Catch Up.

Well. It's been years. But seriously, It's been three years. It's terrible. I think of having a blog more of being a journal, and I feel bad that I have neglected it for so long. ALOT has changed since 2011. I want to be able to remember these moments, so here we go!

 

But first, here's a little catch up:

 

Kylan is a Sub-Regional Operations Manager for Vivint. He has lived in Nashville, Alabama, Kentucky, Kansas and Oklahoma! We did the long distance thing for 2 summers but this last summer I spent it in Oklahoma with him!

 

I've been working has a professional photographer at a studio(s) and also got to do quite a bit graphic of design work. I loved it because graphic design was what I graduated in, so I got to do two things I loved everyday. I eventually moved up to be manager over photography and design. It was stressful, but so rewarding. And now I have my own card business on Etsy, called Lush Graphics.

 

We moved down to Highland from Logan 2 years ago, and we are still trying to figure out where we are going to settle down. We have honestly been "house hunting" for three years. I'm not kidding. It's our dream to pay cash for our first home, and it has been hard, but ultimately it will be worth it!

 

This September I gave birth to my sweet baby Leighton, who has given us so much joy. Believe me, you will hear a lot more about her!

lately

A lot of big things are happening lately:
We had our first anniversary, I can't believe it has been a year! We actually had to work/pack up on that day so we post-poned our celebration until after my surgery.
We moved home to Logan, we returned to a nasty apartment that took us forever to clean, but otherwise we are so happy to be home! Ohio was really interesting. Toledo, like down town was quite scary. I was scared to walk around and even drive in a car. There is a lot of crime and poverty. It's sad to see. It's a really different experience to see when you have lived in Utah your whole life. Probably a third of the houses are deserted, burned down, or falling down.
I get surgery tomorrow morning, I'm actually pretty excited to get this bump out of my neck because it puts a lot of pressure on my throat and it looks pretty gnarly.
My brother leaves on a mission Sept 28th
My sister gets home from her mission Oct 20th
My husband and I made a beautiful fabric headboard.. I'll post pictures soon!

Bump

Well I got my biopsy two weeks ago and its not cancerous! They had to stick a needle in my neck a few times to retract the fluid, and I totally had a slight seizure and passed out. When I came to I had no idea where I was or what was happening. My dad said he has seen nothing like it. So - I don't want to go through that again. The doc still wants to take it out, along with half my thyroid. I have been trying everything I can to have it shrink, and it seems to actually get bigger. Which is sad. So my surgery is scheduled for Sept 3.
Anyway I have been in lake Powell for a week with my family and I am moving OHIO tomorrow! I'm excited to see my hubby. I'm wondering how Ohio will be living there because Minnesota was so great.

On the road again..

We were able to go to Duluth a couple weekends ago and it was beautiful! Us girls went to the Glensheen haunted mansion (well I like to call it haunted because two people were murdered there) but it was so beautiful and big! We walked around the beautiful coast, and went to the harbor and watched a huge boat come in. It was a perfect place for a get away. Our office had some problems with licencing and other things so they decided to have us move to Toledo, Ohio. Well a few days before we were moving to Ohio a huge lump popped up on my neck. Since our insurance doesn't cover outside of Utah, I had to drive back with Cystal and Kynzie to get it checked out. It was a long drive (20 hours) but it flew by! I am so proud of us girls. So now I'm back in Utah, just chilling, looking for things to do.

Well I ended up going to a nose ears and throat doctor and I found out that I have a cyst inside 4 cm big cyst, in my thyroid. So its pretty big. Monday they are doing a biopsy on it and then sending it to get it tested to see if its cancerous. He said he is not to worried about it and its a low chance of it being cancerous. So I'm not to worried. BUT if its not cancerous, I need it removed since it is so big it is pushing everything out of place and making it hard to swallow. So they would have to take out the cysts and half of my thyroid (which kinda worries me) That means ANOTHER surgery. And anyone who knows me - knows don't do well with that.

