Spring Time

I haven't posted anything new in forever, but MUCH has happened! First, it was my cutest little cousin McKenna's baptism. She is perfect and I can't believe that she is already 8!? Time flies. She gave the cutest little "toast" to everyone and she is wise beyond her years. I love her.

Then one of Wren's best friends Phil and his cute wife Ally came into town and we all went bowling. After we went to Village Inn with Matt and Brittney, and Brittney slapped her pancake on Matt's face, not really but she almost did and Britt and I almost died of a heart attack laughing. So FUNNY!

It was Wren and my anniversary on the 23rd, yesterday, and he sent me flowers (SO PRETTY AND I LOVE THE VASE) and had a surprise planned but because of the weather, we had to post pone it. It was also my brothers birthday so we went with my family to Stoneground Pizza downtown and ate. It was tons of fun being with my family and eating delicious pizza. I love my Wren, he is perfect and I am so lucky to have him for my husband. He is really the best ever! AND, I just finished my last paper for school yesterday and only have two more tests to study for and I am in the HOME STRETCH and couldn't be happier! I hope that everyone has been having a good spring!

Life..........

So I haven't updated in forever. We haven't been up to too much lately. The biggest news is my little brother got his mission call to go to...... Barcelona, Spain! Can you believe that? We are all so excited! He leaves August 18, so he still has a little bit. But the grand news is he will fit in perfectly! He looks just like a Spaniard, my mom calls him her fudgecicle. She's worried he will melt into a chocolate puddle in Spain. We are so excited and want to pick him up in two years. I will get to Spain one day and here is my chance! But he will do great and I am so happy for him! That same night, my little sister Rache had a dance thing down in Provo, so we went down there to watch her. She did great and it was so fun, her costume was so cute too! Last week I went to dinner with my friends to celebrate Katie's engagement. It was so much fun, sometimes the only therapy I need to girl chat. Love them. Hope everyone is doing great!

My dad's one man band!

On Sunday we were all practicing a song for my grandpa's birthday when all of a sudden my dad comes walking out with the harmonica holder over his head (looks like a mouth gaurd), the rattler strapped to his leg, and playing the guitar. Who needs our instruments when he has three? The funniest was how focused he was! I can't watch this and not die of laughter! He is currently accepting tips, so on Sundays if your bored, come over and there will be a tin can set out neatly in front of him.....

Blast from the PAST!

So you'd think with this post I would have all of the time in the world, which I wish was true! But this building that one of my classes is in at the U is seriously like a blast from the past and I just had to share it. This was quite the task to take these pictures without looking like a crazy woman, especially in the bathroom (didn't want to look like a pervert either) but oh well! I don't think anything has been replaced or updated in this building since before my mom went to college there. I picture her with her long blonde hair, walking down these halls in the eighties in her gerbo jeans and BUM sweatshirt , and having everything look exactly how it looks today. Just take a look below and you'll see exactly what I mean. You'd think with the tuition they charge us poor students, they could at least update the place a bit, but I guess old things die hard. Take notice to the red doors, the old chairs, the gross old bathroom, and the anciently old vending machine, oh my gosh! It is classic!

These chairs below are very gross up close, they have weird white stuff all over them and I get freaked out having to put my stuff on em. I love that this weird room is in the bathroom, it reminds me of a dressing room, or a room at church where mom's go to nurse their babies, I don't really get it, but it put a big cramp in my style trying to take these pictures since there's always girls getting ready in here.

Look at the red doors, so funny! I bet his kind man didn't know he was getting his picture snapped!

Vending machine that is so dang old, I would be surprised if it even worked! These buttons looked like they would get jammed with the touch of a finger!

Look at these table and chairs??? It's like I'm back in Kindergarten again! Finger painting anyone?

Going to the bathroom in here is nauseating.....

Here you get a better idea of the "nursing room"

Look at this sink? The metal is all corroded away, and rusted and who knows what all those sick little black dots in the sink are? When I first saw them I thought they were blood, but they have been there for the last two months. Being nauseas and seeing this could be disastrous.

Okay my favorite thing of all, that dang tampon machine!? Can you believe how old? I want to buy one just to see if they are the huge, old, cardboard ones without the applicators??? It would top it off!

Thank you for reading, and I hope it reminds you of your childhood like it does me!

