Baby Kallen

Today Benton and I went up to Primary Children's and visited Kallen in the ICU. He is doing really well from the surgery and will end up staying at the hospital for 3-5 more days. We were relieved knowing that everything went smoothly. We are still thinking about him during his recovery, we love you baby Kallen.

Visit with the Fitzpatrick's

This past weekend we found out our new nephew Kallen has a rare heart disorder. Only 1 out of 450,000 people have this disorder. Benton's sister Rachelle and her family live in Montana and had to fly Kallen out to go to Primary Children's. So, on Saturday we went and visited them at the hospital, it was such a nice visit. Benton and I stayed and talked with Rachelle, she is such a strong person, I have a lot of respect for her and what she thinks. Here's Benton and Kallen for the first time...

After visiting with Rachelle and Kallen, we met up with the rest of Benton's family and played games and ate pizza. I love getting together with his family, they are a lot of fun to hang out with and it's fun to even just watch his niece's and nephews. We got a picture of all of the kids on Benton's mom's side, with the exception of Kallen, here's all the crazy kids....

Today we ate yummy soup and rolls at Benton's moms house and then all drove down to visit Rachelle and Kallen. It's so fun having the family all together, I just wish the circumstances were different. Kallen is having surgery tomorrow morning at 7:30. We are all thinking positively about his surgery and are praying for him. He'll be at Primary Children's for the next 2 weeks, so our thoughts go out to him.

Happy Halloween!!!

I love Halloween, it's such a fun holiday. I think everyone's imaginations and creativity really comes out. At work we all dress up and I dressed up as Medusa. Here are some pictures of my coworkers and I...
(Jill Downs, Kimberli Green, me and Cortney Jones)

(Megan Eggleston and me)

(Cortney Jones, me, Kimberli Green and Monica Sparks)


I hope you all had a happy Halloween!

I've been spooked!!!

Today at work I was spooked, which means someone "spooks" your desk in Halloween decorations. It was really fun and festive. They gave me healthy snacks, since I'm still not eating candy, which was very thoughtful. I got grapes and granola (YUMMY!!!), flowers, and a bunch of little Halloween decorations. It's fun to be surprised at work, I love looking at my desk-here's some pictures....

I learned a lesson the hard way!!!

Today I decided to make this chili Benton has asked me to make for about a year...so I thought I should be a good wife and make it for him. So earlier we went to the store and got the ingredients, and about an hour and a half ago I started cooking it. Well I chopped up 2 Jalapenos without any gloves...and the side affect of that is like being tortured. I would compare my pain to getting my flat iron and burning my hands with it. I looked online for an aid to help my pain go away because taking a shower was like torture...the hot water made it worse. So it said to put sour cream on them which didn't work, I then tried lime juice, vegetable oil and finally bleach. I just tried Neosporin and that's helped the most. My mom said the remedy is to give it time to go away and next time to wear gloves...I definitely will buy some gloves the next time I go to the store! So this is a warning to those of you who have yet to cut up a jalapeno, WEAR GLOVES!!!

Visiting with Family

Tonight we went over to my mother in law's to pick up Roxy, since she babysat her during my friends shower. We visited with my in-laws and then Kattie, Jasson and Cowen came over as well. We ate pizza and hung out. Kattie fed Cowen and he is just the cuttest little guy. He looks just like Kattie. I wish they lived closer, they live in Orem-which isn't really far away but it's hard getting together with an hour drive between us.
Here is Cowen eating his dinner...

He has the cuttest smile, it's a good thing his mother is taking this picture so she could make him laugh.

Here is Uncle Benton and Cowen watching football...

Baby Shower for Megs!

My good friend Megan is 6 months pregnant with a girl, she's naming her Ellie. Two of Megan's friends and I threw her a baby shower. It was really fun visiting with Megan, her sister and friends. I'm so happy for Megan and her husband Darek. We've been friends for a little over 7 1/2 years. We met at work (America First) and have always stayed good friends ever since. I know how happy they are and I know they'll both be really good parents! Congratulations Megs!

Here is Me, Megan and Liz

4 Things

Tag your it!

4 Things I love about my spouse
1. How much he loves me.
2. He is such a hard worker.
3. How handsome he is.
4. He knows how to have fun, even if it's singing in the car at the top of our lungs!

4 Movies I would watch more than once
1. The Father of the Bride
2. A lot like love
3. The Family Man
4. Just Married

4 TV Shows I watch
1. Grey's Anatomy
2. The Office
3. Brothers & Sisters
4. Desperate Housewives

4 Places I've been
1. Oahu, Hawaii
2. Orlando, Florida
3. Bella Vista, Arkansas
4. Canada

4 Places I'd like to go
1. Mexico
2. California
3. New York
4. Back to Chicago, Illinois

4 People who email me regularly
1. My mom
2. My sister Karly
3. Stephanie
4. New York and Company

4 Things I like to eat
1. Turkey Sandwiches
2. Chips and Salsa
3. Granola
4. Smoothies

4 Things I would like to have if I were stranded on an island
1. Benton
2. Roxy
3. Water
4. Lighter

4 Things I am looking forward to in the coming year (next few months and into 2009)
1. Karly, Nick and Jack flying out for Christmas
2. Spending as much time with Benton as I can
3. Sitting by the fireplace while it snows
4. Loosing more weight

4 People I tag
1. Karly and Nick Hodge
2. Chelsie and Taylor Hansen
3. Stephanie Rodarte
4. Yvonne Freeman

Winter already???

What happened to fall? I woke up this morning to take Roxy outside and it was a winter wonderland outside. It was really funny watching what Roxy would do. The snow was as tall as she was.

She's so unsure of the snow. Roxy is very high maintence, and so of course she couldn't figure out how to climb up the stairs with all the snow. She didn't want to get her feet wet.

Girls weekend!

On Thursday night my mom drove up from St. George to spend the weekend up here. I met her at my sisters house to go to La Caille for dinner. My manager and co-worker went to a conference all Thursday and as a thank you they had dinner for everyone at La Caille. They had previous engagements so my manager asked if I would go in their place....who would say no to that? I had never been there before and it was breath taking. It's so hard to describe the beauty, I guess I would compare it to a fairyland. The grounds are so beautiful, here are some of our pictures.



Dinner was fabulous, we had steak, veggies, salad, rolls and much more. The desserts looked delicious, but I'm still on my no sweets diet, so none for me. We met a lot of friendly people, who mostly lived outside of Utah. It was a really fun night that I was able to spend with my mom.

On Friday my mom, Chelsie, Spencer and I hung out all day. We went shopping, ate out for lunch and then we decided to sleep over at Chelsie's house in Sandy since we were all going to be together on Saturday anyway. Here is us in our PJ's finally relaxing after running around all day.


Then on Saturday we had a birthday party for Spencer who turned 1 years old!!! Happy Birthday baby love. He is just the funniest little guy. I love cuddling with him. It's really nice now that he knows me, he will actually reach out so I can hold him. Here's some pictures at his birthday party.



Here is Spencer opening his presents...


And eating his cake...


What a fun weekend with the family!