Ramblings.....on momma's

Seeing as it was momma's day yesterday...I just want to write about what a wonderful blessing it is to be a mother. I truly never thought I would be blessed with that ( for several reasons).

I need to remember that when I get frustrated that I am not pregnant and am wanting more! Some people don't even get the blessing of one...and my little gal is the biggest blessing in the world.

I wake up in the morning and she greets me with a beautiful smile. Her laughter fills the house. Her spirit radiates her whole countenance and I love to just stare at her. Nothing melts my heart more than the sound of her calling me momma, and her curling up to be held by her momma.

I recognize that she is a gift to be cherished, and the reason I get to celebrate momma's day.

So, when something, even the tiniest thing, happens to her ...Then you can imagine how I freak out. She is my perfect little angel..so when, out of no where, her eye was being lazy and going a little cross eyed...WELL, we have an appointment today and it is hard to capture on video...and sad really...

Get mad or not?

So, when i went to get Andy out of bed this morning....She was excited to show me her little "surprise"...

SHE WAS COMPLETELY NAKED!! She had managed to take off her impossible to take off pajamas and her diaper. She was just staring at me like this was completely normal now.

At first, I wasn't too happy about it, then I just laughed and yelled for Steve to come in and see it!! I guess we are in a new phase of our lives right now. If only she was potty trained, then I wouldn't care at all....oh to be young again and not worry about clothes!!!

Vandalism, police, threats, and scariness...

I took Andy to the store yesterday...We came home and found that our stroller was tipped over (I did not think anything of this since it could have been the wind)

I left Andy in the car as I went to the front door to unlock it first. As I approach the door, I see cigarrette buds EVERYWHERE, in the door, on our door matt. It is MADDED into the doormatt. I was furious, and had NO CLUE who could have done it. ( you have to know one of our biggest pet peaves is people smoking in our face, so this was REALLY NOT GOOD).

So, I call our apartment manager and say, I have never been this upset. She comes over to look at it, and comments that it smells aweful and that she knows who did it. I tell her I WILL NOT be cleaning it up.

She says the people in another apartment were just told they were getting evicted and they mentioned they thought it was OUR fault (how, I have no idea). I was dying. We don't even know the people in that apartment. Apparently, they were getting evicted for smoking where they weren't allowed and thought we tattled on them. I could NOT believe my ears.

She calls her boss who says to call the police cause it sounds like a threat. YIKES. So, I go inside and our house WREAKS of smoke...BAD BAD. I started thinking someone was in our house. Either that, or just smoking all around it for a very long time.

My manger asks around and finds out that our neighbor did in fact do it and someone saw him pee on everything as well. Then she said ALL the neighbors are mad cause they thought we got them evicted cause we are the complainers.

I START FREAKING OUT wondering what everyone's problem is. I have not even met the neighbors, how could they assume anything was us ( which, I have never complained by the way).

Next thing you know, the neighbor who did it comes out standes between me and the manager and she accuses him. He denies it and says he just wanted to come and talk to us. I say I have no idea what he is talking about and am confused at the whole thing. He says that another apartment said we have been snitching on everyone trying to get everyone out. This apartment then comes out and I say ( I have no clue why you would even say that).

He then makes a few threats, gets really mad, starts swearing, I freak out some more.

He leaves, I call Steve...my manager calls the cops AGAIN then her boss who says to put a new eviction notice on his door, this time for 3 days as opposed to 30. I tell her I cannot be around when she does that cause he really will take it out on us...since this time it does have to do with us.

Steve gets off work 4 hours early and comes home ( which is huge since he has been sick all week and still had to come in). He comes home and is ready to hurt the guy. The whole thing is such a mess and for a while I didn't get WHY US?

Then, I realized, we are the ONLY people in our area who do NOT smoke. So, it would be a natural assumption that it was us who did it. Even if we did snitch, we could never evict them and they still should not take it out on us, obviously they did something wrong.


So, for now Steve is off this week and we were told by the cops to keep to ourselves and alert them. This guy has been known to be aggresive and nothing could stop him. I will be freaked out for the next 3 days until he is gone, and then, who knows.


Pray for our safety in our family......

This little piggy....

This is our new, "modern" version of THIS LITTLE PIGGY.

