Shays Birthday

So I have been bad about writing in my little online diary...But this was my sisters Birthday party. It was her 30th and it was a surprise. And she was very surprised....She said that we had scared her when she walked in...hahahahah any way here are some pics of that day.


Chris and I....I really like this pic

Chris moved so we had to do a re-do which is ok because I think the other one above is really cute.

My dad!

The cake...OMG drama over getting this cake but we got it...And just an fyi the riverdale target doesnt help you out much...The Layton one...they were awesome!

Shay as she walked in I wish it would have turned out a little better when I took the pic but oh well.

The kids.....

Maddy, Gma & Gpa

Gma

God works in mysterious ways

Arnold M. Satterlee
August 10th 1922 - July 5th 2010




I have a friend that is a "real" friend. I call her that because she is the type of friend that I don't have to talk to on a regular basis. But when I do finally talk to her we pick up right where we left off. Well sadly her dad passed away on Monday the 5th of July 2010. I'm so sad for her and her family. But I also think that I have witnessed gods hand at work....its my own personal belief that we meet people at just the right moment we are suppose to...some are good and some are bad...but you can choose if you want the person in your life or not.





My friend Sandy I met when I was only 19 we met at work....good ol Fred Meyers. I loved that job...mostly because of the people I worked with, but also because it was very laid back. Any way we became very good friends so much so that I moved and lived with her for a whole year, when mother and I weren't getting along. She is a product of the 80's and would tell me all about it, some of it I remembered some I was too young at the time for. We would stay up late watch scary movies (she also LOVES scary movies like me) We had awesome Halloween parties, BBQ's, and my favorite Girls night out. I always enjoyed my time with her. When I moved away and lived in Vegas for the 3 short years I would talk to her off and on and started to notice that she was becoming a bit of a hermit. Her last relationship was some what hard for her to get over and she was going through a man hating faze. She also was battling a few health problems to say the least, the girl is an accident waiting to happen. When I moved back she was less on a man hating faze and more on a depression faze. And she was still battling health problems too.





I would go over spend the night, we would talk till the sun came up and then sleep in till past noon. But I did notice she didn't seem like her old self. It had been 7 long years since her last relationship. She had said a few times that she wanted to start dating and meet someone. Which to that I told her "Well your gonna have to leave the house cause he isn't going to fall through the ceiling." She would say she knew but was still a little bit of a hermit............Then things changed....She got a new job up on base, which she had been trying to get for years. Then a year ago this month she met Roseco, an old friend from the past. They had gone to High School together and were friends but that was all. Well they started dating....and every time I would call her and talk with her she sounded more and more like the old Sandy...I was happy she had found someone. The last time that I spoke with her was a couple of months ago and she was telling me how the family was doing and how her parents health was failing, but Roseco was a big help. She was taking on a lot of responsibility with them bills, Dr. appt, prescriptions, and he was right there helping every step of the way. He got to be very close with her parents and they just adored him. I'm sure it was because they could see the effect he was having on Sandy. She was so happy to find someone that loved her and showed it.





And then her dad passed away....I cant help feeling that if she were still in that hermit depression faze that she wouldn't be able to handle this as well has she is. I really feel like she was suppose to meet Rosscoe and he was suppose to help her with this part of her life...as crappy as it is. I'm so happy she has someone to lean on and someone that cares. But I also think about how different her life was only a year ago...and how much stronger she is now. And how he finally came into her life after a 7 year drought of men, almost a year to the day that she lost the most stable and caring man in her life. Which makes me think that God really does work in mysterious ways.

Sprinklers Wars

This morning I "thought" all would be great and dandy but alas no. We have yet to get our sprinklers going and yes I know its JULY! When Chris and I moved in together we made an agreement that I would take care of the inside while he took care of the outside. We moved in, in the middle of the winter...so he pretty much only had to shovel the drive way. While all winter long I cleaned the house, did laundry, made sure bills were paid....ya know kept up with my half of the bargain. So summer comes and low and behold Chris whined the whole summer about how hot it was, how hard it was to work in the yard, how tired he was....blah blah ya know pretty much DIDN'T keep up with his end of the bargain.

So this summer I said I would help as long as he started helping me around the house. Which he has but still with they eye rolls and loud sighs, that seriously almost drive me over the edge. I don't know why I let it get to me...if anyone of my friends told me that before I met Chris I would have said " Oh geeze so what he rolls his eyes big deal, let it go." Now after living with someone that does that, I now know that its easier said than done. But any way I digress....So last winter I come out of my house and hear sprinklers on. I thought to my self what dumbass has on their sprinklers in the middle of winter. Well we were the lucky dumbass. Chris "forgot" to winterize the sprinklers and to shut the water off to them so when we had a power outage the night before it reset the timer and they turned on...DUMB!!! Well now we are paying for it. I had a guy (that I used to go to high school with no less...and he didn't remember who I was.....awkward) come and look at the sprinklers he gave me an estimate of $160 which I was happy with. Well this morning when I went out to talk to him he told me that 3 of the heads had cracks in them. They needed to be replaced and they were $25 a head...OK not too bad. But they take an hour each to replace. OK still not too bad more than I wanted to spend on stupid sprinklers but OK as long as they are on and I don't have to keep going out and putting the hose some where I'm fine with it. I call Chris and he wants to do it him self..............YIKES!!! I'm still waiting around for him to do some things he promised me he would do last FALL! But he wants to save the $100 in labor. I'm so irritated with him right now. I wish he would be more of a "OK lets get this done and over with guy" instead of "Ill do that later" guy. When he tells me that.....seriously well lets just say I have dark thoughts..... So now I have paid $160 and my sprinklers are still not fixed and it will be yet another "awesome" week of me taking the hose around from place to place to get it watered. Can you say ANNOYED!!!

