Birthday, 2nd eye surgery, & Florida!

So I am finally in my late twenties! ;) I turned 28 on the 7th and had a great day! I went shopping and to lunch with my sisters-in-law and then Jared, Zack and I went out to dinner and ice cream for dinner. YUM!
The next day I went in for my second eye surgery. My retina was detached after 3 weeks, so 4 weeks from the first surgery I went back in. This time around it wasn't as bad, but still not fun. There were even a couple of nurses that remembered me (SAD!). Either way, with this surgery, the dr. took the gas bubble out of my eye and put in a silicone oil... which means that the Florida trip was back on!
SO Saturday we left for Florida!! Woohoo!!

The plane ride wasn't too bad for me thanks to Jared for helping with Zack so much. I was obviously super tired from surgery and was able to sleep part of the way. Zack loved the airport/airplane, so that was a fun start to our trip. Sunday we just hung out at the house and had a casual day (much needed!).
On Monday we headed to Epcot. This was totally different than I imagined, but was pretty fun too. So many cool things to see and eat there!

Tuesday we went to the Magic Kingdom! Obvious favorite here. It was so much like Disneyland that it felt like we kind of knew where to go, so that was nice. But the best part of this day for me was when we got to go the "Not so scary Halloween Party" that night. We all got to trick or treat around the park, we danced with Woody, Jessie, and Bullseye, we walked onto ANY ride we wanted, and we got to see a fun villian parade. This was one of the highlights of the trip for me!




Wednesday we took a break and went to the beach. Say no more, I'm happy as can be! I loved watching Zack in the sand. He was in heaven!!

Thursday we went to Animal Kingdom. Again, not what I had imagined it would be, but still a lot of fun for the kids. Ooh, and we went to Chevy's for dinner without the kids that night... YUMMM!!


Friday we went to Hollywood Studios. I personally am still a bigger fan of Universal Studios, but this was a great Disney version. It was fun to see some shows and have a slower day.

Saturday we went back to the beach because everyone had so much fun. It was a great way to end the trip... most of us coming back with sunburns! :)

CRAZY September 2010

Well, September was not my favorite month this year :)
My mom decided a little while ago to try and sell her house and move to St. George (A long time dream of hers!). Well good news for her, she sold it and moved on the 11th! I'm so happy for her, but man I miss her!!

Also, I had been having some random things going on with my eyes for a few weeks so I went in for a check up. The doctor I went to did the exam and told me that my retina was detached in my left eye and sent me to a specialist for surgery! Wow... so I went to the specialist who actually said that both my left AND right eye had detached retina's and I would need surgery on both eyes. So on the 10th of September I went in for surgery. I must say, I didn't like it!!

My right eye was pretty minor, only needing some laser repair. So that eye was good to go after a day or so. My left eye not so much. They went in and made my eye look like "hamburger" (That's what the dr. actually said! Haha, right?!). Not too pretty... swollen, red (not pink) and blurry. They put a buckle around the eye, and also put a gas bubble in the eye to help hold the retina in place. Good news for that is that it will go away in about a month or so and I'll start to see again. Bad news is no flying (or really any traveling) while that's still there. Oh wait, our trip to Florida is on Oct. 9th! Doesn't look too good for me :)
Whoosh! Onto something fun!! My sister, Amber won tickets to the Brad Paisley concert and took me along. This ended up being one of my favorite concerts too! We had FANTASTIC seats! 2nd row, center stage... no complaints! We had an unfortunate drunk guy bug us for awhile, but once he was gone, the concert only got better and better! Thanks sis!

AUGUST FUN

Where are the days going?! August FLEW by this year for me. It started with a lot of fun when my nephew turned one year old!! YAY! He had a great birthday party too. They rented a huge blowup movie screen and had an outside movie night. Lots of fun there!



Then on the 12th my mom had her birthday. She turned 29 yet again, but man she looks good for her age, right?! Needless to say, she's not big on birthday's, so we kept it pretty low key for her sake!


On the 19th Bitty Sue turned 19! What a fun time that was too. My mom and I were able to sneak away for a weekend and visit the girls down south (we missed Ams though). As per Becky's request, we spent her birthday in Vegas. Man, that was a lot of fun to just go around and shop and not have to worry about having the stroller with us :)




Then on the 23rd, we took Zack out for a little family night to the Bee's game. He LOVED watching baseball... in fact, ever since that game, his favorite song is "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and gladly will sing it at the top of his lungs in the middle of ANY store! Good times there...

