Mothers Day Gifts

MY ROOM!

In the 4 and half years we've been married, I've never finished our master bedroom decor. It seems like that is always the last room to be decorated. These pics aren't that great, but this is the CUSTOM bedding my Mom's best friend Kris Nance is making for us! She is an amazing seamstress!

I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE SHAMS, CURTAINS, AND PILLOWS TO BE DONE!

Next week... WE PAINT!! YEAH! More pics to come!

Update

Here's a little bit of an update....

The last couple of months have been busy. I started working full time on my Trauma Floor at Scottsdale Osborn Hospital, and well lets just say I don't LOVE it but I don't HATE it. ITS JUST HARD. I guess its just different than I thought it would be, and it seems as if I cant get out of work on time if my life depended on it!

Chelsi got Married at the end of February, and it was AMAZING! She was a beautiful bride and we are so excited to have Chris be apart of our family. But I can say, that I am SO HAPPY its over. It turned out better than I ever thought possible, but it was a lot of work!

On Easter Sunday we got to see my Grandpa Gardner's Headstone. It was a very relaxing and quiet General Conference Sunday.

When Damon's Grandpa Stratton past way last year, I grabbed a bunch of flowers and ribbon that had this wording on it. I made a Shadow box for Grandma Stratton. There's 13 flowers in it, one for all 11 children, and for Grandma and Grandpa. Miss him MUCHO. (Grandpa used to always say, "Love you MUCHO".

Yesterday I was supposed to being having a procedure done to find out if my Fallopian tube is healed from my Tubule pregnancy. Well the lady that scheduled my appointment was an IDIOT and told me the wrong parameters for the test to be performed. You are supposed to be 7-10 days from the first day of your period, and the scheduling lady told me 14-16 days so the Radiologist wouln'td do the procedure. SO HOPEFULLY I will be having the procedure in 3 weeks. Ill try and keep you updated!

Sorry I suck at updating!

PhotoShop

I've been getting more and more into Photography lately. I LOVE IT! Its not stressful like everything else in life!

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What a difference it makes!! I SERIOUSLY LOVE IT!

HOPE

I've been avoiding blogging about a pretty major and crazy day from back in December. Until Yesterday, I dont think I was totally and completely at peace with what had happened.

So, Yesterday Damon and I went out to Dinner and a Movie with 3 other couples for Valentines Day. One of the couples I didn't know, and as the night progressed we got to know each other and this event from December came up. Come to find out that I had heard about this couples story a couple of years ago.

BASICALLY, she is the co-founder of the Non-Profit Organinzation "Lanee's Legacy". ( I have a blog buttom on my sidebar, go check out their blog). Their Organization is for mom's who lose their babies. Rayel and her partners have all lost children. Rayel lost her Son Garrett, at three DAYS old.

Their Organization helps Mom's who deliever their babies and then basically dont get to take their baby home with them. Lanees Legacy provides Baby Boxes for mom's to take home with them after their discharge from the hospital. The boxes contain all sorts of sweet rememberence items, and it provides the mom's with a place to bring blankets, hats, and whatever sweet thing their baby came in contact with home with them.

Rayel, was SO wonderful. She told me about her organization and how when they experienced their loss of their child, that all she could hang onto was HOPE. In the boxes they give to these moms, it usually has a necklace like this one:

Rayel was so sweet and brought me a necklace to remind me their is HOPE.

Now my story is not even compariable to these women and lossing a child. I can't imagine the pain of that experience. But I have experienced 2 miscarriages, and on Decemeber 1, 2009 I experienced the worst pain I have EVER had in my life when I found out I had an Ectopic or Tubel pregnancy.

That day was SO scary for me. I had been in pain all night long and ended up going in for an Ultrasound that next day for them to tell me that I was about 7 weeks pregnant and that it was implanted into my right fallopian tube. Within 3 hours I was IN surgery to have it removed, and LUCKY for me they didnt have to remove my tube! Needless to say, the next two weeks were hard, and I was back in the ER after vomiting for 12 hours straight because of the anestetic, which left me severly dehydrated.

SO it wasn't fun at all. Miscarriages are not fun. Emergency Surgery is NOT fun. There for trying to get pregnant and have a family of our own was becoming NOT FUN.

Until I talked with Rayel I had hid my emotions and didn't say much about how I was really feeling. I was SAD, angry, confused, and really hadn't had much HOPE about getting pregnant and being able to STAY pregnant. Rayel was so great. Even though I didn't experience anything close to her experience, she made me feel SO much better about our situation, and my hardship with these 3 pregnancies. I have been feeling so down about being a mom. Because I want it SO badly. Rayel gave me my HOPE back. I am eternally grateful for her kindness, her soft spoken words, and for my beautiful necklace that reminds me of the sweet spirits that are waiting for me some day. I HOPE so badly that day is soon, but until that Im at peace and will always have that HOPE.

Thanks Rayel.

PLEASE GO TO THEIR WEBSITE AND READ THEIR STORIES AND HELP ANYWAY YOU CAN...

Catching Up

I have ALOT of catching up to do!
The last couple of months have been busy as usual.

First and formost! I finally took my State Nursing Boards, and am officially a Registered Nurse! I can't even begin to describe how great it feels to be DONE with school and finally in my career!

The day I graduated, which was also Damon's Birthday, we had a little party and get together with friends and family.

I had Katie Tolman, Rachel Jorgensen's Sister in Law create these fabulous cakes! A Nurses Cap for my Graduation, and a big old fashion Dumb Bell for Damon's Birthday(see below).

They were Awesome! I loved them!

Ali and Sarah were in my Nursing Class! We got to graduate together that night! Love those girls!

Damon and Me after Nursing Graduation.

These are pictures from Christmas Eve. Its tradion every year to go over to my Moms side of the Family on Christmas Eve and then open Pajamas.

This year Chris got PJ's! He's offically apart of our family in exactly two weeks!!!

Damon's Birthday Cake!


We also had Chelsi's Bridal Shower this past month! I let her put more pictures up on her blog, but this was another cake I had Katie Tolman make for the Shower! ITS AMAZING! I dont know how she does it!

Chelsi and me at her Bridal shower.

The last few months have been mostly focused on Chelsi's Wedding! I can't believe that it is 2 weeks away! We have alot to do!