So I've been Tagged....

I feel like there is nothing THAT interesting about me to take up a whole post on here but here it goes.....

1) I have a really weird memory. haha I remember the littlest things that really have no importance. For instance there was an incident that happened to me in kindergarten that I will NEVER forget! haha This girl and I had the same backpack, it was purple and had little tiny lighter purple flowers on it. Mine had my name on the inside of it so I wouldnt take hers by accident. Well long story short she ended up taking mine home one day. As a soft hearted 5 year old, I was DEVISTATED! My mom came to the school because I refused to go home with the wrong backpack! We called the girl's mom and they came to the school and swapped. I went to school with that girl until we graduated from high school, she cracked up when I told her that was why I remembered her! haha My siblings make fun of me all the time because I remember things that NOBODY else remembers! Oh well I guess it's my little gift ;)

2) I am EXTREMELY shy! My roomate Jessica told me one time that I am(and I quote) "socially awkward"! Thanks Jess! lol But I do have to agree with her TO AN EXTENT! When I go to a new crowd/place and I am very reserved. If someone comes up to me and starts talking, I will answer them but my answers are normally very short haha. But on the other hand, if people come into my realm of the world lol aka my house, I am everywhere! When I was younger my aunt thought I hated her because when we would go to California, I would hide behind my parents for the first day! haha Not because I didn't like them, just because I am a very shy person. Once I get to know people the "real me" shines through and people are amazed! Im not a big party person because that would mean I would have to be in a room with people I have never seen before...to most people that would mean "make a fool of yourself, you'll probably never see them again" to me that means "stay to yourself, they probably think you are ridiculous!" oh well, I am working on it :P

3) I LOVE LOVE LOVE heels! I am the youngest AND the tallest in my family yet, I refuse to wear flat shoes! lol I better find someone to marry that is a bit taller than me otherwise we might look kind of awkward jk. If you open my closet and look at my shoe collection(which is quite large because I just love shoes, as my wise friend says "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. the way to mine is through shoes!") about 75% of them are heels! Now I'm not talking wannabe heels with like 1/4" of height, I am talking no less than 2" lol. The other 25% is made up of flip flops! I live in AZ, I wear flip flops 12 months out of the year haha.

4) I am obsessed with getting my nails done! Its like my escape and its that one thing that makes me feel pretty all the time! :P I don't care if I have to eat peanut butter and jelly for a week, or be a couple days late on a bill if thats what it takes for me to get the bi-weekly fill! lol I told my sisters and mom that when I turned 16 and got a job, I was going to get my nails done. For the most part I kept my word, sometimes I get tired of them but once they are gone I miss them so I end up getting them done again! haha I'm weird I know but seriously, some people drink alcohol, some smoke, I get my nails done on a regular basis! haha What can I say? There are worse things I could do to escape from the world of a 20 year old full time college student.

5) I remember phone numbers like it's nobody's business! LOL. My mom used to call me her walking phone book. I would just need to hear a phone number one time and I would remember it forEVER! Now that I have a cell phone and your name is your phone number :P, and it has become a talent that has faded slightly. I can still pull numbers out my mind that havent changed since my cell phone days, but new ones are little more difficult.

Ok so maybe that was a little easier than I thought it would be haha. Hope you enjoyed it! And now I tag.....Jessica, Stephanie, and Danielle

So Bad!

I am so bad at this blogging thing...I wait FOREVER and then write a bunch! And then wait FOREVER again to write anymore. I think its because I have this mindset that I can't post something without a picture. But really....that's not true haha. So here is a little update in the life of ME!

