Ashby Family

Move to Nebraska

2012-01-27T19:14:00.001-08:00

Pictures By Ammon

2011-11-11T20:10:00.000-08:00

We're Back...and this is not an April Fools Joke!

2011-04-01T18:56:00.000-07:00

If there is anyone out there still, we are still alive...!

I can't believe it has been over two years since I actually posted something on this blog. Thank goodness for Ammon who has kept you somewhat updated with what is going on in the Ashby world!
We just celebrated Livvy's 2nd birthday last Friday and it hit me like a tone of bricks...I have nothing documented about her first two years of life....what a mom am I? So, I am giving the world of blogging another try...maybe the second time around will be better.
What have we been up to...? Well, all I can really say is same old stuff (it seems like)! I still teaching at MATC, Ammon is working really hard in school, and Livvy is a very busy two year old!

Snow, Carriage Ride, and Christmas!

2011-02-15T09:04:00.000-08:00

Snowshoeing

2011-02-15T08:59:00.000-08:00

CANYONLANDS & GOBLIN VALLEY

2010-04-14T08:49:00.000-07:00

Goblin Valley..

The Pics don't do it justice! -It was a tougher trail than it looks..
Cleopatra's Chair..

Panorama Point!

Snowshoeing and Christmas!

2010-02-18T11:38:00.000-08:00

Fall 2009 Family Pictures!

2009-11-11T13:20:00.000-08:00

Pictures of Livvy!

2009-11-06T12:42:00.001-08:00

Its been a while!

2009-09-27T21:21:00.000-07:00

Well its been a long time since Liz or I have made a post on this blog. I'm sorry. Mostly to my siblings who live far away from us. Both Liz and I have been so crazy busy with Livvy, school, work, church, and everything. Its taken some serious adjusting with this new schedule of trading off. It seems like when Liz and I are together, we are so busy catching up on chores and sleep that we never see each other.
It has been a great six months though... Livvy is now six months old. She is still just as strong as ever! She is scooting around the house pretty good-Mogli Style. She still doesn't sleep through the night, but usually she just wakes up once around 3am. Which isn't bad compared to how she used to be.. She still takes those kid-e-col drops every day and it has made all the difference. She is a different baby than the first four months. We are pretty religious about giving them to her. If she doesn't get them- Look out! -I love this picture, its the best!

I have been watching her most mornings while Liz works. A friend of ours watches her when I go to class on MWF mornings. Then Liz gets home about 3pm and takes her while I go to school. Im usually there until 10 or 11 at night. Its a hard schedule for the two of us, but seems to be working. And we still get great health ins. through Lizzys work.
Im still doing work here and there for friends and people I know. That is actually working out really well with our crazy schedules... planning my own hours. It seems like I have just the right amount of work too. When I get done with a job, a friend, or someone always calls with something small enough that I can get a bid on.
This summer was a lot of fun. We climbed Kings Peak again! That was one of our big trips for the year. We went with my family. Angie and her two boys, Travis, Rod, and Liz and I. It was a blast but we definitely have forgotten how hard that trip is. We did about 33 miles in three days. The terrain really wears on ya. We are going to try to do it every 5 year anniversary. We were up there on our first and our fifth! Liz is going to lose her big toenail. I think coming down put too much pressure on her feet, it turned black. We were pretty sore after that one. I got a new pack not long before the trip and it made all the difference, and Liz got a new Gore-tex jacket for her b-day this month. We are excited for the chance when we can take Livvy with us on our next big adventure.. We are still deciding on a kid carrier pack??

I went to the BYU game with my Dad last night. It was a lot of fun going with him again. He was released from the stake presidency after 12 yrs? out in Tooele, just this summer. I'm glad. And Liz finally finished her super-saturday thing she has been working on nonstop for the past month. She really puts in her overtime with that stuff. Im glad this weekend was a success.
That's not everything, but at least something... Lizzy will be proud.
Pictures always tell a better story anyway:

Going Private...

2009-05-02T14:12:00.000-07:00

I have made the decision to keep the blog private. Ammon had some identity theft issues a while ago so he has some concerns... I would love to have a way of keeping you posted on our lives! Please leave me your email address so I can send you an invitation. Thanks!

LIVVY!

2009-05-02T13:40:00.000-07:00

Well it has been life changing the last four weeks. Olivia Bren was born on March 25th. She was 7 lbs. 13 oz. And 20” long. Now we have a Lizzy and a Livvy. Lizzy went to the doctor that Tuesday. The doctor thought she would probably have at least another week. Well that night about midnight she woke me and said she was having major contractions. They were under two minutes apart already. It seemed like she was going to have the baby right then! I was a little disoriented but managed to grab all the stuff and get the car ready. I was driving as fast as I could in that snow. We made it... So Lizzy was in labor all night. They gave her an epidural about 3:30am. Sometime around 11am the doctor came in and broke her water. Then after 16 hours of labor, she finally had the baby girl.

