Just a shout out to my lovely little sister who turns the big 2-0 today. Happy Birthday Lyssy! Also, wanted to wish everyone a very happy St. Patrick's Day!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Happy Happy Birthday Lyssy Dear....
Just a shout out to my lovely little sister who turns the big 2-0 today. Happy Birthday Lyssy! Also, wanted to wish everyone a very happy St. Patrick's Day!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Updates, Updates, Updates
I haven't posted in a while, so I thought I would give everyone some quick updates. As for right now I still have a job, but currently the company is in due diligence. If everything goes as planned, the company will most likely be sold by July or August. Sooo....that means I need to find a job quick (throwing it out there people...let me know if you hear anything)! On the plus side, my husband rocks and we're going to see:
If you couldn't tell, I am SOOOOOOOO freakin' excited! I've been wanting to see it and knew they would be in Salt Lake, but the tickets weren't exactly cheap. So, Alan and I were talking about it and decided we would go for my birthday. That, and he totally owes me for his ugly moustache. If you didn't know, it's moustache March (yeah, I've never heard of it either) so for the month of March Alan's facial hair under his nose is getting bushier and bushier. Combine that with some shaggy hair and you've got one sexy porn king.... don't be haters ladies (and yes, I will post pics at the end of the month so you can all be jealous). I told him if he grew out his moustache he totally owed me, so I guess yeah for me! It also helps that I have a musically inclined husband. He likes to go to these kinds of things with me, which makes it a little easier to talk him into it!
However, I saved the best for last. Our most exciting updated would have to be that in the quest for one of these (no, not the stork)
we had our first insemination today. I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but it went pretty smoothly (and no, I'm not going to go into detail on a public blog. If ya want to know how it works, google it!) What's amazing to me is the doctor said as far as they can tell, if it works, the conception takes place about 5 minutes after the insemination. Crazy! So, I guess we'll know whether or not it worked by the end of the month, fingers crossed! We're just grateful that since we are going through fertility, we have a great doctor who is so optimistic and works at a wonderful facility. Thanks everyone for the positive vibes, we love ya!
If you couldn't tell, I am SOOOOOOOO freakin' excited! I've been wanting to see it and knew they would be in Salt Lake, but the tickets weren't exactly cheap. So, Alan and I were talking about it and decided we would go for my birthday. That, and he totally owes me for his ugly moustache. If you didn't know, it's moustache March (yeah, I've never heard of it either) so for the month of March Alan's facial hair under his nose is getting bushier and bushier. Combine that with some shaggy hair and you've got one sexy porn king.... don't be haters ladies (and yes, I will post pics at the end of the month so you can all be jealous). I told him if he grew out his moustache he totally owed me, so I guess yeah for me! It also helps that I have a musically inclined husband. He likes to go to these kinds of things with me, which makes it a little easier to talk him into it!
However, I saved the best for last. Our most exciting updated would have to be that in the quest for one of these (no, not the stork)
we had our first insemination today. I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but it went pretty smoothly (and no, I'm not going to go into detail on a public blog. If ya want to know how it works, google it!) What's amazing to me is the doctor said as far as they can tell, if it works, the conception takes place about 5 minutes after the insemination. Crazy! So, I guess we'll know whether or not it worked by the end of the month, fingers crossed! We're just grateful that since we are going through fertility, we have a great doctor who is so optimistic and works at a wonderful facility. Thanks everyone for the positive vibes, we love ya!
Sunday, March 1, 2009
The Love Dare
The other night Alan and I had an early "date nite" as we had a ton of things going over the weekend. We went to Redbox to get a movie, but the one he wanted to rent wasn't there. I saw the movie "FireProof" which I remembered from a previous post Alan's cousin Brooke had done on her blog. She had gone to seen and said it was really good and made you really think. It never went to theaters here in Utah, but I did want to see it. I suggested it to Alan and he thought it sounded fine to him. I have to admit, it was a little cheesy in some places, but overall was a really good movie with an excellent message. It was about a fireman (Kirk Cameron) and his wife and how their marriage was on the brink of divorce. Kirk Cameron's father asked him to complete The Love Dare (without his wife knowing) prior to signing any divorce papers or actually filing for divorce. Basically it's a book that has you do 40 steps over 40 days to improve your marriage and learn to appreciate each other again. It also has bible versus (the movie was produced by Christian producers) so that you can bring God back into your marriage. By the end of the movie the two characters had improved their marriage and decided to stay together. Anyway, I was thinking about the book and decided to buy it - after all, why wait until you're really in trouble before you try and work on your marriage? However, I'm going to switch it up a little. One of the first steps is to not say anything negative to your spouse. Either walk away or change the subject. I think this is such a great step that I'm going to do it (well, try as hard as I can, anyway) for a week, not just a day. After you've done that step, you're supposed to do the next step in addition to the first step, etc. So, as it's the first day of a new month, I thought I would give it a try. I haven't actually read the book yet, but I guess I really only need to read it step by step, right? What's the worst that can happen? An even better marriage?
Baby gift idea
My mom asked me to make a baby gift for a girl she worked with, but she wanted something different. Since I've been into using pots lately, I started thinking about different ways to turn them into a gift and came up with this:
I had to free hand a lot of the circles as the template I used just wasn't working very well. Once I had it painted and the styrofoam put in place, I put onesies and washcloths around it to hold everything together (that way the pot is reusable to decorate with, or hold toys). It turned out a lot cuter than I thought it would. You know when you have a great idea, but sometimes when you put it together it just doesn't look quite right or not as cute as you thought? I was stoked at how well this turned out the first time. And, for all you prego friends out there, sorry if this spoils the surprise, but you might just end up with one of these!
Side note....can you tell I'm ready for summer? I thought maybe if I changed my background, that might help....
