Another big update.

So, I basically suck at this blog thing.

We have since bought a house!  We bought it in Jan of this year (2012).  It is 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage, .25 acres of perfectness.  Haha.  It is such a perfect little starter home for us!  The payments are only like 650.  The back yard is unfinished, but we are hoping to fix that soon.

I don't have any other pictures as of right now, but that is the living/dining/kitchen area.  I love it!

We also have more exciting news........  We are pregnant!!!!!!!!! We started trying at the end of Sept 2011. We tried for about 7 months, but as soon as I was starting to really get discouraged, we got pregnant!!  That seems to be how it usually happens.  We found out on April 19, 2012.  I had been taking pregnancy tests pretty often so I kind of had a routine.  Normally, I would do my business, set it on the counter with something over it, so I couldn't see it...  Wash my hands and all that junk, then stand around for what I felt had been long enough for the test to to its thing.  I never took a test when Chris wasn't home, because I wanted him to find out with me.

So I waited for a day that Chris would be there in the morning, did my business, set it on the counter with something over it.  But for some reason, this time I went and made my morning coffee, and did a couple other things before I looked at the test.  I think I was just so discouraged by this point, and I had just taken one the week before that was negative... It was just routine for me now, and I was fully expecting it to be negative! ... When I went back into the bathroom and picked that test up, I was literally in shock!  I had never seen those 2 pink lines together.  I just stood there and looked at it for a while.  I didn't know what to do!  So I went to show Chris, he was out on the back porch playing with the dog, and I just sat next to him and handed him the test.  I still couldn't form any words, haha.  And he looked at it for a minute and said, "What did you do?!?!?"  All I could say was, "I don't know, I just peed on it!"  And we just looked at each other, HUGE grins on both of our faces, and we just hugged for a while.  It was so awesome, it's making me cry just thinking about it.  Haha..

This is our first ever positive pregnancy test!

It just so happened that it was the last test in the box, of course!  And I wanted to take more to be sure, just because I was still in shock, I think.  So we went to Walmart that morning and bought another box, and a big ol' jug of Sunny D.  When we got home, I opened all 3 tests and took them all at the same time.  This time, I waited in the bathroom with them, and sure enough they were all positive!

And here is a picture of all of it together... I may have gotten a little picture happy :)

Our due date is Dec. 26, 2012... Today, I am 11 weeks 4 days along.  We have had 2 ultrasounds, the first was at about 5 1/2 weeks, just to figure out how far along I was, because my monthlys have always been pretty irregular.  Then we had another one at about 9 weeks, again to verify how far along I was.  But we did get some pictures with that one!

There is our little nugget!  It is all just so crazy!  I don't think it has quite sunk in yet, it still weirds me out a little to think that someone is growing inside of me.... But I am SO excited, I have wanted to be a Mommy for so long and Chris is so ready to be a Daddy.  I just can't wait until our little guy/girl is here.

It was so much fun to tell our families!  So, like I said, we found out on April 19th but we didn't tell anyone for a few days.  My Dad was in SL at the time.  (My parents have split up since my last blog.  My mom is living in SL again, and my Dad is currently staying with Chris and I ... But I will write more on that later.)  So, my Dad got home from SL that Friday, I believe.  So April 20th, and I couldn't keep it in, I had to tell him!  He was so excited... Then I told him that he couldn't tell anyone yet, and he was a little irritated hahaha.  Because he and my Mom still talk, so I told him that he COULDN'T tell her because I wanted her to hear it from us!  But he stayed strong and kept a secret.

Chris and I went to SL on April 23rd, and we told my side of the family on the 24th.  We had arranged for everyone to get together for dinner "just because we were in town."  So we all met at my Mom's apartment and before we headed out to dinner, we were all just visiting in the living room.  So Chris looks at me with a "come on, tell them!!" kind of look.  So I stood up and said, "So we wanted to get everyone together because we have an announcement to make."  And my Mom says, "No!"  And everyone else kind of gasped, haha they knew what it was as soon as I said that... "I am pregnant!"  Everyone got so excited!  Kimberly cried, it was so cute, she got so emotional!  Kyleigh and Kaitlyn went crazy.  And Mom, David and Kristin were all so excited.  It was just awesome!  Then we went to dinner and we all talked about it, and it was just awesome!

The next day, the 25th, we told Chris' side of the family.  We just did the same thing, let's all get together "just cause we're in town" kind of thing.  So we met at his Dad's house... Most of us, Tim had to work and, I believe, Sarah had to go to school for a test or something.  But Ben, Hillary, Izzi, Becca, Chris' Dad and StepMom were all there.  So we all sat around talking for a little while, then I kind of nudged Chris to tell them.  So after a little while of that he announced that we were going to have a baby!  We didn't get as big of a reaction out of them, but I think they saw something coming.  It's kind of sad, but we don't get together with ALL of them as often as we do with my family.  (Which I decided we need to work on.)  But that kind of sent a red flag that something was up.  But it was still exciting, the are all really excited to have another grandbaby/niece/nephew/cousin.

