we got everything packed in the horse trailer and the back of dad (smith's) truck. i am quite surprised it actually all fit. where and how did we accumulate so much stuff? oh well. zach & i found a place to live down here in la verkin. it is actually a place that zach's uncle owns and rents out. it is a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, washer & dryer place. it will be nice not to have to haul the laundry to the laundromat. we have been living with mom & dad (smith) for the last 2 weeks. and on monday we will be moving just up the road from them. i think i might go over today and clean up the place to amber standards. i don't think it has been lived in for a bit. when we turned on the water in the shower, it came out brown for a few seconds. don't get me wrong, the place was cleaned after vacancy, but i just feel better about cleaning it myself and knowing that i was the last one to clean.
zach is working today. he had a conference call this morning and then went to meet his boss over at the hotel. his boss lives up in slc i think. he just came down to take zach around to the different stores he will be working at and introductions and the such. so i am just hanging out doing laundry and taking care of rei rei.
she got a bacterial skin infection. it was about a month ago that we first noticed it, but we didn't know a vet or have the money for a vet. well we got our tax return, and when her sores spread all down her one side and her leg & ears, zach took her to a vet he knows down here. she is on a broad spectrum antibiotic. if it still isn't better by tuesday, we take her back to the vet. hopefully she will get better. she put herself to bed and won't come out unless we make her. usually its just to potty and eat a little bit. i think i will try and take her for a walk later today. just to keep her moving. the first pill we gave her made her throw up. after the second one, we walked her around a little and she did much better. i think she just needs rest and the antibiotics will do the rest. well, i am going to go to walmart with mom (smith) now so i'll leave this blog here and tell about our family vacation on the next one.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
we are moving...
holy cow another whole month gone.... i am really getting bad at this whole blog thing. well, lots has happened. first off, i think the biggest one is that we are moving to la verkin and then perhaps st. george.
zach got a job as an hp rep for the st. george area. he will have only a set schedule of 10 hours at the best buy in st. george, but he will also have others stores that he will spend some time in throughout the week. zach is also going to look at getting a second job.
i am hoping to transfer to an associated store down in la verkin, hurricane, or st. george. just for right now. i am still working on getting my license. yes yes i know it is taking forever. well, i will explain down the blog here so just hang on.
if i can't transfer to another associated store, i will try my very best to look for something i can do to keep an income coming in. there are just too many bills for me to not work. when we get our bills under control, we can rack them back up with children.
my license.... well, i finally just took a day and went to apply for my massage license. i took the completed application to my school so they could fill out what they needed to. well, they threw away my entire application and printed off one of their own. they assured me that this was better and that i didn't need the whole thing. i was an idiot. well, i went to take my application in and the building was closed. government buildings are closed on fridays. blah. so i took another day and went to turn the application in. this is all in salt lake mind you. so i paid my fee, and turned in my application. earlier this week, i got a letter. my application has been denied. why.... well because it was incomplete. go figure! so i had to take yet another day and go turn in the part my school office people threw away. now hopefully my application is complete and will be processed in the next week or two. but we will be at a new address then, so i will still have to wait for the mail to be forwarded. blah blah blah. what is wrong with the office people?!!!
ok so really a lot of what has been going on with us has only been going on the last 2 weeks ish. we went to brian regan live in logan. mona & esther got us front row seats. it was a pretty funny show. the drive back was not so fun....it was a blizzard... and i am so excited to be leaving snow behind for a while. warm weather, my tan, warm weather, no more snow, i am just a bit excited.
and well, maybe that's all that has really been going on.... we have been busy packing up what we aren't using or going to use in the next week. our official move date is march 7.
my parents are going to bring the massive horse trailer down for us to hopefully fit everything in. my in-laws are going to bring a truck as well, and i am so grateful that family is willing to sacrifice to help us move.
rei rei is confused about what is going on. she keeps looking at all the boxes stacking up and then she gets this look on her face. it is kind of a sad look, but also a 'what have i done wrong' look. i wish i could read her mind. she is such a fun dog. zach and i decided that we are going to spell her "full" name reichal. (people kept reacting funny when we said her name is rei rei) (not that we really care what people think of us) so we decided that her full name will be reichael. we are allowed to spell it funny because she is a dog.
well, i am excited to be leaving ogden. i will miss most of the people here. i am scared, but also happy about the whole situation. i think we are needed in st. george and that might be why zach couldn't get a full time job here in ogden. i will miss my young women. they are good girls with so much to offer. i hope they all know that. it will be hard telling them that it is my last sunday with them on the 6th. (we have stake conference this coming sunday) i am still not sure why i was put in the young womens, but i have enjoyed being there. and now i really must get to more packing.
zach got a job as an hp rep for the st. george area. he will have only a set schedule of 10 hours at the best buy in st. george, but he will also have others stores that he will spend some time in throughout the week. zach is also going to look at getting a second job.
i am hoping to transfer to an associated store down in la verkin, hurricane, or st. george. just for right now. i am still working on getting my license. yes yes i know it is taking forever. well, i will explain down the blog here so just hang on.
if i can't transfer to another associated store, i will try my very best to look for something i can do to keep an income coming in. there are just too many bills for me to not work. when we get our bills under control, we can rack them back up with children.
my license.... well, i finally just took a day and went to apply for my massage license. i took the completed application to my school so they could fill out what they needed to. well, they threw away my entire application and printed off one of their own. they assured me that this was better and that i didn't need the whole thing. i was an idiot. well, i went to take my application in and the building was closed. government buildings are closed on fridays. blah. so i took another day and went to turn the application in. this is all in salt lake mind you. so i paid my fee, and turned in my application. earlier this week, i got a letter. my application has been denied. why.... well because it was incomplete. go figure! so i had to take yet another day and go turn in the part my school office people threw away. now hopefully my application is complete and will be processed in the next week or two. but we will be at a new address then, so i will still have to wait for the mail to be forwarded. blah blah blah. what is wrong with the office people?!!!
