The Mooney's

Welcoming Willow Blue Mooney

2011-08-17T18:18:00.000-07:00

Here I am finally getting around to sharing about our sweet baby girls arrival if anyone cares to know about it. Since her due date was July 10th, and Cody’s mom wanted to be sure not to miss the delivery, her and the girls got here on the 8th to wait with me. We relaxed and played as day after day slipped away with no sign of Willow. It was great that they were here and while I fully wanted Willow to come when she was ready I did feel bad everyone was sitting around waiting on us.
We went in for our 40 week appointment and I was at 2cm and 75% effaced. So we thought ok good something is happening… we were wrong it was another 5 days before my water finally broke. Well at least they say that’s what happened, it’s hard to be sure when it just feels like you keep peeing your pants without warning; Add that to the list of fun things you get to experience as a mom, a flash back to your own child hood and having to walk home in pee soaked jeans, classy!
Anyways we went to the Dr and she confirmed that it was my water and not pee (deep sigh of relief because how embarrassing would that have been?). They sent us over to the hospital to get checked in, knowing it could be a while before this whole show was over we stopped and got some food first and I’m super glad we did.
Now from the start I knew I wanted a natural birth, I could say it’s because I believe it’s what’s best for the baby or that I know and believe my body was made to do this and I want to experience the birth of my child in its natural beautiful form and it would be true. However I have to admit that the little competitive voice in the back of my head telling me that my mother gave birth to 4 children, my sister AnnaMae gave birth to 2 and my sister Erin 1 all without any pain meds might have been a big factor! I wasn’t planning on being the weak link ;-)
After all the paper work was finished, the IV was finally in after the nurse admitted she was really bad at it and there was blood all over and I had been poked and prodded once again, they told us we had until 9pm to get some good contractions going and some more cm under our belt. So we started walking, and walking, and bouncing on yoga balls, and walking, and eating ice chips, and walking, and stopping for baby monitoring, and yep some more walking. Being stuck on the baby floor and not aloud to leave your walking locations are limited and we started feeling like we were creeping on other peoples babies!

When 9 rolled around and I was once again lucky enough to be checked I was at 3cm, a whole whopping one more then five days before! The contractions that I could now at least feel felt something more akin to wanting a quaso burrito from qudoba then a body getting ready to crank out a baby, so needless to say they were not impressed and started me on pitocin. I have to admit at this point in the game I cried for the first time (but not for the last) I was disappointed that my body wasn’t doing it on its own and I knew the meds were about to make it a whole lot more painful, they didn’t disappoint and soon I was in hard labor.
The labor itself was not fun and Cody says I have forgotten how bad it was by the way I talk about it, whether he is right or not I do know that during it all knowing the outcome made me willing and able to push through. I made it all the way to 7cm when after asking me for the 100th time I finally gave into the nurses dose of Fentinal she had been offering. I had never had any narcotics before so I wasn’t ready for the new “happy” me that soon took over. Lets just say I was entertainment for Cody and Rita, and while this is embarrassing I wouldn’t want to disappoint so I have included a photo… 7cm, or peace5

Back to the good stuff, it was finally time to start pushing. I know it doesn’t seem like a hard concept but it took me a while to catch on to what it was I was supposed to be doing. Rita would very kindly explain that I needed to hold my breath and push with my stomach, which I would respond to with an “I am!” when clearly I was taking a deep breath then just huffing it right back out while tensing my whole body… we will blame this on the narcotics as well.
Well thankfully I finally caught on and weirdly enough it was amazing. I finally was able to do something, I was working towards bringing our baby girl into the world. It didn’t feel good but I was so glad to be at this point. I didn’t even have to push an hour (which only felt like 15 minutes to me) before they called the Dr and a few more nurses in.
I don’t know if Rita is known for calling the Dr in to early, or if he really was just enjoying his little stroll down the hall but he took his time getting there which earned me the fun job of waiting through 2 contractions without pushing. Thankfully it was all worth it because in spite of his fashionably late appearance to our little shindig, he was a great Dr. He was all for Cody doing the delivery, he talked him through it and only stepped in to remove the cord from around her neck. I think its so special and sweet that her daddy got to be the first person to hold her!
When daddy did finally hold her he held her up for me to see and said “Emma look at her she’s beautiful look at her!” His excitement and pride was so evident and he wanted to share the specialness of those first few moments with me, with my head flopped back on the pillow in complete relief and my eyes rolling back in my head I sobbed “I am looking.” Even as the words left my mouth I knew how stupid they sounded, everyone knew I was not looking. But when they lifted that sweet little squirming baby onto my chest I sure was looking, looking right at perfection.

We honestly can’t thank God enough for our whole experience, the people involved, how smooth everything went, and of course for our sweet Willow Blue who joined our world at 3:26 on July 16th weighing in at just 6lbs 8oz and measuring 19 inch long, the smallest most stunning little person to have graced this earth. God is good and childbirth was one of the most amazing experiences of my life, I thank Him daily for his awesome creation of our baby girl and for the amazing man he gave me to hold my hand and couch me through the whole thing. I am blessed!

(I don't have the pictures of Cody with her right after birth I still need to get them :-P)

(Our Dr :-) and a nice fat face shot of me!)

and of course one more of the star of the show, Willow Blue Mooney ladies and gentlemen!

Ready or not...

2011-07-06T17:24:00.001-07:00

It's hard to explain the emotions and thoughts running through my mind these days. With only four days until our little Willow Blue is due to arrive I honestly cant pin point what it is Im feeling (maybe this is pretty common for new mamas but it's weird for me!) I couldn't be more excited and thrilled to finally hold and kiss my sweet baby and Cody can hardly contain his excitement and nerves as he waits to finally be involved in his daughters life. We are also physically ready for her to show up with everything we can think of (besides a rocking chair... the right one seems to be hiding from us lol). And while I am still totally comfortable in my pregnant body I also feel ready and rested for labor and her arrival.

So what's hard to explain? The crazy part of my brain that doesn't believe that we have finally reached this time! When you first find out you are expecting you freak out a little about everything that is going to change, but it's ok because you have time to figure everything out. But I don't know where all that time went and I cant get myself to believe that she is going to come any time now! Eeeeee how can this be!?! And are we ready!?!?! Haha I know we are and will be because we have to be when it does happen but it's funny to not be feeling that readiness that most people have told us would come. I don't feel so uncomfortable or desperate to get her out, and we are excited but don't feel like we have been waiting for endless time for this day to come. I guess we just aren't like everyone else :-)

No matter how we feel about it, it is about to happen and about that I am sure! And excited :-)
I know the next few weeks are going to be so packed with amazing memories and special moments with our sweet little family. I feel so blessed to have had such an easy healthy pregnancy and baby and am praying it continues through labor and delivery. We have such an awesome support group of friends and family as well who have made this whole process a joy in spite of any stress that comes with this new chapter of our lives. I'm so excited to start sharing our little girl with everyone of you here on the blog. Stay tuned for her first REAL photo! I just know it's going to be the most beautiful thing you have ever seen ;-P

Slowing Down, Or Speeding Up!?!?

2011-05-28T17:25:00.000-07:00

Me and Willow at seven months

Well Willow is due to arrive in six weeks! I don't know where all the time has gone from when we found out that she had been growing for six weeks! The past months have been busy and filled with all kinds of new life happenings for us, and little down time for me (note the lack in blogging). And while I'm still not sure when my time to be a stay at home mommy will actually be here, we all know it's very very soon! I am so excited for the chance to enjoy every moment of this new stage of life, but I'm also grateful we still have some time left....

Cody is busy moving towards going to medic school in the fall, either here or maybe in California (I'll give you the details if and when that happens) this has suddenly dropped a huge list of to dos on our plate what with figuring out financial aid and part time work ect. Willows room still needs a new window, light fixture and her furniture needs to be painted. My own list of things extends way beyond this, but when I really stop and think only a few HAVE to be done before she arrives :-) So while we are getting more and more excited with every day, I know that we will need every moment to make things fall into place.

So in ways I feel like things are going to be slowing down to the arrival of the baby, but is it only so they can speed up when she gets here? Who is to say what kind of mom I will be, in two months I might be a crazy person, or you might be seeing a lot more of us on here :-) Either way we are feeling blessed and excited for this next new stage of life!

Baby Girls Room

2011-04-04T16:13:00.000-07:00

I got to go this weekend and pick out fabrics for baby Willows room!
I was so happy with what we founds and cant wait to see it all come together.

I LOVE it!!!!!

Test

2011-03-30T09:41:00.000-07:00

Well Cody flew to California this morning for a short visit, if you can call it that. He is there to take the entrance exam for UCLAs Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program! And he just loves taking tests so he was really excited to go... not. Anyways you might be thinking well that schools in California and you live in Colorado, how does that work? We are asking ourselves the same thing :-D

Kidding, in reality we have been thinking through, praying through and planning through what getting excepted into this school would mean. For us it would mean moving back to Cali for around nine months. We would live with Cody's parents and than come back home when he graduates! Whew makes me tired just thinking about it :-) But we really have felt lead to pursue this opportunity. There is still the test that needs to be passed, and an interview to get in that stand in front of the ultimate choice being made but we are moving towards that goal.

We still are praying about all of it and even if he does get in we will have to make the final call to pick up our lives and our first year with baby girl and move it to Cali, but we are excited to see Gods plan and what he is teaching us through this.

All of that to say Cody will be taking his test at 8 tomorrow morning (Yep thats Thursday) And we would love all your prayers. It's a five hour test and no one likes those :-P Thanks ahead of time and I'll let you know if we are moving to the west coast again!

My Pregnancy Facts!

2011-03-28T22:45:00.000-07:00

I thought I would share what being pregnant has been like for me, and for us :-) So here are some facts!
(I stole some of these from Jimaie... shah don't tell)

How We Found Out:
I took a test I was so sure was negative that I took a shower without even looking, man did I get a surprise when I leaned over with my mascara in hand and so the word "Pregnant" on that little screen!
Cody was laying in the ER hooked up to all kinds of heart machines when I blurted the news! He took it very well :-)

How I Have Been Feeling:
I did get the joy of morning sickness from week 6-12. But it wasn't so bad :-) And this past week I have found out that I get car sick... yep out of the blue! Other than that I feel amazing! I love being pregnant and am so thankful to be missing out on all the other pregnancy symptoms I have been reading about.

How I Am Looking:
No stretch marks yet! Trying to keep the bump nice and moisturized but it's just so gal darn dry around here these days :-/ I itch lol. Im still in all my regular clothes (A few of them call for the hair band trick these days) I honestly feel like Im the same except for that darling bump of a baby :-) This could be my pregnant brain just forgetting what I looked like before though

How The Baby Is Doing:
She is amazing! Little thing is on a schedule already :-) Like clock work she wakes up around 11 and wiggles until 12 or 12:30 every night! I love it right now but I'm pretty sure it's going to have to change when she makes an appearance. She is a foot long and weighs about 2 pounds! So far everything looks great from what the doctors say and we are just loving her to pieces. She can be a bit stubborn and likes to stop moving when Cody touches her :-P I think its sweet.

How We Are Feeling About Delivery:
I know thats kinda a funny one but it's our first time! It's weird but Im kinda excited. We are shooting for an all natural birthing plan, ok Im shooting for one, Cody told me he wouldn't do it and would insist on a c-section... oh the support of a husband :-) I'm also looking forward to everyone delivering me orange julius' from the new one that just opened next to the hospital, they are one of my favorite things and I'll take a good excuse to have more than my share!

What I'm Missing:
Beer, and thats so dumb because I didn't have beer all that often when I could have it but oh man does it sound soooo good these days :-)

What I'm Craving:
Nothing weird I just get stuck on things, orange juice, chocolate milk, cheese and mustard sandwiches, avocados, organ blackberry shakes, peanut butter,citrus fruits and meat... they have all had their times so far in my pregnancy :-)

What I Don't Want:
McDonalds :-/ yack and now panda express...

and for now thats it :-)
Just some random facts about whats going on in this belly, my head and our home!

Husbands & Hefty Cups

2011-03-20T19:37:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I allow all the distractions of life take over my mind and heart and I focus on all the things that "matter so much but mean so little. I have decided that my biggest fault is thinking that I have a right to vent my feelings to those closest to me. Rather than clear my mind and heart of the frustration that I am feeling it feeds my emotions and keeps my focus on things un true and pure. So instead of sharing the little things in life that aren't going "my way" today I thought I'd share some of the amazing things that are happening in my life. I have an amazing God of grace and love who has showered me with so many blessings I don't deserve. Let me share just a few...

This man is by far the most amazing part of my life <3 He makes me laugh daily and fills my heart with so much joy. He understands me and the ways that I need him, and gives so freely of himself to see me happy. He is my best friend and the greatest man I know. He makes me proud to be his wife and puts his whole heart into everything. I couldn't ask for a more devoted and considerate man to give my life to.

How can something so close to me still feel so far away? She is teaching me new things all the time about life and God and she hasn't even made an appearance yet! I am so excited to have this new unexpected cutie in our lives. I know she has so much more to teach me through both the joyful and the trying times of being a parent. I never expected to enjoy being pregnant half as much as I have. Ever day I feel a new kind of joy and thankfulness for this amazing opportunity. Im so glad that God knows what we need and when we need it because I never would have taken this on of my own accord and yet I wouldn't give it up for anything :-) What an unexpected blessing.

I know dogs really??? These boys bring me so much laughter and joy on a daily basis. They also love to cuddle and love on me which is amazingly priceless when your an emotional pregnant woman who's husband occasionally works 130 hour work weeks! If everyone could love as unconditionally as dogs the world would be a much better place. Even when my pregnant brain forgets to feed them (woops!) they still climb into my lap, lay their heads on my belly and shake their heads confused when baby girl gives them a decent kick :-) They are always happy to see me and have so much fun personality. I love my boys <3

Chocolate Milk! Hahaha such a great one :-) I haven't had any weird cravings, just consistent ones. I cant ever get enough milk, but since I don't like milk the chocolate saves me ;-P I am grateful that we not only have everything we need but also enough for silly things like chocolate milk cravings. I'm thankful for a tasy beverage that makes me feel better every time I dink a giant glass <3

Spring time... I have never thought of spring as my favorite season, but this year its such a welcome blessing. We have had a mellow winter around these parts and I wasn't even feeling done with it. However, these sunny days and warm weather have been like healing for my heart that I have allowed to get so heavy with the little things that don't matter. Im enjoying the promise of a new day that spring seems to whisper to us. There is something so great just around the corner and it isn't just summer :-)

Yellow Hefty Cups teehee. This goes back to the amazing man in my life and spring time I think. I love that I have a husband who knows that picking the yellow over the red will bring me extra joy because I love everything seasonal and am enjoying spring more than normal and all the brightness and yep you guessed it... JOY that it seems to bring. These yellow hefty cups are even making my milk cravings more enjoyable ;-P And no this isn't a stretch for something else to be thankful for. these darn cups really do make me happy every time I reach for one in the cabinet.

Lastly I am so thankful and excited to be looking forward to three days of with Cody <3 Although he has some tests to study for its going to be so nice to be abl to enjoy being together, and celebrating his wonderful life since its his birthday this week! Im so grateful for another amazing year with this amazing man.

Life is good <3

The Bathroom...

2011-03-20T16:59:00.000-07:00

Well its official, the nesting is here to stay! Since cleaning the garage a couple weeks back I have been rolling forward full steam on getting the rest of our house in order. Since we only lived in our home for a month before getting pregnant with sweetness the first couple months didn't see much in the way of progress around here seeing as I was much more content to sit on the couch than clean or unpack. So for starters heres our bathroom...

I have better before pictures some place but cant find them so here are a few I snapped when the project was just getting started.

Note the lovely paint all over the cabinets and yep that was our light fixture leaning against the counter, the light bulbs used to just hang out of it because the insides was broke :-) Classy!