HOLY MOLY!!!!

I love it when you already have planned how your week will go and then its NOTHING like you planned. Oh and just so we are clear the "love it" part was sarcasm.....I had planned that on Monday get some clothes done for our trip, start to pack a little, ya know just at least start to get ready to head out of town....But no Sunday night Chris goes to turn off the lights and see's a mouse. NOW I know that some of you may think big deal...but I used to live in a farm house. And since then I have a bit of a phobia about mice. So if you want to see me turn into a complete girl with the sobbing and hysterics just watch me when there is a mouse in my house or car problems. Any way so the last three days have been about trying to capture this mouse and get it the hell out of my house. And yes finally we did.....THANK GOD!! But now here I am with one night now to get everything together and I feel rushed, which I hate feeling. We leave tomorrow and seriously I cant flipping wait to get out of here. I have been getting things wrong at work, Chris and I got into a fight over a stupid screen door (I think the mouse got in under our back door so I had Chris put up a screen door so it cant happen again!!!) And I have been getting spring fever here pretty bad. So 4 maybe 5 days away will be just what I need seriously. Oh and on other news I finally got a new phone. I really like it its a little techy for me and Chris got the same phone and he loves it so that makes me happy. I will post pics of the happy couple when I get back....if I come back hahahaha!

Wendy & Anthony

As I posted before my friend Wendy is getting married....the whole reason for the trip to Oregon. Well we have been talking about weddings now for like over a year. She has been engaged for awhile but he still had to tie up some loose ends with his ex wife. So FINALLY now on June 26th, 2010 she will be walking down the isle. I'm soo excited for her. She is a really good friend and one of those friends that I don't have to talk to every day and we still can pick up right where we left off. (I LOVE friends like that sometimes I can be flaky.) Any who....when we were talking weddings she told me that she wasn't going to have a wedding video. I for one LOVE the wedding videos of people. I love pictures in general. So I spoke with her sissy, asked if she thought Wendy would like it. And I made my own, from pictures that I had and some that I took off of facebook. The only crappy thing was I didn't have any of either of them when they were little but I still think it turned out great. I hope she loves it, I'm giving it to her as part of a surprise......Any way here it is I hope you enjoy it!

Monday Blues

So yesterday wasn't the best day for me at work...Bad day as soon as I got there. When I screw up (and I do it what seems like a lot) if its something big then I feel really bad. It will bug me the whole day....if its small big deal. But yesterday it was a bad day from the beginning. And it seemed to drag on and on. So after work I went home and made me a few white Russians. DELICIOUS!!!! It totally helped me relax and let go of the work garbage. Now its not like I do this ever night...In fact this is the first time since I was like in my 20's that I have been loaded on week night and had to work the next day. But it was nice to relax and not worry about all the muck ups at work....And then (this is the best part) Chris came home and made me spaghetti...He is so awesome sometimes. He even made it with the little bit of angle hair pasta that was left cause he knows that I love it soo much. It was so yummy.....and needed since I had downed 3 white Russians on a empty stomach. But I just want to write about how much I appreciate him and the things that he does for me. I vent a lot on here about him, but rarely talk about the nice things he does do for me so here it goes..

He is positive, more than me

He doesn't like scary movies but will watch them with me.

He knows exactly how I like my popcorn and diet coke at the movies and always orders it for me.

He calls me on my bull shit.

He makes me laugh so hard.

He knows he is nerdy and embraces it.

He tells me how beautiful he thinks I am...even when I have in a greasy ponytail.
He has made me sushi even thought he HATES seafood.

He rubs my back almost every time I ask him.

He can tell when I'm in a mood and most the time will back off.

He is very very very techy and can fix almost anything with a computer, TV, VCR,........the list goes on and on..

WE are getting to be better team then just me on one side and he on another.

He always puts the toilet seat down.

He buys me flowers just because.

He lets me dress him...his style is a little scary.

He helps my parents and grandparents out if they need it with WHATEVER they need help with.

He plays with my nieces and nephews like he has known them forever.

He will drop everything to come and help me out.

He will drop everything to come and help one of my sisters out.

He works really hard on controlling his temper.

He tries really hard on cleaning the house.

He will listen to my gossip or family drama with interest.

He lets me pick what we listen to in the car on long drives.

Those are just some of the reasons that I love him....there are a ton more. And on a side note...for our wedding the place I'm getting married will do a wedding video for us. Well here are some of his kids photos that I will have in the video...some are cute and some are funny. My favorite is his totally 80's rocker hair...too funny!

Cant sleep!

So here I sit at 6:37 in the morning not being able to sleep. Chris's phone went off around 4 a.m. with a text from his cousin....HELLO unlike you he sleeps with someone else in his room!!! Geeze people are soo rude sometimes. I mean unless you have a reason to send a text that early, like its an emergency or someone is dying. SEND IT LATER!!! Obviously the lack of sleep is getting to me but I really don't sleep well as it is. I'm a bit jealous that Chris can fall asleep and stay asleep pretty much any where and any time. While I on the other hand have to prep myself with a sleeping aid each night and then try to fall asleep to the "sweet sounds" of him farting, and snoring all night GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!! Seriously who thought that sharing a room with someone else was a good idea was an idiot! OK I can see that its official I'm just tired and grumpy. But I'm pretty sure that anyone would if they had fallen asleep at 1230 only to wake at 3, try to go back to sleep only to hear the annoying phone go off......Oh here is attempt # 567 to fall back to sleep!