Finally some pictures of Hawaii :)

So here are some pictures of our trip to Hawaii! I know there is a lot but I just couldn't decide on only a few haha! Anyways we had a lot of fun! We went with Kyle's brother Tyler and his wife Tessa. It was nice to get away and just have a fun holiday with friends! We got very lucky with the weather too. It was only yucky on the last day but we still had fun then too!

Kyle in a lava field. This was the first place we went swimming. There was great snorkeling and we saw 3 sea turtles! It was sooo cool!

Enjoying the beach :)

Kyle boogie boarding!

Kyle and I at Black Sand Beach!

Being silly! We all decided to climb this random tree that was fallen over. It was not very sturdy haha!

The outside lobby of the Grand Wailea Resort! This is where we went for our Luau one night :)

A very fat lady statue in the background haha! This was in the middle of the lobby!

Tessa and I got these fake tattos!

My fake tatto :)

One of the pretty Hawaiian dancers at our Laua we went to!

Today it was Sunday so we decided to take a drive up to a place 20 minutes away called Lahina! We ended up loving it there!

We had to stop on the way there to watch some whales jumping!

Me opening my first oyster!!! So EXCITING haha!

In lahina there is this HUGE tree that covers 3/4 of an acre! It was really neat!

Tess and I in the tree :)

On the boardwalk in Lahina!

Beautiful sunset!

At Bubba Gump Shrimp Restaurant in Lahina!! Soooo yummy!

So one day we decided to go on this day long drive called the road to Hana! It was so cool. But there was like a million water falls along the way. Some you could see from the road and some you had to hike to. This one we hiked to. The water falls were beautiful!

The peace rock I found haha!

Kyle and I at red sand beach!! Very cool expect this was a clothing optional beach and when we first showed up a man was just putting his pants back on. Lucky for us haha!

A crazy sign haha

On the road to Hana we went over 56 bridges!

Kyle decided to pose on the edge of a very very steep cliff :S

Indiana Jones Kyle :)

We decided to swim in this one. It was called the 7 sacred pools because down from this pool there are many more that all connect but waterfalls! It was very cool!

A random rock we found haha!

The morning we got up at 3:30am and went to watch the sunrise!! So beautiful! We drove to the top of this one volcano and it was pretty cold up there!

On our balcony

On the boat on our snorkel trip!

Tess and I snorkleing at a place called Turtle Town

Humpback Whales!! So exciting to see them! This is a baby one!

Love the pina colada's! This was at a reataurant in lahina one evening!

Boogie Boarding!

Our Condo

Maui 2011 :)

Tessa lost her flip flop in the water and we never found it haha!!

Climbing throuhg the creek up little waterfalls at the Ioa Needle Park!

This was our last day. We flew out at around 11:30pm that night :(

It was a great trip!! Loved it!

Visiting my Little Logie :)

So it is my spring break right now and so I decided I missed my nephew Logan and I needed to come for a visit! I know I haven't put up pictures of Hawaii yet but I promise to do that when I get home! Anyways my trip started on Tuesday the 15th with my flight out on Spokane being delayed 2 hours and I arrived 2 hours early for the original time and so I had to sit by myself in the airport for 4 hours by myself. It kinda blew but I complained a little to someone and so they gave me a food voucher so I got a free Quizno's sub for lunch :) I finally made it to Utah and on the car ride back to Mindy's house she asked me to feed Logan dinner but he totally played strange with me at first. He wasn't cranky or anything I think he just needed a minute to think, "Hmmmm where do I know you from and can I trust you with my food?" Haha he eventually warmed up and ate his lunch! The next day we just hung out at home for the morning and than went swimming in the afternoon! He is such a water baby! I love it! This morning Brian got up with Logan but I guess Bri was not feeling very well and so just before 8:00am he came into my room, put logan down on my bed right infront of my face and as soon as I woke up he left. I wasn't really sure where he went because he didn't say anything haha. Logan and I layed aronud and watched a movie in bed on his mini DVD player! Than I had him down for his nap just after 9:00am before Mindy and Brian even woke up haha! So nice to have Auntie around :) Its a good thing I love Logie!! Well here are a few pictures so far!

