Balloon to Heaven

I sent a balloon to Heaven today. I watched it float up into the clouds until I could no longer see it. With it I sent a wish..a wish that my brother had a good birthday. Today he would have been 24.

He has the most beautiful headstone I have ever seen. Too bad the stupid birds always poop on it.

Happy Birthday Erik

We love you

10 things

Thanks Raquel and Kaitlin!

Terms of this award: must list 10 things about yourself, thank the person who gave you this award, and pass it on to 10 wonderful bloggers.

1. I sleep with my contacts in every night..I know it's bad. But, I am paranoid that if something happens during the night, I need to see!!

2. Zach and I have been married about 7 months and HE is already baby hungry-it's your fault Karlie! But we will be finishing school and getting jobs before I ever even consider that! (but we do have names picked) haha

3. I can only fall asleep if I'm on my belly, with my hand under my face, with the fan on.

4. Zach and I just got new phones-2 for $50 super sweet! Palm Pre and Palm Pixie

5. I hate blow drying my hair!! I get really hot and when I'm hot I'm very ornery. If only Zach would let me cut my hair short..like to my shoulders.

6. We are so very very happy that LEE DEWYZE won American Idol haha we never missed an episode!

7. I love playing Yahtzee and Phase 10 with Zach. It's one of our favorite things to do when we're bored!

8. We go out to eat and go to movies a little more frequently than we should...mainly Firehouse, Cafe Rio, and Old Grist Mill. Lately we've seen: Date Night, Iron Man 2, and Robin Hood. and..Prince of Persia came out today... woohoo

9. I love DVR and $1 Redbox movies! Oh what would we do without them!

10. Grandma takes me, mom, and my aunt out to a yummy lunch EVERY Friday. Boy do I love Fridays!

I tag: Karlie, Amy, Gentry, Kaylee, Kylie, Amber, and Tia!

really?

How does a cell phone fall out of your pocket and land in a bucket of stain? Well I don't really know but you can ask Zach! Of all places-it falls into a bucket of STAIN? Haha the funny thing is...it still works!? He took it all apart and wiped it down and somehow it still functions just fine. Well.. except for the screen.. it is a little dark and hard to see because it literally got stained. Even though the phone still works...calls just fine, charges just fine, rings...ect.- he still thinks he needs a new one. hmm are you sure it "fell" out of your pocket Zachary? Or are you just wanting a new phone because I'm getting my upgrade soon!
Haha I just thought it was rather amazing that a phone can still work after being submerged in stain. However, I don't suggest you try this at home-you may not be so lucky!

When Will I?

As Memorial Day and your Birthday are getting closer I keep having questions continually flood my mind. I thought I would write them down to get them out of my head for a while.

When will I stop having dreams that you're still alive? So alive that when I wake up, reality overcomes me and leaves me feeling disappointed that you were so close. The dreams are so real-we have conversations; your voice sounds so clear and distinct. Will your voice begin to fade?

When will I have a relationship with Gregory like I did with you? When he gets married? That won't be forever. When he gets over the teenage stage? He may be my "big" brother but he will never be my older brother.

When will I stop feeling bad about all the mean things I ever said and did to you? You know I was just a bratty, teenage, little sister right? I wish I could tell you sorry in person.

When will Mom and Dad truly be happy again? When will that hole be filled? What can I do?

When will all the memories I have of you begin to fade away? When I grow old without you-will I still remember the little things you told me- like when you told me you wanted to name your first little boy Lincoln so you could call him "link"

When will I have kids? Will they have already met their Uncle Erik while they were in Heaven? I hope so. You would have been the best Uncle...

When will I get to see you again? A year and a half has gone by and it feels like it's been forever. I wish I knew the exact date of the Second Coming so I could count down. Will it really be 2012 like some say? That movie freaked me out.

When will I fully understand why all of this has happened?

When will I?

I did it- I got in!!

FINALLY- no more anticipating, no more playing the waiting game, no more being a nervous wreck- because I got accepted into the Radiology Program at Weber State!! I will start this Fall and go to class there a couple times a week and also do 24 clinical hours a week at The Logan Regional Hospital! We don't have to move. YaY! I have been working at this for a long time and now finally something has come of it! I'm very excited to get started. It feels good to know what I'm actually going to do with my life now.

Powerade for life!

So I told Zach that I found Powerade on sale for 25 cents a bottle and he went nuts! We were on powerade outings for 3 days because everywhere was sold out! He made me call Smiths, Smith's Market Place and both Walmarts everyday to see if they got anymore in stock. So finally after going from store to store each day and searching for different flavors we ended up with a total of 128 bottles of freaking Powerade!!! It is a little excessive if you ask me but Zach thinks it's just the greatest thing to have one for work everyday and not have to buy pop or anything forever. I guess our spare bedroom comes in good use to store our Powerade. . .The picture does make me thirsty though :)

Ready or not- here we come!

So.. Zach and I recently got a calling together at church. We are going to be teaching our first primary class on Sunday. What age might you ask? The cute little 5 year olds! I hope they are all well-behaved, polite, cute, loving munchkins! Am I asking too much? Guess we will find out soon! We are so excited to be able to teach together, I think it will be a blast! But they told us they don't like teachers to bring treats anymore unless it really ties into the lesson..WHAT?! I always got treats in primary growing up. Plus I thought that would give us some major brownie points with the kids! Zach thinks we should somehow tie treats into every lesson haha. I just hope we can keep them occupied for the whole hour!