Been So Long

Wow, I can't believe that life has been so busy and it's taken me this long to even write anything. The last time I wrote in here was in May. There has been so many things happening for us. Some not so good and some as been an adventure.

Let's see..at the end of May, we ended up adopting a dog so that Aeris would have someone to play with so I could get stuff done around the house instead of always playing with her. The dog we adopted is named Layla, she is a full bred german sheppard but the smaller bred. She is only a month older then Aeris is. She is very much like a guard dog. She doesn't play as much as Aeris does and she is always on guard even if she is laying down or if she is just watching me doing stuff. We got her from the Pocatello pound. She is very sweet and loves meeting new people now. Layla didn't really like Aeris at first but that's only because she just got fixed and was very sore. But now they are best friends!

June...nothing much happen. We was adjusting to having two dogs around the house and making sure that they got a long. We worked on the garden a lot. It is now finish. We laid the bricks for the walk way and it looks really nice now. I keep getting comments about it and how good it is. Oh...Cale, Allyssa and Bryson where also in town.

July...there was the fireworks. We actually had a family bbq at our house. We invited everyone from my side of the family over. Afterwards, we watched the fireworks at the soccer fields and then held our own show. It was a lot of fun. I got to spend a lot of time with Cale, Allyssa, and little Bryson. The weekend afterwards Oaklen had a birthday party. This time he had gotten one of those huge blown up watersides. It was a lot of fun. The week and a half later I found out that my grandma was in the hospital and no one knew she was there the for 4 days. She was there because she didn't keep up on her diagnosis. She spent the rest of the month there trying to get her body from breaking down.

August...My grandma's condition was then realize...it was much worst then what the doctors had thought. She needed to get a heart valve transplant because the diagnosis had caused so much calcification that the valve wasn't working the right way.  The heart doctor recommend that we sent my grandma to SLC for heart surgery or she would died within a month to 6 months. She decided to go for it and was transfer around for a while until after the surgery was performed. We call and checked up on her a lot. While this was going on, I ended up getting pregnant again but lost it without realizing that I had gotten pregnant until afterwards. In a way, I am thankful that it didn't happen like the last time.

September...on the 3rd we rushed down to SLC because we was told that my grandma was worst to the point that she was on life support. When we got there, we found out that she was doing really well. Hardly had her oxygen mask on. Let's just say, I was not happy at all with everything and the mix messages that we was getting. So we meet with the doctor and the case manager and decided that we wanted Grandma to come home asap. We then told my mom and her siblings what was really going on. After meeting with the doc and case manager, we went and talked to grandma for a while and my mom and uncle talked to her. We stay for a little bit longer before heading home. That Saturday night, she passed away. I spent a lot of the time helping my mom put the funeral together and putting together her life sketch as best as possible. The next saturday we held a graveside services for her and I gave her life sketch. I was happy she wasn't in any pain anymore but it hurt to see her go. Due to my grandma passing, we didn't do anything for our anniversary. The rest of the  month didn't have anything going on.

October...Shami turn 17 this year. She didn't really do anything for her birthday but we did get her a present. Followed soon afterwards was Brooke's 18th birthday. A week later I found Opa had to be rushed to the hospital early in the month  because he thought he had kidney stones. When in to surgery and had his gallbladder taken out along with some stones but the ones that where causing all the pain they couldn't get to. So Opa had to wear a bag while they flushed his liver and panaceas clean to remove the stone for about 3 weeks before they came out. The doctors then tested the stones. At the end of the month, we was told that Opa had liver cancer and it was spending to his panaceas pretty fast and there was nothing that they could do. So we spend as much time with Opa as were could.  On the 27th, Brooke and Grayson got married thru the courts so that he could be back in time for they wedding. It's was really weird reason but it had to be done. I ended up being one of the witnesses (Grayson father was the other one).

November...Korey flied back at the begin of the month. We was up at the house almost nightly. It was hard to see Opa getting ready to pass as the days went by. The first friday night, we went up on the hill to see him like we usually did when things took a turn for a worst. It hit me really hard, so hard that I didn't want to leave him. A lot of the my male cousins, uncles and Logan gave Opa a blessing. My own mother came up soon afterwards and took me out of the room after getting chewed out by Opa (it was pretty funny. That was the most that Opa talk that night). Soon afterwards, we went home. I was very much tired and had a lesson to finish to prepare for my primary class. After church the next day, Korey and Logan was acting strange until I figured out that Opa had passed around 3 and gotten a text from my dad about it. We then held his funeral the following Saturday. Korey got to tell half of Opa's life sketch. I had never cried so hard since I lost my great grandpa brown when I was 7 or 8. I still cry over the fact that Opa is no longer here but I know he is happy. The same day as the funeral, Mom had a Thanksgiving Dinner at her house because Grayson was heading out to Boot Camp and wasn't going to be here until around christmas then would be back until June. Thanksgiving Day was spend at Logan's Mom's house with all of Logan's siblings and nieces. It was a nice change of pace for us. Our cute little nieces were growing so fast and getting prettier by the day. We helped put up Barbara's (Logan's mom) christmas stuff. The next day we when back over and had our Christmas day with them and opened presents. From Katlin and Nathan, we ended up going out and eating dinner on them and Logan's Mom took all the siblings and couples to The Forgotten Carols (which by the way was Logan and my first time to see it). I told Logan that we should look into going ever year to it.

That is pretty much what has happen up to December. The only thing that has been done this month was putting up our christmas tree. This week is the Gilbert's Christmas Party and in another week will be Katlin's and Nathan's wedding anniversary along with Oma's birthday.