Olivia is doing great now, but she did have a rough start. As she was being delivered, somehow the doctor noticed that the baby might be having problems. So she calmly explained to both Liz and I that she might have to immediately be taken to the NICU where another doctor, nurses, and a respiratory therapist can help her. Sure enough, when she finally got her out she wasn’t breathing. So about a minute later they rushed her down the hall to the ICU. I went with Olivia and the doctor stayed with Lizzy. It was crazy, having no idea what was wrong and no idea how to help. The doctors and nurses were running everywhere. At the same time Olivia came in, three other babies came in within five minutes after her. They hooked her up to tubes and IV’s and everything else... her oxygen saturation levels were way low. When they would drop tremendously, Olivia would tense up of course... but after a few hours she calmed down. She had IV’s and tubes in her nose, mouth, both hands, both feet, and a few in her head... those ones kept clotting or coming out. It was tough to see but she was worn out and finally fell asleep.

Many hours later Lizzy woke up and was feeling up to going up to the NICU to see Olivia. So we wheeled her up. They took good care of her and we got to visit as much as we wanted in spite of the tight security. She spent a couple more days there and we finally got to hold her on Friday. Then she started to show improvement in her breathing so they took her off the stuff, but had to put her back on in about a half an hour. So she had to stay another night. The last part of the time we were at the hospital we stayed just down the hall in the Ronald McDonald family rooms. It was nice to finally get some sleep and still be close enough to feed and see her every little bit. It was a long week. It was exciting to take her home! She started rolling over and hasn’t stopped since we got her home. Is that normal?

When we got her home we had a lot of help, which was well needed. I had a little time off work and then when I went back Liz’s Mom came out and stayed, then Liz’s sister. Our first load of dishes coming back didn’t go well either. Turned out our washer was broken so I went shopping for a new one while Lizzy and Olivia got some rest, some. I finally got one picked out after shopping all over. So I took the old one out, picked up the new one, installed the new one. It had been installed and returned to the store I think. It was leaking and wasn’t working right. I had asked them if problems and they had said no, that the people had just changed their minds. Well I called and they wouldn’t come and get it. So the next day I took it back. They were all sold out of that one, so I started shopping again. This time I took Lizzy while her mom stayed with the baby. We finally got another one picked out, but it wouldn’t be in for 2 days. Two days later I went and picked it up and installed it. So far so good. Whew!

The next week or so went ok. She didn’t seem to sleep at all… I know I am exaggerating, but it really seemed like that. We were back and forth to the doctor and clinics constantly. She had some jaundice when she was born and the doctor was a little worried about it when we left, but it cleared up pretty quick when we went back in a week to have her tested.

She had a couple of hang nails on her thumbs, so I was watching them closely. One was infected. I lanced it we soaked it and it got better. But she seemed so mad all the time for the next couple of days. One morning we were changing her clothes and noticed that her left thumb was twice the size of her right! I could tell it was infected throughout the knuckle. It looked like four huge boils or pimples. I lanced them and drained tons of infection out. We took her to the doctor and there were a lot of questions as to what it could be. They finally decided that the thumb still looked too infected. So the cut her thumb open and just let it drain. She lost a lot of blood out of that little finger. So they wrapped it up and gave us a prescription and told us to come back the next day for a follow up. The next day it was way worse. We took her in and they immediately called her doctor to have her admitted back into the hospital.

We were at the hospital for four more days. The infection took over her thumb and even went under the nail and pushed the nail off her finger. They did a lot of tests and started her on some antibiotics that made her real sick. More painful IV’s. One time they couldn’t find a vein and it took them seven times to finally get the right spot where her veins wouldn’t roll. That was way bad! Anyway, they thought it was a number of different things… herpes, staph, and all this other stuff. It turned out to be a real bad staph infection she probably got while being at the hospital the first time. But there is no way of knowing for sure where she picked it up.?

When finally got to take her home on a weekday at about ten at night. We had been doing shifts to stay with her while either of us ate and showered. We were already dead tired. We got some more help from family and friends when we came back. Lizzy and I got hit a day later… I think it was the flu, but she thinks we got food poisoning from the hospital. We were both throwing up all night. The first time I got hit was when Lizzy was already in the bathroom in the night. I threw up a couple times all over our white carpet. I took another couple of days.

Things are semi-normal now. We are into at least a little bit of a routine. We were always expecting that starting our family out would be hard, nothing is coming as an absolute total surprise meltdown. But even knowing doesn’t make it perfect. It seems like the Lord knew exactly when we needed her. So far she is a great addition to the Ashby family... So we are going to keep her!

The Blooming Button!

2009-04-17T18:08:00.000-07:00

My good friend just opened up a Etsy Shop selling adorable homemade Button Bouquets and these adorable homemade hats! She is one talented lady! Check out her shop by clicking on the "Blooming Button" link on the side!

Baby

2009-03-27T16:53:00.001-07:00

An evening of Rock and Roll!

2008-11-19T19:58:00.000-08:00

Well, we went again. Probably the best concert in American History! I'm glad we have made it a tradition. Every year we say we aren't going to go, and every year I'm glad we did. We went with our good friends Jason and Joy Frandsen to the Trans Siberian Orchestra concert. They spend over half a million dollars on pyrotechnics alone. It was a blast... this year we got tickets on the floor, just far enough back that we could see the whole stage. Our favorite performer is Mark Wood.. a electric violinist trained at Juilliard. He is also one of the founders. We sat next to a couple probably in their sixties. This was their sixth year in a row going. Anyway check out the pics if you want, See ya next year!Lizzy spent the whole pre-show looking for other pregnant ladies. It was hillarious. She was nervous about the noise.. But as soon as she saw one she said, "oh she's pregnant! We're ok, she is sitting closer than us!" Pretty cool shirts huh?

