Story Time

So I am leaving for Disneyland in 2 hours!!

I am so freaking excited.

But before I go I just HAD to share a story that happened this morning. 

Kenzie's truck has been in the shop for 3 and a half months. It has been the longest 3 and a half months ever.. for both of us. For one thing, if you know Mackenzie and his friends, you know that their worlds revolve around their Cummins'. From day one, I have known that he was literally obsessed with trucks. It took us about 2 years to finally be able to buy him his Cummins and I have never seen anyone take better care of anything! Haha, it's his "white lady." So it has been killing him to not have it. And for another thing, carpooling sucks! We have been having to take each other everywhere we need to go everyday. UGH. So finally the other day the mechanic guy calls Mackenzie and tells him that it's finally finished. YES. Just bring in $2,000 and we're good to go. WHAT!?!?! Two thousand dollars! Who has that kind of extra money for a truck repair? So before I completely freaked out and put Mackenzie in the ground, we decided to talk to the guy about making some sort of payment plan. Doesn't everyone around here do that? I thought so. Nope, not this guy. He tells us that we're going to have to bring his $2,000 before we can take our truck. I though Kenzie was going to start crying. There's no way we can pay that this month, which means it would be AT LEAST another month before he could get his "white lady" back. AND that would mean at least another month that I have to chauffer him everywhere. When I got home last night Kenzie said he didn't even want to talk about it :(

Don't worry, I'm not going to ruin your day with our sob story. Here's where it gets good. This morning (after I woke up, came out to Wales to pick up Kenzie and took him to Fountain Green to his other job!) he texts me and tells me that his boss at Lighthouse, Paul, is going to pay for his truck. Paul was asking about it and Mackenzie told him what happened so he told him he would pay for it and whenever we have the money we can pay him back. He said he hates seeing Mackenzie without his vehicle. Who does that?! Mackenzie is so lucky to work for someone like that. It was a major eye opener for us that we have some amazing people in our lives and it also made us want to be those people who can help someone out like that. We are so thankful to Paul for doing this for us and we are so thankful for the people in our lives who are genuinely there for us. We are very blessed, no doubt about it!




Now, if you don't mind, I'm going on vacation!! ;)

A Good Weekend Gone, A GREAT Week to Come!

What a fun weekend we had!

On Friday night we went and watched Tyler Lee fight at UVU. It was a lot of fun, even though he didn't win :( There were SO many of us good old Sanpeters there! So after the fights were over, we all hit up the Madison.... again! It was fun as always!

PS: My hair is dark!

On Saturday we spent most of the day being lazy. We were sitting home trying to decide what to do with our Saturday night, when Mackenzie's friend Kelton called and told us to get our butts up there! So we got ready and went up to Payson. The ride up was a disaster. Right when we left the snow hit HARD. The canyon was terrifying and the snow plows were no where to be seen. I thought we were going to die. When we finally came into Nephi and out of the muck, we got pulled over for our car being expired! Luckily we just got a warning, but we were starting to feel pretty discouraged! When we finally made it to Zane's house, it proved to be worth the journey up. I had more fun with those guys than I have had in a long time! The entertainment for the night came from watching the boys arm wrestle, Kenzie letting Zane slap him on the back as hard as he could (he drew blood!), everyone standing on the scale to see how much they weighed, and us eating like a whole bag of string cheese! Haha, the things we do to entertain ourselves. Kelton, Zane, and Teeco are so sweet and a blast to hang out with. And the best part... They have cool girlfriends and wives! Looks like we have a few new best friends! 

Sunday flew by and now we are back to work. Ugh. 

Luckily, I have the best motivator ever to get me through this week...

Thursday morning we are leaving for the happiest place on earth...

DISNEYLAND!

Oh my gosh, Thursday can't come soon enough. Bring on the road trip, the beach, the rides, the good food, and mostly the good quality family time. I am so ready to go! 

Our Little Rah-Rah!

I have to say I am a proud sister. The cheerleaders at Juab got a bunch of the football players to start stunting with them so for the last couple Saturdays we have been going to watch Ty cheer at competitions! When we were little my dad always told my brothers, "I don't care what sport you play, as long as it's not cheerleading!" HAHA... But of course dad was there to cheer Ty on, along with all of our family. When he lifts a girl up in the air all by himself I am just on the edge of my seat! Ty is so shy so to see him perform is just crazy. He does such a good job!  They are doing so good and they are going to nationals in California in March. Here are a few pictures of the competitions. Make sure you watch the video at the end.... Good job Ty!!

Isn't that the cutest thing? Go Juab!!!

