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