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Wedding, finally.....

So I know that you probably have been wondering if I have fallen off the face of the Earth, we'll I didn't we have just been busy. Well we got married on Sept 26th 2009, and it was a great day. I got my hair done early in the morning, and then we went and took pictures in Boise, came back and got married and then had a reception. It was all so beautiful, it was how I had imagined it. Then we spent one night in Boise and then moved to Arizona. We have been living the past two months in Mesa Arizona, I was working at a hospital in Chandler. But we are now back in Idaho, Casey's job fell through so we moved back, and are living with my parents for the moment, we have only been back in Idaho for a week. I am working at the hospital here on-call, and Casey is looking for a job, and he is trying to figure out all of his national guard stuff. That's about all that has been happening, Casey is wanting to go to school in the spring, so we are working on putting in his application to be accepted to BSU. But here are some pictures from our wedding. Hope you all enjoy them.I could only get one to load I'll try again later.

I'm alive!.....

I haven't wrote in awhile so here is a little back tracking of what has gone on in the past little while. I finally got married on Sept. 26th, it all went pretty good. When decorating we had a few little gliches but other than that everything went fine. It turned out just how I wanted it too, and we went and took pictures before the wedding and they turned out really good, I only have one to post today but I will have more later. Casey's family all got there, and it was nice to finally have our families meet each other.

We honeymooned on the way back, we did one night in Boise, one night in South Jordan Utah, two nights in Vegas, it was all okay I was sick most of the time. I felt so sorry for Casey, but we still had a good time.

I am now in Mesa, AZ I am finding my way around, I have applied for about 20 jobs and haven't heard anything back yet. It is warm here it was like in the 70's yesterday. Casey and I are going camping with a bunch of his friends this weekend, I haven't been camping in like years! So this should be fun. Hope all is well with all of you and your families! Love to all!

Closer and Closer....

So the wedding is 3 days away and I still have stuff to do, But I am getting excited! I sewed 5 of the 11 table runners today, and I still have chocolate dipped pretzels to do, and decorating on Friday, I need to get the oil changed on the cars, and the list goes on but I am having fun doing it. My parents just put new carpet in my sister's room. Tage's tube came unhooked one night and spilled all over and they had to replace the carpet, and they are pooring a cement slab by the back door, so when you step out its not one giant step. Shandi got my flowers done and they look gorgeous! I love them, I love the colors of them. I don't know how many people will really show up to the reception because there is a woman's conference broadcast that is that day, we thought we would be smart and have the wedding at 430 and the reception at 6pm before it because we thought it was at 7pm. But no there is a luncheon at 430. And then they changed the homecoming game to that night to, so I don't know how many people will be able to attend but that's okay as long as we get married I don't think it really matters. :) Everything else is going good, Tage had surgery to replace his feeding tube, they put a new one in and said he needs it for another year. Other than that not a ton going on, except the wedding stuff. Love to all!

Casey's Family Reunion

I don't have a ton of time to write but I just got this picture, it's from Casey's family reunion. I went to Colorado at the end of July to go to Casey's family reunion (his mom's side) his parents got sealed in the temple, I met a ton of his family, we went shopping down town in this little resort kind of town were the reunion was at, and I had a really good time.

Right to left- Me, Casey, His dad Dale, his mom Janet, his little sister Toni (who is 17) his little brother Todd (who is 19) his older sister Coree (who I don't know if she wants her age told but is 30) and then Coree's daughter Zoe who is 5.

September YAY!!

So I haven't kept this up to date lately, I've been to busy with work and stuff. I am busy with wedding details and trying to figure stuff out cause a lot of stuff has changed. Here is my list of crazy changes...
1.) I couldn't find bridesmaid skirts to save my life, I had a bought the shirts awhile ago but couldn't find skirts. I was looking for a medium color khaki skirt, that went a little below the knee. I think I probably bought 6 or so ( all at different times mind you) and had to take all of them back because they didn't fit one bridesmaid or the other. Well TaDa I found some yesterday, they aren't khaki they are brown but it works, and I ended up with only two bridesmaids instead of three so I took the extra shirts back and they paid for most of the skirt. Yay! So one thing down thanks goodness.

