Our Favorite Day of the Week....TUESDAY!

Tyler and I were called, by our bishop, to be LDS Representatives for the

 PrimaryChildren's Medical Center. We couldn't ask for a better calling.



Every Tuesday we get to go to the hospital and visit with all the new

LDS patients and their families. If you thought the Notebook was a tear jerker,

times it by a million and you'll get the feeling we get each time we see

these beautiful children. If you know me very well I cry about basically everything.

However, with this calling I have to really work on holding back the tears. These

patients and families really rely on you to be strong.

We have only been two times, but by far this week has been my favorite.

I have never met so many strong spirited people in my life. Nancy adopted her

grandson when he was just a few months old. Due to his poor living conditions

 Kaden has had horrible health since he was a baby.On August 13, his birthday, he was admitted to the hospital because his brain was having a continuous

string of seizures. When we went in today,

he hadn't slept for four days...Nancy asked Ty and Dallin to give him a

blessing, which they did. Anyways, I want to focus more on Nancy. She did not

want us to feel bad for her or Kaden. What she said to me was, "Heavenly

Father sees him as perfect, and that is what he is... Perfect."

All she had was positive things to say. I admire Nancy... She has such a

strong foundation. It made me think of the times when I thought my world

was just "too stressful". I guess It has been nothing compared to Kaden or

Nancy's trials. Altogether I feel spiritually fed just being around Nancy.

She is definitely a light in the dark world.



The Girls Birthday!

While the Curtis family was visiting we celebrated Megan's, Tiffanie's,

and Cindy's birthday! For some reason I volunteered to make the cake..

 

As you can see it turned out HORRIBLY!! The cake started to fall apart,

the icing was melting, and not all the cup cakes fit. It was a

serious disappointment! Even though it was extremely ugly it tasted delicious!

Even Shelby thought so..

Hopefully the girls had a good birthday! (Even thought the cake was ugly)

It was fun to be able to celebrate with them. Hopefully we can do it

next year!!

Happy Trails!!

One thing I love about Salt Lake is, one minute you're in the city

the next you're in the mountains hiking and enjoying your surroundings. Ty

and I decided that we needed to have some fun.

The trail said it was only 2.8 miles.. it felt like the hike would never end.

I was dying! It was so hilarious. Other than being completely

out of shape, I COULDN'T BREATHE! I wanted to turn back and head to the car

so bad.

In the description it talked about this amazing view of the valley so I

had to keep going.

This is what I look like when I'm about to die.

We finally made it to the top!!

The view was perfect and so worth the hike!

Weekend with the Curtis Family

Tyler's mom and sister's came to Salt Lake the other weekend for their

cousins wedding. Friday we drove up to Roy to his sister Tiffanie's house and went

to the Tree House Museum. It was an absolute bast!



This place was like a kid's dream come true. It had everything; a cowboys and

Indian spot, pretend fire fighters, a music section, a USA spot.. it seriously

was amazing! Watching Brooklyn and Shelby was my favorite.

Their cute faces constantly had a smile.

As you can tell we really enjoyed ourselves. If you have kids I highly advise

this place! They will play in there for hours. Brooklyn played so hard

that she was struggling with walking around and perfered being on the floor

 laying down. Once we got home the girls had

fallen asleep in the car!

After the Tree House Museum we went to Tyler's cousin's reception. It was

good to meet some relatives that I had never seen before! All of them were so nice

and welcoming!

It was good to see and spend time with Tyler's mom and sister's! I know it

meant a ton to Tyler!



School is for Fools :)

Today was Tyler's first of school. Even though we live right by the

University he still has a pretty long walk. I told him to just take the bus but

for some reason he doesn't listen to me! That's nothing new..

Isn't he so handsome? Well if you don't think so, the whole U of U girls track team
thought so. He was actually excited for school to start and when

he came home he was just gleaming. I think this whole medical

school idea is a good idea for him. I think if it was his choice he'd be a professional

student for the rest of his life. I'm so proud of him! At least one of

us has to enjoy school!

What We Call Home

Tyler and I just moved to Salt Lake City and LOVE it! Everyone in our

ward has been so welcoming and our little "court" is so fun. The

 new apartment is tiny but it's the perfect size for the two of us. Tyler has a

job at KSL and will be doing tours through out the building.

This is our kitchen. I've never not had a dishwasher before. However, it has

become a blessing in disguise. Tyler drys while I wash. We are slowly

but surely learning how to work together with out driving each other crazy!!



Our living room/dining room. We have no extra bedrooms in the house,

but if you need a place to crash for the night we have a futon! :)

This is my first time living in a house with cinder block walls. I guess there is a

first for everything. I've decided I like them.. adds more texture to

the space! :)

Our new entertainment center/storage. It by far is my favorite piece of

furniture in our home!

This picture is to show you our nice a/c unit.. Some how I failed to

see on the apartment website that there is no a/c! When we first moved in our

apartment was as hot as Death Valley, or at least it felt like it. We then

had to hurry and find some units on Craigslist so we could actually

sleep! We did at one time have cardboard and a Disneyland

blanket over the window. I decided that we needed to upgrade so the

nice maintenance men custom cut some wood and I went and bought some pretty

curtains!!



Dining room.. where we eat all my fabulous homemade cooking!

If you're wondering why the picture only has our bed.. it's because that's all that

fits in our room. Sad day.. but it makes it easy to keep clean.

All together I absolutely LOVE where we are. I couldn't be anymore happy then

I am now. The poor days are starting but I have so much to be grateful

for!!