Dreams really do come true!

2008-11-15T13:46:00.000-08:00

A couple weeks ago our vacuum died...A vacuum that I have hated from the beginning! I told Ammon once the vacuum dies we are buying a Dyson! The Dirt Devil has left us and we have welcomed the new Dyson into our home! We love it!

Its a.....

2008-11-07T07:37:00.000-08:00

GIRL...yes Ammon was right all along... and we are so excited! So that will make 12 granddaughter on Ammons side and the 1st granddaughter on mine! We couldn't be happier!

Ashby Update!

2008-10-30T12:17:00.000-07:00

So a month has come and gone and I have not updated once! I have not been a faithful blogger but I am determined to be better! It is pretty much the same old story in the lives of the Ashby's...Here are just a few updates on what we have been up to...

Work: Well, things are pretty much the same...Ammon is still busy and I am still busy with work and I really do enjoy my job. My classes have been so good this year...just a really good group of kids. Due to the economic problems the school has had some major budget cuts! So far the only thing affected has been money we can spend on our programs... so it hasn't affected the employees and another thing is we don't get our campus supply of hot chocolate for the winter ;(

School: Ammon is currently working on a 50 page book for his advanced english class and I am finally starting to study for the National Coding exam....all my sewing projects are almost complete (give me one more weekend and they well be all finished up...) so I will not have any temptations...doesn't that sound fun!

Violin: We are still going strong with the violin...thank goodness for Ammon he keeps me going with violin...if it wasn't for him I would have quite months ago! We are starting in on christmas music and we have switch on lessons from Thursday to Saturday morning and that make a world of difference with us organizing our time better on Saturdays.

And Finally....THE BABY!!! Everything is still looking really good...We go in for the ultrasound next Thursday and we are SO excited! I feel really good during the day and seem to have alot more energy which I LOVE! Morning are still pretty rough with the throwing up thing but all in all I feel really good! I have been a little worried just cause I have been getting migraines so I just really watch that I am drinking plenty of water and eating when I am suppose to!

One last thing Concerts: Trans-Siberian is only 14 days away...we are so excited! This year we are going all out...I order t-shirts...I think they are pretty sweet! We will definitely be taking picture...please stay tune! Neal Diamond is also coming to town...Ammon LOVES Neal Diamond and 3 years ago when he was in Salt Lake we were actually in Disneyland so we thought we don't want to miss out again!

A Birthday Month!

2008-09-23T19:18:00.000-07:00

This month was my brothers birthday. We went camping to City of Rocks in Idaho. It was about 4 hours for the people in Utah and 4 hours for the people in Idaho. So it might be our new meeting point for quick car-camps! Angie my oldest sister came with all six kids and Gary.
Dawn came with her new husband Ray. Rod came with his four kids and Amy. Lizzy had to work so I went up alone. I wished she was able to go, but I must admit it was still a blast. Im so glad I have a good relationship with all of my siblings.. We ate good food and just hiked and climbed and hung out.. City of rocks was amazing. Climbs all over.
I put my tent right on top of a rock.. It was also Lizzys Birthday this month.. we went to dinner with some friends one night, and then again with my parents the next. She had another Dr. appointment today and so far so good.

This is my Bro Rod, and 2 of his four kids.

How sad am I...

2008-09-05T10:57:00.001-07:00

Ammon and I have a new tradition...it started about 3 years ago when we heard that Trans Siberian Orchestra was coming to Salt Lake. Ammon just loves the Christmas Albus from the Trans Siberian Orchestra so we thought lets try it out. We decided to invite Ammons mom and dad and sister Dawn, we thought it had the word "orchestra" in it so we thought it would be pretty mild...well we thought wrong! It was a full out rock concert with an amazing lazer show and smog playing christmas music.(I do admit the lazer show does cause a little motion sickness but it is totally worth it and what doesn't make me have motion sickness...right!) Well, now we can all say we have been to an 80s rock concert! Ammon and I just loved it... Well most of it...enough of it to want to go back next year and lets just say we well probably be going alone!

The next year they held the concert at the Delta Center...we were sitting in the noise bleed section but it was an amazing concert and we had a great time!

Well guess what time of year it is...Tickets start going on sale for Trans-Siberian Christmas Tour 2008!!! This is were it gets SO SAD...this year I had the option to sign up for the Trans Siberian Fan Club and I did just that! The biggest benefit of the Fan Club is you're able to buy your tickets before they go on sale to the public. So last Thursday at 10am I purchased 2 ticket 16th Row on the FLOOR! We are pretty much counting down the days till the concert! My mom said I better get some ear plugs for the baby!! :)When I married Ammon I knew he loved going to concerts but I didn't know that I would love going just as much!

Holy Cow Lizzy missed a lot!

2008-08-31T20:22:00.000-07:00

The end of June was our Jewkes Family Reunion. This year we had it up at the Heber Valley Camp. Everything was just wonderful! Thanks to everyone for all the hard work! Thank you Brenda for those wonderful history books!