I have had some insane morning sickness.  I started feeling nauseous May 2, and I only remember that because I was in SL for a food show at the time, and I hadn't told anyone at work that I was pregnant yet... That was the first day I started feeling nauseous... I remember because of all of the smells and different foods at that food show haha... It was intense.  But I made it through the show without throwing up and blowing my cover.  But as soon as I got back to Vernal, it went downhill.  I felt so bad because Kyleigh and Kaitlyn were off track and wanted to come visit me, I had taken a week off work so they could stay, and when they got here, I was too sick to be fun.  :(   So, I believe they only ended up staying for the weekend.  The plan was that my Mom was going to bring them out Saturday, and I was going to take them back like Thursday or something, but they ended up going home with Mom that weekend.

It was just horrible, I had trouble keeping anything down, and I was so frustrated with the whole thing and probably super hormonal.  So I would just sit in the bathroom and cry.  Chris would come in there and rub my back and I would just cry to him, "I don't see how I can do this for 3 months!"  I was so upset... I am glad that my Mom was here for the initial part of the morning sickness though.  After a couple of days of watching me nibble crackers and drink Sprite, she went to Wendy's and brought me back a cheeseburger.  She gave it to me and said that I need to eat this.  I need to just pretend that I am not sick, ignore it, and it will get better.  So as much as I didn't see how that was going to work, I choked down half of the cheeseburger, and it actually made me feel human again!  It was crazy.  So I slowly learned how to cope with it and work around it, for the most part.

I still had bad days, but there were also good days.  I did have to go to the ER and get an IV.  I had a couple days off work and decided that I was just going to sleep, because I had been SO exhausted.  So the first day I did just that, I slept... I got up to use the bathroom, try to eat something, or throw up, but that was it.  I honestly kept NOTHING down that day.  So the next day I decided to try a different approach.  I got up, was going to eat something and get moving, so I wasn't so sick.  That didn't work like I planned.  I still wasn't keeping anything down, not even water.  So I called my Dr. Office and they said that I had gotten so dehydrated the day before, and that's why I still couldn't keep anything down.  They told me that I needed to go to the ER and get an IV.

Chris and my Dad were both working that day, so I called Chris at work and told him what the Dr. had said.  I was honestly so upset that I was going to have to go to the ER alone, I was trying to be strong, but I think he could tell that I was upset.  He tried, but couldn't get out of work, so I ended up going alone anyway.  I remember after I hung up with him I just cried, for probably like half an hour... Just cried, I really didn't want to do this alone.  I texted Kristin to tell her what was going on, and I told her that I officially hate Vernal.  Haha... She offered to drive all the way out here to go with me, but I told her not to.  It seemed kind of silly to drive 3 hours for that.  So on 5/23/2012 I went to the ER alone and got an IV.  It honestly wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, I just watched Friends for an hour.

When I left they gave me a prescription for anti-nausea medication... So I filled that promptly.  It was just a pill that you dissolve under your tongue and it's supposed to make you feel better for 8 hours.  It worked great... For like half an hour.  So I had my Dr. appointment 5 days later, and that's when we got to hear the heartbeat, and see our little nugget in the ultrasound.  It was just awesome.  They also gave me another prescription for anti-nausea medication (it is called Zofran) but these ones are actual pills that you swallow.  They work SO much better!  I think it is a mix of the morning sickness finally calming down a little and the Zofran, but I feel somewhat normal for most of the day now.  It is amazing!!

Chris is still working at Savage.  He is in dispatch at the moment, hopefully it will be permanent, but it is still up in the air.  He is working a day shift and all is well.

I, on the other hand, am currently unemployed.  It is kind of a long story, but I will start from the beginning.

I actually got a manager position at the beginning of March, I was the bakery manager.  It was a little stressful, but I kind of liked being in charge and bossing people around.  Haha.  All was going well for a few months...  When we found out I was pregnant, my manager was one of the first people I told, after family, because I figured they should know.  I knew I was going to have morning sickness and all that, so I figured they should know.  The morning sickness eventually kicked in and, initially, they were so understanding!  They told me that I could cut my hours, work later shifts, whatever I had to do until this passed.  So I did just that, I only scheduled myself for 4 or 6 hours a day and they were later shifts.  I still occasionally went in late and called in sick a couple of times, because the morning sickness is not an easy thing to deal with.

