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Avery

2011-10-12T13:48:00.000-07:00

I couldnt just post about things around the house without posting about our sweet Aves. Its been so long and Avery is just getting so big. Here are some pics of her within the last month of her being.......................her :)

Avery is a good helper, helping me with laundry. I hate it when you start needing to explain.....ya know the body anatomy. Me being a nurse just wants to call it what it is, but Corey disagrees saying "we will just call it private parts," and now I know why. In the middle of getting dressed one day Avery pointed to my "who whoos" when I explained those are "boobs," Now when someone is holding her, she will make a point to say "boob" while pointing at them. Silly mommy slipped up and will remember "private parts," are a much better term for now.

While cleaning out my car Avery helped and found my keys. Being as smart as she is started to put the key into the ignition. SCARY!! When I asked where are you going she said "Issacs" which is my little nephew whom Avery seems to love.

My mom bought Avery this crown and for 3 days she wanted to wearing it calling it a "hat" but wearing all around the house. Maybe trying to tell me something. She a princess and dont let me forget it. WERE IN TROUBLE!!

Avery loves loves loves to read books. So when I let her she will turn her room into a library, kinda.

Mommy and Aves

She is also very obsessed with shoes. Im sure its just a phase but man on man its hard to go up after her picking them all up.

Basement

2011-10-12T13:42:00.000-07:00

Downstairs inspiration!! Belive it or not I caved in when we bought our new house having it be completely finished and am letting Corey decorate the basement. With lots of speaking to about hanging his "animals" on the wall I explained that it has to be classy, rustic and a cabin feel not just animals collecting dust and scaring all the neighborhood children. With that said Corey is letting me stencil the wall. The picture below is the exact stencil we bought. Now if I could just push myself to do it. I think when its complete it will look kinda cool. We shall see, pictures to come.

New headboard

2011-10-12T13:18:00.000-07:00

New head board in the making, here is my inspiration. I recently bought this darling quilt at the quilt shop and wanted to turn our master bedroom into a homey cabin/cottage feel. Since I dont have the budget to support purchasing new furniture from "potterybarn" I am having to find new ways to spend my time and dollars more wisely.

The shutters I bought were pretty hammered but after some spackel and $15.00 to buy them all I have to do is buy some paint and put them up. I will be posting more pictures when completed. Wish me luck!

What we've been up too

2011-06-11T20:45:00.000-07:00

POST STARTS FROM THE BOTTOM UP!! Last but not least were moving..................FINALLY out on our own again. This house, HAHAHA I wish, maybe one day. We have been looking for the right one and put in multiple offers for about a year and were suppose to close on June 20th. Please keep your fingers crossed for us. Even though it has been a blessing for us to stay with my parents for 2 years, we are ready to start out again on our own.
Sitting by the camp fire

Tryin to stay warm

We went on our big family camping trip to Wasatch. It was a struggle trying to get Avery to sleep but if there is one thing that she loves more than anything and that is being outside or "side" is what she says...............................constantly.

Corey FINALLY Graduated from the Police Academy. Were so proud of him. It was hard but we knew he could do it. Coreys whole life has been surrouded by the Police force. His dad on the left had been a police officer for almost 40 years or so and Coreys brother has worked as a detective in the narcotic unit for over 8 years. Coreys just following in their footsteps and I couldnt be prouder. He just currently got hired as a reserve for Lehi city and a full time police officer for the prision. Scary you might ask, well YA there are some crazies out there. But there is one thing I know. Corey is so street smart which is why he choose the perfect perfession and obviously its the only thing that he knows.

Avery and "DADA"

Trying to concentrate.

Avery easter day, the sun was shining in her face and I just thought these were hilarous.

Avery learning to walk. Every year we do a big easter egg hunt with the family, (theres tons of little ones) and this was the first year (obviously) that Avery was able to join in the fun. One of my favorite things about raising a child is all the things you loved about being a child come back to you and you almost get to re-live it. Easter just happens to be my favorite holiday.

