where we eat is new to us

Last week Kyle and I, after long searching, finally found a great little table for the two of us.  It is solid wood and very sturdy and painted black, which we love.  Kyle is very excited and happy to have a table to sit at, but as you can see, we only have one chair, and that is our desk chair, and a storage bin for seats.  We need chairs, but for now we are loving having a table to eat at.  Last night for dinner we had barbeque chicken and mashed potatoes with gravy at a candle lit table...it was very romantic! :)

Also, incase some of you haven't heard, Kyle has a phone of his own now and if you want his number you can call me or e-mail him or whatever.

barf bucket and a paisley gown

This is me in the E.R. on Saturday night, July 31st.

I thought I had appendicitis.  Kyle and I had just had pizza for dinner and gone grocery shopping when we came home and I passed out on the floor!  Really? no. but i did lie down on the floor with a stomach ache.  It kept getting worse and worse so Kyle put me to bed to sleep it off, but that was a joke because I was in so much pain I was in tears and feeling quite nauseated. blah blah blah i called my mom blah blah blah Kyle took me to the E.R. around 9 where they had me wear this very stylish paisley hospital gown and gave me a barf bucket that I almost had to use blah blah blah they gave me an iv, pushed on my stomach a bit, and 4 and a half hours later they told me not to eat and sent me home because they said I was too happy.  I was cracking jokes, but don't they know laughter is the best medicine? I really was in a ton of pain.  The next day went in to get more blood drawn, went in for a CT scan, which was weird and I almost threw up, and spent pretty much all day in the hospital.  The doc finally came in and said I have cysts on my ovaries and one of them most likely ruptured and I don't have appendicitis. My favorite part...besides the paisley gown... was the blankets...the hospital apparently has a blanket warmer, so they bring you these blankets that feel like they just took them out of the dryer mmmmm :)  To celebrate and calm my starving stomach after not eating for 26 hours we had Chinese...probably not the best choice, but it sounded good.  The End.

BANG!

My wonderful sister and her hubby Brody came back to the States after being in Germany for 10 months and Kyle and I took a trip down to Utah for a few days to hang out before they left for Pennsylvania :( Brody's family has a bunch of horses and we went to the arena thing and watched people ride and I got to ride!  It was kinda scary when the horse went fast, but I'm pretty much a natural.

One night that we were there Nancy (Brody's mom) let us finish off her, as we like to call it "Better Than Sex Dessert" and it was delicious, but between the four of us we concluded that it was not better.

They introduced us to a great game called BANG! and we loved it so much that we got it to add to our large library of games, which we purchased at the Game Night store in Salt Lake when we went down to visit with Kyle's sister Amanda, her husband David, and their adorable two kids Isabel and Brigham.  Amanda made delicious burgers that David grilled up...we love bbqs.  After the kids went to bed, we played BANG! with Amanda and David and they loved it, too, of course.  Then we went back up to Ogden to finish our stay with Brody and Brittany.  On our last night Brody took us all on a pony ride!  Let me just say...."Turbo" speed is terrifying, but so much fun!

And while we were outside I got this mosquito bite (among many), this one was special, however, because it swelled up HUGE and stayed that way for a few days.