I Do NOT Heart Dentists

I hope my title doesn't offend anyone (Eric, Kylee/Lance) or anyone who may actually enjoy going to the dentist or who may have a dentist in their family. Its really nothing personal. But I just can't seem to enjoy seeing someone that brings me nothing but discomfort and oftentimes, bad news. I've always had very tender teeth. I'm the kind of person that has to brush and floss about a million times a day to avoid cavities...and even then, sometimes one sneaks in. My husband on the other hand could go days without brushing (although thankfully he doesn't) and wouldn't get even a smidgeon of decay.

Because of my tender teeth I'm always sure to do my regular twice-a-year checkups, because to me, my teeth are like treating cancer...if you don't do your regular check ups, the tumor will just grow and get worse.

Well, it all started this morning with a jaw ache. I thought I had just slept on my pillow wierd, but when the pain started to take over the whole left side of my ENTIRE face I knew something was wrong. And it was hard to get sympathy from my co-workers when I would say "I don't feel very good." and they would ask "Whats wrong?" and I would respond "My face hurts". Sounds kinda funny. Well, after about 6 hours the pain left my jaw and cheek and settled on a very specific spot...my tooth. As much as I don't like the dentist I was DYING to get in. Thankfully they had an opening for me within 1/2 hour of my phone call. The diagnosis: A ROOT CANAL. I knew it. I knew my day would eventually come when the worst of the worst would happen to my poor teeth. Turns out I had an old cavity from years ago that was filled, but was just a little too close to my nerve and caused it to infect and die. They temporarily filled the root with some medication to ease the pain until I can get in for the procedure. I walked away feeling gloomy yet relieved that the good dentist took the awful pain away. Oh and about 1/2 hour ago (about 8pm) my dentist was kind enough to call me at home just to see how I was feeling. Wow. What a nice guy. Maybe dentists aren't so bad after all.

Shade

For those interested, Shade Clothing is having an awesome sale on shirts for only $6 and $8. Go to their website and click on "sale" and it'll take you right there. I'm not sure how much longer they'll have it. I love their clothes. Don't know how I ever went without a good undershirt for so long.

I wonder if I should be getting paid for this...

Weekend

I had a great weekend. My sister Kacey and her family came into town for a visit. She has three kids, Isaac (4), Daniel (3), and Ella (11 mo). We honestly didn't do a whole lot, (they were in town for a wedding) but I took Friday off of work to hang out with them. I'm telling you, I seriously don't know how you mothers out there with 2 or more kids do it. I wish I had pictures to show of their sweet little faces but sadly, we still haven't got a new camera yet...still waitin for that tax return. Kacey took some pictures, so maybe if she can spare two minutes of her day, (which I realize might be hard) she might send me some. :)

On Friday night we had a ward Elders Quorum activity. It was an adult version of Pinewood Derby. The rules were...anything you want but NO FIRE. So that gave a lot a freedom right? We were totally thinking "this is going to be fun to watch, who knows what people will bring!?" Well, for Mike's car (he actually made it a couple years ago for a similar activity) he had it all decked out painted red and black, and he stuck a couple heavy magnets on the sides for weight. Well, since there basically was no rules he also made a slingshot to go with it. Some would call that cheating but it was playing by the "rules". Well, we showed up and looked around at the competition...wow. This is about how creative it got: One man took his block of wood, attached the wheels, and had his daughter write "Go Daddy Go" on the top of it. We were shocked. Can they not do better than that? Needless to say...Mike kicked butt and won 1st place. I know...hard to beat "Go Daddy Go". We had a good laugh about it though. Maybe next year the other guys will remember Mike and try a little harder.

Saturday night we rented Planet Earth. I HIGHLY recommend it. Its an AMAZING movie about you guessed it...the earth. We only watched the 1st episode (out of 11) but we bought the whole set this morning because its so dang cool.

Anyways, that was about it. I'm back at work now, ready to take on another busy week.

Spring

"To be interesed in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."

**I wish I could have this attitude but I'm sorry, I am SO ready for spring!

A Penny for your Thoughts?

Some of you may remember me mentioning briefly a couple weeks ago that our camera broke. What happened was Mike and I went sledding one afternoon and threw the camera (while it was still in its case too!) in the back of his 4Runner along with the rest of our gear. Well, we had bought some inner tubes from a local tire store that afternoon also and stuffed them in (and I mean STUFFED) in the back where the camera was. Well, as Mike was trying to shut the hatch, unknown to him the camera got a little too much pressure against it and cracked the display screen. Overall, the thing still works, the display screen just doesn't show anything. And yes, I assume we could continue to use it if we wanted to, but thats just it. We don't. I was honestly happy when it broke, because we finally had an excuse to get a new one! So my point in this post is to find out what camera's YOU use! We need some ideas. What kind of camera do you have? Do you like it? Do you hate it? We need some advice! We aren't very skilled in this department and I didn't really like the last camera we picked out. It was a Canon (which I know is a good brand) but it had a really slow lag time between pictures, and half the time they would turn out blurry, the flash was "too" bright, it made you look like a deer in headlights, and overall I just didn't like it very much. This is what it looked like:
So if you're happy (or not happy) with your camera PLEASE leave us a comment, so maybe we can be happy too!