ok so really a lot of what has been going on with us has only been going on the last 2 weeks ish. we went to brian regan live in logan. mona & esther got us front row seats. it was a pretty funny show. the drive back was not so fun....it was a blizzard... and i am so excited to be leaving snow behind for a while. warm weather, my tan, warm weather, no more snow, i am just a bit excited.
and well, maybe that's all that has really been going on.... we have been busy packing up what we aren't using or going to use in the next week. our official move date is march 7.
my parents are going to bring the massive horse trailer down for us to hopefully fit everything in. my in-laws are going to bring a truck as well, and i am so grateful that family is willing to sacrifice to help us move.
rei rei is confused about what is going on. she keeps looking at all the boxes stacking up and then she gets this look on her face. it is kind of a sad look, but also a 'what have i done wrong' look. i wish i could read her mind. she is such a fun dog. zach and i decided that we are going to spell her "full" name reichal. (people kept reacting funny when we said her name is rei rei) (not that we really care what people think of us) so we decided that her full name will be reichael. we are allowed to spell it funny because she is a dog.
well, i am excited to be leaving ogden. i will miss most of the people here. i am scared, but also happy about the whole situation. i think we are needed in st. george and that might be why zach couldn't get a full time job here in ogden. i will miss my young women. they are good girls with so much to offer. i hope they all know that. it will be hard telling them that it is my last sunday with them on the 6th. (we have stake conference this coming sunday) i am still not sure why i was put in the young womens, but i have enjoyed being there. and now i really must get to more packing.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
hormones....
this may just be a slight venting blog, but i do have some sort of kinda round about funny story. but first the venting because i find that i really should keep a diary, but i find typing much easier not to mention faster. i really really hate that i have to be the "smart" one in my office. not to mention that i am not really tech savvy, but apparently i am and have to be. whatever. i just can't handle when people who really are supposed to be tech savvy because they are working in a tech support place really aren't any help at all. go figure. so i have to figure it out on my own, but the good news is, i did figure it out. bad news, it still didn't work. so i have been on the phone for almost 2 full working days now just trying to get someone to find the extra special thing i missed to make the printer work. BLAH! why can't they test things and make sure that there really aren't so many flaws before they expect little ol me to understand and then teach the even more handicapped.... okay okay, maybe they aren't really handicapped, but that doesn't explain why they still can't do even the smallest of tasks not to mention that one flat out refused to learn, but then was told that there isn't a choice anymore in the matter. double BLAH!
okay so now i am just all around frustrated with myself because i told myself i was going to be gone before christmas 2010.... now i looks like i may be there for a while longer. and if they can't find someone to replace me, well then it isn't my problem and i can walk away and never give another thought to it. don't get me wrong, i do love most of the people. and i haven't found another job to give my well, i suppose i should give more than just 2 weeks, but if it comes to it, then 2 weeks is all it will be. who knows. it just depends on when i can get down to SLC to get fingerprinted and background checked and fees paid and apply for the license. i have all the paperwork filled out. i (thanks to a wonderful sister) now have the money to pay the fees. i just need to be able to take a day between monday and thursday to go to SLC in the day/working hours. only 2 problems.... i am much needed at work and gas. why am i so loyal to my job. why can't i just play sick one day so i can still get my hours that zach & i so desperately need... and why can't i just get it done? i hate that i am so close and yet i feel like it is impossible and can't find the will power or whatever it is to just be done with stupid people.
i get so frustrated dealing with the exact same issues everyday with the same people. and why can't people just work at work. is that really too much to ask for. i sure wish i could just talk on my phone all day and hide out in the bathroom and walk around talking to everyone instead of working or take as much time as possible to do a simple task. i wish i could come to work, punch in, change my clothes, read the paper, and then come down to work and then do what i really wanted to do at work instead of prioritizing things, and then when it is time to leave, go change my clothes again and then wait a few more minutes just to make sure i get all the time i can, and then punch out and leave. i wish i could do that. but then, oh yeah.... i'd get FIRED. so why do other people get away with it all the time. why do i have to work my butt off and still have things that "need" to get done but if i hit over 40 hours i get written up. why can't the system work.
alright...i think i am okay now. so on to the kinda funny in a round about way story... on sunday zach and i came home to find that rei rei had got into the trash and covered the living room floor with it. upon cleaning it up, zach found a blue plastic pouch with a sticker on it. it was partially eaten. he handed it to me and asked what it was. it was my birth control pills from my mostly zipped up purse. rei rei had opened my purse, dug through it, and pulled out; not the gum, not the candy, and not the chocolate.... but the birth control pills!!! and not only did she manage to get the pill pack out of the plastic wrap, she almost got every single pill out of the punch bubbles.
i have no idea how she did it, but i was so mad i was ready to just beat her. she put herself in the kennel though and stayed there the rest of the night. i went into work monday and didn't really have a clue as to what i should do. i asked the pharmacy people if rei rei would be okay. they said that since she is spayed that she should be okay but we should still watch her. and then i asked if i could get another pack of pills, esp since it was a brand new pack. they looked it up... insurance won't pay for it or any part of it... i could just get it and pay out of pocket. i asked how much. the answer $50.00 YIKES! then a friend suggested i should go to planned parenthood. it would work, but i would have to see one of their doctors first. i don't know how long that would take. then another friend suggested that i call up my doctor and just ask if there is anyway i could get a free sample pack. so that is what i did. i called up my doctor. only problem, they didn't give me a call back until close of tuesday night. i had called as soon as i was off work tuesday. i should have figured something out on monday, but things just didn't work so nicely on monday. it was just not such a happy day.
