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Memorial Day

2011-05-31T10:54:00.000-07:00

This will be a quick post but I wanted to put a couple of cute pictures up! Well it has been an eventful weekend! My cousin Ashley got married on Thursday (May 26) in Salt Lake. We went to the reception at Wadley Farms in Lindon that night. It was the first time that my dad's whole side of the family had been together for a lot of years. So, we were able to get a family picture with everyone (except Bubba since he's on a mission). It was great to see everyone!
After the wedding, Landon and I drove to Logan to spend the night (Dave was working) then left for Bear Lake on Friday! We have a timeshare condo in Bear Lake and usually the whole Pond family goes up on Memorial Day Weekend. This year that was not the case. Everyone was really busy and it was crappy weather so it was just a small group of us. It was pretty chilly so we spent most of the time in the condo. We took the babies for a stroller ride and did a few other fun things. We took Landon to the playground on the beach and let him swing in the baby swing! HE LOVED IT. It was kind of mad when we took him out. Baby Jaxson
Landon and I drove home from Bear Lake on Saturday night.

On Sunday, we were able to suprise Dave's parents! Dave's brother, Jesse and his new wife Katie have found out that they're pregnant! But, they live in California and wanted to tell Dave's family on Sunday. So, usually on Sunday we will Skype with Jesse and Katie for a few minutes just to say hi! Jesse and Katie asked us the night before if we would get one of Landon's onesies and write "I'm going to be a cousin". So, I found one of Landon's old little onesies that still sort of fit him and used a sharpie to write it out. Then when we went to my in-laws on Sunday for dinner, we were skyping with Jesse and Katie and I took off Landon's little t-shirt to show Glade and Kellie the shirt. So Jesse and Katie were able to see their reaction as they found out the news. I thought it was a pretty cute idea! Especially for being out in California.

Sunday was Dave and I's 3 year anniversary! WOO HOO we made it 3 years! So, we decided to celebrate on Monday. We both had the day off (that's a miracle for Dave) We took Landon to my in-laws and Dave and I went shopping and just spent the day together. We went to lunch and then saw the new Pirates movie in 3D. That was my first every 3D movie and I really liked it. Dave just thought it was okay.

Anyways, that was our Memorial Day Weekend in a nutshell! :)

Favorite Picture

2011-04-14T11:38:00.001-07:00

So, this is currently my most favorite picture of Landon. I took it yesterday with my cell phone at Wal-Mart. Landon doesn't like going to the store in his car seat, so I decided to let him ride in the cart since he is starting to sit up a little bit on his own. He really liked it for about 10 minutes....I'm convinced that he just doesn't like to go shopping!

4 Months and lots of great news!

2011-03-07T15:11:00.000-08:00

I can't believe Landon is 4 months old! He is getting so big and has changed so much it's absolutely insane! This last week, on March 4, Landon's very first cousin was born. Brady and Virginia had their sweet little boy who was 8 lbs 7 oz and 21 inches. He was born in Logan. They named him Jaxson Derek Pond. Landon and I made a trip up to Logan on Friday to meet little Jaxson. Landon and Jaxson are 4 months apart to the day! Pretty cool. We love little baby Jaxson and are soooo glad that he's in our family now.

In other great news, Dave and I have made the largest purchase of our lives... Yes, we bought a HOUSE! It is in Santaquin, which is where we currently live! It has 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and a 2 car garage! It also has an awesome shop in the backyard for Dave to work in and to weld. We are closing during the last week of March and can move in after April 4! If anyone feels like lending a helping hands during that time, we would love the help! We don't have a lot of furniture yet so if you have any couches, side tables, coffee tables, etc. that you would like to get rid of or sell, let me know!! :) Because most likely, I will be able to take them off of your hands until we can afford to buy brand new stuff.

Other LATE but still great news...we had another addition to the family on February 15. My uncle Ryan and his wife April had a little baby boy! Jack Ryan Pond. We were able to go and visit them a few days after little Jack was born. (Landon looks GINORMOUS next to all these little newborns!!)

Like I said, Landon is changing a ton! Here are some new things about him and things he's done.

*He smiles ALL THE TIME!*He will scream his head off if you try to craddle him in your arms and he's not sleepy

*He will gets pretty happy when he hears my voice

*He has sat in his booster/high chair for the first time

*He likes his bumbo chair....sometimes (His thighs are a little too chunky for it)

*He loves to grasp toys and tries to eat all of them*He has met the bummer baby lambs and was fixated on them for like 10 minutes while they "baa"ed.

*Comes to work with mom on Fridays and sometimes sleeps on my desk*He is starting to giggle a little

*He munches on his fingers every chance he gets

*He is eating a lot more and tries to hold his own bottle. He is successful 75% of the time.

*He has been on his first vacation which was to California for his uncle Jesse's wedding on January 15

*He has touched the Pacific Ocean

*He was blessed on January 2, 2010 in the Santaquin 12th ward by his dad!

*He has seen the San Diego Temple

Overall, we are a busy and happy little family!

6 weeks and counting!

2010-12-20T12:20:00.000-08:00

It's so hard to believe that Landon is already 6 weeks old! He is growing so much and is not slowing down. Overall, he has been a great baby and is a lot of fun! Around 4 weeks old, he started to get a little bit of a cough and a stuffy nose so I took him to the doctor and he weighed 11 lb. 8 oz.!! That's a gain of 2 pounds since he was born! Now that he's 6 weeks, I wonder what he weighs. He is a chunk and he has really long legs and arms. He is starting to lose his hair around his hairline in the front. Luckily, there is other hair growing in, it's just a little shorter than the rest of the hair. He is starting to make a lot of sounds, and frequently keeps Dave and I up at night because of all the noise...even though he's not crying. He is in a bassinett by my bed. He sleeps in his boppy pillow because he has been stuffy so if he sleeps propped up in the boppy, he can breath better. But, sometimes when he wakes up in the morning, he has squirmed his way out of the boppy and he's laying flat. It's really kind of funny that he can move that much. He almost sleeps throught he night too! He will go to bed around 9 or 10 and won't wake up until about 4 or 5 and then he'll go right back to sleep until about 8. Hopefully as he gets older and bigger, he will just sleep straight through until about 6ish.

Other things that Landon likes/does:

-Falls asleep in the car in 1.3 seconds

-Smiles a lot in his sleep

-Sucks on his hands during his tummy time (or screams in this case)

-Looks like he's holding his binki in his mouth when he's sleeping (You can see where he's losing his hair in this picture)-Snores

-Makes funny sounds when he's hungry and you give him his binki

-Hates the taste of his gas drops

-Hates getting his temperature taken (on his forehead)

-Gurggles when I have to put Saline drops in his nose

-Likes to lay on the kitchen table with the light on above him

-Loves to snuggle in his fluffy blanket after he gets his bath

-Likes to take naps with mom and dad on the couch

-Hates getting a sponge bath! Would much rather have a real bath!

Well, I'm sure there are lots of other things that I'm forgetting but for now, this is what I can remember. I have gone back to work a few days a week and have been taking Landon to a babysitter. He seems to do really good and he's happy when he comes home. It's hard to leave him but I think it's good for him and me to have some time apart sometimes. I love being a mom even though sometimes it's really hard. Dave loves being a dad too and loves coming home to me and Landon! :)

Landon Leroy Robbins

2010-11-10T09:47:00.001-08:00

Landon Leroy Robbins FINALLY made his appearance after 22 hours of labor on Thursday November 4, 2010 weighing a large 9 pounds 8 ounces and measuring 22 inches long! He has big hands and big feet and big shoulders. I can't believe that he fit inside of me somehow! The doctors told me that he was going to be a large baby a few weeks ago but none of them anticipated that he would weigh more than 9 pounds.

