Friday, May 28, 2010

Our first year

I know this is like 2 weeks late. But I thought i'd share a few pictures from our
FIRST ANNIVERSARY!
May 16th, 2010!
I love you George!

Cutting our year old cake! It was actually quite delicious!

The view from our balcony! This picture does NOT give it justice!

Our room!
Our room again!


Best morning breakfast on the balcony!!
Yes. I am eating yogurt with a fork. That's all they gave us!!

Here is a video that shows all our adventures in our first year of marriage! I just hope every year will be as great as this one was.

Enjoy!

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

An update of recent events!

SOOO much has happened in the past few weeks and for some reason, I haven't been compelled to really write about it. But I should...just because all the cool cats do it right? So here it goes!

1. On May 7th, I graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelors degree in Speech Communication and cultural studies! Wooh! It was SUCH AN AWESOME experience. But to be honest, it made me kind of sad. It made me realize that I have spent the past 4 years investing my life in this education and didn't bother to make any really close friends while I was at it. I had a ton of acquaintances I graduated with but not a single person I'd call my friend! It's just so weird how different college is from high school... In high school I can't really think of anything significant I learned but I gained life long friendships. In college, (hopefully) I learned something...yet not a single friend was gained. Sigh.

2. I GOT A NEW JOB!! Starting in a few weeks, I will officially be a Corporate Trainer here at America First!! I am so excited to have the opportunity to do something new and something I think I'll actually enjoy rather than...well you know. So yes! No more HR intern! Wooh!!

3. This last weekend, George and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary!! It was amazing! We stayed at the Anniversary Inn on 5th South in Salt Lake in the Palace room. It was awesome! The only problem was, when we got back to our room after spending the afternoon seeing Robin Hood and eating amazing food at Benihana, our room was 95 degrees! So, we spent most of the night outside on the balcony while our A/C was blasting! We still had a great time though and it was just nice to just get away!

4. So on Monday, George and I had the day off so we went up to the U to buy a psychology book for a class i'm taking and we decided to buy an iPad! I'm not going to lie, it's pretty cool! Although, George really wanted it for business reasons but he hasn't really used it yet! But I still love our new toy! I just hope it's worth the money we spent on it!

Ok, so before I continue with this list, I just have to say, these past few weeks have been so great that I have been wondering if there will ever come another point in my life when so many good things happen at once! I hope so, but you never really know do you?

5. So now comes the things I am fearing most in my life right now. My dad. A few weeks ago, they found a growth on his liver. The doctors have been doing tests on it trying to determine what it is...and well, all the doctors seem really concerned. They aren't sure if it's cancerous but they do think it's something serious.... We wont know for a few more days but I am so worried because Liver Cancer is awful and painful and very hard to treat... So I am just hoping and praying for the best... But I think my dad is taking it all really well. He is actually feeling pretty good so it's hard to imagine he might have cancer in him. But I think if he did get diagnosed with cancer, he wouldn't regret a thing... He's been a pretty amazing person, giver, friend and dad. And I know if he gets the privilege to stay on this Earth even longer, he will continue being the amazing person he is...and that's what brings me peace.


6. I don't really know if I have anything else to update in my life. Maybe just that George and I aren't sure what to do about our living situation. We've been back and forth on buying a house...but I think we are both just really uneasy about that big of an investment... But at the same time, I don't know if we can stomach paying just as much as a mortgage would be on renting a place! So, I don't know what the right thing is to do... but hopefully we'll figure it out soon.


Well there you go. All caught up.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Eye patches.

Yesterday, George and I went to lunch. As we were eating lunch, a man came in and sat at the table right next to us. Pretty normal right? Well, no. Because this man, had an eye patch! To most everyone else, that's not completly unusual or in our case funny. But it was funny. We looked over and started giggling as quietly and descretly as we could. Before you think of us as completely descrimatory people, let me explain....

In November of 2007, it was a usual day. Mid day George called me to tell me he had a HORRIBLE stomach ache is going home sick. (Which is weird for him since he NEVER takes sick days). When I got out of school, I came home and he was rolling on our bathroom floor in complete and utter misery. So, what do I do? I go to the gym. I'm such a sweet girlfriend(at the time). But on my way to the gym George calls me and says, "Will you come get me and take me to the doctor?" So I did. I took him to the insta-care in Layton. As soon as George explained his pain to the doctor, she said, "you need to get out of here and go as quickly as you can to the emergency room!" The pain was being caused by his appendix and the doctor feared that any moment, his appendix would burst. Not a pleasant thing to hear especially after thinking he just had a nasty case of the stomach flu. So of course, at the sound of this, I became hysterical. We rushed George to the hospital and had to wait like...30 minutes to get onto a bed. Once he was in a bed, we waited about 2 hours for a cat scan to make sure it was his appendix and than another hour until they finally wheeled him into surgery.

Ok. So by now you're probably wondering, what the heck does this story have to do with an eye patch right? Oh just you wait...i'm getting there.

So, I think it was about 1:00 am when George had his surgery. My mom and I just stayed half awake in the waiting room. Finally at around 3:00, the doctor came out and told us it was a boy. Just kidding. but that would have been funny right? No, but the doctor did say that everything was fine, they got it out just in time before it would have burst but that his appendix had created tissue to protect it which made it extremely difficult to get the appendix out without completely damaging the tissue. Because of that, George would be in a lot more pain and sensative than usual.

At around 3:30, I got to go into his room and finally see him after the surgery! He was completely out of it. But he was going in and out of conciousness... So, while the nurse was checking on him, George wakes up and looks at her. She looks down at him and asks if he's feeling alright.

Immediately, George responds with, "Can I ask you a question?" the nurse concernedly says "Of course, what's up?" and honest to heaven George said this in the most SERIOUS tone... he said...

"Could you see a man on the street wearing an eye patch and not think he's a pirate?"

The nurse was dumbfounded! You could tell she was replaying his question in her mind trying to make sense of it and wondering how that could have ANYTHING to do with him feeling alright.

After giving my mom and I a quizzicle look while we are literally laughing our heads off, she concluded that we were all nutty and left.

The best part of it all is, the next morning, George had no recollection of saying such a thing! But he did. And it was awesome!

And now you know why when we saw the person with an eye patch and laughed.

Arrr Matey!!