let's catch up.

It's been over a month now since I've blogged! Wow, how bad am I? And where has the time gone? Seriously. But let's catch you up on what's been going on since I last blogged. I know you're sitting there thinking, "oh my goodness she loves to ramble, we have to read a whole month's worth of ramblings??" haha. Don't worry, it won't be TOO overwhelming. :P
So anyways. Let's go back to April. We had a few snowfalls in April..yep, that's Colorado for you. And Lydia decided to do a small photo shoot of me in the snow. But the day we were going to do that it rained and washed away most of the snow...darn. But we still went out and took a few pictures while it was drizzling and pretty chilly. So I selected a couple of my favorites for you....

Could I look any shorter next to that lamppost?? hehe

My favorite one.

One weekend in April, my brother Tyra and his family came to visit us for a few days! That was quite fun! My nephew, Brayden was crawling and walking along tables and chairs and had gotten ever so adorable! I love that little guy. It's pretty fun having a little boy in the family. :) We of course played lots of pinochle and just had fun together. They left Wednesday and that Friday we drove to California to see my dear sister, Talia and her family! We were only there for the weekend, way too short of time. But oh was it ever lovely! Each moment was wonderful. And I got to meet my darling niece, Rosalie for the first time!! She is just the sweetest, cutest little thing ever. :) I loved her to pieces. And getting some much needed sister and Auntie time was delightful! I got sick that Sunday afternoon when everyone was over for lunch, which was totally lame and disappointing. But sweet Jason came and spent some time with me in bed, which made it better. And Ashlei brought me flowers! :)
We didn't take nearly as many pictures as we should have. And Talia needs to send me the ones of me with Rosalie(hint hint, sister!), but here are a few...

We had a lovely time chatting outside Starbucks.

Emma and I took pictures in the car. She's pretty cute!

We went to Vons and took a few there too!

And I realized I don't have one with Annabelle and me...how awful is that?? I do love both of them though! I hated having to say goodbye that Monday morning to them all...:( Let's hope our next time together isn't too far down the road!

More recently, like this Tuesday, was dear Lydia's 19th birthday! And as she pointed out to me, I'm a terrible sister and didn't blog about it. So shame on me... but for her birthday, Rebecca and I surprised her by taking her to Mimi's Cafe for breakfast!

The beautiful birthday girl!
They give you cake, even in the morning. It was delicious too. Yum!

sisters. <3 style="text-align: left;">And tomorrow is her birthday party, which I'm sure will be tons of fun! I can't wait to give her the presents we got. :)

And in other exciting news...in a couple weeks I'm going to...drum roll please....

SCOTLAND!!

That's right, my first trip off the continent and across the ocean. YAY! I'm going with one of my best friends, Liz and Christopher! Chris has a friend out there so we'll be staying with her and she can show us around. We'll be gone for about two weeks and we plan on seeing some castles, of course, and seeing the bay and who knows what else! I seriously CANNOT WAIT! This next week of work is going to go by so sloooowlyyy. I'll make it somehow. :)
But before I'm able to go I've got some packing to do. We've been trying to move and get our house sold for awhile now and it's finally coming along. The sale on our house closes the 9th of June and we have to be out by the 11th. Wow, not too far away. We're under contract on a house in Northglenn, which is about 25 minutes north of where we live currently. It'll be so nice living up here, being only 5 minutes from work and like 10 from the church. Woot! So we're busy busy busy. So my Memorial Day will be spent packing basically. W've done it several other times, so we're basically experts by now. haha.
And now it's back to work! Have a wonderful weekend, dear bloggers. I hope I didn't get too long and rambly. hehe.
<3<3>

photo tagged

So I was tagged by my dear sister, Talia.

These are the rules:
Take a picture of yourself right now.
No primping or preparing.
Just snap a picture.
Load the picture onto your blog.
Tag some people to play along.

When I first read I was tagged, I was going to take a picture, I swear I was, but I was at work and really had no way. So when I got home, I was able to take one. But I still didn't primp. I look the same way I looked all day basically. That's the good thing about working everyday, my hair and makeup are always done, so no worries about being caught without it. haha.

And now I'm going to tag

Rebecca

Sunny

Ashlei

Caitlyn

Let's see those beautiful faces, girls!

whatever on a wednesday

So, how cute is my new layout?! And SO me! Polka dots and cherries...me all the way! I'm kinda in love with it. haha. So thank you Susan for the great link! :)
I'm just working away here at the office. I had my first CAR today, which is a Chiropractic Assistant's Report. Basically just go over office policies and payment plans and such. So that was good.
And I'm so so excited! My bestie, Hannah, asked me to be her maid of honor yesterday so I'm super happy! It's going to be wonderful! :)
And tomorrow it looks like we might get a snow day from work!! They're predicting like 18 inches especially on the I-25 route we take, so that could be cool! We so desperately need snow! And a day off..won't say no to that. hehe.
Anyways short random post, but happy Wednesday people! <3