Me in the airport by myself :(

The hooded towel shirt Kyle and I brought Logan in Hawaii! We took it to the swimming pool :)

Kneeling Logie!!

Hawaii!!

So Kyle and I are currently in Maui and we are loving it. We came with Kyle's brother Tyler and his wife Tessa. I would love to show some pictures of our trip so far but blogger won't let me upload them from my iPad so I guess I will have to do that when I get home! But I can tell you about some of our trip so far!!
On our way here we missed our connecting flight in San Francisco and we had to sit in the airport for the next flight to Maui for 5 hours! That really sucked! The plane ride was fine but for some reason it felt like it was taking forever!! There was one point in the flight where I heard some flight attendants talking about where we were in the flight and I turned to Kyle and said, "If we were going to Australia we would still have around 9 1/2 hours to go!" Haha seriously I don't know how I did it! I must have just been so excited! Anyways we finally made it and we got a mustang convertible for our rental car! It has been great having a convertible in this hot weather! Our first day we went snorkeling and we saw some sea turtles!! It was so exciting to see them! That is the only under water animal Kyle and I did not see in the water in Australia so we were hoping we would see some! We have also gone to a whole bunch of different beaches! Tessa had never been boogie boarding before and she did not really care to try it but we convinced her to go swimming and give it a try and she totally loved it!! She wants to do it all the time now haha! On Sunday we found a church and went and than afterwards we drove up to another place called Lahani where we did some shopping and walking around! We got to see this huge tree that coves 2/3 of an acre!! It is seriously crazy big! We climbed in it for a while and got some pretty funny pictures of us in it! After Tessa said she has discovered she really likes climbing tree's haha! We ate at a Bubba Gump shrimp restaurant for dinner! It was nice because it was right on the water and we got to watch the sun set. The best part of Sunday was we got to go to one of the jewelery stores and I got to open some oysters and got some pearls! They make you do this whole thing where you pick an oyster and you tap it three times with these tongs and then everyone there says with you ALOHA! Haha and then they open it for you! I got to open 3 oysters! I got a few of them made into jewelry! I got a necklace with my peacock colored pearl and I got some earring with my pink pearls I got! I was so excited! We have also went to a luau which was fun and the pina coladas were great. We also went on this day long drive called the road to Hana and we got to see a bunch of water falls and swim in their pools! We had to hike around sometimes and there were so many spiders everywhere. It was horrible!! I don't know how I did it but I made it and did not let it stop me from having fun! Yesterday we got up and went to watch the sunrise on top of the huge volcano here! We were up very early but it was so cool! The colours in the sky before the sun rises are amazing! We all came back to the condo and had a nap after though! And as for today well we just got back from snorkeling again!
We are having so much fun here! I have been collecting sand bottles from some of the beaches and so far i have gold sand, red sand, salt and pepper sand and total black sand! We only have 2 more days and then we have to come home! As much as I love it here I am excited
to come home! I miss my buddy haha! I know he is just a dog but I do love him a lot!
But that is all for now! I will upload some pictures of the trip as soon as I can!

My lastest CRAZY news!!

