Valentine's Day

This year Shawn and I agreed on no gifts for eachother, but of course he went and ruined that by getting me something. His gift to me was by far not the "sweetest" but it was nice and somewhat needed. He got me a Seagate, which is an external hard drive for our computer, it's so nice to have so now when I take pictures with my new camera I am able to download them on there. It wasn't the cheapest gift either, so I thank him very much for thinking of me. He didn't stop there, he of course bought me flowers, my faves gerber daisies, and he planned a dinner for us, we went to Maddox. My experience inside the restaraunt was not the best, it was just alright, with an exception, the raspberry butter and rolls....oh my goodness...delicious~!!! Anyway it turned out to be an alright day, my husband is so sweet to me, and I feel like a cheap-a cause I just got him a dvd and some candies.. It's ok cause I am making it up to him with his birthday this weekend, we are going to Vegas!! Hope everyone else had a great V-Day :)

Got to love horoscopes!

Just thought I'd tell you a little bit about us.

This truly defines who we are, every word says it all! ;)

CANCER - The Beauty

Bonnie

MOST AMAZING KISSER. Very high appeal. A Cancer's Love is one of a kind. Very romantic. Most caring person you will ever meet in your life. Entirely creative Person, most are artists and insane respectfully speaking. They perfected sex and do it often. Extremely random, funny and is usually the life of the party. Most cancers will take you under their wing and into their hearts where you will remain forever. Cancers make love with a passion beyond compare. Spontaneous. Not a Fighter, But will kick your @$$ good if it comes down to it. Someone you should hold on to!





Pisces- The Partner For Life
Shawn

Caring and kind. Smart. Center of attention. Messy at times and irresponsible! Smart but lazy. High appeal. Has the last word. Good to find, hard to keep. Passionate, wonderful lovers. Fun to be around.. Too trusting at times and gets hurt easily. Lover of animals. VERY caring, would make wonderful nurses or doctors. They always try to do the right thing sometimes get the short end of the stick. They sometimes get used by others and hurt because of their trusting. Extremely weird but in a good way. Good Sense of Humor!!! Thoughtful. Always gets what he or she wants. Loves to joke. Very popular. Silly, fun and sweet. Good friend to others but needs to be choosy on who they allow their friends to be.

Getting in shape

As all of you, we have made the same resolution...LOSE WEIGHT!! Every New Years I know we all start thinking of what to do to better ourselves and the main goal is to get in shape, go to the gym and yada, yada, yada... Shawn and I joined the gym by our house which is so convenient, it's about 4 minutes away and it's open 24/7. I would have to let you all know how proud I am of Shawn, he is really, really dedicated to working out and getting to the gym everyday, if not the gym he is running outside, what a guy!! He recently applied for Davis County to see if he can go through the academy there. He got a letter back from them pretty quick informing him that his physical test is on April 16th, YAY!!! So we are hoping that he can pass this and get hired on there, he will be done with the academy and actually be considered a sheriff. Wish us luck with our resolution!!!

New post

I have another post and no it's not another pity post, it's actually a fun one! My computer is not letting me upload my pics for the post. Ever since I got my new camera and downloaded pics on my laptop it freezes up on me every single time. I don't know what's wrong, but I will get new pics up, I promise!! Please don't stop looking and don't get bored with my blog..it's a work in progress.

Choo Choo Wain

This past Saturday was my day off, so I was looking forward to either going shopping or just hanging out. Well my bro in law had the day off too, so it just being us and my nephew Grai we decided to get out for a few. Graiden loves, loves, loves choo choo's, he talks about them all day,and he goes through the house yelling "choo choo wain", and "all aboard" That's the whole reason for the spelling on the title. Anyway, we took the front runner from Roy to Ogden to the Union Station, we went and looked at all the trains they had there, it was pretty cool to get inside them and see all the components in there. Some of the trains were very interesting, most of them rusted and scary to climb on, but it's always worth a try. So we looked at the trains, walked for a while then went to lunch at a greek restaurant. I stopped trying new food ever since I got married, Shawn won't even eat a salad.. there has to be some compromise there. On to lunch, Ellis (bro) kept asking if I had eaten a gyro, no, I heard they weren't that good so why waste my $$ right, so I kept my lunch simple. It was actually a very nice day out, it wasn't even that cold and the sun was out shining!! When we got done with lunch we went back to the front runner to go home, as the train came to our stop we went to push the button to open the door, they wouldn't open....aaaahhh,.... Not to worry we were only going to Clearfield, well we sat there for about 35 minutes waiting and waiting, let me tell you how thankful I am for the sun, it kept me warm the whole time. We got home just fine!!

Frustrated

Do you ever have those days that you feel nothing goes the way you hoped?? I have been feeling that way for such a long time, I know that I shouldn't feel bad for myself but it's so hard not too. Most of you might know what I am talking about, some probably not. Most days I don't even feel motivated to do anything, it's hard for me to be happy for everyone when I can't even feel that about myself. This is not supposed to be a "pity post" but I just had to get some frustration out.

I know things will happen when it is the appropriate time, so we just sit and wait some more. No more tears and doubt. Patience is a virtue.

Goodbye....

