Reminiscing

It has been a little busy for the two of us, but I now have time to reminisce about all the fun we've had in the last month.

Thanksgiving was great, we were able to spend it with my family and cousins on my dad's side. We always go to my grandma and grandpa's church so the guys can play basketball. The church was double booked, but everything worked out and we still had a wonderful time. Dinner was delicious and this year I even had a part in the food. I made my first banana cream pies. They are my favorite and now I won't be waiting for next Thanksgiving to roll around before I eat more.

Saturday was a replay of Thanksgiving at the Daly's. We had a lot of fun until the day was interrupted with Landon's injury. Broken. Collar Bone. (He just wants to be like his dad, I guess) We spent a couple hours at instacare and then Landon spent the next couple days in a sling, with out a shirt, in bed.

The next fun event was my brother's wedding. Travis and Moriah got married Dec 5 in the Bountiful Temple. The weather was chilly, but the day was lots of fun. Everything looked beautiful and I'm so happy Moriah is part of the family. She is perfect for Travis!

Last of all

I officially completed my finals today and now I can catch up on everything that hasn't been done for awhile...
laundry
cleaning
dishes
I can say I have vacuumed, but it hasn't been super efficient since I vacuum around a pile of clothes and then move the clothes to vacuum where the pile was.
Landon and I deep cleaned right before Thanksgiving and good thing we did because now that I'm the only one who can keep up on everything around here it has gotten pretty messy due to lack of time and motivation since I was more worried about finishing up the semester. Last week I came home from work to find Danica here with the girls keeping Landon company and bringing us dinner (thanks Danica it was delicious), but I was really embarrassed about how horrible this place looked. We don't get visitors so as bothersome as the mess was I just tried to ignore it. Let it be known...if anyone plans on visiting during the semester I need a couple hours notice. As for the next couple weeks this place will be clean, or that's the goal anyway. I miss Landon's functioning left arm!
Christmas Break is HERE!

36 Days

I'm so excited for Christmas! I love the christmas lights on houses, I love drinking hot chocolate, and this year I'm even more excited to have our own christmas tree. Two weeks ago Landon and I were at Smith's Market Place and they had the cutest christmas trees on display so I made him let me buy ornaments for the tree! They are cute only red and white and I can't wait to put the tree up. I told Landon we need to do it this weekend or else nothing will get put out until after finals and then that's only two weeks before christmas. He makes fun of me that I'm so excited, but I can't help it. Tis' the Season!

DRUM ROLL...

I registered for my last semester of classes!!

I could only be happier if Thanksgiving was here and finals were over. The end is in sight and I'm so excited for precepting to be here. I was supposed to be at Primary Children's Hospital, but at the last minute Weber State lost the spots they had so now I'm just waiting to find out if I'll be at Ogden Regional during January (not looking forward to driving up there 3 times a week in bad weather) or LDS during February. I'm really disappointed to not be at Primarys because I wanted to be with kids, but either way I'll learn a lot.

I probably won't see hardly anyone during the month of precepting. Doing 36 hours a week at the hospital and working for 15 plus going to school, taking tests, sleeping and trying to keep up with cleaning and maybe cooking every now and then doesn't leave a lot of time for anything else. Good thing my husband helps with everything around the house and even cooks if I ask him to. Precepting will be over before I know it and then it's smooth sailing from there.
As busy as nursing school has been I love it!

10.21.09

You may or may not be able to tell what Landon and I were for the Daly halloween party.
As we walked upstairs Beckham said, "hey, cheetahs" we said no guess again, the next guess was cavemen. Oh well, pebbles and bambam were before his time. Landon thought we didn't even need halloween costumes since we don't have kids, but since this was a costume party I made him wear what I made. I thought the idea was clever since I came up with it on Saturday and the party was Wednesday. It was cheap and required very little sewing.

We ate dinner in a pumpkin which was pretty good and then the kids played a couple games for some fun halloween prizes. Here are a couple pictures of everyone all dressed up.

Kevin and Emilie's family: Kevin-David Beckham, Emilie-Black Mail, Karaia-Tinkerbell, Beckham-Skeleton, Tennyson-Spiderman and Sanders-Elephant.

Jeremy and Danica's family: Jeremy- The Beast, Danica- Sleeping Beauty, Belle- as Belle Aliyah: Cinderella (she had little glass slippers and a pumpkin carriage)

Candace was a Queen and here we are all together minus Jim, Greg, Lyndi and Mckinley. Next year Landon is in charge of the costumes so we'll see what next year brings.

Nocturnal

3:00 am
Landon: "Hey babe could you give me some space"

Me: (in a quiet, tired and confused tone)"How much space do you need? I'm on my half"

Landon opens his eyes "Sorry, I love you" as he falls back asleep

A couple weeks later

1:30 am
I wake up to Landon standing at the end of the bed pulling on the blankets. I asked him what he was doing. He mumbled something and two seconds later was back in bed. Morning comes and I leave for work before he gets up so we don't talk about it. Later he calls me, I ask him why he got out of bed during the night and was pulling on the blankets. We laughed about it for a while. He didn't even remember this until I asked him, but he still had no answer as for what he was doing.

