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!

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

Fearsome Foursome and BFF Christmas get togethers :)

I cheered with these cute girls in college at USU and we called ourselves the "Fearsome Foursome" because we were always together and cheering, eating penny candy or waking up at 6:00 am to go to the gym...when we went to bed no earlier than 3:00 am. Nice. We all got together in Logan the other weekend and it was SO FUN! I love you girls!




Thanks girls and thanks again to Mergs for organizing it all and for the rad clocks of USU you gave us!


Then last FRIDAY we had the annual BFF Christmas party. The first one was at my cabin when we were in 8th or 9th grade. I LOVE you girls and I'm so excited about my new hot chocolate maker and fav movie "Girls just want to have fun." Sarah's dad made us the BEST dinner and we loved it. Love you! BFF for life!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!

"Yesterday, 7 December 1941-a date which will live in ...INFAMY! "

This is what earned me an A in history class.

My dad's birthday is Dec 7th and he would always repeat the Pearl Harbor speech when we talk about his birthday. Us kids would all roll our eyes...HOWEVER, when I was at USU freshmen history the professor stood up and said "Anyone that can complete this sentence gets an A...yesterday, Dec 7th a day that will live in ..." Of course I shouted out "INFAMY!"

THANK YOU DAD! This is just one of the many great qualities of my dad. He knows everything about history. Just on our recent trip we had so much fun going over the different wars and presidents and so many stories. I'm amazed at his memory! It's like looking into a history book. So happy birthday dad! Just wanted to tell you a few qualities that I love about you.

This is where my dad is working at in Whakatane, New Zealand. The hospital is small and he is loving having a relatively low work load. My dad is so hard working and smart and is a wonderful doctor and dad because he is sensitive and caring to others feelings. Now the people of New Zealand get to be blessed with your kindness!


My dad stood like this and said "Look little one (has called me that since I was born) I'm Samson" This is one of my favorite memories of my dad. He would tuck me in EVERY night and I would beg him to tell me a story. He wouldn't reach for a book, but he would tell me stories from the Bible or book of mormon. This was one of my favorites of Samson and Delilah. He probably had to tell it 100x's. Thank you! It was such a special time and when I think of these scripture stories I think of you.


This is my mom and dad's home in NZ. He is such a wonderful husband and father. I am amazed at his patience, love, understanding and thoughtfullness to my mom and us as kids. It's funny because I went on a date the other night and found myself talking about my dad half the time (real attractive I know). I talked about how he never wants to be flashy (drives a corolla :) ), is so kind and teaches us to work hard, is a wonderful example and tender hearted man. Why wouldn't I talk about him all the time?

It's so funny because my dad is known to be thrifty and not buy things we don't need. But..he sure does love his plants and he won't scrimp on those! When I got to NZ, sure enough there were 800 plants and a cute garden outside! He loves the earth and gardening and plants. He would always tell us we need more plants in our houses for the oxygen! Thanks :)

I love to see my dad sit back and relax. Why? Because this is a rare thing. He is always a busy bee, finding new projects. I'm glad he can lay down on the beach once in a while and appreciate some R and R for a guy who certainly deserves it! Thank you for your example, love and friendship! I love you and happy birthday!

My new boyfriend...90210 stye :)

So any 90210 fans? Guess who I ran into in LA? STEVE from 90210!!! I was loving life! He was so so nice and fun to talk to! I was on the phone with Karlee and I saw him sit down in my terminal to go to SLC. I said to her "Oh my gosh, should I go talk to him?" She was like "Um, Im kinda shy, so I wouldn't, but you totally should." You know he snapped this photo of us!


So I got off the phone and went and sat by him. "Um, sorry to bug you but are you Steve from 90210?" He's all "Yes, I used to be". Then he asked me my name and we talked all about him going to park city, our fav places to ski, etc etc. I was really impressed because he was SO NICE! He kept asking me all about me and what I did etc. When I told him I played the harp he was like "I LOVE the harp! It's the most soothing instrument..." Anyways we kept talking about what I did and music and stuff so in the end he gave me his address and I told him I'd send him my harp CD.

Shoot these pics are so little but he is adorable! I know I'm now a star struck fan..but he had the cutest smile and a little accent. I told him he had a little accent and he said it's cause he grew up in Jersey:)

The BFF absolutely LOVED this show growing up. We never missed an episode and we even had parties where we dressed up like the characters. Ok, and we also made a movie of the reenactment of their prom. I was Kelly and Sarah played Brenda and Rosie played Dylan and Brandon! Ha ha! "Eggs...where'd they go?"

Him on dancing with the stars. Good times

Some of my favorite scenery pics

Isn't it amazing here?!! This is me yesterday on a hike when it started raining...and we were loving it! I love warm tropical rain storms.