Well anyway I'm home for the time being until I get things figured out. Already missing my husband and Minnesota. Minnesota is just beautiful and fun, and there are just so many things to do. I'm sad I'm gone. I'm missing the billions of huge, green trees, the baby rabbits, the city, the turtles, the walks, wildflowers, lakes, gardens, beaches, Mall of America, and the best restaurants. Hopefully we can go back one day.

(I'll add some pics as soon as I can)

Elder Hancock

Has been called to serve in the Carlsbad, California mission! He leaves September 28th. I am so happy for him. My sister gets home Oct 20th so they will just miss each other - and not see each other for 3 and a half years! Pretty crazy. But congrats buddy! We love you!

Well since I never wrote about our trip to Cali over spring break I decided to do it now before I forget. Kylan and I went to California with our friends Brian and Lindsey. See Brian and kylan had a little bromance going on for a while where they liked to do everything together, and I love Lindsey so it just worked out great. We were staying just 2 blocks away from Disneyland, so I convinced everyone that we should go there. Even with my bum foot, I was at the head of the pack. Kylan says that the only time I walk fast is at Disneyland and the mall (which is probably true). We also went shopping and to many many beaches.

Well one night we decided to do something random and go to Medieval Times. It was mainly the boys idea. When we got there, Lindsey and I were loving it and well - the boys weren't. I thought it was hilarious. We wore crowns, ate with our hands, and I even got a rose thrown to me! Then all of a sudden I was coughing, couldn't breath, and my voice became really deep. I knew I was having an allergic reaction but I didn't want to leave! I was having so much fun. So for a while i didn't say anything. I assumed it was from the horses, but it was the worst allergic reaction I have ever had. I was getting a little frightened because I knew that my throat could close off and I wouldn't be able to breathe. So after the show we ran to the Walgreen's and asked the pharmacist what I should take. She told me to take a double dose of some allergy medicine but if it doesn't help fast, I needed to go to the ER because I could die. (I swear I have the most messed up body) Luckily, after I took the medicine I passed out at like 9 and was fine the rest of the night.

I am in love with Eden Prairie. It is absolutely beautiful here, I need to take some pics to show everyone. There is this 2.5 mile pathway right next to our apartment that goes all around a lake, its wonderful. The days go by really fast but I am super excited to get home. I have been here for 9 weeks, and only 10 more weeks to go! I will miss Minnesota.

Last Sunday we were able to go to Bryant Lake with all of our husbands. It is this beautiful warm sand bottomed lake. It was heaven. Then later that night we were dropping off kylan's tech at a house. While we were slowly pulling away, all of a sudden we hear a voice yelling something through my rolled-down window. I looked back and saw this teenage, African American boy chasing after our car, and then yells to me: "I'M GOING TO RAPE YOU!" Alright?? I was pretty scared at first but seriously, who would do that? So it kind of makes me laugh when I think about it. We also went to Como zoo, this free zoo in st. Paul, and they had these Japanese gardens that were amazing! I never wanted to leave.

the girls

P.S. Sis Hancock gets home this Oct. and I could not be anymore excited! I am so grateful for her and I can't wait to have some more adventures when she gets back.

Skittles

I saw this the other day and i thought it was so funny! But you have to put your finger on the skittle!

dear minnesota:

It took a while for us to get to you. You see as we were driving through Nebraska on i80, a blizzard hit. We almost died, and saw a million people crash. Well then we come to a complete stop, on the highway, for they closed it down. We pulled out our blankets and pillows and tried to sleep, but we were so uncomfortable. It was pretty funny at first but, after six hours waiting in the car, we were kinda getting annoyed. Like seriously, where was the national guard at this point? We were starving! So 24 hours later, we were finally arrived to our destination!

trying to sleep in our crowded car

We are living in Eden Prairie, just outside of Minneapolis. It was rated by money magazine to be the number one best place to live in 2010. And Minneapolis was rated number 4 best place to live in the summer! I love it here everything you need is just a minute away. It's been pretty cold here so we haven't seen much. (Besides the mall of America which took me three hours just to see the bottom floor.) Kylan has been real busy. He goes to the office at 9 a.m and comes home at 12:30 p.m. so I barely see him. Our apartment is indoors like a hotel, and we have a lot of Indian people in our complex who will just leave there shoes outside in the hallway (which is think is so weird because someone could easily steal them) and everyday we get a new smell from curry to garlic. I also found out that you can't idle outside of walmart here (which everyone does in Utah and I have no problem with it) they will write down your licence number and get mad at you.

