One year!!

Well it's been quite a long time since I've updated this! We are doing very well. Having a love/hate relationship with summer right now, but doing well :) We have been enjoying warmer weather so we can do stuff outside, but we hate the heat. We have had lots of fun so far. It has been lots of fun spending time with family. A lot of Spencer's extended family lives in Utah County, so we have been doing lots of fun things with them all. We had an especially great time this past weekend. We got to do lots of fun stuff. I will back up a little first.

Not this past Sunday, but the Sunday before that, I woke up extremely dizzy. I stayed dizzy all day long... and the next day... and the next day. Spencer made me go to the doctor on Tuesday since the dizziness wasn't letting up. Most people who know me know that I hate doctors, but I was fortunate enough to get a good doctor this time. He actually took me seriously and seemed genuine. Come to find out I have Vestibular Neuritis. It's a problem with the inner ear and there is nothing to cure it. That is the third time I have heard a doctor say that there is nothing they can do for me and that I just have to deal with it. Fun stuff! He kept emphasizing that the remedies he was telling me about would never get rid of it, just lessen it. So yeah, I have Vestibular Neuritis. Basically, I have 'crystals' or 'stones' in my inner ear. They move around and touch the hairs which throws my brain off, making me dizzy. For some people that have it, every so often they will have a week where the dizziness is really bad, and some people have a constant dizziness that never really goes away. It has been a week and three days now since it has started with me and it hasn't really let up completely. Some days are worse than others, but it's been a pretty constant dizziness for me. I am really hoping that it goes away and just comes back ever so often because it is not fun. Lots of people actually go to therapy to help them learn to balance themselves despite the dizziness. I don't think I will get to that point (especially because of the expense), but I have been having to just learn to work through the dizziness. Anyway, so Tuesday I found out about that. The doctor gave me a note excusing me from the whole week of classes, so I definitely took the week off to just rest up. Wednesday I was very frustrated and upset. It seems like I am constantly having little health quirks and it gets so frustrating. So finding out about another thing I have to deal with just really got me down on Wednesday. But Thursday I decided to have a different attitude about it. I decided that if I may just have to get used to being dizzy all the time, I needed to just deal with it and learn how to work through it. So even though I was still dizzy, Thursday was starting to look up. Friday was lots of fun because I was able to get enough work off that I was able to relax, spend time with Spencer, work only two hours, and then go to Seven Peaks!

It was my first time ever going to Seven Peaks, so I was actually very excited. Spencer and I went and met up with his Aunt Arline and Uncle Troy. Their kids Michael and Jessica were also there, and Jessica's boyfriend. We had lots of fun with them. Spencer and I mostly spent the time by ourselves except for the last little bit when we all decided to go on the new slide. We all raced down a couple times and had a great time :) Before that Troy and Arline were nice enough to let us use a double tube of theirs, so Spencer took me on some of his favorite rides and we had a blast!! After Seven Peaks closed Spencer and I went home and showered and got ready and then drove to American Fork to Troy and Arline's house. We dropped our stuff off and then drove to the Lehi Trafalga to play laser tag with some friends. We had a great time!! We did pretty well for some of the rounds and not so well on other rounds. After that we went back to Troy and Arline's and ended up staying up talking with Aunt Arline until almost 5 in the morning! Absolutely love them :)

Saturday morning (we spent the night there) we woke up and Arline had made a wonderful breakfast. We ate and ended up chatting with Arline for a couple hours before Spencer and I finally got ready and got on the road. It was our one year anniversary!!! 2 July was a wonderful day! We had planned on spending the day in Park City because that's where we went for our honeymoon and we needed new clothes and knew there would be great sales at the outlet malls there. So we were off to Park City, putting a lot of faith in our old car. But our car made it, even though the check engine light came on part of the way there. haha. We really enjoyed ourselves there and got some great deals. We spent $140 and got Spencer 2 pairs of jeans, 2 pairs of shorts, and 2 shirts and got me 2 pairs of jeans, a pair of capris, and a cute top. And all of it was name brand stuff!! We were very happy with what we got and are very grateful we were able to find such great deals since money is pretty tight right now.

That evening we ate at Flannagan's Irish Pub and Restaurant and we loved it! The food was absolutely delicious and it was just fun since we had eaten at a pub in Dublin when we spent the day there, so it was way neat. Our car made it safely back to Provo, thank goodness! The check engine light came on again, but we made it! haha.

Sunday was fun, just a nice relaxed day and a wonderful dinner at Katrina and Lyndon's, as always. But the 4th of July was great! We spent the whole day with family and had a wonderful time. I am so grateful for all of the family that Spencer has around here. We spend a lot of time with them and I am grateful that we are all pretty close. I love his family and enjoy spending time with them all.

We are getting very anxious to see Spencer's immediate family. It has been since last summer since we have seen them, and they are moving back to the states this summer and we are very excited! Patrick, his younger brother will actually be here next week and we can't wait! We are very excited to see Spencer's parents and other siblings as well, but that won't be until next month :(

Sorry this is such a long post, I really shouldn't go so long without writing! But we are doing well. We are both taking classes this summer term and they are going alright. Spencer is doing amazing! He is really focusing and doing well in his classes, for which I am very grateful. It has been great having him focus on just school and not worry about having a job. I can tell that it has really improved his schooling and it just helps me see even more that we made the right decision in having him do school and me work full time. I am just taking classes to get the GPA up so it won't be difficult to start back up later.

Real quick before I go, I just have to brag about Spencer a little more. He has been so helpful and I love him so much! This dizziness stuff has slowed me down dramatically and he has been so patient and so helpful. He is always so understanding and so loving and I am so grateful to have such a wonderful husband. He is such a great man and I think myself very lucky to have him in my life. I can't believe we have been married for a year already. What a wonderful year it has been! I am looking forward to many, many more years with my best friend and love of my life!