Well now you are back up to day. More to come soon.

Graduation For Aeris

Well, our little puppy graduated from her puppy class! She now is able to go into intermediate class.

She met so many dogs and got a best friend too. His name is Zombie! Yes that's right, Zombie. He is a full-blooded German Shepherd and is half her age. Nathan and Amanda a really nice people too.  Those two always have to find each other and play before class or most of the class they won't listen to either of us.

She now can do sit, shake, lay down, roll over, high five, some-what better walking with me, and speaks (she learned that trick in 2 hours!). She still listens mostly to me and has a hard time listening to Logan unless he has a treat for her. She is just a joy to have around. She is always amazing me with how smart she is. Her Intermediate Class Starts the day before Thankgiving.

Our 5th Anniversary Trip

Yup that's right! WE have now been married for FIVE years and still have who knows how long we have together...actually we do...eternally. ^_^

Anyways, at first we didn't know where or what we wanted to do for our big anniversary. We have no clue what to do for it. So we posted on Facebook that we wanted to do something fun for our anniversary but something close to home so that if something happen to Aeris, we will be able to come home quickly and be able to get her to the hospital or to Logan's Uncle.

Anyways, we got some replies but nothing we haven't done before. So, Logan and I sat down one night and talked about what we can do. We came up with a few ideas but we didn't want to have to plan out the whole  weekend in case I get sick. So we decided to go to Salt Lake Area. We ended up stay at a hotel in Sandy, Utah and travel around that area and up north a little too.

We actually got out of town late...it was more in the afternoon than morning like we had hope for but who cares. We ended up making a few stops on our way out. Afterwards, we ended up stopping in Pocatello due to the fact that ISU owes us some money. So we stop, ate lunch, and than stop at the school to get the money. I, of course, had to wait for Logan to stop talking to Dr. Williams. We was able to get to the hotel in one piece. We went to the South Towne Center Mall in South Jordan, Utah which was 3 minutes away from the hotel along with a Super Target which made life easier for us.

I never really like shopping a lot but it was a lot of fun. I've been looking for an Asian wall folding fan for the house. I haven't really found one that I like until we hit the mall in South Jordan. I was so happy to see that there was an Asian store! You really can't find too many Asian stores around in this part of the States. Anyways, I was able to find a fan that I love! It is amazing. The design of the fan had three different colors that it has...blue/purple, red, and yellow. I decided to get the one with blue and purple. Again this fan is breath taking to me. We haven't decided on where to put it yet but it's going to make the house look amazing.


We also found a game that has two things that dad loves.

The following day we didn't get out of the hotel until noon because we really needed to get some sleep. After we got out, we went and had some fun playing miniature golf. Logan keep making jokes about me trying to actually play golf. He thought that it would be funny watching me hit people with the golf balls like I almost did in High School. He got such a good laugh out of it. We played two rounds the route for the Light House and the Haunted House too. He won The Haunt House route by 8 points and I won The Light House by 3 points. Because we went there we got coupons to go to cold stone for ice cream. On our way to the hotel to put the ice cream in the freezer, we saw the top of the South Jordan Temple. So I asked if we could go there and take a quick picture. While we was there, we ran into a great surprise. We ran into President Wright who used to be our branch leader in the single's wards. We was so happy to see him once again. And after he left, I was surprised. I realized that at every anniversary we always see a new temple...even by accident.

We then went to two different malls. One of them, we got some things for my nephew (hopefully named what they like the most). I will call him baby D. Anyways I got him two outfits that are so cute from Carter's store. I wouldn't mind going there once I find out and when I do get pregnant. I also got both outfits for cheap too. I also found an onies that I just had to have so I brought it with Logan's blessings.

After we walked out of the store, I realize that there are a few birthdays coming up...Amanda's (mine sister), Shami's and than Brooke's. So, I started to go birthday shopping and wasn't really able to find anything. We wanted to go to other malls and IKEA but unfortunately we ran out of time Saturday. So we went to Sunday after we checked out of the hotel. I was able to find a present for one of the people's birthday but not all which sucks. Anyways, I also found a vinyl store with so many sayings that I cried at some of them. Anyways, we went to IKEA and found some great things but we want to wait and figure out what we want to do with the house before we go crazy and buy things. It took us 2 hours to get through that store tho.

In the end, it was great anniversary trip. We had a lot of fun and time together.

2 Becomes 3

Our family has grown to 3  members! I would like all of you to meet the newest member:

Aeris

I've been wanting to get a puppy for a long time and I can finally get one without worrying about paying a huge deposit for apartment. It's going to be a lot of work but we are loving her just like she was our child.

Anyways, Aeris was born on April 23, so she is just over 8 weeks. She is an Alaskan Shepard...half malamute and half german shepard. We got her in Blackfoot a little over a week ago on the 8th.at the time she was 6 weeks and so tiny! Now she sleeps so much that she has grown so big. When she's not asleep she is so much fun to play with. She loves to run, hop around (yes...just like a rabbit)and prances Charlie (my sister's male chihuahua) all the time. We've only heard her bark much...maybe 3 times at the most. When she panics she howls a lot...I am guessing she got that from her mother (mother was the malamute) along with her talking habits. She's had a hard time with potty training but is getting so much better now that she is understanding words now. Besides that, she is well behave...She doesn't really act like she is a puppy. She is very mature for her age and she won't go far from me when we are outside or some place else. Most of the time she just sits or lays right next to my legs.

Here is a video of Aeris playing with Charlie.

You will also see in this video that she has learned a tricked...walked the dog....literally. ^-^