::Playoff's::

Last Friday night my aunt called with two tickets to her company suite for the Jazz vs. Nuggets playoff game. It was such a fun night and an awesome game! Jeremy and I had such a great time hanging out with my aunt and uncle. We started our night at Spencer's Steak House and it was AMAZING!!!! Thanks aunt Kimm and uncle Brett for giving us a great night right before we have to put a stop on all our spending and live off of student loans for 2 years!

::Baseball::

Baseball season has officially begun for 2010 and we love it! We all get pretty depressed when we have rainout games, which unfortunately for this season has been all but 2 games! Oh well that just means baseball goes longer right! Go Mariners!!!

::Easter 2010::

Yes, I know I am late with this post but I just barely uploaded all my pics to the computer!

So, Easter was a fun time! We had B and Kira this year and had a blast with them both. The Easter bunny sure did spoil these two kiddos. When we got home Easter night I was putting ALL their stuff away and discovered they got 8 Easter baskets each ... ARE YOU KIDDING ME ... 8 BASKETS???? They sure did have a great time tho!

We started off our Easter celebration by coloring Easter eggs. I bought each of them a dozen eggs and their own color kit and they had such a good time and loved it so much that I went out and bought them each another dozen and another color kit. So yes we had 4 dozen eggs at our house, but they sure did have a great time and made some great lookin eggs!

Easter Sunday they spent the morning with their mom and we picked them up about noonish to go to both Great-Grandma's and to Grandma Lou's and Grandpa Doug's. They had such a blast doing the egg hunt, although they were both very slow at finding eggs they still had a great time. Kira found the huge Golden egg at the Rodda side party and was lovin that thing, it was huge and it took her like 10 minutes to pick it up! Also at the Rodda party we had a pinata and both kids really seemed to like hitting that and grabbing the candy.

We finished our evening at my parents and they kids found 20 plastic eggs filled with money. I think they both left there with a basket of goodies plus 20+ dollars, can you say spoiled! Oh well they loved it and Grandpa Doug and Grandma Lou love spoiling them!

Here are just a few pics of our day!

::The Best Day EVER::

Well, some of you may know that I applied to Graduate School this year for Speech Pathology and back in March I got my rejection letters (yes 7 in all :() and was depressed for days. This year I decided I needed to meet with whoever was in charge of the program at the University of Utah and figure out exactly what I needed to do to be able to get accepted for next year (2011). I was pretty much a pest until the guy finally e-mailed me back and we scheduled a meeting which took place on Thursday April 15, 2010.

I went in to this meeting with one thought and zero expectations ... I thought to myself: What if he tells me I have to retake my whole first Bachelor degree, then what would I do? Because let me tell you that just didn't seem reasonable to me but it was a possibility that he might suggest so I had to be prepared.

The meeting started out ok he just asked me some questions and of course my degree in Sociology loomed its ugly head. I didn't hide behind anything I told him how it was and that at that point in my life I wasn't 100% sure college was for me but my parents wanted me to have the degree, I then informed him (with big alligator tears in my eyes!) that I have changed and Speech is what I want to do and I need to know how I can do that. (If you don't know I can't work as a Speech Pathologist without a Master's degree so this is an issue!)

Well, much to my surprise we talked a little more about why speech, what I have been doing this past year, and how I plan to do in Graduate school .. this man (My Savior as I now refer to him!) looked me in the eye and said ........

"I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU START OUR PROGRAM FALL 2010!!!!!!"

UH ... WHAT??? I just sat there and stared at him and he finally said "Are you going to say anything?" I looked at him and said the only thing that was on my mind at that particular moment "I just need to know what classes to retake to get in next year." Uh hello Cherise, he has just accepted you and this is what you say, what are you a moron???

When I finally recovered from the shock of it all, I mean who has the power to do that?? He proceeded to explain to me that he knows I can do this, that on paper in front of a committee with 170+ applicants I don't make the cut but my diligence (fancy word for pest) and my commitment shows him that I can make this work. So needless to say April 15, 2010 will be a day in my world that I remember forever, this was a day that someone finally took a chance on me and had faith that I could this! There are many many many people that thought that all along but after 7 rejections one tends to get a little down on themselves!

