Cross Country Skiing

On Tuesday during Dallan's spring break we went with my brother Brig and his family up past Payson to play in the snow and do some cross country skiing. We had a blast! The weather was perfect and there was plenty of snow to enjoy. It was our first time cross country skiing and we loved it! I reccomend it to all. And it's only like $10 bucks to rent boots poles and skiis and you can do it anywhere there open snow. Its a fun fairly cheap activity. Check it out!
FYI: Wear sunscreen!

New vacuum...twice?

We were fortunate to be gifted our first vacuum for our first married Christmas from Dallan's generous parents, as you all know I'm pregnant and that vacuum is HEAVY to push around it always leaves me with back pain and back cramps. So I boycotted vacuuming until Dallan would get me a new one. And we have dog who sheds more than I would like (don't ever getting a shedding dog!) so waiting too long to get a vacuum was out of the question! And expecting Dallan to do it consistently with full time work and school wasn't going to happen. So off toTarget we went checking out all of our options and we saw an "all floors" vacuum that was light weight easy to use and very reliable. It was on the pricey side but Dallan being the nice guy that he is let us splurge and get it! It only weighs 11lbs people! Me likey! (In the grossest smackiest voice you can think of) We got home I ripped at of the box and immediately went to work and it worked like a charm! So why the need to buy two vacuums if the one just purchased works so nicely? I'll tell you why! As I was making my way up to the second portion of the stairs I left the vacuum on the big platform in between to two sections of stairs, and as I was walking the cord up Jack decided to he wanted to come up too, I looked back at him and realized he was straddling the cord so I started to lower the cord down to his feet so he'd step out of it. Bad Idea! The brush of the cord down his leg sent him into panic mode and before I could react the cord was whipping through my fingers. (cord burns hurt!) I've never seen Jack run down those stairs so fast I've never seen a vacuum fall down the stairs that fast! They were neck and neck the whole way down. Jack beat it. I screamed JACK!!!!!! And Dallan came running out of the bedroom he could of course hear the commotion and then he saw our brand new quite pricey vacuum on its side at the bottom of the stairs. Thanks to pregnancy I couldn't even explain the what happened because lets be honest I was crying. Dallan just hugged me and said it was no big deal and we could just return it if it seemed broken.  After about a week of use Dallan was sure the suction was a little weak so he took it back to Target and without any hassle we exchanged it. And that is the story of getting two new vacuums!

We're Having a....

BABY! That's right I'm due September 10th and we couldn't be more excited! I will be 12 weeks this Friday. Time has really started to fly by. I've been feeling pretty good for the most part, tired but very little morning sickness. For those of you that know my love for Dr. Pepper you'll be shocked to know I couldn't stand the sight of it for the first 10 weeks, but don't worry the love has come back and I drink responsibly!

It's the year of babies in my family! On my dad's side my cousin Liza had a girl in January, my cousin Christi is due in March with a boy we grew up playing house together and hanging out it'll fun to have babies close in age! On my Mom's side it's starts with Beth in April with a girl, my sister Emily with a girl in August, me obivously September 10th and my cousin Elizabeth September 16th we both don't know yet what we'll be blessed with. I will be happy either way boy or girl!

5 Years Ago Today

Dallan leaving to serve the Lord 5 years ago today

Today marks 5 years that Dallan left for mission. Boy has time flown. I remember the days leading up to his departure and the day he left, it felt like he was never coming home, fast forward two years and I remember waking up the morning after he returned home it felt like he never left. I’m so glad that Dallan served an honorable full time mission. I’m so happy to have been married to him for 2 years and 8 months with an eternity to go. He’s a wonderful husband and I’m so blessed to be his wife.

As a celebration we have tickets to Phantom tonight, The summer before he left he saw an Ad for it and he told me he wanted to take me. When I looked at the ad closer it was for summer 05 and we were bummed, but it's back and we're finally going!

I love You Dallan!

HOPE

I'm a "Nie Nie" follower I check her blog periodically and today she had the link to video about hope. It was lovely and her picture is even in it. Any way at the end of the video Elder Uchtdorf closes with statement that really touched me. I'm not going to elaborate I just wanted to share.

"For the love of the Son of God pierces ALL darkness, softens ALL sorrow and gladdens every heart"

Here's the link too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbsU3b2srQA

Camping

Dallan and I love camping we went on a spur of the moment trip last weekend. We decided to go at 10am Friday and left at 215. It was nice to be out of the heat and in the forest. We're going again this weekend with family, we're excited! Here are some pics from the weeekend.






So as we were fishing on the banks of the reservoir, there were canoers passing by every so often. It was the three of us Me, Dallan, and Jack (the black labradoodle). We saw this teenage girl coming up the res and we smiled and she smiled back and said "Is that a YELLOW lab?" Dallan and I both stood there still with smiles on our faces trying not to say um no he's a BLACK labradoodle! hahahahhahaha We said he's labradoodle and she said she has a yellow lab back at camp you could she realized what she said and was getting nervous and awkward! When she finally floated by it was silent for a second and then I asked...."Is that a yellow lab?" ahaha we laughed forever about it and still do!!!

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