Remembering September 11th

It has been 7 years since the attack on the Twin Towers September 11, 2001. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I found out that a plane had hit the 1st tower. I had just sat down to turn my computer on at work when another co-worker came in and told us one of the buildings had been hit by an airplane. Those of us that were working were all in disbelief. We all thought to ourselves how could a plane hit the building? We thought maybe a small plane that had crashed. Then a short time later after turning on the radio and trying to access the internet we found out the 2nd tower had been hit as well. After a few hours at work, they let us go home. I remember that Jen was supposed to fly to New York the very next day. I was living with my dad at the time of the attack. His home is located about 15 or so miles South of the Salt Lake City airport so there were always planes flying right over the house. I remember going home that night and sitting on the front porch and there was a creepy silence, no airplanes in the sky they had all been grounded. It was at that point I really realized what had happened on that day!

Please remember the victims and their families on this day!

Never forget!

Bad Week!!

Well can you say bad week! It's either that or I am having one heck of a pitty party this week. Lets see, both my dryer and vacuum broke on Sunday and the repair guy for the dryer can't come until Friday of this week. I hope it won't cost too much to fix my dryer. When I get paid again, I'll go by a new vacuum but until then, I'll just have to borrow my moms SUCK! My laptop keeps shutting itself down and I have no idea why. I really think I need a new one maybe I'll get lucky and Santa will bring me one for Christmas LOL.... It wouldn't be such a big deal if I only needed to use it occasionally but I need it for school. Oh and for those of you who don't know, I work for the State of Utah which has recently mandated us working 4 10's and it's kicking my butt this week. It's really nice to have a 3 day weekend but so hard to work the 10 hour days sometimes. I guess the hours really don't bother me, what bothers me is being away from Ava from 6:30am to 6:00pm. So by the time I get home from work, I only get to see her for maybe 2 or 3 hours before she goes to bed. I'm really struggling with the hours this week because it prevented one of my very good friends from coming back to work off of maternity leave. So I guess work just really sucks this week.

I'm sorry that I posted a "pitty" post but just needed somewhere to type my frustrations!

Halloween Tutu Costumes...

So I've said in the past that I don't have the "crafty" gene. Well with the help of my sister, I do have it a little bit. Anyway, my sister and I make Halloween tutu costumes. We make flower fairies, pumpkins, bumble bees, cats, witches, little devils, etc. So, if anyone is interest, email me aimee1944@yahoo.com. The cost is $35.00 without a leotard which comes with the very full tutu made with over 100 yards of tulle with the colors of your choice and head piece, wings, etc. If you do want the leotard, there would be an additional cost but only what the leotard actually costs us to buy. We can ship anywhere in the United States via USPS flat rate box $12.95. We can make sizes that go from baby sizes to little girls sizes of a 6. Please email and let me know if you're interested. The costume that Ava is wearing is hers from last year and the ones we make are similar to this one. Thanks everyone!!!

Rub a dub "puppy"!

We ended up going camping for Labor Day weekend. When you get home from camping EVERYTHING needs to be washed and scrubbed including the dogs. I was bathing the dogs when we got home and usually bath them after Ava goes to bed because she thinks that she needs to bath with them. Needeless to say she got in the tub before I was done so here is Ava and Jazz in the tub, poor Jazz LOL! I was just so excited when she got in NOT! However, it was still pretty cute. Hope everyone had a good holiday weekend. Loves to all....

Aimee & Shanan

Here is a picture of me and one of my very best friends, Shanan. I just want her to know how much I love her and appreciate everything she does for me and my family!!

Ear piercing anyone???

From the day that Ava was born, I've been asked when I was going to pierce her ears. My answer was always the same; when Ava tells me she wants to wear earings, we'll pierce her ears. Well the day finally came that Ava told mommy she wanted earings! We also had Kyden's ears pierced as well. She didn't do as well as Ava did. It was so funny. Ava just looked at the lady and told her "don't poke me, that's not nice"!

Rainbow Bridge

This is a picture of the famous Rainbow Bridge at Lake Powell. Isn't it beautiful! This picture was actually taken with Shanan's camera phone since we both forgot our camera's back in the room. Unfortunately, this is one of the only pictures we have of this last trip to Powell.

Random Pictures

Here are some random pictures that I've taken this summer. The little girl in the pictures with Ava is her cousin, Kyden. I just love random posts!

We are still alive.......

