Proud Auntie

Jonah and I were able to go down to St George this past weekend for a very special occasion. My oldest niece Kayleeya got baptized. I am so incredibly proud of her for making this decision. She is such a bright girl and is so loving. The baptism was a little bit different than what I am used to. There were about 10 kids all getting baptized at the same time. I remember when it was just a personal thing. But it was still really good. She was baptized and confirmed by my dad. There was a lot of family there to support her. We had a little get together at my parents afterward and that was really fun to see everyone.
We were also able to go eat with one of my very good friends Bryce while we were down there. It's not fair though!! I hardly get two words in now that Jonah is in the picture. They talk way to much. Lol. It is so nice though that one of my best friends and my hubby get a long so well. So it was a very good weekend and as usual it was way to short. I hate that we are only down there for a few days at a time. That is why I am excited for Christmas. We will be able to be down there for almost a week!!!

Dilema

Wow it has been a while since I have posted anything. Sorry we are so boring. Well, I am trying to make a decision on what to do. I have been wanting to do a dental assisting class and get into that. But I have also be come interested in something else. I have been working out every day with Turbo Jam at home and have been loving it. I feel so good and I can feel that my body is starting to change. Well I found out that they have a training class to become an instructor for it so that you can teach the classes. I think that would be so much fun! But I want to do both so I am trying to do the whole pro's and con's thing. I will let you know how the process goes

The Lord's Blessings

So last night my eyes started to hurt really bad. I dont know what caused this flare up but I was in a lot of pain. I finally asked Jonah if he would give me a blessing. We tried calling our home teacher but he did not answer the phone. So, we went to our neighbors across the hall. His name is Curtis. He was home and said that he would be happy to come over and help. Jonah gave me a really good blessing. I am so grateful to have a husband who is able and worthy to give me a blessing whenever I ask for one. It means so much to me. I am also grateful for the wonderful neighbors we have. Craig was willing to drop what he was doing to come and help us out. They are really great neighbors and I am so thankful for them. Also, shortly after the blessing, our home teacher called back to check what we needed. That is another thing that I am grateful for. He is a great home teacher and is concerned about us. He is so willing to help out and he is faithful in coming to see us every month. The Lord has blessed us with some very special people in our lives. They have been so helpful and caring.

Mich's Wedding

I was able to go to my friends wedding reception a few weekends ago. I loved it. She has always been such a good friend to me and I was so glad that I got to see her and share her day with her. I was also able to meet up with a bunch of my old high school friends! I really miss them. They are really great people. They all hold a special place in my heart. I love this group picture. We have all changed so much. High school was a really great time for me. I know that most people dont say that, but I was lucky enough to share my high school experience with these great people ( plus some more ) and they are who helped make my experience so great. I love you guys!

Short Sweet and to the Point

So we had a good week for the most part. We had my mom and my aunt visit us. They came up for a teaching conference and stayed with us for a few days. I took them out to eat at the T- Bone! They loved it. Im glad I could share it with them. I also found out this past week that I have a cornea infection in both of my eyes. It is driving me nuts. I have a constant headache, my eyes burn and are scratchy and dry all the time. My vision is also really fuzzy. It hurts. I am on antibiotic drops. I went into the doctor today and he said that it was looking a little better but not much. So I have another appointment on Wednesday. I guess I will have one every other day until it goes away. We went for a hike on Sunday with our dogs. It was a lot of fun. After dropping 20 pounds I feel like I can do stuff again. I love it. Its amazing what 20 pounds lost can do for you. I feel like a whole new person. Hopefully the rest of the weight will come off. I am half way to where I want to be. Jonah had to work a lot of overtime last week. The digital switch has kept him pretty busy. That is a quick little update on us!

Good Music

This is some music that a friend from high school has done. I really like it! Check it out


Try this link to hear his songs! Copy and paste either one of them. Let me know what you think.

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=92109861324&h=6HsCL&u=xPVcC&ref=nf

OR

http://troubles.bandcamp.com/

Happy Birthday Jonah!

Well he is caught up to me for now. Jonah is now 22! We had a great day together. First off, Jonah took Tuesday and Wednesday off of work for his birthday. I took Wednesday off so that we could go play. We woke up and I made him breakfast and gave him a birthday card. Shortly after that, we headed up to Salt Lake to go to the Hogle Zoo! It was really fun. I have not been to the Zoo for a very long time. It did rain on us though! So we got pretty wet, but it was still fun. We spent a few hours up there and then headed back home. Later that night, we went out to eat at Red Lobster with a group of our friends. It was so good to have them there with us. We had a lot of fun. After dinner we went to his parents house to have CAKE! I got him a cake from Dairy Queen. Everyone loved it! So thank you to everyone who helped make Jonah's birthday a great one! I am so grateful to have Jonah. He is a great blessing in my life. This was his first birthday since we have been married! He was pretty excited about that for some reason. But we had a lot of fun spending the day together. Enjoy the pictures. Remember....it was raining!

