Bebes on the brain and such.

Soooooo....We make lots of jokes about being pregnant and stuff, I guess its kinda not funny because its a wee bit of a let down. So lets just makes this clear. No, UNFORTUNATELY, we are not pregnant. If you couldn't tell, it's just as a let down to me as it may be to all of you. But, I will let you know when it is FOR REAL. I just love to think about looking down and having a huge tummy with that baby moving inside and how ill waddle and all the fun/not so fun things pregnancy will bring! And then I have those times where I go home for Thanksgiving and the children hate me and I realize I'm so not ready for children! Our day will come and we will love it. Until then, we will enjoy ourselves.

And that we did this last week as we celebrated one year of being married. Holy cow time flies! One year down without too much fit hittin the shan! Here are a few things we have done this last year:

1) Bought and Sold about 7 cars/trucks/motorcycles. We are thinking about doubling this each year. 02 Saturn anyone?

2) After playing bums for 3 months we managed to get good jobs that can support us so far! :) Thanks to the church employment giving us a resume boost class. (SERIOUSLY people if you can't get a job go to them, it really REALLY helps.)

3) Got a dog and survived her passing. (Ray passed on his animal curse to me because 3 weeks later my cat died and i survived that too!)

4) Enjoyed our first callings together. Teaching the 4-5 year old's about Jesus. So many funny memories. Kids really do say/do whatever comes to their mind. I might have also had my skirt looked up a couple of times by a certain little boy... Not sure why that was funny...

5) House hunted until we about died.

6) Waited for our house to be move in ready from March until August until we about died.

7) Moved in the middle of the summer, and we about died.

8) Spontaneously drove to Six Flags with our good friends Josh and Erin for the first weekend of Fright Fest in October. So much fun getting away from life and just relaxing on the beach!

9) Went to Texas for Thanksgiving and TRIED to get through our FIRST BLACK FRIDAY!!!! got a new shirts and pants and shoes and scarfs and everything else imaginable! Also got a steal on Ray's new big screen TV that will actually work now.

10) Celebrated our 1 year anniversary with an airplane ride back home! :) Such Simpletons.

11) Managing our second temporary callings together as Christmas Party peoples. Now I'm running around like a chicken with my head cut off because it is this weekend and THERE IS LOTS TO DO.



I just re-read our list and it doesn't sound that exciting. However, life is good. :)

Thanksgiving.

Well, I am always going to be biased towards this time of year because it will be on or around our anniversary each year. :) So as this year is being our first and we are still poor college people, we will just be spending our time with my side of the family. No fancy get away for us! Anyhow, I bought LaDell a watch for his gift and I couldn't decide if it would be for Christmas or for our anniversary but when it came early in the mail i didn't really have any options! I walked up stairs and he was posing with it on already!!!!! somehow he always finds a way to figure out what his gifts are. So i need some ideas on how to stop that! Anyhow, I am just counting down the days until we leave for Texas. :)

Change!

Turns out I like change after all! :)

Remember that nasty yellow room that actually i loved the color? well look at it now!

this picture doesnt even do justice... but it looks great now. :) im starting to like fixing up our home.

and we got a new dog! her name is jix. she is a 10 month old great pyrenees.

and we were bored and so we took one of ourselves! haha

My little girl.

So, I am finally getting around to posting about my dog.
I guess in some ways I have been trying to avoid it. It was just so random and unexpected that she died so it was hard for me. Not only because of that but, i guess i have never really experienced death before.

Anyways, Harley got parvo when we moved to the new house. And unfortunately we did not notice the symptoms of it until it was too late. :( It happened over Labor Day weekend. She started getting weaker and weaker and would not eat her food. When we were going to take her in it was Monday and everything was closed so we brought her back and basically watched her get worse. And by that night she just looked like the walking dead. It was heartbreaking. Later on that night we smelt this horrible smell all the way upstairs so we went down to see what happened and turns out she had pooped straight blood. :( And so Ray and Ross took her to be put down country boy style.

So, the first couple days of last week were hard for me. I bawled like a baby and it was all i could think about for a while. And that part bugged me that i just couldn't give it up and i felt stupid for crying so much about a dog. but i couldn't help it. the more i thought about it the more confused i felt. i kept wondering what the heck she is doing now and what is next for her like she was a human or something. and then i would wonder what really it was like for animals on the other side? is that dumb? i mean, i don't even need to know that, yet it crossed my mind constantly. and i couldn't let it go. Then one night I was talking to ray and we were talking about how trials in our lives always have a lesson or meaning behind them. He also said that for him facing death is not a scary or hard thing for him because he keeps an eternal perspective. When he said that, first i was mad because hello, i should already have that knowledge and i should already be in that mind set and then instantly i realized that was really what i needed to learn from this.

Yes, it was a dog. And yes she is gone now, but I am grateful to have learned a little more about life and the next step after. I'm trying to gain my eternal perspective and as i study i know ill get there. I think I've also learned more about the atonement, that it helps to heal not only from sin but from sorrows. It's easy to say that you know something but understanding it is completely different. So this experience has helped me to grow so more. It was unfortunate, but essential in life.

To put it short, Ray says, "A trial to some may be a blessing to others."
I think he just made that up. :)

Updates from the last couple months...

I still can't believe it's August guys!

Well here is what we have been up to for the last couple of months:

June we went to Hillary's wedding. :) it was awesome we are so happy for them. And their height difference is cute. hahaha i'm a little bit biased. ;)
And once again, my nephews and niece LOVED and adored Ray and pretended like I didn't exist.



And in July we went up to Eagar and it was tons of fun like always, this time i tried to be brave on the horse and it ended not so great. I was just going back and forth in front of the house and was working my way up to a run when the horse just took off and headed for the main road, that's where i fell of and got this nice little booger, which is now a scar. I got pretty lucky that i fell off before we got into the street and i missed the light poll by like 10 inches, and didn't get a concussion like Nat (sister in law) did... so this cut and some road rash and bruises on my butt and knees were about it. My earring got the most damage. :( May they rest in peace.



And in other news, I CUT MY HAIR! :) it feels so much better with the heat out here i could not stand it for another minute!!!!!! and i went back to my natural color, well i went back to brown i guess i should say...i felt really awkward taking pictures of myself in the parking lot at night outside Albertson. haha oh well.

Walmart on Saturday night.

What a bad idea! The lines were horrible.



But the good news is this:






FOR only like 10 bucks! That's what's up!

Fourth of July Weekend

So, Ray Ray was in the RODEOOOOOOOOOBOW WOW!!! (that's from a song people). Garth Brooks look it up, it's good.


ANYHOW, he was so dang cute up there on that there horsey! :) I only wish I could say the same for me, but that didn't turn out so well because I fell off. And that's a different story.

The race that he did was called the KEG RACE and he ALMOST WON!!!
So basically its like musical chairs with horses. So they start out sitting, jump on their horse and then race around the barrel and hope to get a chair, because one is taken away every time they race. Somehow, LaDell managed to be one of the two left for the last race....

So here is the video from the last race!