So we did this for about a month, all seemed to be going well, until they called me into their office one day.  The store manager, Sid, and the HR kind of lady, Jani, pulled me into their office and sat down with me.  They initially asked how much longer I thought the morning sickness was going to last.  I told them I didn't know, everyone is different, but it could very easily be another month or so.  They legally couldn't ask me, but after they heard that they were laying it on pretty thick that they wanted me to step down from my manager position.  So I did, I understood that they need a manager there 40 hrs a week and I couldn't give that to them at the time.  Then they proceed to tell me that they still want me to do the ordering, write the schedule, and all the manager stuff.... But I wasn't the manager anymore.  They also said that they weren't going to "announce it" but somehow the rest of the bakery was just supposed to know that they shouldn't come to me with manager questions anymore.... Whatever.  I just wanted out of there, I was feeling sick again... So I sat in that for a couple of days and the more I thought about it, the more I thought it was bull shit.  If they don't want me to be manager, then they should figure out the ordering and all the manager stuff, it shouldn't be my problem....

SO Friday, June 1, comes around and I wasn't feeling all that great, but mostly I just didn't want to go to work.  So I called in sick.  Then the next day, I honestly couldn't keep anything down, so I called in sick again... Well, Sid told me that I needed a Dr. note before I could come back.... Really dude?  Don't you know that I am pregnant?  Don't you know that morning sickness lasts MONTHS, not DAYS?  Whatever, so I called my Dr. office Monday to get a note so I could go back to work.  But they were closed, they are closed every Monday.  So I called Sid and told him I couldn't get a Dr. note today, so I guess I'm not coming in.  I was scheduled off Tuesday.  By Wednesday, Chris and I had done some talking and we were both getting sick of the bull shit this company was trying to play.  So we decided that we were in a place that I could quit my job.  So I did.  My original plan was to take in my Dr. note and then tell them that because they went back on their word, I was quitting.

Well, it didn't exactly happen that way.  To skip another long story, I had my Mom's dog, and he was sick, and I didn't want him anymore, so I was going to quit my job Wed, and go to SL to take her dog back.  So I called my Dr. office that morning to see if I could get a note.  I was going to pick it up and go to my work on my way out of town.  When I got to my Dr. office, they had literally JUST closed for lunch...  I really didn't want to sit around for another hour, waiting for them to open, before I left town.  So I just left.  Didn't call my work or anything, just left, and didn't show up for work that day... Haha, so ya, that's how that went down.

I haven't posted anything since Chris and I got married, so hopefully in the near future, I will at least post pictures... But our 1 year anniversary just passed.  We have officially been married for a year! ... We haven't really celebrated yet, Chris had to work and we kind of figured it might be better to wait until the morning sickness passed anyway.  So when I'm feeling 100% again, in the way of nausea anyway, we will at least go to dinner and maybe a bed and breakfast kind of thing.  Something special anyway.  :)  It will be fun!

Update from a phone... Ha, I need the internet.

Still no internet, or there would be lots more post. Lol

BUT! I got a job!  I work in the bakery at Jubilee.  I have been there for about a month now.  I don't hate it lol... No, it's really not bad!  There have been a couple of days that I just didn't want to go in, but that comes with any job. It works well with Chris's schedule, for the most part.  It is good because I don't have a set schedule, so we'll get days off together and what not.  It has been good so far!

The wedding planning is also coming along nicely!  We booked a reception center.  We are getting married at a place called Arbor Manor... It is so beautiful!  I  liked it a lot more than other places because the other places we looked were too fancy. It was just too much for me.  This place is more simple, it's just more me!

We also picked out a cake.  Chris has a friend who's wife does cakes, so we met with her last time we were in Salt Lake.  And we picked
 out a beautiful cake...I am getting more and more excited to get married every day! :-D

We also have a photographer lined up.  My friend, who just got married in October, her name Kali.  She told me about her photographer, so I looked her up, I like her work, Kali liked her, and the price was right lol.  So I talked to her yesterday and got everything lined up.

Mom got to take my dress home last week.  Haha, it was kind of funny, I knew that she had paid it off that day, but I didn't know that she got to take it home. So Chris and I decided to drop by, haha, and we walked in and my dress was hanging on the closet door RIGHT as we walked in.  I mean, it was in the bag, but the bag was unzipped!  So I hurried and covered Chris's eyes and ran upstairs with it LOL.  He says he didn't see anything though, so that's good! ... I got to put it on again though!  I made Chris wait downstairs, mainly because my Dad hadn't seen it yet... And, tt was a good excuse for me to put it on again!  ...  It was cute though, my Dad got all emotional, he left the room kind of abruptly, and my mom told me that he cried.. Awe, my Dad is so cute :)

I know there is a lot more to say... But, honestly, I am doing this update from my phone, and my thumbs are starting t hurt.  So this will have to be good for now :) I think this was a pretty good dent though.