At 12:45 on Thursday morning, my water broke. We called the doctor and he told me to make my way over to Labor and Delivery. So, I woke up Dave and we grabbed our bags and got in the car. We got to the hospital and checked in. I wanted to make sure that I was going to be admitted before calling either of our families. So, after about 30 minutes of tests and paperwork, I was admitted and told that I would be starting Pitocin in an hour if I hadn't already progressed on my own. (I was only dialated 1 cm still) At 2:30, Dave and I called our parents to tell them the good news, knowing that it was going to be a long process. When I called my parents, I told them to just come when they woke up in the morning but, they couldn't wait, so they started making their way to Provo and got there around 6:15am. I really wanted to wait as long as I could to get my epidural. I tried so hard to be tough and wait as long as I could but after about 3 hours on the pitocin, the contractions were really intense so I had my epidural placed. Around 1pm the baby's heart rate dropped and I was twisted and turned into a bunch of different positions to get the baby off of his umbilical cord. During all this turning, my epidural was dislodged and I could feel EVERYTHING! Another hour or two later, we decided to do another epidural. This epidural worked for a few hours and then gradually started to wear off. The anestheiologist said that my body wasn't responding to the medication so he was going to have to manually administer a higher strength every 45 minutes. Around 9pm I was finally dialated to a 10 and could start pushing. I am so glad Dave was there to help me. He was so encouraging and positive even though I know it was really hard for him to see me in pain, he did so good and I couldn't have done it without him. The doctor finally said that he could help me by using the forceps. So without going into too much detail, he used them and was able to get Landon's head out but his shoulders got stuck. This caused his umbilical cord to get pinched off and he was without oxygen for about 45 seconds. He also had some fluid in his lungs. Once they were able to get him out, he was rushed to the table next to me and the NICU people were rushed in my room because he wasn't breathing. They attached a heart monitor to him and we were able to hear his heart beat even though we couldn't hear him cry because he had a tube down his throat. He was taken to the NICU before I was able to hold him, but was able to see his face for about 10 seconds before they wheeled him out. The next couple of hours were really hard for me. Not seeing him and holding him was breaking my heart, even though all of the nurses kept telling me that he was doing fine and that they were just making sure that everything was okay before releasing him from the NICU. Finally, after being transfered to the Mother/Baby part of the hospital, they brought him to my room around 1:30am. As soon as I saw his face, I couldn't concentrate on how much pain I was in or what I had just gone through. He had the sweetest face, even though it was really puffy and his right eye was really swollen. We instantly fell in love with him. My parents were there when they brought him to us so they were able to see him before leaving the hospital. Dave spent the night at the hospital with me and my parents went to Santaquin to stay at my house. We had a lot of visitors the next day in the hospital. All of Dave's family came and some of my relatives came and some of our friends. The next day, my parents had gone back to Logan and picked up both my grandma's and Brady and Virginia.

It was really nice to finally come home from the hospital. We have been having a great time with the baby, even though he is a lot of work. He sleeps really well and is still learning how to eat, but every day he just gets better and better. My mom has been staying with me this week to help me out. THANK HEAVENS FOR HER! I seriously think I would've had a mental breakdown without her. Dave had to go back to work on Monday so, I wouldn't have had his help during the day while I'm healing AND trying to take care of the baby.

Landon had his first Doctor appointment yesterday (November 9) just a 5 day check to make sure that he's still doing okay. The dr. said that he's doing great. He has lost 6 oz so he currently weighs about 9 lbs 2 oz. (still huge)

Today, I'm taking him to get his pictures taken. So far, he really enjoys his carseat, bouncer and his boppy pillow. He HATES getting his diaper changed or having any articles of clothing removed. He's starting to smile a lot in his sleep.

Thanks to everyone that has come to visit or has called or texted. We are so excited to have Landon here finally and so greatful that he his healthy and that I'm healthy after such a scary day! We are so blessed to have him in our family!

Come On Baby!

2010-10-25T11:39:00.000-07:00

Only 9 days left until my official due date! I can't wait! I just want my little baby to be here in my arms finally. 9 months is way too long I have decided. And these last 2 weeks or so have been really hard on me. My body aches in ways I never thought it could ache. My back, neck, shoulders, feet, legs, hands and hips will be very happy once I can recover from this pregnancy. I'm writing all of this because I've heard that once you see your baby, you forget about all the pain and agony you went through to get your baby here, but I want to remember it a little bit so that I don't have 50 million kids! There were definately fun parts about being pregnant but people are not kidding when they say the last 1-2 months are very difficult. Poor Dave, he's been dealing with a nut case these last few weeks. I almost think he will be more excited to have the baby here than I will, just cuz I won't be pregnant anymore!

Dave says he is worried that he won't make it to the hospital in time since he works in a bunch of crazy different places and we never know if he's going to have cell phone service.

Bitter Sweet Weekend!

2010-09-29T09:32:00.000-07:00

This last weekend I spent 3 whole days in Logan. ( I never get to stay that long ) Friday, I had a daddy/daughter day with my dad. He took the day off of work so we could hang out. We shopped and ate all day and it was a lot of fun. I love my dad, he's gonna be an awesome Grandpa.

On Saturday, I had 2 baby showers! I know, I'm spoiled, right? Well, they were both so much fun. The first one was put on by my Sister in Law Virginia and she did awesome! Especially for doing it all by herself. The shower was for Family, Family Friends and Ward members. There was a great turn out and it was so good to see so many people that I hardly ever get to see anymore! Everybody was also VERY generous! The baby hardly needs anything else now. It was great. The second shower was put on by my friends Chelsie and Amy. It was really fun and good to see my friends. I love hanging out with them and they also spoiled me! I'm so blessed to have such supportive friends and family.

After the showers, Dave came to Logan. He was on his way to Montana with a semi truck load of some farm equipment and decided to stop in Logan for the night and then continue driving to Montana on Sunday. I was very excited to see him because I hadn't seen him since Thursday and knew I wouldn't see him for a few days since he'd be in Montana. My mom, dad, Brady, Virginia, Dave and I went to Aggy's for dinner so we could watch the Boise State football game at the restaurant. Then, we just went back to my parents and relaxed the rest of the night. It was a veerryyy long day, so everyone was really tired.

Dave was going to Montana for work to load bales of straw onto helicopters so they could drop the straw onto land that had been burned by wildfires. Sounds pretty cool, but neither Dave or I were excited for him to do it. He is STILL gone and won't be back until Thursday (tomorrow) night. I can honestly say that this is the longest that we've been apart since we've been married...I hate it. Of course, I don't see him a lot when he is home but I hate going to bed at night by myself, cooking for myself and entertaining myself. Not to mention, our house is super creepy at night so I tend to scare myself.

I am 35 weeks pregnant today. Feet are still swollen and I have been told that my nose is looking puffier. I feel like a cow and it doesn't help that people make stupid comments. Why is it that people don't think before they speak sometimes? Doesn't everyone know that pregnant women are emotional already, and that they don't need to add to it! I've heard so many comments about how "large" I am and how I look "Ready to Pop!" and I even got offered a motorized wheel chair at Wal-Mart by the door greeter the other day because he said I looked "miserable". Come on people! Anyways, I have a doc appointment next week and they will start checking every week to see if I have started dialating. I'm getting very excited and I'm sooo ready for this baby to come! :)

Bubba has officially left the Provo MTC and is in Dallas Texas. He was really excited to get out into the mission field.

That's all I have for today! Have a great week everyone!

Eastern Idaho State Fair

2010-09-18T10:37:00.000-07:00

Well, the state fairs are over! I'm very happy about that. We took sheep to the Eastern Idaho State Fair and the Utah State Fair. I was only able to go to the Idaho one because the Utah one was on a Wednesday and I had to work. The Idaho fair was in Blackfoot Idaho which is about 20 minutes North of Pocatello and was over Labor Day Weekend. It's about a 4 hour drive from Santaquin. We took 10 Hampshire Sheep. In the past, I have usually helped a little in getting the sheep ready and then showing them in the showring but being 32 weeks pregnant at the time, I was tired and was very achy so I didn't really do too much. Our sheep did pretty well at the show. Our yearling Ram got Reserve Champion (which is like second place out of all ages of the Rams) Our Ewes didn't do very well, I think we were like 4th and 5th most of the time with the Ewes. Anyways, here are a couple pictures of the lovely adventure. I was the picture taker and had a really bad angle...sorry! Dave's sisters and Jesse's Girlfriend, Katie Glade washing the sheep Dave and McKell taking a break The yearling Ram Class The final 3 still in the yearling ram competition and ours is acting up! It's a good thing Dave is strong to hold him back. The final two, we took first and the other guy took 2nd. His name is Alvin and he ended up winning a lot at both the Idaho and Utah Fair. The winter lamb class, Dave is helping Katelyn, these are the final two and we ended up getting 2nd. The sheep of Alvin's ended up getting Grand Champion. This is the Champion round where we got Reserve Champion. This is the Yearling Ewe class.

Again, I'm very glad that the fairs are over. They took a lot of time to prepare for and I hardly have seen Dave in the last 3 weeks because of it. Now we can relax a little until they start having lambs in November.

I know some of you are wanting a pregnancy update. I am 33 weeks and 3 days today. I am starting to feel very tired and you should SEE my feet! They are huge. I really should take a picture of them. At my doctor appointment last week they told me that everything was fine except that I have low Iron. (Which I have had all my life) So, I'm supposed to be eating a lot of green veggies and red meat. But those are 2 things I really don't love so it's been a struggle. The doc also told me that because I failed my one hour glucose test, that I am still at risk for having a larger baby, even though I don't have gestational diabetes. So, that makes me a little nervous but my mom did it, so I know I can. The crib, changing table and dresser have all been set up, now I'm just waiting for my mom to come visit so we can decorate!

