18 January, 2009

Happy Birthday Parker...rough day...

Let's be honest, is this the saddest birthday face or what? Parkers birthday was tonight and he was completely worn out from throwing up all day. Do you remember throwing up as a kid? It was THE WORST! You know you would cry and wonder what in the heck was going on. The only bonus was that you got to stay home from school...and watch "Today's Special" of course. Smart.


Get over here and give me a kiss.

I'm dying laughing because Cathie ducked out of the picture at the last min and was on the floor! Stop, drop and roll chica:)

For those of you who don't know, Parker has autism. Cathie is such an amazing mom and helps him so much. It was awesome and so fun to see parker write his name and tons of different words tonight. This is a really big step for him and gives us and especially his parents hope that he will be able to communicate better in the future.

I love that he is so cuddly:)

He even wrote HARP for me. Thanks man:)

Yes this is Hannah playing my harp. That is another story why my harp is at their house. Well Hannah said tonight "I'm going to have a harp like you when I'm a grown up and I'm going to LOVE IT!" Yes you are. She has now officially realized she is a girl. We found this out because she started ending her prayers with "A-women" instead of "A-men". Ha ha! I was loving it!

Ok so here's the harp story. I got in my car and it wouldn't start. I jumped it. All good. Put my harp in, won't start again. Went and got a gas can..maybe it was out of gas? No luck. I was PANICKING because I had to be up in midway to play at a wedding in 30 min!! Luckily Mergs was to the rescue and I used his truck. (Thanks Stace for being willing to let me use your car....love you:). Anyways it was crazy but then I finally got on my way and up there. It just must have been my day because later that night I did another brilliant thing....

So the vallet boy helped me so much with my harp, getting it in, out, drawing me a map etc. He told me he just got back from his mission and he was so sweet and a great worker. So I had no money to tip him so I thought "well i'll just write him a check". I wrote him a check for $20 because he was such a nice kid and helped me so much. Well, later that night I realized that I handed him THE WRONG CHECK. I gave him a check that was written to me for $150. I was dying! I got ahold of the hotel and talked to him. He was all " I was so excited! NO way $150!!" He told me he was showing all his vallet buddies and no one could believe it. They were all asking what he REALLY did for me :) Oh man, now I feel bad sending him only 20$. Well, needless to say we got it all figured out. Good one.

Ok anyways thanks Mergs for the loan of the truck. Here are a few pics of night snowshoeing last week.

I taught kick boxing thurs night and did 899 lunges then we went night snowshoeing and skiing the next day. My legs were burning!! Perfect time for Fredrico's. This is a pizza joint we would frequent our freshman year in Logan. Davis 201 for life!

08 January, 2009

Christmas and New Years update...

It's about time I put up some pictures of the holidays since they are long gone now:) Below are some pictures of the sub for santa we do every year. A bunch of singles get together and donate for a family in need. We had such a blast!

Wrapping presents


I was so happy when I went to one of my patients houses and she told me she had been up at nights worrying about her grandkids and how they would have Christmas. I told her we could help! She was crying and saying her prayers were answered. I truely love this grammy. I'm so happy she told me about her family. Lindy was so excited because she hadn't found a family to help yet. It was awesome because we had so much help this year that we were able to help 3 families and about 20 hospice patients.

It was so fun delivering the gifts. It just lit my heart up!

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Also, Hannah was baptized Dec 20th. I love you!



CHRISTMAS EVE
Thank you everyone for your concern about where I would go for Christmas..since my parents are gone and all:) Well I had a great time with my brother Nate and Cathie and her family was in from Canada. We went to temple square on christmas eve...

Frosted cookies for santa..


Indian leg wrestles...





CHRISTMAS MORNING!!

We sang Karaoke all day! Of course the Canadians were loving singing to EVERY Bare Naked Ladies song! But wait...am I Canadian?...cause somehow I knew all the words as well...thanks Cathie:)

Cathie was so thoughtful in stuffing our socks full and making sure we had such a great Christmas. Thank you so much!!


Some of these pics got jumbled up..so no, this isn't on Christmas day but this was during Christmas when all my students performed. They are the best!!

This is what I got from my parents...BUNGEE JUMPING IN NEW ZEALAND!!

We also went 'Zorbing'. It's like being in a big washing machine. This like a big bouncy ball and they put water in it and you roll down a hill. It is SO FUN! I hope they bring it to the US!

NEW YEARS!!


We went up to Rice Eccles and had such a fun time dancing and bringing in the new year!

Me and Dave on New years