See its just eww and blah! Their was paint all over the shower tiles, the cocking around the tub was, well not nice and when patching holes in the walls they had actually created mountains with putty. It took talent to do this kind of work!

Naturally we started by sanding, re texturing the crazy walls...

Ok well maybe husband did all that :-) I took a razor blade to the tiles, the mirror, the window and even the cabinets to get the remaining pink and teal paint off of everything! Than it was on to the painting! I had the hardest time deciding on a color for some reason, and in the end its even more blue than I expected

See our new light fixture! The cabinets are not staying either we just haven't found the right ones at the right price yet and for now these do the job. The mirror as you can see is fine except for along the edges so we decided to just frame it ourselves... but before we could get to that project the darn thing decided to fall off the wall when Edward was taking a shower and shatter into a million pieces! We wont be reframing it any more :-/

New cabinet :-) The new vanity will be black as well and Cody has been working on taking some beautiful nature photos that we are going to print in black and whites to hang on the walls <3

And organization!!!! This makes me almost as excited as the new paint, clean tiles and evenly textured walls :-) I love that I know right where everything in my house is, its pure bliss!

Anyways.... thats the bathroom for now but stay tuned for the new vanity and mirror (you should see the lovely one from our bedroom thats leaning on the counter right now)

The Garage - Phase 1

2011-02-25T22:22:00.000-08:00

Well as promised here are some pictures of our garage project!
We woke up later than I had planned on, took longer to get ready and to get started than I would have liked. However, we still managed to finish phase 1 :-) This first part of the project consisted of cleaning, organizing and trashing a ton of stuff that has been thrown in there since we moved here in September. But before I go into the details here are some rather scary pictures of the before...
Deep breaths everyone....

So yeah it was pretty bad. We started by pulling everything out into our yard and organizing it into categories, hunting, fishing, tools, camping, seasonal decoration, ect. Going through all the random boxes and trashing a ton of stuff that should have never moved with is in the first place. Heres another picture of our progress at this point.

At this point it started to snow on us! We were freezing but determined not to give up, so the work went on :-) as everything got organized outside, we started moving it back inside. All the seasonal stuff went up above on some shelfs that have been empty until now. Tools and the like to the right, hunting to the left and all codys garage door junk on the back wall. here are some after pictures...

Ok so it doesn't look that clean but it's only phase 1 remember? The boxes on the right up to the fridge are Erins and Dustins and will be moving with them on Tuesday. The stuff on the left from the ladder back is all codes hunting and fishing stuff, we have the shelfs to hang on the wall to get everything up off the floor and more organized but they go up in phase 2! The back wall is all stuff thats ebing taken away (except the tool box for his truck, we still have to find the right spot for that) Oh and those very ugly yellow crooked cabinets are empty and just need to be trashed as well. We waited to pull them down until we are taking a trip to the dump. But really all in all its sooooo much better don't you think!?!? We have three days off and phase 2 will at least be started along with some more interesting projects ;-) Since I know how much you all loved seeing our garage get clean!

Nesting...

2011-02-23T23:47:00.001-08:00

It's not just hitting at 20 weeks, but it sure is getting more intense! I lay awake in bed thinking about all the things I could do to the nursery, my bedroom, the bathroom, the front yard, the laundry room and yes even the garage! Im inspired by the simplest things and just bursting with ideas... and I love it <3

Tomorrow me and Cody get another day off together, (I know I'm spoiled rotten!) our plans are to organize and clean our garage -gasp- are we crazy??? Probably its rather beastly out there right now. But he is itching for a clean man space, and I have my own selfish motives of wanting a nice work space for all the DIY projects I have up my sleeves for the next couple months. So we are jumping in and getting that place cleaned up! I'll post before and afters for ya so you can be proud of us ;-P

I'm also putting together an idea board for the baby room and need to pick up some paint samples for the bathroom, man does that room need some personality! So other than my grown belly I don't have anything to exciting to post for you....
BUT I promise there is some fun stuff coming :-)

Baby Mooney is a GIRL!!!

2011-02-17T20:54:00.001-08:00

So we are just 3 days from being half way through our pregnancy! I cant believe we are already this far along. We went this morning to our ultrasound appointment and got to find out what sweet little thing we have been growing and its... a girl! I know your shocked seeing as I already blurted it in the title to this post ;-P I just couldnt contain my excitment I suppose.

Well we decided a couple weeks back to dish out the extra to see the paronatologist who could tell us everything she was seeing as she was seeing it. Not just the gender... I went back and forth on if it was worth it or not but after today I have no doubts it was the best choice :-) Our Dr was such a fun lady who talked us through every little thing she was looking for and at, explaining every measurement and picture she took. She was also extra persistent to get a 3d picture of babies face when she wouldn't stop holding her hands in her face! She sent us home with about 20 pictures and such a joy and peace about how wonderful our baby girl is doing! The whole experience was such a blessing to us!

Just had to share the news!

Fresh Start...

2011-01-26T19:39:00.001-08:00

Alright.... I am back for reals this time!!!!

I know we posted about our new home but I thought I would share just a little bit more with you ;-) Here is our ranch style home in the fall when we moved in! Now it may not look like much to you now, but to me it looks like a ton of potential... You should see the before pictures of the trees, no joke you couldn't even see our house hiding behind it until Cody and Hunter went to work around MIDNIGHT with spotlights and all :-)

It feels huge to us with its five bedrooms, two baths and two livingrooms! But the space has already been put to good use as stated in my earlier post, both my sister and her family and my brother have been living with us. The projects that have been done are already a long list and I will be posting more with before and after pictures of what we have done as the weeks go on. We are so excited about all the projects that will happen in this house over the years making it ours. It's so much house for us but we know the space will always be put to good use.

We are already getting ready to move the guest bedroom to the basement to make room upstairs for this little thing! Yep yet another change in our lives, this year has been full of BIG ones!!! For being something so un planned and un expected we couldn't be more thrilled about this new turn in our lives. After we freaked out a little bit of course :-) I actually blurted the news to Cody when he was lying in the ER! very smooth on my part... Now we are four months into a great pregnancy with healthy baby and just praying for more of the same <3>

So for the year 2010 we picked up and moved to another state all by ourselves and LOVE it. Had family move in with us. Bought our first home, and started our family! Through it all we have been so blessed to have a God who knows better than us, and has more than once shut a door we were more than ready to leap through so that he could carry us through an even better one.
One of the many blessings was our amazing families and all there wonderful love and support through this year. If there is anything I miss about life before Colorado its being closer to family and old friends <3>

Lastly I am actually back to blogging because over the past few months I have been gifted all the amazing tools needed to do so! #1 - mom and dad mooney bought us a macbook pro as a congrats on the baby! #2 - Christmas money and birthday money from both sets of parents and grandparents bought us a Canon Rebel T1I! #3 - I have a new house filled with projects to blog about #4 - I'm growing a baby thats going to be too cute for words so I'll have to post lots of pictures! #5 - Because I'm inspired and want to share!

It's the little big things...

2010-10-06T23:24:00.000-07:00

Well nothing and everything has changed in my life since I last posted. My husband is still the greatest joy and blessing in my life. The Lilleys are in the midst of more changes, and life never seems to slow down long enough to be boring!

We are just wrapping up our first month in our very own home! I know I know where are the pictures right? Here's my plan, if I dont post them maybe it will make you come visit me sooner so you can see it in person! We have a guest room waiting... ;-) It's more house and more wonderful than I could ever have imagined, or any of the others we looked at (and trust me we looked at a lot!) We now live in the lovely town of loveland and while it's a little farther away from the friends we have made in Longmont, I really love this town!
Currently all the beautiful aspen trees are changing to gorgeous fall colors and every day seems to be just a little bit cooler and crisper than the last. Summer has come to an end but our lives haven't slown down with it. It's either projects on the house, visitors, trips or just relaxing days like today spent exlporing rocky mountain national park, life is full :-)
And surprisingly enough our house is almost just as full! In July my sister Erin and her husband Dustin moved in with us along with the ever cute Mr. Talon. They live in the basement along with my brother Edward who just moved out this week! There is never a dull moment in our house with everyone hustling and bustling about their lives and I love it! I know I like to talk about how wonderful my husband is but let me just say it again. How many men let their wives families move in with them and like it? Mine does!!!! He has been so sweet to let us share our wonderful blessings with others, you would think I'd be used to how great he is by now :-P
Other than thats it's just a lot of work and life happening around here. Things flip upside down, and than back around but God never fails to provide and give us exactly what we need (another big surprise right?) our next exciting thing is having my parents come and visit! We will be able to celebrate Edward, Talon, and moms birthday while they are here and they will finally get to see where we live :-) After that it's into the holidays, my very favorite time of year <3 So until next time... miss us and know that life is busy here but never to busy for you if you care to come for a visit in our beautiful state, we would LOVE to have you!

Happy Heavy hearted...

2010-03-24T19:50:00.000-07:00

Tonight I'm sitting in my own darling little old home, with candles burning, soft music playing and fresh cookies to eat. My life is filled with so many blessings I cant even count. Yet some how a heaviness has settled in on my heart and I don't know that I can even explain why.

Rather then focusing on the heaviness I would rather tell you about the thing that stands out as my truest joy no matter how heavy, how cold or how overwhelmed I might feel. My HUSBAND <3

What makes that man so amazing? How can he make me melt with a simple touch, or cry from laughing when I'm sad? He seems to know just what I need or don't need, and he honestly cares for me better then I could ever deserve. I'm pleased to say that I am completely and hopelessly not only in love with, but committed to my man.

I honestly believe that if you decide to you can love, be loved and be happy with (almost) anyone. Perhaps its my dads voice in my head telling my that if only one person is completely selfless it can work ;-) I know that I once considered loving someone by choice alone, I thank God daily that I didn't make that mistake. I live my days unable to help but too love him. Yes there are moments, and maybe some day even days when I have and will have to chose to love my man. I am confident however, that the days filled with a very pure and true kind of love makes and will make those days so much easier to face.

Yesterday he turned 23. Not really old at all right? Well that means that I have spent 10 amazing years loving this man, even when it hurt like hell to do so. I laid in bed last night feeling him breath next to me and begged God for another ten... I suppose the last line might sum up the heavy hearted feeling. How many people don't get even the first ten years with the love of their lives? I know a few...

I guess that as much as I do miss my family and friends, I am feeling so overwhelmed at where I am, who I;m with and all that I have. I strive to live for a might God and he showers me with more blessings then I know what to do with, and love is the greatest one of all....

I will be back!

2010-02-15T12:44:00.000-08:00

Very very soon I will post pictures of the new house, the new life and the Rado (Husbands Colorado word;-) Just checking to see if there is any one out there who even cares... haha

I miss...

2009-12-18T15:59:00.000-08:00

I miss decorating the tree the day after Thanksgiving and eating chilidogs.
I miss mom and dad telling us Christmas will be small this year (ever year) and it never mattering (cause it wasn’t ever true) and because our family is what makes holidays at the Lilley’s so great.
I miss having all our friends over to play poker, or Evan and Tiffany over for long conversations in front of the fire.
I miss Christmas’ in the snow, around the fire with my family building puzzles.
I miss Erin waking us all up at 4 to open gifts.
I miss breakfast in the toe of our stockings.
I miss dad reading the Christmas story.
I miss snack foods and hot drinks, or chips and salsa and diet coke in a cup with a straw.
I miss sledding down the hill outside our house.
I miss listening to mom laugh at the Grinch… every time!
I miss my family
I miss being a kid….

I love being a Lilley <3

Family

2009-10-05T13:08:00.000-07:00

Change, it seems to come in waves. And while the first wave always feels a little overwhelming, I find that with the right attitude any change can be a good thing. My family has become masters of embracing the changes and allowing God to use even the hardest times for good, not because we are the greatest but because we trust Him to be.
Today nothing is different and the Lilley family is in the midst of a sea of changes. As your family grows you take on the lives and changes of more people, opening your heart to more joy, and more pain. I thought about blogging about our trip to Colorado, or the camping trip we went on this weekend, but the truth is life and all its changes are really where I’m at so I’m going to share those instead :-)

Parents… They are living in Seattle! They bought a CUTE house and my dad has started working for the Seattle Gospel Rescue Mission! They are so excited about where God has them and starting their new lives off there. Me and Cody get to go visit in November for Thanksgiving and its killing me to have to wait!

Nole and Heather… They are living in Murrieta now! They moved into their new little home and Nole starts the LA County fire tower on the 13th! I’m so excited for them and this new stage, and that Nole got on so quickly (Two years! Haha) I cant wait to go visit them and see their cute place at the end of the month.

Nathan and Anna… Nathans coming home! He has been out at sea for 6 months and I know Anna cant wait for him to be home! It will be his last deployment for a while:-) I get to see Anna this weekend but am excited for the 25th when all us kids are going up to Oakglenn for a fun fall day together! Its good to all be together.

Dustin and Erin… are waiting for Talon! He is due on the 15th of November and it couldn’t come soon enough. Erin calls him man cub and none of us can wait to see his little face or to squeeze him! Dustin is working a lot and Erin is just getting ready to be mommy. We are having her shower this weekend which means all four of us sisters get to be together! Yeee

Edward… Is in Joshua! I have not heard much from him because he is busy but it sounds like he is having a great time! I miss getting to hear about his life and what’s going on but think his being there is a great thing :-) miss you Edward!

Us… Well we are waiting for construction to be done on the house (fingers crossed for the 28th!) enjoying time with family and friends before the move (which might be moved up…) I feel like I'm in the middle of a grand waiting game! Waiting for Talon, waiting for weekends with family, waiting to move and waiting for our turn to start the fire tower... God is so good and life is full of so many blessings even in our times of change and waiting.

Lurv this man <3

2009-08-10T13:59:00.000-07:00

This is...
- My best friend
- My laughter
- My joy
- My hope
- My strength
- My LOVE
- My blessing

....My Husband <3

Erin's Shower!

2009-07-26T18:05:00.000-07:00

Last weekend me and Anna got to throw a shower for Erin. It was so much fun to have all her close friends and family there. It was a dessert "Love & the Bedroom" sower. The cheese cake was my favorite :-) Everything came together so nicely and we found some great deals! Woop love those. Anyways my camera took mostly blurry pictures :-( boo so these are the few that turned out good.

I miss you

2009-07-20T13:12:00.000-07:00

Life is short but a lot of the time its also amazingly sweet <3
I came across this picture of Chris today and couldn't help but laugh. It might be a bad picture but it reminds me of good times. This guy was great at three things making me mad, making me laugh and being one of the greatest friends I've had. Sometimes I still expect him to randomly show up like he loved to do. Knowing that he wont has hurt for a long time, but today seeing his picture made me happy instead of sad. I was blessed to know him. Today He is still making me mad for leaving so early. He is still making me laugh through memories of all the wonderful time we did have. And he is still one of the best friends Ive had. I miss you Chris <3

Good Movie!

2009-07-16T10:03:00.000-07:00

I have read a lot of not great reviews on this movie but I still really wanted to see it. We went last night with mom and dad and I LOVED it. I honestly have not laughed that much in a long time. It wasn't to trashy, it was cute and very funny. So point being its going on the favorites list and you should watch it!

Also Ryan Reynolds is going on "the" five celebrities list.... Ahh haha how adorable is that man!?! Welp if anyone wants to see it I'll go with you!

Wedding Weekend

2009-07-14T11:22:00.000-07:00

My top 3 favorite things about wedding weekends.

1 - Two people getting to commit to their best friends for the rest of their lives<3>

2 - Um it's a party, and theres a lot to be done! I love party planning, organizing and watching everything come together at the end to be completely beautiful. this weekend was no different. I hope its exactly what the bride and groom wanted because it was completely stunning! And honestly I love all the madness that happens behind the scene before its all finished!