2.) I had a very nice lady in my ward that was going to make me the lovely cake that was in my last post but he husband ended up having a stroke (his is still is the hospital but is doing fine) so she's not doing it anymore which I totally didn't expect her to. But one of her friends said she would help me with my cake so I pick three different cakes out and I'm going to show her them, and were gonna make the easiest most simple of the three. So I am appreciative that she is willing to help.

3.) Casey's family has booked their tickets and hotel rooms, and everything went great with that.

4.) I got my dress hemmed and altered and she even altered a different dress I had for free.

5.) I had my bridal shower on the 22nd it was so much fun! We played some games and there were like 17 people there so it was a good turn out. Then the girls from work threw me a bachelorette party the same night as my bridal shower and that was so much fun too! My sister Shandi threw the bridal shower and Phoebe and Megan from work threw the bachelorette party.

Now I just have a few other things left for the wedding my last day of work is tomorrow for this rotation and then I have 7 days off and will be working on wedding stuff and packing stuff I'm not using. I need to make some table runners, and do the flower arrangements, and get some of the other flower stuff done. I need to go look at some decorations that I am borrowing from a friend to see if it is what I want to use. So not anything big but just stuff that needs to get done. Everything is gonna be fine though, it is officially September, and I will be married in 25 days! It's crazy, but I can't wait. I will hopefully write again soon, and maybe post some pictures of the bridal shower or something. Love to all!

Wedding stuff.....

So I have been really busy with wedding stuff lately!! A lot of stuff has changed, I have had to reprint my invitations twice (that's a total of three times printing, and that is 1200 invitations.) We changed things each time, so it wasn't like I just wanted to do it for fun. I have been buying stuff for decorating the wedding and I just bought the plates and stuff like that. We are getting married September 26, in New Plymouth at the church there and then there will be a reception to follow. I have put in three pictures, the first is what my bouquet is going to look like (hopefully) I have bought all similar stuff but all of my flowers are fake so it might not look exactly the same.


This next picture is a collage that I did of some of our engagement pictures that my mom took I think they turned out really good!



This final picture is of the cake I'm going to have for the wedding. I think it is awesome. Casey and I wanted something different and this is what we came up with.

I will post more pictures later, I have some of my dress that I will post but I have to shrink them first and then post them and I can't do that on this computer. I hope all is well with all of you. I have been busy in and out of the state I went to Disneyland, and then I went to Colorado to Casey's family reunion. So I will write more about those later.

Love to all!

Friends...

Two posts in one day... I haven't done that in awhile. :) I just found out that one of my really good friends has a blog, and I read through the whole thing this morning and guess what? I'm in her blog, she is the friend that introduced Casey and I. She lives in Arizona with her husband Tyler and her son Brig who is almost 2. Here is a picutre of Elise and her super cute family.

Busy busy busy....

I just been busy with work and wedding stuff latley that I haven't had the time to write on here. I've also been busy traveling a little, like I said in my last post I went to my Uncle Clint and Aunt Connie's house for a week, then I have been to Grace, Idaho for my cousin home coming. He came back from his mission in Uraguay. This next week, my mom, Bo, and I are flying to Disneyland for the weekend. I have a really good friend that lives close to Disneyland so she's picking us up at the airport on friday and then were going to Disneyland on Saturday. I took Wendi two years ago in July and we had a good time, Bo is the only one that hasn't been (when he can remember I think we took him when he was two or something like that) but he raised his own money to pay for his plane ticket and I got a killer deal on park hopper tickets, so it should be a good vacation. And for those of you who don't know, my mom grew up around that part of California, and she hasn't been back in awhile, I going to see if we have some time on friday if we can go visit the Redlands temple, she's never seen it and I know that she would love to.