In July we had our Ashby family reunion. Everyone was there except for my two brother in-laws. We do it every other year, and go backpacking every year. It was such a blast. The theme this year was: "The Incredibles". We went to Emmett Idaho and all stayed at my sisters home. We played "Incredible" games, went white water rafting in the Payette River, out to eat, waverunning at the lake, we even had a huge paintball war at the end. And of course we went backpacking and fishing for three days in the white cloud mountain range. It was great to have everyone together for a week.
The group that went on the backbacking trip!

We took 2 trips down the Payette River this is group #1!

Group #2 Nearly everyone fell out at least once on the rapids this time around. Even Erin at 7 months pregnant! This group was pretty entertaining. Lizzy and I were about to go down twice! We had so much fun!

My sister Brenda, and her family were even out from Maryland and stayed for 6 weeks. It was good to see them. We only get the chance to see them about twice a year at the most. We went to Hale Theatre, played games and as always had late discussions about fun stuff..like politics...which Lizzy hates.
We planned on getting sick when the reunion was over and sure enough Lizzy got pink eye and bronchitis..Atleast she was kind of expecting it this time right?
For the 4th of July we went to the Stadium of Fire and saw Glenn Beck, the Blue Man Group, and Miley Cirus.. that was a wierd treat. The fireworks were amazing but it was weird watching 40 year old moms with their daughters going crazy over a 15 year old girl. I was squashed by two ten year olds, and I am a pretty big guy!

In August it was our anniversary among many others including my parents. Lizzy's little sister got married and my older sister got married. Oh ya.. and we found out we are going to have a baby! -So I guess we won't be backpacking much for the next 9 months. We are sure excited! I hope its a boy. But judging by the number of girls in both our families we are thinking most likely a girl...either way we will be happy.
Its going to be pretty busy around here for a while.. I started school again too. I left out a lot of detail but that about sums it all up.

New Ashby....

2008-08-29T11:04:00.001-07:00

Estimated Completion Date: March 26, 2009

Happy Anniverary!

2008-08-23T15:04:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday, August 20th Ammon and I celebrated 4 years together! I can't believe it has been 4 years...where did the time go! I feel so blessed to have Ammon in my life! He helps me in every way and I love him so much!

This is Ammon, not Lizzy!

2008-06-22T20:49:00.000-07:00

Dont worry. She will be back. I am not a convert blogger. This is her thing. However, I do want to remember some of the things we are doing from my own point of view.. Not that Lizzy does a bad job..
A couple of weeks ago we had a lesson in sunday school about personal history. I have never kept a journal, not even on my mission. So I suppose Lizzys efforts to keep this thing going aren't so bad. Or maybe its justification??
Well, we did make it to the Grandaddy Lakes this weekend. Just the two of us as usual. It was so fun for me. This was one of the very first backpacking trips I ever went on. It brings back memories every time I go up there. Me and my Dad and my brother went up there a long time ago. We had quite the experience. We were the only ones on the mountain because it was in May. We left the van keys at the lake so we had to hike down the road and camp while my Dad ran down the next morning to the nearest camp for help. Back then it seemed like torture, but today I love those experiences. I hope I get the chance to have ones like those with my kids someday. But for now its the two of us.
We left after work on friday and got there about 6pm.. well, as far as we could drive. Because of all the snow we got this year the road was still blocked about a half mile from the trailhead.
We were one of three trucks parked there.. Probably the first packers of the season, which is good cause no crowds. We took off and moved pretty quick. Its only 5 miles in but there was so many swamps and snow patches it took us a while to find a spot by the lake.
But we finally did find a spot that was just dry enough for our little tent to fit in. We were soaked so we set up camp, ate, did a little reading and hit the pads. It was beautifull the next day. Except for Lizzys hair!!
We passed groups hiking out and in.. The group hiking out was the same that blazed the trail for us in the snow. They had been in there for a few days, they were from Colorado and were visiting there daughter who was in college here in utah. Its fun to meet people on the trail like that.

Things are going good for Lizzy and I. We Like Spanish Fork, have good little jobs, have great friends and family, and we are staying plenty busy with callings and everything else.. Life is good.
And I like western family string cheese, its probably the best string cheese out there.

A Friday Night Adventure...

2008-06-18T09:06:00.000-07:00

So last friday Ammon and I decided we wanted to go up to Granddaddy lakes in the Uintas for a overnight backpacking trip. We planned to be packed and ready to go by 4pm. Well, that didn't happen we ended up leaving around 6:30pm. So we thought to cut out the Friday evening traffic through Utah Country and head up highway 6 and go over to Strawberry Resevoir. We followed the signs to Strawberry and about 19 miles up the road split, there wasn't any signs saying strawberry this way...so we went with our best judgement (and also the map) which we later found out was wrong. So Friday night we spend 4 1/2 hours driving on a small dirt road through Spanish Fork Canyon. So about 11:00 we finally found the city lights and the road lead us to Hobble Creek.

So from the story you can assume that we didn't make it to Granddaddy lakes. But I do have to say it was one beautiful evening. Ammon and I did find some quiet little camping spots for some future trips!

I'm Back...

2008-06-17T09:09:00.000-07:00

I do apologize about the delay in a new post...as with everyone’s lives things just get a little crazy at times. But here is a condensed version of what has been going on with our crazy life...

