Lots to look forward too

Ben and I are coming upon our "busy season". We have so many fun things in the next 4 months.

This year we are starting it off with some white water rafting at the green river with my Mom, Brothers, and our family friends, the Higleys.

When we return I will be busy with bridal showers and bachelorette parties for Brynn's wedding. Starting out October is the wedding itself, then Ben and I pack our bags again and head out for the open road, heading east, to see the Gotsch Family and some old friends. While we are gone we will also celebrate our 1st Anniversary!!!

Dressing up form my 2nd favorite holiday, Halloween, comes next!!

Ben turns 29!

Following that my favorite meal of the year, Thanksgiving shadowed by a day of intense shopping and laughter!

Finally my birthday rolls around with my first twin digits, 22!

Then We all LOVE christmas.

Last we celebrate the end of our spectacular year with New Years Eve.

So as you can tell we are into the "Busy Season" It will be so much fun, and I'm sure I'll update with pictures and details of all the many things to come!

What a Week.

This week has just been insane! Work has been crazy, home has been crazy and now I think I'm going crazy!

Ben had the week off work because of some bad planning on our part, so he spent 5 days deep cleaning our house! Which is so great and the office is starting to actually look like an office which is wonderful! Before it looked like a junk room, full of spare beds, a huge desk, and a ton of rubber maids. We got rid of the Bed and have started a complete de-junking and re-organization of that room. It's funny anytime you deep clean it seems to get messier before it gets cleaner, so its nice to be on the cleaner side of the mountain that was the spare room!

While Ben has been home cleaning I've been out working! I put in a lot of work this week and last, I taught an Event Planning Class, which included planning graduation, the kids really seemed to enjoy it, probably more then me since they were the ones leaving and I was the one running around like a chicken with my head cut off. It turned out nice, and everyone seemed to have a good time. The best part is, its over!

I've been having these dizzy, faint spells for about a month (and no I'm not pregnant) so I went to the doctor to see if he could help me figure out what it could be. The Doctor sent me to get a CT scan to check for blood cots, which I'm glad they didn't find but his nurse called me in for an appointment monday morning, and it turns out they found something else in the scan completely unrelated. Well because I don't 100% understand what's going on, I'm not going to share to much detail on my blog but I will say I do have to have all sorts of tests and go to specialists and its stressing me out, and frankly I'm freaked out. The Doctor says its probably all caused from my birth control, so now I'm off the pill and waiting to go see more doctors. So please keep us in your prayers life has just took us down a new path, so I guess we'll hang on for the ride.

On a good note we decided to take a road trip to see all the new babies (Congrats Merrill and Briahna, also Welcome to our Grand Nephew Jason) and old friends and family in the midwest. We'll be going over our Anniversary, I'm excited to see some places I've never seen and be somewhere I've never been, there is such a thrill in that.

Next week should be another "fun" filled week! I have meetings monday, giving my Mom some curb appeal Tuesday along with a a baby photo shoot, The rest of Brynn and Carlos' Engagements and an adventure filled day in provo on Wednesday, back to curb appeal Thursday and Friday and maybe a day off on Sat (? doubt it). Life would be boring if it wasn't busy.

Family!

If I had to name one thing inmy life that means more to me then anything else in the whole world I would have to say my Family.

My Mom always says "Family is deeper then Blood." I would like to talk about all the great Family I have in my life.

My husband.

The day my Husband came into my life was a day that would forever make me a better person, As we grew closer I knew I needed his sense of humor, ambition, love for baseball, and excitement for life with me for eternity.

My Mom.

My mom is very special to me, I've wrote full post about her and the great roll she has played in my life, I love her dearly.

My Brothers.

I have 4 this last weekend I got to spend time with all four of them. I usually only get to be around Michael and Brue but I appreciate the love Dalton and Dakota have for me and the fact that each time I see them they give me a hug and tell me "Love Ya, sis."

Michael is my "Protector" The only person allowed to be mean is him. (typical brother.)

Brue is the baby, even though he's not my youngest brother growing up he was the youngest in our home, and he holds a special place in each of our hearts because of the challenges he has had in his life.

My Grandparents.

If I could sum all my grandparents into 1 great thing each of them do for me it's love me unconditionally, hands down my greatest support team.

My extended family.

I got to spend a few days with the Vario family this past week and I love hearing stories and seeing resemblance's and personality traits that have been passed down, from generation to generation. Each of my extended family offer a good laugh, and continued tradition of love.

My Best Friends.

Brynn- I'm grateful for her encouragement, her love and her support through my life decisions. She gives me strength everyday knowing the effect her body has on her and the fact that she doesn't allow what she has define who she is. I'm proud of her and so grateful she is my "Sister"!

Whitney- She is my Twin... Always and forever, time can take us different ways but somehow when we see each other again its like we've talked to each other everyday since the day we met. She encourages me to be brave and to simply HAVE FUN! There have been times in my life I'm not sure I could have gone through without her.

Daniel- He is the goofiest person I know, He always is doing something, he is an excellent listener and an even better talker, I always enjoy my conversations with him!