After that vacation, I work for about 4 days and have a few off and then work like 3 days and then I am off for Colorado. My work schedule has been all screwy cause one of the girls took vacation and no one could/would cover her shifts so I took 5 days for her which makes me work 8 days in a row now, have 3 off work 4 have 2 off work 3 and then I have 8 off. Which is a big difference than my 7 on 7 0ff that I usually have. Well the reason I am going to Colorado, is becase Casey's family is having a family reunion down there, and his dad is recieving his endowments, and they are getting sealed as a family in the Denver temple. So I am going there for that fabulous occasion. I am staying with Casey's older sister Coree which should be a ton of fun, I love her, we get along so well and have so many similar things in common. And she has a daughter named Zoe that is 5 and I absolutely adore her, she is so cute. So it should be a fun vacation. I'm going there on the 22nd and I am flying back on the 27th and Casey is flying back with me. He is coming to Idaho to load all of my stuff in a big Uhaul trailer, and drive it to Arizona for me. :) Isn't he sweet. I was going to go with him so that I could put the stuff in the house we are renting and decorate and everything, but he said he can do it without me, which will save on a plane ticket back for me. It makes me a little nervous to let him unload everything when I'm not there, I'm a little meticulous about my decorating and stuff but he knows that so he said he won't hang anything or do anything like that til I move there in September. :) So since he is doing this in July, that means that when he comes to Idaho for the wedding we can drive back in the same car, and he'll drive. I think this was all part of his plan because he knows that I hate to drive (especially by myself) and if he wouldn't take my stuff in July he would do it in Sept. and I would follow him in my car. And he knows that driving long distances kills my bad hip so if I am the passanger I can move around and twist and turn so that it doesn't hurt me where as if I drive I have to stop every couple hours to get out stretch move around and stuff like that, and when you have a 20 hour trip the stopping every few hours gets annoying and makes the trip sooooo much longer. So I appreciate him being willing to drive to arizona all by himself to save me the pain and driving by myself. Well I think that is about it for now, I will try and keep you posted when new stuff happens, and I will post some Disneyland pictures hopefully.

Vacation....

Well there isn’t a whole lot going on lately besides the wedding stuff, but that will be going on for the next 4 months. I went to the doctor yesterday and had the lumps on my breast removed, and they sent them to my hospital for biopsies. They think that they are just some cyst, (she called them a special name but I don’t remember what it is) so that is good news, I have these type of cysts before and had them removed because they can grow to be quite large and they begin to hurt after awhile. I am a little sore this morning, but not to bad. I think I might have been allergic to something she used because I have red blotches all over my chest and they itch like crazy, so I asked one of the doctors in the ER for a cream to make it stop itching and that seems to be working well.

I have one more day of work for this 7 on and then I am going to see my Aunt and Uncle and cousins, in Moses Lake, Washington. I am way excited, I haven’t been to there house in years so this should be a fun vacation. I am taking a lot of my sewing stuff, I have some table runners I’m making for the wedding that I need to finish and then I have some quilts that I have started but never finished that I am taking and hopefully I will be able to finish them while I am up there. Everyone at my house is doing well, there are a few colds here and there but nothing to serious. I guess I will write more later when I have more “exciting” news. Love to all!

Engagement...

So you know I am engaged, and here are the pictures of the proposal and the ring. Enjoy! :)

Casey Proposing.....My ring, isn't it fabulous.

My mom messing around with the camera I like this picture, as you can see neither one of us pick out a traditional ring.

This is the picutre we're using for our announcements.

Getting older.....

Bo had his first dance last weekend, it was a dance where they were suppose to dress up from any other era. Bo decided that he wanted to try and look a little gangster I guess, I messed around with the picture. Tell me what you think, and I am adding the the picture of Casey and I that I posted earlier, and I mess with it too. Love to all.

Doctors, aren't they fun...