3 - People. This is probably the best thing of all. Like I said life happens and is busy but on wedding weekends everyone comes together and focuses on each other. theres a lot of time spent together and that in itself is the biggest blessing of all. I have such a huge place in my heart for my family and friends and honestly cherish the moments I get with them knowing that you never know how much time you will have. This weekend was filled with so many precious people that I love and care for so much and was such an encouragement and joy in my life. Man I love people <3

anyways here is the only photo I have from the weekend, with some of those wonderful people I was talking about. I know I have said it before but God really blessed my heart when he allowed this friendship to happen. I love you Tilleys!

And congrats to the Settters! Hope you have a blast on your honeymoon ;-)

Room Remodel... And BIG News!

2009-07-05T18:33:00.000-07:00

Okay well over the past couple months as you might know, the Lilley family has been going through some big changes. Both in my parents new direction of life (Which we are anxiously waiting for!) as well as my siblings and their life directions. Me and Cody have been doing a lot of talking and thinking for a while now and we have decided to move to Colorado!

Ahhh I know freak out a little bit :-)

Because of this his parents have agreed to let us live in their home until we go to save money for the move in February! This is such a huge blessing and answer to prayers and another way God is opening doors for us and making this feel like the right decision to make. While this is all very exciting giving up the idea of having a home for at least 7 months was a little hard on me (You will understand even more when you see the room we moved into!) So with a budget of $500 I redid the room to make it feel as much like our space as I could. Im pretty happy with how it turned out. For starters here are the before pictures.... (gasp)

Yes it is kinda sage green and red! The roof IS painted as well as a beautiful star on the wall. I didnt post pictures but the carpet had black spots all over it and the one door had been used to throw knifes into and light on fire a couple times. This room was scary!

It also came with this lovely beat up built in book shelf. Now in these pictures me and Robin had already spent a day cleaning this room out! haha just to give you an idea... Now none of this is her fault just to be clear. This room had been a guys zone for years and the previous paint color that was still peaking out in areas was a dark dark blue! Talk about a dungeon.

Needless to say the first project was to paint.

Cody was working the first two nights I worked on this project after work, and had a hunting class on Friday & Saturday when I finally finished it! It took three coats of primer on some parts of this room and those shelves were almost the death of me. I stayed up all night Friday night until this project was finished!

So here are the afters!

Pretty white shelves! And that door was the one that had been so damaged before! You cant hardly tell anymore :-) I actually dont like the tan color I chose, I had a lighter one picked out but got talked into a shade darker and was sad I did but Im still very pleased with how it turned out! Over all the paint cost $75 including trays and rollers...

Im still looking for an entertainment center but for now we are using Rylees little table and it works. I also dont have enough to decorate the shelves but they are coming together and will take some tweaking until its how I like it. I spent about $25 on some things to add to the shelves

This is looking back into the bedroom. I found that chair on craigslist for $50. It actually has a slip cover that is in the middle of a makeover itself. I'll blog about it when Im finished but I was pretty happy with the purchase. The yellow blanket and zebra pillow were $6 a piece! I Love Ross! I got white curtains that Im going to be hanging as soon as I find the right blinds to put behind them. There floor length and from Ikea for $20 and the lamp with the shade was only $7

Our bed, I didnt want to use out nice stuff we got as a wedding gift because I was afraid it might get damaged by all the traffic coming through the room. (I come home regularly to either the girls, cameron or cameron and his autistic boys in my bed watching TV :-) So I got this plane black duvet cover from Ikea for $14 another great find. I bought purple sheets for $30, the greenish yellow pillow for $14 and the scrunchy white blanket for $20 (yeah the blanket cost more then the duvet!) The lamp is also from Ikea for $25, it gets dust fast but thankfully the whole thing pops apart pretty easy so I can dust it good :-) We hung our wedding pictures finally! I love getting to look at them every day!

So far my biggest purchase was this wooden screen room divider. I got it from target for $116, it was shipped to my house already all pout together and I love it. It did come with one ding in it that happened during shipping but its nothing huge. I wanted the bed to feel a little separated from the rest of room. with this up it creates a sort of living room to the front half of the room. and also an extra security that if anyone comes barging into the room without knocking they wont see anything right off the bat. This room doesn't have a lock... yet! haha its in the works and on the top of the list :-) Anyways this is a wordy post but thats what I have been up to. There will be more posts coming on the more detailed projects I have been up to!

3rd of July

2009-07-05T18:24:00.000-07:00

Down here they do a 3rd of July fire works show! Everyone goes early and hangs out before the big show and its a lot of fun. Im still not completely sure why they do this but hey its turning into tradition...
We spent the afternoon with Codys family checking out some fridges for their new kitchen. They chose an awsome 5 foot wide fridge! ahh haha so cool. and getting tons of snacks for the evening of course :-)
Um...
Mom showing us how to throw a soft ball ;-) Shes so cute
Rylee & Cody
Mom me and Cody enjoying the pretty evening!
As the sun slipped behind the hills it got COLD. Cody had a jacket and mom brought me an extra sweatshirt but Cody thought it was a good idea to zip us both up in the sweatshirt! Haha you should have seen us trying to sit down zipped together like this:-) I love how silly my husband is
The boys played Frisbee for a long time... and lost it into the crowd a couple times :-P Normally running and diving onto the blanket to avoid any blame for it! After confirming they were not very good Cody decided he was going to throw it and land it in my lap... Right! Nope it hit me in the face and that's why I look like cry face in the above picture :-S Lame haha

It was a great night with family and celebrating the day before Americas birthday! lol

Fathers Day

2009-07-05T18:15:00.000-07:00

The day after Jessicas shower was Fathers Day. It just so happened that my parent were at Hume speaking for Romance Conference and so when they were finished we got to spend some time with my sweet daddy. I wont go on and on about how great my dad is since I have done that before, but I will say that as time goes on, and over these past few months I have come to love him even more. You get to see the true character of a man when life gets hard. My dad is someone who wont ever disappoint you in this area :-) I am so proud of him and can not wait to find out where God will be using him and my mom next. Wherever it is those people will be very lucky to have them!
Grandpa Lilley came over to which was so great! He is moving to Oregon soon and it was nice being able to see him before he left. North was happy to see him to and wanted to take a picture with his Papa
While it wasn't Dustins first official Fathers Day, North still thought it was fun to check out the little person to be growing in Erins tummy. (Stay tuned to find out what it is! She goes in at 1 today!)
Some pretty ladies :-)
Heather and Avery. Two of the most beautiful girls I know :-) And some of the sweetest too!
North and Avery. Are they cute or what?
Sisters <3
And lastly me and Avery Bay. I really really really cant get enough of my family. Im so glad we had the time to stop and spend some time with them on Fathers Day.

Jessica's Shower

2009-07-05T18:04:00.000-07:00

My sister AnnaMae and I had the opportunity to throw a bridal shower for our dear friend since birth practically. Most of the credit goes to Anna who is the matron of honor on the wedding THIS weekend! She did a wonderful job envisioning and planning something special and beautiful. But I still had a great time helping out and trying to think of the little details that would make everything just right for Jessica. You know how we Lilleys love the details :-)

We had the shower at Brandons (The Grooms) parents home. It was the perfect gorgeous setting. I just loved all the aspens! Dianna was such a huge help to us and was the third planner for the party. Her and Ron took care of so many of the on location details for us and opened their home for us to work away all day Friday before the shower. Dianna is such a sweet lady and made us feel right at home and worked hard along with us to bless her soon to be daughter. I really hope Jessica knows what a blessing it is to have such a sweet mother in law. Not everyone is as lucky as the few of us who have mother in laws who are easy to love :-)
Me & Anna happy to see everything come together like we had hoped.
Erin also came along for the weekend and was another huge help! Even if she did have to stop for naps now and then ;-) Being pregnant is a lot of work! It was so great to have all three of us together and we enjoyed the long drives and the opportunity to chat and catch up on life. (Just wish Heather had been there too :-()
Anna made all those paper pom pom balls you see hanging back in the trees with the help of Erin and Dianna (Brave ladies!) They looked so soft and pretty surrounding the shower and added a pop of color. Im a big fan of these guys even if I would never brave making them myself! haha
This is the food table... Yum :-P I was in charge of the food of course. Besides accidentaly buying golden honeydew, which made it look just like the cantaloupe... everything came together beautifully (Until the sun started melting the mounds of chocolate covered strawberries... woops)

And to me everything tasted great.
This is the drink and favor table. Complete with heart shaped ice cubes with berries frozen in them! Haha its all in the details! To the right is a candy buffet for favors. Each guest got ot fill a little pail with their favorite candies to take home.
The center pieces. Each table had different colored fabric and flowers but I think they turned out pretty cute! I loved the butterflies that Anna made to sit on the edge!
Gift table. I found that delicious yellow fabric (Which has small white dots on it that you cant see) for 99 cents a yard! Now I just need to find something cute to make of it!

And the Big Picture!

I think the shower went great :-) We had a great time getting to pray for, laugh with and pamper Jessica before this big step in her life. Im really so excited for her and Brandon. Me and Cody are quickly approaching our one year anniversary and I have mixed emotions. I cant believe its only been a year, and I cant believe how much has happened in that year! Life happens and being married makes life that much more fun!

San Diego Visit

2009-07-05T17:57:00.000-07:00

I went to visit Anna Mae for a weekend after Nathan left on deployment. We meant to paint but never got around to it. Instead we just enjoyed visiting and being together and getting some shopping done ;-) I love my sister to death and any time spent with her cute little family is a blessing and encouragment to my heart. Here are some pictures from the weekend.

Sweet Gwen Silly Gabe

I Love this happy face!

A trip to Hume and a date with the Tilleys.

2009-07-05T17:20:00.000-07:00

Okay well i got the camera to work! Yeah me :-) and while Im sure no one follows this blog anymore... here is he first of a ton of updates from the Mooneys life. Codys grandparents cabin was open the weekend before summer started so we decided to go up for a visit since we dont have m parents house to go to any more. We had a great relaxing trip and time together.

We brought the dogs and they had sooo much fun playing in the water and going on big walks. Oak wasn't to into swimming but loved playing in the shallow water, and Rizzo swam until he almost drowned! Not even kidding we couldnt get that mutt out of the water!

We spent an evening hanging out with the Tilleys and Tiffany and it was such a HUGE blessing! Sometimes I get discouraged being down here so far away from my family and friends and not having any close girl friends. I had such a great time with Tiff and getting to know Alex (Who I'm in love with by the way :-) It was exactly what a needed. We went on a night drive and John almost drowned us all! haha JS

The next night the Tilleys followed us down the hill and we had a double date. Another big blessing. I love that we have a couple we can relate to and get along so well with.

The Cute Tilleys

And then us... lmao

Haha these two crack me up constantly when they are together.

We played mini golf girls vrs. guys. I would like to lie and say we won but....

:-D

These two are so much fun.

Over all the weekend was wonderful and the start to a wonderful friendship I think:-D

I'm so glad I have an awsome God who knows exactly what I need and when I need it. This weekend was a true answer to prayers both for friends and relaxing...

and then it was onto the busy summer months!

Little Life Updates

2009-07-01T22:36:00.000-07:00

My camera is lame and wont upload its pictures onto the computer and so I have not blogged because pictures are what makes a blog fun (in my own opinion) but I thought I would stop in and give a quick update to the world

I have been crazy busy between moving into, painting and re decorating a new room! Planning showers and weddings. And working like crazy… the part I don’t like, boo!

I am excited to show you the before and afters of the room. The fun pictures from all our Hume trips to throw parties and hang out with friends. And maybe share some BIG news… I still haven’t decided how much is okay to share via the web. You know all the crazies out there ;-) teehee

Things in the Lilley family are still in complete crazy mode but hopefully over the summer answers will come and by fall things will be settling down, or vamping up, however you want to see it. For me personally vamping up will be more like it!

But as said before without pictures this will get old fast so Im going to peace out now with this simple thought….

I HATE painting shelves! And zebra print is absolutely delicious!
The End.

Welcome New Family Members!

2009-06-02T14:51:00.001-07:00

Well as some of you might have heard the Lilley family is growing again! It's a fun exciting time in all our lives as we are trying to figure out where God wants us and what we are supposed to be doing. But we wouldn't be the Lilleys if we dint have eighty things happening at one time and so Erin added some joy to our lives and married this guy! I mean really whats not to love!?!Haha Dustin is wonderful and they clearly love each other. I'm so excited to watch them learn and grow together through life, I know they are going to do great! And I love that our family just keeps getting bigger and bigger, you can't ever have to many people in a family when we all love each other so much. So welcome Dustin we are so happy to have you in our family.

But Mr. & Mrs. Schlegel thought our family should grow just a bit more and so we are also awaiting the arrival of this littler person! (What ever it might be)I know I have said it before but my family has to be the greatest thing that ever happened. I love watching everyone pull together and love on each other when life gets hard, and in times of joy. This is definitely a time of joy in the Lilley family, we have an awesome God who loves us and knows exactly what he is doing in each of our lives (Even when none of us have a clue) and he is constantly bringing blessing into our lives. Life is good <3

Congratulations Schlegels!

A time for greiving.

2009-05-11T12:22:00.000-07:00

Spring time for me is a reminded of how short life is. How quickly life changes, in a breath, in a heartbeat, in a second everything can change. I often envy those people who have never lost someone close to them. I cant imagine how wonderful it must feel to not have that grief forever written on your heart.
I am grateful that I have a God who is caring and gracious who carries so much of these burdens for me. I’m glad I have hope in the Lord and that I will see some of those precious people again some day. But in the days I have left here on earth I will miss them. I will question why they were taken so soon, too soon. There was so much potential and life left in these wonderful people, and God saw it was time to bring them home to him.
I am in the middle of four months filled with anniversaries of loss. A couple nights ago I was looking back at some old memories with those people. I’m not sure if it ever does get easier, or if we just learn to cope with the pain. Whatever it is, today I feel heavy hearted and sad. I trust that Gods hand is over even this, but it still hurts to say good bye to someone you love.

Psalm 18:2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Psalm 34:18The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit

Isaiah 40:18-31Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint

We do not own the people in our lives. They are with us for a little while and then they are gone. But when they are gone do not grieve for the times you shall miss, rejoice in all the times you had.
I miss you sweet boys every day <3

8 Months ago...

2009-05-05T11:33:00.000-07:00

I was sitting here tonight and realised that eight months ago today I was spending my last night as a single woman! While I loved those days and had some amazing family and friends to get me through them, I wouldn't go back for anything. It was such a wonderful day with all the people I love the most, so excited to start our new stage of life together. We had no idea what we were getting into!Our wedding day was such a blessing and happy memory that I often think back on. I love looking at the pictures and remembering how perfect everything was, but more then that I love looking forward at whats to come. Before we got married a lot of people warned us marriage wasn't what we thought it would be, still wonderful, but different. We wouldn't agree, it's exactly what we thought it would be, AWSOME! Life on the other hand, as it's so good at doing, went in a different direction then we expected, but isn't that what we should expect;-) I have the most wonderful husband who has continued to amaze me in the gentle respectful way he leads, provides for and loves me. I love him more today then ever and am so excited to see what other plans God has for us and our future. Our life is just barley starting so I know there is a lot ahead of us but I dont mind knowing I get to face whatever it is good or bad with Cody at my side. Here's to the greatest eight months of my life and to hundreds more to come<3

Oldies

2009-05-05T10:56:00.000-07:00

I am up at Grandma Cox's doing laundry since we don't have a washer :-( And I came across some old pictures that made me smile...