• We thought we were being so good and took care of our taxes early (Beginning of March). Well, the middle of May we still hadn’t seen anythings so I called the tax lady to see what the hold up was…well to make a long story short the tax lady forgot to submit our taxes. I know, I know I should have kept better tabs on things but life was crazy and I wasn’t organized. So I rushed around for a couple of days to try and take of that little matter.
• Summer time = side jobs for Ammon… so the last 2 weeks of May it was non-stop work for Ammon. The nightly routine would be he would get off about 6pm from regular work and then head on over to the side job. I would run something over for dinner and then not see him again until 11pm.
• May is the last month of school…so it is by far the busiest month at work (That and August when I get a whole new class). Trying to get the paper work ready for graduation and externships, things get a little crazy.
• I started my summer class the first part of June. In the summer time I just mostly have Medical Coding students trying to finish up.
• I had a major project due at work for the incentive program. This was due at the end of June. MATC added Dental Office Administration last year to my list of classes and I was in charge of creating the curriculum, so for the incentive program I had to pick something that would help our program. So I thought because we don’t have the funds to buy all the dental instruments I thought I would take pictures of each instrument and organize them into the different procedures, oh and let me just add I had to make 3 sets because we have more than one campus. So that is a little history of what the project was. So I just finished that up last week and I finally feel like I have time to breath again.
• I had a little accident in the parking lot of Macey’s. I was backing out at the same time this massive truck was pulling out. Well, his massive hitch on the back of the truck is what got me. I think Ammon was more upset that I got hit by a guy that worked for Triple T (another HVAC company) then the actual dent in the car;)
• I had a dental office call me to see if I could help them out for a couple weeks while they were in the process of hiring someone. So after I taught in the morning I would head over to the office for the afternoon. That just ended last week!
• I have had to make a couple trips to salt lake for the doctor. So that pretty much takes up a whole day.

Well, I am thinking life is somewhat back to normal pace. We have a couple reunions planned, a couple wedding in August, a few backpacking trips planned, and a couple more side jobs schedule for Ammon. So that will pretty much finish off the summer just in time for school to start.

Life just got a little BUSY....

2008-04-30T11:28:00.000-07:00

While we were in Maryland a couple week ago Ammon was sustained as the Young Men's President. We had known for a few weeks,but didn't know exactly when it would all take place. Well, on Sunday, April 20th it was official. I think Ammon is still in shock!

Also, I know Ammon will think this is so silly but I just had to post this because I am so proud of him...so this week Ammon had his 3 month appointment with his diabete doctor and for the year or so we have been working on trying to his A1C down below 7. I know this probably doesn't make any sense, but is has to do with is what his blood levels are on an average in a 3 month period. So anyways he went in and had the blood test done. The doctor comes into the room and announces that his A1C is 6.8 I was just so excited I felt like jumping up and down with excitement.

Also, for another happy note...Ammon has declared Construction Management for his major. This has been one of the hardest decisions for Ammon. We are trying to get him into BYU for maybe winter semester...but we will see how that all turns out!!

Pictures from our trip to Maryland!

2008-04-27T19:34:00.000-07:00

A Trip to the Whipples...

2008-04-27T17:33:00.000-07:00

Last week was spring break for my work so we decided to pack our bags and head on out to Maryland to visit the sweet Whipple family. When Ammon and I were flying home after our cruise Delta airlines asked if there was anyone willing to be bumped due to the fact they over booked so we figured well we have been waiting here in the same airport for 9 hours what is 3 more hours. So I rushed up to the counter to see what the details were...Well, in my option it was definitly worth waiting another 3 hours. They gave us meal vouchers and $800 dollars in Delta Credit. We had wanted to visit the Whipples this year but because of the price of flight we were having a hard time making that happen. I have come to the conclusion that Ammon and I really do luck out on some of our trips;)

Well, Thurday morning Ammon and I woke up bright and early (3am early) to be at the airport by 5am (you know the whole 2 hours early thing). And as usual we had plenty of time to walk around and do our Bagel tradition. We had a 3 hour layover in Atlanta, we enjoy some Chick-fil-a. Yummy!! We arrived in Baltimore about 5:45pm. What a long day! Thursday night we enjoyed so yummy taco salad and visited!

Friday was a beautiful day it was about 82 degrees. I am so glad I packed those shorts at the last minute. After they girls were off to school we headed off to Mount Vernon! I hadn't been back to Mount Vernon since our 8th grade trip. Boy how things have changed! Brian and Brenda waited in line for the tour to see Washington's house while Ammon and I went and saw the other highlights. Thanks Brian and Brenda! After the tour of the house we headed over to the cafe to get something to eat. And then off to the visiters center. That is were we saw George Washington's dentures.

Saturday was another beautiful day about 86 degrees. The girls were out of school (of course, its is Saturday) so we packed up the van and headed to Philadelphia to see the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. On our way to Philadelphia we held strong to the Whipple's Road Trip Tradition and we watch a Barbie Movie! When we went to Niagara Falls we watched "12 dancing princesses" and on this trip we saw "Barbie and Rapunzel". I really think these movies are starting to grow on me!! We had a great time we had a car picnic, toured Independence Hall and were able to see the Liberty Bell.

