Moosen

It all started a couple weeks ago when Caleb came to me in the early morning and told me there was a moose outside. So i of course got up and out of bed to go take a picture of this moose.

Then two nights ago, me and caleb were in the bathroom. Our bathroom window is that fuzzy/foggy kind so you cant really see out or in. Anyways, right as i looked at the window, i see this moose figure slowly walk past it. i freak out and tell caleb "are you serious?! i think there is a freakin moose that just walked past!" i climb across the bathtub and open the window and sure enough! The same moose we saw a couple weeks ago was standing right in front of me! It walked into the neighbors yard, started eating the trees, then went to lay down. It was there all night and clearly came into our yard too seeing that there is now a massive pile of moose poop right outside our back door. 

And now today, the moose is back and has been lingering around our yard along with the neighbors all day. I think its still just outside. I hear there is the mama and baby but have yet to see the baby. As cool as it is to see this moose roaming around, i have heard it chased one dude, and its a bit scary knowing that we live on a fairly busy street with college kids walking to and from school, kids out playing, and dogs to take out. It has definitely stopped me from taking Libbie on her walk because i always take her to the park and oh! what do you know!? The moose has been there more than once too. haha Its kind of been the neighborhood drama going on right now. We are now on a constant moose hunt. We all are wondering whats going to happen. Police department are hoping it will just wander back into the woods but i honestly dont see that happening. So who knows what will happen. Only time will tell! Until then, meet our new pet we have called 'Moosen'. hahaha 

Blue Mood calls for...??

I have recently been having a blue mood and i think i finally figured out why and what to do to solve it. There have been a ton of stressed for me lately such as dealing with selling our car and getting everything done to our new car, health problems involving doctors and my surgery coming up in just a short 3 weeks (which im totally terrified for), being busy every day of my life and missing out on what feels like everything, and last but not least, the winter blues. Im cooped up in our basement apartment with tiny little windows so i cant see outside, and when i do look, its mainly just windy soggy nasty. So, the solution i have come up with is to just say, to heck with it all, and go on vacation. I am seriously just needing out, away, away from life for a while, a time where just me and my husband only can spend together, somewhere warm, no obligations, nothing planned. I just wanna get in our car and drive. Go to a place where i can lay by the pool if i want, sleep in till 2 in the afternoon if i want, eat pizza, then come back to watch a movie if i want. I just need out! I know it would probably seem like a wasted trip to some, but i just am needing a bit of a pick me up and i think this would do it. Plus, who wouldn't want to go on vacation? Here's to planning a trip :)

This last week....

This picture here, is what my life has been like lately. Babysitting, then work, then babysitting, then work. 6 days a week, plus my school on top of it. Busy busy. But, i love it :)

Ahh...Valentines day. Im not sure how i feel about this holiday. Obviously i love the people in my life, but i feel like its all forced flowers, gifts, and cards. Its like your obligated. And im not a fan of that. I would much rather receive flowers completely unexpected and have it mean so much more. Plus, valentines day should be shown to your spouse every day. Thats my opinion anyways. So me and Caleb both treat it as any other day. Is that awful of us? Caleb woke me up that morning as he was leaving for work and told me there was a moose in our back yard. Of course i jumped out of bed to go see it. I opened up our back door and there it was, in the garden eating the trees. It stared at me, and i got scared, so i ran back inside. I didnt want to risk anything because moose are mean animals. But, i kept going out to peak because i thought it was so cool that, here we are, in the middle of Rexburg, with a moose in our yard! Made me nervous as all these college kids are walking past our house going to school. It stayed out there all morning. Started the day out kinda fun though!

After all the excitement, I got ready and headed out to my parents house. We ended up going to the RV show in IF. I dont know why i like going to those so much but i think they are so fun! After that, we went to Jaliscos for lunch, then Ross where i found a couple of shirts for work. Then that night after Caleb got off work, we headed to McDonalds....thats how romantic we get for Valentines day. hahahaha I would much rather go eat out at a restaurant when its slow. 

We were taking her to grandpas, but her paws were all muddy, so this was her sad face cause i wouldnt let her on my lap while in the NEW car...I'm a mean mom, i know. She avoided me for the rest of the day. :(

Lovin her a belly rub

My loves right here. Libbie just added some nose smears to our window. Just breakin in the new car i guess. :/ And might i add, CALEB IS DRIVING!! its a miracle. We shoulda got a nice new car years ago!! ;) 

And FINALLY today, we both had a FULL day off. No work, babysitting, school, homework, errands, NOTHING. It was seriously the best. Started out with sleeping in (which never happens seeing as one of us will always be up for work or something), we got ready and headed to IF to do a couple of exchanges from Christmas (yes i know that was a while ago), and then ended up at his grandmas to celebrate his dad's birthday. Seriously, today was wonderful. It was beyond fantastic to get out and spend it with Caleb.

