The Good

I keep thinking I am going to have more time to blog, and I just can't seem to stay on top of it. I just finished 3 hours straight of homework, and I really should be crawling into bed right now, but I just wanted to blog.
I have to say there is so much good in life. I am so lucky to be married to the man I am. He takes such good care of me. From bringing me keys when I lock mine in my car, to shoveling the snow off the driveway for me, even making me do my homework that I am procrastinating, he is a fantastic husband and I can't help but be grateful I was blessed to marry such a wonderful man.
We have been blessed with so much. When I was stressing about paying the hospital and ambulance bills, we got a notice that said Scott's insurance (my secondary) covered the rest of the hospital bill. What a blessing in our lives. While the ambulance bill is still large, it was a relief to know that we had $340 less to pay. Also, another bill that I pay $144/mo on will be paid off in February, so that money can go toward the ambulance bill. What a blessing. We can't help but keep paying our tithing. We have been very blessed in our marriage to have the money every time an unexpected expense comes up, and I am grateful for that as well.
My job is great. The Christmas bonus this year was very generous. It has always been generous. Without my Christmas bonus, I don't know how we would pay for Christmas each year. It is so great to have that extra money and they give it to us in November so we can use it for Christmas. It is great company to work for, and just the other day my boss expressed he appreciation for me and told me he would like me to work there for years to come. I am not sure what the future holds, but it is awesome to work for a company that makes me feel so appreciated.
I am grateful to have the friends that I do have. I don't have very many close friends any more, but I do have a few work friends that help me through the days. I grateful for that. It is always nice to have someone there that can help me through the crazy days at work, and even listen to my personal issues. Heaven knows I have too many of those.
I am just very happy with my life and I know where the blessings have come from. I am grateful for that knowledge on top of everything else. I am so blessed to have the gospel so prevalent in my life. I am so grateful we have so many temples around us. It is a constant reminder to live the life I know I should be living.
I just can't say enough about everything I have been blessed with. I am so grateful for it all! There are many more blessings, but I feel like I have written enough and it is time for bed.

Baby Hungry

Pretty much since the day I turned 25, I started thinking I really need a baby. Sometime in the past couple of months, I really really really want a baby. I even wrote a paper in my English 150 class about whether or not children make you happy, which by the way pissed off a guy in my class becuase the whole essay was pro baby. I don't think the essay really helped. It did help me to remember why I don't have one yet though. Scott and I have discussed it at length and if I think with my head and not with my heart, we are just not ready. Not that anyone ever is ready, but we could definitely be more ready. We are too selfish right now. We don't want to give up time with each other to give to a baby. Not to mention the money.
My sister and I were talking the other night about Trace Adkin's song,"You're Gonna Miss This". I realized while we were talking about it that we think too much about the future and we don't really think about how much we might miss the phase we are in now. Once we have a baby, we can't come back to the time we have now. The time where it is just the two of us, and we could up and take a weekend trip after an especially trying week. We can just go to dinner without making it an entire ordeal. I know I will miss this later on in life. I just need to cherish the phase of my life I am in and quit thinking about the future. The future will come, and the changes along with it. What matters is that I am happy in the present.

Our Vacation

Scott and I had a vacation the week before our anniversary. Usually we try to get our anniversary week off, but since Scott has to bid on his vacation weeks, it just so happened our week was already gone. It was fine. We just celebrated a bit early. For our vacation, we didn't plan anything. It was great. Sunday we rode up Nebo loop and ended up in Nephi for a while. It was really cool to head up the loop and see all the fall colors. God is the greatest artist isn't He? Monday, we looked up some things around here to do that maybe we haven't ever done before or haven't had the time for in the past. We decided to go to This is the Place Heritage Village, but it was not really open during they day because they had the haunted village at night. That was rather disappointing, but the Hogle Zoo is right across the street and I had never been there, so we went there. It was a lot of fun. Scott and I can make most things fun anyway, but I actually really enjoyed looking at the animals. There were sooooo many baby animals. It was really cool.