Elder Bubba Letter #1

2010-08-11T13:12:00.000-07:00

Here is the first letter that Bubba e-mailed to our family on August 2nd...Just 6 days after entering the MTC.

Hey everyone! Elder Pond here coming to you from the Provo MTC.....Just so everyone knows...I can only write letters or emails on my P-Day which is on monday. Anyways..The MTC so far has been pretty cool...it's been a big adjustment for sure...but i'm loving it. My companion is a Elder from Reno Nevada...everybody try not to cringe when you see that he went to College at BYU....where he was a star on the BYU marching band! haha i Love the kid...he's quite a dork but he's a really really good missionary and has one of the strongest testimonies i've ever heard. And of course i give him crap every single day for going to BYU (make my family proud)...the first few days were probably the longest days of my life...but I want to share a story with you that happened to me on Friday. I was in the dumps quite a bit, you may find it hard to believe that i was pretty homesick...I was trying my hardest to take my mind off of Home and work and study...but for some reason I couldn't seem to do it...Me and Elder Rouse were out side doing our Companion study for the day...and I was in a bit of a bad mood..i was praying that I could forget myself and get back to work but nothing really seemed to work...til suddenly an Elder that can only be described as a "frickin giant tongan"...came up to me while i was standing there and just simply looked at me and said "Hey Elder, when your Tag is up, someone is thinking about you." I looked down and my Mission Tag was sitting up on my front pocket...he pushed it down and introduced himself as Elder Ihone...the big giant tongan man from Bountilful, that played Defensive line for them...hopefull Dad remembers who i'm talking about. But it was really an uplifting moment and ever since then, most of the time, my mind has been on doing the work of the Lord. Don't get me wrong...I miss all of you so much. But i'm for sure where i'm supposed to be and it feels really good knowing that. Also...Elder Hayden Snow is in my District!!! hahaha it's HILARIOUS. So me and him see each other all day, which kinda makes it hard to be good because we always just want to beat each other up like always...but it's been real good having him here so close to me because we have some real good talks right before we have to go to sleep....he's been struggling quite a bit with homesickness, and keeps having all these bad dreams...but he's still working hard and his testimony is so awesome..By the way Mom and Dad, thanks for the cookies...they were so good...we all went to the vending machines and bought milks and downed them all in one night! Keep sending those Dear Elder letters...those are awesome, and make sure to tell the rest of the family or whoever about them...i'm sure that makes it a lot easier to send mail to me and It feels pretty dang good getting letters...Everyone in my District is starting to get really close and it's been really cool getting to know all of them...We got to go to the Temple today and do a session which was really cool...the Movie was different in the Provo temple though...So i didn't get to see Brother Ballam's beautiful hair cut as Satan...but an Elder that actually stays in my dorm here with me...whom we thought was the most spiritual/worthy of us all...actually got sent home today....PRETTY CRAZZYY!! but anyways...i'm sure you'll all find it hard to believe that I've actually had no problem getting up at 6:30 every morning, and i've been knocked out asleep BEFORE 10:30...because after a long day here...i'm pretty dang tired!! The experience here so far has been awesome, the Caffiene Free coke kinda sucks,,,but i'm getting used to it. All the Elders here are telling us that every day from here on out is going to fly...I hope that's true because i really want to get out there and start teaching... My spanish is actually coming along really well so far...I can pray and bear my testimony in spanish and carry small conversations...so hopefully with the spirit and with my awesome teachers I have, i'll the language down pretty well by the time I get out of here. Please keep sending packages of goodies...and also letters or emails...Ever since that first day on friday night when my District leader finally brought us our mail...I've felt so bad about how I treated Brady, and not ever writing him...so i'm sorry Brady..but will one of you make sure Kim knows about the Dear Elder website or whatever! Anyways, the little clock on my computer is ticking down really fast...and I just ate at the cafiteria...so I need to go run to the bathroom (it hits you real fast here) But I love all of you and I hope you're all doing good!
As Brady always says "The Church is True, and the Book is blue!"
I love you guys, stay out of trouble and tell the guys at Pounders whats up for me!\
Love, Elder Derek Bradford Pond

Getting Up To Speed

2010-08-11T11:59:00.000-07:00

It's been a while....so much has happened it feels like. Last I posted was when we found out we were having a little boy and that seems like forever ago! Well, it's still a boy and we're still excited as ever. I'm 28 weeks today, which means I'm in my 3rd and final trimester. Trimesters 1 and 2 will not be missed. I feel like this pregnancy has gone by pretty quickly but am afraid it's starting to slow down as the end draws nearer. The baby is super active and I can feel him moving almost all the time. He is usually more active at night but the other day he was moving ALL DAY and Dave was able to feel him kick harder than he's ever kicked before. Dave asked what I ate that day and I told him that I started the day off with a bowl of Lucky Charms. (Dave's ultimate favorite food) Dave cut me off right there and said "That's my boy!", assuming that that's why he was so active that day. I thought it was pretty cute! Dave is getting so excited and loves when he can feel the little guy move.

The baby's nursery is not done yet. I have already bought all the bedding, crib, changing table and dresser but have yet to set any of it up. I am painting the dresser red and it has been taking me a lot longer than I originally thought. Hopefully I can finish it soon so I can have my garage back! I also hope that Dave can have some nights off in the next couple of weeks to help me assemble the crib and changing table. It's not going to be the cutest baby's room for the fact that the room is wallpapered in 1970's flowers and since we don't own the house, I don't have the option of taking it down and painting. Hopefully I can camoflauge the hideousness with something cute....

On another note, we dropped my little Bubba off at the MTC on July 28. He will be serving in the Dallas, Texas Spanish Speaking Mission after his time in the MTC. On the 18th was his missionary farewell in Logan. I was very impressed with his talk that he gave and really felt the spirit. He spoke about the "Power of the Word", which I think is kind of a broad topic but he did very well and I was so impressed with his confidence and the words that he spoke (considering the fact that I know he wrote the talk in the middle of the night only a few days before that). My mom put together and awesome Texas BBQ lunch afterwards with BBQ chicken, cornbread and all the other yummy stuff. She definately went over the top, like always, but it was awesome. It was good to see so many friends and family support Bubba.

Before taking him to the MTC, we had lunch at the Brick Oven in Provo with my mom, dad, Brady and Virginia. Bubba's friend Hayden Snow was entering the MTC on the same day, so him and his family came to lunch with us. Taking Bubba to the MTC was a lot harder than I thought. He has been through some struggles in the last year and so I honestly thought that it would be more of a joyous occasion and a relief. I was still happy to see him going on a mission to serve the Lord but I was really sad to see him go. (If that even makes sense) After PLENTY of pictures in front of the MTC sign we all piled in my parents care and drove him to the curb in front of the MTC. He was so nervous and scared...my first instict was to protect him like I always do but there was nothing I could do. He has to grow up and this might just be his first step towards achieving that goal.

Since he has left, I have gotten 2 emails from him. He sounds great!! He has had a little homesickness but is learning alot. He says his companion is a nerd but that Hayden is in the same district as him while they're in the MTC so they struggle to concentrate sometimes. I will try to keep anyone updated that is interested in his mission. After this post, I will post his first letter, it's a pretty cute letter.

For anyone that doesn't already know, Dave,his brother and dad raise Hampshire Sheep. They mainly breed them and show them at fairs and sell them at auctions for breeding. Sheep season is beginning in the sense that we're starting to get sheep ready to be shown at the Utah County Fair and Utah and Idaho State Fairs. I really have no interest in the sheep, other than the fact that Dave loves them and loves showing them, so I try to like it too. The County Fair is in a couple of weeks and the Idaho State Fair is Labor Day weekend and the Utah State Fair is the week of Sept. 12th. So, Dave will be very busy with the sheep. And in November, about half of the Ewes will be lambing. Usually, they breed naturally and the lambs are born in January and February but this year Dave and his dad decided to breed them early so they will have bigger lambs at the Fairs next year. I don't think it was a very good idea to breed them early considering I will be having our baby at the end of October or beginning of November so Dave will be very occupied with the sheep in November. Dumb idea, so the sheep and I will be competing for his time. He'll pick me even though I know he'll be worried about the sheep.

Things coming up---I have a doctor's appointment on Friday to be tested for Gestational Diabetes. This is a routine test but I'm nervous because A) My mom had Gestational Diabetes and B) I HATE NEEDLES! And they have to draw my blood. So, everyone pray for me on Friday morning that I get a nurse that knows how to find my veins really quick so I can get it over with! I also have awesome friends, family and co-workers that are throwing me some baby showers in the next couple months and I'm super excited to see people and celebrate with them!

That's all for now. Sorry for dragging on!