Easter

This picture is for Cami. Coreys family is amazing at keeping there kids stuff, like stuff they loved when their childen were growing up etc. and keeping it in impeccable shape. This outfit is one that cute Carli wore when she was just a munchkin and Avery loved it!! She requested to wear the hat.

MOM and Aves

Avery is such a "cheeseball." Anytime you say cheese this is what you get :)

Whats a been going on around the Lavin house you might ask? Well Id love to tell you that Ive been so busy to update this thing, and that is the reason its been 6 months or more, but the truth is Ive just been so lazy to get on and play around with this website to update it. But Ive been getting hate emails about it so here you go. Avery has turned 1!!! Yea, my baby girl is growing up. I say yea, cause the older they get the more fun they become. I HATE THE NEWBORN PHASE. I have been getting lots of questions latley like, "when you going to have your next?" The truth is when were ready. I would like them to be about 3 years apart so you do the math. Avery had a great birthday, she loves the spot light and everyone knows it, which makes it quite entertaining. We had lots of family support and she was happy. She was born 2 days before Valentines day so I made the theme around that. I think it turned out kinda cute. If you want to see more pics of it, let me know Ill update and dedicate it just about her 1 year.

AVERY

2010-11-18T10:54:00.000-08:00

nEEd I sAy mORe??

8 months

2010-10-14T16:36:00.001-07:00

Avery is 8 months old now and WOW does time fly bye. Avery is such a happy baby. She hardly ever cries. She only get upset when she hungry or tired. Avery LOVES her cousins and smiles and swings her arms super fast like she swimmin when she sees them. She can sit up on her own and eats any food that mommy and daddy eats. Avery loves animals and being outside. Its one of my best distractions for her which is another reason why I'm so not ready for the cold weather. Avery can say dadda and momma. She sucks her thumb which is the cutest thing ever when she tired or sleeps and hardly ever takes a binki. The pictures below are just some of her. Shes getting so BIG and is a total mommies girl which I obviously love.

Happy 4th of July

2010-07-04T12:10:00.001-07:00

Happy Independence day!! What an amazing day to celebrate for our country and what a blessing it is to live here. I would just like to say thank you for all of those who have served so I can raise my family in a free land and know that they are protected through such strong, devoted, determined people that you are. Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!! I was nervous how Avery would do through the fireworks but as you can she, she just stared at the sky like mommy and enjoyed every minute of it. (did anyone else see the Riverton fireworks this year they were AWSOME!) She is getting so much more fun as she gets older, Im sure all the mommies think that out there.

Family PIC

Avery swimmin @ MEE MEE and BOMPA's house!! We got lucky with the beautiful weather this year.

Ethan and Avery swimming together in there fishy blowups!! They're so CUTE!!

3 month baby pics

2010-06-17T21:27:00.000-07:00

This may sound cliche but Avery is just a beautiful baby!! I know mommies always think there babies are cute which all of them are, but my baby girl is just stunning. We love her so much, she is just getting more fun as she gets older. She talks up a storm, is a daddies girl, chews on everything especially her hands and drools all over her clothes. We got her 3 month baby pictures done just recently and she was the BEST baby, she smiled the entire time except for the last couple pics which you can see at the bottom. Thanks so much to Hills for hookin me up. Hope everyone enjoys. And HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

TO COME

2010-06-01T20:57:00.000-07:00

I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE MISSING UPDATES ON THIS CUTE THING!! WELL UPDATES ARE TO COME, WHEN I CAN SIT DOWN FOR 10-15 MINUTES AWAY FROM AVERY!!

Easter Cont....

2010-04-06T15:16:00.000-07:00

On Easter we of course get together for a delicious ham dinner. Having it be conference too, our family has a tradition where we get together for breakfast, so needless to say we were over at the grandparents all day......... easy for me I LIVE THERE!!! LOLThe picture above is of Avery and her cousin Ethan, is'nt he a doll, look at those blue eyes.

