God Gave Me You

So I heard Blake Shelton's new song on the radio and I absolutely LOVE it!! I think it is so cute and I just love the message in it and it's exactly how I feel about my husband! I have always loved him but something has changed within the last few weeks that have really made me love him so much more and really appreciate him and I am so glad that I have him to help me through everything for eternity! Anyways enough of the sappy love stuff, I have put the lyrics below for your reading pleasure!

"God Gave Me You"

I’ve been a walking heartache
I’ve made a mess of me
The person that I’ve been lately
Ain’t who I wanna be

But you stay here right beside me
And watch as the storm blows through
And I need you

Cause God gave me you for the ups and downs
God gave me you for the days of doubt
And for when I think I lost my way
There are no words here left to say, it’s true
God gave me you
Gave me you

There’s more here than what we’re seeing
A divine conspiracy
That you, an angel lovely
Could somehow fall for me
You’ll always be love’s great martyr
And I’ll be the flattered fool
And I need you

God gave me you for the ups and downs
God gave me you for the days of doubt
And for when I think I lost my way
There are no words here left to say, it’s true
God gave me you

On my own I’m only
Half of what I could be
I can’t do without you
We are stitched together
And what love has tethered
I pray we never undo

Cause God gave me you for the ups and downs
God gave me you for the days of doubt
God gave me you for the ups and downs
God gave me you for the days of doubt
And for when I think I lost my way
There are no words here left to say, it’s true
God gave me you, gave me you.
He gave me you.

Happy Birthday Hubby!

Saturday September 24 was my good lookin'  husbands birthday! He turned the big 29! haha He's getting old! jk But we had a great weekend celebrating. We started off our weekend with a little getaway to Salt Lake to stay at the Grand America...  Yes we're moving up in the world!  Just kidding, we just decided to splurge and have a fun little one night stay at a very fancy hotel for his special day! It was amazing, we felt like real rich high class people haha! We then went to Old Spaghetti Factory and had some pretty amazing grub! Off we went to the movie after that, we went and saw Moneyball and let me tell you, it was a very good show! It was one of those movies that just made you feel all warm and fuzzy inside haha! You can't go to The Gateway without stopping at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and getting an apple pie caramel apple.... Oh my YUM! I am obsessed. I seriously have an obsession with fruit lately I don't know what it is, but anyways the next morning we got up and went to the Farmers Market for the first time down in Salt Lake and got some really yummy jam and some other fun treats. While we were gone I had my mom come and hang up a big birthday sign on our window so everyone around would know it's his birthday!! He was pretty embarrassed! That night we went to dinner with his family  to TGIFridays. His niece Alyssa has the same birthday as him and that's where she decided to go. We ended the night up at the Nelson house opening presents and having blueberry cheesecake and ice cream that he requested. It was a very fun weekend and he even got his own Denver Broncos pillow pet! We have a slight obsession with those ( I probably shouldn't say that out loud, but I figure nobody reads this anyways) Sunday we celebrated with my family. We played badmitten had some more delicious food and brownie ice cream sundays! I think we ate a little too much food, but you gotta splurge on the husbands birthday right!? Anyways, this is quite a long post but I just had to thank my husband for being born and letting us have an amazing weekend! I love him very much and don't  know what I would do without him! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE!

~Oh Peach Days~

     That's all I kept saying all weekend as we were walking through huge crowds of people in the hot sun. It's kind of a love/hate relationship I have with Peach Days. I always get so excited for it... I love seeing people that I haven't seen forever, I love the food (probably a little too much), gotta love the Peach queen pageant and the parades, I love the booths and walking through them all and watching my nieces and nephews ride the rides. I don't quite love the fact that the Peach queen pageant was 4 HOURS LONG!!!! Way too long for a pageant. I don't quite love the fact that there were so many people that you can barely walk anywhere, let alone stop and actually look at the booths. I was very disappointed there was no candy being thrown in the parade! It was so hot outside for the most part on Saturday that its just exhausting! I am glad that I go every year though, it just wouldn't be the same without going to Peach days!
     

~I'm Horrible!~

I have decided that I am absolutely horrible at blogging... I have the best of intentions of blogging about my life and everything that's going on but I find that I just don't have time to sit down and do it! There has been lots going on... We have had lots of birthdays. Parker and Gracie and my dad all had birthdays in June, and then Emma and Preston had birthdays in July. I cannot believe how big they are all getting! Here's a picture from our wedding almost 8 months ago. I can't believe how much they have changed since then!

Jeff and I finally got to go to the Zoo with his family! I think I was more excited than his nieces and nephews, it was so much fun! We saw the cute elephants, which were my favorite part. By the end of the day we were exhausted after being in the sun all day but we had a blast!

On Monday we are headed for Mexico! I am so excited to get away and go enjoy the sun with my hubby! I hopefully will post pictures when we get back but I'm not making any promises! Sorry I'm not so good at blogging, but I'll try to do better!  SEE YA IN A WEEK!!

A few things on my mind...

I have had a lot on my mind lately and I feel that my blog is the only place I can really get it all out without getting in trouble!