Joining Team Baby Boy!

2010-06-16T09:02:00.000-07:00

Yep! It's a boy! I had my ultrasound yesterday and the nurse is 99.9% sure that it's a boy because she's not allowed to say she is 100% sure! I can honestly say that this ultrasound was the most exciting thing so far in my pregnancy. To see the little baby all snuggled up and kicking it's little legs was priceless. The poor thing was sleeping though so to get it to move into a good position to see between the legs we had to try to wake him up. It took a little while but he did it! The baby was nice and healthy and all of the measurements were great and the heartrate was good. One thing that I thought was so cool is that they can see all 4 chambers of the heart and they are able to make sure that the heartrate is the same in all 4 chambers. Interesting, huh? Well, Dave was very excited and was grinning from ear to ear. We are SOOO excited and can't wait to meet him! Ultrasound pictures are so hard to see. This is the profile of the baby. His arms were draped over his face the whole time so they weren't able to get a great shot of his profile. This is the front of his face...he looks like an alien!! These are his cute little tiny feet!! SO CUTE! And there is an arrow pointing to the area that determines whether it's a boy or a girl. Clearly, it's a boy!!

Bear Lake

2010-06-08T19:31:00.000-07:00

Well, life has been crazy the last few weeks and I'm finally getting a chance to blog! (Mainly because it's 8:30pm and Dave is getting ready to go to work) Over Memorial Day Weekend, it's tradition that my dad's side of the family spend the weekend in Bear Lake. My grandparents have had a time share up there since forever and we've gone up there every year since I can't even remember. Usually the weather isn't really in our favor but this year the weather was half decent and we were able to golf, swim(in the pool), play tennis, play basketball and lots of other outside games. My mom, dad, and brothers were there as well as Virginia, Daniel, Grandma and then my Uncle Steve and his kids. Usually there are a lot more of us that go but apparently the rest of the family doesn't like to keep tradition. I was so excited that Dave was able to go! His work schedule is so crazy and he has a hard time getting days off but his boss was really good to let him have Sunday and Memorial Day off so we were able to get down there on Saturday night. I love spending time with my family!

Some other exciting news!!! I have my ultrasound appointment scheduled for next Tuesday (June 15) So hopefully if the baby cooperates we will be able to tell if it's a boy or a girl!!!!

Excitement!

2010-05-01T07:42:00.000-07:00

So, I woke up at 7:45 this morning! (I know I know, this isn't THAT early..but remember it's SATURDAY) I woke up early so that I could check into our flight exactly 24 hours before it takes off tomorrow to L.A.! My mom told me that if I wanted good seats on the plane, I needed to check in at EXACTLY 24 hours prior to our flight. So, I did....and I think we got good seats! Who knows! We're flying cheap Southwest so no seats can really be good seats can they? Anyways, I'm excited for the rest of my day because I have nothing to do but pack and clean my house before we leave. We don't have much planned once we get into Mexico but we will definately find stuff to do when we get there! I bought some motion sickness pills for Dave hoping that he won't really need them but being prepared in case he does. When I've cruised before I have never gotten motion sickness but I've never cruised while pregnant!! Oh well, I guess if I do, I will just have to be tough since I can't take anything for it. I'm also in the awkward chubby stage of being pregnant, I have a little baby belly but it's not enough for someone to think "is she pregnant?" it's more just like "that girl needs to lose some lbs.!" So, wearing a swimsuit in front of a lot of people is not exciting me very much right now and I don't think I'll be taking any full length bathing suit pictures...sorry for those of you that were hoping for some! Haha. Anyways, we're both super excited and can't wait to have our last chance vacation before we have our little family.

On another note, I just had to post these pictures to show how cute my husband is. Right now his calling in church is the Venturing Crew Scout Leader. Basically he is the leader of the 16 and 17 years old scouts. When he was called to this position the Bishop told him that his duty was to help these kids get their Eagle Scouts and to get them on a mission. Well, Dave can check one of them off his list. One kid is just getting ready to complete his Eagle. He is organizing a project where his goal is to make 50 fleece blankets for the kids at Primary Children's Hospital. He has asked for donations of fabric and money and then organized a date for people to get together and tie the blankets. Unfortunately, the date he picked to tie them is a day that we will still be on our vacation so, I bought some cute fabric and Dave has been plugging along trying to get them tied so that we can give them to this kid before we leave. He came home from work (as you can tell by his extremely dirty clothes, but don't worry we washed the blankets afterwards) and started working on them. He is such a hard worker and I know his calling is really hard for him. He works really long days and when he gets home he usually has to go down to our farm and feed animals and do other things on the farm so by the time he's done for the day, I know he's exhausted. I love my husband and he is such a great example to me! I'm also really excited we could help this kid get his Eagle Scout Project done! It was a fun little project for us to do together.

Exciting News!

2010-04-21T18:06:00.001-07:00

For those of you that didn't already know.....I am 12 weeks pregnant and am due on November 3!! We are so excited!!! Dave was a little nervous at first but I think he's growing into the idea and he's becoming more and more excited everyday! I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow morning and we're going to hear the heart beat. Dave is coming with me so hopefully that will crank up his excitement just a little more :) I haven't been very sick although I have had a few bad days where I'm naseous or really tired but overall it hasn't been very bad at all. I know a few people that are pregnant right now and are just miserable so I just have to remember that it could be way worse!! I'm hoping that some of my married friends will start having some babies so that mine can have some buddies!!! (hint hint to most of you that read this) Over the next couple of months, I will try my best to keep you updated. We know that we won't get an ultrasound until 20 weeks when we find out the sex, but when that happens, I will definately post it.

Other great news! Dave and I are going on a cruise on May 2! We decided that since we're going to have a family shortly, we need to go on last chance vacation since we probably won't go on one for a while after we start having kids. We're going on the Mexican Riviera cruise. I have been on this cruise before, but it's been about 4 years so I don't remember a ton of it. Dave hasn't ever been on a cruise, so it will be fun to go with him!! Our boat goes to Puerta Vallarta, Cabo San Lucas and Mazatlan, Mexico and it's 7 days. Last weekend I bought a fancy new camera so I'm planning on taking a lot of awesome pictures, expect to see some in the next few weeks. (hopefully)

Anyways, that's my great news for now!! :)

Birthday/Staycation/Wrastling

2010-03-24T17:51:00.000-07:00

It's been a long time since I blogged! I don't know why I can't keep up. Well, first of all my birthday was on January 13 and I turned 22. I don't feel that old!! For my birthday, we went to dinner with Dave's family to my most favoritest restaurant, Los Amigos, in Payson. (If you ever go there I recommend the smothered chicken burrito) Then, we came back to our house and Dave got me a really yummy cookie dough ice cream cake from Dairy Queen and some pretty flowers!!! The cake was sooo good!!He did a great job, I'm almost glad that he didn't try to bake one! :) He did forget to get candles so for the picture, I'm not blowing any candles. It was a great birthday and I was spoiled. My parents even got me a sewing machine! Now I just need to learn how to sew... Anyways, it was a great birthday and I loved it!!

The weekend of Valentine's Day, Dave and I went on a little "stay"cation. We just went to Salt Lake for a day and then spent the night and went to Park City the next day. We did lots of fun shopping and went to the Salt Lake Temple. I had never done a session at the S.L. Temple so this was a first for me and it was really cool!! I realy liked it and plan on doing it a lot more. I love going to the temple with Dave. It always reminds me of our wedding day and all of those promises we made to each other. I'm so grateful that we have temples!!

On March 6, we did something I never though would ever honestly happen in my lifetime. We went to a WWE wrestling match at the E-Center in Salt Lake. Why? I don't know...but it was very interesting. If you don't know what the WWE is, it's those big huge fake wrestlers like Triple H, John Cena, etc. Anyways, it's pretty redneck and we got to experience it from the 9th ROW! Wow, we're so lucky! Dave likes to watch wrestling on Monday nights so that's kind of where we got the idea. Anyways, here are some goofy pictures from this crazy adventure. ( I have to get the goofy pictures off of Dave's phone so I will post them later)

The Weekend

2010-02-11T11:17:00.000-08:00

Dave and I have finally decided that we need a little vacations. Between holidays, work, family, and the farm, we are pretty much getting burnt out! We're going to take a little weekend trip to Salt Lake tomorrow. I know that doesn't sound like much but when you're on a budget and don't want to drive far, you do what you can, right? So, we're going to stay in Salt Lake at a really cute hotel and go to Temple Square and go to the Temple all day! And we're also going to go shopping :) I'm sooo excited! We haven't been to the temple in a while and I have NEVER been inside the Salt Lake Temple besides doing baptisms for the dead !!! Oh my gosh I'm so excited I can't even handle it!
I'm glad we're taking a little time for Valentine's Day to spend some time together, it will be very very nice!