School is stressful! The semester is almost over and I think I am failing my math class :(. Note to self: DO NOT TAKE MATH ONLINE;EVER AGAIN! haha Hopefully I can make it at least a C but who knows...math is not my strength. Looking past that, I am loving my major(Elementray Education) and the opportunity I had this semester to work with the class of third graders that I have grown to love in just 10 weeks :). If you didn't already know, I have been doing my "field experience hours" at Whitman Elementary with Mr. Thorson. He has been teaching there since before I was going there in 1993! Haha! He is a great teacher though and is helping me learn alot about my teaching styles by letting me do one on one activities with his students. It has been alot of fun and on Wednesday this week when I realized I am almost done with it, I got sad :( I will miss it alot!

Work is work....haha. I am working for a company called Horizon Technologies in Tempe as their "Customer Service Receptionist" lol I like to put a title on it...makes me feel more important! :P
I can't really complain about it because they have been AWESOME working with me and my school schedule and allowing me to take some time off for my field experience hours. I keep telling myself that I should find something that is closer to home and maybe more in my field of studies..and then I think about how much they have been working with me and doubt that I could get it better anywhere else...so I push that thought away haha.

As far as my hospital scare goes, everything is going good. It was a long 5 weeks of being unbelievably tired and fed up with my body haha. But I had a last followup appointment this last Monday and everything was in the green! YAY! My doctor told me that I just need to keep up on my medications (I guess once you pop, the fun doesnt stop eh? haha jk.) and my diet :/. She said from now on she just wants to see me every six months for regular visits. So YAY! The worst is past! Well except for the stack of bills I get to go home to everyday :/. Haha. But seriously, thanks again to everyone's prayers and thoughts to get me better! It definitly helped!

Lola is getting big! Or at least that's what people keep telling me haha. I see her everyday so I don't notice the change in her as much. Inevitably though, she is losing her cute puppy hair :(. Its sad and I joke that she looks like a cancer dog haha. Her neck hair is all wispy and rough but her hind hair is still tight and curly lol. I guess it will even out soon but in the mean time she just gets to look odd I guess. Her favorite thing is still to bite on fingers and toes. She loves my dad more than anything! She can hear him opening the door or walking down the hall and she will perch herself on the top of the couch and wag her tail all crazy like until he picks her up and loves on her. haha. Some people are afraid of my dad but honestly, just hand him a puppy and he will be your best friend! haha He loves the attention from Lola and I swear looks forward to coming home, if for nothing else, then for her to lick his face haha. She is a good dog and gets better and better with the whole potty training thing everyday.

Let's see what else is going on in my life? hmm....Unfortunatley I am still single :( sad sad sad! A couple prospects in my eye but no action is being taken yet so we will see what happens....maybe at Christmas there will be some more news about that haha. Other than that, not much is going on. Just trying to juggle school, work, and a social life...not to easy, but managable! haha I promise I wont wait so long to put more up about me...We took(well are in the process of taking) family pictures so I will post those up next. Don't worry, if you are confused about the ( ), it will all make sense when I post them haha!

It's Over....Hopefully!

Now that I am home, I am feeling very tired and very weak. I was put on a weight restriction of not lifting anything that weighs more than 10 pounds, not too hard as a receptionist ;). But that does mean I cant hold my nephew :( or my neices! SAD DAY! I also went from a normal-non-pill-popping citizen to having 3 new medications I have to take daily! ugh! what a drag! But you know, if that means I wont have to repeat this last week EVER again, Ill take it! haha. I have to go see the doctor in two weeks to check blood levels and what not and then I was told I need to see my doctor every 6 months to make sure the problem is not coming back. Explaination for this you ask? THEY DONT KNOW!!! can you believe it??? They said it is "a hormonal inbalance that just happens sometimes in younger patients". WOW what an explanation! haha. Oh well. Im on the mend and wanna thank everyone for the flowers and prayers that helped me make it home :) Yesterday at church I saw a good friend who had been in the hospital the day before with low blood sugar and his son had been in the hospital the week before for a football accident. We all decided we had to one-up each other, and came to the conclusion that I won because I not only got an ambulance ride(as did both of them) but I got 2 liters of new blood AND a surgery! haha wow gotta make light a hard situations! But thanks again to everyone that visited me and prayed that everything would be ok.

