A wonderful wonderful weekend.....

So this weekend my husband and I went to my grandma's house (my dad's mom) just to have some fun and hand out with them. Casey had only been there once to take engagement pictures and we didn't explore very much that time. This time we got there on Thursday and we went four wheeling and saw a bunch of deer, Casey was very proud of himself when he could spot them before I did.

On Friday my grandma had signed up for a quilting class and asked if I would like to come, so I did. It was funny because I was the youngest one there by quite a bit. We all but finished my grandmas project at the class, then we went back home and started one for me, I think it turned out really well. The teal and purple one is the one my grandma and I did at the class, and the blue and yellow one is the one I made when we got back. I am now making a Christmas one for a present, a fall one, and a red black and white one. I want to have several to put on my table for the different seasons and stuff.

Then we went to a St. Patricks day breakfast, it was really good there was a live band called "The oldtime fiddlers" Casey had never seen a guy play a bucket before as a bass, and there was a guy that way playing one there. We also took a few pictures that I wouldn't normally take, but my husband really wanted to. He is such a dork

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A tribute to marriage, and my husband....

    With trials and tribulations, come sucess and happiness. I haven't always thought that this was a true statement, I didn't think that with trials and everything that it always ended in happiness, but recently I have come to believe that it is a true statement and I am greatful for that.
     I don't know if this is a girl thing, or a romantic's way of thinking, or just what I was thinking but I thought that when I got married it would be a little hard but that for the most part it would be smooth sailing and that everything would be almost like a fairytale (not the birds singing and when people kiss a little heart floats above their head telling you they are in love) but in the aspect that since I had known Casey for 5 years and couldn't imagine my life without him, that it would be the perfect life once we were married. Little did I know that I was daydreaming about a fictional world, one of love and marriage where you never fight with each other, and where your spouse always knows what you are thinking (because they are a mind reader) and where you like each other all the time. (boy was I totally oblivious to what was real life) Let me tell you, real life hit when I got married and realized my daydream was just that, a day dream.
    I loved my husband dearly the day we got married, it was the perfect day, little did I know that my love would grow for him greatly and I would find out that I would do anything for him in the next coming months. I am sure women out there will be able to understand what I am talking about when I say men are men and I don't think I was the least bit prepared to live with one when I got married. My husband and I found out REAL fast that we come from way different backgrounds, that we had different thoughts and opinions about what marriage should be like and what the roles of a spouse should be. We have fought (we have never yelled at the other person though) I have cried, we have had to leave and cool off and then come back later, and we both have thought what have we gotten ourselves into, but we have come to realize we wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Our marriage is by no means perfect and we are always going to be working on it but I think that we know that we picked the right person to marry and spend the rest of our lives with.
   I have to brag about my husband for just a minute, Casey is the King of smoothing things over. He knows exactly what to do if he makes me mad, or frustrates me, or make me sad. I have heard people complain about their husbands, and I have complained about mine too, but he knows what I like and dislike, he knows what I'm thinking sometimes without even having me have to tell him, and he loves me. Casey has studied me for the past little while I am sure because I have noticed that he does the things I like more and more because it is for his benifit that when he makes me mad he does theses things and I don't stay mad long, he has even found things that I didn't know I like.
Things Casey has found out:
1. I like my hair being played with, it is relaxing to me and puts me to sleep.
2. He can give me a hug and I melt in his arms
3. When I have had a long day he just agrees with whatever I say and lets me vent
4. I don't like to drive so he drives everywhere
5. I like the left side of the bed
6. I am a night owl unless I have to be up at quarter to 2am and then I need my sleep
7. If I get up at quater to 2am I am a grouchy person and he tells me to go take a nap and he will do laundry and I am much happier when I wake up.
8. I don't like chocolate but I love cheesecake
9. I have a short temper, I don't always get mad I usually get frustrated
10. If I am embaressed or he is doing something that I think shouldn't be done I give him and look and he knows exaclty what I am meaning and then he gives me this little pouty face and it makes me giggle inside. :)
 I am sure there are more but those are the ones coming to my head right now, I love my husband and wouldn't trade the past 5 months with him for anything. We both are still learning about each other and I don't know if that will ever stop, but I am glad he chose me to be his wife.