Oh, and if there are any missing letters, mistakes, etc, it is because it isn't easy to do this on a phone.

More to come, hopefully soon.

Time is flying by!

First of all.... GREENBAY IS GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!!  Haha, I just finished watching that game, and it was a good one!  I'm pretty excited about that!!!!

Now that I've shared with you my excitement, we'll get onto business ;)

Everything seems to be going pretty well.  We are moved into our cute little townhome.  We've been there for about two weeks now.  Kimmy is living with us.  She was staying with my parents and didn't have a bedroom or anything, because she had come unexpectedly.  So we offered for her to stay with us.  As far as that goes, it has been pretty good.  Ummm... I still don't have a job.  I applied for a bunch of them last week, so I am hoping to hear from somone this week.  The only think that kind of sucks about finding a job is that it is hard to find a full-time job out here!  Everything I have found so far is just part time.  But that's still better than nothing!  I am bored out of my mind these days!  I need something to get me out of the house!

I have officially started my wedding planning!  We bought a wedding dress last week!  My mom, Kimmy and I went in just to look, and I tried on like 8 of them... But when we found the right one, we had to get it.  It is SO beautiful and I can't wait to put it on again! As far as the rest of the planning goes, my mom, Kristin and I looked at a few reception centers yesterday.  It was kind of a spur of the moment thing, so we only looked at like 3 of them.  We will be going back down to Salt Lake in two weeks, and we will look at more.  We'll have to dedicate a whole day to it, and actually make appointments this time, lol ... I think this will be one of the hardest decisions for me.  Just because it is a BIG thing, and it is quite pricey :-/  .... I, honestly, think the rest of it will be easy for me, but just because this is the biggest chunk of our budget, I think I will have a hard time with it.  And it was kind of hard to look without Chris.  I was in Salt Lake for Kyleigh's birthday party, and he had to work so he couldn't go.  I don't think I can officially make this decision without his input, mainly because it is the one thing he has showed interest in.  So I think I will just have to go look without him, weed out the ones I don't like, then we'll go on one of his days off and look through the ones that I liked the first time around.  It will be hard, because someone could reserve that day before we get him down there... It's a pretty popular month for weddings.  So we'll just have to see.  But I am happy that we have started the planning.  It's been 3 months since we got engaged, and we're just now starting.  But we still have a little over 4 months to plan, wow, that's not very long at all! Lol.  We'll figure it out.

That's crazy that my wedding is that close!  It's a day that I have thought about for such a long time, and it always seemed so far away.  Now, to think it is only 4 months away, and we still have A LOT of planning to do to get there... It will go by super fast because we will be busy.  That is just weird.  Before I know it I will be Kelli Hurst :)  Awe, that makes me smile! :-D  I can't wait!

Kyleigh is 9 years old now!  It's crazy to me how fast time goes by.  It seems like just last week that she was coming home from the hospital.  We went down to Salt Lake and had a birthday party for her at Incredible Pizza.  It was lots of fun! 

I stayed with Kristin that night, it was good to see them! I got to see Addy, she is also growing up so fast!  It literally seems like yesterday that Kristin found out that she was pregnant.  Now Addy is running around and starting to talk... Wow.  That kid has such a cute little personality already!  She is so much fun, and so freakin cute!  It amazes me.... And makes me baby hungry... BAD! 

Chris and I have talked about it, and we both want a baby.  We are thinking we will start trying soon after the wedding.  Nothing is set in stone yet, but as of right now, that is probably what will happen.  It also depends on how fast I can get a job.  I would like to find one ASAP and put all of my paychecks toward debt.  That way when we do have a baby, I will be able to stay home for sure.  Chris can afford all the bills with just his paycheck now, but there are so many things you have to buy for a baby, and so many unexpected things, I would like to pay some debt off first... Just to be safe.  I just think it would be awesome to be able to stay home with a little one :)

Hopefully I will post more soon, I don't have internet yet, and all the neighbors have passwords on theirs LOL... So I don't know when it will be. 

GO PACKERS!!!

It all seems to be coming together.

I have been in Vernal for about a week now.  Chris and I are still staying at my parents...  I love my family to death, but I am ready to get out of here!  I got used to my own space, my peace and quiet, and I just feel like I'm intruding here... I know I am welcome, but it is still hard... The good news is we found a place to live!  We spent a couple of days driving around looking at places, and spent a day walking through a few places. 