And for other news. Me and caleb started Supernatural on netflix and even though i love the show, i freak myself out all the time. Its kind of a creepy show. I dont know how i watched so many scary movies in high school. 

I went to the doctor..again..story for another time, but my surgery has been scheduled. Lets do this thingy. Ready to get it done and over with.

Work is doing awesome. I love work and the girls i work with. They could seriously be my sisters. 

School is also going good. I am on the radiology portion of it. Ready to be finished with all of it.

Caleb's work is same same. 

Caleb's doing awesome in school! I couldn't be more proud. 

Libbie is good. Getting to be lookin like an old man with her scruffy face and eyebrows that hang to her nose. Its a good thing she gets groomed next week! 

Family pictures are tomorrow. Which i am looking forward too! I love me some photography and updated pictures! Im sure ill post them tomorrow :)

New car!

So we sold our Honda Accord because it was too small and not really practical for a family some day. So after what felt like years of car shopping we FINALLY found one. And its seriously exactly what i wanted! (I didnt think that was going to be possible--im a bit picky).

Hello 2011 Ford Escape!

When we got home, we ate food since we hadnt eaten ALLL day. We were starving, wet, and tired. after a little bit we decided to go cruise around. We could cruise around forever! makes us so giddy. We LOVE our new car!! We came back inside..and as i was getting into bed, Caleb was putting on his jacket. We went back out to ride around in it. hahaha we were out cruisin around till midnight. I love making these kinds of memories with Caleb. So fun! And Libbie loves the new car too. She approved. ;)

The month of January

This last month i feel has been pretty busy! That second week that BYU-I started was when i started babysitting a little girl named Natalie. Shes now 9 months old and such a fun cute little girl to tend. I watch her the 3 days im not at work. And i will do that till the end of May i believe. Work tue thur and sat and babysit mon wed and fri. Plus doing school on top of that. Staying busy busy! Me and Natalie have discovered that she loves to slow dance in the kitchen. I have the cutest video of it too. :)

January 12th was my sister's birthday! She and her husband moved to pocatello the week before so on the day of her birthday, my whole family drove down there to see her new place and have a birthday dinner. Easy, relaxing day. I miss her every day and am sad shes not close to me anymore. Even though pocatello isnt that far away its not like i can just call her up and get with her with the snap of our fingers. But, im grateful shes still close enough that i can go visit her if i want to. Which i have already done :)

Clearly the boys had a great time at her birthday party ;) haha

And this is when i went to visit her. Miss her already!

I did my sisters hair at work the other day. She wanted something subtle yet noticable. So, we went with an ombre. This was my 2nd ever ombre and i felt like it turned out so good! This picture doesnt do it justice and its kinda shadowed so it looks uneven. But, i promise it was all even and gorgeous!

Me and caleb got a parking ticket due to us forgetting to park in our driveway..I hate the rule you cant park on the street in the winter even if there is no snow to plow on the streets. ugh.

So the other day, me and caleb were FINALLY able to go grocery shopping. And that day just ended up so weird. Here's how it went in a nutshell. We drove to Wal Mart, Caleb realized we had a flat tire. Like 100% flat. So we slowly and carefully drove to less schwab and ended up having to get 2 new tires. But on the way there, there was a HUGE scene in the middle of the intersection by arbys where people were running all over the place and pounding on this ladys window and the lady drove onto the sidewalk. Traffic was held up clear down the street. cops came. It was the weirdest 60 seconds of mine and calebs life. We felt as though we were in a scene from world war z or something. bizzare. Anywho, after we got our cars tires fixed, we went grocery shopping and ended up getting sprayed with soda in albertsons because this little old lady accidentally dropped a 2 liter pop and it litterally exploded and acted like a bottle rocket. So yes. Weird day. Flat tire, world war z scene, soda rocket in albertsons that soaks me and caleb and our groveries, $ 450 dollars later, we were home. THANK GOODNESS. 

We have basically sold our car! bitter sweet because i loved that car. But, we needed something bigger. We still have to talk to the bank and do all that paperwork and stuff but its gonna be gone within this week! Then comes car shopping. 

Goodbye Honda Accord. You have been good to us!