Looking back...

I don't know if anyone else has realized (probably not because it doesn't affect any of you) but if I would have gotten to stay out on my mission, I would have came home this past week. One of the Sisters I was in the MTC with emailed me telling me that she was home from her mission. It makes me think of what I have done since I have been back. So here is my list:
1. Had knee surgery and was on crutches for 6 weeks
2. Went back to my job at West Valley for the 4th time (they must really love me)
3. Got to be here when my grandma died
4.Got engaged
5. Went to my first family reunion (which was for Casey's family)
6. Got married
7. Moved to Arizona
8. Moved back to Idaho
9. Got my job back at West Valley for the 5th time.

10. Enjoying my life

Even though I really do wish that I had gotten to stay out on my mission, and even though it was a devastating thing to be sent home and told they don't want you to come back. I wouldn't change it, I probably wouldn't be married to my husband right now if I would have stayed out, and I love my husband so obviously God knows what he is doing even when we don't. I am glad for the challenges and the trials I have been faced with in the past 1 1/2 years I think they have made me a stronger person for going through them.

For Everything there is a time and a Season....

Well it's been awhile since I last blogged about anything. We are still living at my parents house, there are now 8 of us that live there so it is a little cramped quaters but it seems to be working out okay. Wendi moved in until she moves to Spokane, she has been there for the past 15 days or so interviewing for jobs, she got a call back on one and had to do a skills interview she will find out if she gets the job on Mon the 8th. If she does, then she will be moving down there the next weekend instead of May like she thought.


    Bo is doing well, he finished basketball which is his favorite sport to play, and had about a week off or so and is now doing track. He is a runner, and I think he also does the long jump or something like that. He gets to swim every Friday for track practice because his coach lives across the street from the track and he has an indoor pool.


    Shandi is pretty much the same, just working and looking after Tage. Tage however is growing, and boy is he a character! He is such a smart kid, sometimes he is to smart for his own good. He is eating more things, we went to Costco the other day and he tried all the samples they had there and he asked for more of a lot of them so that is a good thing. When we all get ready to go somewhere Tage asks " we going to walmart? we going to Caries (Carie is one of his daycare people), we going to Costco?" Tage loves to go places, when we are going and leaving him behind he will run to the door and say " I ready, I ready" and when we leave him he cries. It is kinda cute!


   As for my parents, there isn't to much going on with them. My dad turn 50 on the 3rd of March so now he is "an old man." Both my parents are pretty much just working and running Bo around to scouts, and mutual, and school. Bo did get his drivers license, but he still can't drive by himself.


   Casey and I are just chugging along, I have been working full time at the hospital  because one of the girls had surgery so I am covering her shift. Then there is another girl that is having sugery after the one I'm covering for so I am covering her shift so I will be full time for atleast til the end of May. Right now I am working a 4am to 230pm shift and in the middle of April I will switch to a 8pm to 6am shift. Casey is still working for the Temp agency, he has been working quite a few days at Coke, running their machines on the graveyard shift because one of their guys hurt his back so he might have atleast part time work until when he leaves in August. Casey and I are planning a trip to my Grandma Mahurin's house this next Thursday 3/11/10, we are going to help her with stuff around the house and I am going to a quilting thing with her, it should be fun to get away for a few days.


    I have a few exciting things going on with me though, I have been selling burp rags at a store, I sell 4 burp cloths for 12.00 I have made about 180.00 so far and I am sewing more because she is all out of my boy ones. Casey is trying to get me to go online and sell them, with some of my apliqued onesies and stuff like that, that I make. The other really exciting thing that happened is we got our tax return back, and it paid off all of our bills, we only owe a little money to my grandpa and we will be debt free! YAY!! Well that is all I have for now, sorry it is so long and there are no pictures. There will be pictures next time I promise. Love to all!