What a week...

So I thought I would write about all of our excitement we had last week. The fun started on Tuesday. We has ordered a dresser from Bassett back in September. When they delivered the dresser the movers were going up the stairs and had lost strength on the last turn of stairs and they banged up the side of the dresser pretty bad. As I was examing the dresser I noticed all the deep dents and asked said what could they do about the dents and they said they would have the repair guy come out and see what they could do asap. So, I signed the papers and off they went. Well, 2 months had gone by and no repair guy, so Ammon and I made multiple visits and called multiple times trying to get this worked out. Well, the repair guy finally made it out the first part of December said that it wasn't fixable and that they would replace it no charge and that it would be here in 6 weeks. I thought all was good no problem. Well, it has been 4 months and to my calculations it should have been her end of January first part of February. Well, those months came and were gone and no dresser. So once again we made multiple phone calls and made multiple visits to the store. I think it was getting to the point were they knew our voices and they probably cringed when they heard our voice. So anyways Tuesday was the day they delivered the famous dresser. And might just add even though it was the biggest hassle it really is a pretty dresser;) Ammon might beg to differ!

Wednesday was a quiet evening, Ammon had Young Mens and I just tried to catch up on some cleaning!

Thursday Ammon went off to another busy day at work and I headed to the dentist...dum..dum..dum..I was going in for my first crown ever...Lets just say after this experience I have learned to better appreciate my teeth. I know what you are thinking, don't you teach a dental course? And the answer is yes. But I can explain...I was enjoying a yummy watermelon jolly rancher (my favorite kind)on a beautiful morning and I bit down on the the jolly rancher and bang... I felt a weird sharp pain and at that moment I knew exactly what was going on. So off to the dentist i went, he then gave me the news that I needed a crown, the jolly rancher has cracked the tooth. So in my defense the crown was not due to excessive decay or me slacking off from taking care of my teeth, I still floss and brush twice a day(ok maybe I only floss once a day!) It was because I was probably had been a crazy and stressful day and as a result of that I bit down on the jolly rancher. But all-in-all the procedure went well and my recovering is going well ;) I had taken the day off of work, so I went home took an IBProfen and had a little nap. Later that night I went to meet the Ashby girls down in Salt Lake for an evening of shopping and dinner.

Friday was another day off of work for me...I had my follow-up appointment for my surgery. All is healing well and I checked out with a clean bill of health. My mom came into Salt Lake and met me for lunch and shopping at the Gateway. It was another fun filled day!


Saturday Ammon as was asked to help out with the Spring Home expo so he was off early helping with that and didn't return home till after 11pm so it was a long day for him...I was off to Salt Lake once again (I did try to coordinate days but nothing seemed to work out so yes I did make three trips to salt lake this week). Saturday afternoon I had a hair appointment. Ammon was looking at my hair one day and noticed I was getting some clusters of grey hair. Yes, I am 26 years old I have a cluster of grey hair and a crown...what's a girl to do;) I also made a quick trip up to REI, Ammon has been wanting a new sleeping pad for backpacking (the thermarest just aren't cutting it anymore). So we have been doing our research and we decided to try a new brand called EXPED so we will see how that turns out. Ammon has been pretty excited about it. The only problem is it weighs almost 3lbs so because of that we are still in the deciding phase. We will keep you posted!;) After REI I met my mom once again and had lunch and we then headed over to the Young Womens Conference. Well, we were a little late and didn't get into the Conference Center, but we were able to get into the Tabernacle. I hadn't been in since the remodel. It was just beautiful! The Tabernacle is one of my favorite building I have great memories of my grandparents taking me there when I was young and I just love the amazing detail the building has. I was just amazed at how many young women there were trying to get into the Conference Center. It was amazing to see the dedication those girls have.

The Bag Tag...

I was tagged a few weeks ago and I am now getting around to doing it. May I just add what a great way to get me to clean and organize by purse! Next to be tagged is Chelsea, Alison, Laurie, and Joy!


Item #1: Wet ones! Never leave home without them!
Item #2: Chocolate/Mint breath mints from Macaroni Grill
Item #3: A pile of earrings, I have this habit of taking out my earrings halfway through the day. I'm surprised I haven't been missing earrings!
Item #4: My planner!
Item #5: Mechanical pencil. This is Ammon's favorite pencil I have just decided to borrow it for awhile ... Well, just until he notices it is gone!
Item #6: A random bobby pin. You really never know when you might need a bobby pin!
Item #7: Satin lips lip balm by Mary Kay...I am not really sold on the whole satin lips thing!
Item #8:Curel Hand lotion. My favorite hand lotion...It leaves your hand silky smooth not greasy!
Item #9: IPOD...the best invention ever!
Item #10: Sunglasses and case
Item #11: See's butterscotch suckers...you never now when you will need a little sugar!
Item #12: Work keys with a yellow swiss army knife
Item #13: USB thing
Item #14: Cell phone!
Item #15: Keys!
Item #16: Wallet

A Big Thank You...

It has been almost 2 weeks since my surgery and I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for the many phone calls, the beautiful flower, the wonderful cards, the yummy cookie bouquet and the delicious dinners. Also to Alison for taking care of my sweet primary class. We are so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends that help us through this hard time. I am so grateful for Ammon and for all that he does for me and taking care of me. I love him so much!