First off...I don't like being a grown up! I hate having to worry about money and finances and bills and the future and working and what are we going to do when this happens or when that happens... There is just so much uncertainty it gets scary. I remember when my biggest worry in the world was what Barbie am I going to play with today or what friend should I invite over to play with. Man I wish it was that easy! I love being married and I love my husband more than I ever have, but why can't things just be easy?! I know there's a purpose for everything and I know I chose that and I wouldn't change it for anything but sometimes I just wish that things didn't cause so much stress!!!!

Second... this may be too much information, but I figure not many read this anyways so what the heck haha! So being a newlywed I of course like most newlyweds went on birth control. I went to the doctor, and being diabetic, I asked him what form of birth control would have the LEAST effect on my diabetes, and stupid me thinking the doctor actually knew what he was talking about, was told that the Mirena IUD would be the best. Now for those of you who don't know what that one is, it's the one with added hormones... BIG MISTAKE! 956 dollars later (because my stupid insurance doesn't cover birth control) I am stuck with this IUD and not knowing what to do. I hate what it's doing to my diabetes. Its making my numbers go crazy! I can take the same amount of insulin everyday and eat the exact same things everyday and somedays they honestly are just all over the place! Not to mention I feel like I belong in a mental institution most of the time because of my mood swings. I can be the happiest person in the world and then all of a sudden, something flips inside me and I want to absolutely kill someone and then I just want to cry hysterically the next minute! Now I know I was a little crazy before I got the IUD but I feel that it's made me even more crazy now! Other effects are acne (I have never had bad skin and now I get zits like crazy!) I am tired all the time and I get really defensive really quickly. I also feel like I have anxiety even more than I did before! So what do I do??? My doctor gave me a different anti-depressant with some anxiety medicine in it to see if that helps with my mood swings because she felt bad that I paid so much for my stupid IUD and haven't even had it for a year, so she didn't want to tell me to get it out just yet, but geez why the crap can't my insurance cover birth control or why didn't my woman doctor give me the IUD without hormones?! I'm angry at this situation, but oh well I just have to wait it out I guess... Sorry I'm done with that round of venting!

OK this will be my last item to complain about, but why is it ok for grown people to act like they're in high school?! Seriously, I hated high school and I have been out of high school for a while now, yet just recently I feel like I am back in it and it's very annoying! I try to do the right thing by doing my job (like I thought I was supposed to) and other people find it ok just to sit around and b.s. instead of doing their job, so I say something and they find it ok also to call me a name that they think is also ok because the term here where I work is supposedly a term of endearment... but then I'm the bad guy for taking offense to being called a name I should've never been called in the first place and now the other person has everyone on their side and only hearing his side of the arguement leaving me all by my little lonesome! Oh well I guess right?! I was trying to do my job and yet I'm the one that is left by myself... and yet the other person is trying to turn everyone against me! How old are you?! OK I promise I'm done venting. This post isn't very pleasant, but even if nobody reads this, I do feel a bit better after getting it all out somewhere!

To leave on a happy note, Jeff and I booked our next vacation to... are you ready for it???   MEXICO!! Yes we're going to Mexico again, we're going to stay at a resort in Cabo for a week! We leave July 25 and come back on July 30 and I cannot wait! Did I mention I love my husband?!

That's all for now!

~Happy Mother's Day~

I don't know if my mom will see this, but I just wanted to share with everyone (if anyone reads this) how wonderful my mom is!  For any of you that have met my mom, you know she is one of the most genuine,patient, selfless, good hearted people you will ever meet. To me she is the most beautiful person, not only on the outside, but on the inside.  She is just like her mother! My Grandma and my mom are so much alike. They could be having the worst day or could be having a hard time in their life but they will never let it show. They will always do everything possible to make sure that everyone is happy and everyone feels welcome and included no matter what the situation. I don't know how I got so lucky to be blessed with such great examples in my life but I will be forever grateful. I am hoping that some of these genes get passed down to me when I finally become a mother myself. I know i could never be exactly like my mom but if I could just be a part of the woman she is I will be ok with that. No words could ever express my gratitude and my love for my mother and I could never thank her enough for the help she has given me and for the example she is to me. She has always been there for me no matter what problem I'm having in my life, whether big or small, she always listens and makes me feel better. I don't know what I would ever do without my mom! I love you Mom! Happy Mother's Day!

Birthday/Valentine's Weekend!

Also it was my birthday on February 10 and it was such a good day! Everyone made it so special I can't thank everyone enough. I got my cubicle decorated at work and lots of messages and phone calls and my nieces and nephews even called to sing happy birthday! That was my favorite! Also when I got home my cute Hubby had my present all wrapped and couldn't wait to give it to me... I opened it and he got me some exercise shorts I had wanted forever and a gift card to Maurices so I could buy the purse I had been telling him about! He also got me a Cold Stone Cookies and Cream Birthday cake which was absolutely delicious!!! We decided since my birthday is so close to Valentines day that we were just going to celebrate it all at once and go spend the night in Salt Lake at the Little America! We went and ate at the Old Spaghetti Factory and then went back to our suite at our hotel! It was so much fun and such a nice weekend! We celebrated with my family when we got back on Sunday and had lots of food and more cake and just hung out with everyone, it was so fun!! Then for Valentine's I got him some socks he had been wanting from Aeropostale and he got me an Orchid. I decided that can be our baby since we're not having kids for a VERY LONG time! I almost killed it in the first week we had it but I think it's all better now and it's beautiful!! I hope you all had a great Valentine's day!!