the doctor's office said that if i could come wednesday at 9am (when they open) that i could get a sample pack and that i would have to take 1 pill as soon as i could get it, and then take another one at night. then do that again thursday (today). they also told me that for the next 7 days that we should use backup birth control if we make love unless we want to possibly start our family growing with children. um, not yet please. so they didn't have my exact birth control that i have been taking, and this new one is slightly different. and it is messing with my hormones. maybe it is just in my head, but i have been awfully short tempered and then just short of crying and then back to being angry and then depressed and then my poor husband gets the full craziness of it all. but it has now been 5 days and rei rei is okay. so i guess that is what is important. even though my emotions are all over the place, we are both okay and i just have to remember that. so now i have comleted my story and here i shall leave you all.
okay so now i am just all around frustrated with myself because i told myself i was going to be gone before christmas 2010.... now i looks like i may be there for a while longer. and if they can't find someone to replace me, well then it isn't my problem and i can walk away and never give another thought to it. don't get me wrong, i do love most of the people. and i haven't found another job to give my well, i suppose i should give more than just 2 weeks, but if it comes to it, then 2 weeks is all it will be. who knows. it just depends on when i can get down to SLC to get fingerprinted and background checked and fees paid and apply for the license. i have all the paperwork filled out. i (thanks to a wonderful sister) now have the money to pay the fees. i just need to be able to take a day between monday and thursday to go to SLC in the day/working hours. only 2 problems.... i am much needed at work and gas. why am i so loyal to my job. why can't i just play sick one day so i can still get my hours that zach & i so desperately need... and why can't i just get it done? i hate that i am so close and yet i feel like it is impossible and can't find the will power or whatever it is to just be done with stupid people.
i get so frustrated dealing with the exact same issues everyday with the same people. and why can't people just work at work. is that really too much to ask for. i sure wish i could just talk on my phone all day and hide out in the bathroom and walk around talking to everyone instead of working or take as much time as possible to do a simple task. i wish i could come to work, punch in, change my clothes, read the paper, and then come down to work and then do what i really wanted to do at work instead of prioritizing things, and then when it is time to leave, go change my clothes again and then wait a few more minutes just to make sure i get all the time i can, and then punch out and leave. i wish i could do that. but then, oh yeah.... i'd get FIRED. so why do other people get away with it all the time. why do i have to work my butt off and still have things that "need" to get done but if i hit over 40 hours i get written up. why can't the system work.
alright...i think i am okay now. so on to the kinda funny in a round about way story... on sunday zach and i came home to find that rei rei had got into the trash and covered the living room floor with it. upon cleaning it up, zach found a blue plastic pouch with a sticker on it. it was partially eaten. he handed it to me and asked what it was. it was my birth control pills from my mostly zipped up purse. rei rei had opened my purse, dug through it, and pulled out; not the gum, not the candy, and not the chocolate.... but the birth control pills!!! and not only did she manage to get the pill pack out of the plastic wrap, she almost got every single pill out of the punch bubbles.
i have no idea how she did it, but i was so mad i was ready to just beat her. she put herself in the kennel though and stayed there the rest of the night. i went into work monday and didn't really have a clue as to what i should do. i asked the pharmacy people if rei rei would be okay. they said that since she is spayed that she should be okay but we should still watch her. and then i asked if i could get another pack of pills, esp since it was a brand new pack. they looked it up... insurance won't pay for it or any part of it... i could just get it and pay out of pocket. i asked how much. the answer $50.00 YIKES! then a friend suggested i should go to planned parenthood. it would work, but i would have to see one of their doctors first. i don't know how long that would take. then another friend suggested that i call up my doctor and just ask if there is anyway i could get a free sample pack. so that is what i did. i called up my doctor. only problem, they didn't give me a call back until close of tuesday night. i had called as soon as i was off work tuesday. i should have figured something out on monday, but things just didn't work so nicely on monday. it was just not such a happy day.
the doctor's office said that if i could come wednesday at 9am (when they open) that i could get a sample pack and that i would have to take 1 pill as soon as i could get it, and then take another one at night. then do that again thursday (today). they also told me that for the next 7 days that we should use backup birth control if we make love unless we want to possibly start our family growing with children. um, not yet please. so they didn't have my exact birth control that i have been taking, and this new one is slightly different. and it is messing with my hormones. maybe it is just in my head, but i have been awfully short tempered and then just short of crying and then back to being angry and then depressed and then my poor husband gets the full craziness of it all. but it has now been 5 days and rei rei is okay. so i guess that is what is important. even though my emotions are all over the place, we are both okay and i just have to remember that. so now i have comleted my story and here i shall leave you all.
Friday, January 7, 2011
i know, i know... its been a while
i haven't posted for a while because well, let's face it. i have just been kinda busy and when i wasn't busy, the computer was either ignored or occupied by, um, not me.... so here i am by myself on friday night because zach is at work. and rei rei is keeping watch out the living room window so i can finally have some time to blog.
i last left you all just before thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was wonderful except for being so rushed. zach and i didn't get the head start we thought we could get to head down to la verkin. we ended up leaving about 2 hours after we had planned. mostly in part of the freezing cold. our windshield washer fluid froze because i still had summer fluid in. imagine that, you don't use as much washer fluid in the summer than in the winter/weather..... anyway... we had to stop at walmart and put in winter washer fluid. still didn't help because the line was also frozen.
our usual 4, 4 1/2, 5 hour trip took almost 6 hours because we had to keep stopping to splash washer fluid on the windshield so we could see. and rei rei kept having to make potty breaks. (i told her before we left that she needed to be a good dog and potty and poop before we left) and she sort of did... at least the potty part. we were able to sleep in a tiny bit on thanksgiving morning, but i really wanted to visit with my family. so i didn't really sleep in and once again rei rei is used to keeping my early morning hours and insisted on being taken out to potty at 530am. oh the joys of having early mornings and a puppy set on that schedule...