Everyone talks a little funky here, but i love it. They say "beg" instead of "bag". The first time I heard, "Do you want the receipt with you or in the beg?" I was like, what the crap is she asking me?  They always "bean" instead of "been", and "fer" instead of "for". Its great. They also have a million road/highways everywhere! they have exits off the right then the left, then it splits into three different roads. I get pretty scared driving, but everyone seems to drive pretty slow here so I'll be okay.

Our first Sunday here was wonderful. The ward is amazing! The people here are so nice. Our ward is in Minneapolis and right after sacrament, EVERYONE came up to us and introduced themselves, got our numbers, told us about things to do here, etc. The funny thing was that there were so many people talking to us that we didn't even get to go to the rest of church because they were talking to us the whole time! Easter Sunday was so fun! I had hid candy all over the apartment (i have too much fun) for kylan to find and I video taped it all.

Well good news: I am graduated and It feels so good to be done! I absolutely love graphic design so stinking much. For those of you that don't know, i transferred to BATC to finish my major there, and it was the best decision i ever made. Instead of taking 3 more years to finish plus putting in 40 hours a week, it took me 7 months for 30 hours a week! I was the fastest one to ever go through the program! I learned so much and I'm so happy about it.

Music Monday

Okay, so I'm a slacker. Well I missed last week since we were in cali, and I'm posting this week a little late. (I'll post about cali soon enough) and p.s. we move in a month!!! So crazy.
Here are Brandi Carlile and Ray LaMontagne who are both super great.

Inspired.

Things I want to accomplish:

Watch/read the news daily

Work on some type of graphic design/photography daily

Go to the temple once a month

Refurnish vintage furniture



Design my own home

Paint

Keep working on gaining knowledge, even after I graduate in 3 weeks

Become an expert on healthy/organic cooking

Be on a episode of CSI

Travel to Asia, South America, and Europe

Tell everyone how much I love/are grateful for them every chance I get

Love my career

Go to some pretty sweet concerts

Have babies (not for a while) and be the best mommy ever

Keep a journal

Go to the gym at least 4 times a week

Service.. Lots of it

Learn to sew

Overcome my sharp-object-fear, fish-fear, and my when-i-see-gathered-circles-or-patterns-i-get-sick-and-pass-out-fear

That's all i can think of right now but whoo! I have been on a roll lately!

Well, we are leaving for Vegas on Sunday, and then we are heading to Anaheim on Monday for four nights, then back to mesquite to stay with my family! We are going with our friends Brian and Lindsey Nelson, so it should be a fun trip! We are going to Disneyland and I'm so stinking excited. I finally convinced my husband to go. I just hope my poor, little, gimpy foot can handle all the walking we're going to be doing! 

Also, We are moving in 40 days! It's so insane, I'm super excited just to be living somewhere else for a while. But on a downside my husband will be gone ALL DAY, like literally, he will be getting home probably at midnight every night. So my summer with consist of: laying out, shopping, playing games, photography, the girls, working out, arts&crafts, graphic design, and what ever else will tickle my fancy! I have such a rough life.

Music Monday

I got inspired by my lovely friend Alex for this post. Music is one of my passions, but since I have gotten married, it is something I have seemed to forget. So I decided that I should do a little something for myself, and every Monday I will post a song that I am diggin at that moment. (Hopefully I can keep it up)

So here we go;

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals: Tiny Light
I love all of her music she is one of my favorites at the moment. She sounds just like singer from the 70's, someone my dad would definitely love.