Me, Rylee and Cody at his graduation from the fire academy! What a great day that was!
Another day supporting my fire fighter:-) Doesn't he just look good enough to eat ;-) lol
Tea with Mama Mooney <3
Eeeek BABIES!!! Haha these make me laugh so hard!
Dave & Christies wedding. Haha we had the whole world figured out by then ;-)
Graduation pictures. All of these are such a wonderful reminder that even in the hard times in life Gods hand is on all stages of your life. Looking back every step was exactly what we needed to get to today :-)

Some Fun

2009-05-05T10:22:00.000-07:00

Well it's been a while since I was posting so I missed a ton, instead of posting a million things here are some quick pics of life the past few months from most recent first :-)

Tiffany came to visit me (again) we are now the two red heads and had a wonderful weekend of greys and cleaning :-P I love this girly

Fun time at the dog park with the Mooney family :-) We take the dogs here a lot and they have a blast! Sam (sitting on Robins lap) is a little boy Cameron works with and he LOVES the dog park and always asks Cameron to take him there :-)

Heehee oh the faces of trauma! Our last weekend at Hume brought out some weird emotions in us all, apparently pirate emotions lol

Anna & Nathan brought there family for a visit for a couple days and we had a great time going to the beach and whale watching. We also took a ride on the quad that Gabe loved and Gwen wasn't to sure about. What a sweet little family

And Tiffany came again... haha we happen to be beautiful at all times of the day!

Looking a tab bit better :-)

Climbing with Cody man. I forgot a hairband :-/

Sister weekends are so great. I think we need anothr girly weekend soon with mom and Heather too. Lets do central coast shopping and pedis please!?!

Two of the greatest women in my life. I <3 you girlies!

A Day Trip

2009-05-05T09:33:00.000-07:00

We LOVE to travel and go places together. I can't think of anything better then getting to explore some place new with my man, this past weekend with both our schedules all mixed around we ended up having Monday off and took the opportunity to spend a day exploring together.

We decided to drive north up the coast and ended up spending a wonderful day in Santa Barbara.

We started out at the zoo! I love animals and my husband knows it, he was sweet to take me here. If you have been to this zoo you know it's smaller which was nice because it was a great way to spend our morning but it didn't take up our whole day.

I won't show you pictures of ALL the animals, but this guy was my favorite! He is a Gibbon and I watched him for like an hour :-) I have always like the big cats the best (Mostly tigers) but man was this a funny little guy. I wanted to hold him, but I'm sure up close he is a stinker :-S

We spent a lot of time shopping state street, we both got something fun to take home. Cody bought me some beautiful jewelry and got himself a new water bottle. Doesn't sound to fun to me but he was pleased :-) And of course we got an ornament for our tree to remember our day in Santa Barbara. At the end of the day we walked the Pier and we got attacked by the wind! We almost blew away!

It was such a fun romantic and relaxing trip. I'm so blessed to have a husband who loves spending time with me, and who I can't seem to get enough of. I love you husband <3

Some People...

2009-04-30T14:45:00.000-07:00

Today is an insane long day at work for me, so on my lunch break I spent the first half going to get coffee (and the second writing this) anyways as I'm ordering my coffee the gentleman behind me steps forward and says "I would love to get that for you." Now I know all to well that this kind of thing just irks my husband so I said "Thats sweet but I'm married, and plus I'm buying for the whole office." well that didn't work on this guy, what does he say next?
"Sounds like you get to treat all the girls to coffee then." I frowned but thought fine you want to buy for the office I'll let you buy for the office and proceeded to order drinks for ALL the girls I work with :-P Well as if that wasnt enough he says "Thats all?" Then to the lady behind the counter "Why dont you throw a six shot americano in there with that" I turned and looked at him like he was an idiot and said "Who for!?!" He laughed and said "For luck." ICKY! Haha that is a very very bad line. "It's not a four leaf clover" I snapped. "it's a cup of coffee and your gonna need a LOT more luck then that."

I'm not telling this story to say Oooo look at me haha but to say WHY are men so stupid! I mean really what is buying me coffee going to do for you besides empty your pockets and get some snide remark. Obviously they dont know me and dont know exactly how I would respond, but I hope that any girl would have more respect for herself to fall for that cornyness (If thats even a word) I mean really I'm a person, you cant buy me or trick me into loving you with terrible lines. Where have all the real gentlemen gone?

This same guy didnt even hold the door for me on the way out, now weather thats another sign of his lack of class or his way of expressing he was more then peeved at my own lack of so called class I dont know. But I did take the coffees and the extra americano and I assure you, when I am bouncing off the walls tonight I will owe it all to the gentleman I met at Starbucks today.

Unexpected blessing!

2009-04-27T15:02:00.000-07:00

I'm so excited to announce the newest addition to our ever growing family.Her name is Julia, but now that she is ours Cody might change it to something more... I dont know, manly! But it's such a huge blessing to know that he will be able to get to work and back in one piece. This really was a God thing with how it worked out with the timing and everything and we feel so excited to have this "new" truck, it's exactly what Cody has been looking for!

Jolly Rizzo

2009-04-23T15:23:00.000-07:00

We have gone through our share of toys with Rizzo. the boy can chew through ANYTHING!Including the Jolly Ball Teaser. However it's gone take him some time so it's a step up from before. Like any "teenager" we have to limit his time with this toy. (its his xbox) he gets to worked up and stressed out bu it, but if we would let him he would never stop playing with this toy :-)

P.S. Please ignore the nastiness that is our bedroom right now.

And Erin I think you need one of these! He is chewing it but its not coming apart at all yet!

Lunch Break Pros and Cons

2009-04-15T14:14:00.000-07:00

Pro
- I'm getting off at 4:30 instead of 5 today
- My room is staying clean and cute :-) And that makes me enjoy being in it
- My husband is home tonight and not working!
- I found a dog bed for Rizzo for only $15
- I orderd a super duper durable dog toy today, I hope it works
- I have been waking up really early these past few days
- I have fresh flowers in my room which is wonderful
- I got fresh new makeup on Monday!
- Im enjoying a mocha at the moment and it is GOOD!

Cons
- 4:30 is still over two hours away
- My finger nails look like crap since the fake nails came off
- My red hair faded way to fast and needs to be redone already
- My small rose bush is going to die soon because I dont take care of it.
- I live in A room, as in one... instead of an apartment heehee oh well...
- my toes are cold.
- And my dogs eat through every toy in two seconds flat making it hard to be a good mama and buy them some more....

Hope your all having a wonderful Wednesday and enjoying the small blessings that make the big crap not seem AS bad ;-) I will upload some pictures soon and do some real blogs, I know I have been saying that for a while but I really do have good intentions to do it.

The End.

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2009-04-01T18:20:00.000-07:00

Psalms 119:28 My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.

Sometimes in our lives we face things we could never understand. Things that don’t have an answer and you just have to know that God is at work even in this, sometimes we can see him, and other times its hard to even feel him. Death in particular is something that rarely feels like the right thing…

In my family we have faced several losses that seem much to soon. Each time you face the same questions, and each time you get the same answers, or lack there of. You struggle through the emotions and pain both for your own loss, but often times more for the pain you see others facing. No matter the situation only one thing stays completely the same, and it’s a peace that can only be explained by a loving and merciful God…

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
—John 16:33

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
—John 14:27

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
—Colossians 3:15

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Friends like these...

2009-03-25T11:23:00.000-07:00

Are what gets you through life <3
You know you have the greatest friends when...

they know your having a bad day and so they send you emails and take pictures for you!

Tiffany i love you and your sweet sweet friendship!

Things to be happy about from Tiffany Griffin...

"You have a husband who will pick illegal flowers for your best friend just because he knows it will make you happy!"

"You have a BFF who will take silly pictures to make you happy!"

"There are more pictures of you in my room then of any of my other friends and its because I love you the very best! (don't tell anyone)" ....I wont post all the pics of me she sent;-P and I am no good at listening to instructions apperantly lol. I love you Tiffus a Miffus

Just some thoughts

2009-03-03T11:32:00.001-08:00

I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope...

I don’t view myself as a grown up in any way. I often laugh at the fact that I am married to another none adult, and that together, we are making a laughable attempt at trying to navigate this world and make a so called life for ourselves. We are a hopeless mess, but we still hope.

Last night we were laying in bed watching Grays Anatomy and visiting and we realized we have no clue what we are doing. We know where we would like to be (even if we aren’t sure why), and we are attempting to get there, but in reality we are just trying to make since of life. Why things seemingly always have to be done in a certain way and why people are always judging each others every move.

I am just as guilty as the next guy in this area. Everyone thinks they know what is best for other people. We speculate that they’re too young, too old, too immature. Whatever it might be, we would never do it that way if we were them. When all the while they are looking back at us thinking the same thing.

There is another couple that we know and most of what they do annoys me. I know how shallow of me right? But I know I irritate her too. We are so different, and approach situations so differently that we have a really hard time understanding and respecting each other. Why do I care if she is so different than me? Individuality is divine! Who am I to judge it.

It’s why one persons best friend is another’s persons enemy. We are all made different with different likes and dislikes. That’s a no brainer I’m just stating the facts. What apparently IS hard for people to grasp, is that its OK they are so different than you.

Someone getting married at 18 can in fact be just as ready for marriage as someone who is in there 30s, shocker I know. Someone in their early 20s will be ready to handle three kids when someone in their 40s will never be cut out for the task. And in the same way someone older will be better prepared for their life choices than you or I. It has absolutely nothing to do with age.

Our God has created us as such unique individuals that we are all ready for something different. We are all prepared for our individual lives. So where do we get off judging others for the way they live their lives, or the choices they make? God gave them their brains, their hearts and their desires. Would we ever question his decisions? In a since we are…

God wont ever take you to what he cant take you through….
Believe it, in your life and the lives of others around you. And instead of being concerned with their choices and decisions, encourage them. What a blessing to be able to know that God is in control of all of this, we don’t need to be concerned for them, we need to be there for them instead.
And so it is my resolve to work on not judging other people’s choices and lives. And instead when I see something or someone I don’t agree with, be reminded at how great God is in creating such unique and different personalities and minds in us each.

Well said...

2009-02-26T13:17:00.001-08:00

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friends, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

Edward

2009-02-24T11:10:00.000-08:00

Edward - Eddie - King Edward - Masta E - Squidy...and many others. Edward is the "Coolest" one of us all! He is the youngest sibling, and so he grew up with four "mothers" in his life:-) He handled it pretty well and turned out pretty great. Everyone knows Edward, he makes friends all over the place, probably because he makes everyone laugh. He has added so much to our family both in keeping our mom busy so we could get away with things;-) and with his wonderful personality and zest for life. Edward is a lot like Gabe in the fact he is a boy through and through. He is going to be graduating high school this year and I cant hardly believe it. He has turned into such a fun person, nice gentleman and quite handsome guy if I might say so! I'm so excited to see what he does with his life. Like Kelly Cookingham used to say, Edward could be the president one day! But if he doesn't I'm sure he will continue impacting people lives just the same. This guy is great=)

Sister Erin

2009-02-24T11:00:00.000-08:00

Okay back to the family reports!

Erin is the first of my two younger siblings, and the youngest of the three girls. She is still kinda the baby of the family even though Edward is younger, and she is also the brains of the family. This girl is brilliant & beautiful! I love her for her funky style & personality and her willingness to just be herself. She has such a huge heart for people and everyone likes her (Even when she was a stinker;-) heehee She is also one of the greatest friends you will have always loyal and trustworthy. I really cant wait to see what she does with her life she has so much potential and I know she will do great at whatever it is. I love you sister Erin!

This is Dustin (AKA Dusty Bear or Dustin Schlegal Sugar Bagel... sorry dusty if I spelled that wrong!) And he is Erins person. He is not a sibling as of yet but we still think he is pretty swell:-)

Visiting Rylee

2009-02-24T10:12:00.000-08:00

We went and visited Rylee in the hospital. She wasn't very talkative

Depending on your computer this video can be a little sketchy, sorry about that.

The AnnaMae Ouimet Family

2009-02-23T12:59:00.000-08:00

The oldest Lilley girl is AnnaMae. She was named after our moms mom and was born in Oregon above a funeral home... thats right a building full of dead people:-) Since than Anna has become such an amazing woman in spite of her traumatic introduction into the world teehee. She is one of my best friends and one of the greatest moms I have ever seen! Anna has a love for anything to do with creativeness, weather it was costumes and running around in big dresses when we were kids, or painting beautiful pieces for her home she is truly talented. She is a lot like my mom in her constant desire to be learning and growing closer to the Lord which is something I admire, along with how amazingly strong she is having on many occasions for months at a time been a single mother since her husband is in the Navy. Im so amazed by her joyful heart and supportivness to her husband. Anna met Nathan when they were very young and married not long out of high school a lot like Nole and Heather. I like Nathan a lot for a brother in law and take any chance I get to go to San Diego for the weekend with their cute little family. Nathan is very much a guys guy and is always messing with a gun, a jeep or some other such toy. But what I like about him the most is the way he loves and provides for my sister:-) They are such a wonderful couple and Im so happy to see my sister so happy. Thanks Nathan!

You can see parts of each of them in Gabriel their son. He is ALL boy! He has more energy than a monkey and climbs like one too:-) He likes to read like his mama and spends time working on his jeep just like daddy. This little boy has completely stolen my heart with his crazy hair, silly grins and funny antics. He might keep his mama busy and worn out but I think he is pretty much the greatest little kid ever. Anna always has stories about him that make me laugh.

Gwen is their youngest. She too has enough personality to keep Anna busy let alone the fact she has two like this! I honestly watch her with these kids and am amazed she can keep up! Gwen is such a mamas girl and likes to be held. She talks a lot like any girl should and is stubborn as all get out. She refused for a long time to walk on her feet and instead scooted around the room on her knees for months! What another precious little girl.

I love you Ouimet family!

The Nole Lilley Family

2009-02-20T08:53:00.001-08:00

Okay onto my siblings... There are five of us, and I am right in the middle. Nole, Anna, Me, Erin and Edward. I loved growing up with so many siblings and each one fit in just perfectly.Nole Hunter is obviously the oldest Lilley. He played the big brother role very well and even got me grounded for kissing a boy back in the day;-) I also have memories of him when we were kids playing the butcher! We would run around on our hands and knees and he would catch and kill us than role us under the coffee table to cook! Haha he was such a wonderful older brother and now its fun to have him as more of a friend. me and Cody both love when we get to spend time around Nole and his family. He is a intelligent and funny person a lot like my dad. You might have to get to know him before you see that side, but when you do he is a great guy to have around.

So who is Noles family? Well back when they were babies themselves Nole married Heather. They moved to Georgia, had babies and than came home. But even before they were engaged Heather was coming along on family vacations (without Nole even there!) and was just another one of the girls:-) She has such a caring heart and is so talented! Everything she touches turns out beautiful, including her wonderful babies:-)Avery Bay is their oldest and is four years old! I cant hardly believe that because it feels like yesterday we were packing those babies around camp with us:-) She has the cutest little personality and is very smart! She is also talented just like her mom. In lots of ways she is a mini version of Heather. Its so fun to see her growing up and hear all the funny things she says. She is such a wonderful joy and addition to our family.North hunter is 2? and he is a little man. He has a little man voice. He dresses like a little man. and has a little man temper:-) He is more shy like his parents and you have to work him out of his shell but when you do he has just as much personality as his sister. He is a Darling little brute:-) and thats the Nole Lilley Family!

Parents!

2009-02-19T16:49:00.000-08:00

I know everyone thinks their families are the greatest but mine REALLY is! I'm always talking about how much I love and adore each of them so I thought I would introduce you to all the fun personalities that makes up the Lilley family:-)
I will start with my wonderful parents for tonight! It's so fun to have parents that you respect, and have a friendship with as well. I am so blessed to have such supportive and loving parents who have shown us what a strong Christian marriage should look like, and what a amazing impact you can have on your children’s life. I think they have done an amazing job! And besides, there some of the "funnest" people you will ever meet:-)My mother was an amazing teacher to us, and is one of my best friends. I love the knowledge and encouragement she gives and admire her heart for God. My goal in life is to be a woman who strives after God like she has, and a wife and mother who continually is growing and being an example of what a godly woman is. Im so proud of the mama I have and love her to death. She is also hysterical! You probably never will but I wish you could see my Marmy dance, tell the story of little jaspers and watch the grinch:-) She is filled with life laughter and kept our home the happiest place to be. What a huge blessing!