My Hero

2010-01-24T15:02:00.000-08:00

I'm finally updating my blog. This is something I've wanted to blog about for the last couple of weeks and keep putting it off. I'm glad to finally get the chance to do it without making excuses. My grandpa, Earl LeRoy Jorgensen, passed away last Sunday January 17, 2010. He died in his home with my Grandma Gerry at his side. He has been sick for most of his life. He started a battle with cancer a couple of years ago and told the doctors he did not want any therapy or treatment. A few months later, the doctors told him that they could no longer see the cancer in his body. He then took my grandma through the temple to be sealed for her for time and all eternity, a day that I will never forget! A couple weeks before Christmas this last year, he started to get a lot of cramps in his stomach and did not feel good. Grandma took him to the ER where they ran some tests and sent him home. The next day, he got a phone call from his doctor that the tests they ran showed that he had about half of the blood supply in his body than he should and he needed to check into the hospital first thing the next morning. He went to the hospital and they said they needed to hydrate him and get his pain under control. I'm not exactly sure which day this was but I think it was January 12th, the day before my birthday. They began to hydrate him and eventually told him that his cancer was back and that it was spreading very rapidly through his body. The doctor told him that he had about 2 months to live. On Thursday January 14th, his body started going into convulsions. My mom got a call from my uncle Kirk saying that he was going fast so my mom's friend Teresa rushed her to the Brigham Hospital where Grandpa was. I was at work that day and got a phone call around 10:00am from Teresa with the news. I couldn't keep my emotions under control and was at work 2 hours away from Grandpa. Eventually, I decided my best option would to just leave work and go to Brigham. So, I left work and rushed to see him as soon as I could. I cried myself all the way to Brigham thinking about the last time I told him that I loved him or the last time I kissed his cheek or the last time that I spent time with him. I realized it was not long before this time but that I wished I had done it more often. I wished I had been around to spend more time and learn more things about his life. And I couldn't believe that this was it! He had been a fighter his entire life and worked for everything that he had. How could such a great person be going through so much?? How could God take away this Hero?? After FINALLY getting to the hospital we transported Grandpa home because he could not stay there for another night due to insurance and finances. My mom's entire family met up at Grandpa's to see him, even though he was basically in a coma from the convulsions and cancer. Friday, me and mom went to Grandpa's to help Grandma clean and cook and just to be with them both. The hospice nurse came to the house to give him a bath and my mom attempted to shave his face. She did a horrible job but she had the most loving look in her eye as she did this. She loved her dad so much! He was such a great dad to her and was always so protective and loving. Grandpa slowly started to get worse as the days went by. His breathing slowed down a lot and organs started to shut down. I couldn't really take it anymore. I couldn't see him in so much pain. Dave and I drove home on Saturday night. I then got a text the next day from my mom that he had passed around 10am. My grandma told me that she really wanted him to go the same way that her mom did, and that was privately, just her and her mom while they were holding hands. Grandma says that that's the same way Grandpa went. They were married 54 years and got married when they were 16 and 17! Wow, they were so in love! I know I'm rambling on and I know most people won't read all of this but I just had to get my thoughts and feelings out. The funeral services were held Friday, January 22 at the Honeyville church and cemetery. Grandpa was in the Navy most of his life and so there were Military men everywhere. They were even standing on each end of Grandpa's casket. Grandma asked me to the play the piano so I practiced all week so that I could play for my Grandpa. I did an okay job but had a hard time keeping my emotions in so it was hard to read my music. I played a medley of"I Know That My Redeemer Lives" "I Believe In Christ" and "Reedemer of Israel". I know my Grandpa was proud of me and that he was up there laughing and smiling the whole time. Grandpa had so many great qualities about him. He was brave, smart, funny, sarcastic, loving, spiritual etc. He struggled his whole life with drinking and smoking but was always a good example about everything else. He believed in honesty and integrity. He taught me about hard work and how to earn all of things that I have. He taught me to mow the grass with a riding lawn mower and how to grow a garden. He ALWAYS made sure that we were safe when we were with him or around the farm animals. If we got too close to the campfire, he'd yell at us to back off so our butt's wouldn't start on fire. He would hold onto us when the big horses were around so they couldn't kick us. He would take us camping in the Uintahs and teach us how to fish. He was the greatest Grandpa and I'm so thankful for all that he has done for me and for my family. He will be missed more than anything in the entire world but I KNOW that Heavenly Father took him because he had a much better place for him! Love you Grandpa LeRoy! 21 Gun Salute!

Christmas Decorations

2009-12-05T09:26:00.000-08:00

Here are a few of my Christmas decorations....I'm still working on a few so I didn't take pictures of them but this is what I've got so far. My pictures aren't the greatest quality either because I have to use my camera phone until I get a new camera! Since we live in Dave's grandparents old house, a lot his grandma's old decorations were still here so I tried to incorporate them as best I could. Some of them are actually really cool and just needed some updating!

Our Main Tree The Entry Way Christmas tree #2

Snowflake Garland

Thanksgiving Weekend!

2009-12-05T08:48:00.000-08:00

This Thanksgiving weekend was really fun! It started off with Dave's 26th Birthday which was the day before Thanksgiving! We went out to dinner at Sizzler in Provo with Dave's family. Then we came back to our house and had cake and ice cream. I made a double decker german chocolate cake...it was delicous!! I love celebrating birthdays!! Thursday morning we headed up to Logan. We left our dog here and I really wanted to take her with us but Dave didn't want to! :( Anyways, Thanksgiving dinner was at my mom's this year. My dad's side of the family came. The food was AWESOME! I didn't take any pictures on Thanksgiving but it was still a fun day! Later that night, my mom, Virigina, April, Tatum and Regan and I went to see New Moon. I seriously thought it was going to be the best movie ever after I heard all the hype from everyone else. Suprisingly, it was not really that great! Sure, I'll probably go see the 3rd one but I was not impressed. Friday, my mom and I went shopping with Virginia ,my grandma Gerry and aunt Pat. We hit the Novemberfest, Hobby Lobby, Sugar and Spice and all sorts of fun girly places! This is Dave trying on Bubba's coveralls that they bought! Later that night we decided to hang up some Christmas lights at Brady and Virginia's house in Logan. IT was quite the event. We had a lot of fun and it looked really cute when we were finished. Saturday, the boys went pheasant hunting! Me and My mom went and got our hair done. I chopped my hair off to about my chin and colored it blonde again. I don't have a picture of it but once I get the styling down I will take one. We put up my mom's Christmas decorations the rest of the day. She gave me a bunch of the ones she didnt' want anymore :) Dave's not excited about the fact that we brought home maybe 4 times more things than we went with.

It was a great Thanksgiving Weekend! I was so happy that Dave was able to get the weekend off of work to go with me! It was a much needed vacation from our every day lives! Now we're back to the real world. :(

Last night was our Ward Christmas party. We were asked to bring a salad so I made Italian Pasta Salad. It was gone within the first 10 minutes so it must have atleast looked good. There was a really good turnout and I actually knew like 50% of the people. We love our ward family. I will be really sad when we have to move out of this ward, if/when we move into our own house.

We're only about halfway done with our Christmas shopping! Even though I really love shopping, it feels like it is neverending right now. I need to go shopping today but it's Dave's familiy Christmas party today so I don't know if I will have time. Maybe we'll go later tonight! I still need to plan my Sunbeam lesson for tomorrow too!!!

Labor Day Weekend

2009-09-18T14:05:00.000-07:00

Well this will be sort of a mixed up blog entry but oh well.

A few weeks ago, Dave had to go to work at 10pm and was driving his truck down the long road to our house when he hit a big bucket of tar that some stupid kids strung across the road from our orchard fence to the neighbors fence. It was dark so he couldn't see it and it splattered ALL over the front of the truck and all over inside the front wheel wells. Dave was so mad that he got out of the truck and threw what was left in the bucket and the bucket over the neighbors fence in with their cows. Dave found some miracle product that removes tar so we bought 4 big bottles of it. It took us probably 3 or 4 days to get the majority of the tar off the truck. Some splattered on my car too just from driving down the road.

A few weeks later, over labor day weekend, my mom, dad and Grandma Gerry came down because my dad had to ump baseball games in Salem and Spanish Fork. So they stayed with us for a few days. On Friday, me, my mom and grandma went to Swiss Days over by Heber. We spent pretty much the whole day and bought a TON of really really cute things and fall decorations. I have my mom's syndrome where I have to have millions of decorations for holiday's and I don't believe in accumulating it gradually! Dave doesn't like this about me. But we had a lot of fun and even though grandma has knee problems, she kept up and had a lot of fun.