My conclusion: He sleep talks, sleep walks, and can be entertaining even in the middle of the night.

Good thing we like each other or he wouldn't want to share the bed and I wouldn't be ok with my sleep being interrupted.

Fall Break!

Landon's mom had a free two night stay at the Ramada Inn in Moab and since Jim is gone she decided she wasn't going to use it. Landon and I were the lucky ones who got to, Thanks Candace for the practically free vacation. The trip was quick, but lots of fun. Our hotel was really close to everything and almost the perfect place to stay except that it had two double beds. Landon thought for sure we'd have to sleep in separate beds to have enough room, but to his surprise we survived alright.


Tuesday morning we headed to Arches National Park. I had never been there before and was surprised how big the Delicate Arch and the Windows are. Landon really wanted to find a trail that we could go Jeeping on. Tuesday night we ventured around to see what we could find and also went to Hole In The Rock. During all this driving I decided I'd start reading the book I needed to finish in a week. Between driving to all the National and State Parks plus going Jeeping for 3 hours on Wed. I finished my book. That is by far the fastest I've ever read an entire book.
My favorite part of the vacation was a break from school, warm weather, hiking and sleeping until 9.
Landon's favorite part of the vacation was going jeeping. This trumped everything for him. He found 2 perfect trails for us to go on and even made me get out of the Jeep to take pictures. This picture doesn't quite capture the great time we really had, but it was a fun little getaway .

Too Relaxed...

I have been wanting to get a massage for a l-o-n-g time. Everyone I work with seems to have a membership to Massage Envy where they get them monthly.
I decided I was going to treat myself to one hour of complete relaxation.

I told Cherelle "ok, I'm getting a massage." and then she tells me that she's canceled her membership and isn't going to use her last two so I can use them. Nice, my massage is now going to be free. Perfect!

I tell Landon when I get home from work and who could resist the offer he decides he wants one too. So we make it a couples massage and go on Wed. night. The entire massage was so relaxing. My legs, my feet, and especially my back. Which she probably massaged for over a half hour. We walked out of there feeling wonderful. Sleepy, but wonderful. I just kept telling Landon all night how great my back felt, I was amazed it could make such a difference and had almost considered getting a membership until I calculated how much money that is a year. Not worth it.

The next morning was a different story than the night before. It felt like I had jumped off a cliff and hit every single rock on the way down. My back hurt to sit, stand or bend. It hurt all day and I could barely lift my arms above my head, but Landon seemed to be fine and just laughed and told me maybe a massage every month isn't meant for me.

I can say I've experienced a massage and it is completely relaxing when you're getting it, but the next day is not quite the same. I am even more sure now that having a membership is not worth it and maybe Landon feels the same since he hurts today. Either way we're happy with just the little massages we can give each other even though they only last for 3 min. and we'll save our money for something else.

Back to School

Summer is officially over. Landon and I both went back to school yesterday. I can't speak for Landon too much because he still has a couple more years left, but for me i was excited. Yes, I still don't enjoy the homework, working all day on the days I don't have school and waking up in time to be to Mckay Dee Hospital by five in the morning, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. My dream of being a nurse since I was a little Kindergartner is finally in sight. My last year of the nursing program is here and It's hard to believe. Today I had lab and we learned how to start IV's and for some reason just knowing how to do that alone makes me feel more official. This semester will be busy and hard, but worth it in 8 months from now.

Landon is taking 15 credits and since we work opposite shifts and hours, we won't be seeing a whole lot of each other unless it's Sunday or as we're going to bed. Monday we are both gone all day until 9, Tuesday morning is my long 11 hour clinical day so I will be going to bed as early as possible on Monday and who knows if I'll last until ten to see Landon when he comes home from work. Wednesday is another long day of school for both of us and then Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are all ten hour workdays for me and Landon will be just as busy with school and work on Thursday and Friday and then around 12 hours of work on Saturday. Then Sunday will be here, we'll spend time together, rejuvenate and do it all over again.

I know how important education is and how hard it would be to support a family with out it and that is why these next couple rough years of saying good morning and goodbye or hello and goodnight at the exact same time will pay off and be worth it. Plus it's the normal thing to do. right? Get married, go to school, be poor, live in a hot little apartment, function on not much sleep and regardless of everything else be totally in love. If so. we're on the right track. Now as I get more into the semester I'll have to keep reminding myself and having a good attitude about it.

This summer was full of great things, getting married, going on family vacations, camping, boating and all the little things. The school year is here and despite being busy I'm sure we'll have just as much fun. I can never find time to write memories down in my journal so I want to keep this blog updated with the big, little or fun things that happen in our life. I'm hoping the school year won't be too busy and that I'll find the time to post often. I guess we'll see how it goes.