So the day of my appointment has come and gone. I was excited and a little nervous at the same time to go! What day you ask...it was the day I went for my appointment with Dr. Buckley in Calgary. He is a specialist on fractures that won't heal or fracture's that did not heal properly. If you all don't know I got in a bad quading accident when I was 11 where I broke my Femur at the very top and split it all the way down the middle of the bone to the knee. I was air lifted with Stars Air Ambulance to Calgary Children's Hospital and ended up having a 9 hour surgery on my leg. It was supposed to be all good from there and heal within 3 months but I was what they called a "delayed union" because my bone would not grow back and so I ended up being in a body cast for around 10 months. I am not going to lie, it really sucked. Anyways my bone did eventually heal but it healed shorter than my other leg. Because of that I have a permanent limp, I have a lot of knee problems, my pelvis and shoulder's are not aligned and my spine is twisted at the top and the bottom. As of the beginning of January I stared having really bad pains in my lower back. They just started one day and by the end of the next day I could hardly walk on my right leg without it killing me. I thought this was weird because the leg I broke was my left leg but all my pain was on my right side. Anyways I went to a clinic downtown after work that has a bunch of massage therapists and chiropractors to try and find some sort of help! I luckily was able to get a massage within the half hour and it was so painful but a relief sort of pain if you know what I mean. I also booked an appointment with a chiropractor for Monday. I always knew my spine was bent funny but I guess it looks like I have scoliosis! Anyways the whole weekend I was a mess. I could hardly move and I couldn't sleep the pain was so bad. My mom was away and Kyle was at work or something so I called my sister Mindy crying just because I needed someone to talk to. She made me feel a lot better by getting me to go on a video chat and talk with my nephew Logan! He always cheers me up! Anyways since than I have been going to the Chiropractor 2 times a week and I haven't been able to do any lifting or much bending. It has kinda sucked but it has gotten so much better. I only have to go once a week now. But throughout all of this it has made me very aware of my body and when it is hurting and where. But also while trying to deal with my issues we have noticed other possible problems to come if I do not take care of my body like going to the chiropractor regularly and doing my yoga which really helps! I guess because I am constantly on a slant from being shorter on one side than the other I have signs of my right hip deteriorating because it is always forced upwards pulling everything really tight which I guess is really bad. So at the my chiropractor we have been working on my range of motion with my right leg and ways of relieving my right leg. I have come to notice that I have more balance and control on my left leg than my right when I am doing yoga and also just with my flexibility and range of motion.
Anyways so about this appointment with this new doctor. It was on February 10th and everything went well. He looked at some X-rays and a cat scan and he said my leg is exactlly one inch shorter than the other! It was kinda cool because he had me doing this thing where I took my shoes off and he had me stand as he kept adding magazines under my left foot until it felt right. He than added one more magazine and I knew right away it was to much. He than took away some magazines and I knew right away it was not enough. So we measured the magazines to see how thick they were when I felt good and they were pretty close to an inch. It was really cool to be able to feel that instant difference! Anyways He said he strongly recommended me having a leg lenthening surgery. I knew if he was to do anything that would be the out come and before I went in I told myself, "If the doctor says he thinks I should do it I will follow his direction because he is the specialist." Well now it was real!! He said it was up to me but he said any type of a difference being an inch or more causes a huge stress of your body and all your joints. I already knew that because I can feel that everyday. He than told me what the surgery would consist of and this is what he said: We will have to make 3 incisions on the outside of your left leg, one up at your hip, one a couple inches above half of your femur and one right about the knee. He said they would go in the middle incision to cut my bone inhalf than they would put a large titaum rod down the center of my bone from the incision in my hip to hold the two pieces of bone in line with eachother, than they would pull the bottom half of my femur bone down the rod to be the length of my right femur bone, than they would bolt through my bone and into the rod up at my hip incision and one down at the incision right above my knee. These bolts would hold the rod in place and it would be permanent. My bone with naturally just grow and fill in the gap between the top and bottom of my femur but until than the rod would be my femur!!!
Sounds crazy hey! Yes it is major surgery! The nice thing is that he said I would not have to be casted because my leg will be completely stable from the rod on the inside! So I was totally nervous and kinda freaking out on the inside! It wasn't until a couple hours later that I totally broke down in tears! My mom and dad and sisters thought I should do it and so did Kyle but I was so scared. I think the reason I was so scared is that the doctor kept saying it was going to be totally fine and an easy recovery within 3 months but that is what they said to me with my accident years ago and my body did not do anything they said it would! It was a horrible experience and I was so nervous it was possibly going to be a horrible recovery again! Here I was having to make a decision to break my leg again! It was totally crazy to me while thinking back to the last time my leg was broken! But after a couple days to think and cry and talk about it I decided to atleast call and ask what days were available for surgery. There was only one in May until the fall and so in a panic I just went ahead and booked it. My family was all happy I did it but once again I broke down and cried! I am still not completely calm about it but I have come to the conclusion that if my husband and my mom are confident I should do this than I should trust them because they all love me and I know they would never tell me to do something like this if they thought it was a bad idea! I have decided it is either something now or later and I would rather do it now while I am young and don't have children to worry about.
So the day is May 10th! The doctor said I will have to stay in the hospital for atleast 3 days and than I will propably be able to come home! As for the rest I don't know yet. I just have to organize my life to get ready for it and wait!
So that is my lastest BIGGEST news :) haha!

