Vacation!!!

Alright, so to make up for the last few blogs with no pictures, I'm going to have a LOT of pictures in this post! So be prepared! This post is in regards to the vacation we took August 1st through the 3rd. We went up to Strawberry Pinnacles with a bunch of friends and it was so fun! Here's the pics!

Me four-wheeling! (BTW, I'm terrified of things without seatbelts!)

Me and Amber being our fabulous selfs on this rock that we totally conquered!

Me and Jon

We are such daredevils, hanging off of the side of cliffs and what-not.

Jon and Josh actually getting along! This picture will be worth money someday!

Secret Agents!

All us girlies!

The Preggos

Dipping our feet in the river (It was freezing! It took me about 10 minutes before my feet got numb enough not to feel it anymore!)

Jon is so cool. :)

Shawn and Stacy (With a small glimpse of Jon's boat in the background, he'd like that mentioned.) ;)

Tiff getting "Practice" with Amber's baby Owen

Owen and Dillan on Dillan's very own 4-wheeler

Dillan is such a rockstar!

One of the pinnacles

I'm pretty tired in this picture, having stayed up all night fishing and reading the Twilight books again.

I caught the first fish the night before (we spent the night on the boat, way fun!), and after that I sort of tapped out. But Jon was catching at LEAST one fish every 15-20 minutes all night and throughout the next day. This is the only one we took pictures of though, because they were all pretty smallish.

Dillan getting ready to tear it up! (He had some pretty wicked moves on that thing! Drove over every hill he could find!)

Cute Dillan!

Brian and Tiffany with Owen

Amber and Owen

Brian was the first to brave the freezing waters of Strawberry River...

But it soon turned into "The Man Test", where all the boys had to see who was the toughest and could stand the cold waters.

Overall it was a way fun vacation! Sorry it took SOOOO long to get this posted! Pictures take forever to download. :) Anyway, it was very fun and I enjoyed it a lot. Someday I'm going to get around to posting pictures from Jon's birthday and then I'll tell you all the scary tail of El Diablo. Until then, I hope you enjoy! :)

Random Questions

So, I finished reading Breaking Dawn, and OH MY GOSH!!!! That book threw me through SO many loops! Oh I love it though! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!! If you haven't read the Twilight books yet, then you absolutely have to! I have them so you can borrow them from me if you need to! In fact, I had pre-ordered Breaking Dawn back in May, and it was delivered yesterday, however being the impatient person I am I had already bought it on Monday but it was too late to cancel the online order, so I sold my second copy to a co-worker. Anyway, I love it so much! Stephenie Meyer was right in that everyone is happy in the end, it was perfect! Anyway, other than that everything's been pretty basic. I just finished training one of my classes at work yesterday, and I start another 5 week class on Monday - still working an AM shift. For those of you who don't know, the last four weeks I've been working AM and Jon has been working PM. We overlap by about 30 min, and that's all we really got to see eachother, and now it's going to continue for 5 more weeks! (Sigh) Oh well, if other people can do it then so can I. I'm just so used to being spoiled and seeing my husband everyday and carpooling with him and working with him, so this is an adjustment for me. But I will persevere! ;) We went on vacation last week, and that definitely helped a lot.

Okay, so until I get my lazy butt up and post all of my pictures from my vacation last week, here's a happier post than my last one! :)

Rule: One word answers! No exceptions!

1. Where is your cell phone? Purse
2. Your significant other? Jonathan
3. Your hair? Curly
4. Your mother? Spacey!
5. Your father? Hilarious!
6. Your favorite things? Books
7. Your dream last night? Highschool
8. Your favorite drink? LifeWater
9. Your dream/goal? Mom
10. The room you’re in? Office
11. Your church? True!
12. Your fear? Alone
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Cache
14. Where were you last night? Home
15. What you’re not? Tall
16. Muffins? Blueberry
17. One of your wish list items? Baby!
18. Where you grew up? Hyrum
19. The last thing you did? Drove
20. What are you wearing? Jeans
21. Your TV? TiVo
22. Your pets? Ugh.
23. Your computer? Slow
24. Your life? Wonderful!
25. Your mood? Tired
26. Missing someone? Jon
27. Your car? Monty
28. Something you’re not wearing? Heels
29. Favorite store? Costco
30. Your Summer? What?
31. Like (love) someone? YES!
32. Your favorite color? Yellow
33. Last time you laughed? Today
34. Last time you cried? Yesterday
35. Who will re-post this? Someone...