Adele: Rolling In The Deep
Her new cd 21 is amazing, love this song and video.

this goes out to everyone who thought i was crazy.

It started when I was twelve.
I was running around barefoot on a cold night, and my feet suddenly swelled up and started itching. I would go snowboarding, and it would leave red, itchy, hives all over my body including my face! Holding anything cold would make my fingers swell up huge and itch. Eating ice cream would make my mouth itch, throat swell, cause me to cough, and sometimes my lips would swell.

Well we went to the doctor about it and he told me that I was probably allergic to the cold.
So growing up when I would tell people that I'm allergic to the cold, no one would ever believe me!
Well here is now the proof:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41466518/ns/today-today_health/

It was terrible when I was little, but all that happens now is that my throat will swell up still, I will cough when I eat something cold, and sometimes my hands will itch!

Meat

My husband tells me I need to make him more meat, at least once a day. I disagree.
I think 3-4 times a week is about right.
Wanna know why?

Hanna the hoarder is the reason.

Such a cruel, awful women.
I hope she does major jail time.

Minnesota

Well Monday we found out that we will be moving to Minnesota this April till Sept!!!! Even though I am going to miss my family and friends very much, I am super excited to live out of Utah for the summer!

Popeye

Dec. 17 2010

I sat there content in my warm socks, hospital gown and tarp-like shorts. Then, all of a sudden, the nurse pulled out 2 needles. That's when I started to really freak out. See this is my husbands fault. Earlier that morning, he told me that they aren't going to give me an IV. I thought for sure that this surgery was going to be all rainbows and roses. I started nervously rambling off and I think I intimidated this nurse just a tad. This is about when I felt this horrible pain. I thought for sure something was wrong. Everything was going black and I couldn't hear. My body ceased up and next thing I remember is smelling alcohol swaps three different times. When I finally came to I still felt the same pain and my arms were frozen. My nurse, Wendy, went and grabbed another women to check on me. The women grabbed my arm, said everything was good, and walked out. I thought I had wet the bed because I was sweating so badly. Then Wendy told me that I had a "vagal response".
  
See- when I was a tot and would fall and scratch my knee, I would pass out. Normal right? This happened on many occasions growing up so my mother really started to worry. She took me to the doctor and explained what was going on. He told to her that everything was fine, and that is just how my body deals with pain. So you would think that in this moment, hyperventilating and sitting in soaked sheets, I would be called dramatic- or unbelievable right?
 
Well there was a reason here. My dear, dear Wendy stuck the IV through my vein, right into my TISSUE. Oh and remember all that lovely fluid that was supposed to be hydrating my body? Was pumping into my tissue- making my poor arm look like Popeyes'. No wonder why I had this crazy reaction! Luckily, my body would eventually absorb this foreign fluid.
 
The anesthesiologist was the amazing man who found this fault about 20 minutes later. The next 20 minutes consisted of my vein "blowing up" and a group of doctors/nurses singing Christmas songs to me. I was told that this was the first time they had sang to someone over the age of four. I was pretty famous in the hospital that day. Everyone seemed to know that a bunch of doctors were singing to a 20 year old girl.

X-mas E-card.

Can I just tell you how much I am loving Photoshop CS5? Since I didn't mail any x-mas cards out I decided to make my own e-card! It was so fun! Kylan and I finally decorated our tree last night. At first it looked like this flimsy, Charlie Brown tree and now it looks super pretty! Christmas is such a fun time of the year especially with my husband! He pointed out that I really don't know ONE Christmas song, I have made up words for all of them! The funny thing is I never realized that I wasn't singing the right words. Well anyway Happy Holidays!

Oh the weird things that happen to us.

Kylan and I are the weirdest people when we are sleeping. We tend to sleep talk back and forth to each other. It's always pretty funny but we always wake up in the morning asking the other what happened last night. Growing up I never had these things happen to me... or that I remember. Since I've been married I have been sleep-talking and walking and sometimes I absolutely freak out. I'll just tell you a few little things I have said to Kylan:

"Did you get fat free?" and "Mom did you check the soup?"