On Saturday, we decided it would be fun to make freezer jam at my house, so we bought a bunch of cases of raspberries, blackberries and strawberries from Dave's uncle Lynn who owns a Fruit Ranch in Genola...(Genola is a few miles west of Santaquin) (Brady is holding the vacuum hose in the above pictures because we had a little fruit fly problem so he was sucking them up mid-air)

We went to the store and bought all the jars and ingredients...once we got making the jam we realized that we had a lot more berries than we thought so I ran to the store to get more. Brady and Virginia came to Santaquin around 4:00 on Saturday so when they got there they wanted in on the Jam so they started helping us. We ended up with about 70 pints of Jam!! Luckily, we split it between my mom, my grandma, me and my brother and his wife. My freezer is full of jam now so we'll be eating a lot of peanut butter and jam sandwiches I think. It was really fun having my family here for Labor Day weekend.

On Monday(Labor Day), my whole family was gone and I thought I was going to have to spend the whole day by myself because Dave always works, even if it is a holiday. But, the boss decided to let him have the day off so we went to the Payson City Onion Days parade and to the fair afterwards. It was a lot of fun to spend the day with my husband. I love every moment I get to spend with him!

Ute Stampede and 4th of July

2009-08-04T11:39:00.000-07:00

So I have some fun pictures that I'm finally able to put on here but they're a little out of order. Every July there is a Rodeo in Nephi called the Ute Stampede. It's a pretty big rodeo and it seems like everyone from Utah County and Juab try to come. Well, Dave's family entered us in the stock parade so that we could get free tickets to the rodeo! I'm not a very skilled horse rider, especially when were not on a trail in the mountains. Being in a parade was kinda scary cuz I knew that my horse could hurt someone if I couldn't control her. Anyways, the parade turned out to be really fun and my horse didn't do anything crazy. Dave's 3 sisters and 1 brother rode with us and his cousin and her friend and then our friend Thomas Hales. Dave getting Royal ready for the parade. Dave and his ancient horse Royal. Me and Cherokee. The Robbins Rough Riders!

Katelyn and her horse Hannah

My mom and grandma Gerry came to Santaquin to visit me for the 4th of July. We went to the Freedom Festival in Provo and shopped all day. Dave had to work but he hung out with us for lunch and had a BBQ with us at our house and we lit fireworks on our driveway. Grandma Gerry is a trooper. She just had knee surgery a few months ago and then a couple weeks before she came to Santaquin she found out that she had a blood clot in that knee. She was really sick for a few weeks. I was so excited for her to come even though I know it was really hard for her. She is one of the sweetest ladies ever!!

And this is a random picture but this is my front porch and if you look really closely under the door on the left you can see a snake. I walked out of my front door and that thing was hanging out on my porch. He is probably about 4 1/2 to 5 feet long and I think he's a blow snake. I have seen it a few times so we decided to name him. His name is Patrick..I don't know why but it is.....

Crazy Dog!

2009-07-29T11:43:00.001-07:00

So, this is my cute dog Oreo! She is about 6 months now and getting very big. Last time I took her to the vet she was about 35 pounds! She loves riding in the back of Dave's truck but I can't get her to jump in and out off of the tailgate by herself! Does anyone have any good training tricks to get her to do this?? She's getting too big and crazy to lift in and out of the truck. I know this is a totally dumb thing to ask but it's one of those things that just drives me nuts!

New Job!!

2009-07-16T11:51:00.000-07:00

Since being in Santaquin, it has been sooo hard to find a job! I finally found one that I absolutly love!!! I started this last Monday. I work for Dr. Cloward and Dr. Fairbanks in Spanish Fork. They are General Dentists. Dr. Cloward has been in practice for over 10 years and Dr. Fairbanks is pretty new. But they are both great dentists and good to work for. My job position is the Office Manager and it's kinda scary being in charge of stuff but oh well, I guess I better suck it up! The office is only about 4 years old and is VERY nice. All of the girls that work there are sooo nice and fun and everyone seems to get a long very well, which is a relief from my experience in other offices. Anyways, just thought I'd updated anyone that is interested!! :)

Mass Blog

2009-05-23T16:21:00.000-07:00

Dave graduated from Utah State on May 2nd!! Wow what a day! I think he's really excited that it's over with. We went to the big commencement at 9:30am then the College of Agriculture had their own graduation thing at 2:00pm so we were able to go to both. My parents, Dave parents and grandma Geniel and grandma Gerry came. Dave has accomplished so much and I'm so proud of him!! He is such a motivated and hard working guy!!

Brady and Virginia FINALLY got married on May 5 in Portland. We flew up the night before and then went to the wedding the next day, then flew back home the next morning. The temple in Portland is so beautiful. I love all of the trees and flowers up there. Dave and I decided that we couldn't ever live there though because it rains WAY too much and the traffic and roads their are horrible. It rained the whole time we were there almost. It stopped for maybe an hour during the reception. But it was very nice and they looked so happy! It was fun seeing someone else in my family get married and it brought back really great memories for Dave and I.

We moved to Santaquin on May 12. It took the truck, the car AND a huge U-Haul to get all of our stuff down there. I swear we've accumulated so much stuff for only being married less than a year....We bought a puppy after we moved into the house. She is an Australian Border Collie and we named her "Oreo". Dave thought the name was perfect considering she looks like an Oreo Milkshake. We're having fun training her and playing with her. She is only about 12 weeks old and has already jumped off the tailgate of the truck by herself 3 times!! She's our little baby and we're having tonz of fun with her.

This next Tuesday Dave, his dad, and brother and I are driving to Reno, Nevada to sell a sheep at the sheep show there. I've never been to it but apparently it's a big deal and people will pay big bucks for a nice ram. That will probalby be my next update!

Update!

2009-04-13T17:00:00.000-07:00

Wow, we are horrible at blogging!! Sorry everyone that keeps checking and doesn't get any new information!! Dave and I are doing very well. Dave is finishing up his last few weeks at USU and will be graduating on May 2!!!!!!! He is soooo excited but is hating life right now while he wraps up his last few weeks. I am still working at ABC and love it!! Unfortunately though, Dave and I are moving during the second week of May. We're going to be permanately moving to Santaquin. So, I have put in my notice at work...and am really really sad about it... I never thought I'd be so sad to leave a job!! There are so many wonderful people that work there and I couldn't ask for a better Doctor to work for! :( :( So, currently i'm looking for a job in Utah county so if anyone has any ideas let me know!!!!! See ya!

Valentine's Day!

2009-02-15T17:25:00.000-08:00

Dave and I had the best Valentine's Day!!! Here's kind of a run down of the day....We spent the entire day, just the two of us. We woke up and had an awesome breakfast that Dave cooked...then later we went through a session at the Logan Temple.We ate lunch afterwards at Panda Express, which we both love!! We went to the movie "Taken" which by the way was the only real bad part about our day because that movie is sad and NOT a Valentine's Day movie....we don't recommend it to anyone. Then we got us a heart shaped pizza from Papa Murphy's and some Pepsi and hung out at our house all night! It was an awesome day.....we didn't have anything to stress about and no where to be or classes to study for. Dave got me some of the prettiest orange roses and a gift certificate to get a spa pedicure! He definately knows me very well!!!Dave has said for a while that he wants some of those really big scriptures so that they can be our family scriptures so that's what I got Dave and I had them put "Dave and Kalei Robbins" on them. I also got him a pink tie...its a very big step for Dave to wear pink but he really liked it and wore it to church today. I love Dave very much and know that I am the luckiest girl in the world because I have him.

Scrapbooking!

2009-01-28T18:33:00.000-08:00

I am so excited! For my birthday, Dave got me a scrapbooking program for the computer. I'm just barely trying to get it loaded and start working!!! I love scrapbooking but it will be nice to have the luxury of just doing it on the computer instead of having to go out and buy all the papers, scissors, glue and other things!! Hopefully if it works and I can post some way cute stuff on here.....wish me luck!!

