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You can now check out our pictures online!

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My favorites...

big family: pictures 2501 and 2513

Mom and Doug: 2713 (I actually like most of theirs they are just so cute! He proposed in this park so that's why there are some with him down on one knee)

Jason and Sara's family: 2532

Gayla and Brandon's family: 2519

Seth and Puck: 2535 (this one made me giggle)

Martin and I: 2627, 2644, and 2650

I also like: 2623 and 2707

Dead Dads Club

Six years ago today my dad died. I'm not sure what else to say about it. Today has been hard. I went up to the cemetery and got there right around 6:30 which is significant because that's what time I got home the day he died. So it was exactly six years almost to the minute...anyway.

I went to Old Navy for some retail therapy to buy this years Old Navy Flag shirts, and guess what, they had some for dogs!!

Of course I just had to get one for Abbi.
It's a little tight but the next size up was huge.
I got Martin a grey one and me a blue one so we all kind of match, but I might go back in a week or so to see if they have a blue one for Martin.

FYI: the name of this entry is from Grey's Anatomy from the episode where George's dad dies.

Christina: There's a club, a dead dads club, and you can't be in it until your in it. You can try and understand, you can sympathize, but until you feel that loss...

George: I don't know how to exist in a world where my dad doesn't.

Christina: Yeah that never really changes.

Seriously?

Gayla and her family and Martin and I had dinner over at mom's house tonight. Food was good, like always. no one can make dinner as well as mom can, even if I made it the same way. After dinner Martin went home to get a little sleep before work tonight, and my mom, sister, and I watched some of the episodes from season two of Grey's Anatomy. Gayla has just barely started getting into it and of course she is obsessed! It's so great to talk to her about it! At the dinner table we kept going back and forth, "Seriously? Seriously! Seriously? SERIOUSLY!" We thought it was pretty funny....everyone else told us to stop...


ps...for some reason my last post didn't have a place for comments...weird!

a view from the top

The dogs and I spend most of our time in the kitchen. It's pretty much the only place in the house where the dogs can be contained. We have a pocket door that closes them off from the bedrooms and a child gate to keep them from going downstairs. Those of us with two legs have to climb over the gate to get to the basement. Whenever I come back upstairs, this is what I'm greeted with.

Poor puppy-dog eyes.

Oh, don't you just feel so sorry for them?

YAY!

Grey's Anatomy season finale tonight!! I can hardly wait!!!!!!

Happy Mothers Day!

We had pictures taken yesterday. It was really fun. Our photographer lady was really good at what she does. She took our last family pictures three years ago. I'm nervous to see them. I hope they turn out good. It might be a couple weeks before I post them. She can't get them to us for a while..so we'll see.

I went to church with my mom today. Part of her mothers day present. I actually really enjoyed it. I usually only go to sacrament meeting but I stayed the whole three hours...and I cried a lot. The Sunday School lesson was about The Prodigal Son. So I really liked that, and the Relief Society lesson was about forgiveness. My Grandma came too so that was nice. Anyway...

Happy Mothers Day!

Creations

So I want Abbi to be in our family pictures that we're doing on Saturday, and of course she has to match so I made her this.

I was feeling pretty creative and had some extra fabric left over, so I was going to make Abbi a different collar. I braided some of the fabric together, and when I was done with it I thought. "Hey, this is cute. It looks like a headband." So I put it on and I love it.

Then I made the other one. They don't match my shirt exactly so that kinda makes me mad, but they go well enough that I'm going to wear one anyway. I bought 1/4 yard of fabric for $0.99 and I had some streachy stuff already. So it was super cheap. I could probably get 5-6 headbands out of that amount of fabric. I'm going to go get more and make some for my nieces...and me.

I apologize upfront for rambling...

Just to update on the Vet tech program plans: We are hopefully going in sometime this week or next to for me to apply to go to the school and then talk to the financial aide lady to figure out what will be covered. What we find out from that will determine if I will be going to school this semester or next. We shall see...

