May Birthdays and Graduation

May was a fun, busy month full of birthday, holidays, graduation, and a mini vacation. First up was David's mom's 50th birthday. We invited David's family over for dinner that weekend to celebrate. We decided to make mini pizzas and let everyone create their own. It was very yummy! We had sausage, pepperoni, olives, green peppers, pineapple, canadian bacon, blue cheese, mozzarella, cheddar, and parmesan. Here is David's mom opening her gag gift from us. Since she is now over the hill, we gave her a giant Book of Mormon along with a magnifying glass to help. For real, we gave her a gift card to Lowe's and the promise to spend a weekend helping her with a job of her choice around her house - painting a room, weeding the garden, whatever she wants.

On May 26, we celebrated David's sister's high school graduation and David's 27th birthday! Below are me, Kelli, and Cami (David's cousin) after the graduation. Kelli will start at BYU in the fall!

After graduation, we all went to Chili's to celebrate!

After dinner, we went to David's parent's house to celebrate David's birthday. (It was a late night!) First, though, we gave Kelli a small graduation gift. Her first bottle of perfume! (Marc Jacobs Daisy) Doesn't David look so cute in this picture!

On to the birthday cake! I knew we would all be stuffed from dinner, so I purchased a mini cake from a place in Orem called The Chocolate: Dessert Cafe.

I didn't realize David was making that face when I selected this picture. Sorry David! Here he is opening all his presents. His parents and I decided to do a sports themed birthday for David this year. He got a basketball, tennis balls, tennis racquet, soccer ball, and some other stuff I can't remember.

Then came his present from me! He got a golf glove and three private lessons with a golf professional!! David decided a year ago that he wanted to learn to golf. He goes to the driving range but has never had any formal training and does not know anything about proper technique so I thought it was the perfect gift. In case you can't tell, I was really really excited to give him his gift!

To end the night, David's family wrote a song and sang it to David. It was really cute! It was to the tune of that song "There She Goes". (But it was "There He Goes) David's mom put it together because for Mother's Day, David wrote and performed with Ben a song for her. It was written to the tune of a song that Mike Meyers sings in the movie So I Married an Ax Murderer. All in all it was a fun night! Happy Birthday David - I love you!

How to Not Grocery Shop for a Month

Today is June 25th. I have not grocery shopped in a month. Well, that is a lie. I have bought three items: bread, milk, and cereal. Other than that, I seriously have not grocery shopped. Would you like to know the secret? Here is what it takes:

1. Go on as many trips out of town as possible.

2. Eat at other people's houses as much as possible.

3. Make giant freezer meals.

4. Eat every last thing in your pantry.

Seriously, though, I am a bit surprised that I managed to go this long! In the last month, David and I have been to Colorado, Vernal, and California. At the beginning of May, my ward had a Freezer Meal Frenzy party. I signed up to make three of the freezer meals. During the last month, David and I ate two of them - creamy chicken taquitoes and chicken broccoli bake. They seriously each lasted us three nights of dinners. I still have my third one to eat so my grocery shopping strike will continue even longer. We have literally eaten almost every last thing in our pantry/refrigerator. There are a few ramen noodle packages left, though. I am hoping to make it to July. We shall see.

In other news, get ready for lots of blog updates about our fun adventures this summer! I intend to catch up this weekend!

Easter Weekend Pt 3

On our way home from Ogden over Easter Weekend, we decided to stop by the Hill Air Force Aerospace Museum. David was so excited! Here are a few pictures from the museum. It was really cool to see all the planes. The ones outside were GIGANTIC! It was really cool.

This is David's favorite aircraft.

This helicopter was really cool. The man who took the picture cut off the top of the helicopter, which was sad, because that was the coolest part. It had two separate rotating blade things. (Ignore my technical terms)

This was David's favorite World War II era aircraft.

If you are ever near Ogden/North Salt Lake, you should stop by! (Plus it is free)

Easter Weekend Pt 2

After our visit to Antelope Island (why is it even called that if it mainly has buffalo), we headed up to Ogden for the fun part of our trip. I had bought off of Groupon a coupon to go rock climbing, indoor sky-diving, and indoor surfing. I had never been to Ogden before, but it was actually a cute little town. They have redone "downtown" Ogden. They built a bunch of new restaurants, a new movie theater, and then the place we went to that had the skydiving, rock climbing, surfing, a Gold's Gym, a bowling alley, and Costa Vida.

Our first stop was iFly to go indoor skydiving! I am waaaayy too chicken to ever skydive for real, but I had no problem with this. After a short lesson on the proper position to take in the skydiving wind tunnel, we suited up and got ready to go in.

We couldn't take our camera with us to the waiting chamber, but we did get a DVD of our flights. Below is a picture of a girl trying out some cool moves. We didn't get to do anything like that since it was our first time.

It was really fun! I loved it! The wind is crazy in there! You have to wear goggles and ear plugs and a helmet. You can't hear anything while you are in there so the instructor has to communicate with you through different hand movements. The best part was when the instructor would spin you around and the two of you would fly up high while spinning. At the end our instructor, who was super nice, cranked the wind power up really high and do a bunch of cool moves. It was really fun - I definitely recommend trying it if you are too chicken like me to do the real thing!