Taft- You all know taft from past posts. He was always there when I had no one else, when I needed someone to tell me it was ok he did, and when I needed someone to be honest and tell me I was messing up he did that too!

My "Siblings".

I know I've talked about My Brothers but I need to add my Siblings.

I grew up with Brynn (ME) Dallin, Michael, Emily, Brue and Carley 7 of us in all, our houses might as well been connected walking in and out of each others houses without knocking , falling asleep on each others couches and spending the night, cleaning each others bedrooms, playing games, eating dinner, going shopping the only thing that keeps us different is our genetics and the more time we spend together the more alike we look! We are there for each other through thick and thin!

My Aunts and Uncles.

I have so many Aunts and Uncles, I have Kaed and Adrianna, Mary and Jerry, Don and Treasa, Bucky, Andy, Karen and Larry, Krista and Jason, Fran and Eric, Nancy, Peggy... I am so grateful for them all especially those who choose to be my family and love me like my aunt and uncles because they always have and always will!

My In-Laws-

I'm grateful for the welcoming hearts they have had adding me to there family! I love all of my adorable nieces and nephews, and wish I got to see more of them!

I am so grateful for my FAMILY each and every one of them (and there's alot) have playeda very important role in my life! I love them all and am so thankful I have them!

Its what fun is!

Yesterday Ben, My Mom, Rosie, Tanner, Jenika, Allie, Anika, Kira, Ty, Emily, Carley, Micheal, Brue and I went to Lagoon. We had a blast riding the roller coasters, eating hot-dogs, getting soaked on Rattle Snake Rapids, and doing everything that is so great about Lagoon. On the way into Lagoon the girl at the front gate says "Welcome to LAgoon" and Ben belts out "Its what fun is!" It made me laugh, and we moved on. Today I was driving home from Park City thinking about Ben announcing that Lagoon is what fun is and i started thinking of all the things that if I wrote the definition of fun would be included, so I came up with Felicity's 20 Idea's of What fun is:

20. Playing Card games with my Family.

19. Track Meets

18. Watching Movies at home with Ben and Eating Junk Food

17. Buying Presents

16. Going to the Zoo with my Mom and Little Kids

15. Getting Pedicures

14. Shopping

13. Flying in an Airplane

12. Decorating my House

11. Camping

10. Playing with or walking Harley

9. Eating at noodles with my Best Friends

8. Riding Motorcycles/Four Wheelers (Dirt Biking)

7. Road trips with Ben

6. Shopping

5. Watching a Baseball game with Ben at the ballpark

4. Sitting around the fire with my closest friends roasting marshmallows

3. Taking Pictures of Happy People

2. Playing at Lake/Boating/Rafting/Swimming/Jet Skiing

1. Being in a new city

Not all the fun things in the world but most definitely my favorite 20 things to do!

Exercising and Loving IT!!!!

Well the title basically describes the whole post, Ben and I have made our time together as active time, we go for walks, runs, hikes, and spend the day learning and doing more workouts! It is a lot of fun! We've even started seeing results! I'll keep you all updated on the great activities we do!

To My Friend

I was thinking of you today, I cried.

There was a day that you were the only person who I told my secrets to, you were the only person who could get me to stop and think about what I really wanted for myself. I remember the funny little crush I had and the Serious Heartbreak I felt that summer. I can't listen to Jimmy Eat world the Middle because I cry each and every time I remember driving with you and Whitney.

I wish you were at my wedding to dance the electric slide with me.

Every time your little brother talks I automatically recall your voice.

I smile because you were a jokester I laugh at the times we blew things up, the days we played red rover and the truffle shuffle. I miss the "Three Amigos" hanging out like we were the coolest people in the world.

I miss you getting mad at me but I regret every fight we ever had. Thank you for letting me scream out all my problems to you and thank you for trusting me with yours. You are my friend, I wish I could go give you a big hug, I wish I could pause every laugh that we every shared and put them in a jar so now the days that I miss you I could open up that Jar, and laugh with you again. Instead I cry.

I know that today isn't a day I should miss you, or a day that other people are probably missing you, but I do. I miss you all the time. I love you and can't wait til You, Dallin, Daniel, Whitney, Logan and I can laugh at campfire again can look at all the mistakes we made in our lives and how having good friends like each other made all the difference.

I hope you look in on me every once in awhile. I hope you are teaching my family about me, and teaching them how to be a good friend like you.

Sometimes I feel like you are just in another state and one day I'll see you when I'm passing through, I wish this was true. I know there is a reason for everything that happens and I know that God needs you more then any of us down here. But please keep being our Guardian Angel.

Summer Rain

Okay, Okay so its not summer yet, but I was at my Mom's house today for my Little Brothers 20th Birthday Party ( I know he is getting old!) anyway as we sat there and enjoyed the conversation of family and friends the heat broke and it began to rain! It made me think of one of my favorite childhood activities sitting on the porch in a raining thunderstorm, usually with a glass of hot chocolate wrapped in a warm blanket- today I ditched the hot chocolate and blanket because it was to hot outside but sitting on the front porch relaxing blogging and enjoying the smell of country rain was the perfect end of a beautiful sabbath day!