thanksgiving dinner was of course excellent. mom & dad (smith) and everyone else that added their talents of cooking to the meal did a wonderful job. the whole family was there and it was just a fantastic time. after dinner we rushed to take family pictures since we were all there. and then zach & i & rei rei had to head back up to ogden. boo hoo for black friday and both of us having to work it. blah. and that was thanksgiving. very short and yet it was still worth it.
december brought with it very chilly weather. and i have been able to get to know my young women's girls better. we had an activity to do baptisms for the dead as a whole youth group. it was such an incredible time to see the youth doing baptisms and watching zach throw the young men down in the water then struggle just a tiny bit to bring them back up. the ogden temple has a unique viewing area that looks straight at the font and allows everyone (in the baptistery in the temple) to watch the baptisms. when the names we brought were all done, and the youth all dried off, we went to golden corral for dinner. a few of the girls had a bit much sugar and it was quite funny to watch them giggle and enjoy each others company. and after dinner we all went to the ogden lds institute christmas show. it was quite a different time for me being there in the audience without having my sister to watch or me being on stage too. but it was a good time.
december also brought with it a sad but happy day. my grandpa richmond passed away. i was kinda shocked that my dad called to tell me since sometimes he forgets that his children might want to know these things. i was even more shocked when he asked me to sing a musical number at the funeral. i mentioned that esther has a beautiful alto voice and it might be better if we could do a duet instead of a solo for me. my dad agreed and es & i did the duet. i had to fight hard not to let the tears take over me. but it was a happy day because grandpa was home with his sweetheart again. my grandma richmond had passed away earlier in the year. i think grandpa really really missed her and just wanted to be home with her for christmas.
then an exciting day for mona happened. it was her birthday, but also, she was able to go and receive her endowment at the logan temple. i was able to go and be in the session with her and most of the snyder clan. it was a wonderful day. and so exciting.... (this was my second session since i received my own endowment in june) i know, i know.... zach & i tried to go to do a session in ogden temple, but the temple was closed the day we went and scheduling things have not allowed us to go together. but we were able to go and do sealings with mike & debbie once and that was a lot of fun.
after we had lunch and fun with the snyders; es, zach & i headed up to blackfoot to have an early christmas with dad, eliz, adam & cedar. it was a lot of fun to be able to see adam & cedar. we hadn't seen them since our joint reception in june. their dog, bosco, has gotten really big and rei rei and bosco had tons of fun. they were good entertainment for us. esther is a very crafty person and had made homemade dog toys for bosco. rei rei and bosco played tug-a-war with one. they were about equal in strength & height. at one point bosco laid down while still keeping his end of the rope in his mouth. rei rei didn't like that. she started dragging bosco across the floor. it was so funny and we were all laughing so hard that rei rei stopped and looked at us funny. it was a great time.
and now finally to real christmas. thanks to our thanksgiving mishaps, i was packed and ready to go by the time zach got off work. so all i had to do was pick him up and we were off. we made it in our usual 4, 4 1/2, 5 hour time on christmas eve. both of us had to work, but i got off quite a few hours before zach did. it was sooooo good to actually spend time with mom & dad (smith) and relax. christmas was wonderful and i hated leaving to head back up to freezing cold ogden.
i am going to take the last bit here to share what happened on the monday after christmas. we were able to stay in la verkin until monday afternoon/evening. my cousin was going to receive her endowment that day. i didn't know this until we got down there. i had actually had a thought to grab our temple clothes right before i locked up the apartment and went to get zach. i dismissed it because i thought temples were closed on mondays. when we got down there and mom mentioned that we should come to the session, i thought what a stupid idiot i was not to have obeyed my, what i realized now, prompting.
well, you can rent temple clothes at the temple. hooray! we could go. so i got up monday and got myself all ready to go to the temple. i then had a thought that i should make sure i had my temple recommend. i went to my purse and pulled out my wallet. low and behold, i had left my recommend in my temple bag when i went through in logan with mona. i went to tell zach i didn't have my recommend and once again, could not go. i felt awful. because of my own stupidity, i couldn't go to the temple. i started to cry and zach held me for a minute. he said he would stay with me and i told him no. he needed to go, even if i couldn't. we went out to tell mom & dad that i had forgot my recommend. dad then said, it's ok, i have a plan. we called the temple and dad explained the situation. the temple asked for our bishop's phone number. then we left it at that. i thought that maybe i should also try calling the bishop. i did and no one answered. it was now time for us to go to the temple. the whole ride to st. george i was praying that somehow i would be able to still go.
when we got to the temple, i went in and said that i was the sister who had left her recommend in ogden. they had me wait at the side for a minute while other people went in. finally they came and said i could come in and attend the session. a rush of gratitude and love came over me. during that session, i was thinking about how much life is like what just happened to me. i'll explain.
we come down to earth (la verkin) and spend time with our loved ones. we then are called home (the temple/heaven) but find ourselves full of sin and can't be allowed in (forgetting temple recommend/temple clothes). our wise heavenly father (dad smith) says it's ok, i have a plan. and then though repentance and our savior jesus christ (a series of phone calls to our bishop) we can enter the gate of heaven and come home to be with our loved ones and our heavenly parents again in the celestial kingdom (temple/celestial room). see, it makes sense. sort of. anyway i know that i was blessed and that i needed to be at the temple that day or i wouldn't have been able to go in. it was such a grand feeling being back in the temple, esp the temple i was sealed to zach in for time and all eternity. to be with my family in the celestial room after and knowing that heavenly father loves me and knew that i needed the temple that day was just amazing :)
i last left you all just before thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was wonderful except for being so rushed. zach and i didn't get the head start we thought we could get to head down to la verkin. we ended up leaving about 2 hours after we had planned. mostly in part of the freezing cold. our windshield washer fluid froze because i still had summer fluid in. imagine that, you don't use as much washer fluid in the summer than in the winter/weather..... anyway... we had to stop at walmart and put in winter washer fluid. still didn't help because the line was also frozen.
