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!

Mother's Day Madness

Well it's that time again-Mother's Day! For me, that means busy busy busy! Full time hours last week and more than full time this week. I can't even tell you how many arrangements I made just today! We are all working so hard. This is just going to be a very long week and I will be very excited when it's over!
Other than that craziness, things are going well. Spencer and I are happy as can be. We got him a new church suit and new church shoes. They look absolutely spectacular on him! He is so handsome. He's such a good husband. He has been so supportive of how busy I have been lately. He's so loving and so good to me. We have had so much fun with his family as of late. He has a new cousin, Tatiana, who is just a little doll.
Alyssa, Spencer's sister, has been down this past weekend and we have had a ton of fun talking with her. She looks so cute with her baby belly! Spencer got to spend a large part of the day with her today and he enjoyed it.
Spencer has been doing a lot with a student film lately. He has been absolutely loving it. He got to wrangle sheep this past weekend and he had a fun time of it. He did get pretty burned though and he has quite the red face! We heard from his family recently that they are moving to San Antonio! We are so excited that they will be in Texas. It is still far away but it is much better than the east coast, which we were expecting. They will be coming to the states this summer and we are so happy to see them again.
Anyway. I am just rambling and not paying close attention to what I am writing, so I will close. All that needs to be said is that I am very busy and tired and the week just barely started. But Spencer and I are doing very well and trying to live/enjoy life to the fullest!

Back in Provo...

Very sadly we are back in Provo after a nice weekend at my house in Mink Creek. We went up on Saturday after I got off work. We came back early Monday morning, which made for a very long day but it was so worth it. A small trip was better than no trip at all. It was so wonderful to spend time with my parents. And spending a couple days in the country, away from everything, was absolutely amazing-I only wish we would have had more time to spend there. It is so relaxing being home. It is so beautiful there!
Monday morning we left my house at 7:30am so that we could get back to Provo in time for my 11 o' clock class. Spencer isn't much of a morning person, so he fell asleep pretty quickly after being in the car for awhile. So I drove most of the way with him being asleep and me left to my thoughts. I must preface, to those who don't know how much I hate Provo, that I always dread coming back to Provo after some time away. Monday was even worse, if that's possible. The second we got into Utah County the drivers changed. I was already going more than ten over the speed limit and cars were whizzing past me! They were tailing me then whipping to the side to pass me (mind you I was even in the HOV lane). It made me instantly frustrated and dreading even more being back in Provo. I feel like the drivers here are a great indicator of the type of people that are here. Rude, impatient, and egocentric! That is a generalization and I realize that not everyone here is like that. However, many people are and I get extremely frustrated with it.
Enough of my venting, though. Spencer and I bought some tie dye stuff and we are super excited to do it. We got shirts, socks, and a skirt for me to tie dye. I can't wait to do it, hopefully this weekend.
I just have to brag about my husband for a minute. He is so amazing. He is so good to me and I love him. He loves me so much and is so wonderful at showing and telling me that all the time. I am so grateful that he is such a good cook. He cooks a lot for us and it is always sooo delicious! Tonight we had a chicken and fruit salad that was so yummy, but very healthy, which is something we are really needing to work on right now. (Of course I say this right after we both eat a bowl of ice cream.)
Well now I am just rambling. So in short, we are doing well. Just trudging along and making the best of things. I may really dislike Provo, but I would much rather be here with Spencer than trying to do it alone. I would rather do anything with him than alone, really.