Our Two Boating Trips

Landon and I don’t have too many days off together, but over the 24^th of July we both we able to get away and go boating at Willard Bay. Danica and Jeremy came along with Jeremy’s family and then my family was there too. It was a lot of fun to spend the day with my family out on the lake since it’s been a couple of years since our boat has been working. I wish I would have all of my camera stuff found so I could put some pictures up, but everything is organized very well. In boxes of course. In a closet and I can hardly even find time to blog about anything so pictures to go along with out blog will just have to be put aside for somewhere around a year until I’m done with school.

Next set of our adventures was a "fun" five days at bear lake with all of Landon's family. I love going to Bear Lake and Landon and I were really looking forward to this trip, which is the main reason why we only went on a Honey Moon for the weekend is because I wanted to make sure I could get as much time as possible off from work and school both to go to the Cabin.

The weather ruined our Saturday at the Lake, it was cold, windy and rainy, but despite that it was still fun we celebrated Landon's birthday and I attempted to make his favorite, angel food cake, It didn't have the usual fluffy perfect look. Instead it was a little flat and dark, which confirmed my original idea that buying one would probably be easiest.

Sunday we were able to go to my cousin's homecoming in Brigham City and later on have family pictures with the Dalys. While all of this is going on from friday night until sunday Kevin and Emilie had one child recover from the flu and two more suffer from it. They still endured through family pictures. What troopers.

Now this much of the trip takes us to monday, which started out as a fun, warm, sunny day at the lake and ended up on a totally different note. I love the lake and call me crazy, but I really do love to get sunburned. It's part of the whole experience. However when this day was over i was regretting the sunburn. I'll do a step, by step through this night, minus the details that everyone could probably do with out.

First late afternoon poor Belle got sick on the boat, next was little Mckinley when we were on our way to the pool. We get back to the cabin to find out that Danica and Jeremy weren't feeling so great. Luckily dinner was taking forever to cook so at the point i had still not eaten. I go upstairs to our room because I start to feel sick to my stomach. I'm thinking to myself ok now Amy, just because four people in the last hour are sick doesn't mean that you are. I open the door to our room, look in the mirror and my upset stomach was confirmed as real and not mental. My face was white. Two seconds earlier I was really red and now really white. I knew i was getting "it". Later Landon came looking for me and brought me a bowl. I was determined that I wouldn't actually need it and then it happened in this order in what seemed like minutes Jeremy, Danica, Lyndi, Me, Kevin. All throwing up. At first I laughed thinking how funny that we all have this, but seriously this was a violent little bug. I have never had the flu like this before and I hate the flu. I cried after everytime I threw up, which I hope i grow out of. Luckily Landon did a better job taking care of me and being around the throw up then I thought he could and thankfully Emilie wasn't sick at this time because she ran from upstairs downstais, doing laundry and taking care of whoever, whenever. Finally the dreaded vomiting ended and I now needed to fall asleep, but with not only being sick, but the horrible sunburn that i had it was a bit difficult until Landon knowing me all too well put in a movie. I was out.

You'd think it ends here with 9 people getting sick, but during the night Greg got it and later on so did Landon. So now Tuesday morning in here and Kevin said it perfect. "Well Amy, welcome to the family." I'm not sure I'd call myself lucky to have an initiation like that. All day Tuesday was spent inside wondering if Landon would be able to make it through the car ride home since we both had to be to work the next day. At about 8:30 Landon finally decided he would be able to make it home, thus ending our trip to Bear Lake. All in all we did have fun and the trip was surely one to remember.

Just for the record Emilie and Candace both got it later on so there was only one adult and two babies who survived.

..Changes..

They're either big or little. Getting married I thought would be a big change but besides grocery shopping, cooking and doing the dishes by hand it feels exactly like it did when we were dating. We just love to be with each other even if we're not doing anything but sitting in our hot little basement apartment. Getting married and the changes that come with that have been quite easy. The biggest change I think I've had to make since we got married is killing bugs and spiders.

Since the mountain is our backyard I should have figured that we would get lots of bugs, but I didn't think about that. I made the mistake of turning on the light when i got up during the night to use the bathroom and just as i did this i saw a nasty little earwig crawl under the fridge. Now I'm paranoid I'm going to step on a bug if I don't look before every step. Even worse was yesterday after Landon and I had both just worked for 10 hours and had finally gotten home. We just wanted to sit there and watch a little T.V. but then we heard this noise. I still want to believe that it was the wind making the trees blow and hit the sit of the house, but Landon had to say, I think there are mice. Sick, could it get worse? I could hardly deal with little bugs, but now i had to think about a mouse or giant rat running across my toes. So as tired as we were we went to home depot and bought a mouse trap and a sticky paper type thing to catch the bugs. Hope for my sake that we don't ever find a mouse in the trap, I'm still trying to convince Landon it was the trees.

Even with the bugs and possible mice, I love living here. We have our own washer and dryer, a nice tub, a fridge that we can usually keep somewhat full of food (so grateful for our jobs) and our own kitchen table and couches. I couldn't ask for a better place than this to call home. I love coming home from work and knowing that I'll see Landon. I even love cooking because no matter what it is Landon tells me "thanks, it tastes great." Everything about being married has been wonderful even the changes we've had to make. I'm so grateful for my wonderful husband and the home that we have.