Valentine's Day of Death!!!!

This is just a little overdue, but I haven't been blogging lately due to our computer dying on us. It was about time it gave up. The poor thing was SO old. We took it into a repair shop first to see if it was worth fixing and they actually laughed when they saw it. The guy helping us was calling his buddies over to check out the ancient computer! So we went and got a new one that is so pretty and shiny! I love it!
This was a Valentine's Day to remember, since it almost ended with both of us dying. Since Andy had to work on Valentine's Day we went on our Valentine's date the night before. That day a huge storm hit Salt Lake. As we were walking out the door my sister sent me a text message saying they had just totaled her car. They were ok, but she told us we should just stay home cause it wasn't worth it to risk the roads, but by this time Talan was already at his Grandma's and the roads were actually pretty clear. So we ignored her.
We went to dinner and a movie downtown and had a really great time. We were at the Gateway and it was almost deserted. Expect for the snow plow guys that almost ran me over a bunch of times. There were only 4 other people in the movie with us! We left the theater at midnight to drive to Andy's mom's house to pick Talan up. We were on the freeway and most of it was clear so we were able to go like 65 MPH. Andy was driving and we were in the center lane. We needed gas so he was looking for a place to get off. We were coming up on a large exit, he started to change lanes to get off then changed his mind and swerved back into our lane. BIG MISTAKE. This started the spin of death. Suddenly the car starting SPINNING down the freeway at 65 MPH!!!!!!!!!!! I looked over at Andy and could see the huge concrete barricade that splits the freeway from the off ramp coming at us. We were going sideways straight for it. What saved our lives was Andy had some crazy inspiration to crank the wheel the other way AND SLAM ON THE GAS... he has no idea why he did it, but about 5 feet from the barricade he got us to start spinning the other way. So now we were going backwards down the off ramp. Andy did some other crazy maneuvers with the wheel and we finally stopped by hitting part of the off ramp with our bumper.
Crazy thing is... the car doesn't even have a scratch!!!!!!!!!! I don't know how Andy did it... there really is no reason we should have been able to survive spinning down the freeway like that. We were lucky it was so late so there weren't any cars around us, if there had been we would have hit them for sure since we were literally in every lane.
Obviously we didn't want to get on the freeway again after that. So we took the city roads all the way to Andy's mom's. It took us over a half hour to get there since they hadn't been plowed at all so Andy had to go 25 MPH the whole way. We didn't get home till just after 2 AM.
My Dad also totaled his car that same day, but he lives in Seattle. 3 car accidents in one day for one family!!!!!!! Crazy!!!!!
Andy got me a beautiful diamond necklace for my present... it was a big surprise. I had asked for a dustbuster, but he couldn't remember so he opted for jewlery instead. And I'm not complaining!!!! Here's my pretty necklace:


It's a snowflake cause a lot of important things that have happened in our lives happened in the winter time, like our wedding, Talan being born, and surviving our date.

He also got me these pretty flowers:


I got him tickets to the Jazz game for him and his brother. He is really excited to go cause they are playing his second favorite team, the Pistons.

And here is us right before we left on our date.... just think, this could have been the picture for our obituary. How morbid!!! LOL

God Be With You Till We Meet Again

Last night President Gordon B Hinckley passed away. I was so shocked when I heard the news. Even though he was 97 years old a part of me felt as though he would stay on this earth forever, that he was somehow invincible. And as much as I would have liked that to be the truth, the more I've thought about him since his passing, the more I realize that it is his time. His lovely wife died herself a few years ago. They had one of those amazing relationships we all dream of having. I know that he missed her terribly and now he is finally able to be reunited with her. And after all the amazing things he was able to accomplish in his life, I doubt he had a single regret and was ready to go.

I'll miss his sense of humor, he was always a favorite to listen to. He had a spark and a love for life. I'll miss the way he gave his testimony in such a way that would never offend, however never leave any doubt of his beliefs. He was a wonderful man who impacted me in a huge way.

So I guess I look like Ashly Olsen

I did a celebrity look alike thingy online. I uploaded my picture and the program told me what celebrities I look like. I was fully expecting Punky Brewster since that's who I've looked like all my life, but the computer seems to think I look like Ashly Olsen... so why doesn't it list Mary Kate???

Talan has something to say

2 Years

Two years ago today I married my sweetheart Andy. I can't believe that 2 years have passed already, and at the same time I can't believe it's only been 2 years. So much has changed for us! We have both changed careers and live on the opposite side of town than we used to and of course the biggest change... we have a child now. LOL

Unfortunatly I am sitting alone on our anniversary since Andy had to work tonight. But we celebrated last night. We had our first full night away from Talan. We dropped him off at Grandma's and headed off to here: www.castleutah.com

We stayed there on our wedding night and it is my favorite place on earth. We stayed in the Garden Suite: http://www.castleutah.com/garden.htm It was beautiful!!! We had french doors that led to our own private terrace with a trail leading through the trees to the river out back.

We had a wonderful time. It was nice being just the two of us again. I am so happy I married my best friend, he makes me laugh everyday!!

SNOW DAY!!!!!!!!

I've been so excited to take Talan out in the snow. He is so funny. Every time he sees it falling from the sky he laughs and just stares at it. So a few days ago we got him all bundled up to go have some fun!!!!

While getting ready he couldn't stop laughing... he thought it was hilarious that we kept piling the clothes on him. When we were done he totally looked like the poor kid in A Christmas Story who couldn't put his arms down.



We tried to help him walk in the snow when we first got there



But crawling is so much easier!



It was so cold! I tried to get Talan to snuggle with me to help me keep warm, but he just wanted to play



Andy started playing their favorite death game together, it's called toss the baby. He started throwing him high



And higher



And really high



And then WHOA Where did Talan go?!?!?!?!



I don't suggest you try that at home. We had such a great day!!! I'm glad that Talan had a fun time.

Audrina Belle is here!!!!!!!!!

I had a new neice born this morning!!!!!!!! Finally 1 week and 1 day past her due date my sister called me at midnight to come watch her kids so she could go to the hospital. I stayed with her two kids till 4 am when my mom got there then headed to the hospital and at 9:54 this morning Audrina Belle was born! It made for a very long night but it was well worth it. Audrina is gorgeous!!! She weighed 8.5 pounds and was 21 inches long, that is a very big baby for my sister!!! Here are a few pictures!