Randomness

The other day in the mail I got a brochure from UVU with some community classes that they offer and one of the classes is a personal training certification class that they offer in the fall.  The classes are on Saturdays and I am seriously considering signing up for it since this is something that I have been wanting to do for a long time.  It's not very expensive to take the class so hopefully I can come up with enough money to take the class before October.  Cross your fingers for me...

Now for some actual randomness...
The other day at work we had one of our Restoration companies bring in some treats and they happened to bring in a bunch of giant gumballs for each of us.  Some how the girls and I got talking about putting all the gumballs in our mouths and I told them that I could put all the gumballs in my bag in my mouth at one time and they didn't believe me and dared me to try so I accepted their challenge.  (when I was down at Snow College I chewed on 31 pieces of double bubble at one time)  We counted out the number of gumballs in my bag and there were 18 so over the next 45 minutes I proceeded to put all of them in my mouth which I did.  I didn't win anything other then boosting my pride...lol.  Here are some videos and pictures of that event. 

Warning, if you don't like to see slobbery ABC gum I suggest that you don't watch the videos...lol

Yum Yum

Lagoon

I know this is a few weeks late but Declan and I went to Lagoon with Declan's Cousins Kellen, His wife, Kylie, her husband and a married couple that is friends with Kellen. Kellen and his wife drove down from Colorado Springs to stay with us since we stayed with them on our way to Texas and we had so much fun together. Going to Lagoon with everyone was the most fun I have ever had at Lagoon. Janice (Kellen's Wife) hasn't been to an amusement park since she was little so Kellen wanted to go on every ride and that's what we did.

We ended the day riding Rattle Snake Rapids and getting soaking wet for our drive home.  Fortunately for most of us we had a short trip home but Kylie and her husband had to drive home to St. George right after.



The Group before we got soaked




Still dry...




We are soaking wet in this picture but you can't really tell

 Later that night Kellen and Janice went to stay with his parents in Stansbury and then we met up with them on Saturday is Burley, ID for the Zollinger Family Reunion which we spent the whole day in the boat on the Snake River.  Declan and I got fried to a crisp and I am sad that I didn't get a picture of us.  Declan and I had so much fun with Kellen and Janice and are so sad that they live so far away so that we can't hang out all the time.  Maybe we can talk them into moving to Texas with us...

Feeling Down

people like to post mean things about me on facebook but they fail to recognize how that affects the people they are talking about or maybe their intentions are to hurt those people...either way, their not worth keeping in my life.

Joys of being a homeowner

I was cleaning my house last night after work because we have some family coming to stay with us in a couple of days and I opened the door to the furnace room only to find this:

This is a picture of our furnace surrounded by water.  It doesn't look as bad as it actually is in this picture because on the other side of the furnace is more water and it is being absorbed into the dry wall. 



You can see the bottom of the dry wall is wet.



Declan is working out of town again so I was a little stressed when I found it and didn't know what to do.  I sent some pictures to Declan and he works with a guy that used to work with furnaces and he said that he will stop by in Thursday to see what's wrong.  Hopefully it's nothing too serious or nothing too expensive.  Yay for being a home owner...

Bear Lake

For Independence Day me, Declan and his family went up to Bear Lake like we usually do every year but this year was a little different.  The water was so high this year that there isn't really any beach left.  We got to Bear Lake Friday night to set up camp and was planning on finding a some sort of a beach on Saturday for us to hang out on.

When Saturday came we were going to go to the North Beach which is the Idaho side and is a state park but when we got there to launch the boat they were going to charge $22 to launch and they also didn't allow dogs on the beach which sucked for us because we had 3 with us. We planned to drive around the lake to try to find another beach and as we were driving the wheel on the boat trailer almost came off. We had to fix the wheel so Declan and his dad took the boat to a repair shop to get it fixed while Declan's sister and I went back to our camp to lay out and get a tan. They got the boat fixed after a couple of hours but the day was pretty much over so we grilled hot dogs and hamburgers at our camp. On Sunday we launched the boat (at the Utah Marina) and found a little beach that we hung out on pretty much the whole day while getting sunburned.  We even made a dutch oven dinner on the beach that was delicious. Later that night we hung out at our camp and watched the fireworks around the camp fire.



The little rocky beach

 

Nice and cooked



 On Monday we were planning on going to the beach again but it was not good weather so we packed up camp and planned on going home. On the way home we stopped in Centerville and ate lunch at Chilis with Declan's family. We drove the rest of the way home and unloaded the truck and unpacked and then I ended the day getting a pedicure with Declan's mom, aunt and sister while Declan rested his sunburned body at home on the couch.

Declan's Surgery Continued

Declan finally had his knee surgery on Tuesday.  He had to be at the hospital at 10am so we got their at 9:45 am and waited until about 10:45am when they pulled him back to put his gown on and prep him for surgery. 

Doesn't he look so cute...lol

After he put his gown on we waited another 15-20 minutes for them to clean a bed for him.  Once they got a bed they had him lay down and then gave him the IV which Declan said hurt.  About 50 different nurses came in asking Declan the same questions over and over like what is your name and birthday, what knee is getting the surgery and things like that.  The the Anesthetist came in and gave him a nerve block in his leg and then gave him Versed (not sure how to spell that) and then wheeled him off to surgery at 11:45am.  They said the surgery would take about an hour and a half so I went home and had some lunch.  I went back to the hospital and waited for about another hour until they finally pulled me back at 2:15pm. 



Doesn't he look so sad



I took this picture when he was sleeping and he didn't know

I went and sat with Declan while the anesthesia was wearing off and he was not a happy camper.  He kept asking me how long the surgery took and was mad because they "chopped the hell out of his leg" and he really wanted to go home.  There was a patient sharing a room with us but there was a curtain separating the room and his machine kept beeping and Declan was getting mad because of the beeping noises.  He kept complaining that he couldn't feel his leg (because of the nerve block) and he was in pain.  They finally gave him some pain medicine which helped.  The nurse kept coming in and out checking on his vitals and finally Declan couldn't stand it anymore and asked if he could go home.  The nurse gave us the discharge papers and told Declan that he could get dressed.  When he was getting dressed he felt sick so he laid back down until the nurse brought the wheel chair.  She wheeled him out to the car and we left the hospital at 4:30pm.  I got him home with out him throwing up and had him lay on the couch and elevated his leg.  The hospital sent us home with this ice machine that circulates the ice water through the brace on his knee to help with the swelling.  He has been chilling on the couch and has been in and out of sleep because of the pain medicine.  Bowzer has been sleeping with him on the couch at night to keep him company.  Hopefully he will be able to get on his feet soon because the laying on the couch all day is killing him.  Feel free to stop by and visit him so that he is not bored out of his mind while I am at work.

Declan's Surgery

Declan is getting knee surgery Tuesday June 21st to repair his ACL and meniscus.  I will post pictures and maybe some vidoes of him while he is loopy on drugs...ha ha  I will post more after he has the surgery.