Sunday the weather turned rainy. It rained all day. We stayed inside and took naps, played games, and chatted! At church Shaylee was so sweet and gave Ammon and I this cute picture. Ammon and I have decided to start a book of all the cute pictures our neices and nephews draw for us. It is always the highlight of our day when we see a cute letter in the mail or when they surprise us with one when we come and visit!

Thanks again Shaylee we love the drawing and its hanging up in our kitchen!!

Monday was the day we flew home...so sad...the time always flies by so fast. We didn't have a lot of time. Ammon was reading Fablehaven on the way out and finished the book so we needed to find the second book. So we did a little shopping and had lunch at the Mall. We were hoping to find a Baltimore shirt at the airport but we had no luck. We will just have to leave that for our next trip.

Thank you Whipples for letting us come and visit! We love you and can't wait to see you in July. We miss you!

Babysitting, MS walk and Eggroll night...

2008-04-14T16:35:00.000-07:00

So Ammon and I had a very eventful weekend...Friday night Erin and Travis brought Canyon and Kayli over to spend the night while they went to dinner and to a bed and breakfast for their anniverary! Happy Anniverary Erin and Travis! Meanwhile back at the house we decided to have pizza party, we laid out a blanket in front of the tv and watch "The Bee Movie" and had hawaiian pizza. After the movie it was bedtime.

During story time Kayli went over and laid by Canyon, it was so sweet so I had to take this picture...(Erin your copy is in the mail)

Saturday we had the MS walk down in Salt Lake so we packed up the kids bright and early and headed down to the walk. The kids were so great...no problems whatsoever! The walk started at 10am and was a three mile walk. Canyon used his scooter for most of the way and Kayli walked off and on throughout the walk. Dawn, Ray and our good friends the Wildes joined us for the walk...Thank you for all of your support! After the walk we meet up with Erin and Travis and we all went to lunch at Applebees.

Ammon and I rushed home for our eggroll night with our friends which turned our great! I was running alittle late so I didn't get the kitchen cleaned up after the prep work so I apoligize to you all for having to see such a messy kitchen!!!

Just a funny story...

2008-04-11T13:00:00.000-07:00

So, the other day Ammon was reading his bosses blog and noticed a post about their new secretary and how great she was and all of this stuff... so Ammon went to work the next day and gave Chris a hard time about not mentioning him on their blog...totally kidding of course;) So the next time we logged on to see their blog this is what we saw....

Employee of the Month...

...beside Emily (our new secretary). This is Chris with his favorite employee Ammon Ashby while they were on their cruise together in the Carribbean...ha,ha... I do love photoshop. This is our tribute to him and all of the hardwork he does for us. Thanks so much Ammon!

Let the Lessons Begin...

2008-04-05T19:46:00.000-07:00

Well, we did it! Ammon and I started violin lessons! We found this lady in town that does it out of her home, so for a half hour once a week we are exercising our minds. We played together in Jr. High and when High School started we thought it wasn't cool to play the violin so we both stopped. Boy how the times have changed! 16 years later we are finally coming to our senses that music is an important thing to have in our lives!

What a week...

2008-03-31T20:21:00.000-07:00

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...

2008-03-27T12:41:00.000-07:00

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...

2008-03-24T18:55:00.000-07:00

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...

2008-03-04T10:58:00.000-08:00

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…

2008-03-02T20:49:00.000-08:00

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!!

I've been tagged...

2008-02-07T12:48:00.000-08:00

So I have been tagged a couple times and just haven't gotten around to doing it (sorry Chelsea). So here goes! I will now tag Brenda, Allison and Laurie

What time did you get up this morning?

Well, that is a funny question, I set my alarm for 5:45 and I don't actually roll out of bed until 6:35 exact! It drives Ammon crazy!!

Diamonds or pearls?

I was alway a big pearl fan until I got my wedding ring and I just love how the diamonds sparkle. So diamonds

What was the last film you saw at the cinema?

Bucket List - Very Good Movie!

What is your favorite TV show?

The Office and Lost

What do you usually have for breakfast?

Cottage cheese and peaches

What is your middle name?

Well I don't have one! I asked my parents why they didn't give me a middle name and they said it was because Elizabeth was to long!

What food do you dislike?

I really do like most foods- I will tell you the resturant that I Dislike and that is CHUCK-A-RAMA!!

What is your favorite CD at the moment? I am still thinking about that one!

What kind of car do you drive?

Toyota Camery and on the weekends Nissan Frontier

Favorite Sandwich

Burning Bridge from Gandolfo's

Favorite item of clothing?

OH definitely SHOES, definitely!!

If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go?

Ammon and I have always wanted to hike to Everest Base Camp. Just base camp! We're not that crazy!

Favorite Brand of clothing

I love Banana Republic but at the moment I am not loving their winter/spring line. So I am going to have to say Boden, its a new clothing company my sister referred me and I am really liking them right now.

Where would you retire to?

Maybe Oregon

What is your most recent memorable birthday?

Last year Ammon took me shopping and the Red Robin

Favorite sport to watch

Definitely Tennis

When is your birthday?

September 20th

Are you a morning person or a night person?

I always wanted to be a night person but once 9:00 rolls around I am usually done for the day! I know its sad. So I am going with morning!

What is your shoe size?

Pets?

