Well hello world! I have not been very good at posting for the past few month but here you go:
Well to start out, a few of my friends got married! Preston and Kayci got married at the beginning of May. Everything was beautiful. A funny story with that-Kayci ended up buying Jessi's dress from when she got married. Jessi had put it on KSL and Kayci found it. The weather ended up being perfect. During the day the clouds were teasing us with rain but that evening for the reception it was great. Now they are living up in Pocatello in a retirement home! It makes me laugh-but free rent to do a little upkeeping for the home is an okay deal :)
That same day, Albert and Marcy got married! I was able to make it to their reception later that night. I just wedding hopped that weekend! Again, it was beautiful and my friends are so happy together :) Albert and Marcy have disappeared from the earth though-haha they are in the newly wed stage and I haven't talked to them since their wedding day! We'll have to change that.
Then just last week my friend Rhett married Kristyn. I was able to attend their ceremony. Then they had a photobooth, food, dancing. It was in a flower shop so their were natural decorations there as well. They are still in Vegas partying for their honeymoon!
About two weeks before Rhett got married we got to have one last singles hang out! We went mini-golfing and out for some ice cream. He's one of my friends that we just talk and talk. We ended up chatting until about 11:30pm that night. Just as we were saying good bye his girl called. It was just great to be able to catch up before he's off in the married world. But we did plan to do dinner once per month-so I'll get to know Kristyn better and we can all stay caught up!
I've been able to come home a few extra times in the past few months. I've been having a lot of back problems and migraines. In the beginning of May I had an injection into one of my disks. After a few weeks of massive pain, I called the dr. back and told him I didn't think it was working. We met again and looked at my MRI again. The disk right below the injected one had buldged about 3x as much as it was in November. He thought it would be good to do injections again. We just did two more injections into that disk on Tuesday. I'm hanging out on my parent's couch still trying to get better. I'm on tons of meds and it is making my brain work a lot more slowly than normal! I'm not used to that.
When I've been spending time at home, my adorable little sister and I have had some fun photoshoots. We just went outside to our yard and played around with the camera. She is soooo cute! I love her to death. My parent's are also so good about helping me. They'll bring me food and water and they feel so bad that I am in tons of pain. I am too but I just have to keep fighting. I'll probably end up doing surgery in the next 6 months. That is the only long term solution to my back problems.
We had a dear family friend pass away.
Mark Kailing passed away after fighting against cancer. His family is so strong and they are loved by so many. He passed away the week before his and LaDena's birthday's. We ended up still doing their birthday bash. The theme was animals. There were face painters and kareoke. I ended up being a tiger-it was so great, even though the circumstances were less than ideal.
I surprised my dad pretty well for Father's Day. I got tickets for the World Cup Qualifying Match. USA vs. Honduras at the Rio Tinto Real Salt Lake field. Some of my family members and friends were mad that I didn't invite them! But my dad was very excited. I hadn't been to a game at all in that stadium. The atmosphere was so fun. It was loud and there were lots of cheers and songs. USA won! The final score was 1:0 but it should have been 2:0. We scored earlier in the game but we were offsides so it didn't count. The refs were SOOOOO biased. I'm not someone who gets frustrated or mad at sporting events. But even I was getting frustrated at their calls. It made the game even more rewarding that we won with all the calls against us and the lack of calls against Honduras.
The last exciting thing that I've been doing is hanging out with Bonnie at work. We've been going on walks and trying new places for lunch-whenever my back can handle it. Last week we went to this little greek stand on the street, it is called Moms. It was amazingly delicious. I had a gyro. The meat was delicious and the sauce they put on make it even more perfect. Plus it was cheap. I'm excited for our many more lunch adventures.
That's the update on my life for now! Maybe once I'm off my pain meds I'll have more stories! Let's all pray that these injections work and I can be pain free until surgery :) Love you all!!