another one of those catch up posts

I figure it's probably about time for another 'this is what I've been up to" post right? Yeah, probably.
So let's see. What have I been up to? Last weekend I spend a whole bunch of time with Rebecca which was super amounts of fun! She spend the night on Friday and then we had to get up at 5:30 to head to this wellness fair deal with my mom. And let me tell you, that is entirely too early for me. Especially on a Saturday. Sigh. Oh well. At the fair/expo they had these two mascots who cracked me up. They kept coming up and rubbing my head and hugging me and shoving...almost to the point of being annoying, but whatever. lol. So after that Rebecca and I headed down to Castle Rock and went to Applebees where I got ribs, so very tasty and messy. But there's the fun right? :) And then we went to Sonic and got slushies and to the grocery store for lots of candy to sneak into the theater. hehe. We saw Confessions of a Shopaholic! Such a fun girly movie. I loved it. :) So then we headed back to her house where we hung out with Chris and Elizabeth playing games and watching movies and such. I spent the night there and then went to church with them. So that was my weekend last week.
Last week was spent mostly at work. It's been busier with Lydia gone, but kind of fun in a way. I enjoy front desk work. Answering the phone, scheduling, interacting with all the patients. It's kind of neat. But I'll be happy when she's back too, I'm sure. :)
Saturday, Chris and I went for a bike ride, since it had been quite awhile since we had. It ended up being pretty windy most of the way and we rode against the wind, so it was pretty tiring. But we still rode about 13 miles I think we figured it out to be. The ride back though was so much nicer since the wind basically pushed us. But that tired me out. And my butt is kinda sore from sitting on the seat for that long. lol. So it goes. It was fun though!
My dad's been in Canada since Thursday, so our family is pretty small right now. Just the three of us. It's kinda weird actually. haha. But he gets back today, so that'll be good.
Yesterday afternoon Josiah and I spent most of our time watching tv and playing wii. We found this show called My Big Redneck Wedding and oh my goodness, the things these couples do at their weddings are so just wow. Kinda gross, weird, and just plain completely hick. I mean an armadillo cake and a wild donkey chase? Or a boxing ring and mudpit at the reception? Yep, people are crazy. Lol. It was entertaining, honestly. Might make me kinda lame and white trash but whatever. :P And I totally kicked his butt at most of the wii. Like tennis, yeah I'm awesome. hehe. Fun times.
I talked to Chris on the phone last night for like 2 1/2 hours until my phone started buzzing telling me my battery was dying. I really like his voice being the last one I hear before falling asleep. :) He's sweet.
And now I should probably get back to work. Have a wonderful Monday all!

beautiful baby girl

Yay, I have an adorable new niece! From all the pictures I've seen she's just absolutely gorgeous and perfect. I SO can't wait to meet her and hold her and just love on my new little niece! *sigh* I'm pretty envious of Lydia right now...
How I love her already! What a blessing.
Congratulations to Talia and Jeremy and sweet Emma and Annabelle!
I love them all!
xoxoxo

Yeah, it's finally me again

So I've been THE worst blogger lately, my apologies. So let's see what I've been up to in the last few weeks. The last weekend in February we drove down to Phoenix for a Chiropractic seminar. 13 hours in the car between Lydia and Josiah gets a little bit tiring after a while. haha. But they had beautiful weather down there! So Sunday afternoon when we had nothing else to do, Lydia, my mom, and I sat by the pool at the hotel reading and writing. We obviously needed the sun...Lol.

Check out those white legs.....oh my. lol

Last Thursday, some good friends of ours from South Dakota were here so we hung out with them for awhile, which was super fun! They're really quite the wonderful, sweet girls! We were incredibly silly all together and I'm sure many people thought we were ridiculous. Oh well. It was fun getting to spend just some good quality girl time without the boys. I love these girls.

We had lunch at Red Robin! Yum! Very intent on those menus...


The lovely Jenna and myself

Dearest Liz and I

Chris had been sick for a little while last week, so I hadn't seen him for 10 days! But he's feeling much better, so I got to see him last night again! Yay for that! :) I had missed him and his hugs. Because really after being at work all day, I missed coming back to my house and getting to see him and sit next to him while watching American Idol and other tv.

As you know, Lydia is leaving for California today! So while she's gone, I'm the front desk receptionist here at the office. So I'll have extra duties. Busy busy. But it'll be rather weird with her gone I think. We've never been apart for more than a day I think. We're practically inseperable twins. haha. This may be good for us. No, but I'll probably miss her. And let's be honest here, I am jealous of her. Getting to spend two weeks with our lovely sister, Talia and the nieces and especially once the new little one gets here! Sigh. I told Chris and Rebecca that I will have to be spending extra time with them so I don't go crazy.

And that's basically it. Just working everyday, which can have its interesting days and it's good days and its boring days. And this weekend, Rebecca will be spending the night and then we've got a wellness expo to go to Saturday.

And now I have stuff to do, so have a great Thursday!

valentine's day

Okay, so I may be a little delayed on this post but I just uploaded the pictures this morning(procrastinate much, Jerusha?? lol). So my Valentine's Day was lovely in every way this year! I woke up to do some cleaning before Chris came over and then I put on my Valentiney outfit, including my heart cardigan(people say you shouldn't wear hearts on Valentine's Day because it's as tacky as wearing Christmas sweaters, but I'm like whatever. I like being tacky. Plus it's cute! =]). Chris came over and surprised me with a dozen red roses!! Gorgeous. My first roses too, so even more special. :)

cell phone pic....but still beautiful!

We hadn't decided what we really wanted to do that day. If we wanted to just hang out at my house or go on a date, since it's basically the only day we're really allowed to. So we just hung out for a little while playing pool and watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on tv. Then Chris suggested we go to the Downtown Aquarium since he had been forever and thought it was pretty cool. The restaurant was of course already full, but we decided we might as well go the cheaper route for food, so we decided on Good Times on 16th Street Mall. So we went on a date! Super fun too!! And I have pictures! =]

I loved the neon purple fish. =]

Anemones are so strangely cool.

I've always had a thing for jellyfish...

Touching the rays.

Silly gift store visors. =)

My good pal Sharky! What an original name too. haha.

How adorable is he? :) <3

Delicious cherry custard with cherry-filled heart shaped chocolates! YUM!

Eating the tasty custard at Good Times!

And there you have it! Love my boyfriend and fun dates.