Other times I wake up and think I see people, flies, are giant spiders in my room.

I'll scream, jump, or yell "Who is that!" Then fall back asleep.

Then weirdest of all. I went to bed before Kylan one night and I thought I was still alone while I was sleeping. For some reason I stood right up out of bed, ran and turned on the light, ran to my closet, grabbed some mix-match pajamas, turned around and saw kylan in bed staring at me. I screamed, jumped, and said and asked him when he got there. Then I ran back in bed and fell fast asleep. I woke up in the morning with half of my pajamas on and some next to me.

Kylan and I are the biggest babies when it comes to scary movies. But around Halloween time I always crave them for some reason. So one night we turned on an old scary movie; Halloween H20. Well we had to shut it off in the first 10 minutes because we were so scared. After these little segments of scary movies, I woke up one night to him whimpering like a dog. So I hugged him and he stopped, but then the next night I woke up to him yelling; "No, no, no!!"

I shook him and asked if he was okay.

Well he says to me in distress, "It's the system, all you need to do is figure out the system."

I asked, "System for what?"

He says, "Halloween.... 3 days.... the panels.... you got to pick a number..... 1 to 75..."

He was talking about installing alarms over a work trip.

Another time he asked, "Did you finish that install?" I didn't say anything back.

He said it louder and I just said, "No.."

Once again he said, "Did you finish?" Over and over I told him no.

In the morning Kylan says, "I think we were arguing in our sleep last night."

The moral of the story is if you wanna have an entertaining night, head over to the Veibells.

On another note, it is confirmed. I am getting surgery on my foot on Dec 17. Pray for me. haha. I cant handle needles or gross things. I started hyperventilating when the Doc was talking to me about the surgery. I just told him, "Make sure I'm so out of it that I will never wake up, I don't what to remember anything, just give me as much drugs as my body will take." On the good side at least I will be able to be more active!

A month ago I had to get a steroid shot in my foot. The Doctor told me that it will be really painful. Great, why in the world would he tell me that!? Well when the doctor left the room to go get the shot ready and I broke down in tears to Kylan. I told him I couldn't do it.

(Just a little background information I hyperventilate, struggle, cry, and pass out for every shot or really gross thing. With out fail. I once had two nurses hold me down. Another time I ran out to my car crying to called my dad to ask them if they really needed to take my blood. Okay, so maybe I'm a little dramatic?)

Well anyways the doctor came back in the room with me crying hard. I told him I changed my mind and not to do it. Kylan held me while I yelled, "Don't do it! Don't do it!" and the Doctor just jammed it in my foot. It was so terrible.

This last time my mom came to my appointment with Kylan and I so we could go out to lunch after. While we were leaving the doctors, we went to make the appointment for my surgery. The receptionist looked at my mom and said;

"Okay, if I can just have a parent sign here."

All of us just sat there for a good minute just staring at the paper confused.

Then my mom pointed to me and said, "Oh, she is married."

The receptionist was so embarrassed and said, "Oh I thought it said your birthday was in 1999!"

A nurse laughed and said "Well that's a compliment to you that you still look young!"

Really? That's a compliment to a 20-year old? All the nurses thought it was so funny they were trying to hold back from laughing for 5 minutes.

It's great that I still look young enough to be 11!

Update

A little update of the past 3 months.


The wedding was beautiful. It was a long day but everything went perfect! The temple was so special and I was so happy to share it with my close friends and family. Our honeymoon didn't work out as planned... ha there were a lot of things that went wrong, lets just say we pretty much drove down to St George to eat and came back. But we will always have that funny memory! 

So one weekend we were hanging out with our married friends Brian and Lindsey Nielson, Kylan and Brian got this great idea to go camping. Since it was already dark Lindsey and I were pretty sketched out but we just went along with our husbands. We packed up and left up the canyon. After a while of driving we found a great spot. After we set up the tent, our beds, and got a fire started we sat around the fire to relax. We forgot to bring food other than candy, so pretty soon we were all hungry. The boys convinced us to leave all of our stuff there, drive all the way back down, go to Walmart and get some hot dogs. Then we drove all the way back. After our hour detour Kylan had set up our sleeping arrangements to have all four of us sleep in the same tent... and in the same sleeping bag. Two newlywed couples sharing a sleeping bag. It was pretty funny, we felt like sardines in a can. Great way to break the ice!

