Can I get a Woot Woot!!!!

Well, with the time and credits I have spent on getting my diploma I probably should have come a way with triple majors. But that is not how it worked. I only have one, and that is OK by me because I am now finished. I really couldn't be more ecstatic with just finally finishing. I really have a love for learning and enjoy taking classes. But I really hate writing papers and taking test. On that aspect I am glad I am done. I will have to find other ways to fulfill my love of learning and being active. I already have lots of ideas of what I want to do to keep me busy.

Oh and yes I am very proud of myself... And oh so humble too...

Christmas

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Well, we had a great Christmas together with family… We spent Christmas Eve with Mike’s family and enjoyed the company of his family.  Brody loved being able to run and play with his cousins and smile at his brand new cousin Isabella, this might be fun to explain to him.  He now has cousins on both sides now that go by Izzy.  He is pretty smart he should catch on fast. 

Brody loves playing the piano! He would quietly sneak away and next thing we all heard was the piano.  So this will be fun when we move in with my parents in June.  There will have to be lots of patience as we teach him he can’t always play the piano.  He also found he has a new love of drawing on the chalkboard.  He got real angry when I had to take him away so we could go home. 

I do have to admit that this Christmas was even more fun with Brody. His face was priceless each time he opened a new gift.  He even gave the best smile when he opened up his new PJ’s before he went to bed on Christmas Eve.  He was so inquisitive about all that he got.  He wanted to play with each thing he opened before he would touch another gift.  It was so much fun.  Mike and I wanted him to go faster than he did.  I’m sure this is going to change when he gets older and it is a race to open all of his gifts, and all I want him to do is slow down.

On Christmas Day we had lunch with my aunt and uncle and their children.  Always fun to be with family…  Brody again loves to run and play with all of the other kids. 

On a more spiritual side, we also wanted to start our own traditions with our little family.  So we tried to think of things we wanted to do.  This being difficult because Brody is still young and does not sit for long or is too young to really get into things.  We decided this year to try and read Luke 2, it was helpful that we had a picture book that had the pictures of the story.  He loved the pictures and had no idea about the story.  We of course will keep trying to find the traditions that will work for our family. 

It was just great to be together.  That was truly our favorite part. 

Getting Christmas Up!

This year was a blast with putting up Christmas! Brody wanted to be involved and help with everything. And we all know that this made it a little more difficult to get things done in any kind of timely manner. But he had so much fun, how could we pass up all the smiles and laughter we saw and heard? He even helped with putting up the lights he didn't know what to do with that and finally handed the lights back to Mike. We had our Christmas music going and we all sang and danced and had so much fun!!!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

My internship is Complete....

So I am finally FINISHED with my large internship or my final one. It was a great experience. I enjoyed the different projects I worked on. I did a lot of office work due to the fact that being pregnant prevented me from doing a lot of the physical work. But I really did get to see a lot of the behind the scenes things that went on. Two major projects I worked on were a wheelchair rugby clinic and a wheelchair basketball tournament that we called the "Turkey Shoot". I had a blast. I and the other interns were able to get things all prepared from the beginning to the end. It's a lot of work but well worth it.

Here are some pictures of the rugby clinic. It was great for these guys, they had one of the Paralympics USA team members there to run the clinic. They not only learned a lot, but I did also. I learned how to run score, timers, and some of the penalty calls. It kept me on my toes. If you would like more information visit http://www.quadrugby.com/.

With the Turkey Shoot we were able to get 14 nationally ranked teams from across the US come and participate. This was a unique ordeal. Many of the teams admitted that it had been a long time since they have played other teams that were of the same levels as them. I also had the opportunity to work hands on and face to face with all that needed transportation which was, oh yah, was everyone. That was a crazy ordeal, trying to figure out everything to make it run smooth. I also learned the time, scores and some of the penalties that are called also. It was a crazy and fast week but it went great.

I learned a lot and am happy it's over now too.

Our Fun Crazy Halloween

Well this year we did not know what to do for our costumes. We had to do something very inexpensive to make this work.  We also did not know what to do to decorate our trunk for the trunk-or-treat.  We wanted to keep some kind of theme so we did.  We won the best trunk award last year and everyone was expecting us to out due what we did last year.  That was a little difficult to do.  So really we just ended up with this… This might be a little crazy but we had a blast and everybody loved it. 

It was to light out side to really see that everything was lit as if it were Christmas Morning.  We even handed out candy canes!  No prizes were won this year only because they didn’t hand them out.  But I am sure we would have won!!!! 

Family Visits!!!

So a little while ago, meaning sometime in October, Kaelynn and her family came out to Utah from Alaska. So mom and dad decided to come out also. It was fun to see Kaelynn and her fam., and also to see the parents. We had fun going to the zoo and really just hanging out. Here are some pictures from our adventures.
Yes, Brody is the same size as Isabelle! He is a giant...

This big elephant made funny noises all I wanted to do was run away.

I want out of the stroller so I can walk with cousin Isabelle.

My 2 AMAZING men!!!

I started this post a little while ago, and never got it finished, so here it goes.





Well these last few weeks have been crazy! I have really learned to allow people to help me. Which is really hard for me to do. But I made it through it with the best help from my amazing guys!!! Well a few weeks ago (August 18th) I ended up in the emergency room with severe pains in my side. Well I found out that I was in a need of an appendectomy. This was a huge surprise for me being 14 weeks pregnant. It was a scare with everyone telling me that this could be bad for the baby. But I knew it would all work out. I just needed all of those at the hospital to believe that all was going to be OK. Everything just worked out, I knew I was being blessed. But I pretty much ended up being on bed rest for the next 3-4weeks. This was not easy with a one year old and a husband that was working 40hours/week. Mike took over everything and was good coming home fixing dinner, taking care of Brody and doing all the house hold things. He is the BEST husband ever!!!!





Brody really understood and took everything with stride that I couldn't do the usual things that we loved to do. We had to teach him to do a lot of things all on his own. We put him in a toddler bed so he could climb in and out all on his own. We made a make-shift table and chair to eat at when Mike was not at home. He showed this very gentle side of who he is. He would come up to me and just put his head in my lap and just hug me.





I just love my 2 AMAZING men!!! They are the Best ever.