{ A Bump in the Road }

Well, in case you haven't heard or figured out what happened to us, I better fill you all in. I have felt pretty good since I found out I was pregnant. Never got sick or anything. But last Friday I started feeling pretty yucky. I didn't think too much of it, but by Sunday night I was in pain. If we hadn't had our doctor appointment scheduled for the next morning, I probably would have gone in. I was cramping, bleeding, and just had a terrible feeling. That night DRAGGED on, and I just wanted it to be morning so we could go see Dr. Bailey and find out what was going on. 11:00 Monday morning finally came and when we went to the doctor, he decided to do an ultrasound to see what was going on. As I feared, we found out we lost the baby at nine weeks. After the ultrasound we had to go back in to talk to Dr. Bailey and I was trying so hard to just hold it together until we got to the car. But he is so nice, and that makes it a million times worse! So I lost it and started bawling. I could tell he felt so bad. But he had to give us the talk about how we WILL get pregnant again and this is just a bump in the road, etc. When we finally got to the car, I cried most of the way home. As the day was progressing the pain was getting worse and worse, so when we got home we tried to just fall asleep for a while. 

When we woke up, I was feeling better emotionally. Me and Kenz talked about it, and we truly believe that everything happens for a reason. I don't know what the reason is for this, but I trust that it is for the best. I have found that having a positive attitude about it is making it easier for me to move on with my life and do my day to day things. 

The greatest thing that has come from this has been the reminder of the amazing people we have in our lives. My family brought me the cutest little care package with a bunch things I love! My dad took us to dinner.The college boys who work swing shifts at Oxbow brought me flowers and chocolate on my first day back to work. And I have had so many people call, text, or come visit and let me know they are thinking about us. It seriously means so much to us to have the support we do from our family and friends. I was regretting announcing our pregnancy so early because now we have to tell everyone what happened, but I have realized that it has been worth it to have so much support this week. 

I know we will have kids. Someday. Maybe we just aren't ready yet. But eventually it will happen and it will be the perfect time in our lives to get a perfect baby. But until then, I have realized that I need to just enjoy my life as it is, spend more time with my husband, go on adventures, do things that I will never be able to do once we are settled down with a family. Mostly I have realized I need to just appreciate what I do have and stop always wanting what I don't. I have a great life. But I find myself always wanting more. I have the house and the car and the husband and the good job, and I can't just be satisfied with having a great life. I think that is the way society is, and I think that it is important to have goals and hopes for your future. But I do feel like I spend so much time thinking about what I want next, that I don't stop to appreciate what I have now. So that is what I am going to take away from this experience. I am relieved and happy to know that I can get pregnant. And I know that in the future we will have that. But for now, I am going to enjoy my life as it is and make sure people know how much I appreciate them. 

Of course I have to end my post with blabbing about how freaking amazing my husband is. Seriously he has been so sweet. He knew if he started crying this week I would lose it (I hate seeing him cry, it is the saddest thing ever!) so he held it in, but I know Monday night when I wasn't with him he cried it out all alone. He called into work and stayed home with me so I wasn't alone. He called our boss and told him so I wouldn't have to go to work the next day. He dealt with this all alone so he could be there 100% for me. It is strange to say, but I am so thankful for these hard, trying times we have had in our marriage because it makes me remember just how amazing he is. I couldn't ask for a better guy and I am looking forward to some great times with him this year! 

A little quote to leave you with:

Resolutions

I have finally got back in the swing of things and am back to my routine! I was sad to come back to work, but it actually feels really good to be back on track. So yesterday I sat down and made of list of what New Years resolutions I would really like to achieve this year. The first one is a resolution that most people make a goal every year. But it is totally necessary.

#1: Get organized! 

I was reading my cousin Jennie's blog and she found the coolest blog called Clean Mama. If you go on there, you can print off a monthly cleaning schedule along with some great printables for deep cleans throughout the house. I am going to give it a go, so we will see how long it lasts! We are doing a few remodels on our house in  the next couple months to get ready for the baby. I am so excited to make the house a little more neutral. Between the new floors and paint and cleaning schedule, I am hoping to get my house just how I want it for when the little babe joins us! 

#2: Extreme Couponing

I was watching TLC the other day, and those people are like super extreme. But I know a lot of people cut coupons and save a ton of money when they go grocery shopping. So my goals for couponing are going to be to get $250.00 worth of groceries for the $200.00 we spend a month when we go shopping. And also to build up some sort of food storage in the pantry so we are not quite so month to month on groceries. It seems like by the end of the month, there is nothing left that we like! I am making my first attempt this week with a bunch of printed coupons, so we will see how it goes!