What a Weekend!

So I guess you could say I had an "eventful" weekend. It all started on Wednesday actually....while I was at work. I started feeling kind of tired and cold. I wont go into ALOT of detail but what was happening didnt go away....it just got worse actually. I decided if I still felt the same when I woke up I was not going to work....well I didnt sleep AT ALL on Wednesday night and so I stayed home on Thursday. I told them I was fighting something so I would not be in. At about 10 am I got off the couch, where I had decided to sleep for the night, went to the bathroom and went to go back to the couch....well when I got to the step in our entry way, I felt VERY dizzy....I sat down on the step and the the next thing I knew I was waking up sprawled out on the floor. I had NEVER fainted before so I was rather confused, I felt normal so I got up and went to the couch. I slept for a while and then my mom called to check on me. She asked me if I needed anything and I asked her to bring some things home at her lunch....she said she would send them with my cousin cause she was unable to come home at lunch. I decided I could deal with that. Well I slept again until my cousin arrived to bring me food and....supplies....but when I got up to let her in, I felt dizzy again. My eyes were all starry so I held on to the wall hoping it would go away. I opened the door but couldnt really see her.....I heard her tell me what the bags were and she made a joke about something in the bag....the next thing I know, I am waking up on the floor seeing her run past me telling me not to move. She was on the phone with the fire department but I couldnt figure out why she was freaking out! I was FINE! haha (or at least I thought I was). My aunt came in and kept asking my cousin where my phone was. "why are they talking about me like I am not here?!?!" and "what are they freaking out about!!! I am sleeping! I'm tired!" were the only things going hrough my mind. Finally my cousin decided to clue me in and told me that I had fainted and hit my head, and not to move, that 911 was on the way. "oh great!" I thought! "this day couldnt get any worse!!!" Talk about speaking too soon! The fire department came, checked me out, and asked me how I felt. I honestly felt 100% normal, just tired. They had me sign the refusal for ambulance(because I was not about to go to the hospital!) and then they left, telling me I looked normal but I should probably go get checked out. "gee thanks guys!" I kept telling my cousin there was no need but she wouldnt believe me. She called my mom and told her...she came straight home! With no questions, she told me to change my clothes and get in the car, we were going to urgent care. I started feeling dizzy again, so with some help i got ready to go. On the way out to the car I told my mom stop.....next thing I knew I was waking up ON THE GROUND! ok seriously, this fainting thing was getting old! Long story short, we got the urgent care and they made me take an ambulance to the ER! gosh people I am FINE! haha why was nobody listening to me? Maybe it was because I looked like a ghost....or maybe because I couldnt stand up for more than 5 seconds before feeling like the world was falling! hmm maybe. When we got to the ER, they put me in a room and told me to sit tight. My mom made some phone calls and had bishop stock and kevin(his son) come to give me a blessing. The blessing said the doctors would know what to do and my body would respond well to whatever they did. Well that's all I had to hold onto while they hooked me to all the monitors and tubes. Well after 7 hours in the ER, they sent me up to a room telling me that my hemoglobin(blood) level was at an 8.3 and that a normal LOW was 12. hmm scary right? They put me on some sort of hormone through IV to balance everything out.....a doctor came in and told me that if that didnt work they would have to do a blood transfusion and if it still didnt slow down, they would have to do a proceedure called a D and C. Well the night went by with no sleep....lots of blood work and vital checks all to get to the conclusion that I could not get away from a blood tranfusion. K all I knew about that was that my mom had to have 3 of them when she was in the hospital! um SCARY! They ended up having to give me 2 liters of blood just to find that things were not progressing....sad. On Friday afternoon they informed me I would be going into surgey, they didnt know when but if I was gonna have anyone from my church come they better come fast. My two wonderful brother in laws got there just as they were taking me to pre-op and were able to give me a blessing. It was very comforting to have a little more hope to hold on to. The blessing said I would get through the surgery fine and would have no lasting memories of it. Well....let's hope they were right :) Everything went well with the surgey and I slept a little better that night. I was not allowed to eat anything the WHOLE time I had been there but after the surgery they finally gave me ICE CHIPS...wow ice had never tasted so good! haha. They let me have "clear liquids" throughout the night and then actually let me have food on Saturday morning. They told me that if I could walk without feeling dizzy and eat without feeling sick I could go home! WOW what a relief! I would finally get the dang IV out of my hand and get to lay in my OWN bed! YES! A light at the end of the tunnel! I did fine, got my discharge info(along with three new persriptions) and a wheelchair ride down to the car.