We first walked through the month to month apartments, they were ok, but the only one that was available now wasn't pet friendly.  So we kept looking.  We found another apartment complex, really nice, but a little pricey.  Then we found a town-home, walked through it, but it had the smallest living room I'd ever seen.  It was ridiculous!  So the lady said she had another with a bigger living room... It is 2 bed, 2 1/2 bath, and the best part..... a garage!  WOO!  That makes me happy!  Haha, but we walked through it yesterday, it's not as nice as the apartments we looked at before, but it is nice enough for me.  Plus, it has a garage!  So we paid our deposit and everything today, we get our keys Friday, and pick up the moving truck back in Salt Lake on Saturday... The lady who was supposed to take over our lease is following through.... Everything I was worried about is coming together! 

Defenitly not without frustration though... I officially quit smoking...  I didn't really plan for a "New Year's Resolution" but it kind of happened that way.  I had told myself that when I get to Vernal, I will be done.  So I finished the pack I had on New Year's Day, and haven't had any since.  It was easier than I thought for the first couple of days, but it has had its rough parts too.  I have been pretty irritable today.  I kind of feel bad for everyone, lol... I am proud of myself though, and I am going to stick it out... I have wanted to give in a couple of times, but I'm not going to let myself do it.  I'm gonna stay strong! 

Chris is still liking the job.  He has to go back to some classroom training this week, but it will work well with our moving plans... Then next week he will do graves, then I think he's out on his own after that.  Which he is pretty excited about! 

Now I just need to find a job, and all will be well.  Getting this all to come together was easier than I thought it would be... So hopefully finding a job will be the same story.   Wish me luck!

The move.

I haven't really talked much about this whole moving situation...

I honestly don't know where to begin though!  So I guess the begining is a good place, right?  Well Chris had his interview at Savage on December 9th, I took the day off and we drove out to Vernal.  He thought the interview went really well, and we were both hopeful.  I think it was the next Monday, maybe Tuesday, he got a call saying that he got the job, and they wanted him to start Monday, the 20th!!  He told RC Willey that the 17th would be his last day, and it all began. 

We started thinking about who could take over a lease, where will we live, all the good stuff.  So Chris drove to Vernal on the 19th and, as you know, has been staying with my parents.  Which I think is a good thing.  I think that it has helped his relationship with them a lot!  They seem to be getting more comfortable with eachother now, which makes me very happy! :)

So Chris spent the week in Vernal... A lonely week for me!  I spent the week cleaning, packing, anything to keep me occupied!  During that week I also tried to find someone to take over our lease.  We originally asked David, Kimmy and their significant others, but they decided that now wasn't a good time.  So I posted the apt on KSL and started asking around.  Our neighbor, Jessica, said she had someone that was interested and they went and filled out an application and everything.  We found out that they were approved, and I am just hoping that it really goes through!  This lady, apparently, doesn't work.  She is planning on paying rent with student loans that she gets on Jan. 5th.  So nothing is really set in stone, which makes me nervous.  I really hope this lady doesn't bail on us and completely screw us over.  I really don't think she will though, I mean, she is getting a pretty sweet deal!  We are paying her deposit for her (which should be enough right there) and we are also leaving a sofa and a love seat for her.  She gets our price for the apt, which is a pretty good deal!  We are paying at least $100/month less then each of our neighbors.  So she is really getting a good deal, and would be stupid to flake on us.  But there is still that chance that it could happen, so I am just hoping that it all works out. 

My last day of work is tomorrow.  :-S  I am scared.  I really don't want to be unemployed again.  It is not a fun thing for me. So I am also hoping that I can find work fast in Vernal.  We won't need the money, but we will be able to pay off so much debt, and I would just go crazy sitting around doing nothing all day!  It will be good for me to get out of the house.  So that's another one of my worries.

The next is finding a place to live.  It has been really hard for me because there is so much to do... And I can't really do anything yet.  It's been hard to find a place to live because:
#1  None of the apartments out there have a website, so it's kind of hard to look when I'm still in Salt Lake.
#2  It has been the Holiday Season.  Last time I was out there was Christmas Eve, everywhere was closed.  Next time I will be out there will be New Years Eve, everywhere will probably be closed...

I will be going to Vernal Friday morning (New Years Eve), and I am really hoping that I will be able to walk through some apts, and that they have something available, like, immediately!  I want to be out of our apartment in Salt Lake ASAP because the sooner we are out, the more money we get back.  So what I'm hoping will happen, is we will find a place on Friday, sign all the paperwork, and be able to move in that weekend, or the begining of the next week.... BUT those chances are very slim.

That is why I have a plan B:  if we can't look at apartments on New Years Eve, or if they don't have anything available ASAP, I would like to move everything out of the apartment in Salt Lake, and put it in storage in Vernal.  Then, we stay with my parents for a little while.  I will have all of next week to find an apartment and, again, hopefully they have somthing available ASAP.  So we move everything from storage to that apartment and we're good. 

