I Love Christmas!!!

We bought a real Christmas tree! We figured since we live in a log cabin, we should do the real thing. I am so glad we did it turned out great and smells so yummy! It is kind of a pain to have to water it every day though! I have also gotten very crafty! I made a bunch of the ornaments on the tree and the bow at the top (thanks to Rachel for helping me pick out the ribbon and stuff!). I also decided to make my own Christmas trees skirt(which is not the cheaper route to go). It is not done yet but i will put pictures up as soon as I'm done! Then I made us stockings and I am stenciling our names on them.

The Worst Week Ever!!!

WTF, I have had the worst week ever! Or I guess I can say the “crappiest” week ever (literally)!
I will start at the beginning…….Starting two weeks ago, there was a funky smell in my house. I cleaned the whole house from top to bottom, but still could smell the smell. The next step was blaming the smell on my two dogs (our boxer, and our 12 year old dog buddy who really does stink, so it was valid) so the dogs got bathed, the carpets got shampooed; we cleaned the dog beds and even the couches.
The smell was still there! But now it was getting worse! We continually cleaned the house for about a week searching for the source of the smell .Then last Sunday the 16th I was on a mission to track it down, the smell that had now turned into a poop smell!
Finally Sunday in the middle of the day I realized the smell was coming from our crawl space ( we do not have a basement, and there is basically a 4 foot space under our whole house that has dirt floors, and is where our water heater and furnace is, I know it sounds creepy, but hey we live for free!) . So once I decided that it was for sure coming from down in the creepy hole, I called Brandon and told him we must have a dead animal or something down there and that when he gets home from work he would need to check it out (because there was no way in hell that I was going to go down there).
So, he gets home at about 10:30pm and gets down in the crawl space. First let me just tell you when he opened the door to go down there, it was the worst smell that I have ever smelt, kind of like those nasty bathrooms up in the canyon when you go camping, but worse! As he was down in the hole looking around, and standing in what we thought was mud because it was all wet down there. We realized the smell was our crap, literally and Brandon was standing in it! We started freaking out and called our boss to tell him what was going on, and he assured us that this would get fixed and everything would be taken care of. The smell was so bad we had to have an emergency hazmat crew come clean it out!
Now, to update you one week and one day later, the smell is gone (well kind of) and we still cannot use our plumbing! Meaning no cooking, because we can’t wash the dishes (so take out is what we eat) If I want to shower I have to run next door or go over to my parents house (so I have gone without showers some days). And if I have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, too bad I hold it! My bladder is going to have major problems!
The plumber told me today that we should be able to have plumbing by tomorrow, but he is not sure where the problem is coming from yet. I am not a plumber so I just say “okay” but I am really thinking WTF, tomorrow, I have not had a nice shower or a relaxing bath for a week! But there is nothing I can do! I now personally despise plumbers! At least the company I am working with, they have just avoided us, lied and have really done nothing until today!
So that is the end of my crappy story (as of today) and I just wanted to vent for a bit and let everyone know that if they think there week has been shitty, I'm sure mine has been worse!
Sorry about the novel I just wrote, but there was really no other way to explain it without explaining it all!!

Oh my, October flew by!

Well I am so sad October is over! Our month was pretty packed and toward the end of it it got even more hectic! The day before Halloween Brandon had to get surgery, so needless to say we did not do much of anything on Halloween. So i made the best of it and got a bunch of scary movies, and bought a ton of candy to hand out to trick-or-treaters. Well we didn't watch one movie, Brand just wanted to sleep. And we did not get one trick-or-treater. I was so bumbed out! So i don't have any pictures of Halloween, and i am stuck with a crap load of candy! Here is a picture of Brandon right before his surgery, the doctor thought a was a little crazy ( but i think i was just capturing a memory). Oh and he would not smile, so that is why is making that face. I guess he agreed with the doctor (I'm a little crazy).

Here are the pumpkin's we carved, I carved the witch and Brandon Carved the Werewolf and the Dracula. He stayed up till 1am the night before his surgery to finish them. He was very proud of himself. I think they turned out pretty good considering he drew the pictures on the pumpkins by hand (i did not know the kid was artistic at all).

