moving

well... in case you didn't know, we moved. just for the summer to sioux city, Iowa... we technically live in North Sioux City, South Dakota though and our closest Wal-Mart (10 minutes) is in Nebraska. its been fun getting moved in, but journey didn't start off so well. this is how we thought we were going across the country... (minus the tow truck)

this is how we actually went across the country...

What happened? well... a blowout 20 minutes into our trip causing us to need a tow (hence the tow truck) and two new tires *ka-ching* luckily though, we have tow insurance. we make it safely down to Utah where we go to work on getting and trailer hitch put on the car so we can get a trailer and after getting the run around from Uhaul and paying an overnight fee for the hitch then finding out the largest manufacturer of hitches was right there in salt lake and could have taken 15 minutes to go pick one up ourselves and Uhaul not being able to work with our schedual we found a nice place with fantastic customer service at The Trailer Source. they took us in, got us what we needed, let us use his truck, and they even stayed way late to get it on that night! they went above and beyond to help us out and i am so grateful to them. Uhaul... the opposite. so we finally got on the road and made it to Sioux City!

barf bucket... round 2

remember when i went to the hospital because i thought i had appendicitis? and it turned out to be a ruptured ovarian cyst? well, this is my life.

tuesday... the day started out perfectly fine, i didn't have work and Kyle didn't have school. we slept in and decided to start putting stuff into storage since we are moving on the 22nd. we made to trips to the storage unit and got a lot of boxes and other things put away. somewhere in there i started to notice i had a stomach ache but didn't think anything of it. we hung out until kyle went to work and i was just watching some tv when my stomach really started to bother me so i took a bath, but that did no good so i went to lay down when kyle called me on his break. i was in a lot of pain and he lovingly decided to use me as an excuse to come home early to "take care of me". i thought i was constipated so he left to the store to get me a laxitive... while he was gone i started to throw up. it was awful. so i called my sisters and my mom (all the nurses in my family) and no one answered. perfect. well, eventually Corlista called me back and i was telling her all my symptoms and where the pain was and what kind of pain and she said i should go to the hospital, and i trust her so we got ready to go. i threw up some more, our home teacher came over and helped kyle give me a blessing, and we were off to the hospital.

10:30 we get to the hospital and the nurse asked me all the questions took my vitals, gave me a barf bucket and as she finished putting my iv in, i put that bucket to good use.  i got a CT scan and had my blood checked and to my surprise the doctor come in and tells me its my appendix and i need surgery and scheduled me for 6 a.m.. it was 2. kyle left after they got me upstairs to a new room at 3:30 to "get some sleep".

he came back at 5:30 to see me off. the doctor was very nice, as was the anesthesiologist. the surgery went great, i remember nothing and the gave me morphine. yay! kyle went home to move one of our couches into storage and get some much needed sleep  and KC came to visit me and brought me a balloon, king size reeses and a magazine, i love her. all the nurses were wonderful and very helpful. i was feeling pretty okay so they let me go home.

thanks to my sister my appendix didn't burst and i didn't die.

cake and ice-cream

on my birthday Kyle made me a cake... and let me lick everything :)

then we went to the nature park aaand threw rocks into the frozen pond. it. was. AAAWESOME!

we also went bowling and i won the third game... even though i look ridiculous

and then we had triple chocolate chunk cake... and mint chocolate chip ice-cream! Mmmm

... 22

it's my birthday. i am twenty two.

march 13, 2011

yesterday was our #1 anniversary. the year went by so fast and we did so well with our no sleeping on the couch rule for the first year, we decided to keep it. Kyle brought me three of the most beautiful roses i have ever seen on saturday






and then we went to our beloved Porter Park, where our life together began to blossom. haha... how cheesy do you think i can get. but seriously... i LOOOOOVVE this picture! we make a beautiful pair... and someday we will pass that on..... but not this year.

my car Jack

...oh yeah...aaand we sold my car, Jack. woot woot!

two week notice

ahhh.... i am craving springtime... it is starting it's tantalizing teasing and i want it to just get on with it already! bah. ooooooo... i put in my two week notice today for w.w., and yes, it does feel good, i can't wait, Saturday, March 5th... thats the day of majority freedom. once i can quit dollar tree as well, it will be complete. *sigh* :D

happiness