our usual 4, 4 1/2, 5 hour trip took almost 6 hours because we had to keep stopping to splash washer fluid on the windshield so we could see. and rei rei kept having to make potty breaks. (i told her before we left that she needed to be a good dog and potty and poop before we left) and she sort of did... at least the potty part. we were able to sleep in a tiny bit on thanksgiving morning, but i really wanted to visit with my family. so i didn't really sleep in and once again rei rei is used to keeping my early morning hours and insisted on being taken out to potty at 530am. oh the joys of having early mornings and a puppy set on that schedule...
thanksgiving dinner was of course excellent. mom & dad (smith) and everyone else that added their talents of cooking to the meal did a wonderful job. the whole family was there and it was just a fantastic time. after dinner we rushed to take family pictures since we were all there. and then zach & i & rei rei had to head back up to ogden. boo hoo for black friday and both of us having to work it. blah. and that was thanksgiving. very short and yet it was still worth it.
december brought with it very chilly weather. and i have been able to get to know my young women's girls better. we had an activity to do baptisms for the dead as a whole youth group. it was such an incredible time to see the youth doing baptisms and watching zach throw the young men down in the water then struggle just a tiny bit to bring them back up. the ogden temple has a unique viewing area that looks straight at the font and allows everyone (in the baptistery in the temple) to watch the baptisms. when the names we brought were all done, and the youth all dried off, we went to golden corral for dinner. a few of the girls had a bit much sugar and it was quite funny to watch them giggle and enjoy each others company. and after dinner we all went to the ogden lds institute christmas show. it was quite a different time for me being there in the audience without having my sister to watch or me being on stage too. but it was a good time.
december also brought with it a sad but happy day. my grandpa richmond passed away. i was kinda shocked that my dad called to tell me since sometimes he forgets that his children might want to know these things. i was even more shocked when he asked me to sing a musical number at the funeral. i mentioned that esther has a beautiful alto voice and it might be better if we could do a duet instead of a solo for me. my dad agreed and es & i did the duet. i had to fight hard not to let the tears take over me. but it was a happy day because grandpa was home with his sweetheart again. my grandma richmond had passed away earlier in the year. i think grandpa really really missed her and just wanted to be home with her for christmas.
then an exciting day for mona happened. it was her birthday, but also, she was able to go and receive her endowment at the logan temple. i was able to go and be in the session with her and most of the snyder clan. it was a wonderful day. and so exciting.... (this was my second session since i received my own endowment in june) i know, i know.... zach & i tried to go to do a session in ogden temple, but the temple was closed the day we went and scheduling things have not allowed us to go together. but we were able to go and do sealings with mike & debbie once and that was a lot of fun.
after we had lunch and fun with the snyders; es, zach & i headed up to blackfoot to have an early christmas with dad, eliz, adam & cedar. it was a lot of fun to be able to see adam & cedar. we hadn't seen them since our joint reception in june. their dog, bosco, has gotten really big and rei rei and bosco had tons of fun. they were good entertainment for us. esther is a very crafty person and had made homemade dog toys for bosco. rei rei and bosco played tug-a-war with one. they were about equal in strength & height. at one point bosco laid down while still keeping his end of the rope in his mouth. rei rei didn't like that. she started dragging bosco across the floor. it was so funny and we were all laughing so hard that rei rei stopped and looked at us funny. it was a great time.
and now finally to real christmas. thanks to our thanksgiving mishaps, i was packed and ready to go by the time zach got off work. so all i had to do was pick him up and we were off. we made it in our usual 4, 4 1/2, 5 hour time on christmas eve. both of us had to work, but i got off quite a few hours before zach did. it was sooooo good to actually spend time with mom & dad (smith) and relax. christmas was wonderful and i hated leaving to head back up to freezing cold ogden.
i am going to take the last bit here to share what happened on the monday after christmas. we were able to stay in la verkin until monday afternoon/evening. my cousin was going to receive her endowment that day. i didn't know this until we got down there. i had actually had a thought to grab our temple clothes right before i locked up the apartment and went to get zach. i dismissed it because i thought temples were closed on mondays. when we got down there and mom mentioned that we should come to the session, i thought what a stupid idiot i was not to have obeyed my, what i realized now, prompting.
well, you can rent temple clothes at the temple. hooray! we could go. so i got up monday and got myself all ready to go to the temple. i then had a thought that i should make sure i had my temple recommend. i went to my purse and pulled out my wallet. low and behold, i had left my recommend in my temple bag when i went through in logan with mona. i went to tell zach i didn't have my recommend and once again, could not go. i felt awful. because of my own stupidity, i couldn't go to the temple. i started to cry and zach held me for a minute. he said he would stay with me and i told him no. he needed to go, even if i couldn't. we went out to tell mom & dad that i had forgot my recommend. dad then said, it's ok, i have a plan. we called the temple and dad explained the situation. the temple asked for our bishop's phone number. then we left it at that. i thought that maybe i should also try calling the bishop. i did and no one answered. it was now time for us to go to the temple. the whole ride to st. george i was praying that somehow i would be able to still go.
when we got to the temple, i went in and said that i was the sister who had left her recommend in ogden. they had me wait at the side for a minute while other people went in. finally they came and said i could come in and attend the session. a rush of gratitude and love came over me. during that session, i was thinking about how much life is like what just happened to me. i'll explain.