Updated Lola

Just wanted to keep everyone updated on what
little miss Lola Marie looks like. (no she does not
have a middle name...its just an inside joke between me and a friend haha) This was actually taken today after church. As you can tell she is kinda dirty but still cute as ever! I tried to get a pic of her collar but she just kept biting me so....maybe next time.

MEMORIES!

So this is THE COOLEST pool EVER! This is where/how I spent most of my summer nights! It belongs to my friend Megan....well her parents....and now she is away for school so this pool is just a faint memory now! lol jk.....Megan will be back when it is warm enough to enjoy it so we arent missing out on much! Still miss Megan and all we did!

ISNT IT AWESOME! its So much better in person too!!!

San Diego Temple

The day we left to come home, we stopped by the San Diego Temple. I learned it is a pretty new temple....only like 8 years old. It was BEAUTIFUL though! It was a Monday so techincally the grounds were closed but we felt we could go in because we were out of towners. We snuck in through the open gate and took our pictures in peace.
I took the first picture and loved how it made it look so monstorous! But when I took this picture, the building doesnt look so BIG it looks BEAUTIFUL with the landscaping around it! Its amazing that no matter which temple you are at, the spirit you feel is all the same!

DUNA DUNA DUNA DUNA.......

This was at the shark exhibit. The one of the actual shark is from the walkway underneath the tank. It was a HUGE line and took forever to get into and then lasted maybe 4 minutes before you had to leave it, but it was still kinda cool to look up and have all these different kinds of sharks swimming abover your head like nothing. The next picture is nasty and I cant believe I put it up! It is a statue of the actual size of a sharks mouth......I know I know thats not gross that's cool....but seriously! Look at me! We had just gone to the dolphin show and BRILLIANT MISS jess made us sit in the "soak zone"....not like the 12th row but the 2ND row!!!! yeah needless to say I should not have done my hair that morning! It was fun and well worth it though

Polar Bears

So this is one of the Polar Bears from the Sea World exhibit. I will tell you now that this exhibit was the most boring because this is what they did! That is saying something too cause the freshwater fish and sea water fish rooms were not much to write home about! Even though they were kinda boring, the polar bears were still way cute! My favorite bears by far!!!
This is one of the things in the Artic exhibit. It is a HUGE wall of ice! It is to show you how cold it is where all of these animals live. At first it looks like a wall of foam....until you touch it for .5 seconds and realize it is THE coldest thing EVER! There were hand prints and finger prints in it all over the place where people had hels their hands/fingers to see how long they could stand it.
I just thought this was cool. It is a right and left Polar Bear paw print made out of plaster with jess(right) and me(left) comparing the sizes! Pretty big hands if I might say so! (the bears not us!)

OH SHAMU!!!!

So we took a trip to San Diego for the weekend the alst weekend of September. Well when I was talking to my sister about it on the way there she made a very simple request....."take a picture of Shamu to show Macie! she loves whales!" alright I thought, this would be simple....well let me tell you how hard it is to get a simple.....good picture of shamu! We went down right before the show to the tank below to try and get a good picture....looks good right???-------------->
well.....we started LAUGHING because right as I pushd the button on my phone to take the picture, Shamu decided he would let it go and dispose of all he had eaten that day.....right in front of us! We started laughing so hard because we were actually on our way to the restroom after the pic.....jess will still tell you her and shamu were "on the same page" haha





This pic is just of jess laughing at the..."aftermath" of our "visit" with Shamu.