Plan C:  I don't really want a Plan C... I want A or B to work! LOL But worst case, we can't move out of the apt in Salt Lake when we wanted.  We leave our crap there, I go stay with Mom and Dad, and try to find somewhere to live.  Then, just move everything from apt to apt and skip the storage unit phase... And hopefully it still only takes like a week to find a place...

I am hoping to finish all of the packing by Thursday night, so Plan A can work... I have most of it done... I think... Ok, maybe not most of it... But some.  All I have left to do is the kitchen (which is a big job in itself.. I haven't even started on the kitchen yet), the linen closet, some blankets, my clothes, and bathroom stuff... I really think that's it, but it probably isn't lol.  I'm going to work my butt of tonight to get it all done, so I can go to dinner with some friends tomorrow. 

I am hoping that everything will fall into place and just work out!  But I am really scared that it won't.  I'm scared that it will take forever to find a place, I'm scared of our money situation... Chris' last day at RC Willey was the 17th, right?  They were supposed to mail him his last check.  Today is the 29th and we still have no check... We  had to bust into our wedding fund to pay rent for January.  I'm just scared that we're going to run out of money.   Renting a truck is freakin expensive!  Plus the gas, the deposit and rent for the new place... Ugh, money... I'm scared that I won't be able to find a job out there.  I'm scared that I will hate Vernal.  I'm scared to leave what I know.  I'm just scared... And I'm sure I will be until it all falls into place.

Christmas 2010

Christmas was so much fun this year!

Chris was already in Vernal, so I drove out there after I got off work on Thursday, the 23rd.  We spent the night there, Santa came early because Kyleigh and Kaitlyn were going to be at their Dad's on Christmas morning.  David couldn't be there because he couldn't get off work, and Chris had to go to work early that morning :( So not EVERYONE was there, but it was nice to get most of us together.  It was still lots of fun though, and I got some pretty good pictures (that will hopefully be coming soon!) 

Santa brought everyone a Wii, and Kyleigh and Kaitlyn's faces when they opened it were just priceless!  It was way cute... Santa also brought Mom, Dad, and Kyleigh new phones, and Kaitlyn got her first phone!  She was so excited!  And Kimmy got an Ipod touch from Santa this year. 

After we opened gifts we had breakfast and played with the new toys.  Then Dad went to sleep, he had just gotten off of a graveyard shift, and everyone else started heading back to Salt Lake.  I stuck around and waited for Chris to get off work so we could ride back and go to his family's Christmas Eve stuff.  So he didn't end up getting home until like 6.  But we hopped right in the truck and headed back.  We got to his Dad's at about 9:30, so we hung out with his Dad, step-mom, most of his siblings, and Aunt Toni, Uncle Bill, and cousins, Jeremy and Alyssa until about 11:30.  It was a lot of fun, we don't get to see them very often. 

After that, our friends Cody and Rachel REALLY wanted to see us because they had gifts for us.  So we dropped by our other friend Derek and Vonee's (where Cody and Rachel were hanging out at the time) and visited for a little while. 

There is a bit of a story behind the gift they gave me though.  We usually go to a bar called Five Monkey's for Monday Night Football, then hop over to Club 48 to play claw machine.  SO there was this GreenBay beanie in the claw machine that I had probably spent at least 20 dollars trying to get.  So Cody and Rachel thought it would be funny to buy me one.  So they, being the sweethearts that they are (I love those two!) got me a GreenBay Packers beanie, and they got Chris a Minnesota Vikings mug.  But we were both SO exhausted from that day, and the drive home that we didn't stay very long.  We went home and went to bed!

Then we woke up the next morning at about 8 - 8:30 to go back to Chris' Dad's to open presents with them.  We didn't have any presents to open at home this year, because Santa had gotten us a shotgun (that we both helped pick out), tickets to the Jazz VS Bulls game (which Chris had found about a week early), and the movie Despicable Me (that we opened the night before to watch while we fell asleep.) 

We got to Charlie's (Chris' Dad) at 9 and had breakfast with them, then we started opening presents.  Which was a lot of fun!  Izzi (his neice) got a play kitchen from Santa and she loved it!  We all got socks from Dad and Lisa (of course!) And we hung out there until about 1 o'clock.  Chris and I then went home to shower, because it was a pajama party at Dad and Lisa's :)

Then we went to Chris' Aunt Jeanine's for a little while, and then to Grandma and Grandpa Colbert's.  We hung out there for a few hours, opened presents, had some dinner.  Then we went to Chris' friend, Chase's house for about an hour.  Then home after that.