Isn't that baby monkey the cutest? There were a bunch of baby tigers too.

The picture is not as good, but there are a couple of baby tigers with the mom in this picture. Baby animals are so cute. There were these kids there that kept calling all the babies "darling". What kid talks like that? Anyway, that night I had to back in time for class, so we headed back around 3.

Tuesday we went golfing I believe. We went up to some executive course in Salt Lake somewhere and I actually hit the ball pretty well. I was pleasantly surprised.

I have no idea what we did Wednesday... did we do anything? Maybe we ran errands or something? I might even had Wednesday and Tuesday mixed up. But I know we did something Tuesday because I decided to skip class. It has been too long sadly.

Thursday, we headed up to Midway to use a free night stay at the Zermatt resort from my work. Scott upgraded the room to the Honeymoon Suite for my anniversary gift. It was nice. We really like it. He also took me to dinner at Texas Roadhouse, well actually we used the $50 my work gave me along with the hotel stay (it was actually the Christmas present they gave all the ee's last year). We had a good time. It was cool to have the ice bucket filled for us, and have the beds turned down with chocolates on the pillows. Makes you feel special.

Friday, since we were right across the street from The Homestead, we played golf again. It was REALLY cold when we first started, but it got much warmer and Scott was prepared. We took warm clothes and Scott brought hand warmers. We bought hot chocolate and payed extra for a covered cart as well. We would have frozen with the cold wind in the uncovered cart. I actually played pretty well again. I wasn't putting well, but my drives were really good. Scott started making fun of me for playing boring golf and hitting it right down the middle over and over. It was a really good time. And it was pretty cheap, at least for The Homestead.

Friday afternoon we headed to the Park City outlets to do some Christmas shopping. We bought a couple of gifts, but we still have a lot to go. Scott bought me a new down coat, which I needed badly, as a Christmas present. I am so excited to have a coat that will be able to keep me warm i the freakin cold Utah winters...I guess that was the end of our vacation. Saturday we didn't do much more than buy groceries because I got a cold. Which I have to say only lasted a few days. I was really happy about that. I contribute it to downing Vitamin C like crazy and Zicam. Well there you go, or at least now I have a record of our vacation. It was a really nice vacation. I enjoyed not having the stress of travel involved with it.

I'm Back!

Sorry folks, I haven't blogged in over a month. I have just been crazy busy. I got tired of school, and then got really behind in school, and all my free time was used up trying to catch up on school stuff. I am finally back on track as far as school, and maybe now I can start blogging again. I know at least Scott has been disappointed that he couldn't read about our lives... so I am going to be recapping the past month with a few different posts. Feast or famine!

Scott's Gift

This is Scott's anniversary gift. It is a little early since our anniversary is not till the 26th, but I think I got a little over zealous wanting to make sure it got here in time, and it got here 12 days early. It came while I was at school yesterday and Scott started setting it up. There was no way of disgusing it. The box it shipped in had a picture of what it was, so unfortunately I didn't even get to give it to him. Oh well though. I think he likes it. It will keep our golf stuff a lot more organized. There is actually a specific place for it. Scott has like 4 sets of clubs, so there are still a few in the guest bedroom closet, but this will be really nice for the set he is using most often. It is readily available, but doesn't look like there are clubs just laying around.

I'm going to have an ad!

I signed a contract with Utah Valley Bride magazine today to put an add in their 2010 magazine. I don't know exactly what it is going to look like yet, but I am really excited about it. I was little nervous to do the add this year considering I will still be working full time and going to school when the add is run, but Scott convinced me the longer I put it off, the easier it is to put off. The great thing about advertising with them is the magazine is put out with a different cover for each season, so the add will run all year. And... I get to put a bouquet together for them to photograph and put in the flower section of the magazine. So I get more than just the add for my money. It is such a great deal and I know I will get an awesome return on investment. After I pay for the ad, I will try to get into a wedding show. I hope I'm ready for the business!