I ended up at my parents house the other night and basically got to watch my brother give my sister guitar lessons. My brother got a guitar a couple christmases ago and he has just boomed with it. He can now play the acoustic guiter, electric guiter, and banjo. And i LOVE hearing him play. It could put me to sleep every night :)

And then that night i started getting nauseous. So i went home because it kept getting stronger and stronger. Yep, you guessed it. I have had the stomach flu all weekend. Its been aweful. I would take ANYTHING over being nauseous. Hate that stuff. So, i didnt babysit yesterday or work today. Hopefully another day and ill be good as new. 

Calebs doing awesome in school. I am so proud of him. He's doing awesome juggling work and school and i couldnt be prouder of him :)

My school is slowly but surely still a rollin! Im a little past half way through and its still going pretty good! It is getting harder and harder but i really enjoy learning about teeth. Its fascinating to me. I would totally be a dentist if the school wasnt a million years long. haha. 

Libbie is still just awesome! Shes best at making me and caleb laugh. She gets SO SO incredibly jealous when Natalie is here. I cant believe how jealous she gets when im holding Natalie. I thought things would get better with time but im not sure its gonna get any better. She whines and barks like shes being beaten. Which is so weird because we have pretty much trained her to not whine or bark. So im still trying to figure out how to deal with that. I think its because shes been the only one thats gotten attention the whole 3.5 years of living here and she thinks she is just the queen of the house. She will have to learn!

When i have to wake up early, this is usually what i wake up to. Even though her crotch is like staring at me, its still inviting to just crawl back in bed to snuggle these two. haha

Now that February is coming up, we are looking forward to Valentines day and our day off together. We get 1 day off together and thats 1 day every 4 weeks. Thats how much our schedules clash. All the other days are filled with work, babystting, his school, my school, church then family. So our 1 day off is one we look forward to allll month! 

Searching for answers.

So normally when I blog, I really try to be optimistic in my posts. But sometimes writing  down my frustrations is healthy I think. It helps me and is nice to read back on them and see how things have improved or how i personally have changed.

Today I have hit another breaking point. Frustrated beyond words. Feeling mostly mad. This last week my stomach has been on a rollar coaster ride. Yesterday i felt better than normal and i was excited that the next day i had work and was probably going to feel better than normal which makes life so much easier. When i woke up this morning for work i was so wrong. Why was i feeling so aweful. The day before i had eaten eggs with toast along with potatoes, roast and carrots. I dont understand whats so bad about that? I dont understand why thats so "unhealthy" to make me so sick today. I texted my sister venting how my life sucks and how i just get sooo frustrated with my stomach and how i wish so badly i could just feel healthy! Im so beyond tired of feeling like garbage every. single. day. litterally. And im especially tired of it controlling my life. Even though i think i know whats triggering it, there has GOT to be more to it. And since doctors dont take it seriously and basically waste my time, i am going to figure it out on my own. Ive tried healthy diet and exercise and have gotten nowhere. So now Im going to start this process by going on a gluten free diet. Since there is gluten in basically everything, and basically everything makes me sick, what do i have to lose? oh yeah, my favorite foods like pizza and pastas and breads. But if giving those up will make me feel better, it will hopefully be worth it. So tonight im planning out meals for the next two weeks and tomorrow im hopefully going grocery shopping for 2 weeks worth of gluten free meals. If any of you know of gluten free or have any advice for that id love to hear it :)

Even though i never feel good and have extra rough days like today, i try to keep in mind that i am still so blessed. It helps me get through these frustrating times. I know it could always be worse. Thanks to my husband for sticking by my side through it all. I think he is the best person in this whole entire world. I am so lucky to have him for eternity. Here's to the next couple weeks of gluten free! Lets pray this will be my answer.

New Years Eve

For new years eve this year we went bowling with my family and then out to ice cream afterwards! Such a great night :) I of course kicked butt. And by that i mean i totally lost the game. hahaha

I have been practicing my nails. I chose to do some feathers and felt like they turned out pretty good :)

As for other news, Caleb is officially registered for school and starts this week. I am going to be babysitting a little 8 month old 3 days a week till the end of May. I am excited for that! i will for sure be busy. Working 3 days a week at the salon, tending a cute little girl 3 days a week and still doing my dental assisting school. But, i am excited :) My sister is moving to Pocatello this week and Im pretty sad about it. Me and her are so close and even though its only a little over an hour away, i know we wont see eachother near as often as we have been. But, I am excited for them and to start school and move onto the next step in their lives. Im really excited for this new year and hope that its a successful one!