VALENTINES DAY FUN!!!!

Happy late Valentines Day!!! We had such a jam packed day that I did not get a chance to sit down and blog about it until now! We woke up that morning and I made a Valentines day hunt for Jeremy and Ashley, It is a tradition that my mom started way back when, and I had always known growing up that I would like to pass that tradition down to my kids.

This is a pic of Ashley looking for her clues. I hid one in one of her fav shows and so then she insisted on caring it around with her.
These were Ashleys Valentines day presents. She got a fridge phonics, Which is a magnetic item that goes on the friedge, then it has a couple of diffrent ways to use it, the first is you can put the letters in the center, It will tell you what letter it is and what sound it makes, the second way to play it is there is a little green button on the right hand side and if you push it it will sing the whole alphabet song for you.
Ashley looking at her card that I made for her.
This is a present that Jeremy got me for Valentines day. I have been complaing to him so much lately about how much I want a dog, well he got me this for that one reason. Our landlords (my parents) dont want a dog in the house, which I dont understand. We used to have a dog Mindi, and I remeber she was a BAD dog! But I dont understand why we cant get one that is kennel trained and potty trained. But hey they say no. But that wont stop me from wishing and praying that some day soon I will have a real live dog to call my own!
This is Jeremy standing with his Valentines day present. I got him a stuffed Monkey! It is a tradition that every year I get him a monkey. I usuly get some sort of sining monkey, but I could not find any cute ones this year so I got him this one instead.
We got my mom to watch Ashley so that Jeremy and I could go out on our date. (Thanks Mommy!)

For lunch Jeremy took me out to eat at Olive Garden. SOOOO good!!!! So while we were waiting for our food to come I took Jeremys photo.
This is a chicken soup that I had it is kind of like chicken and dumplings.
Here is what Jeremy and I both had to eat, CHICKEN SKAMPI! We love it, SO YUMMY! It has a garlic sause which is to die for!!
Then after lunch we hopped on tracks and went down town, to see what else but.....
MONSTER TRUCKS!!!
I know not that romantic, but I LOVE monster trucks. And so he surprised me with tickets. I was so happy that I got to go. I was hoping and hoping that he would get me tickets, but I really doubted he would for we are broke right now. But he some how found the money or saved it, not really sure which he did, and got us tickets! Jeremy took me to my first monster truck show over five years ago. And when I first heard about it I was kind of up set that he was taking me to see some dumb old trucks. Well once I got there and the show started, I started to fall in love with them. To this day I can not tell you WHY I like monster trucks, There is just something in my soul that wants the loud noise and the trucks. So I would highly recomend going out and seeing a show next time they are in town! You may be like me and think oh they are so dumb, why would any one want to go and see that. But once you see them they will get in to your blood.
This first truck is called BULLDOZER he was a ok truck not my favorite.
This truck has to be my new favorite truck.(sorry Gravedigger) his name is BACKWORDS BOB. He would do every thing one the course backwords, It was so cool to watch him. This was the first time I have seen him, but I am hoping WONT be the last!
This truck is called the AIR BORNE RANGER. of course provided by the Air force.
This truck is BLUE THUNDER, I am told he is the next big truck. He was the over all winner at our show. He was pretty cool to watch.
Here is the jumping contest. They line up at the line and when they say go they see how high and how far they can jump. So cool to watch. The car on the right hand side is from Utah, I am sad that I did not get a good close up of this is car. He is actuly a car and not a truck.
I love this photo, if only the stupid popcorn guy was not in the way but I still got a pretty good shot of BLUE THUNDER and MAVERICK jumping.
This is one of the motor cross jumpers that they had there, He is completly off of is bike and just hanging on to the handle bars,while in the air. I wish the rest would have turned out better and I also wish that I had a better zoom on my camera.
Here is another tuck, I forgot its name but if you can make it out let me know!
Our home town hero MAVERIK!!! Yay Maverik! It was sad on the very last round, Maverik went off of a huge jump and he ended up hurting something, So he was not able to compete for the winners spot. But we were still proud of him!
The pretty pink and white cars before Monster trucks.....
The pretty pink and white cars after Monster Tucks!
Jeremy really wanted me get me in a pic in front of the pink cars. It was funny I was talking to Jeremy a couple of days before and I was telling him if I could design my own car, it would be a pink Dodge caravan or a pink Dodge 4X4.
Here is Jeremy in front of some of the trucks. It was cool we were some of the very last ones out of there, I wanted to take some pics.
Then after the monster trucks we hopped back on tracks and headed back to our house to pick up Ashley. Then we headed over to Jeremy parents house to spend time with them. They made us chicken enchaladas for dinner (ymmy) then the boys went down stairs to watch the NBA all stars game, and the girls staid up stairs and watched MAMA MIA. So we had a blast. We also had Matt and Suzi over to spend time with us which was a blast!

