Lovey's birthday

Tomorrow is my lovey's birthday! I asked him what he wanted to do for this wonderful occassion and this was his reply. "I would really like to go to the temple with you and then breakfast. How bout after that we come home and then go get our feet done maybe go get some dinner and see a movie." Does this sound like his birthday or mine! He is such a good lovey. That is what we are going to do for his birthday. He thought it would be fun to go get our feet done together and sit and talk. What a lovey. I sure love him!!! I think he will have a happy great day! Love that man and everything about him. He makes me happy. He is a good man. A great provider. A wonderful dad. An awesome husband. Happy birthday lovey. Nice nalgas by the way!!!

washington

We went to washington again this year, and had such a great time. Anthony got to go with us this time. We took lots of pictures. We saw lots this time. Cassie and aaron were good about taking us everywhere. Aaron took us into seattle to see pikes fish market. We had just barely missed the fish throwing. We also went to washington stadium, where anthony took lots of pictures of cameron and spencer on the football field and basketball court. while we were in seattle we thought it would be cool to see the temple. So we stopped by and took some pictures.
I loved seeing the coast last year and so this year aaron and cassie took us again to the coast. It was sooooo cold, I got out and jumped back in the car. That's how cold it was. We also went there for the salt water taffy. They have the best I have ever had! We got 2 bags full and it was gone. The kids had fun playing on the rocks and on the beach. The water was quite cold so they didn't go too close to it.
Cassie took us to Mt. Ranier (Aaron was not able to go that day, he had to work). As we got further up the mountain we started getting into some snowy areas. We found a little mountain and went sledding or cardboarding. Cassie had some boxes in the back of her car and we made good use of them.
There was one night that we decided to roast marshmallows in the back yard. The kids were quite excited about this. They had smores. We filled them up with lot's of sugar.
Uncle Aaron made a fun toy for the kids. He hooked up a trailor to his lawn mower and the kids loved it. They thought they were in heaven. And of course Cameron was the driver. I hope he knows, that is all the driving he is doing!!!
Anthony took some pictures of the eating frenzee's we had in the mornings. Lot's of kids and lot's of food.
That was our trip. We did lot's and appreciate Cassie and Aaron taking us everywhere and having us at their house. It was fun. We had lot's of memorable times. I also put pictures of Cassie and Aaron's kids on here so hopefully they are fine with that.

sick of being sick- a more personal blog

This is a more personal blog. Please don't read this and think I am complaining, because if you do think that then exit now! I blog for me. And sometimes it's a lot easier writing it here than in my journal.
Today has been a hard day. Actually this week has been a little rough. My kidney's have been acting up again. I am very fearful that I have another kidney stone lurking in there and the dr. won't listen to me. An appointment on Monday revealed that I had a lot of blood in my urine and bacteria, which means the possible beginning of a new stone. The fear that came over me was tremendous. Some of you may not know, but last october my lovey rushed me to the emergency room for a very large kidney stone. One that I had been complaining about for a good year. I had 2 ct scans and countless blood work and urine tests done. They just kept putting me on bactrim ( a heavy duty antibiotic). Still I had pain about once a month. It was the stone trying to pass. So in the emergency room they finally found it. It was 10mm and would not pass on it's own. So I sat in the hospital for 2 1/2 days waiting for them to pump me full of anitbiotics and junk so that they could blast the sucker out of me. The after effects were worse than the stone itself. It was a painful recovery and my mom and Anthony had no idea how to help me. So you can understand my fear that I have with this pain all over again. I am very frustrated with my health and feel that this has been a long trial. I am going on 5 years and ask heavenly father frequently what he wants me to learn from this. I still have yet to get an answer. Living with pain everyday is a hard thing. On top of all this I have degenerative disk disease which is quite painful at times. I feel that I handle the pain pretty good, although if you ask my kids and lovey they would probably tell you that I am pretty grouchy when I am in pain. So the next thing is my skin. As many of you know I had melanoma 4 years ago. It was pretty scarey to say the least! About a week ago I went in to do my 6 month check up and the dr. did a biopsy on a mole/freckle I had on my left thigh. I got the results back today. The cells have changed which means it has a likely hood of being melanoma again if we don't get it off now!!! So I go in June 24th to have it taken off. They will make somewhat of the same incision that I have on my forearm. It's a pretty good size incision. As the dr. described it, " we almost had to amputate your arm", she says this kiddingly. I am scared and tired of health issues. It's a hard trial to face at such a young age. I am frustrated and tired of pain and this sucks sometimes, but I know at some point it will end and that I am thankful for. For now I am just trying to figure out what heavenly father wants me to learn.