My dad has the knowledge of a dictionary, persusive skills like no other, a truely passionate soul, a heart of gold, ideas beyond anything you could imagine and the dicapline to see those dream come true. He believed and encouraged our every dream and whim filling our minds with intregu and intrest to learn. He had a book for everything! (He also has a song for everythign too:-) I love my daddy and respect his oppinion SO much. He showed me what a man and husband should be giving Cody big shoes to fill (Which he is doing seemingly effortlesly by the way!) Anyways heres to the greatest dad on earth I love you daddy!

Coming soon....

2009-02-17T08:56:00.000-08:00

To the blog nearest you. bah

I have a few posts to make but have not downloaded the pictures. I will try to do it tonight. Im sorry for not posting anythign exciting but keep looking its coming soon! heehee

On another note for the second day in a row golf course and tennis are closed due to rain. This means there is not much to do and nobody here...

Celebrities I Adore

2009-02-09T09:37:00.000-08:00

I know you don't really care... but here are my top five female celebrities (not necessarily in order)

For starters Jennifer Aniston!I was reading on yahoo this morning how JenniferAniston was one of the top searches above things like weather even! Im not surprised though because in my opinion what's not to love? I have admitted to being a complete Friends fan:-) I listen to it like music while cleaning, cooking and than of course doing nothing. So naturally any of the Friends cast has my full vote for being great but Jennifer is on the top for me!

Secondly Hilary Duff. I think she is so cute! Her style is fantastic I wish I could have all her cloths! And I will even admit to liking her music:-) heehee shes another one that I have liked for a long time ever since the Lizzy McGuire days. I also love that she hasn't gone of the deep end like so many other young stars do these days. I think shes a great role model and my style icon.Okay Kate Mara... I adore her because she is so stinking adorable! I haven't seen her in anything besides Shooter but I fell in love with this girl! Between her accent, freckles and girl next door looks she is probably the celebrity I would want to look like most... My husband always thinks thats weird but shes just so darn cute!

Kate Beckinsale! As Cameron would say "She is my favorite vampire" and she is.,, I love the Underworld movies (You should definitely see the new one Sonia is almost as cute;-)... almost. I think she is beautiful and I love her personality, well at least the side of her she shows in interviews;-)

I have found that a lot of people don't agree with me on this one but Kirsten Dunst!!!! Love her! I love her roles in Elizabethtown, Marie Antoinette, Wimbledon, Spider Mans, Mona Lisa Smiles and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. She isn't my favorite dresses when she isn't "dressed up" but shes real and beautiful:-) I'm a fan.

So there you have it five of my favorite celebrities... I know I said they were pretty, beautiful, adorable, cute and stunning a lot. This doesn't mean that Im in love with or obsessed with beautiful people... just these ones haha.

This is what Blah looks like

2009-02-06T11:08:00.000-08:00

One of those days, when everything seems to go wrong. I got up and forced my self to get ready when all I wanted to do was go get a cider from Starbucks, curl up in my cozy bed, listen to the rain and read my book. I finally got out the door, a couple minutes early so I could get coffee. I drove about a block pulled over and confirmed that my tire was completely flat! I sat around and waited for the man to come change my tire than got to work a half hour late with no coffee to be had.
My boss pulled me into his office when I got here and told me we would be letting go one of my good friends here at work and the meeting was at ten. I sulked around trying to work than the meeting… it was sad:-( His wife is eight months pregnant with a baby boy, and now he has no job. Bummer.
They laid off more people after I left the meeting and now I feel completely bummed out. I have to work a half hour later than I would have than go to America tire to get the tire fixed, so I can drive out to the valley and hang out with Randi ad Rylee, than come back to work in the morning. Blah that’s how I feel, blah.
Sometimes my life seems rather pointless and meaningless, it’s good to remind yourself that God is here even in days like this…

Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. - Philippians 1:6

Or!!!!!

2009-01-30T09:59:00.001-08:00

I could be a wedding planner! Ahhh hahah
thanks Tiffis

Choices...

2009-01-29T15:46:00.000-08:00

I have decided that I am going back to school. I'm not ready to have babies, and my job isn't doing much for me so... It's time to do something with myself:-) Heehee

So here is the choices I have, do I go back and continue towards the nursing career I started to pursue at Biola? This seems like a smart choice because its something I can do even when I want to be a stay at home mom. Honestly everything about this choice makes more since if I am going to do more school... It pays good. There are ALWAYS jobs available. And you can work part time and the hours are great! Haha so why wouldn't I do this? Because what I want to do is have a career in criminal justice.
Bah haha I know I know I'm crazy. When I was in high school my plan was to spend four years in the military as a pay load specialist (Just because it sounded interesting!) Than have them pay for me to go to school for a criminal justice degree to eventually work as a US Marshal....
My boyfriend at the time, who is now my husband, was not a fan of this plan. He didn't want me in the military or having a life long career. I agreed and still do. I think I will want to be a stay at home mom when the time comes. But until than this career path sounds the most appealing to me!

and honestly I'm not going to be a nurse if I'm a mom. I don't want to work if I'm a mom so to pursue that career only to not use it is just as dumb as this one except that I actually want to do it... If that makes since.

Maybe I should just save my money and not do either... sigh what to do what to do heehee

P.S. I Love You....

2009-01-26T12:24:00.000-08:00

Last night me and Cody sat down to watch P.S. I Love You... we didn't get fifteen minutes into it before I was crying and he was convinced this movie couldn't be good, we stuck it out, and I fell in love. I don't know what it was that I loved so much about it. But here are a few of my speculations....

Their adorable relationship together. I like honest love, I like that she gets mad, I like that he storms out, I don't like Hollywood perfect relationships. And I love that they laugh together. I happen to have a very silly husband who keeps me laughing all the time:-) Its priceless...

Or maybe its her two crazy friends. All of them SO different, but with the closest friendships. I have two such amazing life long friends in my life and I laughed so hard at parts of this movie because you could have slipped us into their places and it would have totally fit.... I am blessed with wonderful friends:-)
Or maybe it was the good looking guys;-P heehee

Whatever it was I came away so thankful for four of the most amazing people in my life because of this movie. I think I might just watch it again tonight:-)

Oak, the trouble maker

2009-01-22T10:38:00.000-08:00

Last month after having to put our sweet four year old chocolate lab Koa down, we bought a new puppy. We looked around and found the perfect little guy and brought him home with us. After a lot of thinking my husband named him Oak, its Koas name spelled differently:-) And here he is, our newest little guy!Since coming home he has proven to have a lot of spunk and attitude! He likes to pee in the house much better than outside. He also likes to walk while he pees;-P Heehee so its a pain to clean up the line of pee through the whole house! Little punk. He chews on everything and doesn't listen to his name at all. (Probably because we called him puppy for so long we even have a hard time remembering to call him Oak) He likes to bite us, and has the sharpest little teeth! But in spite of all these things he is such a sweet heart. He likes to cuddle, and be rocked to sleep on his back like a baby. He is best friends with Rizzo and they run through the house playing all day long.Last month Oak got very sick. We had to take him into an emergency clinic and they fed him charcoal because he had been poisoned with something. He recovered and we were very grateful! Last Friday when I came home my husband said he was sick again, we took him into the vet Saturday and they put him on antibiotics and kept him for 24 hours on IV fluids. He came home and stopped throwing up... as much. We babied him and tried to get him well but by Wednesday when he still wasn't gaining any of his lost weight back, and just laid all around the house sleeping all day, we took him back into the vet yesterday.They took x-rays and said he needed to go in for emergency surgery if he was going to live, and that they thought he had something in his intestines. We only had a few minutes to talk before we had to make a decision. We knew it was going to cost A LOT! But we went ahead and told them to do it. The canceled the rest of the appointments for the rest of the day and went into surgery. After hours they came out and showed us a sock they had pulled out of his intestines and stomach. Part of the string going through his intestine had caused laceration's in three places allowing fluid to seep into the stomach cavity. Thankfully not to much had gotten out or he would not have made it! He is staying at the vet for a couple days but is expected to make a full recovery! Yeeee

He should be home in a couple days, just in time to move into Codys parents house! We are spending a month or two there to get away from the neighbors, and to save rent money to pay off Oaks vet bills! Rizzo is sulking around waiting for puppy to come home, and we are so grateful that he will be okay! He is by far the most expensive thing we own! He has kept us busy and on our toes for sure, and all of this in just a month. Imagine the madness he could cause in the rest of his life! Lets pray he is done getting into trouble now and goes back to simply peeing on the floors:-)

Day Two

2009-01-16T11:42:00.000-08:00

After our pretty walk down cannery row, we reached the aquarium!

I have gone here several times with my family and on school trips and I was so excited to be back. It was Codys first time which was exciting because I know how much he loves the ocean and all the crazy things living in it, so he was bound to love it:-)

We stopped to talk to a staff person to ask what the absolute perfect way was to see the aquarium and than fallowed his advice, as well as timed our day to make sure we would see some feedings!We had the greatest time taking everything in! We read all the little placks learning about the different animals and the bay. It was so fun and different to be there just the two of us getting to take everything in as "adults".

Cody took me out to lunch at the nice restaurant they have. It all tasted good and was a beautiful view where we could sit and watch the otters eating and playing right outside in the kelp. I will admit that I ordered a Margarita but... I took one sip and was done! And after that I decided that even though I am now allowed to drink I really shouldn't force myself to like it. If Im more happy with a diet coke than thats what Im going to drink, its cheaper and better for me haha.
My personal favorite was the bat rays. I have always liked them the most ever since I was a child. So the ornament I chose to remember this trip by was a bat ray:-) Cody liked the outer bay exhibit that had the huge sea bass and sturgeon's in it.After we had seen everything we stopped for some thrifties ice cream, which still exists up north, and than headed home. We had a great drive back talking about all the things we had learned and seen that day. The trip was a complete success and I would love to go back again some day.

Birthday Weekend

2009-01-12T15:41:00.000-08:00

Well this past weekend my husband took me away on a wonderful trip for my 21st birthday. He has often heard about how Lilley birthdays last for the week surrounding it. He was dtermind to make this birthday just as special and he went above and beyond any birthday I have ever had! We left early Saturday morning and took the four and a half hour drive north. It was a gorgeous drive and we enjoyed the time we got to visit and just be together. We arrived around 11 and checked into our hotel before heading to the fishermans warf for a big bread bowl of clam chowder!But there was a sign saying warf parking, so we parked and fed the meter quite a lot, than realised we were at the wrong place... Ooops:-) So we walked down to the end anyways and found a hord of seals hanging out on the rocks. They had a fence up but you could reach right through and touch them! We watched the seals, and the divers for a while before heading over to the real warf:-)

We enjoyed a very yummy lunch after walking up and down sampling all the chowders to make sure we picked the right one. After lunch we walked the warf and stopped off at a candy shop for some salt water taffy before heading to cannery row.we spent the rest of the afternoon shopping and walking through the tide pools. It was so fun and relaxing just being together. I love days like that!

We went back to the hotel and cleaned up before heading to dinner at the sardine factory (suggested by the hotel staff and promised not to be to expensive) it was a gorgeous restraunt. the room we sat in was a big glass dome and very romantic, but in the end it was one of the smallest most expensive meals we had ever had... But it was a fun experiance and we met a really nice old couple sitting next to us who entertained us with talk about fur coats and if you should wear them or not (I personaly vote yes! Kill the animals bah haha kidding!) we headed to the movie theater after this only to find out EVERYTHING was sold out until 10pm that night! So we walked over to the mall, and it was closed. So if you ever go to Monterey, know everything closes at 7 even on a Saturday night. We stopped at rite aid and bought battle ship and some cards and spent the rest of the evening back at the hotel:-)
The next morning we slept in! After we got up we took a nice walk down cannery row and enjoyed the sun before going to the aquarium:-) But this is a long post already so I will post about that tomorrow:-)

I'm pretty sure I married the greatest guy ever!

Catching Up

2009-01-12T11:24:00.000-08:00

On some missed events...

Lets start with Christmas.

If you know me at all, you know that I LOVE my family and thik they are the coolest thing ever;-) I cherish all the time I get with them and think that every character that is a part of, and has been added to our family is simply perfect! So instead of going on and on about Christmas I am just going to say

It was magical

and let the pictures say the rest. So here is my lovely family in A LOT of pictures from our Christmas vacation home. I love you guys

4 amazing months!

2009-01-07T16:34:00.000-08:00

As of yesterday I have been married to my sweet husband for four months!

I used to hear of people waiting fie years to have kids and couldn't understand why. With how fast the time is flying by for us I completely understand! We have had the best four months getting to enjoy so many fun exciting things together. I am so excited about the rest of my life with this incredible man!

Happy Four Months To Us!

Pros and cons

2009-01-06T16:26:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since I have done one of these so here it goes.

Pros -
- Obveously it's my birthday which is swell
- Today I have been married for four months! Yeah I love married life
- Im off in 15 minutes
- I get to spend another wonderful evening with my husband
- I get to go away to Monterey this weekend with Cody
- I got some CUTE new cloths!
- I have wonderful friends!

Cons
- Yesterday I got to see one of my least favorite people ever.
But, thankfully I was in such a great mood even she couldn't wreck my day:-)
- I have three days left of work
- My hubby is sick:-( Boo
- My foot is swollen but what else is new teehee
- I could use a new phone mine is ending its life
- I don't want to clean but I want a clean house bah haha

in conclusion my life is GREAT my pros are a million times better than my cons and no one can bring me down:-)

I'm A Grump

2008-12-23T08:57:00.000-08:00

I can not get my house clean because I work all day and have parties ever night:-(
This stresses me out because I try but the beasts keep me to busy to get anything done.
I have laundry and packing to be done, I wanted to go get my nails done tonight and I have two boys living in my home....

I feel overwhelmed stressed out and not festive at all this morning:-(
I need a slap in the face, or someone to clean my house:-) Teehee

Little Update

2008-12-19T16:03:00.000-08:00

Things are going to be getting a little crazy this next week or so!

I still have not gotten Cody's Christmas gift! Eeek so I'm on the search for that with only one day (tomorrow) off between now and Christmas. And Codys home tomorrow which complicates things a bit

Cameron is moving in with us this weekend for a couple weeks because, well lets say the people he lives with are odd:-P Yeah for two boys and two puppies keeping my house a mess

Tonight is Cody's families Christmas party and I'm going alone because he is at work... duh duh duh ha

The puppy honestly has demon in him and I am compleatly exhausted from trying to keep up with him. I could have a baby and it would be less work

Codys on a 48:-( Which means I miss him!

I have to work Sunday:-/

Wednesday we are spending Christmas eve with Codys family than driving up really late to Hume and spending the weekend with my fam:-) So excited everyone is coming home!

It's almost Christmas!!!!

Happy Holidays World!

The Un Named...

2008-12-18T10:56:00.000-08:00

My husband just couldn't stand it! He had to get a new little puppy because he was missing Koa so much. Rizzo enjoyed all the attention he was getting from him but it didn't last, he is no longer the puppy in the house, this guy is!

He is still without a name, which if you know me and Cody shouldn't come as a surprise to you. We have a lot of ideas, we just have the hardest time making up our minds on which one to stick with:-) He was a meek little puppy at first but the demon has started to come out! He chews everything and bites us! Ahhh haha he is only playing and we are training him quickly but oh my goodness does this guy have sharp little teeth!

Rizzo isn't so sure how he feels about this new little guy taking his place and at first he just completely ignored him, to the point where he would lay down right on top of him if he was in his way! Ha silly little boy we still love you too! He is starting to warm up now and they love playing tug a war through the house smashing anything in their path.