I went to the doctor yesterday, I hadn't had a full blow check up in a little while. I had some things that I want her to check out anyway. So, I get there and have her take a listen to my cough, I have had it for about 12 days and it's driving me CRAZY!! She gave me some medicine for that. I then had her look at my chest and face, I have been braking out really bad, and I thought it might be related to the staph that I had when I was younger. She said it might be and prescribed some type of birth control that should clear it up, which I am totally happy about, Yea! Then I wanted her to look at my breast, I have had a lump there for a little while, I had it checked and the lady told me it was nothing. But since then it has grown a little, and turned a different color. I told her that my grandpa (Loftis) had Neurofibromatosis (NF), and had tumors that were neurofibroid tumors, and that I had a mark on my back that was suppose to be realted to NF. She called it a "Cafe ole" mark, and that it was related, that they usually went hand and hand. So she thinks that it might be a tumor from that. I am getting it taken out and biopsied on the 3rd of June. She is also having me genetically tested for NF, I have to have blood work drawn and sent to a outside lab and it take 4 months to come back. I had to blood drawn today, it took 16 tubes!, for the two tests that she wanted. And it is $2225.00 per test, yes I had to look twice at the price to. But since I work in the lab, and I have medical insurance through the hospital I don't have to pay a penny cause I would just have to pay the co-pay to have it drawn, but I don't have to since I work in the lab. So we will see how this all turns out, it shouldn't be anything to serious. I had some other blood tests run like my cholesterol and stuff and everything else come back normal, so now I just have to wait on the other two to come back.

On a good note, Casey and I are getting married! I will post a picture of my ring later, I don't get it til the 28th or so. We special ordered it and it hasn't come in yet. The date is set for the 26th of Sept. in the Boise, ID temple. I have my dress already I will post pictures of that on here too. Casey is coming on the 26th of May and we are planning as much of the wedding as we can cause he won't be back until right before the wedding. Then after the wedding I am going to be moving to Arizona. So that is my exciting news for right now! I will write again soon!
Love to all!

Missouri Pictures....

As promised I have pictures from Missouri. But I can't take credit for them, Coree (Casey's older sister) took all the pictures and sent them to me. I think that they turned out pretty good. My favorite one is the last one.

This is Casey getting pinned I think (and I'm not sure if that is what they call it, I'm still new to all this military stuff, but I am learning)

Casey outside right after his graduation

Casey with some of his buddies from Basic.

Casey's family (from the left: Janet-Casey's mom, Todd-Casey's little brother, Toni- Casey's little sister, Casey, Me, Dale- Casey's dad)

We dropped Casey off in St. Louis at the airport and this is him getting ready to go through security and head back to Arizona. :( I miss his so much, we talk everyday but it's still not the same as being able to see each other. But he's coming in the end of May so that will be good!

Casey and I at his graduation

Trip to Missouri...

So the trip to Missouri went well, Casey was so suprised. If any of you know me, I do not do well with secrets, I was so excited to see him that I really wanted to tell him I was coming. Good thing I only had a week between when I bought the ticket and when I actually saw him!
His family played along with the whole plan, they picked him up at the post, and they weren't sure if they were going to be able to come and pick me up with him because they said the families could only take them 30 mins off post and Springfield is a little over an hour. But they let them, so Coree (Casey's older sister) and Toni (Casey's little sister) came and picked me up at the airport, while the rest of the family and Casey were at the bass pro shop. We went to the store I snuck up behind him, and surprised him. We were both so glad to see each other! That night we took him back to post, and the next day we went to his graduation. The graduation was fantastic, they had a movie, and other stuff that made it really cool. Casey sang the National Anthem with two other soilders, and he got an award for that and he also got another award, (I don't remember what it is called) for doing so well in boot camp and his special training. We then drove him to St. Louis to take him to the airport. So I only got to see him for like 10 hours but it was well worth the trip. After we dropped him off at the airport we went to the mall. Coree, Janet (Casey's mom) and I got pedicures which was fabulous I have only ever gotten one before this. While we were doing that Toni, Todd (Casey's little brother), and Dale (Casey's dad) drove go carts and went ice skating and then we made the trip back to springfield so that they could take me to the airport early in the morning. So it was a good trip, and I will post pictures, when Coree sends me them.

Catching up...