we come down to earth (la verkin) and spend time with our loved ones. we then are called home (the temple/heaven) but find ourselves full of sin and can't be allowed in (forgetting temple recommend/temple clothes). our wise heavenly father (dad smith) says it's ok, i have a plan. and then though repentance and our savior jesus christ (a series of phone calls to our bishop) we can enter the gate of heaven and come home to be with our loved ones and our heavenly parents again in the celestial kingdom (temple/celestial room). see, it makes sense. sort of. anyway i know that i was blessed and that i needed to be at the temple that day or i wouldn't have been able to go in. it was such a grand feeling being back in the temple, esp the temple i was sealed to zach in for time and all eternity. to be with my family in the celestial room after and knowing that heavenly father loves me and knew that i needed the temple that day was just amazing :)
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
remind me why i am the rude neighbor
well i did get a new calling. i am now the 2nd counselor in the young women presidency. lucky me. there aren't that many youth in our ward, so it shouldn't be too hard to get to know them. i sort of know 2 already because they were in my sunday school class. i can't remember names though. i need to work on that. i am nervous and excited and wondering how i can possibly be a leader/example to this young women. i don't think they like me yet. i say this because i had my first activity last wednesday and no one wanted to ride in my jeep with me down to salt lake. we went to the joseph smith movie and also kinda toured the conference center. the new president had to tell one of the girls that she had to ride with me because there was just no room in the other cars. only 1 girl came with me. hopefully it will get better.
i am excited that next week is thanksgiving. i really am hoping the weather stays good so we can go down to la verkin. i miss my family. i need my family. things are not quite what i was thinking my married life would be. most of it is me in my own head that i can't get away from and just get over myself. my poor husband. and oh how i love him.
i really just have to vent now because i was so mad yesterday evening. i got home from work just before 2pm. i took rei rei out for a walk. we were gone for about 2 hours. we came back and she got a bath. then i showered cause i had a client at 6pm. well, it didn't take quite as long to give rei rei a bath and i don't really like super long showers so i was all ready by 5:15 ish. i didn't have to leave for another 15 minutes. i decided to start playing the piano a bit since i haven't really been able to. not even 10 minutes later there is a knock on my door.
it is the manager. she got a call from our neighbor that i was pounding on the piano and that my dog was barking. i told her that i was playing up until she knocked on the door. she didn't hear it. and rei rei doesn't bark unless someone is outside our door and raising his/her voice. i was here with rei rei and she wasn't barking at all. the manager said that the complaint about barking was actually friday night. we were home then too and she was not barking.
i talked with the manager and she actually apologized to me about the complaint. she says that everyone else says we are polite and respectful and have no complaints against us or our dog. it is just the black lady upstairs and her husband. technically the manager can't tell us who complained, but i asked if it came from upstairs and she said yes. i then asked the manager if she could find out when a good time for me to play that i won't have pounding on the floor from upstairs. she said she will talk to them again and find out.
i also said that if complaints were going to be made that we had some as well about the upstairs people. every morning i wake up at 3 and 4 am because they are stomping around. not just walking on old floors, they are stomping. it wakes rei rei up. it wakes me up. and it wakes zach up. every morning. there was in fact one morning at 3 am that i woke to her screaming. i just about called the cops. in fact, i really wish now that i would have.
if i can't play my piano at 3 and 4 pm then they shouldn't be allowed to stomp and turn the tv up loud at 3 and 4 am. bottom line. i can't figure out why she hates us. we didn't do a dang thing to her. she has just had it in for us. oh, she will be nice to our faces, if it is only me that she sees. if she sees me with my dog, she is rude. if she sees zach, she is rude. if she sees us all together, she is rude. now remind me how i am the rude and bad neighbor?
so today i got off work a bit early and was home about 12:30 pm. i started playing my piano. 2 minutes later i hear the tv upstairs blaring down into my apartment. i keep playing. she turned it louder. i stopped playing about 2pm and took rei rei out for a walk. we got home about 4pm. and now it is 4:22 pm and she is stomping around upstairs. if i were to start playing the piano.... i bet you $100.00 that she will call the manager and start pounding on the floor and turn her tv up. i am half tempted to go upstairs and confront her face to face, but she is just going to get loud and then "that dog will attack me" is her claim.
rei rei doesn't like her. the reason being that she was yelling at zach one day about parking. rei rei won't take to anyone attacking her family. she is a guard dog. extremely protective of her family. it is in the boxer blood and in the labrador blood. the neighbor was yelling at zach and rei rei saw it as an attack. now you tell me... why can my dog not defend us? is she just supposed to not bark and let zach or i get injured? rei rei could sense that this neighbor is/was no good and she wouldn't stand for it.
and tell my why my dog can't bark at you if you are out in front of our window yelling about something? if you hang around outside in a place that normal people don't hang out, my dog has every right to bark and alert us to your presence. in fact, this stupid neighbor said it herself that she was glad we have a dog and that she is such a protective guard dog. it was only a week or so after we got rei rei that the neighbor pulled up in her car while i was taking rei rei out to potty. rei rei started growling at her when she got out of her car and the neighbor said that she felt better knowing that we have a dog being right next to the main door.
ok, i think i am done with the venting until something else happens. i think i will take a poll from the rest of the neighbors and see if zach and i are really as bad as she claims we are. then i think i will take it to her and just tell her straight up that she choose to live here knowing that it is an apartment complex. there are noises you will always here. you just have to accept that.
i am excited that next week is thanksgiving. i really am hoping the weather stays good so we can go down to la verkin. i miss my family. i need my family. things are not quite what i was thinking my married life would be. most of it is me in my own head that i can't get away from and just get over myself. my poor husband. and oh how i love him.