NEW CAR!!!!!

After A LONG time of waiting and driving my little Corolla that was falling apart, I finally got my "new" car! It is a 99 Nissan Altima! It isnt brand new....but it is to me! It has AIR CONDITIONING!!! what a concept for Arizona! I love my new car!!!! I dont know what else to say about it! haha

Lola's Homecoming!

Lola finally got to come home!!! This picture is like a week after she came home. I sent it to everyone I could because she was looking so cute!You can't see it but she is wearing her little pink collar(that she HATES). It was quite an exciting week when she came home but now she is LOVED by everyone that meets her! She weighs about 2 pounds in this picture and wont get too much bigger before she is all done....the only sad part is...she will lose her cute fluffy puppy hair and replace it with white adult(not so fluffy) fur.

Lazy Larry!

K this monkey was supposed to be our "mascot" at work but there were some technical difficulties(we will go with that haha) with the website. So now we have two HUGE boxes of these little monkeys at work and nothing to do with them. I decided to take one cause they are cute. I was driving around with Stef and decided to give him a seat in my car. He wouldnt stay though :( It was fun while it lasted Larry! I think I ended up giving him to Macie that night and she was so excited! She gets to take a stuffed animal with her to bed everynight and said she wanted the monkey to be with her that night haha! I tucked her into bed and she tucked Larry in! She is so adorable! haha

Walking or Not Walking? That is the Question!

This picture is kinda blurry but it was so funny and she looked so cute when she was trying to walk! haha Lola at 3 weeks, trying to walk across the floor, her little claws kept getting stuck to the carpet and her legs were spread out so far she looked so funny!!! Don(the guy i work with who is giving her to me) says she is walking better now and should be a pro when she goes home :)

ALMOST TIME!!

So this is Lola at 3 weeks old. She has her eyes open all the way and she wouldnt sit still. This was one of about 10 pictures that Christy took to try and get her face and it doesnt even show her body because I had to hold her it still haha. She is a cutie!!! Her hair is getting curly and she was already trying to bite me....with no teeth haha. She will get to come home on the 20th of September :) I am WAY excited!

BUMBO!!

This is Ren in his big boy bumbo chair! They are the coolest things ever! Yes he is sitting in it on the table haha. I was working on an email and Kindra was putting Macie in bed so he was chillin' with me at the table :) He is getting SO big! It is crazy! He always has his hands in his face and i had just pulled them away from his mouth and snapped the picture so he still has that look of complete shock on his face haha I love my nephew!!!!!!

Her Name Is LOLA!

So this is my puppy Lola at 8 days old. I dont know how many people remember Charlie....he didn't get meet many of you....but Lola is his baby sister. Since the sad occurance of Charlie's passing I have been waiting for another litter to come along with a girl this time. Well a few weeks after I moved home the guy I work with informed me the mama was pregnant again :) I was exstatic and told him if there were any girls I wanted one! Well the weeks went by and finally the puppies were born. 2 girls and 1 boy! WOW how lucky I got! They were born on August 9th 2008. And I went to pick Lola out on the 17th. Now it is only a matter of time till she gets to come home with me! Don't worry she already has a cute little pink and black kennel, a pink collar with BLING, and YES A DRESS!!!!! haha!!! I will see her a few more times before she comes home se she gets used to my smell so the transition won't be so hard. I will be sure to take a pic everytime so everyone can see how she is growing!!! YAY!

Now you all can sing the song.....cause yes she could very well have yellow feathers and a dress!!!! and she will be a little show girl!!!! hahaha!!!!

"Her name was lola, she was a showgirl

With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there

She would merengue and do the cha-cha

And while she tried to be a star

Tony always tended bar

Across the crowded floor, they worked from 8 til 4

They were young and they had each other

Who could ask for more?