Don't have one, if we had a bigger yard we would probably get a dog. One that we could take backpacking. That is Ammon dream to have a backpacking dog where the dog can carry their own food!

Any new and exciting news you'd like to share?

I'm pregnant!! Just kidding! Just kidding! Actually Ammon and I are going on a cruise on Sunday for a whole week!

What did you want to be when your were little?

I always wanted to be a Interior Designer - I didn't get far with that one!

How are you today?

Good, there is only one more day until the weekend. I am feeling like I am coming down with a little cold. Great right before the cruise!

What is your favorite candy?

I probably have the biggest sweet tooth and my dental chart will prove me right! I love Twizzler Nibs and Banana Laffy Taffy

What is your favorite flower?

Tulips

What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to?

May 23rd - Last day of classes

What are you listening to right now?

Co-workers talking about the parking situation at school.

What is the last thing you ate?

Potato Soup in a bread bowl

Do you wish on stars?

When I was younger!

If you were a crayon, what color would you be?

Brown - it compliments my complection!

How is the weather right now?

Snowing

Last person you spoke to on the phone.

Ammon- giving him directions to the doctors office

Favorite Soft Drink

Dr. Pepper - I know its bad!

Favorite Resturant

RED ROBIN -Red Robin Bacon Cheese Burger- Mmmmmm that sounds good!

Hair Color

Brown with blond highlights

What was your favorite toy as a child?

Barbies -

Summer or winter

Summer! I like winter just until end of December

Hugs or kisses

Both! I really enjoy hugging, Ammon can tell you how much I love to hug!

Chocolate or vanilla

Twist

When was the last time you cried?

President Hinkley's funeral

What is under your bed?

Thermarest and weight. I don't have alot of problems with under the bed.

What did you do last night!

Work on my birthday card for this year and played guitar hero

What are you a afraid of?

Breaking down on the side of the road

Salty or sweet

Salty I just love chips - they are my weakness

Favorite day of the week?

Wednesday- I know I am half way to the weekend

How many towns have you lived in?

Tooele, Utah+ Logan, Utah+ Richmond, Utah+ Provo, Utah +Spanish Fork, Utah = 5

Do you make friends easily?

No, this is a big weakness

A New Calling...

2008-01-17T15:05:00.000-08:00

So at tithing settlement the bishop asked what they had me doing and I said I was on the enrichment committee. I loved it I would get stressed out once every 4 month and then have time to relax. Well not anymore...Last saturday I was called into the primary yes the primary... by myself...no Ammon...I have never done primary... and as you can tell I am a little nervous. So I was called on Saturday and I thought I would have one more week to enjoy Sunday School and Relief Society. But I thought wrong they needed a sub so they asked me if I could start right away. Luckly church doesn't start until 11am so I had a little time to prepare. I am starting to really warming up to the idea and I am excited for this new opportunity...this will be good for me... I am teaching the CTR 5 class and my first week they were all so cute, they warmed right up to me and I learned alot on how to prepare for my next lesson. This will definitly be a different pace for me going from teaching teenages all day 5 days a week to teaching 4-5 year old on Sunday. I am already thinking of fun things to add to my project list.

2007 Review...

2008-01-14T19:40:00.001-08:00

Well, I started blogging just last month so I thought I might share all the exciting things that took place in 2007. (I am sorry for alot of you this is probably review, I give you permission to skip this blog entry!!!)

March: The Search for new doctors...Well I am sure you are all aware of Ammon's fear of the dentist. And who can blame him after all the trama he has been through. So with my connections at work I started searching around for a new dentist. We found a awesome dentist in Springville that does amazing work. We have been so pleased with the practice. So we have completed our search for a great dentist. Ammon of course didn't have any cavities this year. But me on the other hand had many. But I can explain...So I had 8 amalgam fillings (The Silver ones) and they all were beginning to crack and bacteria was seeping though so I had to have them all refilled. Something good did come out of this I do not have anymore silver filling in my mouth. Another big event that happened in March was I found a new Neurologist here in the Provo area and we have been so pleased with him. He took me off the Medication that was causing so many problems and decided to just monitor me. I go in every 6 months for a check up and every year for a MRI. We have been so excited about our two new finds.

May: Havasupai...This adventure actually started in January...this place get booked up so fast that we had to reserve in January. So we had some time to prepare. We invited my family (it was Breannes and Jennifers first time backpacking and next time I will have them start with something a little lighter) and we also invited Ammon's good friend from work and his wife. The morning we left we got a late start and we ended up hiking in the 100 degree weather with no trees for shade. I think we were all struggling pretty bad. But seeing the waterfalls made the hike worth it. I told Ammon this was definitely a once in a lifetime hike. But I am starting to warm up to the idea of maybe one day I'll go back down. I do have to admit that we had the option to fly our packs out on a helicopter for $25 and I jump on that pretty fast. I think we were the first one in line that morning. It was the best $25 dollar I have ever spent!! All in all it was a great trip.