i really just have to vent now because i was so mad yesterday evening. i got home from work just before 2pm. i took rei rei out for a walk. we were gone for about 2 hours. we came back and she got a bath. then i showered cause i had a client at 6pm. well, it didn't take quite as long to give rei rei a bath and i don't really like super long showers so i was all ready by 5:15 ish. i didn't have to leave for another 15 minutes. i decided to start playing the piano a bit since i haven't really been able to. not even 10 minutes later there is a knock on my door.
it is the manager. she got a call from our neighbor that i was pounding on the piano and that my dog was barking. i told her that i was playing up until she knocked on the door. she didn't hear it. and rei rei doesn't bark unless someone is outside our door and raising his/her voice. i was here with rei rei and she wasn't barking at all. the manager said that the complaint about barking was actually friday night. we were home then too and she was not barking.
i talked with the manager and she actually apologized to me about the complaint. she says that everyone else says we are polite and respectful and have no complaints against us or our dog. it is just the black lady upstairs and her husband. technically the manager can't tell us who complained, but i asked if it came from upstairs and she said yes. i then asked the manager if she could find out when a good time for me to play that i won't have pounding on the floor from upstairs. she said she will talk to them again and find out.
i also said that if complaints were going to be made that we had some as well about the upstairs people. every morning i wake up at 3 and 4 am because they are stomping around. not just walking on old floors, they are stomping. it wakes rei rei up. it wakes me up. and it wakes zach up. every morning. there was in fact one morning at 3 am that i woke to her screaming. i just about called the cops. in fact, i really wish now that i would have.
if i can't play my piano at 3 and 4 pm then they shouldn't be allowed to stomp and turn the tv up loud at 3 and 4 am. bottom line. i can't figure out why she hates us. we didn't do a dang thing to her. she has just had it in for us. oh, she will be nice to our faces, if it is only me that she sees. if she sees me with my dog, she is rude. if she sees zach, she is rude. if she sees us all together, she is rude. now remind me how i am the rude and bad neighbor?
so today i got off work a bit early and was home about 12:30 pm. i started playing my piano. 2 minutes later i hear the tv upstairs blaring down into my apartment. i keep playing. she turned it louder. i stopped playing about 2pm and took rei rei out for a walk. we got home about 4pm. and now it is 4:22 pm and she is stomping around upstairs. if i were to start playing the piano.... i bet you $100.00 that she will call the manager and start pounding on the floor and turn her tv up. i am half tempted to go upstairs and confront her face to face, but she is just going to get loud and then "that dog will attack me" is her claim.
rei rei doesn't like her. the reason being that she was yelling at zach one day about parking. rei rei won't take to anyone attacking her family. she is a guard dog. extremely protective of her family. it is in the boxer blood and in the labrador blood. the neighbor was yelling at zach and rei rei saw it as an attack. now you tell me... why can my dog not defend us? is she just supposed to not bark and let zach or i get injured? rei rei could sense that this neighbor is/was no good and she wouldn't stand for it.
and tell my why my dog can't bark at you if you are out in front of our window yelling about something? if you hang around outside in a place that normal people don't hang out, my dog has every right to bark and alert us to your presence. in fact, this stupid neighbor said it herself that she was glad we have a dog and that she is such a protective guard dog. it was only a week or so after we got rei rei that the neighbor pulled up in her car while i was taking rei rei out to potty. rei rei started growling at her when she got out of her car and the neighbor said that she felt better knowing that we have a dog being right next to the main door.
ok, i think i am done with the venting until something else happens. i think i will take a poll from the rest of the neighbors and see if zach and i are really as bad as she claims we are. then i think i will take it to her and just tell her straight up that she choose to live here knowing that it is an apartment complex. there are noises you will always here. you just have to accept that.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
is it really november?...
wow the time is really flying past. not a whole lot has been happening with us. zach has been trying to get full time at best buy but keeps getting beat by the same guy for one stupid little thing. i am still waiting for my piece of paper to make my schooling all official like. then i can really hit the job searching hard. rei rei is getting big. she is still learning lots and drives us crazy sometimes with her very high boxador energy. we love her and have been blessed to have her in our lives.
thanksgiving is coming fast and we are still hoping to get things set in for where we are adventuring to. i hope the weather stays good enough to drive down to la verkin. but if not, we will have turkey with mike & debbie. they have been gracious enough to open their home to us since brooke & chris decided to make a family together.
zach has been released from everything but the young men's. and i have been released from everything but sunday school teacher. tomorrow that all might change. our bishop pulled us in last week and i am getting a new calling. can't say just yet. but i'll be busy and that will be that.
i am not sure yet what christmas is going to entail, but i have been asked to sing in sacrament meeting on sunday the 26th. i almost want to ask if i can change that date because most likely, if we can arrange it, i would like to be with family. since our family is all mostly out of state, we won't be here.
anyway, we have been taking things day at a time and that is us. not much going on, but still a fair amount. oh, we didn't have a single trick-or-treater....forcing zach and me to eat all our candy. oh the weight that comes with being married.... i know i have put on a few 10 lbs or so. zach says he has put on about 20, but i can't see where... and we have to take rei rei out on walks so we are getting exercise.... maybe it is all muscle weight :) ha ha ha... i'll just keep telling myself that.
thanksgiving is coming fast and we are still hoping to get things set in for where we are adventuring to. i hope the weather stays good enough to drive down to la verkin. but if not, we will have turkey with mike & debbie. they have been gracious enough to open their home to us since brooke & chris decided to make a family together.
zach has been released from everything but the young men's. and i have been released from everything but sunday school teacher. tomorrow that all might change. our bishop pulled us in last week and i am getting a new calling. can't say just yet. but i'll be busy and that will be that.