Chorus:At the copa (co!) copacabana (copacabana)

The hottest spot north of havana (here)

At the copa (co!) copacabana

Music and passion were always in fashion

At the copa.... they fell in love"

Natalie Shea

This is my neice Natalie at the temple. She was hanging out at my house and my friend wanted to go to the visitors center so we took Natalie. She loved looking at the water and the pictures of Christ in the reflections presentation. Hopefully one day she will get to experience the full blessings of the temple!

HOLLYWOOD!

I took this picture of Macie in the car on the way to Ren's doctor's appointment and sent it to Courtney. I dont know about you but when I see it I think of Hollywood from the movie Mannequin! The only other person in my life that would think the same thing was....well I thought it would have been Courtney! WRONG! I sent it to her and said "tell me the first word that pops in to your head" She said "SUPERSTAR!" I replied to her and said she was supposed to say "HOLLYWOOD!" lol I didnt even have to explain what I meant by that and she sent this message back: Baby, we can make it if we're heart-to-heart
For the next twenty minutes Kindra, me and Courtney went back and forth with the lyrics to "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us" from 1985's Mannequin! lol

And we can build this dream together
Standing strong forever
Nothing's gonna stop us now
And if this world runs out of lovers
We'll still have each other
Nothing's gonna stop us,
Nothing's gonna stop us now, whoa no!!!


Gotta love sisters!!!

COOL REN!

This is Ren! He is the cutest! I bought this onesie for his shower and decided he needed to wear it! haha I took a picture of him chillin on the floor and sent it to Vaughn. He is gonna be a looker! I know he doesn't look the happiest in this picture but he wasnt very happy with me! haha I had just changed his diaper and he was still on the floor.....he doesn't really like that! I keep telling Kindra that Ren looks like an 80 year old man! haha I swear baby boys look like old men.....maybe that is just to show you how cute they will be when they ARE 80! haha I love my nephew! I am so glad I finally got one! Neices are fun! But nephews are so much different!

Isaac Michael Aguilar

Tuesday morning at 5:15 am I recieved a text message from Christy's mom that said "call me". well being in the half asleep state of mind that I was in I thought, "um no! ill call her when i get up!" haha About two minutes later when I was not so asleep I thought I might wanna call her. lol Right when her phone started to ring so did my house phone....I was too late. I hung up my phone and Christy was calling me....I knew something was up! haha She told me she just thought I would want to know she had her baby. She told me that she woke up at 2:00 am and her water broke....jokingly I asked why it took her three hours to call her best friend! haha Well everyone was completely shocked that he came so fast! The doctor checked on her at 4 am and said she had time.....well no one thought she only had 37minutes! haha Isaac Michael Aguilar was born at 4:37 on July 1st 2008! Weighing in at a whole 7lbs 3oz he is a looker! haha




Christy looks so tired in this picture and would probably kill me if she knew I was posting it on the internet but I dont care haha! She did a great job! He looks just like her little brother Cody but with black hair!






He is a beautiful "little man" that will bring everyone he knows happiness! We are glad he is finally here.......but we will see how fun Christy thinks it is when she takes him home to her home! haha.....she will be a GREAT mom!

CHRISTY'S SHOWER!

Christy made it to her shower by barely! lol When I told her when I had scheduled it she got all worried that she would be in labor or something that close to her due date. Well she made it to her shower but the next Tuesday little Isaac Michael Aguilar came! haha. This is my favorite picture from the shower because we look happy! Never did me or Elyse think Christy would have a baby first but.....what did we know? haha. I planned the shower for a long time and had certain expectations for it. I had Christy's mom help me the week of and day of. It ended up being better than I could have imagined! So many people came to support Christy and her new bundle of joy! Isaac's mom and sister even showed up which made the day so much more special for Christy to have their support and company! She got so much from everyone and I think everyone had a lot of fun! It was kinda like Christmas in the sense that I planned it and planned it for a long time, figuring out food and invties and games, etc. And then in less than two hours it was over! haha But by the end of the day I felt like I could relax! haha