So that was our Valentines Day in a nut shell!

Flower or Flour....

Jeremy came home from work today and he had surprised me with PRETTY pink roses!!! I love them! I feel like a princess every time I look at them! This is the first part of my valentines day. We will do what ever else we have planned tomorrow! I cant wait to see what we are going to do!!!
They are so pretty!!!
Speaking of flowers, I have a diffrent type of flower story. Last night I had to make cookies for Jeremys work, so after making six batches as I was rolling them out to cut them, Ashley decided that she would like to help! This is the result of her helping me! So cute!
We were right there making sure she did not get it all over the house, but it kept her busy so that I could finish making the cookies!

I love her expression in this pic!

What month I should have been born in

Your True Birth Month Is June

Fussy Abiding Friendly Stubborn Talkative Sensitive Executive Hesitating Daydreamer Easily hurt Active mind Easily bored Loves to joke Tends to delay Temperamental Brand conscious Loves to dress up Funny and humorous Having lots of ideas Good debating skills Seldom show emotions Thinks far with vision Prone to getting colds Polite and soft-spoken Able to show character Knows how to make friends Easily influenced by kindness Takes time to recover when hurt Choosy and always wants the best Those who love me are enemies; Those who hate me are friends

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Potty Training Time!

Its time to Potty Train!! Mainly for one reason, Ashley is growing out of her Diapers and we can not afford the next size. So we have to start trying! We got her Elmos potty time. She loves Elmo, So we are hoping that will help.

We first tried a potty seat kind of like this one except for pink and it Says "Princess" on it. I am sure it would work, but I am sick of her trying to flush the toilet every minute, and her unwinding the hole roll of toilet paper. So we will save this for when she is a little older.
This is the new potty that we got for her, so now we can put it in the living room bathroom or bedroom where she wont be able to play with the things that she shouldn't. So today I had her in the living room sitting in front of the tv watching Elmos Potty Time.


Ashley sitting on her new potty.

I hope and pray she will be easy to potty train! Does any one out there have any tips on how to help potty train?

Jungle Jims

My friend Carrie called me the other day and asked if I would like to take Ashley to Jungle Jims for she had a coupon. I was in a lot of pain from my ankle still. But I thought I should try any ways for I would not have that kind of money to take Ashley there my self. So we ended up going and right from the start Ashley wanted to ride the Horsies. She loved them so much we ended up riding it 21 times!!! She LOVES the horsies.
S Ashley was not sure about the swings at first but once they started going You could here her clear across the room screaming with joy.

Ashley liked this one, I am not sure what it is call it just goes around, but she had a blast.


Ashley loved to have the power to go up and down all by her self in the air plane.

I thought this wasn't supposed to happen for another 14 years!!!

Ashley enjoying the horsies with Grandma one last time before she went home to take a nap!

I just thought that this was an adorable pic of Ashley!

It was so cute after Ashleys nap the first thing she said was "Horsies,Comon Horsies" It was so cute she wanted to go back right away!Thanks so much Carrie for giving us the opportunity to be able to go! We really appreciated it!