Photo Catch up!

So I was feeling like I needed to do an update of pictures! I haven't shown any of my pictures over our Chirstmas holidays! So here they are....this is how we spent our holidays!!

Kyle and I with his parents on Christmas morning! This is a photo book we made for them of everybody pictures from our Church history tour we went on together this past summer!

My mom and her Grand Buddy :)

My parents and Jamie opening their Chirstmas presents. Tickets to Wicked the Broadway in May with kyle and I!!

My new Cricut machine from my mom! I did not even ask for this so it was completely unexpected!

My cousin Scotty and I! Friends for ever :)

For Christmas Kyle and I just did stockings for eachother and we decided to go on a ski trip to Nelson, BC for a couple days and go skiing! It was the best decision we made. It was nice to get away for a bit just the 2 of us and still have some Chirstmas holidays when we got back.

On the chair lift!

It is hard to tell but that is a huge rock/cliff that Kyle almost went over without even knowing it haha so I took his picture!

This tree reminded me oh Hoo Ville so I had to get a picture with it!

We had so much fun!

On our last day we wen to Ainsworth hot springs on the way home!

On the ferry!

Snowmobile day with out friends laurie, trevor and their kids!

This is laurie and I

Kyle and I with our new years hug at midnight :)

New years hug!

The girls at our new years party. We got kinda addicted to playing mario of the Wii haha!

And finally our Christmas tree! I almost didn't get a picture! I took this before I took it down...still looking good!!

It's been a while...

Well i just finished my first week back to work after Christmas holidays and I am going to be honest....I miss Christmas holidays haha! Don't get me wrong my job is great but I really enjoyed the freedom to do what I wanted in my day for a while...I bet it would get old after a while or I would just take is for granted and not be productive at all! Anyways of course my Christmas was good! I did a lot of baking with my mom and my mom came out and helped me decorate my chirstmas tree this year too!! Kyle likes the part of going and cutting down a christmas tree but the decorating part he could really care less about :) And thats ok because I know I would probably just end up moving the ornaments he would put on anyways haha! So Christmas eve we spent with Kyle's family and we actually slept at their house to because Heidi wanted us to and I am really glad we did! It was so fun to wake up early and be with more people than just Kyle and I! I like getting presents don't get me wrong but I also love watching people open things and watch their reaction! Sometimes that is just as fun as recieveing things yourself! Anyways later that day we went into my parents house and had Christmas dinner and exchanged gifts and such! Christmas is so much fun but the best part was my mom's cooking! There is just something about my mom's cooking that just hits the spot. Lots of people can cook the same things and I will enjoy them but my mom's cooking is always just the way I like it!! We ended up spending the night at my parents and Kyle and I went to Nelson on a ski trip the very next day! We were there for 4 nights, 3 days and it was so much fun! I am so glad we went!! The snow was great and it was a new hill for the both of us so it was exciting! We walked around Nelson everynight and did a little shopping but on our last day we went to Ainsworth hot springs and that was great! After working hard for the last couple days those hot pools felt really good! When we got home that was when reality hit in that it was almost time to go back to work :( Only one weekend left and it was back to the grind! Luckily we got Monday off as a holidays for New Year's so this week was only a 4 day week. I think a 5 day week back would have killed me haha! Anyways it is friday and I survived haha!