Welcome to Las Vegas

   
  This month we meet Eric's family in Las Vegas for Nana's (his grandmother) 75th Birthday. She wanted to see Donnie and Marie Osmond (they have a show at the Flamingo) so the whole family went.  Most of us were not too excited for the pick, but tried not to make it to obvious.  Sitting in our seats before the show started most of us had to pull out our phones and ask google to bring us up to speed on who Donnie and Marie are. The show was actually really good and we all enjoyed it, but we also tried not to make that too obvious either.

    We spent a lot of time in the lazy river and pool just soaking up some sun and it was so wonderful!! I can't remember the last time I just relaxed at the pool.  I got to visit with my college roommate Jana for a while. She lives in Vegas so it was nice to get together and catch up. We went to the outlets and I got some KILLER deals as usual. We also went to the Pawn Stars pawn shop they have the show on TLC. They had some really awesome things in there. Eric's favorite was the Patriots Super Bowl ring. 

  

We had an awesome time and loved spending time with family. Hope we can do it again soon.

Hearts were breaking all over the world!

August 17, 2012

My youngest brother Ethan got married!! Hearts were breaking all over the world. Kaytlin is such a sweet girl and she fits in the family great! They got married in the Salt Late Temple there were over 80 sealing that day!!! Being a Temple worker in St Louis where we may have 2-3 sealings on a busy day, I thought it was a beautiful nightmare to see how they made it all work so smoothly.   They had a very nice lunch reception at the Joseph Smith building next door after the sealing. It was beautiful.  It was fun to visit with family I had not seen in a while and watch my little nephews. 

While in Salt Lake I was able to visit my good friend and old college roommate Kadie. We had a great time visiting and catching up. We also got to visit Eric's cousins Jo and Mandy for while and it was so good to see them. We went to Thanksgiving point gardens with Aung Debbie, Uncle Jim, Aunt Jean, Tamara, and gram. It was really beautiful and a great way to end the trip.

The Big 30

       July 23rd was Eric's 30th Birthday.  Time is just flying buy.  On Saturday the 21st  I had a  surprise party for Eric and he was actually really surprised.  We were "invited" over to our friends for dinner so he didn't think much about it. When we walked in the house it was full of great friends. There were 25 adults and 18 kids there.  We had pizza and lots of cake :) It was really nice to get all of our friends together and celebrate. 

Life as we know it!

So I am finally going to really try and do this blog thing! So many of you out there have such CUTE blogs and are such good writers that I know I will never compare, but here goes my best effort. 

                        So life as we know it.......is crazy busy, but we love living in Saint Louis!!

Eric is in his last year of Chiropractic school at Logan and is working so hard in school and the clinic. We LOVE it here in Sait Louis. Logan is such a beautiful school. The campus is on a nice piece of land and is filled with fountins, lakes, deer, and very nice buildings. The campus was an old seminary and was convered to a school. They still have the original bell tower and my favorite the stained glass windows in the libary (which used to be the chapel). Eric is gearing up to take more National Boards in August so there will be lots of late nights of studying ahead. I attached some picture of the campus it is so beautiful.

      I have been working at a dermatologist office for the past 2 years and have really enjoyed it there. I work 42 hours plus some each week (plus the worst part of my day the 8 mile 45min commute home every day, I feel like I live in Los Angeles). In my "free time"  I have been working at the Saint Louis Temple every Thursday and some Saturdays as an ordinance worker. It has been so wonderful! I have learned so much and my testomony of the gosple grows a little more each week. I am also serving the the Relief Society presidancy and LOVE being with the sisters in the ward.  I have also started up my own emboridery bussiness Twinkle. I am mostly personalizing baby gifts right now, but it is growing and love being creative and making cute things! Check out my blog at makeittwinkle.blogspot.com

We have such a wonderful life and feel so blessed everyday. I am glad that we get to share it with you!!