After skydiving we were going to go rock climbing, but it was packed so we decided to skip it. We have been indoor rock climbing at The Quarry in Provo, so we knew we weren't missing anything. After a quick dinner at Costa Vida, we headed over to the indoor surfing place - Flowrider. If you are a girl you either have to wear a rash guard or shirt over your swimsuit so that you do not expose your self when you fall over and are swept up by the way. I was really nervous to do this. I have never snowboarded, wakeboarded, or even skateboarded!

I decided to start out by just trying the body board. That was a lot of fun! David was way better than me. If you watch my video below, you will see that I wasn't very good, but I still had fun! We had an hour to surf/body board so about half way through our hour, one of the workers insisted that I try the surfing. He had done it a couple of times and of course made it look super easy. They let me use a rope to help stable myself, but even that did not help. The second time I tried it, I totally face planted and smacked my forehead on the ground and was washed up and over the wave. My neck killed for the next few days! Very painful! After that I stuck to the body board. David tried the surfing a few times and started to get the hang of it a little. He loved the wave - that was his favorite part of the day!

After that we were exhausted and it was pretty late, so we went to the hotel to go to bed. Stay tuned for Easter Weekend Pt 3 - Hill Aerospace Museum.

P.S. So I tried to upload our body boarding videos but after an hour and a half of waiting and they were still loading, I gave up. If you ever come visit me in person, you can view the video of me embarrassing myself. Here is a picture, though, of what the place looked like.

Easter Weekend Pt 1

David and I decided to plan a little "stay-cation" as he kept calling it for Easter weekend. I had that Friday off for Good Friday and David decided to take the day off of work. Way back in February I had bought a coupon to do some fun things up in Ogden, so we decided to make a little trip out of it and spend Friday night in Ogden. On our way up to Ogden, we decided to stop at Antelope Island, north of Salt Lake City. I'm just going to say it now - it was a bit lame. I guess if you want to actually see more than 3 of the 700 buffalo on the island, you should go in October when the round up all the buffalo.

Despite being sunny, it was very chilly. Online it said there was a restaurant on the island, so we had decided to eat lunch there. The "restaurant" was just a small burger place with no heater. It was cold! David did order the buffalo burger and said it was good. I had chicken as usual.

Way in the distance you can see the 3 buffalo that we saw. Exciting. I know.

Utah does have beaches! They are on Antelope Island!

And this was when David decided to drive along the buffalo corral hoping to see some more buffalo, but no such luck. All in all it was pretty lame to go to Antelope Island, but now we can say we have been. Check that off our Utah Sight Seeing list. Coming up part 2 of our trip - the fun part!!

Update on Issues

I thought I should give a quick update on all my doctor visits as of lately. After my migraine two Wednesdays ago, a still had a slight headache and blurry eyes on Thursday and a bit on Friday. I decided to stop in and see an instacare doctor that Friday. He seemed very concerned that I got the migraines so suddenly and had never had them before. Then he got even more worried when I told him about my other issue. He said that if I got another bad migraine, that I should call my regular doctor and should probably get an MRI to make sure I didn't have a tumor or anything on my pituitary gland.

That Saturday night, I got another bad migraine. I was trying to plan my Sunday School lesson and could not even read the manual. David had to read it out loud to me. It was very frustrating. Monday morning I decided I should call my regular doctor. They scheduled me for an appointment immediately the next morning. I went in to her on Tuesday and told her everything. She decided that I should have my blood taken again and that I should get an MRI. The hospital in American Fork called me and scheduled me for my MRI that Thursday.

I was a bit nervous because online it said that sometimes they have to inject you with this contrast stuff. I HATE shots. Luckily, half way through the MRI, the technician said my scans were coming in clear enough that I would not have to have the injection. Yay! What a relief! The MRI wasn't bad. It was kind of like lying in a tanning bed, except it made lots of loud bangs and clanks and weird sounds. I had to lie in there for about 35 minutes while they took different scans.

On Friday morning my doctor called and said the scans from the MRI came out perfectly. Not a single thing wrong. I was happy and frustrated. I mean that is always great news to hear that your brain is in perfect condition, but I wish they could figure out what is wrong with me! The doctor gave me some prescription strength migraine medicine and told me I should still see a urologist.

Hopefully this can all get figured out at some point. And sorry to disappoint you all, but I am not pregnant. I have had two blood tests in the last two weeks, actually took 2 pregnant tests to double check, and you can't get an MRI if you are pregnant so that is definitely not the diagnosis for my problems. Life would be much simpler if that were the answer. My next doctor visit isn't for another week and a half so until then....

Clean Garage

This last Saturday was such a great day! It was about 65 degrees and a perfect day to finally clean out the garage. The garage had been driving me nuts for a while. David decided back in January to clean his work shoes in the garage so there was dirt everywhere. Let me tell you how much I appreciated that one. Also, when they built our house, they left a bunch of extra floor trim and base boards in the garage. When we put up all our blinds, we added to the pile and threw all the extra slats in the garage.

Since it was such a nice day to be outside, we cleaned out the garage. We threw away all the base boards and blinds. I swept out all the dirt. And David installed these sweet bike hooks and that rack to hold our brooms/shovels. It is so nerdy that a clean garage makes me happy, but I love how it turned out! So nice and organized!