June: We bought our first home (Townhome). We are so excited to be in Spanish Fork. We have really enjoyed the quietness and the windows... We had loved our time in our little basement apartment and we loved living below Uncle Ray we are so grateful for him and all that he did for us. We sure do miss him. Luckly we still get a little bit a mail so we try and run up every so often. Here are a couple pictures of the townhome. It is a 3 bedroom 2 bath. It has been just perfect for us. I can lay out all of my crafts and not worry that they are getting in Ammons way. And the most important thing is...IT HAS WINDOWS I get so excited to open up the blinds every morning!! I took a couple pictures of the outside if you want to see the inside you will just have to come and visit!!

July: Oregon and Family Reunion in Idaho... My family is trying to get together each summer and do a family vacation. So this year we decided to go to Oregon and stay in a beach house and just tour along the coast. We had a great time... we would just tour the many sites during the day and have dinner and in the evening go down to the beach were my dad would go metal detecting and we would walk up and down the beach watching for seals to pop their heads out of the water. We had such a nice and relaxing time.

Ammon and I left a day earlier because we wanted to see Mt. St. Helens. So instead of taking oh maybe 4 hours tops it took us 8 hours we kind of went the wrong way but we got there just in time to see the mount before the sun went down. That night we stayed at my Aunt Barbara's house she had just gotten done with were series of treatment of Kemo Therapy a few weeks earlier. It was nice to be in her home and spend some time with her.

On to our next journey... from Oregon we were heading right to the Ashby family reunion in Idaho. We stayed is a lovely cabin near Cascade Lake (I think that was the name!??) We had a great time! This year Angie and Gary were in charge and they did an amazing job organizing and coming up with great games. They had made the theme of the reunion a "What about Bob" Reunion... they had different games that went along with the movie.

After a couple day at the lake it was time to get ready for our annual backpacking trip. This year Rodney was in charge of picking the desination. He had picked Seven devils in the Hells Canyon region. We started hiking around 5pm and we had to go about 6 miles so we were hiking well into the night. We had a great time together and can't wait for our next adventure together!

Well as you can tell our summer was pretty eventful...Our fall isn't that exciting I started with a new class full of students I was really excited this year I double my number of students plus they added a new program Dental Office Administration so most of the summer I was creating a new program. Ammon started school in August he started going in the evening and it has been working out nicely.

December: Graduations... We had a busy month with graduations, my sister Bridget graduated from Utah State with a double Masters so that was really neat to go up and see her go through the cerimony. Rodney graduated a week later and we missed the graduation because of the big snow storm that moved in the night we were suppose to leave.

We are excited to start a new year with new goals. We have many fun adventures planned for the upcoming year and we are excited to share them with you!

The Introduction!!

2007-12-07T10:02:00.000-08:00

I know you have long been awaiting to see me actually write something on our blog, so after much pondering here is what I came up with!!

An Intro to our family....

Ammon: Ammon is 26 years old is is the youngest of 6 kids. He works at a heating and air conditioning company that is based out of Orem. He is over all of the new construction. He is also attending UVSC in the evening. He loves to backpack, fly fish, snowshoeing, visiting family and being an Uncle of 15+ cute kids! Ammon has just found the new sport of paintballing he plays with a group of guys from work almost every Saturday morning. I have decided that he is very dedicated to this sport to sacrifice his only day to sleep in. Ammon works hard at everything is does.

Liz: I am also 26 years old and I am the 3rd of 4 girls. I work at Technical College in Spanish Fork. I teach 3 different classes in one classroom Medical Front Office, Dental Front Office and Medical Billing and Coding. I can't really lecture to the whole group because to many different thing are going on at the same time so what I do are mini lecture throughout the week. I love my job and feel very blessed to be able to work in a great enviroment with great people. Some of my hobbies are Sewing, Embroidery, cooking, snowshoeing and backpacking with the fam. Oh and I should add I love to shop!!

Our story.... Ammon and I graduated from High school in 2000. We would go snowshoes every so often and I asked him to Sadie Hawkins our senior year. We went bungie jumping for the first time and then we ate at the Mayan (at this time it had just opened so it was a hug deal to be able to go). We double with my best friend Liz Hansen and her date Robbie Winn.We just laugh the whole time. After graduation we went our seperate ways I went up to Logan to attend Utah State University and Ammon continued to work and went on a mission to Washington DC South and later was transfered over to the Baltimore mission. About 3 years had gone by before we would meet up again. When Ammon got home he was under the impression that I was already married. (At the time he left for his mission I was almost engaged). Erin at the time was in my moms ward and had relayed the message to Ammon that I wasn't and to give me a call. He had called my home a few weeks after that and talked to my dad and my dad gave him my number up in Logan. What my dad didn't know was that the area code on my phone was 801 and not 435. Ammon tried and called and of course didn't get through a few more week went by and Ammon didn't have any luck getting a hold of me. Until one weekend I had gone home for something and my dad had mentioned that Ammon Ashby called so I tried to call him back and finally got a hold of each other. Our first date was on Valentines day we went up to middle canyon and went snowshoeing later that evening we decided to go to a movie with Ammon's friend Danny. We had first gone over to Ammon house and everyone was there (Rodney, Amy, Baily, Erin and Travis, and Canyon) it was Amy's Birthday so they were all playing games and eating treats. I remember having green ice cream slush. After that we were off to the movies "Miricle". From that point one we emailing each other, talking on the phone and driving back from Logan to Tooele and Provo to Tooele every weekend for the next 7 months. We were married in August 2004 in the Salt Lake Temple.