School and Kinley

So long farewell, to you and you and you, adeu adeu adeu......!!!!! I say this because yet another semester of school has started and I may not see or hear from anyone until May when it ends because I will be so BUSY! Christmas break did not last long enough! I am taking FIVE classes this semester while working full time at my job, it could get scary but I just want to push through it! Next semester will be my final and last and should be a breeze compared to this semester, so there IS light at the end of the tunnel..... finally. August 6th can not come quick enough! I am going to throw myself the biggeest grandest party on August 7th, to celebrate the death of school, will anyone come?! I love learning and I really really love my major, but when I come home from work at night and Wren wants to hang out and go do something fun, but I can't cause of homework, I just feel guilty, I don't know I guess for me spending time with him seems so much more improtant than writing endless amounts of papers on subjects that I really don't care about that much. Mark my words though, when I am done, I can promise everyone I am staying up till 1:00 am every night watching TV and eating ice cream, screw this 10:00 pm betime. Now that I have complained your EARS off........Last week Wren's brother McKinley got home from his mission. It was so good to see him! He got home on New Year's day, so we waited to do the family tradition that we normally do with Wren's family on Christmas Eve to be able to do it on New Year's night so he could be there. It was so much fun! Holly always puts together the cutest things! Look how cute the stockings were that she got us! The theme this year was "peace" so she filled them with cute peace jammies and chocolates. It's good to have Kinley home!

TWINS! Our perfect little Skyman!

Our Sweet Henry

Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to post this picture of the nicest man you will ever meet. He moved into our complex in July of 2008. I remember the first day he came to see the apt., he was 88 years old, had a Lithuanian accent and full of joy. I showed him where the town home was that he was interested in, but could not show him inside since someone was living there, so he brought the pleasure on himself of walking up to the door and knocking on it to ask if he could see it. I remember laughing so hard about it. Ever since he moved in he has become a second grandfather to everyone that works here. He visited us almost every day here in the office bringing smiles to our faces. He always liked to make sure that the maintenance guys were taking good care of Kim and I. He worked for NASA as an engineer. He helped design the first spaceship that went to the moon. We loved hearing all of his stories of world war II, he saw the concentration camps and had to flee his town when it was overtaken by the Russians. He was such a smart man, always coming up with tricks to save on energy. He would go buy broken things all the time and fix them. At 90 years old he still skied. He drove a 10 seater huge green minivan that was the brand Savana, which he liked to joke with me about. He was in the Olympics for ski racing in 2003. He was completely capable and always kept busy, I know this is why he has lived such a long life. The sad thing is, his whole family was killed in World War II, so he has no one. He was never married and has no kids, so we became his family. On Christmas Wren and I went to say hi to him and take him a little gift, he was all dressed up in a suit, and had just gone to dinner by himself, it was heartbreaking, yet he was always SO happy. He had been going through chemotherapy because over labor day last year they found out that he had stomach cancer. He was so positive throughout all of it, saying how the chemo didn't even affect him. Our maintenance guy Victor walked over to his apt. to say hi today, and found him on the ground unconscious and barely breathing. We called the paramedics and they came and took him. It wasn't an hour later from when he got there that he passed away. He died at 2:20 today. He had walked into our office last night to say hi, but of course I was on the phone and didn't get off which is one of my biggest regrets. I would do anything just to be able to talk to him one more time and tell him how much he meant to me and all of us here. I am so so sad, words cannot even explain how much I have cried, it's hard so sit in this office knowing I will never see his smiling face again. He does not have any family and we do not really know what to do, we want to be able to give him a nice funeral service but don't think we will be allowed to since we are not his beneficiaries, the more research we have done, we do not think that he even has a living will. I just keep having this thought of who is going to remember him? He doesn't have kids, he doesn’t have grandkids, how will his memory live on? He had such an incredible life, so many adventures and stories and who will continue to tell them? But then I just have to remember that he had us, and for him I think that was enough. That is why I am sharing part of his life with you. We would like to put together something in memory of him because he so deserves it, once we can plan it I would love for every one of you to come so he can have people there to hear about what a wonderful person and friend he was to us. I learned from him that no matter who you are or what situation you are placed in, that we can always stay positive, and that even as you get old, stay doing what you love. And to share what you have, he donated so much to charities. I also learned that when you have a feeling, go with it, I had feelings yesterday to just stop by and see him and I didn't. I also learned to visit the people we love most often, we get so busy doing things that don't even matter, and push seeing grandparents and family to "next week". Thank you for listening to me, and I will keep you posted. Feel free to pass this along to anyone and everyone; I want people to hear about what an amazing man he was! We love you and will always remember you Henry!

A ski race that he won in 1999 when he was almost 80 years old, look how happy he was! Can you believe he is 80 years old in this picture? He was so proud of his sking accomplishments and you can see it in this picture. He loved to tell us about it and we loved to hear it.

A little "in memory of Henry Kristaponis" that I set up for him in our office. I'm really hoping we will be able to have a funeral for him!