Life as we know it...crazy!

Hello! Our summer flew by and it's sad that it's over. As I sat down and reflected on what we did and accomplished it put a huge smile on my face. So are you ready? Our summer started off with a bang. We finished spring semester at school and packed up our entire apartment on Lance Street in Midvale and moved to Salt Lake. We packed my cute little Versa to the max with our clothes, and shoved everything else we owned into a 14ft moving truck (mistake on my part). With the help of our lovely family and friends we had everything moved out of our old place and into our new place within three hours. It was amazing! We love our new apartment! All thanks to our cousins Steven and Emilee for hooking us up! I have had so much fun decorating it and enjoy living so close to everything we love to do. With this move we gained the best neighbors and friends. We have had to learn how to fight the heat, combat spiders and other creepy crawly bugs, and squeeze things into our smaller freezer....

Yesterday on my way home from church I received the most unexpected and devastating news that my sweet Grandma K had suffered from a stroke. Not your typical news you want to hear after such a rewarding Sunday. Initially, I didn't know what to think, but when I told Spencer, it hit me that she might not make it. As we waited to hear from my parents to see how things were going, my sisters and I were talking to each other and came to the conclusion that we needed to pray. Since we all live in different cities, these were done individually. A little background, Grandma and Grandpa had gone camping with my parents, Aunt Ann and Uncle Gregory, and our good and lifelong family friends the Sandmires. On Sunday morning she had complained of her head hurting and slumped over, being caught by a table (that in all honesty provided her to live for the next little bit). My parents described they instantly knew she had suffered a stroke as her left side of her face was droopy and her very slur...

I had an experience a few weeks ago that helped me realize the power of prayer. This is kind of personal (not kind of... it is very personal), but I wanted to share it and maybe someone could benefit from it. For a while I have had abnormal bleeding (for long periods of time), not thinking really anything of it, I ignored it for months actually. At times it would be pretty painful, took some IB Profin, and I ignored it. I was talking to someone who said that with the IUD that I had, that bleeding that bad was not normal. Again, I didn't think anything of it. Spencer and I have been talking about our future family and this came up in conversation. Spencer is not as excited about starting our family this young but I am all over it. I was surprised when he asked me to go get it checked out, because something could be wrong. It took for me to hear him say that to go schedule an appointment. Of course I looked online of what it could possibly be and then I got nervous. I had be...

What is love? (Come on I know all of you started singing it... What is love... baby don't hurt me... at all!). With Valentine's Day approaching I thought this would be an appropriate time to post again(of course it is going to be mushy!). I keep telling myself I need to post more, but I don't, I am terrible at it. So I hope you forgive me and enjoy! The past couple of months time has just flown by and there are times that I wish I could slow it down just for a minute so that I can catch up. I feel like I have been running a marathon with all that I have been doing. With me being in school again, and the husband being totally engulfed by school and work, there has hardly been time for us to do anything. If you have read my other posts, you know I say this a lot, but being married to an engineer student is hard. Everyday I have to compete with text books, coding processes, MatLab, and extremely boring videos on how to solve problems. There are still times that I am bitter b...

Merry Christmas one and all! This is one of my most favorite times of the year, and for those of you who know me, know I take a ton of pictures. So I decided to not spam your Facebook feed or Instagram feed with all of my pictures. So this is why I am blogging, to share more than I already have! December is always a crazy time of the year, and as usual goes by way too fast. Soon it will be 2016, and boy do we have a lot in store for us. So what have we done this December? -We started it off by doing lots of preparing for end of the semester, and both of us going back to school by saving money, applying for new jobs/promotions, and enjoying the time we could spend with each other. One tradition we have started and hope to keep up is going to the Festival of Trees. This year did not disappoint and I loved reading all of the stories about the trees that were donated. This tradition holds a special place in my heart as all the proceeds go to Primary Children's Hospital. Every year I ...

Friends, for my church I am part of wonderful organization called the Relief Society... maybe you have heard of us? Just kidding I am sure you have! Anyway, I have the opportunity to be part of the presidency. Part of my calling is being over activities. When I first was called I was quite nervous to think of activities that everyone would like. I also had quite the challenge as we were struggling getting sisters to come. I don't know what it's been but I know that Heavenly Father has blessed our ward and every activity we have done has been very successful! Today we had a wonderful activity! I was wanting to do a service project and wanted a good outcome. As I pondered over what the theme should be, I felt as if it should be along the lines of being a super hero (since those are so big right now). So I stuck with the theme and changed it up a bit. Here is what I came up with... "S.O.U.P.E.R. Saturday". I had sign-ups for soup, salad, and rolls, and with this I pass...

I had the lovely opportunity to throw a baby shower with my oldest sister Lindsey for my twinner Kelsey. We decided to go with the theme of "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice." It was so much fun and I'll be honest made me super baby hungry! I am so excited to become an Aunt again, and even more excited to meet baby Mia. Yay for baby girls! Here are some highlights from the shower, it really did turn out super cute! We had a headband making station to add to this little girl's SPARKLE! So no matter where she goes she will leave a little sparkle! All of the headbands turned out so different and so cute!  I had so much fun making a fabric garland (and it totally matches Mia's bedding made by Nana Cunningham). It has floral fabric, gold triangle fabric, lilac fabric, gold glitter ribbon, gold and cream polka-dot fabric. It turned out so cute, I am quite proud (not to sound conceited or anything).  For food we wanted to stick with the ...