HAPPENINGS

AUGUST

Another normal month for us! lol- we arent very exciting people i guess! lol Codys brother's wife had her baby shower, and i helped throw it, that was pretty fun. Also my sister in law was in town for almost 2-weeks with our nephew, and we had them stay over a night which was a blast, eventhough jexi was sick- come to find out she had strep- but we took care of little tavon for her so she cld rest, and that was a blast! i got teary eyed just seeing how well cody and tavon played together!

The last monday of August i got a hair job at Great Clips, so this is my secon week, but only like my 5th day cutting hair- due to training days and me being out with medical leave for my foot. So far i like it! Also the last sunday of august, Cody and i got called to the Nursery! We r excoted to be called to doing what we love, I LOVE kids so of caourse i didnt hesitate to say no to the calling! lol. the only bad thiung is that we r new to this ward anyways and now being in the nursery, noone will get to know us. Oh well!

JULY

July was a very normal month! we had a good 4th of july, spent it with both of our families so that was nice. Cody and I did our very first 5k(ever) together and it went ok, ever since then ive been trying to eat healthy and keep the wait off! a week before the race i stopped drinking Caffeine, and now im happy to say its been almost 2 months since a nice cold Dr. Pepper went throught my system! ive been pretty good at not drinking pop at all either, but if i have a craving for caffeine, i just drink sprite and it goes away! LOL

4 years

This is one of our engagements taken about 4 years ago, in July sometime! lol Look how young we look!

Today, 4 years ago, Cody made the best decision and asked me to marry him!~~~ of course i made the best decision and said yes! I really cant beleive its been 4years! i love cody with all my heart and am so glad we have eternity together!

June

where do i start with june! June has been one of the toughest for me, personal wise. My mom had surgery, and so we were down in salt lake for 4 days to be with her.
my mom had been losing her hearing and getting headaches at the same time, so she went into the doc, so after multiple MRIs and such, they found a little tumor on the inside of her ear my her brain, so she made the decision to have this form of Brain surgery. she had the surgery on june 14th and came home the following sunday which was fathers day. She is doing good now. but the whole experience has strengthened me tremendously, thoughts just kept going through my head, and it kept making me nervous. The surgery itself took like 5 hours, but she spent 1day and a half in the nccu(icu), then spent the rest of her time in the natal icu(i think thats the name). She had the surgery done at the university on utah hospital, cause a doc here in town referred her to a sergeon down there! I was sssoooo nervous with this whole thing cause i mean for cryig out loud she had brain surgery, poeple kept telling me that it wldnt be as bad as i was making out to be, but i dont care what people think, to me anything to do with the brain is serious for me! but I'm glad she is doing good and the surgery went well.
While we were down in SLC, after mom was out of the NCCU(icu) on that friday, we went to little place that has mini golf and a batting cages, and so cody and i and my sister had to have a little fun considering the week we had(very nerv-racking and stressful not knowing what will happen) then our real dad met us in south jordan/sandy to have dinner! this was the first time my sister and him met for many, many years! all in all the trip went good.
That mainly was all that happened in june! Oh yeah, june was the first month with me only working 1 job. yep thats right, i quit mcds. after 8 years there, and me wanting a hair job, i just had to be done there! And Cody also quit a job, so yes, we r more of a normal couple now with 3 jos total instead of 5! lol

May

May was a fun month! Codys littles brother turned the sweet 16! its crazy to me cause when cody and I first met, he was only like 8, now hes able to date.....caarrrraazzzyyy! Then i also graduated! YAY, it was hard, tough, fun, etc, but most of all i learned alot and am so thankful no one let me quit last october when i wanted to. 2days after graduation, i took my practical test and passed also. Also my friend wendy got married and we were able to attend her temple marriage and her malad reception, we wish them all the best!

March and april

nothing much exciting happened in march, still work, and school!

APRIL

Cody's best friend, since like grade school, jordan and his wife had thier cute baby girl, so we went and saw her in blackfoot.

My good friend from hair school, wendy, had her Bachlerette(sp) party at school, it was pretty fun.

also, our yearly hair extravaganza was april 25th, and isu put it on this year, i entered 3 things but didnt place in any category, but thats ok because i still had fun! I wasnt expecting to win anyways.

On april 29th, i took my written boards for school and passed. i was pretty impressed with how well i did. but it goes to show u that if u let the lord help u with things then he will!

updating, to catch up, month by month till july

FEBRUARY

February was a fun month, i took a trip down to utah to attend my friends baby blessing at the first part of february. I stayed with brad and sid( my second parents) in SLC, then traveled to layton and back to slc that sunday for the blessing. Attending a baby blessing just isnt the same without cody :( but i still enjoyed the blessing. Cody stayed in poky cause he had just started his 3rd job so he didnt wanna ask for days off so soon.