I start school again on August 23, 2010 and work for 1 year and 9 months to complete my Master's of Science in Communication, Science, and Disorders and I couldn't be more excited, overwhelmed, nervous, anxious and everything inbetween! This has been a roller coaster of 3 months of applications, tons and tons of money, lots of heart ache and in the end all it took was one man to have the faith in me and here we are ... going back to school, racking up student loans, and starting a brand new adventure in our lives! I can't wait and I promise to keep you all posted (if I ever have time to blog again!)


(Here is my acceptance letter!!!)

::Summer Job???::

So school will be getting out in June and I need a summer job from June 14-August 14. Does anyone know of such a thing or of a person looking for some help. I will do anything (within reason!!!) but I need it to be days ... HELP if you can!

::Catching a Leprechaun .. Harder than it Looks::

Well, Bryson came home from school on Friday so excited about the days events he just couldn't wait to share them with me. He started telling me about how the 3rd graders got to build Leprechaun traps and they were so cool and he was going to build one and try to catch a Leprechaun. So he spent all of Saturday morning finding things around the house to construct his Leprechaun trap ... Here is the trap before Lucky got to it ... ...he spent more time Sunday perfecting the trap and adding little notes to "trick" the Leprechaun's. They said things like: "This is my gold" "No Leprechaun's allowed" "Stay off my box" things like that. They were so cute and so well thought out. He made us buy the gold chocolate coins to use as "bait" for them. He set the trap up every night hoping to catch a sneaky Leprechaun but had no success the first couple of nights. I told him they are very careful not to come out until St. Patrick's eve and not to get discouraged.

We woke up Wednesday morning and everything seemed normal until we got down stairs ... We saw all of Bryson's carefully thought out and placed post it notes all over the living room floor and the trap had been disturbed. and after Lucky came for a visit!! Bryson was so excited .. we listened very carefully but couldn't hear any Leprechaun noise coming from the trap so we carefully took it apart and Bryson found a special note to him "You will never catch me!" instead of the Leprechaun we found a small surprise for Bryson and Kira. Lucky the Leprechaun had left them each and small bowl of candy with some silly string to play with. Bryson was disappointed at first that he didn't catch the Leprechaun but he quickly got over it and had a great St. Patrick's day. He even got to go to the Jazz game that night and celebrate a great win with the Jazz!

I hope everyone else had a fun and eventful St. Patrick's day.

Until next year Lucky Leprechaun ... we will catch you!!!

::Catch Up::

Well, it's been a long while since I have updated! I didn't realize it has been a long time until B told me "Julie showed me your blog today and you haven't put anything on there in a really long time!" Ok B here I am updating about nothing!

Since my last post we haven't really done to much. B and his sister Kira are basically living with us right now while their mommy goes to school! Our schedule changes with them every 4 weeks some times we have them 2 nights a week and sometimes we have them 4 nights a week! That picture is of Kira sitting on B's head and farting on him because he was "being mean" in her 3 year old world! They are great together and they have so much fun together. They also crack us up on a regular basis! For now this is our life and these are our "kids" and we are so happy to be there for them and their mom right now!

Jeremy and I did a couple mini vaca's in February and they were so much fun! We celebrated a favorite aunts 50th birthday with 30+ family memebers in Reno, NV.(Aunts Kimm, Tami, Cindey, Cousin Erinn, Mom, Aunt Debbie, Cousin Kiera, me, and Favorite aunt Toni)

We got home from Reno and two weeks later heading to fabulous Las Vegas, NV for the coveted Nascar! Yes we are hillbilly and love Nascar! I hate watching it on TV but actually going out there is such an adventure you see the greatest people ever that you would normally never see out in public looking the way they do at Nascar.(Yes this is Kim Kardashian at the Nascar race!)(This is one of the peeps I was talking about earlier that you would (hopefully) never see like this anywhere else!)

Now, Jeremy is in California for a work training and it is so weird to be here without him I know now that I could never be a "traveling husband" wife I am not made for that at all! I can't believe that it is already March and that my b-day and WTW will be there within the month! We aren't doing anything exciting in our lives right now and don't really have anything that we are looking forward to! Sorry this is so boring but it's B's fault I knew I had nothing to update so there ya go!