Lazy sunday....

This was me by Friday afternoon...

This is me now...

yeah. It was one of those weeks. I can't say that I'm not grateful to have the opportunity to be in school and blessed to have a job but my goodness this is difficult. I have worked and gone to school at the same time before, but now we're talking graduate school and my job with the school district in which NEITHER CAN BE TAKEN LIGHTLY. Luckily I have an amazing husband who is the best support any girl could EVER ask for. I don't know what I would do without him. Oh wait I do know, I would cry, crawl into a whole and die. I've worked everyday this week and gone to school everyday except for monday and by next week they are going to throw clinic into my schedule somewhere. I'd like to see how I'm going to pull off this lovely task. eh. it'll have to work. I have to admit though, I am taking some pretty rockin' classes. I'm taking Advanced research design(ok, this one not so rockin'. Who doesn't shudder at the very thought of the word research?), Developmental language delays in infants & adolescence, Articulation & Phonology and Autism Spectrum disorders(the cream of the crop!). So I am pretty psyched about all of the cool stuff I'm going to be learning it's just finding that balance between work and school that's going to be a little interesting.

lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer...

HAPPY AUGUST!!!!

I have a lot of stuff to post. We've had quite a busy august, but it's been really fun! The festivities began on the very first day of August with my dear mother's birthday:) Here are a couple pictures or my mom and her girls! don't ask me why we're hugging eachother like that...it just happened. We had a BBQ with our whole family and my mom loved it. Happy Birthday mom!!!

We also got to celebrate my little brother Eldy's birthday. I can't believe he is already 16 and ready to be behind the wheel of a car! That truly scares me!

Lilly helping Eldy blowout his candles


Happy Birthday Little Bro!

I also got to go to my BFF's Bridal shower this weekend. It was in Ogden and although I couldn't stay the whole time, it was so much fun:) Her sisters did a fabulous job planning the party and made sure that she was decked out in all of her bridal gear.

and Finally to top off our summer we went camping to the Uintas! it was so much fun! We met up with Dave and Lucy's family, Paul and my little brothers and we had a blast!

Eldy, Jordan & Edward

The Princess Camilla Rose

Lucy cheesing it up for the camera

Paul....being Paul.

Matt being a "Man's Man" and crossing the freezing cold river to find wood for our fire!

Mill Mill and Kill Kill

Killer in his element

(Actually he just shivered the whole time and kept crawling back to the tent to snuggle in the sleeping bags lol!)

Killer and his BFF Mercedes(paul's dog)

Pic. from our hike

View from our campsite

phew what a long post! oh well I think I would really hate it if I didn't some how document all of our adventures!

-Peace

what a week(and it's only Tuesday)...

Yesterdsay my mom, brother, sister and matt and I went to Lagoon! It was quite fun however we spent much more time at Laguna Beach than on the rides which is really strange for us. The lines were super long though and I wasn't feeling too hot so I really didn't want to wait in any lines. We ended up riding the colussus(a must), the hydro luge and rattle snake rapids. Matt and I have made it a tradition to go on the sky coaster(and by the sky coaster I do mean the ride that pulls you up in a full body harness 143 ft. above the air and then sends you racing toward the ground at 80 mph), but unfortunately we weren't able to go this time, so the trip was kind of a bust. Oh well at least all we paid was half price thanks to my mom's discount passes:) we came home had FHE and that's when I started to feel miserable. My head and body started aching, my throat was killing me and I passed out on the couch. Today hasn't been much better the best thing is though, I was not looking forward to being with the puppy tonight while matt was gone at work because he gets really hyper and I have to take him out to the bathroom like every 45 minutes because he gets so much excercise, but he was great. I like to think he could sense I was not feeling well because for like 4 hours I was sick as a dog (throwing up, shivering) and he stayed right beside me the entire time and would just cuddle up right next to me everytime I came back form the bathroom. never moved. what a pal. I love our little killer. I'm just hoping I get over this soon because I have orientation at the U on friday, Saturday is my BFF's bridal shower and then after the shower we are going to meet up with matt's fam to go camping in the Uinta's which I'm super excited for. And that's not to menti0n all the things I have to do between now and friday, yikes.

update...

Lots to update about! As you know we got our little pupster killer and he is doing just dandy:) He is such a sweet and gentle little pup however he LOVES to chew things like crazy, mostly my fingers. We've been trying to break this habit but it's been a little hard, if anyone has any ideas let us know:) we've just been telling him NO! everytime he starts to mouth or bite our clothes, hair, fingers etc. and then give him a chew toy and he'll stop, but then he'll do it again later, so we'll see how that goes. Potty training has been fun! not. We thought we were doing good until an incident ocurred a couple nights ago that ended up with my right foot/ankle covered in dog crap. yeah don't ask. So we've decided to start the whole crate training idea. It's been two days and he has been doing awesome! one accident today but that was my fault, I wasn't paying attention like I should have. We also finished moving! We were looking for apartments for a while and were wanting to find something dirt cheap because Matt is going to start working extra hours and I'm going to be going back to school full time for my masters and we really want to save some money. Let's just state the obvious, everything that we were looking for in our "price range" was super ghetto. I'm not saying I want to have kids tomorrow but, if we were to get pregnant I wouldn't feel safe having a baby in the ghetto, especially when my husband works from 6pm-2am! So my parents offered for us to move into their basement. I was hesitant at first but after praying and talking to my parents about it Matt and I feel really good about it. My parents need help with tending my sister and it will be an awesome opportunity for us to save money for a down payment of a house. I juse finsished unpacking and decorating the living room and it is so cute! Much nicer than our old place and no bugs wahoo! My next venture is our bedroom, which I'm obviously putting off, but I suppose I should get to it. Hope everyone is having a great summer and enjoying the last little bit we have before life gets busy again:)

Introducing Killeeeeeerrrrrr!

our new pal Mr. "Lady killer" Crow is an 8 week old beagle! He is such a sweetheart and loves napping, it's pretty much all he does right now since he's just a puppy. He hates dog food and only wants to eat whatever Matt's eating. We won't give it to him of course so he's on a hunger strike right now jk. He's so cute and LOVES to snuggle all the time! We've had fun adding him to our familia:)






<3 you Killer!