Life in General

2009-01-21T16:31:00.000-08:00

After reading some of my friends blogs today, I realized that I'm quite possibly the suckiest blogger ever!! The only time I ever put anything on here is when I have pictures or something exciting happened. Well, I think I will take the time to write a little about life.. December and January have been way crazy months! We spent almost every weekend doing something with my family or Dave's doing family parties, bridal showers, work parties, birthdays and who knows what else. I'm sorry if we've neglected any of you. I promise to do better.
Well this might be kind of scattered but here's a little rundown of life.
Christmas this year was really fun, especially being our first as a married couple. We splurged and bought ourselves a Gamecube for Christmas and have been hooked on it almost every night since we got it. Dave likes to play NCAA football and I love MarioKart. I can't believe how addicting those things are.
Dave started his LAST EVER SEMEMSTER at USU this month!! Can you believe it? Soon, he will be completely finished with his Bachelors degree...what an accomplishment! He is so motivated and hard working. I don't doubt that he will ever be unsuccessful in his entire lifetime because of it.
Obviously in my line of work, a bachelors degree is not needed but that's okay with me because I absolutly love my job!! I work with some really fun people and get to see some of the cutest kids (and some of the dirtiest) but mostly the cutest. I'm starting to become friends with most of the people I work with and it's fun to not be the new person anymore. My birthday was last Tuesday and to celebrate, Dave and I went out to eat with a girl I work with named Deyette and her husband Duren. It was so nice to have friends to celebrate with!! We also went out with my family for my birthday, which was really fun.
Dave's parents came to Logan on Sunday afternoon to visit. They haven't seen our apartment so they came up from Santaquin. We had homemade Cafe Rio burritos at my mom's with them and then went to our apartment to show it off. It was nice having them here. They brought Dave's little sisters Kristen and Katelyn with them. Dave taught them how to play the camecube and they had a blast. His mom even got in on the action. They hung out with Dave on Monday becasue he was out of school for Martin Luther King Day. They went to Hardware Ranch and a bunch of other exciting stuff while I was at work.
Well, I'm starting to ramble. Hopefully I will get better at this blogging thing. I need to update even if I don't have pictures to go along with it. Anyways...I hope everyone is doing well!! SEE YA

Welcome 2009!

2009-01-01T17:28:00.000-08:00

Today is New Years Day! This will be me and Dave's 2nd New Year since we've known each other. On Christmas Eve, We were invited to dinner at Hamiltons with my parent, Russ and Kathy Piggott, Ryan and Tawny Piggott, Heather and Colby Rowser, Grandma and Grandpa Pond, and Amy and Casey Jorgensen. After dinner, Dave and I went to the Aggie game with Grandma and Grandpa. They have sweet front row seats. Dave got pretty into the game and was yelling at all the players from the other team. He lost his voice a little. We finished the night out by going to my parents and celebrating the New Year!! Today was so nice because we got to sleep in and spend the day together. Dave and I drove the truck up to Hardware Ranch up Blacksmith Fork Canyon. We looked at the Elk and had a nice drive. It's so nice having a day off of work and being able to spend time with Dave. It's been very nice and I'm sad to go to work tomorrow! HARDWARE RANCH!

Christmas Day!

2008-12-25T17:13:00.000-08:00

This year we switched off holidays. We were in Santaquin with Dave's family for Thanksgiving and in Logan at my parents for Christmas. Traditionally for Christmas, my mom makes breakfast and Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Steve, Aunt Melissa and their family, come over to eat and play with our new Christmas stuff! This year, Dave and I went over to my mom's after we opened our gifts and opened up our gifts from them and gave them their gifts. After that, the rest of the family came over and we ate. We then showed grandma and grandpa what we bought with their Christmas money they gave us. My parents got us some clothes as well as money that we are using to take a trip next week. My brothers got some new games for their Wii, so we played those. The games got kind of competetive and my little cousin Austin who is about 7, lost at Mario Kart and threw a fit and started throwing stuff, so his family took off and it was pretty quiet after that. We went to the movie "Bedtime Stories" with Adam Sandler! That is a cute movie and I recommend it as a good family movie. Anyways, we had an awesome Christmas!! Hope you all did too!Dad and Dave cleaning up wrapping paper! Brady playing the new Cabela's big game hunt on the Wii while Bubba and Dave watch. Dad's not too excited about his picture being taken!!

The day after Christmas, we went to Santaquin to celebrate with Dave's family. We opened gifts Friday night and watched the Phantom of the Opera. On Saturday, December 27, we went bowling and to dinner and to see the Festival of Lights in Spanish Fork. This is Dave's grandpa Fowers, Katelyn and Kristen after opening presents the day after Christmas.

Our First Christmas

2008-12-25T17:05:00.000-08:00

7:00 a.m. rolls around and Dave's little sister decided she needed to call Dave to tell him what Santa brought her. I was not planning on waking up until about 7:30 but Dave was so excited after talking to Katelyn that he was just dying to open our Christmas presents. Dave got me a really pretty jewelery box, a necklace and earrings, a new blow dryer, new earphones for my ipod, and lots of stocking stuffers and other gifts!! I got Dave a new Carharrt vest, a puffy blue vest, ipod accessories, sunflower seeds, a couple John Deere tractors and some stocking stuffers! We both got just what we wanted from each other, it was AWESOME. I'm really good with the self timer on the camera! Dave's new John Deere tractor ornaments and his new headphones! He's a happy camper!

Sleddin' Fools!

2008-12-24T16:44:00.000-08:00

On Christmas Eve, Dave and I thought it'd be pretty fun to go sledding. We got a couple of tubes from Big O and got them filled with some air. Before we went, we cruised over to Taco Bell with Bubba and my mom for some food then dropped off mom and drove over to a park in Providence. But, it was pretty scary and I'm pretty sure we would have died or ran into a tree if we would have sled down it. So, we decided to go up to Cliffside to a park. There were a lot of people. We found the biggest hill we could and just started going. Only having tubes and a little saucer, jumps were not really a good choice (because of the donut hole, your butt was doomed to get hurt) But, being the crazzies that we are, we did it anyways. Here are a few of the pictures that we took while sleddin!

This is Dave and Bubba, hardcore and ready to rumble. Note: the small red saucer to the right of Dave will come into play later in the pictures.
This is me, I'm not gonna lie, this hurt a little!Bubba didn't even hit this hard! Wuss! Dave hittin his jump!!

Bubba and I, Cheesin it! This is the small red saucer incident...Bubba ran and jumped on his stomache onto the saucer, trying to be cool and bounced his chin off the ground!!! He layed in the snow for about 5 minutes! Not too long after this tragedy, we packed up our stuff and ended the Christmas Eve fun!!

Pond Family Christmas Party

2008-12-22T17:00:00.000-08:00

Every year, my side of the family, the Ponds' pick a day around Christmas time that works for everyone and they have a party at my parents house in River Heights. It's not a very huge family. My dad has 4 brothers who each have kids. Everyone comes from my dad's side of the family that is able to. We usually eat dinner, exchange gifts, play games like Grab Bags, and watch some football if any is on. My uncle Scott and his family came from Spanish Fork, my uncle Ryan and his family from Lehi, my uncle Steve and his family from Providence. And my cousin Aaron represented his family that is from California and couldn't make it out for the party. Of course Grandma and Grandpa came too! This year my mom cooked a really good homemade Chicken Cordon Bleu!! We ate and exhanged gifts. Everyone seems to have a good time and a lot of really good food! I love when my family gets together. Even though they may be disfunctional at times or a little loud, it wouldn't be Christmas without a Pond Family Christmas party! This is Brady, Aunt Andrea and Grandma!This is mom and dad (aka Elfman)

Christmas Pictures!!

2008-12-07T18:30:00.000-08:00

So many people take cute family pictures almost every year. Well, I don't remember the last time my family got together to take pictures, and we finally did today!! My mom's friend Teresa took some with her nice camera and I took a couple with mine so they're not professional but maybe later I will post some of hers that she took. I love this time of year because it just brings families closer together. I think it's pretty important to take family pictures to preserve the memories of what everyone looks like and new things that occur in the family. Things that have updated in my family are things like Dave and I getting married or my brother just getting engaged. Both people are additions to the family and it's important to keep updating our family history and pictures. Anyways, that's my spill on pictures...Here are a couple.

Dave's 25th Birthday!!

2008-11-25T18:20:00.000-08:00

Today is Dave's birthday!! He turned 25!! Hopefully he had a good birthday. For his birthday Dave got to choose where we went to dinner. He chose Angie's. Then we went to the USU vs. Weber St. basketball game. After the game we went to my parents house to have Dave's favorite cake which is German Chocolate! I asked his boss to help me get someone to cover his late night shift so that we could celebrate his birthday. It turned out really nice and we even got to spend a couple hours together after the game. A couple weeks before his birthday, I secretively got a CD player installed in his truck. He had no idea and it was an awesome suprise he said. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE!!!

A BIGHORN SHEEP FINALLY!

2008-11-22T21:11:00.001-08:00

So! Remember the once in a lifetime tag I told you about for the Rocky Mountain Bighorn sheep? Well, today, he finally shot it! When he gets home I'll have to have him tell the story of how he shot it and get some more pictures up. This is just what I got on my phone! Hopefully he takes it to his parents house because I don't know what we'd do with it in Logan. I talked to him on the phone after he got it and he sounded way happy. He went with his family and it sounded like he had a good time! He will probably come home tomorrow night. Anyways, thats all for now!

Halloween Weekend!