The Last Marathon

This weekend I finally got my opportunity to run the much anticipated St. George Marathon. After the three hours of sleep I got, I was surprisingly awake getting ready that morning. Unfortunately, I left my water and gatorade in the fridge in the hotel. Not sure if it was a contributing factor to later events, but I think it might have been. After the wonderful bus ride up to the top, I waited with my friend Colleen's husband for the race to start. It was really cold. It was kind of nice that they had a bunch of fires up there that most people who weren't standing in line for porta potties were huddled around.
For the first three miles of the race, I did really well. At least I was happy with how it was going. I was at 3 miles at 29 minutes. Next time I actually paid attention to my time was at mile 15. By then I was three hours into the race with no hope of finishing in the 4:30 I hoped for. Somewhere in the upper single digits, my chest started burning and it was really hard to breathe. I stopped and walked for a while. But every time I started running again, but chest burned more. This really upset me because I felt like I had trained really well, and I could continue running if it weren't for the burning. I figured I had caught the cold Scott had. Sad. I ended up walking most of the second half of the race, and finished in 5:56:45. So depressing. I felt awful. Towards the end of the race there were a couple of misting stations. Every time I went under one, I gasped and it hurt BAD.
After I finished the race, I sat down with Scott. I was tired. When I tried to get up, I got really dizzy and I had to sit back down. I can't really describe how I felt. I felt weak, nauseous, dizzy, and hot. Once I finally got enough energy to move, we started walking to the car, but because there was so many people, Scott had to park a little ways away. I couldn't even make it to the car. I laid down on the grass and Scott went to get the car. A couple of girls walked by and asked if I was ok, and offered me some ice cream. I took it (it was ice cream from the marathon, they weren't just weird people). The ice cream made me feel worse. Scott came and got me and I thought I was going to throw up twice before we got to the hotel, but thankfully, I didn't. I didn't that is, until we got to the hotel parking lot. I knew I couldn't make it to the room, so I sat down on the curb. Then began the vomiting. Over and over. I laid down on the curb with my head in the gutter, pleasant huh? I asked Scott to go get my gatorade, water and crackers from the room. He brought it down and everything I ate or drank, came right back up. It was awful.
After I was laid on the curb for 30 to 45 minutes, some lady came and asked if I was ok. I told her I was sick, and somehow she determined I was sicker than I said. She and her husband helped me inside (I threw up on the way). She got a bunch of towels and water and put them all over my body. I was little uncomfortable to have some random lady lifting up my shirt to put towel on my stomach, but I was feeling so awful, it didn't really matter. She said I was really hot. My body was burning up. It was so hot, I kept warming up the towels. She tried to get me to drink some water, but it kept coming right back up. Eventually she told me that she wasn't comfortable with how I was doing and asked the hotel to call an ambulance. They came out and gave me an IV and oxygen. Eventually they determined that I needed to go to the hospital to get completely checked out.
By the time I got to the hospital, I was feeling much better. Just getting water and oxygen into me really helped. At the hospital they gave me a breathing treatment for asthma, some zofran for the nausea and took some blood to test. I was there for a couple of hours and they determined I was ok to go. They discharged me with heat exhaustion and told me that I need to be super careful from now on because now that I have had heat exhaustion, it is easier for me to get it again. Heat exhaustion turns into heat stroke, and you can die from heat stroke. I was told I can never do a marathon again. Which was my plan already, but I was hoping to go out with a bang. Well, I did go out with a bang, but not the type I was hoping for. I was hoping to do better on this marathon than the other two I had done. Oh well I guess, I can't control what happens to me in life. I can still do half marathons. I am happy about that. Anyway, for anyone who is wondering, I am doing much better. I am still a little weak and I get tired if I do too much, but I am functioning, and I am feeling good. I am happy that nothing was worse than it was. Oh, and I am really excited to get the bill!