Zack showing us his teeth.. and being a little creepy!

Rodeo

We went with Jared's family to the rodeo in Ogden on July 20th. It was a lot of fun to take Zack because he has really loved spending time with Jared's dad's horse, so he was in heaven seeing all the horses (and being able to sit with his grandpa) during the show. Besides that, who doesn't like to sit on hard wooden bleachers for a little over 3 hours straight watching guys throw themselves off of bucking horses?! Yeehaw!

Farmington Festival Days

On July 10th, I ran my second 5K! This year I ran solo and was determined to make myself complete it. Not saying that last year was very great, but I was able to run this race 13 minutes faster than the last race. So YAY for me, right?!


After the run, we went to the Farmington parade. You would think we love parades, but really, they are just so much more fun when you have the little kids. I liked this parade better than the bigger Kaysville's one too.



Later that night we went to Farmington Pond Park with some of our friends and neighbors for a picnic and fireworks. Lots of fun with all of them!

4th of July weekend!

On the "4th" this year, we spent the day with Jared's family. We woke up early and went to his parent's house for a big breakfast. Yummy way to start the day out. Then we went to the big Kaysville parade. It was really long, but we had a lot of fun. Later that night we had a big BBQ and did some fireworks. I don't think I could have eaten another thing all weekend long (there was SO much food all day)!

Then on Monday the 5th, we started out the morning with my family at Copperton Park for another yummy breakfast! After that, we went back to my mom's house for some swimming (It wasn't the warmest day in July, but we made the best of it.). Fun filled weekend!

St. Croix, Virgin Islands!

OK, the lucky streak in my family has finally caught up with me! On June 5th (Saturday) around 7:00 AM, I called into KBULL93 to try and win "Eclipse" movie tickets. *Quick side note, I usually don't try for things unless I really want it!* Anyway, I was the right caller and won my movie tix! YAY!
So the DJ says, "listen Monday morning at 7:15 for your chance to win a trip to the Virgin Islands..." Then after being on hold he says, "actually listen at 8:20 for the trip." OK, so Monday comes around and I thought 8:20 was a weird time to do a trip, so I was listening at 7:15 just in case. Sure enough, the trip was given away at 7:15, only to someone else! DANG! So I called Jared to tell him we weren't going. I get going with my morning and randomly at 8:20 I hear my name on the radio! I wasn't paying close enough attention to really hear what they were saying it for, but I guessed if you hear your name on the radio, it has to be a good thing, right?! Anyway, when I called Jared I was pretty much freaking out so he didn't really understand what was going on!! :)
Once I got all the details, they said we were leaving that coming Friday! WHAT?! I just won a free trip and I don't have to wait forever before leaving? SWEET!
So we took Zack to Jared's parents house Thursday night because our flight left SLC at 11:45 PM. We got to NYC (That was torture, for anyone that knows my previous struggles getting to NYC!) at 6:00 AM. Left NYC around 9:00 AM and flew to St. Thomas, arriving about 1:30 PM. Waiting there, we took the smallest plane at about 3:00 PM to St. Croix, and getting there around 3:30 PM. LONG day of flying and waiting!


ANYWAY, once we got to our hotel, I was in heaven! Our room opened right up onto the beach, and it was gorgeous there!! Friday night we were so tired that we went to a little pizza place they had, walked around the hotel area, and ended up falling asleep by 8:00 that night.


Saturday we decided to take a taxi to a town there called Christiansted. It was so interesting to see how different things were there. So beautiful in so many ways too. Lots of different colors of buildings (totally run down), laid back people not in a hurry to go and do all day, and just plain amazing ocean views!


Later that afternoon, we were able to go sailing on a sunset cruise. WOW again!! The people we were with were a little less than fun (MAJOR drunk!) but the water and sky were breathtaking. After sailing, we went back for a little swimming in the pool.




Sunday we decided to go snorkeling at Buck Island (I guess it was made a National Park too.). That was easily the highlight of our whole weekend! The beach literally was out of a magazine gorgeous. The water felt like a bathtub it was so warm and calm, and the snorkeling was the coolest! I don't even know how else to describe it. All I can say is if you are ever in the mood for snorkeling, and you want a good place to go, THAT is the place!



Jared did a little snorkeling with his wallet! Oops!!

Monday we came home... only that was the longest day ever! All the flights were delayed, and we didn't get home until 1:30 AM. Ugh... I'm good to go on the flying for a little while :)
YAY for a free trip though!!!!