A Donation to Draper City...

Well, I thought I better write about this so we can remember this little incident in 5 years. Ammon was on his way to Angie and Gary's to install a fireplace. He had placed a pretty heavy box in the back of the Frontier thinking there is no way it would blow out. He had reached the point of the mountain and all of the sudden a gust of wind came and blew the box right out of the truck. So Ammon drove to the next exit to turn around to go back and try to get the box. (the box contain about $200.00 is fireplace supplies, so he couldn't just leave it or we would be out $200.00 bucks). Luckly the box landed in the shoulder of the carpool lane and not in the middle of the highway. Ammon had realized that he couldn't pull of in the carpool lane because he was alone and he also had a trailer. (Although it is a serious problem in Utah)! So he decided to call the Highway Patrol. Well, the police office arrived went over picked up the box and pulled right behind Ammon walked over and asked Ammon for his License and Registration. Ammon was just in awe...and said are you serious? The police officer reponded "you could have caused an serious accedient." Ammon reponded "I realize that I was just trying to do the right thing." Well, the police officer didn't want to hear about and slapped Ammon with a ticket for failing to strape things down. We called on the ticket a couple weeks ago and I just mailed in a $75.00 check to Draper City.

10° and snow to 100° and sand…

I just realized that it’s been almost a month since my last post…where does the time go? I know you have long awaited the update on our cruise and I apologize that it has taken me so long to get this posted, but between the internet not working at home and trying to play catch up at work time just got away from me. Well, last night I spent about 2 hours writing and organizing my pictures for this blog and about half way through the entry the internet decides to shut down on me and I lost everything so we will try this again…
We really didn’t know what to expect on this vacation, with Ammon’s work they giveaway two trips a year and we were one of the lucky ones to receive a free trip. The trip was a 7 day Caribbean cruise our stops were Cozumel, Mexico Roatan, Honduras, Progresso, Mexico. We were also scheduled to stop in Costa Maya but because of Hurricane season last year it destroyed the pier and they say it will be up and running for next season. We wanted to share with you a few the highlights of the trip, hope you enjoy… Warning this is a long one I will not be offended if you don't read this!

To start the trip off our bus broke down about 20 minutes away from the port we waited about an hour for another bus to come. Once we arrived they took us through security and onto the boat. We were scheduled to depart at 5pm. Well, our group was still going through security at 5pm so it was kind of fun to think we were literally the last people to board the ship!!
As soon as we were settled in our room we went to explore the boat. We were just in awe at how big the ship was, we later found out that we were sailing on the biggest cruise liners in the world. It had 15 levels plus cargo. It was absolutely amazing! Every night at 8pm we would head on down to level 4 for our 5 course meal, they would have a new theme every night. I was a little worried about the formal stuff but I got to tell you this was the thing I looked forward to everyday.
We had picked 3 different excursions… our first one was a clear kayak and beach snorkel combo. Well, we get ashore and find out that they wouldn’t let Ammon snorkel because of the diabetes and we tried to tell them that we couldn’t scuba dive and that snorkeling was alright but they wouldn’t budge. So we enjoyed the clear kayak for about an hour and then enjoyed the rest of the time on the beach. Hey we did get a free drink out of the deal. So we cashed it in for a bottle of water! Our second excursion was swimming with the dolphin in Honduras, we drove through the rough part of Roatan and arrived on this beautiful beach resort. The story was that an American came down in 1995 bought some land along the beach and turned it into just this beautiful beach resort. He did well! We have a few pictures of swimming with the dolphins that I will post at the end. We had a really good time. After the dolphins we took a taxi over to Tabayana Beach. The drive itself was an adventure there were times I didn’t think we would make it! Once we make it back to the boat we decided to walk through the town, once we were out of the security of the boat this little boy started walking and talking with Ammon, telling him what the different building were. We told him we were looking for a store called Yaba Ding Ding and he lead us right to the store waited outside for us and walked us back to the boat. He was our little tour guide. We gave him some money got a picture with him and he was on to the next tourist. Our third adventures was the Chicken Itza Mayan Ruins… this was amazing as you can tell by the pictures. I only wish we would have had some more time to spend exploring.
After Progresso, Mexico we were on our way home. We had a whole day at sea before we were back in Galveston, Texas. The last day was kind of cloudy and somewhat windy. Oh, I almost forgot to mention the motion sickness thing ( for those that don't know my history, I get sick so fast, for example I get sick just rocking in a rocking chair. I have problems!) Well, I have to tell you the first day I didn’t think I was going to make it. It thought to myself this is going to be a long week. The Dramamine wasn’t doing its job so we made a trip to the medical station. I purchased a set of blue wrist bands. I know attractive! But the idea was to place the white ball on your pressure points on your wrists. After wearing those for about a day I’ll tell you what I was cured. The rest of the trip was great! At first I thought that I would have never enjoyed a cruise, but after this experience I am definitely hooked! We sat by a lady at lunch that had been on 37 cruises.
Well, we are back to reality, peeling from our sunburn and just trying to get through these last few weeks of the winter! We had heard that we missed one of the biggest snowstorms is Spanish Fork. Welcome Back!!