Family Fun

We did have a great day. It was so nice to have a day off together where we could go do something. The only day we have off together is Sunday. So this was a real treat. First off, we went up Provo Canyon and went on a hike! Man I am not used to hikes. But it was so fun. The trail ends in this meadow in the middle of the mountains. It was so pretty. And of course we took the dogs with us. They had a blast running around in the meadow. It was Koda's first time on a hike and he really liked it. We defiantly wore them out. We went back home when we were done to drop the dogs off. They crashed and went to sleep. Then we went around looking at furniture stores, just for fun. We also got ourselves some presents! We got a video camera and a small point and shoot camera! We have been getting so tired of lugging our big SLR camera where ever we go. So we got a small camera that we can take and put in our pockets. So we spoiled ourselves, but we deserved it. lol.

Also, we had the privilege of having my parents come and stay the night with us this past week. They had dentist appointments in Tooele so they came a day early and hung out with us. We gave them a little tour of our neighborhood. My mom especially liked all the animals we have down the street from us. We went out to dinner with them and had a great time. My mom and aunt will be coming up in June to visit so I am very excited about that.

Also, Jonah and I were called to be in the Nursery! Sunday was our first day. This will be an interesting calling. Jonah is excited about it. He wanted a calling where he could work with the kids. It seems that they always put the couples with no kids in the Nursery. It's like they are trying to make us not want to have kids. Lol. Im'm just kidding. I am excited for this calling and I hope that we can do it well.
I think that is all that is new with us for now. Our next event we are looking forward to is Jonah's birthday!( If you have any ideas let me know.)

On A Happier Note...

I just wanted to tell you about the good part of my weekend. On Saturday, I drove down to Cedar City to meet up with my sister. We were planning a surprise visit for my mom for Mother's Day. My dad was helping keep my mom occupied until he was supposed to bring her to our meeting spot. My mom can be so difficult sometimes. She asks way to many questions. My poor dad did a really good job at not giving anything away though. So anyway, what we did was we bought some pizzas and went to the splash pad up by my parents house. It was me, TaMerra and Darcee. And of course all their kids. Justyn and his family could not be there sad to say. So anyways, we surprised my mom with lunch and presents, and of course US!!! It was so nice to go down for the day to be able to spend some time with my mom for Mother's Day. We all had a lot of fun. After we were done there, TaMerra and I went back to my parents and played a few card games with them until it was time to leave. Although the trip was very tiering, it was well worth it to be able to see my family. I have the best family ever. And I have the best parents in the world. I love my mom with all my heart and miss her all the time. She is the best mom anyone could ever ask for. Thank you mom for everything. I love you!

Here is something different MOM!!!!

So last night was an interesting night.We hit a deer on our way home! It popped up out of no where. Neither of us was hurt. I was freaking out a lot but we are both ok. Now my car on the other hand is not. The deer hit on the passenger side and bashed in our fender, broke our side mirror, shattered our windshield, took off one of our wipers and dented and scratched the hood. I hope this is a big enough change for you mom. At least this blog is not about my dogs. Lol Enjoy the pictures

I have nothing to say.

So I noticed I have not written anything for awhile. That just makes me realize how lame we are. We don't do anything worth writing about. Lol. But here are a few things that we have been up to.
Last Saturday, Jonah did a volunteer project with his work. It was a Comcast Cares Day. They went to a school down in Payson and helped clean the inside and outside. He said that he had a lot of fun. And they got done just in time! It started to rain. We have also seen a very good movie recently. Wolverine. It was really good. And we have discovered something. The Spanish Fork theater is much less crowded than the Provo Towne. We saw it on opening night and the theater was about half full.So I think that we will be going there from now on.
I have four days left on my diet. I have lost 15 pounds so far. We will see what the end results are. It has defiantly been a struggle but it has been worth it.
My mom has been bugging me to put some more pictures of us on here. Once we do something that is worth taking pictures of I will. lol. Unless you want to see pictures of us laying on the couch or going for a walk. That is pretty much all we do. But I will hopefully get some up soon.
My parents will be coming up for a visit in a couple weeks! I am super excited for that! It will be nice to have them around for a couple days.
OHH!!! We did have some excitement on Sunday! The people that used to live in our condo moved to the bottom floor, right underneath us. Well I guess someone there stopped breathing or something. We had ambulances and police cars all up and down the street. It was pretty intense to watch.
And can I just say something. I hate it when pregnant women SMOKE! A lady in the same condo that had the incident is pregnant and she is out on her porch smoking about 4 times a day at least. It makes me sick. That poor kid does not even have a chance. People can be so stupid sometimes

HE'S HERE!