Temple, Car, and Ankel

Hey out there. Here is whats been going on with us for the past week. On Wed we were able to go to the temple to get my moms temple work done. Or at least part of it. Then on sat we were able to go back to the temple to finish her work. On the way home we were driving to pickup Ashley and as we were driving our Car engine just stopped. So we pulled over to the side of the road to try and see what the matter was. Well after a while we still could not figure it out. So we called Jeremy's dad to see if he could see what was wrong. In the mean time i missed my friends welcome home party. He came out and could not find any thing wrong with it so we called a tow truck to come and have our car towed, Well while we were waiting I had to get my phone out of the car, So I stepped off the curb and right where I stepped the was a pot hole I was also hills, and then down I went. I ended up scraping up my left knee and tearing up some ligaments in my right ankle. So Jeremy's dad takes us back to his house so that we could pick up Ashley. I went to go and get out of the car and I almost buckled over in pain, I could not put any weight what so ever on it. So Jeremy and his Dad help me to the stairs. Then I had to crawl up the stairs and over to the couch(man that was embarrassing!) Well we got ice one my ankle and then waited for a while we were supposed to go to dinner with our friends Matt and Suzi. Well needless to say that was not going t0 happen now. So they went and got Burger King and brought it over to us. Which was really nice of them to do for us. Then it was like 10 and we had to get going so we could put Ashley into bed. So I had my mother in law dig out my father in laws old walker so that I could try and walk out on my own. Got out to a car that his parents loaned us until we could get ours fixed. We went and dropped Ashley off with my mom so that she could put her to bed. So then we went to the Er to have my ankle looked at. That's when we found out about the torn ligaments. We got out of the er around one, had to go and pick up my pain pills from Rite aid, got home around two, and realized that Ashley was not in bed, So we went up and got her, Tried to put her in bed and she refused to go to bed until about two thirty, then we had to get a sandwich to eat so i could take my pills and got to sleep around 3oo in the Morning. On Sunday morning we were supposed to be going down to Provo for my cousins fairwell. Well between the late night, my pain, and me being on crutches, we were not able to make it. I felt so bad I wanted to go. So we just relaxed all day and took it easy. Some time on Sunday (not sure when) Jeremy pulled his calf muscle in his left leg, So now we are both broken. Hopefully we will get better soon. The car place called today to tell us how much it would be to fix it almost $800! That does not seem like a lot but when you live paycheck to paycheck it is a ton of money. So long story short, a lot has happened and we are broke!

The Ultimate Wedding Dance

My brother in law sent me this email for the Ultimate Wedding Dance, I thought it was well put together so I wanted to pass it on! I tried to put it on the blog itself but I was not able to do that!o it is posted at the bottem of the page

Fun times and Chairs

Jeremy new chair that we got from RcWillys for $100!Daughter like Father, chillen in the chair!
Jeremy showing off his new chair

We had Ashleys friends come over today, this is Sara, Ashleys friend
Our mac and cheese party Ashley doing a funny face
Mariah eating her Cheese
Sara also enjoying her cheese
Dont mess with her when she is mad!
Ashley loves music
Ashley tryed to feed her baby Ice Cream
Ashley trying to blog
One day Ashley got a rag and said " I clean" and started to clean the living room table

I am feeling a little better our friends came over today and visited which we had a blast. And last night Jeremy rented me Mama Mia. I really really liked that show!

2008 in review

2008 Review

What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before? Went camping as a family, Just the three of us we got to plan where and what we did. It was a blast and I am looking forward to doing that this year

Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I dont make new years resolutions for I never keep them so why make them

Did anyone close to you give birth? Nope. I had a few friends that gave birth to babies, but that's about it.

Did anyone close to you die? No, luckily.

What countries did you visit? None at all!

What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008? A house and a car and a baby

What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? Ashleys first birthday and our trip to California to visit Jeremys brother Josh

What was your biggest achievement of the year? Raising a healthy and happy daughter

What was your biggest failure? Not attending the temple as often as I would have hoped to.

Did you suffer illness or injury?! I found out I have Narcolepsy. And I found out my insurance wont cover my weight loss surgery

What was the best thing you bought? My scrapbook supplys

Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Dont know

Where did most of your money go? Bills, bills, and oh did I happen to mention bills?!

What did you get really, really, really excited about? About Ashley and every thing she is able to accomplish

Compared to this time last year, are you: much happier, richer, nicer? I'm happier and hopefully a little nicer. Not necessarily richer in money, but in blessings and better with money so I have more than I did last year.

What do you wish you'd done more of? Camping,

What do you wish you'd done less of? Stress out and worry about things that really don't matter in the end.

