He always pulls through

I have to say that there is nothing better than being at work (on Valentine's Day) and hearing the bell ring signaling that someone is at the door, and seeing a delivery lady with flowers, hoping in your heart that my husband knows the thrill I get from flowers, and them actually being for me! (All the girls at work were jealous). Scott honestly knows the way to my heart. And the flowers are gorgeous! There were 2 pink roses and several miniature red roses. He also brought me dinner at work and we had a picnic in the back of the Pathfinder. He also brought a candle (one that has a light bulb instead of real fire) and wine glasses with some sparkling cider. He knows how I love the romantic stuff. He has always been great at the gift giving and showing me his love. He knows I appreciate the small things and is always trying to make me happy. I have the best Valentine ever!

A soapbox

I've had some strong feelings lately about something that every one of us uses, whether it's a lot or in moderation...it's the television. I've just had a lot of festering feelings about television lately. It all started when I was flipping through channels and on a whim stopped on a station where 4 women were sitting around the table at a restaurant talking. This is a show that I've never watched and the title alone disgusts me but for some stupid reason I didn't turn it right away like I probably should have. One of the girls was talking about wanting to get pregnant and she was having a hard time conceiving. Then another girl at the table tells her that she is pregnant and lets her know that she's going to have an abortion, and the girl wanting a baby storms off. The 3 left over then discuss how many abortions each of them had had. They talked about it like it was a procedure like getting your blood pressure taken, no big deal. I seriously wanted to vomit. I can't believe how lightly they can talk about a child that they just "got rid of" because they just had casual sex with someone that they never saw again. Okay done with that one, on to the next...

I'm really tired of 75% of all advertisements using sex to sell their products. Seriously! An Arby's add? I really like Arby's but it makes me really angry that they think that they need to use sex to sell their products. It seems like most adds anymore have some sort of sexual reference. I get really embarrassed when I'm sitting with my parents watching TV and add some on for Viagra or lubricants (sorry for saying embarrassing words and I know I'm 26 and married but still...) when we are watching a main TV station. It really makes me question whether I will let my kids watch TV, because if it's that bad now, what will be like in 5-10 years? And Primetime TV has gotten so bad! The commercials for them alone make me sick. I don't understand how people find it entertaining to watch people mock something so sacred.

Anyway, sorry to use this as my own personal soap box (and for using embarrassing words) but I do feel better getting it out. :)

Getting Makayla to Minnesota

This is our beautiful niece Makayla. Makayla has been sick for some time and they can't figure out what is wrong with her. She is going to the MAYO Clinic in March for testing and hopefully they will be able to find and treat whatever she has. Scott's good cousin Lena has put together a fundraiser to help Mike and Karin (Scott's sister and brother-in-law) get Makayla to Minnesota. The Children's Miracle Network is paying for the majority of it but there is still some that isn't covered. If you know and love this little girl, you know her amazing soul, and her will to just be a child, to run and play, and we pray for her constantly that she'll be able to do that soon. She is such an amazing child and deserves all of the good times that a child has. If you would like to donate, please let me know and I'll tell you how to get money to the fund, or join the group "Get Makayla to Mayo Clinic" on Facebook for details.

So incredibly blessed

We are so incredibly blessed. It has been a long, emotionally exhausting day where I had to leave work and take Scott to the emergency room. We were both really scared for a while about what was happening to him, he was having some scary symptoms. We found out that he has a case of the "bad" flu. We also think that he has a pinched nerve. But we weren't able to find that out.

We just feel so blessed to live in a place where we have good doctors, good medicine, INSURANCE, and most of all, we're so blessed to have have the Priesthood in our home and have wonderful, willing neighbors that are worthy (that's a lot of W's) to come and use that Priesthood to give Scott a blessing. We're so grateful that we can have that in any place that we may move to.

We just feel like lately the blessings of heaven have been pouring down on us in every aspect and even in the scary times, Heavenly Father is watching over us and blessing us.