Unfortunately I didn't get to see my dad on Christmas Day.  He was stuck back in Vernal for work... I did make sure to call him and wish him a Merry Christmas.  I felt bad for him though!  Even though we did our Christmas thing the day before, and he got to be there for that, it would be hard to spend Christmas all alone.  I think he spent most of it sleeping though, because he's on the graveyard shift this month... But I hope that he still had a good Christmas :(

All in all, it was a really good Christmas for us!  I had a lot of fun, and was glad that we got to visit with everyone for a little while at least.  It was nice to spend it with family and loved ones! 

Again, hopefully I will have pictures soon!

BIG Update!

So I am going to attempt to do this again lol.  I hope I don't leave anything out, I thought I did really well last night.  Let's hope I can do it again!

SO... Everyone is still doing well.  Mom and Dad are married again, and they have been doing really well.  Dad got a job at a place called Savage, so they are now living out in Vernal.  It is a really good job.  He has been there for a few months now and he loves it.  Plus, Mom doesn’t have to work, so it has been really good for them. 

07/21/2010

 Kristin and Chance had their baby!  Her name is Addyson Leah, she was born November 3, 2009.  She is an adorable baby, and Kristin and Chance have been amazing parents.  I love to watch Addyson’s face just light up when they walk into the room.  She loves her Mommy and Daddy, and you can see it J

David is currently living with Kristin.  He just turned 20 *weird*, and he just started a new job at Musician’s Friend.  So he is doing pretty well, he’s still just as big of a goof ball as ever.  I freakin love that kid!

Kimberly is living with Mom and Dad in Vernal, for now.  I think she likes it out there most days, but some days she wants to come back to Salt Lake.  So I don’t know if she’ll last out there.  I don’t think she likes being away from her boyfriend.  But other than that, she is doing well.  She got a job at Dominos out there, and I think she likes it. 

Kyleigh is in 3^rd grade now, wow how time flies.  It seems like just yesterday that she learned to walk!  That’s crazy!  Anyway, back to focusing lol.  This kid is just awesome!  She is so smart, she is good in school, she is still just the biggest sweetheart.  I love her.

Kaitlyn is in 2^nd grade now.  This still just amazes me.  I can’t believe time is going by this fast! … But she is doing well.  This kid is a riot, a complete and total riot!  She says the funniest things, and is always making people laugh.  She is smart, and already has an awesome sense of humor!  I wouldn’t trade either of these kids for the world.

They have both adjusted well to Mom and Dad getting married again.  They were so excited to have him as their stepdad!  He is so good with them, he has always treated them like they were his own, and he loves them as if they were his own.  Which I think is awesome.  I look up to my dad a lot for that.  

Chris and I are still together and going strong!  We are actually engaged now! J  We will be getting married on June 3, 2011.

He proposed to me on October 16, 2010.  It was cute.  So here’s how it happened…
I knew that he was going to buy a ring, we had talked about it, I knew he had the money saved up, and all that.  So for a while there, I would bring it up a lot.  Then I decided that I didn’t want to pressure him into anything.  He had already been married once before and, obviously, it didn’t work out.  So I wanted him to do it when he was ready, and because he wanted to do it.  So I decided that I would stop bringing it up.  Well, as soon as I stopped, he started lol.  Torture, right?  So I tried not to think about it even though he was talking about it!  Then one Saturday, October 9^th to be exact, we were sitting on the couch trying to decide what to do that day.  Chris said, “We could go buy a ring.”  I originally had told him that I wanted him to pick it out, but I thought, ‘well, if this is the only way for it to happen, then let’s do it.’  Plus, when he proposed to his ex, she didn’t like the ring.  She made him pick out a new one.  So I knew that was why he wanted me to help.  So I agreed. 

We went to the Credit Union and got the money out and went to Shane Co.  We browsed around for a little while, tried a few on, but nothing really caught my eye.  Then Chris calls me over to look at one that he had found.  We pulled it out, tried it on, they got the diamond to see what it would look like, and all that stuff.  It was perfect, it IS perfect.  And Chris found it all by himself! 

We paid for the ring and they said it would be ready in about a week.  Longest week EVER!  LOL  So the next Saturday Chris went to pick it up while I was at work.  When I got home from work, I tried not to think about it, tried not to say anything, I wanted him to do it when he was ready to.  So we went to lunch at Macaroni Grill.  And on the way there, Chris was driving, and he had his cargo shorts on… So as he’s driving, I could have sworn that there was a ring box in his pocket.  I swore I could see the shape of a box in there, so it was just killing me!  Plus, he went this weird way to Macaroni Grill, so the whole time I’m thinking that he has something planned out, and I kept asking him where he was going, and he would just say that we were going to lunch. 

So we get there, no unexpected stops, just a REALLY strange route.  We’re sitting there eating when he says, “So, I have a really important question to ask you, and I don’t know how to do it.”  So I replied, “Honestly, I don’t care how you do it, I just want you to do it!”  Then he says, “Well it’s in my pocket right now.”  “Really?!?”  “No, it’s hidden at home.”  What a butt head! 

