May

So I guess things have been a little crazy for us this past month or so and I haven't had much time to blog. Luke got a new job that has been keeping him busy. He is working for IFA now. Things got pretty slow for my grandpa in December so even though it's less money, we are greatful for a job! I have been busy with 2 church callings (primary secretary & Assistant camp director), working extra, and looking into In Vitro. Anyways life has been busy! So here is a post to sum up May.

Just a picture of my pretty flowers that bloomed in April that are gone now :(



Mothers Day: My mom, Me, Whittney (Brandon's GF), Blaire (Bryce's wife)

Austin's 13th birthday was also on mother's day

The fam (except for Elder Bladen and Luke)

Bryce's wedding May 23. It was beautiful!



Luke and I at the reception

THANK YOU!

I just wanted to say thanks to all of our friends and family for your love, support, and prayers on our behalf. We are so blessed to have all of you in our lives and we appreciate all that you do and love you all very much!

Surgery

I finally decided to have a scope done to see if I had endometriosis on Tuesday. Everything went well. I remember moving onto the operating table and asking them if they had already given me something. He said yes. The next thing I knew it I was back in my room very tired and my body felt so heavy. You would think as a nurse this whole experience wouldn't be that scary or new but it was. Other than getting my tonsils out when I was 2 and my wisdom teeth out when I was 16 or so, this was my first true experience with surgery. Kinda weird to be on the other end. The good news is that I don't have any endometriosis and everything else looked great in there. He could even tell I had just ovulated. Weird. The bad news is that we are finally facing the fact that In Vitro is going to be our last chance of having a family. I was worried that maybe I had endometriosis because we have been trying to get pregnant for over 3 years now with no luck and my mom and my grandma both had it. At least we know now. I just wish there was a better way to diagnose it other than surgery. It's kinda expensive and I don't really like my scar :( Oh well. Life goes on right?

Easter Weekend

Every year for Easter, we usually go to Snow Canyon Park with Luke's family and have a picnic on Saturday. Unfortunately the weather was bad so we went to his grandma's house instead. Our nephew Halen is a pretty good little ball player.

Just Hangin out in the backyard.

Later that evening we went to my mom's house for a cake/easter egg decorating extravaganza. It was actually a lot of fun.

Some of our festiveness

Our lovely egg cake. It didn't exactly turn out how we'd planned.

We had a contest and gave the eggs awards

I got most creative and most colorful :)

Some of the other awards

Some other exciting news. Bryce and his girlfriend got engaged that night too! Yeah! They are getting married May 23rd I believe. I snapped a pic while they were taking their engagement photos.

Spring Break

So we didn't go anywhere really exciting for my "spring break" but it was still fun to me! We just went down to St. George and Mesquite to enjoy the warm weather for a few days. My mom wanted us to come down and stay and it just so happened that she had 4 free nights down in mesquite that were going to expire this month.

I got to meet Mik'L's baby Myler for the first time. He is so cute!

We went swimming a couple times down in mesquite. It was so nice! I'm so ready for spring. We also did a little bowling, gambling (we only lost 3 bucks), and a lot of eating! The buffet kicked my butt. Needless to say I'm ready for a diet! It was fun and hard to come back home!

...More snowmobiling fun (our overnight trip)

The Cabin - quite a bit more snow this trip! Luke packed dinner (cheeseburgers) and then he spent a while getting it warm in there, then we enjoyed watching a movie on our little portable DVD player in bed (no electricity). Pretty fun date night!



All of the snow fell off the roof and made it slightly difficult to get in.

Lukey Poo in his cute goggles :)

I would have taken more pictures, but there was lots of powder and we (meaning me) got really stuck, and then stuck again. I spent my time swearing instead of taking pics :) I might go again sometime, but not anytime soon. At least I got a good workout in that day!

Luke in the outhouse (hee hee) he didn't know I was taking this at the time :)


Shelby loves my uncle Ross & his toothpicks!

SuperBowl Weekend!

On Saturday we went snowmobiling on Cedar Mountain up to my family's cabin. Brent and Whittney came and spent the whole weekend. The snow was powdery and the sun was out and it was warm! It was so much fun! We went a total of 50 miles round trip!

Me and Whittney

Still quite a bit of snow up there!



Our Cabin that we took a pit-stop at for some hot cocoa. Mmmm. It was actually warmer outside than it was inside the cabin.


A pretty view. The back right hand corner is Zion. Kind of hard to see in a picture though.



Luke being a crazy man flying through the air!

Me not so daring :)

Just a pretty picture of a stream running through the snow

Luke bailed on that one! Every once in a while he gets scared, but not very often. Luckily he has only broken 2 bones in the 6 1/2 years I have known him :)

All of Luke's family came to our house on Sunday for a SuperBowl party. We had lots of yummy food and fun!



Watching the commercials in 3-D. Silly boys!