#3: Genealogy

I am very excited about this project I am taking on. I joined ancestry.com the other day because I wanted to go back in our families histories and see if there are any cool people or stories that we could get ideas for baby names from. Well once I got going I could not stop. There is so much information on this web site! I have got so far on all sides of our families. It is so cool to see war draft papers and census documents from like 1900 with our ancestors information on them. I am going to get as far as I can on ancestry.com, then I am going to research the individuals and try and get some stories, pictures, anything I can find to make a book :] 

#4: Become More

I have a mentor in my life that I have looked up to for many years. She is a genuinely good person, and I love the crap out of her. Well I was reading on her blog that she went to Time Out for Women and the theme was "Become More." What a great phrase to live by! There are so many aspects of my life in which I could become more. I want to become a more spiritual person, a happier person, a better wife, cleaner, employee, reader, crafter, daughter, sister, friend. I have been humbled by so many people and things lately. I want to become more open and loving this year. I want to be genuine. I am going to cut some vinyl to hang in my house and my office that says "Become More" to remind me in all that I do to do better!

So there you have it. 

I sure hope I stick to these goals!

New Years

Well our New Years Eve was spent together at home

being boring.... and it was awesome!

We had so many people call us and invite us to do things all weekend and we turned every one of them down for some good quality husband and wife time! 

Remember how much he loves pictures!? Lol, he is very happy that I got a new camera for Christmas. He totally missed posing every five seconds so I could snap his pic. Anyway, we started our weekend on Friday afternoon. I made a Walmart run that morning to get us totally prepared for a full on veg weekend. Veg days are something we have done since we started dating. Basically, we buy a bunch of good food, movies, drinks, and plan on totally sitting on the couch and being lazy and watching movies all day! Sounds pretty disgusting right? Haha, we love a good veg day once in a while. So we were planning on vegging all weekend. Kenz got home from work at 3, changed into his sweats and we got the party started. We have been dying to do a Greys Anatomy marathon since we first got Netflix, but hello, who has 143 hours to watch all those episodes!? We decided that we were going to spend the weekend getting as far into the series as we could. So we started with Season 1 Episode 1 and by last night we were halfway through Season 3. Oh how we love us some Greys Anatomy. 

I decided that I wasn't going to be totally worthless and that I would start a project I have been wanting to do. It doesn't get any better than this! My new Cricut and some Greys. So I got a few pages done in my pregnancy journal / scrapbook! I wanted to make a book that could be a scrapbook to keep track of my progression and show pictures of our journey to parenthood, but to also be a reference book when I have questions. So it will also have pages I have printed off the internet about pregnancy symptoms and remedies, nutrition guides, you get the picture! I also found the cutest little weekly questionnaire that I am going to do every week and stick in there. I think it will be really fun to look back on this book in the future and see what each and every week was like for me.

Our Friday night was interrupted by the strangest phone call. Jordy called and said he was filling out a police report! So we were like totally sure that we were going to be bailing him out of jail! Haha, well come to find out, someone totally stole his car!! That really happens?!? He always parks it in Santaquin and carpools the rest of the way up to work. Well Friday night when he got back to his car, it was gone. All that was left was a pile of glass. They recovered the car the next day in Nevada!

Check out this video about the double homicide that happened in our little neck of the woods! Well, me and Kenz are just sure that the car in Santaquin they are talking about is Jordan's. I mean, how many cars could have got stolen in Santaquin that very day? Isn't that the craziest thing ever! So on Friday night we drove up Santaquin to bring Jord home. Other than that, the only other time we left the house all weekend was to go to dinner on Saturday night! 

Last night, Kenz had to go to work at 11. We had been watching the news just before he left and with all the talk about murder happening right here in our town, I was a little freaked about being home alone at night. So of course my husband just couldn't resist the opportunity to scare me. I went downstairs after he left for work and turned off the tv and lights. Well when I came back up my phone was ringing, so I went to go get it and he was hiding behind the doorway into our living room. Scared the living hell out of me! I threw my phone at him and ran and locked myself in our room! Haha, it was so not cool. 

There were so many places we could have been this weekend, but I was so perfectly content to spend it at our house with my sweet hubby. We needed some down time, and it was just nice to have uninterrupted quality time together. Now it is the new year and I have lots of goals I am going to try and accomplish. (I'm sure there is a post to come about all of those.) I am excited because I just know that 2012 will be a year we will never ever forget!

Happy New Year guys....

Here's to a great year to come!