Prestons Update

Hey all!
Its been a while. I know. Don't have to tell me twice. I have gotten a lot of "just update the blog already" emails so I am FINALLY I am doing it. Not much has changed, thats one source of the non-posting lately. That and we have just been too tired, busy, or too lazy to post. So, sorry.

We moved! In case you missed the memo. We moved from Bountiful to Sandy. Its so much nicer in this apartment. I can't really see how we stayed at the other one so long. This one is amazing.

John has been staying busy at work, though its in Logan which is 2 hours away, one direction. Lets just say he is tired. Working 10 hour days and then add on 4 hours just to get to and from work that day makes him a little miserable at times. But he's doing alright I think. Hopefully he can put in for a transfer and get this time.

I am staying busy at school. Clinic is kicking my butt, even though I only do that once a week its still exhausting. I do get the odd clients though which can distract me from how tired I am while I'm working at least for a little while. I am officially half way done with school!!! I can't believe it. Now this last half just needs to fly by so I can be done already.

On a lighter note, CHRISTMAS is in just 7 weeks! We are so excited! We can't wait to come to Texas this year for christmas, for a whole week. It will be so nice to not have to rush the whole trip to see everyone. ah. For once a relaxing holiday break. It's going to be AWESOME! Well thats our life in a nut shell. Love and Miss you all like crazy!

:)

Hello Loves!
I apologize for my last post. I was in the middle of a mini-meltdown. Maybe not so little. But I am better now. Now that I am back to my old self. We can all forget about that last post. lol. So I have some stuff to tell everyone though, most of you all know all of this but I will post about it anyway.

John and I will be going to Texas this year for Christmas. I am so excited!!! It seems like we haven't seen you all in forever. I know some of you will be in Utah for Christmas, and we'll miss seeing you but it will be so nice to see Susan, Darryl, Anya, Becky, and the Bacons. We have missed them so much.  Christmas can't come fast enough. We got asked to come out for Thanksgiving but I only get Thanksgiving day off and I have to work in the Clinic that weekend so we couldn't. But Christmas will be just as an amazing trip down there. For a whole week too! I don't think we have ever been able to stay that long so it will be nice and not too rushed of a visit. So thank you Grandpa and Suzanne!

Another topic for todays post is, CLINIC! I am so excited. I start clinic this Sunday. So now I will have a clinic shift every Sunday morning until I graduate! Its gonna be amazing. Lots of practice! Practice makes perfect right? So I welcome these shifts with open arms. We have an evaluation in my massage class the other day and I did amazing. I got 25 out of 25 points and the instructor said I was great to watch perform the massage and that I had great flow and body mechanics. Which is always good, that means I'm not just jumping from one body part to another. I'm actually connecting everything together in a fluid movement. So that made me feel awesome! Good self esteem booster for sure! Definitely made me a little less nervous going into clinic. I'm almost done with my first quarter of school. It went by so fast already! Specially considering we only have 3 quarters total in the program. So geeze. Im already almost a 1/3 of the way done! E.X.C.I.T.I.N.G!!!!!!!!

I hope you all have a great weekend! Be safe!
Love you!
Sara

School update!

Hey all!
I know I haven't updated about school since I started. Been really busy. But I have some time today so I will give you all an update. :) I LOVE IT! Its hard, but I'm loving the challenge. Its nice to exercise my brain a little, lol. I have had two semi-major tests in anatomy and one evaluation on my swedish massage and on the two anatomy test I got 100% on the first one, then I got 95% on the second ( but this one was on cell structure, really, who cares that much about what is inside of an individual cell?) Then on my evaluation I got 22 of 25 points. My stances were a little off but other than my instructor said I did great! So yay!  I'm really surprised at how much "work" it really is though. I kinda had this notion of I would just go into school and learn just the basic massage and then be done. But I have to learn all the different modalities/types, then reflexology, which is by far one of my favorite things I am learning right now. Its SO interesting! Then anatomy, which is a super intense class. They really expect a lot in this one. We are expected to know all the anatomical names for every part of the body. Plus some medical terminology. I have a professor and his apprentice from the University of Utah teaching that class. But all in all its great. I'm thinking about doing the Master Body Worker program when I am done with this course. Which my graduation date is March 10th. With that, it will give me more skills and more knowledge to take the national test which if I pass I am certified in all states and some different countries. I think anyways. Thats my understanding anyway. So why not right? Why wouldn't I want to do it? Why would I want to limit myself and my potential to just this state? I wouldn't. Plus the MBW program is only 1 quarter long, which is only another 10 weeks. Not bad. but I still have a while to worry about that.
John is enjoying me in school too, he gets to be my model that I practice everything on ;)
Any who, I know this isn't the best update but you at least get a little idea of how its going. I will try to check in more though. Love you and miss you all!
Sara

Some fun pictures I thought I'd share! :)

These are just some random, mostly Wesley, pictures from the 8th. Enjoy.

I like this one. 

Always doing things the hard way. 

Look at these chunky little ham legs!!! You just want to squish em!

This kid loves being naked!!! 

The end. 

Happy Birthday Penny Ausick 08-08

                                                 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Penny's birthday was on Sunday August 8th. She is the most amazing step-mom anyone could ask for. She is there no matter what. I love her unconditionally. She is amazing. For her birthday we went to the park for some lunch/dinner and to play some water balloon volleyball. <- have any of you ever played that? Well it was pretty fun! I recommend it! It gets you active and out there for a fun time! Any who... back to what we are on here for! Penny. She is just an amazing person and I am truly honored to call her my mom. I hope her birthday was great cause she deserved it! Naturally I took pictures so here they are!

They were trying to teach Wesley to roll down the hill. :) 

It ended up more along the lines of him get thrown, and pushed down the hill. But he didn't mind. 

My camera got stuck in this weird mode where only somethings stayed in color and others went b&w. But they turned out really cool. 

I just love this one! I like how the sand is still in color and Wesley's blonde hair. :)

Time for some volleyball! 

Mayria is awesome in this one!

Wesley wanted to play too!!! 

Grandma on the sidelines watching all the action. 

Heads up!!!!!

Let the water fit begin!!!! I tried to capture the water actually being thrown but I was always too late. So I pretty much got the aftermath of it and them all filling up their buckets/cups again.

Payback sucks Tamari. We all tried to tell you, the boys don't play fair. So you got one of them, they all gang up on you! HAHAHAHA

Kinda blurry but you can clearly see, she is drenched!!! :D Good job guys!

Wes wanted in on the action too!

 I LOVE YOU AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY PENNY!