Well I found out I have to get surgery on my foot in December. For those of you who didn't hear, I broke my foot a year ago doing a handstand, in my room, by myself, taking a timed test online. Pretty embarrassing huh?

I ended up shattered my 4th metatarsal and broke it up higher also. Unfortunately I had to go to school on crutches, and on lortab. Well the first day back to school I sat in the Hub telling groups of people all the stories of my childhood. Pretty soon I realized I didn't go to class at all, I just sat in the Hub for 4-5 hours.

The next week I had random people approach me saying, "Oh you're that girl who was telling all those crazy stories in the Hub!". Lovely. Not only did I embarrass myself then, but I rented a electric scooter to get around on campus. I ended up wrecking it in front of everyone, and cutting my head open.

So this is what Kylan get to look forward to when I do get surgery.

Can I just tell you I am so happy I married a Ute fan? I think if I had married a BYU fan that would be the 1st reason of divorce. haha. It is so fun to look forward to all the games. I was raised as a ute fan and went to all the games ever since I was little. I get pretty into football... I didn't really realize that until I got married. Kylan loves watching football so it is perfect. One day kylan had some friends over and I came in the room and said "Is it okay if I turn on the game?". All of his friends were shocked. We got to go to the Ute vs Pitt game a week after we were married and it was so much fun. We were in the middle of the Pitt section so it was kinda scary and the end Kylan told me to run out of there because the Pitt fans were getting a little angry.


A couple weeks ago APX had a back-end party and NitroCircus came and put on a big show. It was a lot of fun hanging out with the whole crew from the summer. This next summer Kylan will be a tech manager so it will be really nice for him. He has been recruiting and installing like crazy! I am pretty excited to see where we will be going and who we will be going with in January!

Little bit of us.

From 118 to 8.

8 days... 8 days... 8 days.....

I am so so so excited to spend the rest of my life with Kylan, in 8 days! Wow he comes home this Sunday, and we'll be married next Thursday! I can not even believe it. It has been a stressful, hard 4 months. We have had some challenges, but I am thankful for all of them. It is what makes us better people, if we can just take what we learn and help each other out. No matter what, Heavenly Father would never give us something that we can not handle. I'm sure everyone has had those those moments of "why me?". But there is a bigger picture but it is hard for us to see this sometimes because God's knowledge surpasses ours. He knows all things.

I am so excited to go through the temple, and get sealed to such a caring, loving person!

So I was blessed with getting a job today (ICON), since I'm getting married so soon they had me fill out some of the paper work with my new last name. I thought I had practiced it enough, but I totally messed it up! I had to look at how to spell it, (I know how to spell it, I was just under pressure) it was really funny! It is so weird signing a different last name.

I am so grateful for the wonderful family I have; my mother just called me today saying I just love you, you make me happy. My mom is the sweetest lady ever. I want to be one of those people who can make any ones day. I am so grateful for my sweet siblings; I had a bridal shower the other day and Kylee and Shay saved up their own money to buy me a lufa and a bar of soap, they were so happy and proud when I opened it that their faces glowed! And my sister Rachelle's emails inspire me and she is such a great example to me! I am so thankful for my wonderful friends who have been there for everything! I am thankful for Kylan for being so positive and for helping me out when I am being negative. Kylan is such a great person I just want everyone to get to know him, because I know everyone would love him. I am grateful for my soon to be new fam or the "in-laws" because I would be homeless with out them right now, they are such nice, fun people! I love my brother and sister in-laws and the opportunity I got to get to know a lot of them this summer! My heart is just so full I had to spill it out. (I sound like some cheesy old lady bearing her testimony) with that and this novel I'll end now.