Hello everyone.... we are still alive! Sorry I haven't posted for a while but I've been super busy with the wedding, honeymoon/powell trip etc. Kyle and I finally tied the knot back on August 8th. It was a beautiful ceremony followed by a down pour of rain between the ceremony and reception. I thought it was funny, my mom didn't as the wedding was outside in her yard! However, after the rain lifted, it was a gorgeous night! I've posted some pictures below of my bridals that were taken prior to the wedding. My hair is a bit longer because we put in some extensions for the photographs. We didn't use the extensions for the wedding though. I will post some pictures of the wedding once I get them back from the photographer.

I had to officially return back to work today and wasn't so excited about that. It was so nice to be able to take some time off. I needed a break! Now, it's back to regular life and I'm sure glad to be back and not have the stress I've haded the past couple of months. I'm excited to be a parent again and just love on my little one. I missed her so much when we were on our trip! I have so much more to update you all on but just don't have the time right now. I will post again soon! Loves to all......

Hello Everyone

Hello, we're still alive! I appologize that I haven't posted anything lately but I've had NO time to do anything but final wedding preparations. We had a minor problem with bridesmaid dresses but got that quickly fixed (had to buy two new dresses; don't tell my mom) LOL. However, unless it's an absolute dire emergency, I will NEVER EVER spend another dime in David's Bridal again!!!! We bought my wedding dress there and the original two bridesmaid dresses there. Well, one bridesmaid lost some weight and the other gained a little and neither dress fits anymore. We looked at the dresses and you couldn't alter them. Anyways, I went up to the Orem store and asked if I could possibly return the others for store credit as the tags were still attached, of course not... they don't take returns. I asked the lady if she was kidding nope, they DO NOT take returns! We found a dress that fit my sister well, they didn't have one in my other bridesmaids size in that color. The lady at the store wouldn't even call any of the other stores to see if they had that dress in her size. She gave me a list of phone numbers that showed in the stupid computer they had the dress in that size; wasn't that just so nice of her! I should have told her to remove the board from her ass and she might get a higher commission if she learned some customer service but I decided just to smile and nod. I ended up getting one out of California and they charged me $25 for two day shipping! I suggested that they start using the USPS flat rate large box of $13.95 for future purposes and of course, that didn't go anywhere but between me and that sales lady but come on, even if foot locker doesn't have your size they'll find it and ship it to your home for free! I couldn't even pay for the new dress at the Orem store, they had to "call me back" to see if it was ok to do an over the phone payment.... JERKS! I could say something worse but I'll try to keep this a PG-13 rated post afterall, I did say ass earlier... LOL what a week!!! So, I looked for a corporate number for complaints in their website and guess what??? I couldn't find one, imagine that!

I got all of the invitations mailed but now we're remembering people that should have been mailed and invite and of course, we ran out of invitations. I will be so glad when this wedding is over! I told Kyle last night we were just going to take off and come back and tell everyone we were already married but I think my mom and especially my step-dad might take me for a drive and not bring me back if you get my point!!

Now for the wedding decorations. I was not born with the "crafty" gene, that's my mommy's department. Well, my sister and I have to "help" make 50 or 75 bows for decorations, she doesn't have the "crafty" gene either... I have a hard time making a bow on Ava's dress look good let alone one for wedding decorations! Does anyone have any suggestions or something you could suggest I buy to assist me with this project???

So, there's my drama for the last week. The only thing that went smoothly was it was easy to apply for a marriage certificate. Now, I am just looking forward to my parties next Saturday! after that, the next weekend is the wedding and the next is our annual "adult" trip to Lake Powell which is going to double as our honeymoon this year and I really can't wait to just leave for a weekend and get some much needed rest, sunshine and "adult" beverages!

and the winner is????

Here is the winner, we went with the black and white. This is the one Kyle liked best and really the only thing that he's had ANY input on and since it's his wedding too, I thought I'd let him make the final decision!

Things are going pretty good this week. I've got almost all of my address labels made and we are on target to get everything mailed by the 23rd. WOW... maybe I can get some much needed rest after the invites go out... LOL, what is rest anyhow and who needs it??? I don't even remember what rest is... and then I am very looking forward to a couple of bridal showers on the 2nd. It's getting so close and the closer it gets, we wish we would have eloped and went to Vegas!!! There's no turning back now LOL.... Loves to all!!!!