How did you spend Christmas? With Jeremy Ashley and my family

Did you fall in love in 2008? Of course! Over and over again with Jeremy and Ashley

What was your favorite TV program? The secret life of an american teenager and Dog the bounty hunter

Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year. Nope.

What was the best book you read this year? Twilight series

What did you want and get? A healthy and happy family.

What were your favorite films of this year? Twilight,

What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? 24. Went to a movie and out to dinner

What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Getting pregnant with our second child

How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008. none

What kept you sane? Getting out of the house and going places, blogging, Ashley being the cute little girl that she is. And getting to hang out with Jeremy

Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Mitt Romney David Archalleta

What political issue stirred you the most? I dont know I dont pay attention to pollitical crap

Who did you miss? Jeremy when he is away at work I miss him tons!

Who was the best new person (people) you met? Dont know have not met many new people but probubly my cousin inlaw Kirsten.

Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008. Even though being a mom is the hardest job in the world, there will allways be some one there to love you

What are you most excited for in 2009? Camping this summer and Ashley going through potty training

What are you least excited for in 2009? Potty Training Ashley

Cousins Christmas party

Cousins christmas party!
This year we had our party a little after christmas. It was fun we had pizza and spinich dip and then we sat around the house and talked and played games. Here is some of the pics from our party sorry they are not the best lookin pics

One of the games that we played was Cranium. That was a fun game. and it was neat to see who knew what.



My cousin Kaylynn her husband Rulon and their little girl Kayia
My cousin Aaron and his new girlfriend Stephanie
Jeremy and I
My cousin Heidi and her husband Tim, Heidi is expecting their first little boy in March, Congrats Heidi!
My brother Trevor playing the game
My cousins Emily JanMarie Jared(holding Kaiya) and Heidi
Trevor Tyler Rulon Gage and Stephanie

We had a lot of fun. Thank you Trevor for letting us use your house!

New Years!

We got invited to the Salt lake city New years eve party. It was quite fun. Thanks Carrie. She texted me about 7 and said that had two extra tickets and wanted to know if we wanted them. Of course we excepted. So we road up on the trax train. And headed up to Temple square. We were able to see the Polynesian dancers. And they told alot about their culture. Like did you know that in their culture there is no words for uncle aunt and neighbor. They are all known as Mom and Dad. I thought that was kind of cool. and then we got to watch a little of the John Schmit concert. that was really fun. he can be really entertaining while he plays. Then we headed out to Galavin plaza to watch the fire works and to count down to the new year. We had such a blast!!!





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YAY!!!

Grandma is getting better!!!!!
Last night about 12 oclock Grandmas heart went back to normal and is beating regularly again!!
Love you Grandma!

People you care about

This week I have had a lot to think about the love ones that I have around me. My grandma went in to the hospital this week to have surgery on her hip. The surgery went really well, the dr was really impressed at how quick and easy it was to do the surgery on her hip. Well last night I was talking to Jeremy about my Grandma and then he was telling me about how much he misses both of his grandmas and how he would give up any thing in the world to spend one more day with them. Well last night I had a nightmare that my grandma passed away in the hospital from heart fail er. I woke up freaked out and panicked. I was so sick to my stomach. Then I was talking to my mom today on the phone and she was telling me how Grandmas heart is doing a lot of funny things so they had to move her to a different floor. And right when my mom got through telling me those things, she was like "I got to go" and then hung up on me. That scared me to death! I got so sick again to my stomach and I am just so scared right now. I know I need to have faith in the lords plans and know that he has everything under control. But I am not ready to loose a grandparent right now. I am still under this little kids mind that is thinking I will have them around forever. Which belonging to this wonderful church that I belong to I know that we will be together forever. But I am not ready to say goodbye yet. Right now I am just petrified that she will pass away and I will not get another chance to tell her I love her, and how much she means to me. I am keeping her in my prayers that she can get her heart back to normal and that she can have a speedy recovery. If you would also please keep her in your prayers That would mean the world to me and my family. We need her in our lives still. So please remember to tell the people who are close to you that you love them. For you never know if that is going to be the last time that you see them. Please fight hard for me Grandma! We love you!



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