25 Random Things About Me

1. I love the TV show Lost. I never miss it. If I do we TVO it.
2. I like to scrapbook and have many supplies but hardly ever do it. (Who has time?)
3. I am learning to sew. (Hope's Duvet for her bed, probably a little ambitious for my first sewing project.)
4. I was a concert pianist. I even won a few trophies from BYU but now I haven't played for so long I can usually only pick out a melody at first glance.
5. I love to snorkel. Really love it! We have snorkeled in Hawaii, Mexico, and Grand Cayman.
6. I have four sisters.
7. I have OCD but not the good tidy kind, the germ freak kind.
8. I love to read. Mostly fiction. I get enough of real life.
9. I occasionally play Guitar Hero World Tour with my husband.
10. I am a Registered Nurse in the NICU at IMC.
11. I have an addiction for kids clothing. My kids have more clothes than their drawers will fit and I hate putting them away when they grow out of them.
12. I like to fold clothes. It's therapeutic for me and relaxing.
13. I love river rafting and four wheeling.
14. On Saturday mornings, if I am not at work, you can usually find us singing and dancing in our family room while we are attempting to clean.
15. I like Law & Order and Burn Notice.
16. I once was a photographer at Kiddie Kandids.
17. My favorite color is blue.
18. I chose my kids names Hope and Luke partially because they would be really hard to misspell and easy to pronounce. I have seen some weird ones.
19. My favorite dessert is cheesecake and also my 4 year old's fav. If we're sharing she'll eat more than me.
20. My fav food is my mom's Penne Rustica. So yummy!
21. I tear up whenever I hear "Let them be little" especially if I am on my way to work or any other million father daughter songs. I love my dad. He's an amazing compassionate person.
22. I would rather have 10 good friends than 50 aquaintances.
23. I like living in Utah. I love the different seasons. I just wish winter wasn't so long but I can't imagine Christmas without snow.
24. I have family in Pennsylvania. Go Steelers!
25. My kids and my husband are the loves of my life. I don't know what I'd do without them.

An update!

I am starting to feel a lot better. We'll see if it's just coincidence or I keep feeling better with the physical therapy. I hope so. On the upside, My kids are the cutest darn things I have ever seen! At least this is the only thing in my life that is kind of a bummer. Everything else is great. I have a great job, good friends, and a great husband! Plus the fact that he is hot doesn't hurt. LOL. Also, I have a wonderful family to support me and help when I need them to.

Maybe a little early to judge

A little better today, maybe I prejudged the physical therapy. We'll give it a few weeks.

Physical Therapy Sucks!

Okay, it's been a while. So, here is an update. I was doing really well for almost 2 months with my balance problem not gone but almost right? Well, 2 weeks ago I got a sinus infection and my symptoms are pretty bad again. I can function even at work but it is really uncomfortable. It's not like room spinning just off balance + headaches+ now my eyes are having problems focusing sometimes. So, I am jumping through the last hoops that I know of. I did a sleep/apnea test, tried migraine medicine ( had to quit it before we could see it could work because of the side effects), and now I am trying physical therapy. Mostly, he stretches and massages my neck. He seems to think that I have a pinched vertebral artery. I have only been twice but so far I feel worse as far as balance goes not better when I leave. My neck does feel better for a few hours so I'll give it some time and see but I think the next and probably final step is surgery on my ear. WHATEVER! I don't care. I just want this to be done with and it's been really hard to have this relapse in symptoms when I thought I was getting over it. Okay, now I am done whining.

More New Years pictures

Rock and Roll New Years Eve!

Anyone who knows me knows that I don't play video games. Period. Bern does and I am fine with that as long as he doesn't wake me up and he gets up in the morning. However, on New Years Eve we decided to invite some friends and family over for a Rockband / Texas Hold'em party. We had a blast! I only sang once because I was busy playing hostess and snapping some pictures but we had fun.Des, I did were my hostess apron. Em brought Rockband I for the 360 and we seriously played for two hours and probably would have kept playing except some of us wanted to play Texas hold'em before midnight. Anyway, needless to say we did go and buy Guitar Hero World Tour which is pretty much the same as Rockband. I am getting pretty good at the drums. I can only play the guitar on beginner. LOL... and I sing pretty well so I think I do okay there. I hope everyone had fun. There was lots of yummy food (potluck) and the kids loved banging pots and pans at midnight and doing poppers. Best wishes to everyone for a happy and healthy New Year!

Santa came!

We had a much more relaxing Chrismas this year than normal. We decided to split the holiday between our families instead of seeing both families on both Christmas eve and Christmas Day. It was so nice. Christmas Eve we went to my mom's house for a yummy dinner of croissant sandwiches, orderves?? (pretty sure I spelled that wrong) and my mom's famous sugar cookies and fudge. To this day, we still are not allowed to make the cookies only frost them. She says we can practice at our own house and we play with the dough too much. Trust me, we have all tried to make her cookies. They never turn out right. So, this year I took careful notes and helped frost them. We took family pictures and watched the nativity dvd. Luckily, my husband had already wrapped almost all of the presents that day while the kids and I were out finishing up some last minute stuff. Our kids fortunately are little enough that they don't wake up too early so we slept til 9. Hope was pretty hard to get to bed that night. She was so excited..she heard the jingle bells from Santa's sleigh. Hope only asked for one thing this year so santa made sure she got it ( a sleeping beauty doll that sings) and she also got some books and leap pad tag reader and a ballerina barbie in her stockng. Luke got lots of trucks, cars, and and ironman toy. He loved pushing all the buttons on all the toys. Mom and Dad mostly got a few clothes and a few small things. So, Christmas day it snowed another foot. Bern started digging us out early so that we could go to his mom and dad's for dinner. It was nice to spend the morning at home and we didn't leave to go there until 3. We had a really nice dinner of ham,yummy potatoes,rolls,and salad. We stayed there for a few hours visiting and then went to my grandpa's to visit and open gifts from him for and hour.
We were home by 9 and the kids were in bed. It was a great holiday!