Merry Christmas!

Well today is Christmas Eve, which means tomorrow is Christmas!!! I am so excited! I swear I still get just as excited for Christmas as I did when I was little. Obviously for different reasons. Instead of being excited about getting presents from Santa, Im more excited to see and hear from all my family and friends. Just knowing that we are all here still and happy makes me even happier! I wish I could change a few situations in my ever growing family and see a few people a little more, see a few people a little less, but other than that I am perfectly content in my life right now. It's going to be a great day tomorrow! I love Christmas!

I hope everyone has a MERRY CHRISTMAS! Drive safe to all the destinations you will be going to!
Love you all!

A Family in Need

Today is a sad day. A friend of mine from high school, Kendra, has been going through an extremely hard time the past month. Her little girl was diagnosed with SMARD = spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress and needless to say it wasn't a good diagnosis. Makenzie is the little girls name, she is 4 1/2 months old. With that disease it slowly but still aggressively paralyzes her and it has already paralyzed her lungs so she can no longer breathe on her own, well yesterday morning Kendra and her husband decided to take her off the ventilator and she passed away last night. It is such a horrible but happy ending. My heart literally hurts for them. To lose a child would be the greatest pain I can imagine one could ever endure. I can't imagine they came to that decision lightly. The doctors told them that she wouldn't make it either way but that they could keep her on the ventilator as long as they wanted and needed her to be. I guess they just chose to let her go. Kendra has made a blog about "Kenzie" and her story, it has gotten quite the following and it really is an amazing and even though horribly sad it is an extremely uplifting to read the words Kendra puts out for everyone to read to be "in the loop" about this precious little girl. Now I am posting this to ask all of you to go to her blog and read, be inspired by it. It is really sad but this family could use all of our support and supportive words.

The blog address is: kendraandryanwebster.blogspot.com

Tis the Season!

Well Folks Christmas is here! Well in 17 days it is. I am so looking forward to spending time with family! I'm excited to see Wesley's excited little face when he see's all those presents from Santa and when he realizes that he can ACTUALLY touch them without getting told no! Lexi, like usual will tear into her presents and not really look at them and then will be bummed when she is done, like she does every year. But it will be nice to see her open them anyway. Wish we could see ALL the kids in our family open their gifts but that is just not a realistic want, I know that. John and I are gonna try our best to make sure we make the rounds on Christmas and we will try not to forget anyone, I promise.

We hope that everyone has a great Christmas! Be safe, and we love you all!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! Mine was okay, not great but it wasn't bad. So I'd say the holiday weekend was overall a success. The boys all went shooting on Friday morning, they all seemed to have a good time, so that makes me happy to see them, especially John, happy.
I was really happy to the kids! Hope was telling me in her squeaky voice of hers about her and Savannah's dance recital that's coming up and she asked me if I'd buy her flowers that day and give em to her after her performance! :) I thought that was really cute! How can I refuse to do that now?

Christmas is coming up and we are dead broke!! What's a person to do or get people when they have no money? :( I think I'll have to be creative this year. Any ideas?

BEWARE OF THIS POST!!!! ***TMI ***

So this is totally going to be a TMI (To much information-thought I'd clarify for my mom just in case) post. I really probably shouldn't post this but I found this to be quite hilarious, and just shows my true stupidity that I seem to be having more and more. Anyways back to my story.
I get up and go into the bathroom to go to the bathroom naturally, so I pull down the necessary garments and begin to urinate when all of a sudden my rear end started to get unnaturally warm (and no it was NOT gas) and I being the person I am just stand up for really no reason but to see what the heck is going on, well then I happen to notice, and totally have an OH SHIT moment, I realize I didn't pull down my underwear like I thought I had and just tried to pee through them and that warmth I felt was my own bodily fluid that is now soaked in my only pair of clean underwear I brought with me to my dads this morning to get dressed in. OOPS! I am so stupid sometimes. ugh. Like I said TMI I know but I had to share this moment with anyone who would read about it and well seems how you people follow and read my blog well you guys unfortunately are my unlucky crowd. It really is funny though. Oh well, whats a person to do in this situation?

So many stories so little time!

It's been quite a while hasn't it? I know, sorry about that it has been crazy hectic around here!
We recently had to go out to Texas on a family emergency :( which wasn't the best situation to have to go out, but in the end it turned out okay. For all of you who didn't know, we went because John's Grandma Millie wasn't doing very well and was put in the ICU at the hospital in San Antonio, John actually went out on a Sunday then told me to come out Monday, lets just say it wasn't looking very good. But she pulled through and is doing very well, she got to come home yesterday I was told so that is great news and I'm sure everyone can breathe a little easier! It was way nice to see everyone even if the circumstances sucked. We ended up coming home with a new car! :) That was something we both weren't expecting but we are both way excited about it! We got a 2006 Lexus RX 330, John's grandpa and Suzanne helped us with getting it. They are such generous people and we are so grateful for there help in any situation they help us with. So thanks guys, this is great!