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My Hubby!!

So for my 25th birthday, Brandon took me on a surprise weekend. He made me breakfast and then told me to pack a bag for overnight. He took me for a drive to park city and we went to the Canyons resort. I figured we were just checking in, but he didn't take me to the front desk. Instead we went to the day spa inside the hotel and he got us a couples retreat spa day! It was sooo much fun! They gave us robes and flip flops and we just relaxed in the sauna and steam rooms until it was time for our appointment. Once it was time, they took us to a room where there was a huge bathtub full with water and bubbles and candles lit all over, and two massage tables. We took a romantic bathtub and then we got couples massages. It was so much fun! Then after our massages we checked into the hotel and ordered room service. The next day he took me shopping, and out to a nice dinner. I was so surprised (which, never happens because I am a snoop) and it reminded me how lucky I am to have him.

Spiders!!

So on my birthday, we found a big white and orange spider hanging outside of our front door it's body was at least the size of a quarter and with it's legs spread out it was huge! Brandon hates spiders and I told him to leave it alone because I had looked it up and it was not poisonous, but before I knew it he had sprayed it with hornet killer and killed it. When I looked it up online it also said there should be a Female spider near by, but we couldn't find one. Well two days ago I opened our front door and on the bottom of the door jam I found this spider. This is the female (I think) and I caught it and took pictures next to a quarter so you will belive me. This one is half the size of the first one! Its a little freaky (its called an Orb Weaver, and they are not poisonous).

Where Were My Real Friends?

Okay, I was watching What Not To Wear one day the the girl that was being made over had a totally cute hair cut! She had the same round chubby face that I have so I thought I could pull it off! I cut about 3 inches off (I think, Maybe it seems like more that it was) and also decided to do bangs!!! What the hell! Where were my friends when i needed someone to tell me NO! This was not a good idea and I have been pretty much pinning them back ever since. They were too short to sweep to the side and they made my face look even more round than it was before (if that is even possible!) Today was a bad bang day so I decided I would complain about it to you! Here is the cutest picture I have of me with them, so just know it is totally worse that it looks! Never again!!!

Its Been So Long!!

Well, I am not very good at this whole blogging thing but I am going to really try . It seems like a lot has been going on but I don't know where to start. So here it goes... At the beginning of the summer Brandon and I took a road trip to San Diego with my sister and her husband. We went to the beach, Sea World, San Diego Zoo, Wild Life Adventure Park (which by the way is way over rated and I would definitely not take your kids if you have any! Too much walking for a vacation if ya ask me!) and we also went to a couple Padres Baseball games! It was a lot of fun and I cant wait to go again!

Snorkeling!

I saw this picture of us snorkeling and it made me Laugh! This was right after we went sky diving, we stopped on North Shore for some shaved Ice and we found a little cove to go snorkeling...and Brandon was totally afraid of it! he kept freaking out saying he was going to drown, and i couldn't stop laughing because we had just finished jumping out of an airplane and he though that was fun, but snorkeling scared the crap out of him! He finally got the hang of it and we spent hours out in that cove!

Honeymoon!!

We went on our honeymoon to Hawaii, and it was soooo much fun! I cant believe how beautiful it is there! I have never been somewhere like that and I have to say i didn't want to leave. We were there for about two weeks and while we were there we went snorkeling, Site seeing and................. Skydiving!! It was Crazy and I totally planned it as a surprise for Brandon (I don't know if i would dare to do it again, but it was so much fun!) and he had a blast!

About Us

Brandon & I have been together for almost 8 years! We got married on our 7 year anniversary (March 17, 2007), and our wedding was the best day ever! Brandon is currently a Police officer for West Valley City and he loves every minute of it (and I have to say he looks dang cute in his little uniform)! I am going to school full time (finally) and I am looking forward to finishing. We live in a house in Lehi, and have one dog Izzy, and she is very spoiled. We love to travel and try new things.