Much like his big brother puppies favorite place in the house is under the tree:-) So no wrapped gifts under there this year just puppies! We are so happy to have this little guy in our life's and blessed that we were able to get another lab puppy so quickly (These things aren't cheap!)So Yippee for Cody and his new little boy... Oak? Remie? Who knows but I'm sure it's going to be good:-)

Tree Time

2008-12-18T10:10:00.000-08:00

We started out going to a real tree lot, than headed to Walmart to buy our tree for $35:-) It was fun to go see the real ones and imagine what we would have picked if we could.At the Christmas tree lot!

Fluffing out the tree:-) For 35 bucks it doesn't look to badThis is what Cody did while I decorated the tree...The finished product! It's cuter in real life of course:-)

Our First Christmas

2008-12-18T09:13:00.000-08:00

The joys and pains of your first Christmas together. Joys = We both love Christmas! We always have Christmas music on and are doing anything festive we can think of! The pains = Wanting my home to be completely decked out but having to start with nothing! I think we did alright though;-)

My sweet wonderful husband took me shopping for Christmas decorations and he was so generous. I love the way our first little Christmas home looks. Thanks babe!

I decorated our kitchen stand, focusing mostly on the red since our home is already green:-) I love how all the little goodies I got came together and all had their perfect place. Those are red place mats I found when shopping with Anna and I hung them on the curtain for a touch of color!

I got excited about my $1 Christmas napkins and found use for our star cookie cutters!

Christmas touch to the candle tray, simple but I like it:-) We had to use fake snow since I miss having the real thing!

Peppermint sticks marsh mellows for coco.

I couldn't resist these trees! I love silver glittery anything:-) They were my big splurge and cost more than our real tree! Eeek

Christmas touches to our candles:-)

I found the best greenery smelling reed diffuser at Pier 1:-) It actually smells close to the real thing! And I got some cute mercury glass things. I could have everything in my house mercury Glass but it might be a little much:-) Ha

These are our stocking! Last year we bought each other stockings and now I'm trying to decide if I should keep these? Or if I should get cute matching ones? Hmmm help me out!

I also hung a ton of glittery snow flakes in the window, added a red blanket to the couch, a red and white stripped rug and Cody painted our coffee table red for the Christmas season! Over all everything came together nicely and our home feels just like Christmas:-) What a wonderful first year together!

Happy Holidays!

Our Sweet Boy

2008-12-14T09:52:00.001-08:00

Four years ago we brought home the sweetest little puppy. I got Koa for Cody as a gift on our anniversary, and man did I pick the best gift ever:-) We brought him home and fell in love right away. He has been the sweetest, best behaved dog anyone could ask for. He loved to wrestle, play fetch and cuddle. But more than anything, he loved Cody.

He would fallow him from room to room always happy to be with him. He was Codys exploring buddy since they both loved the outdoors:-) And he was Codys very good friend, even if he was just a dog, he meant so much more to us.

But he meant that much to a lot of people. He was a "family" dog to Codys family even though he was Codys pet. He loved everyone of them, and they all loved him back. Everyone loved everything about Koa (Except that he was the king of drool!)

So last week when we had to put our four year old puppy down it was really hard on a lot of people:-( But mostly on my sweet husband. I have never seen him so sad, and don't look forward to ever seeing it again. Life is hard, and sometimes you have to go through hard things, this for us was one of them.

I know none pet people probably don't understand, but this was our boy and we miss him a lot. He was such a blessing to us. A constant source of joy and just the sweetest guy ever.

We miss you Koa Boa

The Best

2008-12-01T15:55:00.000-08:00

I happen to have the greatest husband ever:-) This morning I was dreading going back to work but this guy made me some coffee, made me laugh, and made me change my toon. I walked out the door excited about my day. (Mostly for it to be over so I could spend the evening with him;-) But still I am so thankful I have such a caring, sweet and obveously HOT husband! Haha

Big Bear!

2008-12-01T09:52:00.000-08:00

This past weekend we went to Big Bear with Codys family. Thanksgiving was our holiday with them since we will be at Hume for Christmas so it was great to have the extra time with them!. I have never gone on vacation with Codys family and this was a fun way to start hopefully a lot of vacations with them:-) Everyone went exept Cameron (His girlfriend was in town) and Grandpa & Grandma Mooney came along too. On Friday night we headed into the village for the Christmas tree lighting, Christmas songs and of course Santa! It was cold but we all bundled up and walked around the stores for a while until Kevin had to go home. His shoes hadn't been packed and so he was wearing my running shoes! haha they worked but his toes were hurting pretty bad at the end of the night:-) The next morning we got up and Robin cooked us a very yummy breakfast before we headed back into town for more shopping! We found some cute ornaments to remember our trip with ever year, and got Codys family a pickle ornament so they to can have the pickle tradition! I found a gorgeous tree topper for Anna... I hope she thinks so:-) And we had a lot of fun just wandering around and looking

The girls got cat puppets and took pictures with Santa. It was such a fun little town to be in.
We headed back to the cabin and me and Cody took a nap! Haha we are old people. Than we all headed off to the town theater to see Cinderlla the play. Me and Rylee enjoyed it the most I think:-) The boys laughed a lot and seemed to find it very funny....
On Sunday Cody got up early, built us a fire & made us all coffee before taking the girls fishing. Rylee caught her very first fish and was very proud of herself! The big girls stayed home and cleaned the cabin and packed up. When everyone got back we ran to the Alpine slides and had a lot of fun until Kevin crashed with Rylee and they both came away pretty banged up:-( Rylee split her lip open and burned her chin and hand. Kevin hurt his arm pretty bad and got some burns as well as tearing his pants... it made the afternoon not seem as fun. We were thankful that was all that happened though it could have been much worse. And having a experianced EMT around made the parents less stressed to the handed Rylee to Cody and said Do something haha... I felt bad for Kevin he was really upset about hurting Rylee. It could have happened to anyone thoughWe headed back down the mountain and shopped at Bass Pro Shops for a couple hours than Grandpa treated us all to dinner at the amazing restraunt! We had so much fun and cant wait for the next time we get to all go away together!What a blessing to have two amazing families:-)

After that we headed back down the hill and stopped

Projects

2008-11-17T19:20:00.000-08:00

Well I have been working on some project at our house this past week !

We were using the bottom shelf of this rack in our kitchen to store all our bigger kitchen appliances like blenders and crock pots. It didn't look very good so I made this curtain to cover it all up:-)I also made a curtain to cover our TV stand so I dont have to see the player or the stack of Friends dvds I have not put away:-) I'm happy with the way it turned out. I like the green.

I didn't make this but my wonderful husband bought me two of these pillows over the weekend for our home. I love them and have been looking for pillows I liked for a while now. I'm loving these already, they are SO soft:-)

Well thats all for now.

Hair Thoughts...

2008-11-17T12:21:00.001-08:00

Okay I will admit that I have always loved Hilary Duff. I like the way she dresses and most of the time I love her hair! A couple years ago I died my own hair brown, because I did it at home and had bleach in my hair it quickly turned green within a matter of days! Not at all the look I was going for, and frustrated I paid to have my hair turned back to it's original blond. Now however I am considering trying the brown thing again especially after coming across this picture! So I was just wondering...thoughts? On the cut and color. I don't think I'm ready to cut it all off but am willing to try a new color and this isn't to short:-)

Re Inspired!

2008-11-14T14:35:00.000-08:00

I just went back and looked at my first blog, and I blogged about all kind of fun stuff! Haha not to say Im great or anythign but a lot of times I wonder what did I used to find to blog about? Well now I know... That being said today I still dont have much to blog about but mostl because I spent the last three days alone while Cody worked. I made some curtains for my house that I will blog about. and planned on painting a table but with the winds thought it better to wait until it wont instantly be covered in dirt! Ha.

It's Home!

2008-11-10T21:35:00.000-08:00

Well we have been slowly working on putting our house together and making it feel more homey:-) I thought I might put up a few pictures so everyone can see what it's looking like.Our Kitchen...it's little so we are making every little space count:-)I decorated the top of the rack in our kitchen with wedding memories. I still can't believe it's already and only been two months! Kevin & Robin let us borrow their TV for a while and Cody hung these cute shelfs up for me:-) (And guess what I was watching!?! Haha)Heres the cute engagement pictures I chose to put in these ones. I LOVE having pictures out so this is just the start to our pictures:-)Cody had to have a place to hang his keys so he got this to hang next to the door:-)

Cody bought me the vase on our honeymoon so it's another funmemorie to have out!

This picture is simply because Im so excited that it's finally time to have cozy blankets out for fall time!And lastly just a peek at a few fun Christmas finds from this weekend shopping with Anna. A huge red and white rug! And I have some different ideas of how to use the place mats and ornaments so I can't hardly wait until it's time to decorate with them!

I love having a home to decorate and sadly it's small enough if I stand on one side I cant even get the other half of the house in the picture so I will just have to keep sshowing you bits and peaces of what I'm up to:-) Hope you enjoyed... I know it's nothing creative like you might see on Anna or Heathers blog but hey we can't all be like that;-) teehee

Colorado Advntures

2008-11-05T13:00:00.000-08:00

Well, I completely failed all of you. I didn’t take ANY pictures while in Colorado! So I will try to keep this post short and add some stolen pictures off line;-) We stayed in Castle Rock with some old friends from high school. Stephanie proved to be the best thing that happened to us! She drove us all over and showed us all the sights. This is the castle rock in Castle Rock. They light the star at the holidays!

One of the greatest things about Castle Rock is that it is right in the middle of everything! On Sunday we drove up to Boulder and saw that gorgeous town. (Probably my favorite) And some surrounding areas like Longmont, which Cody was a fan of, not as much college town feel. We walked through Pearl Street Mall and shopped around a while. Me and Cody got some Christmas ornaments from here to continue the tradition my family has to get new ones on each vacation! Than we went back and drove through Parker, saw where all the Broncos live and had dinner at Texas Road House.

(There was actually a game on Sunday and we drove past the stadium. The place was huge and completely packed! Every where you went people where wearing Broncos jerseys. It was fun to see EVERYONE getting into the spirit.)

Monday morning me and Cody got up early and borrowed their truck (another huge blessing!) And drove into Golden for his test. He went in at 8:30 and came out at 12:15! I walked through a super Target and Boarders as well as drove through some of the homes to see the town. Golden is well named because the place is packed with aspen trees and this time of year they are…yep golden! It was beautiful.

Cody felt like the test went okay and we will find out on the 8th if he passed. He just hated how long it was! We drove back into Castle Rock and explored the outlet malls than spent the rest of the evening having dinner back at the Riskey’s apartment and looking at housing options on line.

Tuesday we woke up and headed towards Colorado Springs. We stopped off in Monument than headed into Black Forest where some old friends of Cody’s parents live. It was beautiful but a little to removed from a town for us. We hung out for a while as Cody, Kenny and their friend Dick talked about hunting. (I think that conversation alone sold Cody on Colorado)

This is in Black Forrest I guess but we didnt see ANYTHING like this....

it was almost two by the time we left so we drove into Colorado springs had some lunch at Qdoba than shopped around a little bit more. It was a good thing I was flying home or I might have bought a lot of things! Im ready to decorate for Christmas! We drove back home relaxed for a while than Steph drove us to the airport. It was an amazing trip and it was such a blessin to have Steph to show us around to all the good places. We saw more than we ever hoped for and got a great idea of what the different areas in Colorado are like. We had a couples hours at the airport before we boarded and spent most of it talking about our different options and what moving would look like to us! It’s a big choice and a scary one, which we still have not made….

I will let you know how things go.

One last silly thing. This is the huge blue Bronco that you see when going into the Denver air port (Which getting to the airport and through it is a whole other story!) anyways a man designed this for the air port and while he was out stting it up it fell over and killed him! For reals, now when you see this thing at night your not surprised, his eyes glow red and he looks evil enough to kill anyone! What some people think is cool I tell ya....

well...

2008-10-28T13:29:00.000-07:00

I had a small 3x5 I support McCain on my bulletin board at work (Given to me by my boss;-). This is not visible to anyone besides me unless they come around and sit in my chair since I sit with my back to a wall. This morning I came in and in large red letters someone had written "F#$@ THAT!" across it... Now I'm not going to jump to conclusion's of who did this but I am going to say that whoever did do it has NO respect or self control. I mean honestly good grief! One why are you snooping through my desk, two are you eight!?!

Posted in its place now is this quote...
"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of NO possible service to him."

I hope he comes snooping again soon....

Mixed Emotions

2008-10-27T11:43:00.000-07:00

This weekend we are flying out to Colorado so Cody can test for the fire department. It is bringing out the weirdest mix of emotions in me!

1 - Excitement, I'm always excited to go places. But I'm excited about this potentially working out and having the huge adventure of moving to Colorado and starting our life there!

2 - Fear, Colorado is not the closest place. It's different and in the fire department often times you stay in the same place so it's a pretty long term commitment!

3 - Frustration, because I hate waiting to find out if this is another process that will end without a job or if we could really move there!

4 - Confusion, at the very mixed emotions.

At our stage of life your working towards something. A career, a family, a home. Whatever it is the thought of achieving that goal is exciting and scary. It's like graduating from college, exciting to accomplish and finish but scary to go out and actually have to do it now! This place could be our home. The place we buy our first house, have and raise our children and live our life out together. On the other hand he could take this test and not pass and we would never think about it again. I guess its best to not even think about it happening until later on in the process but with it being so far away and such a huge change it's hard not to! So what do I do with these emotions

I keep being patient and trusting that God will place us in the perfect place. So I don't have to worry if its the right place or if we can do it or not. It will happen when it's the right time and the right department, until than I should focus on being content where I am at because it's obviously where he wants us until further notice...

Wedding Pictures!

2008-10-21T10:46:00.000-07:00

There sure is a lot! So I hope you enjoy!

http://www.pictage.com/558110

Political Rant

2008-10-16T16:07:00.000-07:00

First lets get one thing straight. McCain is NOT my man. I don’t find either candident impressive enough to want take such a stance. It makes me sad that these two men are the “BEST” that America could bring forward. So yes, I am voting for McCain and if he were to become president I would be MUCH more pleased than if Obama was president but not even McCain would be my first choice.

Now that we have that cleared up let me complain about some more dumb arguments that came forth after last nights debates.

#1 He is such a nice guy – Are you kidding me? Nice doesn’t lead a country. Nice doesn’t have what it takes to make the differences needed. Obama, nice enough to sit down face to face with terrorists. The very people who are killing your sons and daughters who are defending our country! (Which you some how blame Bush for. Remember when America was proud of making a difference!) Can you stand behind a man who sits down and talks with these men? Who wants to find a way to end this peacefully? Do your research people and you will know the only way that will happen is if we, America, become extreme Muslims, like all the countries they dictate over and that we apparently shouldn’t be defending. Are you willing to give up all your freedom to end this “peacefully?”

#2 Lets talk about your freedom. Freedom of choice. You deserve the freedom to decide whether you keep or kill your unborn children? Obama supports this. And yet McCain, the man who believes that in these situations the only right a woman has is to be responsible for her actions, is the mean one. How mean is he to protect the lives of these helpless children? But Obama is not mean to support the death of innocent children just because you have no self control? Please!

#3 And yet your willing to give up your freedom! – You are going to support a man who wants the government to now be in charge of your health insurance plans as well? Yes he says you can stay on the plan your on already. But what about the rest of you who are not on a plan because you cant offered it? The government health insurance is not going to be handed to you. Instead your going to be fined the money you don’t have, because if you did, you would have had health insurance in the first place!

#4 “Sometimes less is more, fewer words mean more.” – These words spoken from a Obama lover is just laughable! The only thing this man truly excels at is spewing words none stop until your so dazed by the fact that yes he is still talking! That you think he must be saying something good. Just because he sounds smart doesn’t make it so. The only thing it does prove is that your political interest and involvement only goes as far as the liberal media explains it for you. Sadly your going to make your choices of these people opinions, never really forming ones of your own.