Earthquake? REALLY?

Some of you may know (if you're from Utah) that Salt Lake City is sitting on a big ole time bomb...otherwise known as the Wasatch Fault. This is a big fault line that runs north/south along the mountains and also along the city. And supposedly a rather large earthquake has been in the works for a long time now...years to be exact and that the city could quake any day. Here's a picture showing the fault line:

Last Thursday I woke up and heard on the radio that Wells, NV (which is about 2 hours away from SLC) had a 6.0 earthquake that was felt throughout the Salt Lake Valley. (I personally didn't feel a thing, but I heard plenty of comments about it on the radio) Anyways, I think it shook a lot of people up because of the reality of it actual happening semi-close to home. This is a recent picture of Wells, NV after the earthquake on February 21, 2008:

Well, last night at around 3:00AM Mike wakes me up and says "I just felt an earthquake!" In a daze I say "Are you kidding me?" (My first thoughts were "Why do I always MISS it!?") Anyways, he goes "No I'm not kidding, it felt like this" and he proceeded to shake the bed. In my head I slightly started to freak out. I sat there in bed thinking to myself "Holy crap...we're gonna end up with a HUGE earthquake tonight, or sometime soon, what are we going to do? How are we going to get out? What if our house crumbles while we're in it?" ect. (I worry about our house because its made of old brick, and according to recent news reports, these types WILL crumble). Anyways, during the next 45 minutes of the night Mike and I got a plan of escape worked out if something did happen...where we would go if we were at home, or where we would try to meet if we were at work, how would we grab our food storage ect. Well, I woke up this morning and remembered the events that took place last night, and once again asked Mike if he still believes that he really felt an earthquake, and he said yes. Turns out...I listened to the radio the whole way to work, and checked news reports on the internet ect, and sure enough...NO EARTHQUAKE. I love my husband, but he's got some CRAZY dreams! Oh well, at least we got a plan now. :)

3 Day Weekend

Because our lives pretty much revolve around our work schedules, and the fact that both of our families live hours away we rarely stay in town for a 3 day weekend. They come so few and far between, we love it when we get an extra day off. This weekend we went to Island Park to visit my parents cabin. My brother Tyler came with us, and we met up with my sister Krista and her roommates. I love being able to go up there and do nothing but sit on my butt, read a good book, take multiple naps in 1 day, and watch movies. (Mike and I almost never get to watch movies at home because heck, it takes 2 hours and we rarely have 2 hours to spare). Oh yeah, and then there's the occasional snowmobile ride too. Our camera also broke a couple weeks ago and we haven't gotten a new one yet, so I borrowed Krista's camera for the few pictures that I got.

I have never seen snow so deep in my LIFE. I had to take a picture of this stop-sign showing how deep it really was.

This is in the driveway, another picture showing how deep the snow was.

This is above the garage. I was just waiting for it to fall on my head and kill me. jk.

The boys (Mike and Tyler) decided they wanted to be daredevils and jump out the upstairs bathroom window into the soft snow. Here's a picture of Tyler jumping out.

Just chillin. Mike looks tired in this picture, but really its hard to get him to be serious and take a normal smiling picture. So this one's pretty good.

Happy Anniversary

This week has taken an interesting turn of events. It all started Sunday night when our lights in the house started to flicker. I assumed it was the snowstorm going on outside, I thought "hey maybe snow is on the power line" or something like that. We ignored it. But on Monday when the lights were still flickering, and at times making us wonder if the power was going to go out altogether, we decided to call our neighbors and see if it was the neighborhood or just us. Turns out it was just us. GREAT. So we called the power company who came over to check things out. The diagnosis: our utility meter was fried and needed to be totally replaced. (You know the thing that usually goes on the side or back of your house and it tells the power company how much electricity you use)? Yeah they told us it was going to cost at LEAST $1,000 to fix. WOW. Oh the joys of being a homeowner.

Well, to back the story up a bit...when we bought the house on February 6, 2007 it came with a 1 year warranty. Meaning if anything broke or stopped working ect within the year, the warranty company would pay for it. When this electrical problem was discovered on Monday evening (February 4) we also got in the mail that same day a notice saying that our warranty was about to expire in 2 days.

So after the power company left we nervously called up our warranty company to see if the electrical work would be covered (they get so picky on what is covered and what is not). Well, lo and behold it was! They said no problem, we'll cover it. Hallelujah! We honestly couldn't believe the chances of this happening when it did. So to make a long story short. As of this afternoon, we have a brand new utility meter in the back of our house, power is running perfectly, and it only cost us a $55 service charge. Thank you Heavenly Father for this blesssing, thank you previous owners of our home for providing a warranty, thank you electrician for doing a wonderful job, and finally thank you house, for being so good to us and breaking when you did. We love you house, happy anniversary.