Then i had a birthday. It was one of my best birthdays. Cody's sister, jexi, and her husband, caleb, and their son tavon were in town, so we had family pictures taken with codys family earlier in the day, then later we had my birthday party. We had both mine and his family there, and had some amazing friends come. I'm so blessed with amazing people to share life with. then later after the party that same day, cody and I celebrated Valentines day early, since we both had to work on valentines day.

We also enjoyed our dear friends, zech and Emiley, bless thier little girl josie, we r sad they moved to far away!

Februaury 16th, a year ago, grandpa passed away, it was bitter sweet day, bitter--cause i still miss him, and sweet cause i know he is not in pain anymore and i know i will see him again. Im so grateful for the plan of salvation!

My life:

this handsome guy is my life! i honestly dont know where i wld be right now in life without him! im glad him and heavenly father never gave up hope! i love him more than anything and im glad i have eternity with him!

finally updating!

so we finally got our internet working and im done working doubles, so now i have time to blog!

just an F.Y.I.

just so you all know and r prob wondering why i havent posted forever! We have been exteremely busy, and then when i would have time to blog, out internet wouldnt work, and now it is currently down for good till next week sometime! but we r doing good, still busy, ill update on all the happenings in our life when our internet gets up and running! right now im using a school's computer!

update!

So ive decided that im gonna update the blog once a month-towards the end of each month, just so i can keep up on it, and hopefully soon in the future we will have more important things to blog about! ;-)
I'm still in school, i graduate in may from isu cosmetology school! it has been sssooooo hard for me, but im getting through it thanks to wonderful friends and my amazing family! i am also working 2 jobs while going to school fulltime. i still work at McDonalds, only on staurday mornings, but thatll change in july(ill tell umore about that later in this post). I also work at Pier49 pizza! i LOVE it there, i make the pizzas and also deliver them. I work 5nights a week, right after school- 9or 10ish! i deliver 3 nights out of the 5. My plan for after i graduate is to work fulltime at mcdonalds and pier49 and then maybe in the fall, find a cosmetology job!
Cody is still working his 2 jobs also. He still works at sears, in the hardwware department, in the mornings, then goes straight to his evening job. He is a janitor, cleans businesses here in pocatello, and now cody is in the process of getting a third job, working a litlle graveyards! He doesnt plan on attending school anytime soon!
We are still in the University 6th ward, but just recently got new callings! We got called to the nursery/primary, me as president, and cody as a worker! We r LOVING it, it is a bitter-sweet feeling tho being with all those kids! ( and this brings me to the update on the baby/fertility process)
We have been trying to have kids for 3years now! In 2008 we started getting me on a temperature chart, and clomid etc. then last year we started gettting cody tested! he took a couple SA and they came out ok, we found out he has low sperm count! the doc also had him get his blood drawn and we found out he has low testoserone(sp) so the doc put him on a pill that boosts the hormone in testosterone to boost the sperm count(if that makes any sense) Well he got on those in late August, and is supposed to be on them for 2 months and then the doc wants him to take another SA to see if the pills r even working. In the mean time, i got a uterus test done(sorry i can never remember the real name, its the test where they put the dye in mytubes and see if my tubes r open and see if my uterus is a good shape) in november! that came out great, i can carry a baby! YAY( thats great news considering my family's past with fertility and baby problems). Ok so back to Cody, so he went into the store to get a refill on his pills and found out that the insurance wasnt covering them.
-------ok to let u all know, we were both on mcds insurance(and they cover fertility) till august when we found out that we had to be on ISU's health insurance. We didnt want to be double covered, so we canceld mcds insurance till july(open enrolment and ill be done with school and off their insurance). so since we had to cancel mcds insurance, cody decided to wait to finish the pills and wait to take another SA., until we get back on mcds insurance!--oh, schools insurance does not cover fertility-- so until we get him back on insurance, im gonna get some other little tests done that dont cost 5arms and 5 legs--like my progesterone test, and hopefully get my periods regulating! and then when codys back on insurance, he will start the pills again and has to be on them for 2 months before he takes a SA to find out if the pills worked! so hopefully thatll be in october, and if they dont work, we have talked about insemination(i cant remember that actual name)and if that doesnt work in the future we will adopt, but until then, we r working on the little things! so thats the story! hopefully it all makes sense! lol
take care till next month!