As my gift and another game for the shower I put together a basket of "baby necessities". Lotion, soap, diapers, wipes, bottle brush, pacifiers, etc. And then had everyone guess how much I spent on the whole basket. People got pretty close, some guessed WAY too low and others guessed WAY too high! lol Christy's aunt Starla won that game, she guessed $65 when the real price was $69.15. This is the only picture we got with the basket in it......sorry that I look so crappy in it! haha. jk.

DON'T CROSS YOUR LEGS!

The game from the shower that I think was the most exciting was the one Staci Fallbeck won! She was like a hawk! haha When the guests walked in we handed them a blue plastic pacifier to pin on their shirt. If they crossed ANY part of their leg, the person that saw them do it got to steal their pin. At the end of the shower the person with the most pins won a prize. Well when women sit down their natural instinct is to cross something haha. So Staci didnt do much sitting haha. She had 9 pins when all was said and done. She spent the whole shower walking around circling the people sitting down like a vulture or a hawk looking for a meal! haha She was the one having the most fun! Christy's aunt Freddie was the runner up with 6. When Freddie started catching up to Staci, she got more in to it, determined to win! haha Good Job STACI!

AND THE WINNER IS......

We played a game at Christy's shower to see how big Christy's belly was. We passed around a spool of yarn and had people stretch it out and cut where they thought it would go around. Some people got pretty close but some people were WAY off!
Christy's dad came by to drop off some chairs while this game was going on and he, being a typical dad, thought it would be funny to guess. He stretched the yarn as far as his arms could go and then did it again and cut! haha When it came time to measure he was, needless to say, WAY OFF! haha Christy, her dad, Isaac, AND Christy's mom could have fit inside the peice he cut! He thought he was pretty funny but Christy didnt really think so! lol
After going around the whole room of guests we found our winner! Christy's aunt Rauna was less than an inch off of what the real measurement was. GOOD JOB RAUNA!

Diaper Cake

This is the diaper cake Christy's mom made for the shower. It took 100 diapers, 7 recieving blankets, and 10 baby toys to make it complete. Laurie was very proud of her amateur work! I have to admit it was pretty dang cute! We had a game at the shower where everyone had to guess how many diapers it took to make the cake. Staci Fallbeck was the closest...she guessed 102 but she had already won another game so we took the runner up, Margo Johnson from the ward who guessed 94. Everyone loved the cake and wondered where we ordered it....until we told them Laurie made it! haha! Good Job Laurie!

MACIE: The Big Helper!

Christy's baby shower was on June 28th. It went good. I am glad it's over! haha This is macie being a great big helper by being right by Christy's side while opening presents! She has been obsessed with being a big sister helper! haha She is seriously the cutest thing EVER!

Jade and Macie

I love this pic! This is my cousin Jade and my niece Macie. We went with my sister to one of her doctor's appointments and I got to sit in the waiting room with the girls lol. Well that thing behind them is a HUGE dog that they have in the lobby area. I had the girls "reading" books and Macie wanted to sit in the puppy's lap so she climbed on up and sat herself down. Well if you know Jade you know she just cant stand seeing someone do something she isnt doing so within a minute Jade was up on the puppy's lap too. The nurses saw this and thought it was THE cutest thing ever. haha So i took a pic so i could show my sister when she got out! They are adorable! :)

GANGSTER GIRLS!

These are my adorable nieces Natalie and Macie! they came over to my house last saturday to play and decided they were gonna "help me" clean my room. i was going through some boxes I had not emptied from moving back home and they found these beanies. With no guidance they both quickly put them on an plopped back on my bed to continue watching their movie. I decided to take advantage of this "candid" moment and see if they would make a "peace" sign! haha well they tried......