#5 My very last point (for today;-) – It’s very sad that for being “So in to politics” you have not learned that politicians lie! Just because Obama says it about McCain does not make it so! You listen to what Obama says and never look for yourself. It’s easy to say he voted 400,000 times for a tax increase but how can you trust him. Or for him to say every one of his adds is negative. Perhaps he is concerned and wants to bring attention to McCains negativity rather than his own. I hear more about the problems than the solutions! He has ideas sure but what is he doing for change? His biggest point against McCain is that he is Bush (Which I believe after last nights debate he wont make the mistake of again;-) Not even that is true! But you wouldn’t know because you don’t know anything except what Obama says. It’s really sad and pathetic.

Tagged...7 Random Facts

2008-10-15T11:31:00.001-07:00

I was tagged, so here is seven random facts about myself!
1 - I never lock my house when I leave. So feel free to rob me;-)
2 - I dont listen to music when I clean or cook, I listen to FRIENDS!
3 - Fall is my favorite season for it's wheather, pumkin ice cream, pumkin spice lattes and the colors!
4 - I'v recently found out I'm okay with being the girl who tucks her Paul Mitchell hair under her John Deere capHides Victoria's Secret under those jeans...I just want to be me!
5 - I like baking a million times more than cooking
6 - I have a thing for straws...a BIG thing:-)
7 - I wish I was a boy so I could take ten showers a day and not have to get ready ten times! teehee

so there you have it 7 randome facts about me!

Pro / Con

2008-10-14T10:20:00.000-07:00

Pro
- There is weather! It's actually feeling like fall!
- I have an amazing little family of four:-)
- Kevin & Robin gave us their flat screen TV!
- I have yummy hot drink this morning
- I just spent an amazing weekend home

Cons
- My puppy has a swollen face & has to be taken to the vet
- someone has an attitude problem right now...:-(
- Fires are causing some stress in my life
- I'm worried...I know it's not good to worry but I am right now
- I just want to sleep

Apparently I am emotionally drained today....

Freezing Cold Hume!

2008-10-13T12:53:00.000-07:00

Well I have spent the last couple months just pineing for fall wheather. I practically turn on the fans so I can sit with a blanket and read, pathetic. This past weekend we went to Hume for a visit! We took Erin & Dustin with us, but the big addition was our two puppies! (Not both ours, we have a new puppy and so does Erin!)

It made for the most interesting ride there and back but was well worth it! Our dog Rizzo is actually several weeks younger than Erins puppy who is the smaller of the two:-) We couldnt hardly believ it. I quickly realived just how big our puppy is going to be!

We spent the weekend relaxing and going on big adventures! On Saturday we took a lovely walk around princess medow. Than Sunday we braved sunshine mountain! Actually the boys braved it when the ran down the hill through the woods back home, while us girls took the car;-P (Dusty even ran into a tree!)

The rest of the weekend was spent eating, napping, visiting and playing wii fit:-) Moat of us finding out our wii age is pathetically old! It was so good to be home and with my family. I have adjusted to being away from them, but there is still nothing like being home! I have to have the greatest family that ever lived.

P.S. This has to be the most horrific photo of me ever...But I just wanted to show you what I looked like when I woke up Saturday morning! My lip was huge! So big that when I took a drink everything just splilled out of my mouth because i couldnt get my lips closed:-) teehee it was rather comical and thankfully went away a couple hours later.....

McCain is THE man!

2008-10-08T14:36:00.000-07:00

I know this is a lame topic to end my long abcense from my blog but I was inspired. (Actually more peeved but whatever)

Okay honestly I have not watched every debate or all of last nights debate. However due to some co workers who will NOT get out of my face whining and crying about how McCain was an embarrassment and Obama is the man. "McCain makes their skin crawl" "it was a land slide", pathetic blah blah blah… Now in general I am not one to argue with you or try to change their minds (I do wish they could sit down and have a long conversation with my father at which point the would crawl away crying and apologizing for ever considering Obama. My dad is the king of persuasion!) But I have had it up to here with these people and their stupid complaints. Want to hear the top four reasons this young gentleman just quoted to me for not wanting McCain?

1 – The man can’t raise his arms above his head
2 – He is sure to die than Palin will be President
3 – I don’t like listening to him talk
4 – It’s just more of the same as the last 8 years.

First of all last time I checked the president doesn’t need to reach above his head because when he is president even you would get things off the top shelf for him. Secondly the man is not going to die tomorrow, and shouldn’t you be more concerned about having a president who has no experience than having one who has so much experience that yes his hair is gray?. Third, Who cares who can talk the best! Who can lead and who has the record to prove it? CLEARLY it is McCain! Obama has zero leadership experience, that doesn’t scare you!?! It doesn’t scare you that his own running mate has said he isn’t ready to be president?

Lastly Obamas continues to try and make McCain into Bush (Which if it where true isn’t a bad thing in my opinion). If you actually look at the facts for yourself, rather than taking the word of ANY politician, McCain has proven his love and commitment for his country and comes with a “heck of a” lot of experience;-) While Obama is still wet behind the ears! He says he is not going to raise the taxes of all but the rich (His standard of what rich is, is a whole nother topic!). How is he planning on paying for his national Healthcare Plan? Or the bailout? How is he going to pay for the free college education that every American deserves in his book? In my opinion, which really isn’t worth much I’m just blowing off steam here Obama is exactly what we can not afford. And for my very last thought, Obama wants to “Hand” things to the Americans, whether it is free college education or his health insurance plan and people are voting for this. What I want to know is what happened to the pride of America? When people worked for things and took pride in themselves? I understand that more taxes is not something to be proud of, but choosing the right man to run this country so that he is making decisions that we Americans can stand behind is!

P.S. Telling me it makes you scared to think what will happen if McCain is president is not a slap in anyone’s face because the other half of America is saying the same thing about your sweet Obama! Just shut up! Come back when you have some good.... By that time though you wont be able to lift your arms above your head so apperantly you as a person wont be good enough to even listen too;-).

Fast Break!

2008-08-01T15:08:00.001-07:00

What is your favorite candy of all time? I know it seems like a simply question but it has been a hard one for me over the years. I love candy (which is part of why its so difficult!) and there are several differant candies that have ALMOST been my favorite! I love MilkyWays...I mean that creamy carmely goodness...but I also love reeses peices and peanut butter cups because I'm a huge fan of peanutbutter! Another problem I have is the fcat that I dont try new things. Not in all things but candy is one of them right up there with subway sandwhiches! haha I was standing in line and was craving peanut butter but there was not peanut butter M&Ms so I decided it was time to try something new and I picked up the Fast Break. Little did I know my life would never be the same again! teehee. I love these candy bars it has everything I love in a candy! Milk Chocolate, Peanut Butter && Soft Nougats! I'm in love. Now I will admit that part of this obsession may come from my obsesive personality that latches onto one thing for w while...(Maybe you remember the poptart stage?!?) But I am convinced that even after I have had one per day for the next three weeks this candy bar will still be on the top of my list! I'm sure you have tried one since they have been out a while, but if you have not pick one up today!!!

Facts...

2008-07-31T13:27:00.000-07:00

50 things you may not know about me (but probably do:-)

1.What bill do you hate paying the most?Um rent probably because its the biggest bill of all
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2.Where was the last place you had a romantic dinner? We dont go out to dinner as much as we cook at home these days...we went to famouse daves a while back
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3.Last time you puked from drinking?That would be never.
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4.When is the last time you got drunk and danced on a bar?Again never ever thank goodness.
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5.Who was your first grade teacher?Mrs. Lilley:-) I liked her
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6.What do you really want to be doing right now?I would like to be at the beach laying out
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7.What did you want to be when you were growing up?I had a few...payload specialist, big cat specialist, storm chaser haha I had big dreams:-)
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8.How many colleges did you attend? Just one
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9.Why did you choose the shirt that you have on right now? Because it matched the skirt I'm wearing and it was clean
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10.How many credit cards do you have? Two, mine and one from Cody
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11.If you could move anywhere and take someone with you? Um I think I would like Colorado but I wouldnt like moving away from my family...and of course I would bring Cody
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12.First thought when the alarm went off this morning? Nooo Im so cozy and happy in my bed
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13.Last thought before going to sleep last night? Howling howling howling...are they going to do that all night long!?! and the answer was yes:-)
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14.Do you have any bad genes in your family? sure.
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15.Favorite style of underwear for the opposite sex? I dont really not...not briefs
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16.What errand/chore do you despise? Doing the dishes!
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17.If you didn’t have to work, would you volunteer? Oh for sure I would get super board
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18.Get up early or sleep in? Well I enjoy sleeping in but Im much happier getting up
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19.Who is your favorite cartoon character? I like Belle
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20.Favorite NON sexual thing to do at night with a girl/guy? Bah watch a movie
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22.When did you first start feeling old? When I turned 20 I compleatly flipped out
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23.Favorite 80’s movie? Oh man I cant remember the name....guh the one with the big hair and bright makeup! haha
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24.What are you thankful for on Thanksgiving? My amazing family!
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25.What do you get every time you go into Walmart? OKay not every time but ice cream from mcdonalds
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26.Beach or lake? Lake
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27.Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual?Nope I think ts wonderful
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28.How many people do you stalk on Facebook? not many just a small handfull:-)
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29.Favorite guilty pleasure? McFlurries and Brown Sugar Cinnamon Poptarts
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30.Favorite movie you wouldn’t want anyone to find out about? Can't say I have one..
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31.What’s your drink? Water and Diet Coke
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32.Have you ran a red light? Yeah I was looking at my ring!
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33.Cops or Robbers? Neither?
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34.Who from high school would you like to run into? No one...
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35.What radio station is your car radio tuned to right now? something country
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36.What's the weirdest thing you've kissed? I dont know a rat?
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37.Do you have a secret? Im sure I do but nothing juicy
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38.What's the worst band? Jonas Brothers
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39.NY or LA? LA Ny is way to far away from home!
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40.If you could get away with it, who would you kill? Well (laughs wickedly)...kidding no one
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41.What famous person(s) would you like to have dinner with? Brad Pitt to ask him why he put me up for adoption so he could just adopt a million more bah haha (thats funny to someone sorry) Honestly though Geourge Bush! He is the man
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42.What is the most embarrassing song you have? Well there is a big list Im still in love with boy bands lol
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43.Have you ever had to use a fire extinguisher for its intended purpose? yes
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44.Have you locked your keys in the car? In the trunk actually...compleatly lame
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45.Do you have a teddy bear? I have one some place
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46.Do you take pills?birth control.
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47.Somewhere in Canada you’ve never been and would like to go? any place I have only been one time
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48.Do you go to church? Yes I do
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49.At this point in your life would you rather start a new career or a new relationship ? Well for sure a new career because I love my relationship and my old career is over! haha
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50.Just how OLD are you? I am 20 years OLD. The way this question is worded bugs me...

Application appliation

2008-07-30T10:09:00.000-07:00

I'm sitting around filling out application after application and I need a break! I have applied for everything from restaurants to receptionist jobs to Lowe's! (or as my darling fiance calls it lulls;-) I could just bite him sometimes! Anyways I have to go get a life scan today to work at the Cal Psych place but I wont get enough hours working for them, blah. And I have yet to hear back from anyone else so todays job on top of filling out yet more applications is to call all the places I applied to "check on" my applications and let them know how interested I really am! Haha. Oh well I have something to look forward to, Cody just told me we are going to the fair on Saturday! Yeah for bull riding and Sarah Evans! I'm very excited about this:-) Anyways I'm a total stealer (sorry Heather!) But it put me in the mood to do my own pros and cons list...have not done one in a while:-)

Pros
- I was able to work one more week which gives me easy use of a computer to fill out hundreds of applications
- My Fiance is pretty much the greatest thing ever (even when he scares me so bad I cry!)
- I had some tea and wrote thank you cards this morning which was both relaxing and productive!
- I have an amazing God who I know will take care of all things if I trust in him
- And I found really cute hand towels last night at TJ Max for super cheap!

Cons
- Still have not found a job...or heard back from most places
- I'm not doing very good on eating right and working out. I had six months and I still look the same! LAME!
- I can't find my resume which makes it hard to fill out some applications!
- My house is filled with box's is laundry that I need t deal with....
- And my nail polish is cracking on my fingers and I just got them done Saturday! haha

Okay so life isn't so bad:-) Cody's at work tonight so i should get a lot done! Now off to do more applications! If you hear of any great jobs with okay pay and full time hours PLEASE let me know! Okay later everyone!

My Katie Girl

2008-07-22T16:28:00.001-07:00

Katie…My silly little Katie girl. Like me and Tiffany, Katie and I have known each other sine we were very young. Only a couple months old! Unlike me and Tiffany even the fact our parents were friends was not enough to make us friends from the start. Me and Katie really became friends in 6th grade…oh the 6th grade! To tighten our friendship for life and bring us even closer I started going to the Hume school in 7th grade and from then on we were inseparable! I can recall countless afternoons of watching even Stevens and eating rice with soy sauce and nori. Or weekend to grandmas in Monterey and rollerblading n the pier. Trying to turn our walkmans on at the same time so we could walk around camp listening to the same plus one songs at the same time:-) Katie is my silly friend who swooned over guys with me and obsessed over Brad Pitt and Leonardo DeCaprio. Who spent so many hours making up dance routines and filming ourselves than doing our homework. She is my….
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Country concert music buddy
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My Plus One, NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, 98 degrees, Celine Dion and Shania Twain music expert.
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My forever high school friend, yeah the kind who keeps up with “what’s cool” She sent me a music video of her dancing around and lip syncing to Hannah Montana! I bet you don’t have a friend that cool:-)
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My old lady driver friend, I love you Katie!
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My cute designer/forensic major college student!
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My friend who watches CSI and doesn’t get scared
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My sappy thriller Christian novel friend who understand exactly why I love Marcus soooo much! Haha
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And probably one of the sweetest and kindest people I know.
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The person who I get scared with. In her attic…in my attic…or just walking around Hume. I swear someone was always
fallowing us! Teehee
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My favorite Asian of course
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I love you sweet Katie and wish I had more of you in my life. You are crazy and entertaining and I love having you in my life as one of my best friends! I’m so proud of you and everything you are accomplishing with your life. I love you and miss you wonderful, wonderful girl!

My Tiffany

2008-07-22T16:03:00.000-07:00

Tiffany Ann is a friend who I have had since I was three weeks and three days old! Our parents were friends and our siblings as well. It was inevitable that we would be friends. The fact that we were born and raised at Hume Lake made it inevitable that we would stay friends because we had no one else to be friends with. Thankful God took care of us and made our personalities perfect for each other! I have never even found someone who could come close to my Tiffany. We share more memories, secrets and life than I think with any other person in our lives besides our family members…no in fact maybe even more than them! I remember a cold winter day at Hume a long time ago when me and Tiffany were wondering around camp. We found a tube of “Putty” and started playing with it. It was a lot of fun at first until it started to harden on our little hands and cloths. We started trying to wash it off in the river…it only got harder. We thought maybe it was freezing so we ran to the bathroom and ran warm water over our hands but to no avail…this stuff wouldn’t come off! We panicked and returned home afraid of what our parents might say. They asked what it was we were playing with and asked us to go back for the tube of paste, mind you our hands are still covered n this now hardened plaster. When we brought the tube home I can clearly remember Tiffany’s dad practically collapsing in a fit of laughter….we had been playing with water proof boat glue! It wasn’t the last time we got into rough situations together, but whether it was glue or hot dog huts we made it through everything side by side. We braved 5 summers working along side each other, understanding the need to not really bond with the summer staff because they would just leave. Besides we didn’t need them, we had each other:-)
Tiffany is…
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The kind of friend I have the meaningful conversations with. The deep theological thoughts at seven in the morning or late at night
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The most reliable and trustworthy person.
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The friend who constantly encourages me to be better. The friend who isn’t afraid to be real WITH me.
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My “Whatever” friend!
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The kind of friend who takes the train all the way south just so she can help me run around to Big Lots and stays up late tying a million bows!
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The kind of friend who it doesn’t matter if we have talked in months! We still pick up right where we left off. Never drifting apart
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The kind of friend I will be friends with for my whole life not just because I want to, but because I have to. I can’t imagine life without her
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The kind of friend who I want the best for because I believe that she deserves the world. And I will crush anyone who doesn’t give it to her heehee
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My breakup buddy who makes me cookie dough that could kill me to make me feel better.
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The kind of friend who buys matching dresses with me for my bridal shower:-)

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And definitely my favorite red head that ever lived!