I know that I should keep my blog more recent but I have been supre busy with work, and I just don't think my life is that interesting but I do have some news that I thought that I would share.

I have been working a ton lately, I worked 6 days then had two off, my mom and I went to Idaho falls during those two days to visit my friend and her baby. Then I work another 6 days had 3 days off and now I am in the middle of working 8 days straight, so I have been working a ton! But I love my job, so I don't mind much. We finally got out new schedule, I now work the 3am to 130pm shift for 7 days straight and then I have 7 days off. Which means I can maybe go visit some family on those off weeks, I haven't been to my one uncles house in years, and I keep saying I'm going to go. One of these days I'm just gonna pack up and say Uncle Clint I'm on my way. I do like my new shift, it means I have to be up at 2am to be to work on time which is way earlier than I have ever wanted to get up for work. I am not a morning person, but I have found that I kind of like mornings, I feel more awake during the day when I work mornings than when I work night shift. And I get to sleep in on the weekend that I work til 430am which let me tell you 2 1/2 extra hours is great!

I am going to Missouri next Thursday and coming home on Saturday. My boyfriend is graduating from the National guard so I am meeting his family there and going to his graduation, it is a surprise he doesn't know I am coming it is my birthday present to him. I will have to take pictures and post them later, I haven't used my camera much, but he sent me a picture of him and his niece before he went to boot camp so I will post that below. His name is Casey Unruh, we have dated off and on, and have known each other for 5 years. He lives in Arizona, but we've talked about him moving to Idaho this summer. So we will see.

Tage is growing like a weed. He is talking way more, which is hilarious. You can ask him "what does a chicken say?" and he'll make the noise and he knows about 12 animals if you ask him like that. And then he has two new words that he says and I love them. He learned to say Zorro, (zorro is his dad's cat) and he learned to say spider (which comes out shider) I giggle everytime he says it.

Easter was good, I had to work and Tage was at his dad's for most of the day, but he came home and hunted for easter eggs in the house. We just use the plastic ones with candy in them. He would scoot around pick up and egg open it, take the candy and chuck it across the room and then play with the empty egg. He did that with every egg there was candy everywhere.

Bo went hunting for turkey and go a big one, the beard was 9 7/8 long, which is bigger than my grandpa's was so he had to rub that in just a little.

The weather has been kind of nice here lately, it is a little chilly in the mornings, but by afternoon it has warmed up a little I think todays high is suppose to be like 63 or something. But it's not snowing and I don't need a coat just a jacket so I am happy.

I am still selling stuff for my grandpa on craigslist, it has slowed down but that's okay. We are having his 70th Birthday party tonight as soon as I get off work I am headed there. I can't think of anything else really to say. Oh I painted my bathroom, it was a mint green color (my grandma use to have that bathroom) and I changed it to a tanish brown color. Which matches really well with the counter top, it is a marbled tan/brown.

So that is how interesting my life is as of right now, it's busy but fun.

Tage with Zorro

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There is a new post, it is just three posts down I started it awhile ago and finally got the pictures to work. Love to all.

Friends Wedding....

I think that I said this before but I am not sure. Two of my friends married each other on the 7th of March, and I was one of the photographers. They asked me to take the pictures, so I asked one of my friends to go with me and then one of his friends came too. So we all took pictures at the temple, and then I was the only one at the reception that took pictures of us three. So here are some of the pictures from the reception I think they turned out pretty good, I haven't edited them yet or anything, but they are still okay. Hope you all enjoy them. Amanda I hope you love them!

This is Amanda and Jack McKie, They were married in the Boise Temple on the 7th of March, 2009. I went to High school with Jack and I met Amanda through young womens.

This is Heidi, Amanda's sister pinning Jack's boutonniere back on.

Jack and his groomsman, two of them were his brother, can you guess which ones?

Amanda and her Bridesmaids, I thought this was a really cute picture.

Amanda and her dad, I love this picture there were several I have of them dancing that I like.

Jack and Amanda dancing their first dance as husband and wife, they make a pretty cute couple.