So we finish our lunch and go back home.  When we got there, I just sat down on the couch and turned on the TV, trying not to think about it.  Chris sat down next to me, looked at me, and said, “It’s just killing you, isn’t it?”  “Yeah, pretty much!”  “Well I’ll tell you what, if you can find it, you can have it.”  “If that’s how you want to do it, that’s fine.  But this is your deal.  I can wait if you want me to.”

So, I ended up playing hide and seek with this ring.  The first place I looked was the closet in our spare bedroom, because that’s where I would hide stuff.  So I go in there and open the closet door, and all this junk comes falling out (that is one of our junk closets.)  So I figure, ‘it’s not in there or it would have all fallen out when he put it in there.’  So I move on to the closet in our bedroom.  I looked in there, and there was nothing.  Then Chris, who had been following me around, said, “Maybe we should start playing hot or cold.”  “Ok, let’s play!” “No.”  Ok… So I said, “Well at least give me a hint!”  “It’s in a closet.”  Ok.  That kind of narrows it down.  So I go into our dining room closet (our other junk closet) and open it.  Then I asked, “Is it in plain sight, or do I have to dig for it?”  “Well, if you know what you’re looking for, it’s in plain sight.”  Ok, not in there, then I go look in the linen closet, not there… Now I’m running out of closets, so I go back to the first.  I open the other side, look up, look down, look back up.  Then I saw it.  A little red gift bag, sitting up on the shelf… I looked at Chris, then hurried and grabbed it. 

Chris then took it from me and said, “Well you can’t open it!”  So he takes it out of the bag, this little red box with a ribbon, and just holds it out.  I looked at him like, ‘come on already!’  And he said, “Well you gotta untie the ribbon!”  So I untie it, and he takes out the grey box.  Then opened it, and said, “Kelli, will you marry me?”  Without hesitation of course, I said, “Yes!”  and gave him a big hug!  Then he put my ring on me J  It is beautiful, even more beautiful than I imagined in the jewelry store…

I know I’ve said this before, but he is just amazing!  Ya, of course we’ve had our ups and downs, but we’ve made it through them and we still love each other more than anything.  He is just an awesome guy, and he treats me so well.  He makes me laugh, he takes care of me, he tells me I’m beautiful, he opens doors for me, he does the dishes every night, he tells me he love me, he cuddles with me at night…. I just love him, and that’s all there is to it!  He makes me happy!

Ok, just one more thing to go over for now.  Chris is in Vernal right now, staying with my parents, because he just got the same job as my dad at Savage.  He started on the 20^th.  I am finishing out the month at my job.  Then, hopefully, I can move out there right at the end of the year.  I have been so torn about this move. 

It is good because:

¶     It is a good job for Chris. 

¶     We will be closer to Mom, Dad, Kimmy, Kyleigh and Kaitlyn. 

¶     I think it will be good for us to get away from everything for a while.

¶     We both think that it will be good as newlyweds to be out there.

¶     I won’t have to work when we have babies.

¶     I won’t need a job, but will get one to pay off debt til we decide to have some kids.

It scares me because

¶     We will be away from Kristin, Chance, Addy, and David.

¶     We will be away from his entire family.

¶     We will be away from friends.

¶     We are comfortable in Salt Lake.

That’s what I got so far anyway, well, that I can think of at the moment.  So like I said, it will be good and bad.  It will definitely take some getting used to! 

He is out there now, I am here, we are hoping to be out of our apartment by the end of the month, we have no place to live out there, I don’t have a job out there, we need to get someone to take over our lease, we need to pay for a bunch of moving expenses, plus probably the deposit for whoever takes over our lease… There is a lot going on right now and it’s pretty stressful! 

We do have some people that are interested in taking over our lease.  Our neighbor found someone for us.  They have been approved and everything, but it scares me because I think they are going to want a little more help getting in there than we can offer right now.  They are expected to pay 1^st and last months rent, and a 300 deposit, plus I think they have a pet, so that’s another 300 for a pet deposit.  I told them that we can pay the 300 deposit for them, but that’s all we’re going to be able to help.  So we will see if it actually goes through.

I am going to Vernal tomorrow after work, so I am hoping that I can go walk through some apartments that we found, and hopefully a townhome too.  We are hoping to buy a townhome that we found, but rent a month to month apartment until that is finalized.  So we’ll see.  There are a lot of things that we’re going to have to wait and see what happens. 

Some of the pictures are a little bit older, but they're better than nothing!

But hopefully I will keep more up to date on this blog thing.  So hopefully you’ll be hearing from me soon! J