I love you Tiffany! You are one of the best blessings God ever gave me to get me through life at Hume. I'm pretty sure he didn't create us perfect for our husbands but for echother:-)

The best kind of friends

2008-07-18T17:38:00.000-07:00

Well after being criticized for blogging about my tv FRIENDS, and not the real and meaningful people in my life;-) I decided that maybe I should blog about the three most wonderful ladies (not including my family of course) Who have come into m ylife, whether it was 3 months and 3 days after I was born or just a week before I turned 18...these wonderful girlie's mean the world to me. They are the kind of people I can be completely real in front of whatever that might mean, and who with all their differences are each perfect in their own way! To talk about them all would take a long time so for today's post lets just talk about Sarah....Wonderful crazy Sarah Trout!

- The funny person who came out of no where on a very cold and wet new years weekend and listened to me complain about not having shoes while watching kids (kinda ironic!)..

- Who comes to my school to have complete grunge days with me

- And spends days with me at Disney Land, finding out that the whole world thinks Im having a baby (really smooth Missy)

- The person I can be completely real with, about anything!

- The person my boyfriend will buy a GPS for to make sure she can find me when I move far away because he knows how much I need her

- The person who I always get lost with, or for, when my phone is about to die

- The person who sits with me eating icing out of the carton with spoons and realizing that life sometimes sucks!

- The person I would write on paper plates for

- The person who I call because Im in tears over a box of pens

- The person I take with me to try on dresses, because I know she will be honest with me if it sucks

- The person who always seems to be ordering something when we are on the
phone

- The person who I will call because Im making cupcakes

- The person I will call because Im that soccer mom in the drive through getting her coffee because the three boys in the back seat, as cute as they are, are driving me CRAZY!

- The person I will call when my husband leaves me home alone for days and I watched to much CSI and cant sleep

- The person who will always be apart of everything in my life

- The person who maybe waited until I was eighteen to show up, but I know will still be there who I am fifty

- The person who has blessed my life more than I could ever express.

- The friend who just happened to be perfect for me!
I love you crazy crazy girl and love that your apart of my life!

My Friend's

2008-07-18T11:54:00.000-07:00

Recently I have been re united with some of my favorite friends! Do to the lack of a DVD player in my previous home I rarely had the opportunity for these lovely people. Now that I have moved into our new home (DVD player equipped) And have plenty of projects to work on that involve sitting still as you work on them, and I have re discovered my love for these six magnificent people...yes it's true I'm talking about FRIENDS of course. I sometimes wonder if our neighbors don't think I have gone crazy. My mother in law likes to com pair me to her four year old watching sponge bob. But I honestly can not help myself...I have to laugh! It doesn't matter how many times I have seen the episodes (which is a lot!) I love them! And how couldn't I?

"Your love...is like a giant pigeon...Crapping on my heart!" -Pheobe

"Your tombstone can say whatever you want it t say. It could read "Ross Geller, good at marriage!" Y'know? Mine's gonna say "Pheobe Buffay, Buried Alive."

"Is she crazy?" -Chandler

"Like a straw!" -Pheobe

"Hey can you imagine if the chick and duck had a baby? We could name it Chuck." -Joey

"Or...Dick" -Chandler

Joey: "Hey Ross I got a science question. If the homosapians, were in fact HOMO-sapians, is that why they're extinct?"Ross: "Joey, Homosapians are... people."

Chandler: I'm not so good at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?

Point being watch it if you already don't. It has the power to make any bad day better, and any good day great:-) It's like ice cream when your depressed! Haha it makes you feel good...

Than again Jesus does that too...haha

I Can Cook!

2008-07-15T14:27:00.001-07:00

I happen to be getting married to a man who loves to cook. Not from recipes but just making it up as he goes and...it always tastes amazing! I on the other hand can cook a few select things and to be honest it's nothing that impressive. Cody worked a day car yesterday and asked if I wanted to make him dinner and have it ready when he got home...No I thought. I don't want to do that I don't know how to cook! But figuring I had to start some place so I agreed. I pulled out the cookbooks and started looking for the perfect thing...It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. Everything called for 8 different spices. And seeing as I just moved in spices is something I am lacking in greatly besides the garlic salt that Witch brought us...every home needs that:-) This was not going to be much fun at all. I resorted to the only thing I knew I couldn’t go wrong with, Mexican Food! Cody loves Mexican and so I headed to the store and went home and cooked! I made tostadas… very impressive isn’t it? Chicken tostadas, and I didn’t even cook the chicken but…he was happy and said it tasted good! When he finally got there almost at ten after his car breaking down and getting pulled over. Anyways point being, it was a fun night together and I proved that even if I can’t really cook…
I can make a pretty yummy meal:-)

The RED Wall

2008-07-14T15:40:00.000-07:00

Alright...well this is not a good picture at all. I was laying in bed and looking at the mess from our weekend and took this picture but...it does show the red wall. What you can not see is that the three other walls are gray! Actually you can kinda see it n the mirror! teehee It's hard taking pictures of room, mostly when they are small. My wonderful Fiance chose this color for our room. He has always wanted a red wall and I would say that he definitly got one!

Our Home!

2008-07-14T12:37:00.000-07:00

Well one of the main reasons that everything has been so crazy these past weeks is due to the fact we have been moving into our home! Well I have been moving in, and Cody has been helping out with projects. The place was a MESS! I cleaned for a week straight and still am not finished. But we did get the walls painted...yes WE chose those colors:-) This past weekend Tiffany came down to help me with house things and wedding things to of course! This was a huge blessing right when I needed it the most. We ran all around working on projects nd shopping for shower dresses....we take any chance to buy new dresses! Haha and we got some cute ones! On Saturday evening I cooked my first meal in our home...nothing very impresive but it was yummy! We had Witcha and Beverly over as well. I look forward to a lot of nights with friends over for dinner and movies and just hanging out! And of course more weekends with Tiffany coming to visit! After dinner me and Tiffany worked until two in the morning on finishing the invitations for the wedding! I don't know what I would have done without her there to help me. We didn't even finish that night we just gave up! Haha Thankfully we had Friends on to keep us happy and awake. Our home is coming together so nice with all the help from our family and friends:-) I feel so excited and blessed to have such a wonderful space as our first home! And hey now Chase will come over ever Friday for dinner;-)

Erin Graduated!!

2008-07-14T12:05:00.001-07:00

Well this spring my baby sister Erin graduated from highschool! I know I am growing up and getting older obveously but it seems weird she is done with school and talking about getting married! Sadly me and Anna couldn't make it to her graduation party, so instead we planned a girls day several weeks later when Erin would be in Sandiego. It was wonderful! We didn't have ny plans except to have fun and just enjoy being with Erin and doing what she wanted to do...She wanted to SHOP! We had a wonderful time just getting to visit and be together. I honestly love and cherish the fact that my sisters are my best friends! I know it seems like a no brainer but I watch other sisters who still bicker and argue and that never happens with us! We just love being together! We also love eating and did a lot of it through the day. We started the morning with starbucks of course and after we walked through the first mall (Yes there was more than one, three I believe!) We stopped and split a small Gelato because Anna and Erin had never had it. Erin chose Mango which is not my favorite by far but it sure was refreshing and bright! Than it was on to the next store...and the next! After hours more of shopping we stopped at the Cheesecake Factory and split some appertizers and dessert! White chocolate macadamia nut cheesecake of course! Erin got an alchoholic beverage;-) (kidding!) and it was nice to have a second off of our feet. We did plenty more shopping. Here I am with my wonderful little sister:-) I love how all of us our so differant and yet SOOO much a like! I cherish both these wonderful ladies so much and am very thankful that we had a chance to celibrate with Erin on her big exciting graduation and her new stage of life! I know she has been waiting for years for this time in her life and I'm so happy for her!

Happy Birthday Hallie!!!

2008-07-14T11:38:00.000-07:00

Well I have some wonderful girl friends that have made since moving to Simi a little over a year ago. This girl is the best! And she had a birthday! We all went out to her house and had amazing dessert her dad made us. Angle food cake with fresh strawberries and homemade ice cream! Haha I ate way to much! There was also amazing lemon cup cakes and something else her dad made that reminded me of flaun...but he called it something else. It was a wonderful evening making new friends and hanging out with all the old one:-) I love the time I get with these girls and was glad I could be with Hallie on her wonderful 20th birthday! I love you Hallie! And...Alina dies her hair brown...ugh I want to do it now! teehee but I have to wait until after the wedding. I think it looks wonderful on her:-)

Way Behind!

2008-07-14T11:07:00.000-07:00

I have so many things to blog about! Life has been so busy and crazy these past few weeks and I have not had time to share any of it with you! So lets start back all the way in JUNE! Ahhh haha the weekend after Fathers Day we headed t Hume to spend time with my daddy. The whole family came (Except nathan who had t stay in his training;-() We had a wonderful weekend mostly just playing with all the babies! We took them on huge adventures, and then took them "swimming" in grandmas huge bath tub. On one of our big adventures me Gabe and Northy found a feild full of lady bugs! We had so much fun getting them to crawl on our fingers. I was helping when North started exclaiming excitedly that he "Got one, I got one!" I turned to see a masive bumble bee crawling on his little hand! He was so proud, I didn't want to reck all his fun so instead of freaking out I reached over and just flicked the masive bee of his finger. North looked at me with shock than at the bee madly flying away. he hung his little head and said "Oh" I felt bad for taking away his prize. I explained that those bees would hurt you. gabriel started protesting "It wont get you. It wont get you" Haha I love little boys. On Saturday evening the rest of the family headed off to the West wedding. Me and Cody offered to stay home with all the kids so the parents could go and enjoy themselfs. We had a wonderful evening and Tiffany came to hang out with us and help (Gwen expecially liked this and clung to Tiffany most the night) We took them on another big adventure through the woods. As we climbed a hill I told the kids we were scaling the mountain. Great Mount...at this point I planned on adding a silly name but Avery looked at me and said Rushmore? We couldn't even believe it! What a smart little lady she is! Sadly this smart little lady got some heat rash from all our big adventures in the dun. After everyone ran around and watched movies, and everyone else was in bed sleeping sweet little Avery woke up rather upset and complaining that her body hurt all over. Sure enough she had heat rash all over her little arms and legs:-( After putting on some cooling lotion and calming her down a bit she decided the best thing for her would be a S'more. She reminds me so much of her mother:-) She put on her hood and pulled the blanket up over her lap and said, coke please? Haha we gave, how could you say no to that cute face? It wasn't long after that that she wanted to lay down on her couch. Cdy went in to check on her a little later and she was crying again and asked him to please not leav her alone! Ugh heart rencher. When it had been quit a while and Cody still had not come back I went looking for him and this what I found....Ahhhh I want to bite them both! The next day Mom and Dad left for their annaversary trip and me and Cody hung out with Nole and Heather and the kids some more...I take that back. Me and heather hung out with the kids while Nole Cody Dustin and kelee played some nerd board game (I don't know what it was but thats what THEY called it!) North was pretty worn out from out busy weekend and fell asleep watching Shrek 2. The kids chose Alice in Womderland but me and Heather didn't feel like watching that so we changed it! haha. It was an amazing weekend home with all of my favorite people! Including this person! Haha cute Tiffany!

Never a Boring Day

2008-07-02T12:05:00.000-07:00

I got a call from my wonderful Fiancé this morning informing me that there is a lack of responsibility in the Inglewood police and fire departments. Why you ask? Because someone dared to threaten his life last night and attempted to stab him! It was a very good attempt and only missed Cody because he tried to move away and even than only missed by an inch or two. (Not even joking!)
They responded to just another TC call and when they arrived on the seen the gentleman, no lets call him a brute instead, was acting combative and fighting Cody and his partner as they tried to loud him onto a backboard, since he had just rolled his car. Normally in these situations They would use restraints and an officer would even ride along with them to the hospital to insure the EMTs safety. The fire department told him he couldn’t use the restraints (mistake number 1) and the police department didn’t ride along or follow them to the hospital as is the protocol. (Mistake number 2)
Cody decided to use several strap on the guy simply to keep him laying down on the way to the hospital and asked his partner to drive as quickly as possible even though they were not cleared to go code three (Mistake number 3) The man fought and screamed the whole way threatening to kill Cody all the way to the hospital. That’s not the surprising part, this is a daily occurrence for him.
As they pulled into the hospital parking lot Cody turned around to get his clip board from the front. As he turned back the patient had a knife and was slicing of the straps that had been holding him down to the gurney. Than quickly lunged at Cody who dove to the side and was just barley missed by the knife!
Thankfully God was in control of this situation and Cody’s partner not knowing what was going on opened the back of the ambulance at that second. Cody yelled to her to let her know he had a knife as the patient jumped out the back of the ambulance and tried to stab Bianca too! Cody, being the man that he is, wasn’t scared, no instead he was mad! You don’t try to stab him or his partner! He too jumped out the back of the ambulance and proceeded to chase the patient!
Finally PD arrived and not seeing the knife told the “brute” to drop his phone. They acted very calm until the man did in fact pull out a knife. They quickly pulled out their guns and started freaking out yelling at each other "he has a knife!" I imagine it was a bit comical to watch these men who typically act very tough suddenly start freaking out when they are the ones holding guns! Anyways, a couple of them where threatening to shoot when another cop decided it would work to just taze the guy. Geniuses I know.
Well in the mess of it all the only person the patient managed to stab was himself in the hand! So Cody got to go back over and re fix this guy up and bring him into the hospital. Obviously everyone had a lot of question on how this could have happened. When they started asking around about why the guy had a knife at all the cops said they had confiscated that knife at the first TC seen. Apparently someone was nice enough to give it back to him because he definitely had it!
Cody is now questioning why he doesn’t get paid more? Minimum wage just doesn’t seem like enough for nights like this! Haha he did express however that he was thankful he at least acted “man” about it and didn’t run away instead:-) I am thankful that he and his partner made it out okay, and that the man didn’t attack until they got to the parking lot or it would have left Cody in the back with a large angry man with a knife and no place for either of them to go. God protected him and I am soooo thankful!

I will admit that Cody's attack story is much more scary than mine, though I am still determind that woman ran me down in the parking lot on purpose! teehee. Thank you Jesus for keeping me on my toes and making my life always interesting!

MAD!

2008-06-27T15:51:00.000-07:00

Thats all...Today I am MAD!

and extreamly disapointed in some people.

Our Little Family

2008-06-27T13:31:00.000-07:00

Well thanks to Darrin I have created our family! Teehee. I'm not sure how they have red hair but hey it's cute!

Awww don't we have the cutest kids! Haha I love how it's totaly How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days status! Freaky!

Surprises!

2008-06-20T10:17:00.001-07:00

Out side my window!

I love hydrangea's and right out side my window is just covered with them! Good thing I opened my window so I knew I could be enjoying thme!

Eating Green

2008-06-19T15:58:00.000-07:00

It's hot outside!

The only things that sounded good was something fresh and cold..

So veggies and a green tea frap it was!

The only reason I took a picture of it is because me and Sarah decided I don't care enough about "Things" teehee. And because it makes me hungry just looking at it!

I love Greens!