2:22 PM

Life has been pretty busy lately, but we have still managed to find time to have some fun.

We all enjoyed some wings at Wing Nuts last Saturday...50% of us ended up in the bathroom after this adventure, but I'm pretty sure the boys would do it again in a heartbeat.


We also adventured to Ikea were Ryan and Derek plotted on how they could stay in the store until closing where no one would find them.  I think this might actually work!


We are just so glad the summer is here so we can keep on having awesome adventures.  Anyone know of any cool day trips or fun things to do in the summer in Utah?  We are up for anything!

12:52 PM

After 2+ months of feeling like crap I finally got the courage (and insurance) to go to the doctor.  Tomorrow I'll be going to the hospital for a few tests, which I am not too thrilled about, but I'm running out of options and am so tired of feeling terrible and having to put on a smiley face everyday when really I just want to curl up in my bed and sleep.

Here is a summary of what I'll be doing at the hospital thanks to Wikipedia.

A glucose tolerance test is a medical test in which glucose is given and blood samples taken afterward to determine how quickly it is cleared from the blood. The test is usually used to test for diabetes, insulin resistance, and sometimes reactive hypoglycemia or rarer disorders of carbohydrate metabolism. In the most commonly performed version of the test, an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), a standard dose of glucose is ingested by mouth and blood levels are checked two hours later. Many variations of the GTT have been devised over the years for various purposes, with different standard doses of glucose, different routes of administration, different intervals and durations of sampling, and various substances measured in addition to blood glucose.

I got to thinking, don't most pregnant women have to do this test for gestational diabetes?  I'm not sure, but if you have ever had this test done let me know how it went.  I'm nervous because they say that I'll be feeling super funky and dizzy afterward and I have been trying to avoid that feeling for the last 2 months.  I'm just hopeful they will find something so I can start feeling like normal again.

6:41 PM

So I have debated about posting this story, but I just can't help myself.  It might be TMI for some of you so readers beware.

I was overdue for my yearly woman check-up.  No biggie right?  I have, in the past, had fairly good experiences and I wasn't hardly worried at all about the exam.  Been there done that.  So as I walk back to the exam room after checking in and paying a co-pay for this uncomfortable visit I pass by a doctor who I thought I recognized.  Nah, how would I know ANY doctors out in Utah, right?  WRONG!  As soon as I realized who it was I started to panic.  Deep breaths, deep breaths.  He's a doctor.  Totally professional.  And he might not even be my doctor right?  Wrong again.  After a knock on the door Ryan's male COUSIN, who I have seen multiple times and who I will AGAIN see at family functions walks though the door.  The whole reason why I go to this practice is because I never see the same doctor for this exam!  Yet here I am face to face with Ryan's cousin and I'm just suppose to spread 'em!  I am trying not to laugh because at this point I was either going to laugh or cry and I was about to be embarrassed enough so I decided to just laugh it off.  He was so nice and very professional and asked if I wanted another doctor.  At this point I didn't want to be rude and I wasn't too bothered...if I didn't think about it too much...so I said it was fine with me if it was fine with him.  He was great and very helpful with some other health issues I had questions with so overall it wasn't too bad.  I just don't know how I'm going to feel when I see him again.  I am going to have to try not to EVER think about how he saw me totally naked.  Perfect.  Luckily my breast exam was done last year so he said I was good to go until next year.  The boobs were safe.  Sigh.  I must have angered the medical Gods because I seriously do not embarrass easily but I definitely got a little pink in the cheeks.  Next time I'll make sure to check if any of my relatives are on call before I head on over to bare all.  Lesson learned.      

6:19 PM

For Memorial Day Ryan and I road-tripped it with the Glassmans down to Arizona to visit our friends the Broadbents.  We were so excited to get away and have a relaxing long weekend.  Here we are at some no-mans-land gas station stretching our legs. 


After 10 1/2 hours in the car we had finally made it.  Tyler's Dad was nice enough to take us out on the boat on Friday to wakeboard and get ourselves a nice Arizona tan.

Each of our men were very impressive on the wakeboard.  I had never wakeboarded in such a tight canyon and surrounded by rock and mountains.  It was so beautiful and the weather was perfect.

Lara was keeping everyone safe by waving the flag when someone went down.


Lara and Whitney braved the cold lake water too.  I was super impressed.



I tried to stay on dry ground as much as possible while taking pictures of everyone.


There might have been too much lovin' going on while we were on the boat.  I call it lake fever.


That night we went on the hunt for scorpions.  They happen to glow green when you shine a blacklight on them so we took a blacklight and BBQ tongs and went hunting.  I can't believe these were all crawling in the backyard!  We properly disposed of them after trying to find as many as we could.  For those of you who don't know what you would do to kill scorpions, here you go...
Yep...we had a little roast.  Bye bye scorpions.


Here is the proof that we did attend church.  Tyler's dad spoke in Sacrament meeting and did a great job.  It was fun to go to a different ward but I forgot how noisy the family wards are!  The kids were everywhere and it felt like home.


We were loving playing games outside to enjoy the perfect weather.  Bocce ball was a favorite.  Ryan's form is stellar :)


We were loving being outdoors!  P.S. they caught a scorpion on the wall right behind us the night before!


