Spring Feeva!!!!

I just want to complain for a min.... you know you are in Utah when the weather forcast is telling you that you are going to have temps ranging from the low 50's to the high 70's all in one week. I really can't handle much more of this snow. As I sit here and type this, I am watching the blizzard outside. When you wake up in the am and the first thing you do is look out the window to see what kind of drive you are going to have into work..... you know it's bad. I want to wash my car so bad and I can't cause you never know what the weather is going to be like.... All I can say is my trip to Hawaii can't come fast enough!!!!! 5 weeks and counting!!!!!

VIVA LAS VEGAS!!!

This weekend... I decided I would take a spontanious trip to vegas... I love Vegas... can I just tell you. It's one of the nastiest places on earth, and it really should be blown up, but yet something about it just attracks me there and I don't know why. I think it's cause I'm such a people watcher. The freaks that come out of the woodwork is AMAZING!!!!

Me and for of my other girlfriends decided we were going to leave on Sat morning at 6am so we could get there and enjoy our short stay. We ended up leaving town at about 7:30am. About half way there, my friend Amber that decided she would drive, the engine in her truck decided it was done and didn't want to play anymore... so it gave out on us. Her truck still runs lucky for us, so we made it into Cedar City. Yeah.... So we had two choices... leave it there and rent a car and keep going cause there was nothing we could do til monday..... or tow the truck back to Salt Lake and be pissy all weekend..... we chose to leave the truck in Cedar and rent a car.... nothing was stopping us.... we ended up getting into Vegas at about 3pm.... We had a blast!!!! We played on the strip.... we went to margaritaville.... we went to caesars palace..... we had fun!

Next morning, we got up at 5am and went to breakfast at Denny's. It was bitter cold in Vegas mind you. Nothing but flip flops on my feet.... ;) Due to the truck issues we had, we had to leave early Sunday morning to figure out what we were going to do with the truck. We left Vegas at 9am and dropped our rental car off in Cedar cause that was all the further we could take it.... Good thing Amber's dad was nice enough to come and get us... we would have been stuck. He drove 3 hours to Cedar to pick us up. We ended up leaving her truck and this sat we are going back to get it..... What an adventure!!!! It seems like this is what my life is always like.... it's full of good times.... gotta love it!!!

OKAY... OKAY.... I GIVE!!!

Yes I know....... I'm boring.... sorry... I'm still being lazy and trying to get better. I have had a rough few months with my appendix issues. I have been learning patience really well. Sometimes I wonder how these lessons are supposed to stick with me?!?! ;) oh well... someday.

Well... I'm back to work. I no longer work for LabCorp, I now work for Provo OB. Probie Obie.... I am just kinda wondering around looking for things to do and trying to stay busy until LabCorp is out of this office. Then this place is my world as far as the lab is concerned...

We now have a retirement center in the basement. Aunt Hilda has moved in with grandma. It has been working out much better then we had thought. Aunt Hilda loves to wake up grandma at night so we have put them in their own rooms last night. I think mom was more excited about that cause now she gets more sleep at night too. They are like taking care of two 5 year olds. It can be very difficult for mom at times and I feel for her. It is fun though. They love the physical therapy lady that comes every other day. She does really well with them. It's cute cause I come downstairs and I see g-ma rolling her ankles and feet doing her excersises.... she loves it. They are fun... tons of work... but fun!!!

As far as what I looking forward to.... I'M GOING TO HAWAII IN MAY!!! I'm so stoked!!! Never been there and I may never come home.... Seriously.... I'm so excited.... 3 weeks after I come home from that, I'm going back to North Carolina to Outter Banks with the family for a week at the beach. I'm so excited for my summer.... I love the summer!!!!

I know I need more pics on here... so as soon as I get time, I will put some on here...... I PROMISE!!!!

It's amazing what life does to you....

You know, I always thought I was a pretty greatful, nice person until recently. Over the past 9-12 months, I have not been the person who I always thought I was. I have struggled with this in many ways. I didn't really have the best of friends to hang out with. Not that they were bad people, but they just weren't the most positive. So, over the past 3-4 months, I have been trying to weed out if you will the less positive of people. I tend to go with the alpha attitute and usually I turn out being a hag. I HATE IT!!!!

So, I just went through this whole appendix thing, which, I'm feeling amazingly well!!! But, I just went through this whole thing and I realized, I'm not at peace. I got rid of the negative people in my life. I have been hanging out with "better" friends. Ones that are WAY more positive... Why am I not at peace?? Well, let me explain.....

After I got home from the hospital, that night I found myself crying myself to sleep cause I was so greatful for everything thing I have..... my life, my family, my friends, the church..... and so on. But I found myself crying into the night cause I couldn't thank my heavenly father enough for all my blessings I had just been given. Still there was a hollow part of me. When I cut this one friend off, it kinda was in an unsure way. It was very clear why I was doing it and she knew why, but I was kinda mean about it. I felt completely justified in doing it for more than one reason. But it was eating away at me. I was much happier. I was "allowed" to hang out with my other friends. I had no more guilt. I was FREE!!!!! But yet.... I was hollow. I finally took the higher road today and apologized for my actions and for the bitterness I had in my heart. I realized that just casue I apologized doesn't mean that I have to be as good of friends as we were. That will never happen. But, that doesn't mean that I have to have enemies or hate in my heart. I can now really let it all go. Since I have done that, I feel so much better. Some would agree that this was a good thing to do, and some would very strongly disagree.... Only time will tell if it was a good thing or a bad thing. All I know is it's never a good thing to have enemies or unresolved issues within yourself. You never know what might happen to yourself or for that matter.... them!

When it rains, it pours...

Why is life so unfair sometimes. So last week was my drama and this week is my 11 yr old cousin Olivia's. She was diagnosed with type one diabetes. I think the most sad part is that she is just fine. She had no clue she was even sick, but her parents are struggling. Rightly so. I'm pretty sure any parent would. She has always been a big water drinker, but she gets up about 2-3 times a night to go to the bathroom. She never can quinch her tirst. Not to mention, the last 2 times I have seen her she has really gotten taller and thinning out. Just passed it off as puberty. Well, little did we know, she was spilling sugar out in her urine. All in all.... Liv will be just fine. She is a tough and brave girl. After seeing her last night.... SHE will be just fine.... Kim and Rob.... not so sure!!! ;)