Engagement Photos are here......

We got our engagement photos back tonight and I'm having a hard time deciding which one do use. I can't decide which one I like best. Maybe you can all help me out.... which one to you like? full coloring, light coloring or black and white????

We also did bridal portraits tonight and the photographer said that they were one of the easiest settings he's ever done. I guess that's a good thing?!? The planning is going pretty good this week. I went to Provo with my mom and sister yesterday and I think we got all of the "finishing touches" taken care of... LOL probably not. I'm sure something else will come up! Seriously, let me know what you think about the pictures... Loves to all!!!

Everything comes together....

So I woke up this morning stressed and freaked about the wedding: no cake, men's clothes, flowers, blah blah blah.... I looked online all last Thursday to find clothing that would fit all of the men in the bridal party. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. Kyle's brother needs big & tall, my step-dad needs tall and the rest are just regular sizes. I couldn't find ANYTHING that all of them could wear in the color that I wanted. I had also left numerous messages to see about wedding cakes and the calls that I got back they were either already booked or didn't want to make a "simple" cake. Needless to say when I left work last Thursday, I had a really bad attitude about things. Well, I had the same attitude this morning. I talked with my sister and we decided that we would go shopping again next week and just hope that we can find something since we're getting so close to the wedding date.

I went with my sister to lunch today still freaked out and worried. We went to a local grocery store to get a cake for my nephews birthday. We got there and couldn't find anything for Garrett but guess what???? they make wedding cakes! They actually had the exact cake that I wanted in their brochure for cakes so we ordered the cake why we were there! I then went back to work and thought maybe I will just look online one more time. I got back on and found EVERYTHING that I needed for my men and got free shipping too. We also be ordering the flowers tomorrow and they're about $150 less then expected WOO HOO! I feel a lot better now that these things are done. I talked with the photographer today and we are going to do bridal portraits next Tuesday and I'll have the disc back with all of the engagement photos this week. I am so happy tonight!

I hope everyone had a good 4th. We went to the local parade and then went camping with friends. It was a good weekend. I have some pictures to post and will post them when I get my computer back sometime this week. I was so bummed out though. I had bought Ava this really cute outfit for the 4th. Well when I put it on her that morning, it was about 2 sizes to big and she wasn't able to wear it. Oh well, she still looked cute. She LOVED the parade. The local parade still throws candy and she thought that was so fun. She looked at me like... mommy, you mean they throw candy at me and I get to pick it up put it in a bag and it's all mine!!!! It was so much fun! Hope all is well... Loves to everyone!

Engagement Photos

Well, I have one less thing to worry about. We did our engagement photos and the photographer said that they turned out great and Ava was even cooperative for them! He said that he just needed to photo shop a little and would get them to me next week. That means that I am right on target to get invites mailed YIPPY!!!! I also got my final grade for my Cultural Anthropology class today and it was an overall "B".... I am very happy about that in fact, I would have been happy with a "C". I struggled with that class! My next class will be Educational Psychology and I'm not really looking forward to that one either. Hope all is well with everyone... Loves

Wedding, School, Troubles and Camping oh my.....

So, when it rains it pours at my house. Sorry I haven't blogged for a while but my computer is on the brink. I borrowed one from a friend until I can get mine fixed so in the mean time, no pictures to post because I don't want to put them on the other computer. Oh... and my washing machine also took a sh!t. It's fixed now but everything came at once.

Wedding Planning is getting a bit stressful right now. It's only 6-weeks away and starting to get to me. There is still so much to be done and I am having a hard time right now getting motivated to do it. We have all of these plans and I only have ONE weekend between now and the wedding where we don't have plans. I did however, get the invitations printed last week and we'll get our pictures done sometime next week. I plan to have all of the invitations mailed by the 18th. The plan for this week is to get addresses together to get them all mailed. I still need to find something for the men in the bridal party to wear as well as get flowers ordered and put in the food order with my caterer. LOL.... I am so behind!

The 4th of July is coming up and we'll go on our annual camping trip with friends. It will be fun but I am too stressed out right now to enjoy myself. Hopefully come next weekend, I'll have a few things done that I can just sit back and enjoy a weekend with friends.

I just finished another class.... well, I am still waiting on my grade but other then that, it's done. I think I'll wait to start my next class after the wedding is over. In fact, I think that's the best idea I've had all day!

Hope all is well with everyone... Loves to all!!!!!