So, just to avoid questions later, yes I'm pretty boring, yes I'm baby hungry and no we're not trying. :) That should cover it! I'll actually post pictures and fun stuff from our vacation last week later on today when I'm off of work. After I shop for Jon's birthday, of course! ;) Anyway, that's all for now, so be sure to comment! :)

Rain

So here I am sulking a bit because Jon and I are working different shifts. It sucks. Do I like working morning shifts? Heck yes! But do I like the fact that when I leave in the morning Jon is still asleep and when he comes home at night I'm asleep? No. Do I like that I only see him for 15-20 minutes a day as I'm finishing and he's beginning work? No. But, as is life, as I was sulking about this I decided to log onto my facebook account and see how my friends were doing. It got me laughing at some funny pictures and smiling at some of the comments made, until I saw one of my friends from high school with a lot of comments saying, "I'm so sorry for your loss, we have you in our prayers". So I start to wonder, what is this loss? Well, I looked at her brothers page, and there's nothing there. I go to her sisters page, and she has a message stating that their dad had died yesterday. Having been friends with this family for a while, even dating said brother for a short time, and having lived just around the corner from them in the same ward, I immediately started crying. I also immediately felt very foolish for feeling bad about myself because I don't see my husband as much as I used to. It's funny how when we stress about contrite things like that you are almost always put in your place in one way or another. Anyway, I don't think that anyone from their family reads my blogs, but if someone does please include the Pack family in your prayers. Brother Pack was a great teacher, beautiful violinist and singer, great musician all around, and genuinly a nice guy, and his family shows what a great man he was. Please please please include them in your prayers.

Julie and Phillip McGee!

So finally I got off my lazy butt and decided to put these pictures on here! So Julie got married on June 5, 2008 in the Bountiful Temple. It was a perfect day, not too hot but not too cold, and decent cloud cover for most of the pictures. They had their reception in Clearfield, and I absolutely LOVE the decorations!:) It was absolutely beautiful for anyone who couldn't be there. Anyway, enough with the intro, here's the picture! (Sorry mine aren't the best, I'm not good with a camera so pretty much all of the ones I took didn't turn out good, most of these are the ones Jon took) :)

This is when he was "trying to get away"

I LOVE her train!

Me in some awesome aviators that I picked out for Baby Brother Jeffrey. Yeah, I know, I can barely contain the hotness that is in these glasses. ;)

Our cute family! (Minus Baby Brother Brian - he doesn't come home from his mission until next year.)

All of Julie's "Sisters" (I'm still the favorite of course, even if the others are a bunch of Russian models...)

We call him "The Dad"

Isn't growing up fun? ;)

Stick 'em up!

After the wedding in the afternoon, they had a ring ceremony before the reception.

My little cousin Zane was the ring bearer - isn't he so cute! Behind him (ignoring the camera) is his little sister Gracie. They're so darn cute!

And, of course, the cake! Mmmmm!

Last, but not least, here's Zane's little goodbye message to Julie.

(In order to hear him, scroll to the bottom of this page and pause the playlist)

Well, that's all, hope you liked it! Be sure to comment!

Poor Poor Puppy

So on Saturday Jon and I went to a barbaque with some friends. We had a lot of fun, but when we got back, we noticed that Molly was wimpering a lot. Some of our neighbors were shooting fireworks, so we thought she was just afraid of those. Later that night, I noticed that her eye was swollen and icky and stuck shut! Well, it was midnight, so I decided I would look at it in the morning when I could give her a bath and rinse her eye off good.

We get home from church on Sunday, and after washing Molly off and getting her eye to open a little, I see something big and green in it! I quickly found out that it was a fox-tail burr! I tried to pull it out, but it had attached itself to the inside of her top eyelid! Poor girl! Everytime she rubbed it she would yelp. Anyway, I figured that it would probably do more damage for me to pull it out, so I found a few vets that are open on Sundays and called around. I got ahold of three of them, and they all agreed that it was imperative to get the burr out right away or risk her eye getting more infected and possibly going blind or losing her eye all together! So while Jon and his parents were fixing our water softener (it had started leaking over the weekend too, of course!) I rushed Molly over to the Pet Care Center in Taylorsville/Murray area. They rushed her back there and ($216 later!) we were able to get the burr out of her eye and give me some meds to take home with her. So now she has to wear a funny little collar so she won't scratch her eye and make it worse. At first, she just stood there and wouldn't move, but finally today (Tuesday) she even went up the porch stairs! She's doing lots better now, and as long as we keep the meds in her she's not in any pain. Here's some pictures of her:

She's so depressed, this is right after I brought her home.