Today I watched baby Aiden. It was much better than the last time I watched him. He sat and played in his exer-saucer, and played with other toys pretty good. He had a 20 minute nap first thing this morning, until I accidentally woke him up, and he also took a 2 HOUR NAP later in the afternoon. It was fantastic! I showered and did laundry. I felt very domestic, like maybe I could handle being a mom, but I was happy to give him back. He absolutely loves Abbi and Puck!! Whenever he would get fussy, I would call one of the dogs over and he would calm down. Abbi especially loved him. Puck was content to sleep on the other side of the room, but Abbi was always by him, giving him kisses, and laying right next to him. That most of all made me baby hungry. Weird huh?

After he left, I spent some time with Martin watching Prince of Egypt. (LOVE the music!) Then I went shopping! I went to get just random grocery things that were on sale this week. After that I went to Target. We are having big family pictures taken on Saturday and last time we were color coordinated by families, which was nice because there were only three colors. Jason's family was blue, Gayla's was yellow, and it was just Mom, Seth, and I in our little family so we were red. Well now Mom and I are both married so that adds two more colors. We have all had the hardest time deciding who was going to be what color and so forth. I'm TOTALLY rambling, sorry... Anyway Martin and I were going to be black, but the others had also chosen darker colors so mom was worried it would be too dark. SOOO...lol..when I went to Target I found a SUPER cute shirt and I found a shirt for Martin that matched the light green, It matches better than the picture shows, but that's what we're going to wear. Very excited.

Last night I was watching Grey's Anatomy episodes (I've watched the season three episodes at least 3 times through. I'm addicted.) and I'm absolutely in love with Kate Walsh's character Addison Montgomery, I want to be her. Well...look like her. So that's what I'm going to be for Halloween!!

(to Emily: I remebered you were Merideth Grey last Halloween after I thought about being Addison..I don't want you to think I'm copying you...not like it really matters...but...anyway)

Martin is going to be a character from there too, although I can't decided if he's going to be an intern (light blue scrubs)

or an attending with the navy scrubs.

I can't wait for Halloween now! Too bad it's only May.

Where's my Neverland?

So painting with my sister was fun, but lots harder than I thought. I've never painted before.

The girls night was great. It was nice to see cousins that I rarely get to see. There were seven babies under 2 there, and a whole bunch more that were from ages 3-12. Probably around 15 kids. It was SO crazy. I held one of my cousins twins, then Keri's baby Aiden, and I'm definately ok with not having kids right now. I talked to a lot more people than I thought I would which was a nice relief.

Ok So about the Veterinary Technology thing. I'm so lost right now. I don't know what to do. We went to the appointment and I love the school and the program sounds great, but it's SOO expensive. We could get all or most of it covered with scholarships and financial aide and probably student loans, but...I just don't know what to do. Martin is being really supportive and willing to help me through it and is willing for us to pay the costs and everything. When we walked out of the school after our appointment, he asked me what I thought, I didn't answer but asked him what he thought and he said he was ready to sign up himself. I thought that was pretty funny. I just don't know if it's what I REALLY want to do, enough to spend the money and the time doing, when I could finish dental assisting, or go to Weber State University for lots cheaper, but if I'm not going to be happy doing the other things. UGH it's just so frustrating. When did I grow up and have to make these type of decisions?

the best laid plans

Martin and I ordered Ipod's off of e-bay and they finally came today! YAY!! I love it so much. I would have pictures but my camera isn't working. I got a video Ipod and they only come in black and white, so I bought a cute pink case for it. Pink makes me happy. I'm putting Grey's Anatomy on it tomorrow so that will be cool.

Tomorrow is actually going to be a busy day. In the morning, I'm going up to my sister's house to help her paint. She's remodeling her kitchen/dining room/living room areas. Then at 5:30 I have an appointment to go to Utah Career College to talk to someone about the Veterinary Technician program there, and get a tour. Very excited/nervous about that. Directly after that we're having a girls night out with our extended family down in Salt Lake. It will be fun, but my two cousins closest to my age are on missions right now, so I'm worried I won't have anyone to talk to. Sometimes I feel out of place with my extended family because I'm so shy.