Colten Gregory Higgins is finally here! He was born Sunday April 26, 2009. He was 7lbs 4oz. He was born around 2:30pm I believe. TaMerra knows for sure so sorry if I am getting any of this wrong. I am so excited to see him! I hope that I will be able to get down there soon. So that evens up the numbers of nieces and nephews on my side of the family. We now have four of each. I guess we will have to see if TaMerra is going to have another kid. If not I guess mine will be the next in line. I believe everyone else is done having kids.
The weather here is getting to be a little nuts. It snowed again on Sunday. So much for having a Spring.
My diet is going well. It is starting to get a little easier, even though Jonah is always tempting me with sweets. According to my scale I have lost almost 12 pounds. But I will find out tomorrow for sure what the real number is. I am very excited.
I was able to go visiting teaching yesterday and it was a lot of fun. I have a great companion who is very nice and giving. She is a wonderful lady. The ladies that I teach are very sweet as well and I am very excited to get to know them.
Jonah did a volunteer thing with his work. It was called Comcast Cares. They went to a school in Payson and helped clean it up, inside and out. He said that he had a lot of fun. And the good thing is, is they got done right before it started to rain. Lol. But he had a lot of fun volunteering and helping out.
So that is a little update from us. Sorry we don't have more going on. We can be pretty lame :)

Home on The Range

So this past weekend I was able to go to St George and participate in the fun family activities. I was able to spend Easter with my extended family, which was a real treat. I was so grateful that I was able to spend time with them. The only thing that would have made it better is if Jonah would have been able to come with me. Unfortunately he had to stay home and work. But he was nice enough to let me go and see my family. He is way to good to me. But I had an awesome time with all my family and I am grateful for all that they do for me. I love them all more than I may let them know. I also brought Koda down with me so that Jonah would not have to deal with both of them while I was gone. Koda stayed at my sisters house. They also have a puppy that Koda got to play with. I think that they had a lot of fun together....and got into some trouble as well. They chewed up a dirty diaper that my sister had left on the floor, and they dug the the dirt out of her plants. Man they were asking for it. Its a good thing that Jason is patient with them, otherwise my sister may have lost it. :) But they had a lot of fun playing with our puppy, but I do think that he is glad to be home. The vacation took a lot out of him. He has been sleeping ALOT. I came home from St George on Sunday and was able to spend Sunday night with Jonah. We didnt do anything for Easter but it was nice to be able to come home to him and spend time with him.

~Puppy Love~

So since we have no kids yet, you get to hear stories about our dogs. Aren't you lucky. Koda and Reign are getting along just fine. It is nice to see that they are not biting each others heads off. We try to keep them separated when we are not home so that they don't bond to much to each other rather than us.

Koda is growing so fast! We have only had him for 2 1/2 weeks and he is grown so much in that time. Soon he will be bigger than Reign. Hopefully we will have him trained before he gets big enough to eat us. Lol.

Koda seems to have a problem with barking. We have been blessed to have a dog that does not bark at all. Koda does not bark to much but it is more than we would like. lol. Most people would say that he is very good at not barking for a puppy, but hopefully we can get him to where he doesn't do it at all.

We have been having a blast spending time with our puppies though. We are very happy with our little family. People always ask us if we have kids yet, We say "no, but we have two dogs." They reply saying, " well that is close enough." Lol.
As for me and Jonah, we have been a little under the weather lately. Jonah took the past two days off of work, hoping that it would help him recover quicker. But he has yet to start feeling better. I started feeling sick a few days after he did. So we are just two sick kids who stay home all night and watch movies in bed. Sorry that we are so boring and have nothing new to report.....OH WAIT!!!! We finally got our taxes done!!!! YAY. We went to H&R block and had them do it. I loved it. I hated trying to do my taxes myself, or try to have someone explain it to me how to do it. Its much less of a headache to have someone who knows what they are doing do it for you. Especially this year since we had all the stuff for Jonah's real estate, the tax credit for 1st time home buyers, and our condo.
I also will be going to Cedar City on Saturday to give my sister a baby shower. I hope that everything goes ok. Im not the best party planner so if your coming, don't expect much......Til Next Time!!

BATH TIME!

So here is Koda taking a bath! Since the potty training is still underway, he spends a lot of time in the bath. Its hard to believe he is as skinny as he is. When he is dry he looks like a big poof ball, but once you get him wet he shrinks down to nothing.

