Girls Night, Interupted

So we had a girls night. 5 of us friends went out to dinner at Texas Road House and enjoyed every minute of it. My new low carb lifestyle was decently handled by ordering salmon and a salad with no dressing. I had one bite of the rolls I got and brought the rest home to Jared. Yummy!

Then we decided to go bowling. Which was awesome. One of the girls bailed on us so Jared came along. We had a blast! Not to mention that we won some free bowling. So nice!

I have been so busy lately that I forgot how fun it can be to be able to just laugh with your friends and act goofy. I needed that so much!

Almost There

Girls camp is right around the corner. I am down to the last few things on my list. I think these turned out great, don't you?

On The Go

We are on our way to celebrate Conley and Colby's birthday. Thought updated pictures were in order. Jared always looks the same. Love that man.

Gross

Remember how I told you about the cyst they dug out of my arm? Here it is a week later. I can finally look at it without getting sick. It has healed a tremendous amount and its not nearly as deep as it was.

It still generates a great deal of "stuff" so I have to keep it covered. Thank goodness for Jared!

I'm just waiting for this to heal up before the next surgery. This one is going to harder on me I think.

Weekend Getaway

This weekend Jared's brothers and their wives and us, went on an overnight vacation. The kids all stayed with grandma and grandpa and we took off about lunch time on Saturday. We headed to Wendover Nevada.

There really isn't anything to do wendover, for those of you who haven't been. It's a bunch of Casinos and a concert hall. We go for the concerts. This weekend we saw Larry the cable guy. He was hilarious!

On our way there we got caught in a Salt storm. Yeah, you read that right, a salt storm. To get there we have to drive through the salt flats created by the great salt lake. So the wind starts blowing and the salt starts flying. There is little visibility and it's creepy. The sky takes on an almost green hue.

Once there we enjoyed buffet eating, laughs and a little penny slot action. We played $5 and lost most of it. Then gave the little we had left to my SIL and she doubled it. It was fun to be away!

The salt storm blew out the power though and from 3:30pm until about 8 am we had no power, but the casino did! It made for a very interesting trip.

All in all, we love any excuse to get out of town and enjoy ourselves. And that is exactly what we did.

Spoiled

My husband spoils me and I know it. What a sweet first valentines day we had. It was another day we got to celebrate how much we love each other and how happy we are. There is no one I would rather be with.

What a sweet man! Yellow potted flowers, reese's candy and an mazing necklace! I love it so much.

Vegas!!!

What a wonderful husband I have! A surprise trip to Las Vegas is what awaited me on Friday. A quick trip but a trip nonetheless.

We are loving it and loving being away from home for a bit. So much more to post later, but enjoy a few pics from earlier today. Going to diner...

Surprise!

I love my husband. That isn't the surprise though! The surprise is that he surprised me with a trip to Vegas! Packed up and Away we went. We've had a rough month and needed something away from home. So when he popped up with this, it was perfect. So, off to the glitz and glitter, the loud and crazy and the far away Las Vegas.

I wouldn't trade my sweet husband for anything. He makes my life so sweet and wonderful. I know it must get boring to hear it, but I love him! I am so happy that we have forever to be together.

Cough, Cough

It's that time of year, when I get sick. Poor Jared is beginning to learn what this really means.

The doctor shook his head when I came in. Bronchitis, sinititus and out if control asthma were enough to warrant a few prescriptions and orders to get to bed and drink lots of fluids.

I obliged and went home and took the prescription strength cough syrup which still has me a little groggy. Off to work I went anyway...I am so lucky to have my sweet Jared who makes dinner and rubs my back and always makes sure the humidifier is full.

Giant Kisses

I'm not feeling well, so Jared resorted to this and a bowl if cereal for dinner. Poor guy! Looks like he like it though.

He has been so good at taking care of me, I am super grateful.

Pictures!!

Ok, so here comes the barrage of pictures! ENJOY!

Caius

Leland admiring my flowers. He in fact, took them away from me

and was upset that he couldn't keep them!

Ciaus giving me hugs

 

 Robin and Leland, after he had taken the flowers, before he gave them back

 There were lots of pictures of Robin's family, but this one cracks me up!

 This one makes me laugh, Leland has a look of "You want me to what?" 

and Ciaus has a look of "get over it!"

 With the in-laws and my super cute husband!

 Jared and his parents

 Jared's side of the family, I love them!

 My sisters-in-law and me. I am so lucky, they were both so helpful!

 I adore, and I mean Adore, my nephews and neice. 

Luckily, they like me too. This picture makes me so happy.

This one is so me!

 One of my favorite pictures, period. I love these two boys to pieces!

 Mother-in-law went and got almost the same shoes as me, haha! It made me laugh.

 My side of the family

 My parents and my amazingly handsome Jared

 I love this picture of me! my parents look good too! haha

 Love the dress in this one

 Everyone loves this one. I like it. We just both look SO YOUNG!

This is one of my favorite pictures! It makes me so happy and look at how stinking awesome he is?

ok, I figure that is enough for today. I'll post more tomorrow.

Roatan Honduras

Oh my, time flies! Suddenly it has been two weeks since my cruise and I have hardly had time to breath! Which is good, with the start of the holiday season I get giddy and excited. I really think you should experience and enjoy the holidays. That may be the reason I have tickets to the Trans-siberian Orchestra, Forgotten Carols and the Nutcracker. Those are not to mention of course the christmas recitals of my kaysville nieces. They are already excited and telling me all about what their parts are going to be and making sure I will be there on time. Silly girls.

But back to the things you care about, pictures! Ok,I am just going to show off my favorites right now and get that over with.



Me and Mr. French. I will not lie, I was a little nervous but it was so cool!



Mallory and I with Mr. French. I never thought I would touch a dolphin, much less pose with one!

Isn't this beautiful? Just a random board walk out into the water. Spectacular.

I loved Roatan Honduras. I would sell everything I own and move there in a heart beat. It was so beautiful and when I was there, I really just felt connected. It was kind of weird how life changing that whole trip was for me. I really felt connect and a part of the world, does that make sense? It does to me.

It was so beautiful and I just walked out there and faced the fear of being in the water with a dolphin. It just made me realize how often that feeling of fear and uncertainty seem to pop up in my life. So I have been working really hard to work past those and just do things since then.

If you ever want and amazing vacation spot and a cruise isn't your thing, seriously consider Roatan. It is beautiful and so full of amazing opportunites.