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| Me after my amazing birthday weekend! First picture as a 22 year old! :) |
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| Went to get a pedicure and the lady who owns the place went to Maceys and got my cupcakes |
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| My toes after an amazing pedicure! Flowers were a birthday present from the owner! |
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| My legs after a very disastrous tubing accient |
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| Another bruise from the tubing accident |
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| Birthday cake made for me by my friend Alex Shipp |
My birthday this year was amazing! I was so lucky to have three days of birthday fun! My father in law and his wife, Sue came up to visit us that weekend which made it even more special. On Friday the 16th my aunt wanted to take me to get a pedicure so my aunt Heather, my Aunt Brittany, my mother in law, Sue, and I all went to the salon to get pedicures. It felt so amazing and the lady who owns the place was so sweet. She knew we were coming so she went over to the store and bought me cupcakes for my birthday and she also put flowers on my toes free of charge! After the pedicure we all went out with our husbands to Wallabys for some yummy dinner. The next day, Saturday the 17th My father in law, Jason, Sue, Shaun and I decided to go tubing down the Provo River. This sounded so fun the more I got accustomed to the idea of floating in a tube for 5 miles in cold water. :) Well we got there and got our life jackets on, got driven up about 5 miles, we were dropped off...and from there the fun began! We all got in our tubes and started going down the river when I realized I was running into all the trees and heading for a rock I knew would flip me over. I started trying to paddle away from the rock as fast as possible, only to fail and flip myself over. I was so pleasantly dragged by my tube across the very shallow water with the bottom covered by sharp rocks. This started a chain reaction as my husband, trying to help me, toppled over and lost his tube, and my father in law also toppling over trying to help us, leaving my mother in law floating down the river by herself with a run away tube. So there's the three of us all trying to get out of the water, I'm bawling because I am freezing and in SOO much pain, as my body was just dragged across some very unpleasant rocks, my husband is trying to calm me down while trying to get out of the freezing water and my father in law is also trying to help. Well after we had gotten out safely Jason started down the river (with a pretty rocky start) to catch up with Sue. Shaun was trying to calm be down because by this time I realized I was bleeding, my legs were super hurt and I had lost my favorite sunglasses (that I had been worried about loosing from the start) and my pedicure I had just gotten the day before was ruined!. Long story short, the tubing experiece was terrible, Jason and Sue also ended up falling in the water and had to get help to get out, I sent my husband down the river in hopes that he could still enjoy the journey with his dad and Sue (not knowing at the time that they had gotten out), I sat by myself for almost an hour waiting for them to come get me, only to be greeted by Jason and Sue and no husband because I sent him down the river to "enjoy the journey." Luckily Shaun made it safely down the river, and we all made it home sore but safe. Won't be doing that again for quite some time!
The upside was that we did end the day by going to Tucanos for dinner for my birthday!
Sunday July 18th ( MY BIRTHDAY!!) We were all very sore, but still made the best of the day! Shaun made me my favorite, Dutch Baby, for breakfast, then later that evening we went over to my grandmas for dinner and cheesecake. All in all it was a great birthday weekend and we have a very adventurous three days!
It has been a long time, but I am finally back! Shaun and I have kept ourselves very busy these past few months starting at the end of August when we made the move into our very first home. We came across this home through my uncle who did the renovations for it and we fell in love. A home has never been a necessity but it has been a dream of our for a long time. We are renting but feel this is the best for us right now in our unpredictable life. We are hoping to be here for a very long time, at least the 2-3 years it takes for Shaun to get through school. Which leads to our next big event! Shaun started school!!! Shaun is working on his prerequisites at Provo College and then he will be applying to nursing school in May. He is doing amazingly well, and he is so smart- not that I am surprised. This is a huge step for us, a step that will open many doors in our future. Along with Shaun, I also started another semester at BYU. It has been quite a challenge to juggle a full-time job and school but I have managed so far, and I know most of that is due to the Lord's help. Shaun and I are so happy to be where we are today and we look back at the past and see how far we have come and all the lessons we have learned along the way. It is amazing to look back and see how each experience we have had, has made us stronger and added another stepping stone towards our future! Stay tuned for more of our latest adventures!