BABY REN!

This is my new nephew Lorenzo David Wright! He was born on Monday June 9th 2008. He was 7lbs 8oz and he was 20.5 inches long. We all say he was 21 inches long though cause the nurse didnt have the ruler alway up to the top of his head! haha. Ren(as we call him) has quite a story behind him! My mom and I were at the hospital at 4:30 waiting for the doctor to come tell us how much longer it would be before he was here. Well the doctor came at 5:00 and said "oh you will be here till about 11 before he even comes so get some rest" well we were ready for that answer because my neice took so long to come. So my mom and I left to get some things done at about 6:oo and my sister relaxed and tried to get some sleep. Not 45 minutes later as we were in line at costco we get a call from my brother in law. This is how it goes, mom:"hello?" vaughn: "are you home yet?" mom: "no why?" vaughn: "well turn around! she is doing better than planned! hurry!" mom: "oh my! ok we are coming!(click) BRE! lets go!" haha so we run to the car and rush back to the hospital. We get to the nurses station at 6:49 and she walks us to the room. as we get to the door a nurse comes out and says "HE'S HERE!". We missed him by TWO MINUTES! lol my mom was, needless to say, very distraught by this but Ren was here and healthy so thats all that mattered!
This is macie and her new baby brother Ren. She calls him "rerenzo" cause she cant say LOrenzo lol. She has been walking around for the last 3 weeks saying "i'll help you, im a big sister!" haha she is so cute! Also for about four weeks before ren came she would walk up to my sister's belly and say "mom! i think rerenzo is ready to come out now!" lol or one time they went to the doctor and my sister told her they were going to ren's doctor so she would be good. Well when they left macie was very worried and when they got in the car she said "MOM WAIT! we forgot baby ren!" haha she is adorable! and she is going to be such a GREAT big sister! Ok so this is my favorite picture of ren at the hospital! My brother in law said he came out with his eyes wide open like this! He was born at 6:47 pm and we didnt leave the hospital until almost 9:30 pm......that whole time he was wide eyed and awake just like in this picture! haha that has to mean something!

how sad

this picture has a story. haha i was at my apartment babysitting morgan the first day that my roomate had to work her later shift. she had like an hour left of her shift and wanted to come home so bad cause she knew i had morgan at the house. i took this picture and sent it to her and captioned it "morgan is so sad that you are still at work". my roomate texted back "im coming baby morgan!" haha i think its funny that we dont call her morgan....we call her BABY morgan! haha anyway its a cute picture!

BABY MORGAN!

this is baby morgan! she is my cousin's baby! whenever i can i snag her cause she is SO cute! she is now 8 weeks old.

"Time of death"

So i have bad news.....my puppy charlie died :( him and his brother conner got parvo when they were ten weeks old. we went through at home treatments for a week and conner beat it quick but on thursday april 24th it got the best of charlie. i was at work and got a call from my room mate telling me that she didnt think he was going to make it much longer. i got home from work at 6:00 and he was gone. my room mate has had this obsession with greys anatomy and wanting to say "time of death". so instead of crying that my puppy had died i smiled and said "time of death 16:00". the next monday at work my room mate decided to make a death certificate to make it official. she made me sign it and she signed it so that charlie hand would be remembered forever! haha wow we are dorks!

my weekend!

so this weekend was crazy! i got a new puppy and a new home all in the same day!!!! my puppy's name is charlie! he is way cute! i dont have a picture of him yet but i will get one and put it up next time i am at my computer. so i moved out on saturday and now i have one roomate that i am good friends with and another that we both dont like at all! we have three dogs that are so much fun! Tau is a jack russell terrier/beagle mix who we rescued from the pound!!!! then there is charlie and conner who we got from a guy that we work with. it has been a crazy weekend but tons of fun too! pictures will be coming very very soon! pics of my new home and my new puppies :) anyway im at work so i have to leave but i will put pics up for everyone to see :)