West Edmonton Mall

Dad, mom, heather + James, Kyle and I went to West Edmonton Mall on Thursday morning. We spent the night at the Fantasy Land Hotel and drove back home today. It was a lot of fun! Kyle had never been there so we decided to take a short trip, plus it was nice for everyone to be able to get away for a day.

We walked around a lot and my feet felt destroyed by the end of the night. We watched a Sea Lion show they have and it was so cute. Sea Lions are pretty smart! They make the funniest sounds, they reminded me of Sadie. My dad and Heather took James into the wave pool and he loved it. He looked like he was having a lot of fun. We all went on some rides at Galaxy Land, there weren't too many I could fit in with my belly though. :)

We ate at the Old Spagetthi Factory for dinner, I like that place! Kyle and I ate there on our honey moon in Banff and it's yummy.

It was a fun trip and I'm thankful to everyone who came and made it so much fun! Especially baby James. :)

Wedding Day

Today my brother Trevor and his fiance Sharlynn got married! I thought their wedding ceremony was very beautiful and the reception was so nice and decorated very nicely as well! The past few days everyone in my family has been working hard to prepare everything for the wedding, but especially my mom. She did so much work to make sure their wedding went smoothly. It made me think about when Kyle and I got married and all that my mom did for us for our wedding. She is the best mom in the world. She always helps in any way she can, she is always supportive and understanding. She has done so much for all of our wedding's, and she does so much for us all on a daily basis. I love my mama!!

I am happy to have a new 'sister' as well. I only met Sharlynn a few short weeks ago but I look forward to getting to know her better. She is fun to be around, easy going, and sweet! She has gorgeous hair, too. She looked great in her beautiful wedding dress today. She did a lot of work planning her wedding and preparing - Good job girlfriend!

I hope Trevor and Sharlynn will be very happy together - I am sure they will. They are both great people and make a lovely couple. 

PS.
I got to do all the flowers for the wedding. It was my favorite thing in the woooorld!!!! I can't wait to go to school for floral design one day. :)

 

 

Today is June 1st!

It is a new month! A lot has been going on since we got home to Calgary... Kyle got here safe and sound and we have been having a lot of fun with our family here. This week we are busy with lots of doctors appointments for my pregnancy. We have been dealing with some interesting people in regards to the weight set Kyle ordered a MONTH ago. It has finally shipped and will be here on Monday. It was really stressful...they kept giving us excuse after excuse as to why it wasn't shipping for an entire month and I was starting to wonder if they were trying to steal our money. I tried to just keep being polite and understanding...but yesterday I had had enough and was on the phone with several different people almost the whole morning, and I wasn't being very nice. But surprise surprise, when I told them how unhappy I was and how terrible their service was, and told them if it wasn't shipped by the end of the day - we wanted out money back - wooowww, they shipped it! Apparently you have to be rude sometimes to get things going, which is kind of silly. I really don't know why it took a month...but oh well. I am glad to be done with that.

My brother Trevor is getting married this month in only a few more weeks. Soon I will have another sister, yay!! So my whole family is very busy helping get things ready for that. This week Kyle and I are going out to Heather's so she can do some maternity photos of me. I hope Kyle will participate and be in a few of them - I know he hates it. :) I'm excited to have her take some pictures though! I know they will be beautiful. Not saying that I will be beautiful....but the picture over all will look great, she is really talented. She is my favorite photographer. :)

Tonight the Relief Society president came over to visit with my mom and I. Kyle and my brother Rob were in the kitchen with my mom and I when Sis.Jenson came over, so it turned into a visit with all 4 of us. It was nice to see her. She is a very nice lady and brought us cookies, brownies, and home made raisin bread! Delicious! My mama also made the best Rice Crispie squares tonight, with chocolate on top,  so the house is full of delicious junk food. Mmmmmmmm!

back in Canada!

Well, my mom and I finally finished our long drive from Michigan back home to Alberta, last night. It took us 5 days. It could have taken less but we didn't want to have to be stuck in the car for more than 8 or so hours a day. Yesterday was the longest drive! On the way here we stoped once again in Nauvoo, Ill. We went to see the Nauvoo Temple and stoped at Joseph, Hyrum and Emma Smith's grave site.

I am so happy to be back home! Kyle gets here on Saturday, and I am very excited for his arrival. :)

The end of another month

Tomorrow is the last day of April! One more month closer to our bebe being born, one more month closer to lots of happy things. We are still in Michigan spending time with Kyle's family. It has been a nice relaxing break! We don't really do a whole lot here, so I don't have any adventures to post on my blog. But I would like to write quickly about how much I love my family!! I am so thankful for each one of them, and for my sweet husband Kyle Ray. I am thankful for the blessing of the gospel, and for a loving father in heaven who takes care of all of us.

FINALLY

I sat down to write this blog post yesterday night but the computer I was using shut off on me in the middle of it two times in a row, and I didn't save a draft, so I'm going to give you the short version now because I'm sick of writing it all out.

1. Kyle was discharged from the USMC on March 21st.
2. We left Jacksonville, NC on March 22nd and will never return again.
3. We went to Washington, DC.
4. We met James Mesbur. Thank you Mezzie + his family for giving us a nice warm bed and delicious food!
5. We met GBG and Master Eric. Thank you also for a nice place to stay and yummy food!
6. We went to Palmyra, NY and saw several church history sights, it was lots of fun!!
7. We are in MI until May.
8. I am 23 weeks pregnant and things are going good.

Stress.

Last night we watched a documentary, courtesy of netflix, about STRESS. It was very very interesting. The documentary was based on the studies on a professor (who's name I don't remember right now) who studies the human brain and what stress does to our bodies. He thought a great way to figure things out, was to look at wild baboons, since they are much like us. Every test result he got from the baboons, he got the same result for humans. Basically, stress is really bad for you. The wrong kind of stress, anyways. Stress clogs your arteries, stress limits the functioning of the part of your brain for learning and memory, raises your heart beat and your blood pressure, not to mention it makes you an uptight person. In that documentary, another professor mentioned that the world seems to, for some reason, look up to those who live a life full of stress, or admire them. For some reason we look at an extremely busy person who can multitask and have 20 things on their plate at once, and wish we could do the same. Why, exactly? So we can get sick? So we can be unhappy? People need to recognize when enough is enough and learn how to have and how to appreciate a balanced life style. Too much work (if it stresses you out) is actually NOT good for you. Another random tidbit I found interested was about mother's who raise children with some form of disability. A professor did a study on a group of mothers with a 'disabled' child, and what they found was that 1 year of taking care of that child, packed on 6 years of 'stress' related problems to their bodies. SIX years. Now, maybe you aren't in that type of situation, but maybe you still feel as stressed as you could be. You may not even realize it, but you are doing damage to your body by doing so! Of course, there are always going to be stressful situations in life, and difficult days, but the key is your attitude. That is really the only thing you can do about it! That is the one thing you have total control over, your attitude and how you react to situations, and that can be one of two ways - negatively or positively. You might not have control over what happens in life, or at work, school, with your family, but you have control over your reaction. React positively! Another key point is to try your best to be a good person - to focus on giving, rather than receiving, in any way possible.

ps. Did you know, when you get stuck in a traffic jam, or your child spills his cheerios all over the floor, you release the exact same stress hormone a Zebra does, when it's being cashed by an enemy and running for it's life? Calm down.