2013

SO it has literally been like a year since my last post or so it feels like it. The other day I read through some old posts and was laughing my can off! Let it be known I am hilarious! HAHA!! So I will try to catch up on what's been going on this past year. It seems like it has gone by so fast, and yet so slow in some areas. Here's some of the top 10 events of 2013. 1. We up and moved to Sunny St. George, such a great choice, but my heart hurts when I think about how much I miss Beck. It has been nice to see her every couple of months, but it is still really hard to be away. 2. I started working for my Dad and Andrew, at the old High Country Ammunition! I have really enjoyed working there and have felt very accomplished. I got to work for 6 months with Hailey, which was really nice to catch up and be our stupid selves again! 3. Ty got a job working at Snow Canyon High School as a special ed. teacher. We were so stinking blessed to have that come down the pipeline! Ironically Ty and I were talking about this yesterday and while I was working every day at the shop Ty was home with the kids. It was HARD for a while. depression, anger, frustration and anxiety were daily emotions. Then such a lovely and unexpected turn of events followed. Ty had a very hard time enjoying our kids before we moved here. He saw them as the reason our life got extremely hard and crazy after they came. Don't get me wrong, he dearly loved them, it was just a distant love. Because Ty was with the kids every day, he began to bond with them in a way neither of us would have happened. This was the biggest blessing I could have ever asked for. Ty realized that at least for now, we weren't prompted to move down here for a job or better weather or even to have a fresh start. It was so he could learn to love his kids unconditionally. As soon as he realized that he got a job that started as a part time position teaching, and eventually led to full time teaching! What the what? Heavenly Father knows our hearts and our minds and what we need for progression. Having me start working was a win-win because I was getting REALLY burnt out on the kids, and Ty has such an amazing bond with them now. I work Monday's so I can have a little break and have a little adult interaction. We really are so spoiled! 4. Nixie started preschool at Dixie College. He LOVES it and made a really cute little friend named Adrian. Nix is about a head taller than everyone, but I don't think he knows it yet. He is learning a TON and can write his name now. He loves being the "captain" and a helper when he can. He even has his first "girlfriend" Kiera. 5. I had my gall bladder removed. This was a fun one! I had been having small attacks since Nixie was born, but attributed it to back pain. Then they started getting worse and worse until I was writhing and crying on the floor. I had some pretty amazing blessings that really helped with my attacks when I didn't know what was wrong with me. September 1st we were covered with insurance, again, perfect timing for my surgery. By September 11 I had an ultrasound that concluded that I had several small gall stones all wrapped up into a golf ball sized stone. Booooooo! So I had surgery which I was really nervous to go under anesthesia for and had that crap cut out! The surgery was a lot harder to recover from than I thought. My mom came down to help and I had no idea how much I needed her. I was in crazy pain for a long time, it hurt so bad to get up and move for like 2 weeks, I am glad that's over. 6. We had our first Halloween in St. George, which was actually pretty warm! The kids didn't even need coats! We took our kids over to my Dad's for their street party (which is crazy!) The kids got tons of candy and had a lot of fun in all the kiddie haunted houses and fully decorated houses. 7. Ava started potty training. I am always so crappy at this. It seems like my kids are always ready to start before I am. I get really excited in the beginning but get stressed out when it takes forever to learn. We are still trying to avoid accidents but it will be a long process. 8. We got to go cut down our own Christmas tree this year. Although we had a lot of trouble setting it up and Ty about killing me we had fun. This might be our last year of cutting it down, but maybe we can still go to Costco to cut one down. It was pretty neat though, after hours of frustration of having a tree stand that was too big I all but gave up until I realized I needed a piece of 2x4 to hammer into the trunk so it would fit in the tree stand. So I set out to a construction site in the middle of the night. Ya, and as I was pulling out of my parking lot I saw my friend Brittany Stokes that was bringing my family a Christmas gift. When I told them about the craziness upstairs they said they had an extra tree stand they weren't using. They let us borrow it and I was never so grateful for a dang tree stand! Again, Heavenly Father's hand in the timing. 9. Ty had surgery on his nether regions. He was been in pain with his bum for 10 years now and was in too much pain to go on living like that day after day. He took off a couple of days before Christmas break to have the surgery done and he got a blessing from my dad the night before that was so tender and personal. The next day the surgery took only 7 minutes and was a complete success! Ty hasn't been this pain free in years, already and the surgery was Wednesday. Wow, I am SO thankful! 10. I saved the best for last, we are getting a townhome!!!! We are just plain elated! It is about 6oo square feet larger than our tiny place now and has a GARAGE!!!!!!! Currently we have all of Ty's motorcycling stuff crammed in the living room and things in every closet and under beds. I can't wait to have a place for things again. There is also a backyard, very small, but it has grass!!! Our kids have been playing on the hot pavement all year. I am going to be so glad when all the paperwork and stress is done and over with that's for sure! All in all this year has been very eventful, stressful, joyful, intense and incredible.