This little piggy went to market

This little piggy stayed home

This little piggy has swine flu

This little piggy has none

and This little piggy cried--weee weee wee wee wee

We think we are so funny!! The sad thing is that all of us are pretty sick right now. I got it last, and now I am, of course, the worst....Actually really bad. To the point where I might go to the ER tonight when Steve gets home. I would go now, but I don't want to take Andy with me.

Please say a prayer for us!!!

No reason at all!!

Two days ago my husband took the car and for no reason at all came home with these flowers....

It has been a while since I have gotten flowers just cause. This was a good surprise. White roses are my FAVORITE flower---they are the flower we had my wedding, and I LOVE THE ARRANGEMENT!!

Thanks Sweetie, I love it and I love you!!!

Our Arizona/St. George Easter trip!!

Easter in Arizona is becoming a tradition for our family. I was in the Easter pageant in Arizona years ago, which is what got Steve to come down. We went there this year, and stayed at an AMAZING Hilton Hotel ( one of the best hotels I have ever stayed in)....

These are pictures of us hanging out in our hotel. The sad thing is we wanted some good weather, but it was cold and rainy the entire time...but we still went swimming. We got to see lots of our friends and the place we use to work.

The hotel had a huge Easter event with the Easter bunny. Andy LOVED the bunny, not like santa at all!!

We decided to go to the temple and take pictures with Andy walking around. The temple is "our place" and is so beautiful!

This is my favorite picture of all of them. She is just so happy to be walking around.

What a cute gal!!

The flowers there are so dang pretty!!

Andy wanted to touch everything

Our trip was so great. We saw Rodda, Raquel and Ed, Suzanna...lots of people and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We went to the Easter Pageant, which I think everyone should see in their lives.

The second we walked to the the temple grounds for the pageant and heard the hymns, I, of course, started crying. Such a wonderful spirit. It is different since I was in it.

We were also happy we got to stay with Heather and Mckay and hang out with Jacob. Besides the problems on the way home, the trip was wonderful and we would love to do it again!!!

Too depressed to post!!!

I don't think I have ever gone this long without posting before. So much has happened, I am going to vent for a minute.

We went to Arizona ( I will be giving details of that on a different post), on the way home our vehicle (our one and ONLY vehicle) started having problems. Upon arriving home, two minutes after the fact I head to urgent care. After taking care of that, then recovering from sheer exhaustion---we discover our tv is on the fritz ( the volume goes in and out, in and out--fun fun). We then discover we have lost our camera so have no pics, and no way of taking pics.

So, you can understand why I have not posted. I have been too depressed to post, whenever I think about it, I think about the fact that I have no pics cause no camera. And in the middle of all this, of course, we are applying for medical school again---so we CANNOT afford it.

Other than that, we are great. We are looking at buying another car and havev no clue how to do it. So any ideas would be great!!

After St. George ARCHIE Concert

Like alot of events in my life....this one falls under the category of UNBELIEVABLE!! If I had not experienced it myself, I would not beleive it....if you aren't going to believe it, don't waste time reading...

The concert was over, and let me just reiterate that it wasn't THAT crowded, but was still amazing. Since we had seen David pre-show for a bit, we knew where he would be POST SHOW. So, we decided since we were staying somewhere really close, and we didn't have any plans...we would wait around .

So, we just "hung out" with other people who had the same idea. We were not prepared for the cold or anything really for that matter.

Dixie's own little security gaurds were there ,goofing off, going on power trips all over the place. We actually made friends with a few of them.





Ever person kept telling us something different. "David is gone already" , "oh, actually he is at his AFTER party" ( we confirmed he wasn't cause we called someone who was AT it to verify). After a while, we started telling our Archie stories and ran into a girl, Raegan and her family (that is her in the pic below)

We told them that we were going to wait out the duration to see him. We became fast friends with Raegan, as we shared similar interests. Her family left, but we told her she needed to hang with us.

After about an hour, the crowd started dwindling... Archie's manager RAY came out ( at the time I didn't realize it was him) and told us we needed to leave, he wasn't there...blah blah blah. I am actually going to edit those details because he was HORRIBLE HORRIBLE to us!!!

What we never got was if he, in fact, was NOT there, why was the security there? And Why was his manager there? They again ALL kept giving us different, unbeleivable info. His manager comes out AGAIN, then says something like "YOU ARE STILL HERE?" What kind of psycho freaks are still here?"

