Girls Trip May 2010

Some (not all, but some) of my closest friends and I took off to St. George last weekend to get some good girl time in. We stayed at my parents; it's so great to have that place. We had a blast! Thursday night we had tickets to Brian Reagan and boy was he a great opener to our vacation. We all laughed so hard the entire time, some even to tears. We got some pool time in Friday and Saturday and we also went to the outlets and mall and all felt like we came away with more than we planned on, big surprise huh? Saturday most of us went to Fiesta Fun and played the arcade games. It was like we were little kids again. Alli won 200 tickets on one game! It was so funny to watch all those tickets coming out. Each night we tried new restaurants which has become one of my new favorite things to do down there. The first night, before Brian Reagan, we decided to try Mexican. Well the first place we went we ended up walking out of due to find too many creatures crawling on our table in the first 2 minutes of sitting down. We stuck with the Mexican food and tried the next on the list of choices, it turned out to be a winner, thank goodness. Friday night we tried the Brick Oven and oh my goodness, did we love it! The service was a bit slow but the food and atmosphere was great! I'll definitely be going back! Saturday night we tried this new American Cuisine close to the house...well let's just say none of us were impressed. Everything was ridiculously over priced for how much you got and there was a charge for everything extra you asked for...probably won't be going back.

Paula Cazuela's Restaurant

At the Tuacahn theater

Brian Reagan Brick Oven

The Pool

Fiesta Fun

Alli's winnings

Counting all our tickets, Alli's made up the majority

We combined them all and all picked out prizes for ourselves

Allison got handcuffs for her prize and chose me to be her prisoner.

We even made up a dance Friday night but I'll have to get permission from the girls to post that...there is some great stuff in there. I hope we can make this an annual thing or something! Thanks for the fun girls!

My Little Garden

I was finally able to plant all my veggies in my garden yesterday...we'll see how they do. I'm excited for the fresh veggies!

The Day I was Forbidden Chocolate

I've been having major problems with my stomach lately so I finally decided to get it checked out. I thought it might be stress related because of work this last year. I saw a gastroentrologist a couple weeks ago and he said he wanted to check out what was going on in there since there is so many different organs and places things could go wrong in the stomach area. Today they scoped me out. I wasn't really nervous because now that I have experience in the IV department and that I have gone under and was totally fine with it all. Well today was a bit of a different start.
We got to the procedure office and signed my life away pretty much, sat down and waited for me to get called back. I got called back and followed a nice lady back to the "prep" room I guess you can call it. She let me change and started telling me what the procedure entailed and all. Then she grabbed the IV supplies and started prepping me with the IV. Dave stepped out to get me my magazine so I could have it while I waited, I later found out he was getting a little nausious as well. So the IV is in me and I feel the pricking feeling still and I guess my head and body didn't like it. The nurse asked if my temp was good and if I felt nausious. As I shook my head and said no she got up to go out of the room assuming I was fine...well, I wasn't and it hit fast because all I remember is Dave walking in with the magazine trying to hand it to me, I started whining-almost crying because I felt so blurry and sick and didn't know what to do about it. The next thing I know a nurse is trying to coax me back to life and had me put my head between my knees. I remember moaning a little cause I still felt like crap but now my head was in a big blur and I felt like crap. Dave came with another nurse rolling in a bed and as soon as they got me on that bed lying down a big relief came across my body. All that happened probably within 5 minutes. I have never in my life passed out and I can tell you now that it is a WEIRD feeling! It's like being drugged under laughing gas at the dentist when they can get some funny things out of you, times 10.
Anyway, the procedure went well. I do like coming out of anesthia because you can't recollect what they did or what was in you swimming through your body and that comforts me for some reason. The results came fast and I'm glad that they found hopefully the only source of the problem, they are still testing other things as well but hopefully those will come back negative. I guess I have acid-reflux stage b and d is the worst. They gave me some strong medication and some other things I need to do to help my stomach heal so hopefully I won't have to take a pill for it the rest of my life. The doc also said I need to avoid alcohol, tea, coffee-those are a sinch, fatty foods-ok I just can't pick at the fries at work anymore, and CHOCOLATE!!!-what in the world am I going to do without my chocolate fix each day??? Dave even is on board and hid my m & m's from me on the way home! He also took my car to work cause he didn't trust that I wouldn't take it out...he knows me too well. I get checked out again in 2 months so I better be healing in there or I don't know what I'll do!
So since I can't drive today and can't go outside due to the crappy May day out there, Dave took me to get a popcorn air popper and a couple movies. I LOVE popcorn and always use the stove method but it take so dang long and you have to shake it and watch it and shake it some more so I am so so excited to have a popper that doesn't require fatty oil to pop the corn. I already ate a whole big bowl of popcorn and am trying to hold back from popping another batch.
That's my story today and the day's not even half over!

Lotoja 2010 Lottery

It looks like this year on September 11th Dave, Ryan, Bridget, and I will be cranking our bicycle pedals from Logan to Jackson Hole. Yep, you heard right, WE ALL GOT IN! We received an email around midnight this morning telling us we each had a spot in this years' Lotoja. Now this year Bridget and I decided we'd split the 206 miles and do a relay. It's still a whopping 100 miles that I'm still a bit frightened by but at least I will only be on the bike about 6 hours instead of the 11 or 12. We'll see how this year goes and I might just want more next year. Even with all my nerves, I'm pretty stoked to do it and put that Lotoja sticker on my car! Looking forward to a summer on my bike! Just wish they made the pads on the shorts a lot thicker!