The China Adventure Is Here!

As many of you know I am heading to China. Today is May 23 which is Friday and I fly out tonight late. I can't believe it is already here!! Yeah!! My dad and I will arrive in Bejing sometime Saturday or Sunday (I can't quite figure out the time change yet). We will then fly into another small city called Nanjing. We will be working for 4 days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in schools, orphanages, and hospitals doing dentistry and teaching hygiene. I will probably be in the schools hence my background. We are going to have such a great time. We then will fly back to Bejing and stay a few days there and tour some sites like the Great Wall, and The forbidden City. I am sure we will see some of the olympic things as well. I can't wait to start the adventure. I am sure I will have tons of pics and great stories to share. But until then I hope everyone is doing well and I will see you all soon!

Mother's Day Weekend in Utah

It was a great weekend in Utah. I was able to spend the whole weekend with my entire family. Us three girls came into town to spend time with our great mom. Mom I just wanted you to know how wonderful you are. You are an amazing mother, and friend. I love you!



Over the weekend we also celebrated my sister Tiffany's birthday. Happy 31st Birthday Tiff!


We were able to see my parents new home in Riverton. The home is absolutely beautiful. My mom has decorated it so nice. Now, the backyard well it needs some love but my nephew Zander sure enjoyed the dirt piles with grandpa.




Here we are all my family. My two sisters and her families. There is a nice hole next to me where Jon should be but he had to stay in Arizona. Well he chose to stay in Arizona. Miss ya babe!



It was so fun to see my grandmas, aunts, cousins, mom, and sisters. The guys got us ladies in a picture and then got the kiddos to spray is all with silly string.



Boy we were surprised! My aunt Pat got it pretty good!



While in Utah I spent time with my close friends. We enjoyed company and great food at the new Cheesecake Factory in Murray. Love you girls!



It is not often we get all the kids together. Here are my nieces Logan, Sydnee, and Skylen. Don't forget the handsome boys Kolton and Zander.



Kolton is obsessed with Iron Man. We made him a nice suit of Iron with paper. Boy he is tough!



The kids loved posing in front of the camera.



Kolton Sandwich

Pictures are coming!!

Hey guys I have been so busy that I haven't had any time to sit and post anything. Well we did get moved into our new place. It went well but now I am in a MESS. I am slowly getting things put away. I try to to do one or two rooms a day. I am still not used to having so much space. We are getting new living room furniture on Monday and then deciding what to do with the family room situation. I promise to get pictures up as soon as I can. I haven't had a working camera but I will get some soon! Plus the place is not quite ready for a photo shoot. Love you all and hope every thing is going great. I am heading to Utah next weekend for a girl's mothers day weekend. Maybe I will see some of you!! I think I am planning on coming to Pony Express Monday to see all you Pony gals! See ya soon!

Our Big Move

This post will be really short. Friday and Saturday are the big move days. Jon thought it would be so smart to start at 5 a.m. Friday and get as much into the house by 10 a.m. YEAH RIGHT!! I am now busting my bottom to get everything packed and ready by tomorrow morning. I hate moving. I told Jon I am not moving for quite awhile. It stresses me out!!

Remembering The Good Ole' High School Days

Ok I wanted to start this tag that I got from a friend. I hope all my high school friends do this to show our true high school pride!! GO HAWKS!!

1. If you could go back and tell your teenage self one thing, what would it be? To know that guys aren't worth your time then. I would tell myself to go live your life and not have stupid boys control it.

2. Did you do any extra curricular activities in high school? Flirting

3. What did you do with your free time? I played with my friends ALL the time. I loved those carefree days.

4. Coolest thing you did as a teenager. mooned people ALOT (ha ha)... well thats not the coolest but maybe the dumbest.

5. Did you have a boyfriend in high school? I flirted with alot of boys and dated lots. I had one serious boyfriend my senior year named, "Gooch" aka Ryan.

6. Songs that come to mind: "Who Let The Dogs Out?" by Baha Men "Oops I Did It Again" by the infamous Britney Spears "Bye Bye Bye" by NSYNC "Lets Make Love" by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill "Whenever.. Wherever" by Shakira and "I'd Do Anything" by Simple Plan. I do remember though from the year we graduated Kelly Clarkson won American Idol and her popular song, "A Moment Like This" was huge!

7. If you could change one thing, what would it be? I wish I would've have expanded my friend bubble and made friends with LOTS of people in my graduating class. I did come from the biggest graduating class in the state of Utah so I have to remember it is hard to know everyone.

8. What did you think you would be when you grew up?I always have wanted to be a teacher... Now I am one!!

9. Picture of self - Sorry I don't have one with me right now. I will tell you though that in high school I looked the same as I do now, but with long hair to my lower back.

10.Craziest thing you did in high school. Well I was actually a pretty good girl except with boys. But I think my friends and I did stupid things once in awhile that we still laugh about. I think my favorite night was when we went and put that Christmas tree on top of Durf's house. That night will live forever!!

THIS IS A TAG FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO REMEMBER THEIR HIGH SCHOOL MEMORIES!!

My Messy Life

I cannot believe that we are moving in only 9 days. April 26th is our big moving date!! We are so excited and we will be very happy to get into this house and get uncluttered ( atleast I would be). Our landlord informed us last week we were to be out last Saturday and so I paniced and in two days I packed pretty much my entire house excluding the kitchen and our closet. He called a couple days before our expected move out day and made us aware that we wouldn't have to move until the 26th. Oh man what a breath of good news that was. We were going to have to move in with my in laws and I just know what craziness that would've caused. So now since then and for the next week or so we are living in complete chaos. Our house is torn apart, some in boxes, and I have given up. Why clean and tidy the place when it is partly in box and will be moved and cleaned in a week? I am one to not handle messes very easy and so I have had to just close my eyes and keep telling myself to just ignore the chaotic home I am living in. So please no one come over to my house. JUST STAY AWAY!! Okay.... Fine you can come by but please close your eyes!

Okay lets try this again!

Well, as many of you know we were moving into a great home but it fell through because of the poor inspection and appraisal we got back on it. Well we kept on our adventure to find the perfect place for Jon and I. Well, we found it!! The sale of this house is pending and like the other one I am not going to get my hopes up. Yes, I hope it all goes through because this new home we found is even better!! We are set to close on this house on April 22nd. We are very excited to have found something as wonderful as the one we found. We now know that the other house fell through because it wasn't the right house and we found something even better!!

Our home is located in Power Ranch (if you are familar with Arizona) which is located in south east Gilbert off Power Road and Germann. It is 2600 square feet and has 4 bedrooms and 3 baths. This house is just perfect. We went out looking the Saturday after the bad news of the prior house hit us and we were walking through home after home getting very tired. I was suppose to be leaving Jon and the realtor to run to my cousin's baptism but Jon said lets pick one more from the pile and go look at it quick. I literally picked a listing from the pile without even choosing and that was the one! We went through it fast and it was so weird because we knew right then it was the one. It fell into our hands and worked out cause it was a banked own foreclosure and they are asking a lot lower than the home is worth.

We are very excited and we are still trying to decide the exact move in date. As I said below our closing date is Tuesday April 22nd but we are having it painted shortly after that and they told us 3 to 4 days to paint. Which would put us to Saturday or Sunday. I would love to move on Saturday the 26th but we might be pushed to the following weekend.