There is kind of a funny story from when we were gone though, well it's funny now but at the time I wasn't laughing. So the night I arrived in San Antonio we stayed at John's grandmas house,(Now before I tell the story I should tell you that I haven't been sleeping well for the last 10 months, I have been having the most horrible nightmares I have ever had and I recently learned that this hasn't been a secret throughout all sides of my family, word has definitely gotten around about whats been going on with my sleep habits) I fell asleep with my head laying on John's shoulder, so in the middle of the night I woke up to 2 different pains going on, I have this pain on my upper left forehead and then on my right shoulder/ neck. Well I soon realize that all this pain is coming from John (who is still sleeping so he has no idea what he is doing) who is biting my forehead and his hand was squeezing my shoulder/neck so I start squirming and moving trying to get out of his hold, but the more I move the tighter he grips himself. So then I start screaming and hitting him trying to wake him up. Finally he wakes up and he apologizes and he totally feels awful for it but I was fine. But at the time when I was yelling and hitting him I didn't really think about waking everyone else in the house. So John's grandma Millie lives with John's Aunt Shelia, well she was there at the apartment with her friend Shawna and while all this is going on and I'm screaming, I woke up Shawna who apparently ran into Shelia's room and woke her up by saying, " I don't know whats going on!!!" they thought I was the one who was having a nightmare! LOL. Well someone was having a nightmare but this time it definitely wasn't me!! Anyways I think it's funny, I wasn't laughing at the time cause it kinda freaked me out but now its funny and Shawna's reaction makes even better!

On a lighter note, John's birthday is this Sunday, November 22, so I need to do some birthday shopping this week. I don't know exactly what I'm getting him but I'm sure I will think of something! But for all of you people who are thinking about getting something for him for his birthday he has told me and some other people that he really wants gift cards to Cabelas, he has his eyes set on a new rifle. You know unless you wanted to buy it for him! ;) Just kidding.

Well that's all I got today. I hope everyone is doing good! Love you all!
Sara

I finished Drivers Ed!

So I have some good news! I now have my license! So yay for me! I am so glad I have it FINALLY! It will be such a nice thing to just go do my own errands and take myself to my appointments with out the hassle of someone else taking me all the time. I still can't drive at night but that's okay. Daytime is okay by me!

Good Evening Everyone!

There you all go! I posted like, 85% of the wedding pictures, I kept out the ones that were just of the food, and random candid group photos. Got some pretty good ones though, don't you think? I already have a wish list of enlargements for some of them! We wanted to thank everyone who came and shared our special day with us, though it was a huge blur because of all the rushing around, we still knew who was there and are grateful for every one of you who showed up. I want to thank my family, new and old for everything they did to bring this day together for us! We are excited to have started this next chapter in our lives. Everyone was telling us we are such a perfect couple and deserving of each other, and at first I thought, these people are just saying that to be nice, but I truly believe that now, after that day, a lot has gone on in our lives, specially mine and to see how we can balance out what goes on between us and between us and other people is such a relief to know that he will always be there no matter the problems I am having with other people, and no matter what kind of toll it takes on me he's is there picking up the pieces for me so I don't just collapse and give in to the emotions I can't seem to get a handle on. And I know with the most certainty that I would do and have done the same for him. We both love so passionately, love the people we care about so passionately that we both understand when we go through something traumatic, minor or major. Even if how we respond is irrational sometimes, we get why each other does it. Well most of the time ;)


So for some more recent news than the wedding.
I have recently finished drivers ed! So yay for me, I take my drive test Wednesday, the 21st and then I will FINALLY have my license. Such a relief, and I have been doing some job hunting. Hopefully I will find something soon. Then we can jump on the House Funding bandwagon, if you get my drift. John is going to school for all of you who don't know this, he is doing a program through SLCC with his job to get himself to become a federal certified Journeyman. He is doing really good. Education of any kind suits him. Though he is gone 2 nights a week and I miss him terribly, it will pay off in the end. I wish I could figure out what I would like to go to school for. I'm completely lost on what to do. Some of the things I am interested in to go to school for I don't think have a good enough "lasting" or "permanent" way about them so I just don't even know what to about that. Well anyways, I think I'm done updating everyone, though I have learned that blogging is an excellent way to vent! But I think I'm done for the night. Talk to you all later!

Some Wedding Pictures!