Good news....well for me that is, I've been off carbonation for one month now..YAY!!!!! It's been about 3 months without caffiene, and Shawn decided to support me on this so he stopped all in all too. It isn't as bad as people say it is, I never got headaches, but I do crave pepsi here and there. Ok, so to be honest the other day while I was working in the ER the temptation hit me, they have a pop machine in the back and I decided to get some sprite. I took it back in the office with me and stared at it for a while, contemplating on whether I should try it. So curiosity sunk in, I took a little, tiny, itsy bitsy sip and I did not care for it too much. All I could taste was sugar, so I went and dumped it.

It's been very easy for me to turn down pop, and I plan to keep it that way. Unfortunately Shawn's dad just handed him a caffienated pepsi tonight and temptation got the best of him, he drank it.... So back to square one. He said we can splurge and have one drink a month, he will get whatever and I might, might get a caffiene free drink, if I even do that. I am trying so hard not to drink it anymore. My doctor told me that couples having a hard time getting pregnant are advised not to drink caffiene, so I've been doing it for that main reason. Hopefully it will be easier when I get pregnant to stay off caffiene, I don't want to end up with crazy babies!!

Date Night...or nightmare

Shawn and I have not been on an official date in the longest time, which is kind of depressing. First of all we have no kids, I don't understand why we don't make this more like an every other week thing. I have noticed that he and I are more like homebodies, which is not a bad thing at all, we like to relax and hang out with eachother. I know most couples like to go out in groups all the time, I don't have a problem with that, but when Shawn and I don't really go out together, just us, I like to spend most of my time with him. Anyway, so we planned a date last saturday, I picked the movie and got the tickets, he was supposed to plan dinner. He had to work that day, he normally goes in at 6 am and gets off at 4. So I was patiently waiting at home, by this time it was 430, waiting, waiting, waiting...what, no phone call. He doesn't have a cell, so could he have been in an accident??? Could he have stopped somewhere unexpected??? Again, how am I supposed to know without a phone call... It is now 6:00, what the heck. I am complaining to my sister and contemplating on whether I should call my in-laws, but why worry them. So 6:30 comes around and I get a phone call...yay!!! He got stopped by his chief for a yearly interview, and he clocked out at 5, I guess now he gets off at 5 every saturday, new to me. Anyway, I am mad at this point and don't care to eat or do anything, but we still went to the movie to laugh a little bit. Of course no dinner plans, so we get to the megaplex and get a 4 piece pan pizza..mmmm........fulfilling!! We get in to see our movie which is pretty funny, we are both Kevin James fans. This movie is rated PG and it is clean, no swear words at all!!

So that night only turned out bad because of my attitude, sorry Shawn.

It's hard to have a good time when you wait anxiously for a good night and then have plans change. I guess you live and learn. Sorry to complain, but I had to get it out :(

Anyway, very good movie, I do reccommend it only if you have one of those personalities where you can laugh at anything!!

**HILARIOUS**

Down the hill, up the hill....

The other day the Hall gang decided to go out and and some fun in the snow. We went to Mt Ogden Park to go tubing. We were all bundled up ready to face the cold, and of course it got so warm during play time that we all started taking our coats and scarves off. I was really nervous to go down due to an experience I had a while back. Shawn and I were at Rhomer park going tubing, we went down on the same one and I got scared so I tried to stop us and ended up with my ankle under the tube, yep, I sprained my ankle. Anyway, it all turned out to be some good ol' fun that day, I was going down the hill with all the kids. We took a few snow tubes and a few pook tubes, snow tubes worked out great, the pool ones...ah not so great. So we didn't have enough tubes for everyone, which was fine cause we still had fun watching everyone go down the hill. It was hilarious to watch the kids go down by themselves cause there wasn't an adult to hold them down, my nephew Graiden was going down with Emma , they hit a bump which caused Graiden's legs to fly up in the air. These pictures were taken with my new camera and I absolutely love the way they turned out, they are mostly black and white, but it's ok!

Mom & Emma

Luke and his fam coming up the hill
Dad, me, Grai and Emma

Shawn and Graiden

Maddie and Colby
Luke, Jeremy and Bree
Mom, Dad and Brooke

Fireworks, fireworks, fireworks...

We had a very fun and bright new year, it was extremely loud as well. Shawn had recieved a lot of fireworks, about $900 worth, and he got them for free. I can't stand fireworks, only the illegal ones because I know he can get in trouble for it, and where he works at the jail he can lose his job. Anyway, he absolutely loves fireworks, everything about them, lighting and watching. So for new years eve Shawn and I went with his brother Todd, his wife Anna and their daughter Reese to watch Marley & Me. It was such a cute movie, we were told to go in with tissue cause we would definitely need it, they weren't kidding. After the movie Todd dropped us off at home so Shawn could get his firework display set up and ready to go. My sister wanted to help him light all of them off, so she brought some friends over to watch. We were the only ones in the neighborhood lighting fireworks, so in a way I felt kind of bad for the neighbors, but hey it was a time to celebrate. Anyway, we had a great new year and we hope everyone else did as well!!!

Mysister Melody with artillery shells

Shawn loves this picture, it's my sister running

and cowering down trying not to get hurt.