The chickas were looking glamorous while the boys...
...did their own thing.  So cute.  We might have spent a little too much time together though.


Here we are at our last stop on our drive home.  We had so much fun and were so sad to leave paradise.  We got so spoiled with yummy food and perfect weather.  Thanks Broadbent's for being amazing hosts.  After a week of recovery I am totally ready for another adventure.  Who's with me?!

11:10 AM




These cupcakes look so delish!  I might even venture out and make a few this weekend.  Check out this website for the full recipes and the how-to.  Happy baking!

4:57 AM

Happy surgery day Mom!  We love you and will be thinking of you all day.  You are truly the best mom in the world and we hope that your recovery goes smoothly.  
Sorry I didn't have a more recent family picture, but hopefully this brings you some comfort :)  Love you!

4:03 PM

This post may be a little random, but my Mom is dying for a post and to be honest, nothing that exciting has happened in the past few days, but for my mother's sake I will chit chat about a few things that have been on my mind.

Vacation
Ryan and I have been trying to save money and so our vacations this year will be quite limited.  With my new job I'm fairly certain we will stay here for Christmas as well so it is no surprise I have been counting down the days until our Arizona trip!!  Soon we will be living it up with our friends in desert paradise and I will not even feel bad about missing a few days of work.  Sometimes your sanity is more important than money...but money is always good too.  I will be posting lots of pics when that time comes.

Resident Assistants
One huge blessing in our lives is our R.A. position at our apartment complex.  Working down our rent has helped tremendously with our finances and has been a great experience so far.  While not in school, Ryan has taken the brunt of the responsibilities doing check-outs while posting our fliers and doing 2 building's cleaning checks.  We are also having to work the clubhouse about 4 or 5 times a month.  Since technically only one of us is getting paid Ryan has been sweet enough to give me a break once and a while.  Still the job has kept us on our toes and has been a great experience overall.

Television
Evenings are Ryan and I's time to spend together.  We love to cook and relax with our FRIENDS...i.e the TV show.  I seriously have seen all 10 seasons of friends probably 20 times.  sad, but true.  But the show is a classic and it still cracks me up, even now.  We have gotten addicted to many other shows since getting together.  House, Lie to Me, Castle, LOST, Cougar Town, Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, Grey's Anatomy, and Private Practice...just to name a few.  I think you get the picture that we really enjoy our TV watching.  Don't get me  wrong...we are active too and have been too busy in the past to catch these shows as they are scheduled...insert DVR.  Oh if I could hug the inventor of DVR!  It has been great because we may be busy during the week, but whenever we have time we can lay in the comfort of our own bed and watch our shows til our hearts desire.  Sigh.  Whoever said television was bad did not have DVR.

LOST
Though I have just posted a whole paragraph about TV I feel like I need to lay LOST to rest.  Ryan and I were introduced to the show last summer and would spend hours and hours catching up on the then 5 seasons of the show.  We would stay up late and even act like we were "busy" so we could stay at home and marathon watch as many episodes as possible.  I can say, by far this is the best show I have ever seen on TV.  I know there are skeptics out there, or people who stopped watching after a few seasons, but you are doing yourself a disservice by not watching this show until the end.  I suggest watching it on DVD/Internet because it was so much easier to understand and follow when the episodes are back to back.  I really enjoyed the finale, but it took  me a few hours to digest everything.  I even dreamed about it last night.  I really started to think about what happened and each character and I was so moved by how the writers pulled everything together.  No, they have not all been dead since the plane crash, no, they will not answer every stupid question you have, but it will answer questions about humanity and stay true to what this show is really all about, it's characters.  I know there are a lot of haters out there and a lot of people are angry or still very confused, but when you truly understand what the writers were trying to say I don't believe anyone can hate LOST.  They left it up for interpretation, but my interpretation was that Jacob brought people to the island that had hardly anything going for them.  He chose his candidates because they were like him...alone.  The Island became their home, their life and it brought these characters together in a unique way.  Their life on the island was real and though we don't get too may answers in regard to the light, what it is, why Jacob needed to protect it, or the island's unique powers, I believe these are all things based upon faith.  Science and faith played a huge roll in the show and as each character was featured I do believe the story started and ended with Jack and his test.  I do believe Jack passed his test and started as a man of science and ended a man of faith.  The sideways life was real, but everyone in this life had passed on.  They didn't necessarily die on the island, but had passed whether on the island or sometime long after.  The sideways life was the Lostie's way of meeting up again to pass on to their next phase of life, however you interpret this will probably be based upon your religion.  They needed each other to help remember their life, i.e their flashbacks, on the island and then to be reunited and to move on.  I thought it was beautifully done and am sad to see it over, but I will always have fond memories of the show.  Love it!

Callings
Ryan and I are teaching the Teacher Development class in our ward.  It has been so fun having a calling together.  We have both had busy callings in the past and it has been so relaxing to prepare a lesson together, give the leeson and come home on Sunday and relax.  I love this class and Ryan and I are excited to get people involved and learn how to be better teachers.  My mom told me to live it up because it may be the only time Ryan and I have have a calling together.  Believe me I am!

Sorry for the word vomit post...hopefully I have made my mother happy :)  

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