Just thinking...

I was just thinking to back when I was in Young Women's every year we would go try on wedding dresses. Which is so much fun!!! Then when we had New Beginnings, or Young Women in Excellent I helped put together this picture fame. One side had a picture of the girl in the wedding dress they tried on and on other side was a poem my mom wrote called Temple Fantasy.

Temple Fantasy
In look in the mirror, and the fantasy begins
I no longer see a girl, but a beautiful maiden.
A princess so fair and beautiful to see.

She stands in front of a building.
Oh so beautiful and tall
with spires that reach heavenward
to that kingdom above.

Although this picture is a fantasy of what may be,
it is up to me to make it a reality.
So I will learn to live the standards that I repeat.
To study the scriptures and use them to solve
solutions that I seek.

I will kneel in prayer to find that friend,
Who will lead me and guide me
though joys and darkness ahead of me.

By doing these things I know I will make
this fantasy the reality that I seek.
-Laura Dixon, Feb 8 2006

Just thinking about it, I made mine a reality when I married Adam. I'm so greatful for all his love he give to me, and to his family. For his love of the gospel, and wanting to help anyone he can.

The beinging of the Tests.

When Adam and I first met, I had no idea he had a step mother. I thought she was his birth mother, his step mother is very kind and I'm so happy to have her in my life. Adam's birth mother died when he was only 6 years old and his mother was only 32 years old. I never really knew what she died of, except it was a heart condition. Since Adam and I have been married I have wanted to get Adam tested for it, we both thought that all he needed was an echo cardiogram(ultra sound of the heart). One night I made Adam call his Dad and find out what it was that his mom died of. Well his Dad could not remember the name of it. So we called Grandma, and she told us it was called SADS. SADS stands for Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome. Adam's aunt and Grandpa on his mom's side have also died of this. Since his mom had it, she had a 50% chance of passing it on to her children. Adam has one sister and one brother. There are no real signs of SADS except death! I really don't want to loose my husband! So I made him get set up so we go see Dr. Chin Hwang, well we are seeing Dr. David Wang. Before we could even go see the doctor Adam had to do some other little tests. It all started with Adam having to wear a holter monitor for 24 hours.

Here is Adam being my STRONG Superman!

Adam showing me just how much he is enjoying the itchy tape, and just having to wear the monitor.

Adam really didn't like wearing it, it said it was annoying for the most part. it was really bulky too. We went out to dinner Friday the 14 for my birthday and he had it on at the time. Well it kept making him itch, so he almost pulled the leads off a couple times.
Other tests that he has had done in order for us to see the doctor is: An EKG, and an Echo. We get to go see Dr. David Wang on Monday, August 24 at 1 o'clock. I'm so scared to find out if he has it.

Baby cakes!

Sorry there is just a few picture in this post.

This Saturday my Mom and I are going to a baby shower for a family member. So we went in on the present together with my aunt and her girls. We went and got all the stuff and I put together a diaper cake. I love making diaper cakes, they are so much fun. I learned to make them last year, and ever since then I have now made a total of 5 cakes.

Here is the cake we made for Saturday(Front View)

Side view(sorry you can't see the second outfit)

I know you can't see it very well, but this is the first one I made last May for a friend at work.

Another picture of the diaper cake

I made this cake for my sister-in-law when she had her baby last September

Back view of my sister-in-law's cake

Anniversary and Hobbies

For our anniversary Adam surprised me with tickets to go see the Utah Symphony at Deer Valley on August 1st. They were played the 1812 Overture, which if you haven't heard it before is amazing. I love the cannons that go off at the end, you don't even know its coming until they go off. I'll admit it did make me jump a little.
Our ticket were for the lawn, so we brought our blanket to sit on and I was freezing before they even started to play. I left my jacket in our car which was parked CLEAR down there. Adam being the wonderful husband he is went and got it for me along with some hot chocolate.

Adam looking amazing with his newly cut hair his cousin Janessa did for him.

The two of us at the top of the hill, I could only see the stage if I was standing.

We also stayed at a hotel call Inn on the Creek which is in Midway, we got there Saturday before we went to the concert and left Sunday. For dinner we went up to Park City, which was a bad idea because it's their Art Festival which we didn't know. There was no parking anywhere and we ended up having to pay 8.00 dollars to park just so we could go eat dinner. We ate at this really good place on Main street call, Bandits' Bar and Grill. Adam got a 1 lb. prim rib, he said it was really good. I got a chicken sandwich, which was a little too smoky for my taste, but the fries were was good.

The tickets and the hotel was an anniversary gift to both of us, my real present Adam got me is my anniversary/birthday gift. I love to scrapbook, I guess you could say it's one of my hobbies. Now I really don't have a lot of stuff so I'm pretty limited as to the extent of my pages go. For three and a half months Adam has been putting some money aside so he could get me a Cricut! I had no idea that he was getting me one, I had always thought of getting one and if I did it would just be the little one. Adam got me the big one, the Cricut Expressions, it fits 12 inch paper instead of 6 inch paper.

