MAN!!!! the weekends over all ready

CORPUS CHRISTI HERE WE COME

CAN YOU BELIVE THAT WE HAVE SURVIEVED OUR FIRST YEAR OF MARRIAGE. YES IT HAS ALREADY BEEN 1 YEAR SINCE I HAVE BEEN MARRIED, MOVED BACK TO TEXAS, AND HAVE BEEN WORKING AT THE HOSPITAL.

WE ARE GOING TO CORPUS CHRISTI FOR A LONG WEEKEND TO CELEBRATE SINCE WE DID NOT REALLY HAVE AN ENGAGEMENT. I CAN NOT WAIT. IT SEEMS LIKE WE HAVE BEEN WORKING OPPOSITE SCHEDULES LATELY SO I CAN NOT WAIT TO SPEND 4 WHOLE ENTIRE DAYS WITH STERLING.

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY.

Coupons

So i have a new game for myself. It is called "see how little money you can spend at the grocery store while still feeding my husband." I am getting into this whole coupon clipping game. Some people say it isnt worth it, but hey right now saving any kind of money helps. Its like a have another part time job.

so if anyone has any tips. PLEASE help me!!!

IT NEVER ENDS

Life just keeps going and going and going... so i havent been feeling the greatest lately. (no to everyone out there I AM NOT PREGNANT!!!) The weather here has been crazy which has been causing me to get some pretty severe migraines. Plus the stress of trying to keep up with everything in life is just getting to me latley.

Sterlings dad is going to have to have a double bypass surgery some time in the next two weeks, and everyone wants to Sterling to go to Vegas to be with his dad, but Sterling doesnt want to go without me. (Its almost like seperation anxiety from a 23 year old!) We just dont have the money. So i am trying my hardest to find the money. The worst part is that we planned to go to Corpus Chrisit in two weeks for our anniversary but we just dont know how we can afford it if we have to buy a plan ticket to Vegas. (yes they are cheap but not when they are last minute)

So on to other things, our little Abbie can no longer be a Momma dog. She got fixed this weekend, unfortunetly for her mom that hasnt been feeling good, it has not slowed her down one little tiny bit. The only difference is that i have to spend even more time with her to make sure she doesnt scratch or lick the stitches. Man- how am i ever going to be able to handle a child.

Why does life have to get so hard?

every day i get on line and read other peoples blogs hoping that it will help me to find something intersting to write about. so then i decided that i would just keep posting pictures and kind of make my blog a sort of picture book of our lives.

so here is my first just written blog.

life can be so hard sometimes. and the more i think about our problems and i think it is such a big deal at the time it only makes me stop and laugh at myself because i know in a few days this will all change into new problems and these will seem like nothing.

the weirdest part about being married (at least for my life right now) is that i have things going on that are bothering me and i get upset sometimes that my husband is understanding enough. and i have now realized that he is having his own issues and he is probably wondering why i dont understand him. i guess, once again, life comes down to the fact that communication is key in a relationship.

Boys and there Toys

Let me start off by saying that I love my husband and I love the fact that he is very handy with cars. It saves us money by not having to deal with mechanics. But that has now come back to bite me in the butt. We have a new addition to our lives. "The light bar"

So I come home to this one day! (I told him he could have $XXX to spend on whatever he wanted for the truck) And this is what i find. and this is how the conversation goes (and not just with me but with everyone that he has to show!!!)

Me: So what is it?
Him: Its a light bar!
Me: What does it do?
Him: It holds the lights on!
Me: So what are the extra lights for?
Him: Extra light when i go off roading! (With a smile i might add)
Me: Where are you going off roading?
Him: I dont know!
Me: So do you think you will use these lights even once this year?
Him: No! But they look cool!
Me: You have to be kidding?
Him: Nope!!!

So later it goes on that he just did that for fun, but on Thursday he is going to do some real work on the car while I go shopping with a friend. I come out of our apartment to find this.

Do you see his hands actually touching the truck? Nope me either!! Before i got the camera he actually had his legs crossed just like he was hanging out watching a movie under there or something.

To be honest he really did get alot of work done on the truck. He was just trying to figure things out at the moment. But i died laughing. I guess that is the best part of our marriage. We are always making each other laugh.

Friends

I love having friends and especially having friends in all different stages of life. It really keeps life interesting.

Tonight my husband had a softball game with a bunch of guys from church that play in our cities church league. I was sitting there on a park picnic table with three of the other wives (all wrapped up in one blanket) and we were just chatting away. The youngest of us all is pregnant and so sick she hasnt eaten in almost weeks. I am the oldest and wisest of course but have been married the shortest, and the other two have been married for what seems like years.

We are just all so different but we looked like peas in a pod wrapped up in a blanket. And as i came to the realization of how different our lives were it made me so thankful for our church and having the spirit in our lives. It has helped me in so many ways and brought all of my friends to me that i cheerish. I live for going to those games to spend that hour with those girls and i would not have the chance if were not for church.

I also have friends that i work with that are not mormon and they are so far from mormon. I can see the emptiness in their lives and i would love to be able to fill it with the knowledge that i have but i know they are just not in the right place right now. (they have told me i am not being a bad mormon. )

Ok well that is all for today. I just hadnt written in a while and a friend reminded me that i havent done so. So thank you, because it made me think about what to write all day and more came of it then i ever imagined and i think i needed it. I love you and you know who you are!