i am not sure yet what christmas is going to entail, but i have been asked to sing in sacrament meeting on sunday the 26th. i almost want to ask if i can change that date because most likely, if we can arrange it, i would like to be with family. since our family is all mostly out of state, we won't be here.
anyway, we have been taking things day at a time and that is us. not much going on, but still a fair amount. oh, we didn't have a single trick-or-treater....forcing zach and me to eat all our candy. oh the weight that comes with being married.... i know i have put on a few 10 lbs or so. zach says he has put on about 20, but i can't see where... and we have to take rei rei out on walks so we are getting exercise.... maybe it is all muscle weight :) ha ha ha... i'll just keep telling myself that.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
honeymoon and things forgotten
well i forgot to tell you all that i did pass my test. i can't believe i forgot, but then again... i can. so i passed my test and am now waiting yet again for a piece of paper and my school to get things into gear. no more job offers have come, but without my little paper, i can't really go looking. blast!
the REAL SLC soccer game on the 18th (adam's birthday) was a lot of fun. zach was able to get work rearranged so we could go. REAL played Chicago and won! this was a record game because it now is 23 consecutive home wins for any major league soccer team. GO REAL SLC!!!
Dad & Eliz were kind enough to dog sit Rei Rei for us and i am happy to report that she was a very good dog for them. we get to pick her up today after zach gets off work at 5. we just got back from california. we finally took our honeymoon!
mom & dad Smith got us a week in Dolphins Cove in Anaheim and we loved it! We got checked in on monday and went to bed fairly early so we could enjoy Disneyland/California Adventure. zach & i walked 1 mile to Disneyland. we had fantastic 2, 2-day park hoppers thanks to becky & hyrum. poor zach got sick on thursday so we stayed at the resort and played in the pool & got ice cream and made strawberry/banana shakes. friday we went to La Jolla Cove to go snorkeling. It was beautiful and even though the waves were a bit rough to actually see well, we still had fun. saturday we went back to becky & hyrum's to get mom & dad smith to journey back to la verkin and then this morning ogden. dang the week went too fast.
can i just say i love connections. because hyrum is a disney animator, we got an extra free button in disneyland that has "happily ever after" on it. the other button we got just for honeymooning in disneyland said "just married" and they gave both of us our own buttons. we actually only got the free buttons on the second day because the first day (tuesday) was still crazy busy from the weekend. it wasn't too bad, but the wait line for galaxy ghost (space mountain decked out for halloween) was an hour without the fast pass. this was also in part to the ride being shut down for most of the day. but the people in disneyland were even more nice (if that's possible) when you have a button on your shirt that says you are celebrating something special with disneyland. and disneyland at halloween is really amazing! i've never been to disneyland other than during the summer breaks. and really, i want to go see what they do for christmas, but that won't happen for a few years at least. but who knows. the wonderful world of color is a must see in california adventure. it is the newest night show with water, lights, and fire. by far cooler than other shows done in the park. if you get the chance, you have to go see it!
this past week was a much needed, great getaway. it went too quickly, but it was such fun. i took a lot of pictures. you can see them on facebook. i was able to get them on there, but i can't figure out how to get them on the blog. i'll get them on though. for now, i leave cause conference is going to be back on soon. and then we get to go pick up rei rei. i hope she missed us cause we missed her. and i hope she won't act out for us being gone a whole week.
the REAL SLC soccer game on the 18th (adam's birthday) was a lot of fun. zach was able to get work rearranged so we could go. REAL played Chicago and won! this was a record game because it now is 23 consecutive home wins for any major league soccer team. GO REAL SLC!!!
Dad & Eliz were kind enough to dog sit Rei Rei for us and i am happy to report that she was a very good dog for them. we get to pick her up today after zach gets off work at 5. we just got back from california. we finally took our honeymoon!
mom & dad Smith got us a week in Dolphins Cove in Anaheim and we loved it! We got checked in on monday and went to bed fairly early so we could enjoy Disneyland/California Adventure. zach & i walked 1 mile to Disneyland. we had fantastic 2, 2-day park hoppers thanks to becky & hyrum. poor zach got sick on thursday so we stayed at the resort and played in the pool & got ice cream and made strawberry/banana shakes. friday we went to La Jolla Cove to go snorkeling. It was beautiful and even though the waves were a bit rough to actually see well, we still had fun. saturday we went back to becky & hyrum's to get mom & dad smith to journey back to la verkin and then this morning ogden. dang the week went too fast.
can i just say i love connections. because hyrum is a disney animator, we got an extra free button in disneyland that has "happily ever after" on it. the other button we got just for honeymooning in disneyland said "just married" and they gave both of us our own buttons. we actually only got the free buttons on the second day because the first day (tuesday) was still crazy busy from the weekend. it wasn't too bad, but the wait line for galaxy ghost (space mountain decked out for halloween) was an hour without the fast pass. this was also in part to the ride being shut down for most of the day. but the people in disneyland were even more nice (if that's possible) when you have a button on your shirt that says you are celebrating something special with disneyland. and disneyland at halloween is really amazing! i've never been to disneyland other than during the summer breaks. and really, i want to go see what they do for christmas, but that won't happen for a few years at least. but who knows. the wonderful world of color is a must see in california adventure. it is the newest night show with water, lights, and fire. by far cooler than other shows done in the park. if you get the chance, you have to go see it!
this past week was a much needed, great getaway. it went too quickly, but it was such fun. i took a lot of pictures. you can see them on facebook. i was able to get them on there, but i can't figure out how to get them on the blog. i'll get them on though. for now, i leave cause conference is going to be back on soon. and then we get to go pick up rei rei. i hope she missed us cause we missed her. and i hope she won't act out for us being gone a whole week.
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