Mis Hap

So we had our first real messy mis hap the other day. We are trying to potty train Koda. We have a big crate but we wanted a smaller one so that if he went to the bathroom in it he would not be able to get away from it. So we borrowed a smaller crate from someone. Well.....that did not work so well. We left Koda in the cage while we went to work and we put Reign on the balcony. Jonah went home on his lunch break to check on the puppy and was hit with a wall of stench! He went to get Koda out of his cage and saw that Koda, along with his cage, was covered in dog poop!!! Jonah took him straight to the bathroom to give him a bath. So we are not going to use the small cage from now on. He will just have to learn that he goes outside. I dont have a problem if he pees in the cage. That doesn't smell as bad as when he poops. But we will see how this potty training goes. The good news is, is we think that Koda is starting to warn up to us a little bit. We took him outside with Reign and he started to play around with us a little bit. But he still has some things to get used to. He still would rather huddle in a corner than come be with us. But we are working on it. Slowly but surely.

New Addition!! Welcome Koda!

I would like to introduce you to the newest member of our family. This is Koda. We picked him up yesterday. He is 11 weeks old and is so cute! He is scared to death right now. He is really nervous. I can understand that cause we just took him from his family so he must be going through a lot. He is a Great Pyrenees. Sorry the pictures are off my phone. I took them on the car ride home. Hopefully I will be able to get some pictures of BOTH our puppies on our good camera and share those with you.

Anxiety Plus

K so here is the update on what has been happening with me. I have been to the doctor numerous times to find out what is wrong with me. It turns out that I am having anxiety problems. Don't ask me where they came from. I know that I worry about a lot of things, but lately I have not been worried about anything....at least that is what I thought. I will be sitting down relaxing, and all the sudden I will start to freak out. I don't know where it is coming from. I have been trying to do stuff to help calm me down but I have not found anything that really helps me yet. So for now, I am on some medicine to help calm me down. Prozac for more of an everyday medicine, and Lorazapam for when I have really bad episodes and can't get anything else to calm me down. Hopefully I will be able to get something figured out and get this fixed. I don't want to have this hanging over my head all the time. It is not a good feeling to be freaking out about something and there is nothing I can do about it. And people are telling me to calm down. Trust me if I could make this go away I would. This is not something that I want to deal with. I will let you know if anything new happens.
As far as Jonah and I go, things are going well. We are taking our sweet time getting everything unpacked. Mostly we just need to hang our decorations up. We are a pretty boring couple. We sit at home and watch tv or play on the computer. There is really not much else to do. I am excited that it is starting to warm up. I am sure that we will be more up for taking Reign for long walks if the weather keeps getting better.
I was thinking last night about all that is going on in the world, and I couldn't help but be so grateful that Jonah and I have been as fortunate as we have been. We have a nice home, food on the table, and are able to pay for the things that we need to. This is a hard time for many people. I only wish that we were in a better situation only so that we could help out our friends and family that are having a hard time right now. But we are grateful that we have what we do and that we are so blessed. We want you to know that we love you all and we are very grateful to have you in our lives.

Sick

So I have been sick for the past few weeks. I have been having a really hard time breathing. I try really hard to get that deep breath and I just can't get it. I went to the doctor and he said it could be one of three things: A blood clot, hyperventilation, or something else I can't remember. Well he concluded that it was hyperventilation (panic attacks). I have no idea what brought these on. But I guess my body is a lot more stressed than I ever thought it was. Things with my breathing have been getting better, but a couple days ago, my right leg started to get numb and tingly. It seems that when I get sick, I get a whole bunch of things all at once. So hopefully things will start to get better soon. We were down in St George this weekend and I was able to ask my dad and Jonah to give me a blessing. It was so nice. It was Jonah's first blessing and I am so glad that I was the one to receive it. I felt very special. And I am grateful to have a husband with the priesthood that is able to give me blessings when I ask for them. Thank you Jonah
Anyways so I will post about our St George trip in a little while when I get some pictures uploaded.

Great News!

Mosts of you may know this already, but there has been a good change of plans. We are going to be moving into our condo next week! most likely on Friday! We are very excited. The tenants that are there now have some health problems. There was a bottom unit in our building that became available for rent so they asked if it would be ok to move out early. We were so happy to hear that. So the past few days we have been trying to get some stuff packed up. I hate the packing up process. Everything is so unorganized and messy. It drives me nuts, and I am sure that I am driving Jonah crazy too. But he is good to put up with me. He has figured out that I get a little frustrated when things are not cleaned up. The funny thing is, is I never used to be this way. I think it is just with it being our own place, I want it to look nice when people come over. But anyways!! So if anyone doesn't have anything to do on Friday you are more than welcome to come help. We could use it.