Sorry....forgot to talk about the sucker. It's actually a 5 inch lollipop (I had to order it online as I couldn't find a big enough one at any of the stores) with a onesie wrapped around it. Then I just took cellophane and tied it with ribbon. I think it's adorable!
I had to free hand a lot of the circles as the template I used just wasn't working very well. Once I had it painted and the styrofoam put in place, I put onesies and washcloths around it to hold everything together (that way the pot is reusable to decorate with, or hold toys). It turned out a lot cuter than I thought it would. You know when you have a great idea, but sometimes when you put it together it just doesn't look quite right or not as cute as you thought? I was stoked at how well this turned out the first time. And, for all you prego friends out there, sorry if this spoils the surprise, but you might just end up with one of these!
Side note....can you tell I'm ready for summer? I thought maybe if I changed my background, that might help....
Sorry....forgot to talk about the sucker. It's actually a 5 inch lollipop (I had to order it online as I couldn't find a big enough one at any of the stores) with a onesie wrapped around it. Then I just took cellophane and tied it with ribbon. I think it's adorable!
Better late than never
I would have posted these sooner, but my puppy decided he wanted to chew through our camera cords. So, we've been unable to upload the pictures from the camera to the computer! Anyway, hopefully we'll have that problem fixed soon, but in the meantime I thought I would post some anniversary pics. We stayed at the Johnson Mill Inn in Heber, Utah which was gorgeous.
Our room was on the third level of the inn and took up the whole floor, which was nice.
This is usually the first thing Alan does when we stay anywhere....jumps on the bed to see how soft the mattress is. I think in almost every picture I've taken when we've gone somewhere, I have the same picture!
Different views from our room....there are some perks to being on the top floor and have two different balconies! There are all sorts of trails around the mill that you can walk on and I guess spot deer and different animals. I'm sure it's even prettier in the summer. Once we checked in and hauled the luggage up, we headed down to Park City to go to dinner and do some shopping at the outlet. We were able to get Alan a brand new Columbia coat (they just put in a brand new Columbia outlet) for snowboarding for $50...it's a $213 coat. Yeah, I was pretty stoked! Plus I got some hiking/trail running shoes for $30, can't beat that. Tuesday morning we went to a cute little cafe for breakfast (they served breakfast at 9:00 at the inn, but it felt so nice to be able to sleep in that we just didn't want to get up!) and both ordered hot chocolate. The first drinks came out in normal cups, which Alan took down pretty quick. The second time the waitress brought out a drink for Alan, it was in the biggest coffee cup I've ever seen! He loved it!
I don't think this picture does it justice....notice Alan's hair. He is currently growing it out and it's driving me nuts! But, I'm a supportive wife and have told him if it starts to get longer than mine, I will cut it during the night. I don't think it will be too much longer before he cuts it, it's even driving him crazy. I never thought I would see the day that my husband has to pull out my blow dryer to dry it. If he pulls out my straightener, I might have to put my foot down....Anyway, after breakfast we headed down to the Draper Temple open house. We weren't able to get any good pictures because the weather was so bad, but it is a beautiful temple. It was fun to be able to just hold hands with Alan and walk from room to room. From the temple we headed home and ended up shoveling this:
This was all in a one day span....we ended up getting home about 5:00 pm because of how bad the roads were. So, we spent the rest of the night shoveling and trying to get Alan's car in the driveway (it kept getting high centered on all the snow!) Our little adventure had come to an end, but it was a lot of fun, even with playing catch up at work. Now if we could just have some decent spring weather....I think everyone is antsy to just get outside and enjoy some warmth!
Our room was on the third level of the inn and took up the whole floor, which was nice.
This is usually the first thing Alan does when we stay anywhere....jumps on the bed to see how soft the mattress is. I think in almost every picture I've taken when we've gone somewhere, I have the same picture!
Different views from our room....there are some perks to being on the top floor and have two different balconies! There are all sorts of trails around the mill that you can walk on and I guess spot deer and different animals. I'm sure it's even prettier in the summer. Once we checked in and hauled the luggage up, we headed down to Park City to go to dinner and do some shopping at the outlet. We were able to get Alan a brand new Columbia coat (they just put in a brand new Columbia outlet) for snowboarding for $50...it's a $213 coat. Yeah, I was pretty stoked! Plus I got some hiking/trail running shoes for $30, can't beat that. Tuesday morning we went to a cute little cafe for breakfast (they served breakfast at 9:00 at the inn, but it felt so nice to be able to sleep in that we just didn't want to get up!) and both ordered hot chocolate. The first drinks came out in normal cups, which Alan took down pretty quick. The second time the waitress brought out a drink for Alan, it was in the biggest coffee cup I've ever seen! He loved it!
I don't think this picture does it justice....notice Alan's hair. He is currently growing it out and it's driving me nuts! But, I'm a supportive wife and have told him if it starts to get longer than mine, I will cut it during the night. I don't think it will be too much longer before he cuts it, it's even driving him crazy. I never thought I would see the day that my husband has to pull out my blow dryer to dry it. If he pulls out my straightener, I might have to put my foot down....Anyway, after breakfast we headed down to the Draper Temple open house. We weren't able to get any good pictures because the weather was so bad, but it is a beautiful temple. It was fun to be able to just hold hands with Alan and walk from room to room. From the temple we headed home and ended up shoveling this:
This was all in a one day span....we ended up getting home about 5:00 pm because of how bad the roads were. So, we spent the rest of the night shoveling and trying to get Alan's car in the driveway (it kept getting high centered on all the snow!) Our little adventure had come to an end, but it was a lot of fun, even with playing catch up at work. Now if we could just have some decent spring weather....I think everyone is antsy to just get outside and enjoy some warmth!
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