Fun with jake!

taking a breather

Cameron getting ready to loose

Jake looks like he's loosing here

someone is loosing in this round

Jake and cameron wrestling or playing "tap out"

I told you I was playing catchup on all of my blogging. Some of these happened a little bit ago.
Jake Smith came for Utah's spring break. They came in april. Cameron was so excited that he was coming. It reminded me of when our family would go to Utah for 4th of July. We did that, it seemed every summer. And it was something we all looked forward too. It was so much fun hanging out with cousins and just being goofy and sometimes gross! Jake's family came in april and were here for the week. Cameron and Jake spent as much time as they could together. It was a little hard because cameron was in school. And when you miss school at his school it's like missing an entire month. They wrestled, and swam, played baseball and hung out!
I am glad that my kids have had cousins so close that they can do things with them. It's fun to see. I am still very close with my cousin Jessica or Friend! We have tons of fun together and sometimes a little too much. So I am glad that my kids have cousins close to them. It makes for great memories! I have a lot of great memories with cousins.
Alright so I have to tell some of the things we did with cousins. We would always go to Utah for the 4th of July. Brendan and Jessica, lezlie, Jodi and me would see each other and instantly pick up where we stopped the year prior. It was sooooo much fun. I remember going to Yellowstone national park with them. We made booger bars (don't ask it's nasty), flung poo at each (another don't ask). We made forts this one time out of boxes and Jessica got ticked off at Brendan because he stole a marker of hers so she jumped out of her box and jumped on Brendan and JOdi's box and it was WAR!!!!! In the end both boxes or forts were ruined and we were busted! We went to lagoon and water parks we would watch the stadium of fire at tempview. It was such a great time. I have fond memories and so with that I hope that my kids will remember the fun times with cousins.
Me and friend still have fun! We do Taco Tuesday at filibertos every tuesday. We do girls night out when we can get away from life and busy schedules. We hit costco together and shop together (which probably isn't a good idea) we go to IKEA and try on baskets (I swear I thought it was a hat friend!!!) on our heads that is. We just have a great time. We laugh at dumb things, and really some of the things are goofy. I am glad that my parents took us every year to Utah so that I could have a best friend like friend. Cousins are awesome. And I am thankful for them. All of them.

aaron and pinewood derby

Aaron's pinewood derby was in January this year. It was kind of early. So most of you know that anthony has been in school and did not have time in December to build a car. Here is where you will laugh or get sick. There are a couple of guys in our ward that buy their cars at pinewood derby shops. Well, lovey decided to do the same thing. He bought aaron this beauty! All the pieces were in the box all they had to do was paint it and put the metal on it to weigh it down. Now just for information only, the cars that you buy are not cheap. Anthony spent an amount on this car that totally cut into my shoe budget! He called to tell me the price on another car and I just about passed out. FOR HEAVENS SAKE, IT'S A DANG PINEWOOD DERBY CAR!!! GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!! So then he told me the price of aaron's car and I just had to let that one go. He payed for time. I am not going to let you know how much he payed, I will just put down that he payed between $40-$90 for the car. I know ridiculous!! aaron came in 2nd in most of the races and 1st on one. I guess it was worth it. He thought it was a pretty cool car, and I guess that is all that matters. I was very sad that my shoe budget was blown for that month (just kidding)!