Ears!

Does anyone know how to fix my ears?? They've been so plugged up for 2 weeks now. I've been getting pretty good at lip reading but most of the time at work I just ask people to email me because I can't hear what they're saying to me! Of course when I made an appointment to see my Dr. I couldn't get in until next Friday!!

On the bright side, I opened a facebook account this week and got in touch with several good friends I haven't talked to in years! The joys of technology!

3 things I'm thankful for

I got this idea from my sister Mindy's blog. I haven't updated in ages and I figured this would be a great way to start back up again. Here are 3 things I'm thankful for today:



1. Today in church the young women's choir sang a rest song between the speakers. Travis leaned over to me and asked if this was "the song and the prayer before Sacrament meeting is over." I told him about how we used to ask my mom that same question all through Sacrament meeting and he's never forgotten it. I was instantly grateful for a loving and caring mom growing up and for a sweet and hilarious husband I get to be with every day.



2. Last week we were borrowing my mother in law's car while Travis's car is in the shop...long story. Her car was stolen from our driveway a few days later...another long story! I'm grateful that 4 days later the police found it in perfect condition. Lots of prayers were answered that day!

3. Last night we had dinner with Trav's mom and sister and we had a long discussion about how to be prepared for "end of days" or any type of emergency situation. We all decided that it would be a good idea if we all had predetermined responsibilities so we could make sure everything was taken care of. I was instantly taken back to being 5 years old and having mom read me the story of the mother bunny who had so many bunny babies in the house. Each one had a specific job or responsibility. There were even bunnies whose job was to sing and dance to entertain all the other bunnies while they worked. Whenever the entire family was helping mom clean the house, set the table etc I would ask mom what my job was. She would always reply, "You're the bunny that sings and dances." It was a very simply statement and probably not anything she really thought would impact me that much. I was so grateful for that statement, not because I ended up making singing and dancing a big part of my life but because it taught me the lesson of helping everyone to feel valuable. Trav's family always likes to hear these kinds of stories about what it was like growing up in a family of 10 kids. Thanks mom!

Fun Weekend

Our Christmas gift to Mom and Kent this year was tickets to see "O" at the Bellagio here in Las Vegas. They came here this weekend to see the show and we went with them. We had a great time seeing the show. The only suggestion we have is to book your seats more than 5 days in advance. We got the last pick of seats and had a little bit of a limited view. We still loved the show.

Mom and I also went shopping on Saturday and almost bought matching dresses! They were a tiny bit too short or we may have done it. The picture is not great because it was taken on my camera phone.

What a great weekend!

Fat guy in a little coat

Last month we took some pictures of our dogs dressed in Trav's clothes. I was rolling on the floor laughing so hard at these!

Christmas Present

Recently I've been talking a lot about how I want to start dancing again and how I eventually want to be a dance team instructor. Last week Travis told me that he needed to put in a wood floor at a client's house for an exercise room. He had me help him pick out the wood to use because he said he needed a "woman's advice." I picked out the floor that I would have liked and thought nothing of it. Then I left to go to Utah for Pat's funeral and Trav had to stay and work until Christmas Eve day. He kept calling me and telling me that this client was really demanding and since it was Christmas time, all his union employees would have to be paid over time so he was having to do a lot of the work himself. Again, I thought nothing of it and was just anxious to have him home with me for Christmas. On Christmas morning he told me had a present for me and that it was nothing big. It was an envelope with a card and these pictures.

This is the spare bedroom in our house! There was no client at all. He was putting in a wood floor to build me a dance studio! He'll be putting in mirrors soon too! He's such a sweet man and I'm so lucky to have him!

Mele kalikimaka!

While Las Vegas had it's biggest snow storm in over 30 years I was in sunny Hawaii this week! I was a little sad that I missed the only snow storm of a lifetime basically but I quickly forgot my woes as I sunk my toes into the warm sand in Maui! Our friends in Vegas kept texting us pictures of the snow and we kept texting right back with pics like these!

I'm mad at myself for not taking more pictures. I was too busy relaxing!

We had a great time. Thanks Renee for such a great Christmas gift!

Week of Giving

I realize I haven't posted in a while but I do have a good reason! This week was our "Week of Giving" at work and every day I had an event to manage. The biggest project was our Adopt a Family program. We adopted 17 families, all employees in need. We had an event on Wednesday where we wrapped the gifts and also painted toys for Happy Factory Toys. Yesterday we had a Holiday Party for all employees. I was there from 7am to 10pm last night! Then this morning (SATURDAY!!!) I was back at work at 8am to deliver all the gifts for Adopt a Family. Most families came to our parking garage to pick up the gifts. Others needed the gifts delivered to their homes so I had a volunteer dress as Santa to deliver the gifts. It was a very humbling experience to see all the families in tears as we loaded boxes and boxes of gifts for their families. One family didn't have beds for their kids to sleep on so we had RC Willey deliver bunk beds. Once they found out about what we were doing, they volunteered to deliver and set up the beds for free. It was a great experience!

This is me with my hot chocolate cuddling up to the curtains. The wind picked up and it

got very cold!