Playing catch up

Okay so I know that I haven't done a blog in like forever, but I have been really busy. I still don't have my 7 on 7 off schedule yet, they are changing every ones schedules and they are having a hard time pleasing everyone. I am part time though so I do get insurance now which makes me happy.

I am still working for my grandpa selling furniture, it is a great little side business that doesn't take up to much time. In fact I have to go in tomorrow and take some more pictures because we got some new stuff in.


Bo just turned 14 yesterday on the 21st. We had a little family party and he opened gifts and we had cake and ice cream, I am taking him shopping tomorrow for his present. He wanted to go shopping so I said that is what I would give him for his birthday present. He also went to Wahooz, which is a go cart/laser tag/game room place and he took one of his friends with him. My mom and I took him, it was a lot of fun.


I haven't done much sewing lately, I have so many projects to finish though that I really should do some of them. I do have a bunch of pictures to post of projects I have finished recently, but the pictures wouldn't load and since the pictures are the majority of the post I will try again later.


My family and I are going to my grandpa's cabin this weekend. It is spring break so we are all leaving on Thursday to go up there and go 4-wheeling and steel head fishing, and stuff like that. My grandpa and his girlfriend are going to so it should be a fun time. I will take my camera and post pictures when I get back.


Oh my mom, Shandi, and I went to the elementary school carnival on the 13th of March and had a blast. We sat and played bingo, and won a bunch of stuff. I won several dinner gift certificates, my mom won some aspen trees from a local nursery, we won some bowling passes, cookie dough (which is really good), and a few other things. It was a really fun night.


I have been talking to Casey (a guy I use to date) recently, he just joined the National Guard and this past week was his last week at boot camp, now he has 6 weeks of special training. He is coming to visit me in May. And I think he is going to meet Bo, mom and I down in California when we go to Disneyland. I really excited to get to see him again. We dated about a year and a half ago almost two years, and have talked to each other almost everyday since we broke up. We've gone and visited each other, and texted each other while we were at work when there is a lull. So it was kind said we could do all that for the past 6 weeks, I did get to talk to him 3 times though when he had passes.


Here are just some pictures that I have taken recently.





This is a picture shandi and I took while we were in the car. I had gotten a soft serve ice cream cone from McDonalds and Tage wanted a bite, and this is what he looked like when he was finished sharing.
This is what the Easter bunny looks like at our house, a smirk and a little bit of camo.

As most of you know, I change my hair ALL the time, whether it be the style, color, cut. This is my latest look, I went dark and I have an A line cut where it is longer in the front and shorter in the back I love it, and it is super easy to style which makes it nice.



This is Tage fishing at the school carnival, he won a ball at this game. I think he really enjoyed it, he only played a couple of games because the rest he wasn't big enough for but it was fun.

So as we are walking down the hall at the carnival there are all these little kids, with balloons, and Tage kept pointing and saying balloon, balloon, balloon, so I went and bought him one, which was a fantastic idea because it kept him busy while we played bingo, as you can see he is totally content on just chewing on the string.

Projects...

So I have been working on a few projects lately and since I have 6 days off I hope to finish a few more. I have taken some pictures of some of them and when I finish the others I will post them too. I have been doing well, this past Saturday two of my friends got married to each other, in the Boise Temple, and I was one of their photographers. They asked me and I recruited a friend that does it professionally to help me out. I will post some of the pictures I took later, their wedding was absolutely gorgeous! Her dress was amazing. I also knew the bride that came out before them and the bride and groom that came out after them. It was a crazy day. Other than that I have just been working a lot.

These are the burp rags I have been working on, I put them in packs of 4 and give them away.

The edges are frayed like a rag quilt, they turn out really cute and are super easy to make, I can make two out of a 1/2 yard of fabric.

This is one block from a new quilt I am working on, It is going to be black,white,and hot pink, obviously. All the corners are going to be pink and the other pieces with alternate between being black with white, or white with black.

This is one of the baby quilts that I just finished, it has frogs on it.

This is a close up of the frogs.

The back is a green strip this is a picture of the front and the back.