My Cricut came with two cartridges, which are super fun to play with.

I did get something for Adam also, I just don't have a picture of it right now. I got him a new backpack/hydration pack for when we go hiking. He has been wanting one for while now, so I thought our anniversary was the perfect time to get him one.

My hobby is indeed scrapbook and Adam's is reloading. Now for those of you who don't know what reloading is, it's when you reload bullets. It's really fun to do, but TAKES FOREVER sometimes. I've helped him do it before(believe it or not). Adam has done this since before I knew him, he likes it because it's cheaper to reload than to by new bullets. My dad had a reloading kit at my Grandpa house and he let Adam use it, well it lives at our house.

I've helped Adam reload close to 400 rounds of .45s.
In this picture he is reloading .223

Reloading has become one of his Sunday activities, especially when he doesn't want to sit around doing nothing. I love my husband so much and I'm so grateful for fun time we got to have over the weekend.

Anniversary!!! #1

Today marks the day that Adam and I were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. I will always remember that day as on of the happiest days of my life. We both can't believe it's already been a year since we got married. The last year we have had so many memories with each other, some good, some bad, some sad, and many happy moments. We have both cried, and smile, and hugged and kiss. There is not one thing we would change in our lives right now. I love my husband so much, and I want to thank him for choosing me. I don't know what he saw in me, but I am sure glad he did see something, something all other guys missed. I'm so happy I get to be with him for eternity. When we got married they took us to the celestial room before the sealing room, Adam and I got to sit there for a half hour, it was amazing to see all the work that they put into that temple. We they came and got us, we were about to go to the sealing room when they said they lost our papers, such as our MARRIAGE license, I was a little scared. No worries, they found them, we just ended up starting a little later than we thought. When we can out of the temple Adam's dad came up to us and told us that if Adam's mom was alive it would have been 30 years and 30 days since they got married in the Salt Lake Temple. Adam is also the third child, so we just had the 3's in our wedding day.

Just a couple pictures of us!

Us coming out of the temple, and so happy to FINALLY be married!

A great photo taken by my mother.

What do you get?

What do you get when you take....


Raspberries


and


MCP


You get Raspberry Jam.

As you may know Adam and I have a raspberry bush at our house, so for the past TWO weeks we saved everyone and froze them so we could make jam. After we got from the Spanish Fork parade we had time to kill till we went to the Rodeo. The jam tastes wonderful, I'm so happy I have a husband that loves to cook as much as I do.

The countdown is now on....Only 3 days left til our first anniversary.

Hiking, and my new calling.

Yesterday, Saturday July 18, 2009.
Adam and I decided to hike Timp. I have never hiked it before and the last time Adam did it was when he was in high school, which was a little while ago. Adam's brother Jon, and two of Jon's buddies came with us. So what do we do?...we wake up at 5:00AM and get ready so we can be at Jon's house at 6:00. Well we woke up a little late, and got there 15 minutes late. Adam and I were hoping to be up and hiking between 6:30 or 7, but we didn't start the hike til 7:30. Now if any of you have hike up Timp before you know it takes about 3-4 hours to get up to the top, most people go up there so the can slide down the glacier. Which means you have to hike to the summit, well we didn't hike to the summit. First reason is because we had to be back home by 6 so we could get ready for our friends to come at 7. Second reason is because we were too tired, and Adam was not feeling well when we reached the pond(which is just below the summit). Adam and I did better than we though we only took us 3 1/2 hours to reach it, and yes we were dieing.

Me and the beautiful valley.

Coming down the the mountain took less time and went by a lot faster. I love hiking, there are so many beautiful things to look at. Nature really is a beautiful site.

The pond, and yes that is indeed ice. They look like clouds to me just looking at the picture. There was a group of younger kids there and they were jumping into the pond. I could never do that, that water is freezing!

Really cool waterfall. walking behind this waterfall felt so good, because I was really hot and the water help to cool me down.

The glacier that everyone slides down at the top

Oh and just a little not to anyone who wants to hike up here one day. Start early in the morning, it's much better to do it that way. It's a ton cooler in the morning.

MY NEW CALLING

So last week in church the called me to be a primary worker, and in our ward they wait til after you're called to be a primary worker to actually call you to a position in primary. So I waited all week for the primary president to call me and tell me what class I was to teach. Nothing all week, no call, no nothing. I was getting a little worried and then yesterday I got a knock on the door...and what do you know, it was the primary president....and my new calling is.....

NURSERY!

How much more awesome can it get. I love little kids. She told me just to come down to nursery this Sunday and she would show me around. Well after Adam and I went hiking on Saturday, I was burnt on my neck, forehead, and ears. My knees hurt, my legs, and my hips kind of hurt too. I didn't think much of it til I TRIED to get out of bed this morning. Haha, now that was a challenge, but I did make it to nursery, just not sacrament meeting. The one thing I will miss now that I do having a calling is getting to sit with Adam in Sunday school. :( now I just get to sit with him in sacrament meeting.