I don't remember all the details of EVERYTHING he said, just the way he made us all feel. He made us all feel like dirt. He kept telling us to respect his privacy and not to be the people that we are. I know that after the fact we all said we were close to tears. This guy was going OFF on us. I could NOT beleive that his manager was so ruthless and meanspirited. We were doing nothing illegal, we weren't being loud ( I know, hard to beleive) or crossing ANY lines.

Did he know his client, was, DAVID ARCHULETTA? Did he know the kind of crowds that followed him? If David knew what was happening, would he let it happen? RAY kept saying something like David was afraid to come out. He just kept going OFF and off and telling us we were so out of line.

Finally Raegan, got up some courage and started responding to RAY. She was saying I don't think we are doing anything wrong, we know David came out and saw people in BOISE ( there was a man there who confirmed that the SAME stuff happened at the concert in BOISE, manager came out, said he was gone...then David comes out and talks with everyone).

So, we waited some more. LONG story short, the manager comes out again and tells us that we are bad people ( I actually had tears in my eyes). Then, a COP comes out and says "I think you should go home now."

So, our friend Reagan is there by herself and we know we can't leave her there. So, we tell her to get in the car (where at this point the cop is pushing us away and we are trying to tell him to hold up while we figure things out). Reagan starts crying, then calls her mom. ( skipping so much it isn't even funny)

My mom is there at that point and drives with us to the temple to meet her mom cause everyone knows where the temple is. We wait for FOREVER (her mom is at the after party).

Her mom shows up in a car and says thanks. Then, Kaylie all of a sudden says " I think that is David's Dad in the car". " are we delusional now?' I kept saying that was impossible.

If Raegan knew them, then why was she waiting. So, we have to go home (and our place is RIGHT by the venue) when we see Reagan's car pull in front of us and right to David's bus. At this point, we were so confused, freaked out and just crazy we did not know what was going on. So, we followed. (I forgot to mention she gave us her cell number, we went through alot). Come to find out it WAS David's dad ( we still don't know how he was in their car and the connection.

We were DONE at this point so just decided to go home (Reagan never met him, he was ASLEEP apparently).

Part 2 of the end of the night---yes there is more!!

Mom is driving the car right in front of where we were suppose to be and all of a sudden--she BLACKS out!! (NOT KIDDING). She forgets she is at the wheel, isn't driving and starts asking where she is. I actually slap her across the face and say STOP, push the break!!!!

She is so out of it, we weren't going that fast....so I jumped out of the car, ran around and jumped on the break and on her. (COME TO FIND OUT WHILE AT THE TEMPLE LOT WAITING SHE TOOK A SLEEPING PILL)--we found that out later of course.

I tell Kaylie at this point to take mom inside while I park the car, and Jessica to stay with me cause I didn't want to be alone.

We park across the street when we see a cop pull up. NO CLUE WHAT HE WANTS OR WHY HE IS THERE. He stopped his car to the side of us, blocking us from walking across the street. We get out, he gets out. Then he says "are you guys coming from the concert?" We, of course say "NO." He says" good, cause this car fits the description of a car that was stalking David and we need to find and question those people."

We say we were just headed home....and need to get in...Then he lets us go.

UNBELEIVABLE!!!!---Came inside with a sour taste in our mouths. It felt like the night was ruined and Archie really wasn't that cool if he had a manager like that. We were so upset, going to tears. And, of course, this story no one really beleives, so that doesn't help.

HOW THIS AFFECTS SALT LAKE CONCERT

We did go to the concert in Salt Lake, a little shooken up ( still keeping contact with Reagan). The manager while in St. George said if we had acted differently he would have let us meet him ( if we would have been different, we would not have been there and NEVER could meet him then---DUH). We seriously thought that the manager would see us and make us leave--I wish I could protray just how awful he was to us so we would feel this way.

My sister decided she wanted to be the bigger person and find RAY after the concert and apologize. We had thought it over and realized how we could have come across a little on the scary crazy side (it was just cause no one was there and we were the ONLY ones) and how RAY was really just protecting his client. No matter how poorly he was doing it and how he made us feel, we should apologize.

So, we found him AFTER the concert and he remembered us. We actually had a nice chat and said we were sorry we were a little crazy. (TO PUT IT SHORT)

LONG STORY SHORT---we still love ARchie, this is the longest post ever. Still a little at odds with his manager, but aren't afraid to go to his concerts anymore!!