Birthday Time

Louis is going to be turning 23 this conference Sunday! He doesn't like that his birthday always seems to fall on conference weekend. So like last year I decided to do a birthday week for him so we get to celebrate all week long. I started yesterday with decorating our kitchen with streamers and a Happy Birthday banner, actually it was a Feliz Cumpleanos banner. (Did I spell that right?)

close up of the awesome banner

I also gave him a present yesterday and two today. He likes it and gets excited about opening presents, he keeps trying to go into our second bedroom to open all the Christmas presents we have in there for family. He says it's his birthday week so he gets to open all the presents! I told him he can't though and he wouldn't even want half the presents that are in there anyway. Woohoo I love his birthday time! It's fun doing little surprises for him and seeing how excited and happy he gets. I have some fun stuff planned for the rest of the week plus we have a super fun packed weekend starting with a mission reunion on Friday night and then conference Saturday and Sunday and of course Louis' birthday Sunday! So I'll post about all that next week!

View from the kitchen doorway

Worst Doctor Appointment of My Life

Today I had a doctor appointment. I now will be going every two weeks, crazy the end of my pregnancy is creeping up on me! Well anyway so my appointment was at 2:15, I got there around 2:10 and checkecd in. The lady that was helping me check in and taking my payment was horrible! She was trying to multitask I guess, but she just can't do it. Right when I walked up and told her who I had an appointment with and my name she turned to talk to another receptionist guy trying to help him find something. Pretty much totally ignoring me. I wouldn't have minded if she had been able to MULTITASK and pull my appointment up at the same time. Then after she was done helping that guy she pulled my name up and confirmed my birthday, address, phone number blah blah blah. She then turned and talked to the lady next to her about who knows what, yes it was work related, but still did she have to do that right then when I am standing in front of her trying to get checked in? So finally she than asked if I'm on a payment plan and I said yes and she asked how much I pay a month, and I told her. The phone then started ringing and she answered it! Seriously?? I'm standing here with my card in my hand waiting for you to take it and swipe it and give me the receipt to sign. Can you really not talk on the phone and swipe my card at the same time? Oh geez, it was annoying. Finally she was done and I finished up there. Then I went to wait for them to call my name. I wasn't waiting long thankfully. So I went it and they weighed me took my blood pressure, the usual you know. Then the lady left and said my doctor would be in to see me in a few minutes. 45 minutes later she finally came in. I was about to go walk out and ask if they had forgotten I was in there waiting or if she got called in to something or if I needed to reschedule because it was just ridiculous! The most annoying part is that I wait forever and the doctor only sees me for 5 minutes. Just long enough to measure my stomach, listen to the heart beat, the baby kept moving around so much though that she kept having to move the wand thing around to catch her. Then she'll just ask if I have any questions and after that I'm good to go. So all in all a very bad doctor experience today. Sorry to vent, but for those who don't know me too well, I am not patient. So this helped writing it all down, thanks for listening.

One Year. . .and 7 days

So this is a week late sorry! Last Wednesday was our 1 year anniversary! Oh and it was just the most wonderful year of my life. To celebrate we went to do sealings in the temple, and my one comment for that was that it was so hot in there! Apparently you could tell I wasn't doing too well just by looking at me because the sealer kept saying are you doing okay? You tell me when you need to stop. I just told him sorry it's just a little hot and so they turned the AC up for me and that helped a lot. After doing sealing we went down to the cafeteria to eat. Then we headed over to the anniversary inn to stay the night. We stayed in the player's clubhouse suite. The room had a fooseball table, a putting green and a heart shaped jetted tub. Let me start by saying, I am HORRIBLE at fooseball! We played a game and I didn't get a single point :( then the next morning we decided to play another one and Louis would only get to play with one hand and I won! It was a very good anniversary and I look forward to many more with my amazing husband! I can't believe how lucky I am to have Louis as my husband and am so grateful for eternal marriage and that I'll be able to be with him forever. He is so good to me and is always making sure I'm happy. Which can sometimes be difficult I'm sure with my fun emotions of pregnancy. I could not be happier with the life I have and am so grateful for this past year!

Us in our room at the Anniversary Inn

The awesome heart shaped tub!

Senior Olympics

If you don't know my grandpa, you should! He is just about the most amazing man I know. I'm sure his other grandkids would say the same thing. Am I right? He is 87 years old and still lives a very active life. For the past several years he has participated in the Senior Olympics. I've been able to go to a couple of them over the years. Yesterday my mom and I drove up to Pocatello to watch him compete. He did 6 events this year, 3 on Monday and 3 on Tuesday when we were there to watch him. I'll try to remember all the events he did, hammer throw, javelin, football throw, shot put, and softball throw. There's one I'm missing, but I can't think of what it is. We were there to see the shot put, the softball throw, and the football throw. He did very well in all of them and got 6 gold medals. He says the secret to his success is that he's out lived his competition. It's true, he was the only one in his age group. I love going to see him compete and it brings back lots of fun memories of being in his back yard and him showing me how to throw the javelin and shot put!

Grandpa throwing the shot put. His distance was 21 feet and 10 1/2 inches

Waiting for his next turn to throw the shot put, you get three throws

Throwing the football


Grandpa with his gold medals for the day!

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On our way back home Mom and I stopped in Malad to get a ho-made pie. That's right, ho-made. She had seen the sign before and wanted to go back and see if it was still there and see if we could meet this ho. We didn't meet the ho, but we did each get a slice of pie and I shared mine with Louis this morning. It was pretty delicious, very good crust. The ho didn't do too bad of a job!

Family Reunion

Last weekend Louis and I went to the Joel Brandley family reunion!! It was a lot of fun! We were up at a camp site in the middle of Logan canyon, (not sure exactly where) and everyone showed up for part of it so it was great! It went from Thursday to Sunday, but Louis and I were only able to be there Friday afternoon to Saturday night because of school and church. It was a great time though. The best way to say what we did is to just post my pictures and put captions under them, so here you go!!

Alisha (or Sasha) and Maya chillin

Kamila and Sterling, one of the pictures I found on my camera after they

had it and I didn't know

Tifannee filling up my water bottle for me :)

Louis on a bike ride to the bathrooms

Josh and Maya, don't worry the rootbeer is empty

Maya and Phillip hanging out in the hammock, she loved that thing,
she even napped in it

Celestial had fun doing everyones hair

Another cute picture of this little one. She loved eating watermelon

All Kaileb wanted to do was go in the water and spent much of the time trying to get people to go in with him. Lucky for him, he had this nice brother Jake to go with him

Louis during a game of Koob, it basically just throwing a stick to hit blocks down. That is a VERY watered down explanation of how the game works though

The girl's team: Tifanee, Alisha, Kami, and me

The boys team: Louis, Kaileb, Pug, and Sterling