2008-11-08T23:14:00.000-08:00

Dave and I didn't decide to dress up for Halloween until TWO DAYS before. I had to dress up for work and he wanted to dress up to go to visit his parents on Halloween night. We went all over the place it seemed like. There was a red wig with pony tails that I thought was way funny, so I decided to be Wendy from Wendy's. We got some overalls from the D.I. and that was that. I thought it'd be funny if Dave were to be the King from Burger King, Colonel Sanders from KFC or Ronald McDonald, but we had a hard time trying to put them together that fast. Instead, he just dressed up in some of my brother's old baseball uniforms and was a baseball player. He look really cute. After work on Halloween, we drove to Santaquin to see Dave's family for the weekend. They liked our costumes but then we just ended up going to bed and not even doing anything after that!! Saturday morning, November 1, Dave's dad and us woke up at 4:30a.m. and drove down to the Book Cliffs to look for a Big Horn Sheep. Dave drew out a tag for it this year. It's a once in a lifetime tag. Only about 4 other people draw out for this tag each year. The Book Cliffs are very pretty but get very old after a while. We drove around for hours looking for sheep. We saw about 14 that day but none that Dave wanted to shoot. He has until the end November to find one. He just went down again this weekend without me to look for one. I just talked to him on the phone and he said that he didn't find one that he wanted to shoot. Eventually, once he gets one, we will just end up mounting it and hanging it up in our house when we move back to Santaquin. I'll keep ya posted on the hunt.

Pumpkin Walk

2008-11-08T22:43:00.001-08:00

This was an awesome day!! On October 25, 2008, we went to the Aggie vs. Fresno State football game, had dinner with my extended family, and went to the Pumpkin Walk in North Logan. The Aggies lost in the last couple of seconds of the game. :( My dad's two brothers Scott and Ryan, came to Logan for the weekend with their families. After the game, we all met up at my parents house for some spaghetti. My mom probably fed atleast 25 people that day! We even got grandpa Rodger to come to dinner and to the Pumpkin Walk!! That's a miracle. Dave has never been to it and it's been years since I have been to it. My brother Brady's girlfriend came with us too. She got to meet the whole crazy family. We had lots of fun and it was free. Nothing fun is free these days!! Hopefully we can go back next year, it would be a pretty fun tradition.
This picture below is of Dave and I at the Aggie Football game!!

In order from Left to Right...Tatum, DAVE and Regan as Cinderella!

Me and Mason as Yoda!!!

Moving to Logan

2008-11-08T22:24:00.000-08:00

On August 16, 2008 we packed up all of our things from Santaquin and moved into a little one bedroom apartment in Logan. We filled up both the car and the truck with our stuff. We love our apartment!! Almost right after we moved to Logan, we went to the demolition derby and did a couple of other fun things before Dave had to start school.

Dave started school at the end of August and I started working full-time at a place called Impact Payments. We have kept pretty busy since then. On the weekends we usually go watch my little brother play football and go watch the USU football team. They suck so the only reason we go is for something to do. I love being in Logan and being able to see some of my friends like Devon, Chelsie, Amy and Kacee. Dave likes Logan too but I can tell that he misses the farm and his family and all of his John Deere stuff that I made him leave behind!

Dave ready for his first day of school!! Don't worry, I packed up is pack pack with lots of snacks for his first day. Ignore the date on this picture and all the other ones, I forgot to change the date when I took the pictures.

Bees Games!

2008-11-08T22:07:00.000-08:00

For the 24th of July we went to a Salt Lake Bees with my Mom, Dad and little brother, Bubba. The bees won and we got to see a really awesome fireworks show afterwards. I wish I would have taken some pictures of them. My mom's eyes are closed in this picture but it's the only one that I

had. We gotta preserve memories here!!!

We didn't get to see my family alot this summer because of our busy schedules, so this was a way fun night for us!

Mt. Timpanogos Temple

2008-11-08T22:02:00.000-08:00

Over the summer we went to the Mt. Timpanogos Temple over by American Fork. We were going to go to the Provo temple because it's closer to Santaquin, but it was closed for cleaning. We had to wait to go through the temple for over an hour because so many people were there!! It's a GORGEOUS temple and reminds me a lot of the temple we were married in, the Bountiful Temple.

Fishin'

2008-11-08T21:49:00.000-08:00

Over the 4th of July weekend in 2008 this year, we went on a fishing and camping trip with Dave's family to Fish Lake. We took a boat and our tents and headed out there. I'm not exactly sure where Fish Lake is, but it's FAR away from Santaquin and it was a long drive. We set up our tents in the dark and the next morning we went fishin. I'm pretty sure everyone caught something. I could a couple fish the 2 days that I was there. I don't think Dave caught any but he was too busy helping everyone get hooks and bait on their line. It was relaxing and we enjoyed it. The only bad thing about the whole trip was that my allergies were so bad and I couldn't breath at night. We did have running water at our campground, which is a girls only wish when camping. Good times.

Dave was good with helping all of us girls with the fish cuz we did NOT want to touch them. In this picture he's helping his sister McKell who is just a couple of years older than me.

Obviously I didn't get ready this day but this is one of the suckers that Dave helped me catch. We put him on that chain to hook to the boat while we were trolling around. Dave and Jesse told Kristen to lift up the chain while we were driving back to camp and going fast. She forgot to and we lost my fish:(

I don't exactly remember what Jesse is laughing about in this picture but I think it had something to do with Kristin not knowing that she had a fish on her line for like 10 minutes.

Our Honeymoon!!

2008-11-08T21:20:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry that we're taking a step back in time. I'm trying to get all of our married life on our blog so please bear with me! We went on our honeymoon to San Diego California from May 31 to June 5, 2008. We stayed in a condo in Downtown San Diego. We were able to do so much stuff while we were there. We went to Sea World, the San Diego Zoo, the Wild Animal Park and all the beaches and shops you could think of! We also went to the San Diego Temple. We were so excited to go on our honeymoon. Both of our parents were so helpful in planning and paying for most of the honeymoon. We were very lucky! Hopefully we can go back someday soon.

Dave was so excited about our rental car! He drove it like a maniac too!!!

We spent a lot of time look for beaches and hanging out at the beaches!

La Jolla was our favorite!

There was a big diver training going on while we were taking this picture.

This is at La Jolla beach though! VERY PRETTY!

I think this picture is from when we went to see the dolphin show at sea world.

Shamu was my favorite though.

The San Diego Temple is BEAUTIFUL!!! I would love to go back to it someday!

This was our last night in San Diego and this is at Mission Beach. We got our awesome hoodies from some black markets by the beach. We were sad to leave but that night was awesome.

The State Fair

2008-11-05T15:51:00.000-08:00

We went to the State Fair at the Salt Lake County Fair Grounds. We took about 12 of our Hampshire sheep and entered them into the Sheep show. The first day was the junior show, so Dave's two little sisters Kristin and Katelyn got to show all of the sheep that day and took 1st place in every single category!! They won a ton of money for it too! The second day was the open show which meant anyone of any age could show the sheep. All of us showed that day...Me, Dave, Jesse, McKell, Kristen and Katelyn. We got 1st place in one category and 3rd and 4th place in most of the others. It was fun hanging out with Dave's family at the state fair. My mom, dad and little brother Derek came for the open show so they could watch me be a farm girl!! ;) We walked away from the state fair with a bunch of money and a ton of ribbons! Hopefully next year we'll do even better!!! Just takin' a little break with Bubba and Katelyn.

This is the Ram "Hulk" that won 1st place in the open show!!

Me and Dave waiting for the judge to look at our sheepie!

My dad's so proud of his sheep groomin' little girl haha!

The Robbins'

2008-10-28T17:26:00.001-07:00

Okay, here goes our first blog!! We're the Robbins'!! We just got married May 29. 2008 in the Bountiful Temple. We met last October. My mom set us up on a blind date over Halloween weekend last year. For our first date we went to the Cracker Barrel in Paradise and then to the Haunted Forest at Sherwood Hills. We spent that whole rest of the weekend together and have been inseperable ever since. We had a long distance relationship for a whole 7 1/2 months before we finally got married. Dave proposed on March 1 by taking me up to the Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon. I had NO idea he was going to propose and it was awesome!

We have been married for almost 5 months!! We lived in Santaquin for the summer and are now living in a basement apartment in Logan while Dave finishes school at USU. He will graduate this May in Horticulture with an emphasis in Landscape Maintenance and Construction. He's going to have his own landscape business one day in Santaquin where we will eventually live permanently. Dave goes to school full time and works part time for the USU Aggie Shuttle. He's a smarty and gets waaay good grades.

I work at ABC Pediatric Dentistry as the receptionist. I love my job and I love all the little kids!! Other than that I just like spending time with Dave!