Easter

2010-04-06T15:11:00.000-07:00

We hope everyone had a FUN Easter. It was nice having it be conference weekend too. We were super LAZY and just hung out with the family all weekend. This is Avery at her Aunt Cami's house, where the entire family got together to do a easter hunt and have yummy food. Dont you love the HAT, a very talented lady made us a few and shes starting to fit into this one so we could'nt resist.

Baby Announcments

2010-04-01T15:01:00.000-07:00

I FINALLY got around to putting together my baby announcments. What do you think of them? My friend Hills and I designed them. I love them and just think there the cutest. I will be sending them out shortly, so be checking your mail.

2010-04-01T14:55:00.000-07:00

Avery is starting to get attached to the binki. She refuses to go to sleep without it!!!

The shirt says it all!!!

PINK/ BATH

2010-03-26T15:20:00.000-07:00

AVERY HAD A MINI PHOTO SHOOT WHILE JUST HANGIN OUT WITH MOMMY!! COREY HATES THE HUGE FLOWERS BUT WE THINK HES CRAZY, SHE IS SO CUTE NO MATTER WHAT. I TRIED CAPTURING HER ADORABLE SMILE, BUT I HAVE ONE OF THOSE ANCIENT DIGITAL CAMERAS THAT CAPTURE THE MOMENT AS THERE ENDING. THIS IS WHAT I GOT.

CANT GET OVER THOSE CHEEKS!!

AVERY LIKE MOST BABIES LIKES BATH TIME, BUT HATES GETTIN OUT, THESE ARE SOME FUN MOMENTS THAT WE WERE ABLE TO SHARE.

WHO DO YOU THINK SHE LOOKS LIKE? COREY OR JESSICA?

All about HER!!

2010-03-14T11:52:00.000-07:00

Of course now that I have a baby I am going to write about her. What else do you do when your entire life now consumes entertaining her and kissing her and sleeping with her, but I wouldnt have it any other way. Avery on Friday turned 4 weeks old, and man o man does time fly. Avery has been growing super fast. She still pretty short but chubby!!! Just look at those cheeks. When Avery was born she weighed in at 6 pounds 11 ounces. At her 2 week appointment she weighed in at a whopping 8 pounds 5 ounces.

It seems like everyone posts pictures of there husbands sleeping with there little one so I had to join in. Corey works graveyard shifts and when he gets home or on his days off, even though he is so exhausted he is extremly helpful and can tell right when Im about to pull my hair out. So capturing this moment will never be forgotten.

Avery loves this rubber ducky outfit. Its warm and fuzzy!! We got a lot of duck items whether they were rubber or not, they fit us perfectly due to the fact that my husband it completley obsessed!!!

Avery since she was born has been full of smiles. I KNOW I KNOW its just gas per say but Im telling you this is different. She smiles when she hears certain people in my familys voices, she smiles everytime after she eats and when she wakes up in the morning shes so happy!! I have no idea where she gets that, but hopefully it sticks around. Avery we sure love you and just think you are the cutest thing.

P.S Congrats to my bro and sis in law for finding out that we are going to be having another baby in the family in October and its a BOY!!! YEA!!

Sneak Peak

2010-02-28T14:30:00.000-08:00

Thanks Jess for the fun day. We are soooo Happy to be apart of you starting something that you are good at and totally enjoy. Baby Avery was a handful but I think we were able to capture some of her beauty and quirkiness. Jess you are the best and I am very grateful for your help you did an AWSOME JOB. Avery we love you!!

THANK YOU!!

2010-02-22T17:42:00.000-08:00

THANK YOU TO OUR SWEET FAMILY FOR DECORATING THE YARD SO WHEN WE GOT HOME WE FELT LIKE A MILLION BUCKS!! YOU GUYS ARE SERIOUSLY THE BEST AND WE LOVE YOU SOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!

JAUNDICE

2010-02-22T17:38:00.000-08:00

Its AMAZING now what you worry about when you have a little one in your life. I know this is a common thing but when I took Avery into her Wednesday appointment I was devastated to hear that she would have to sit under bili lights for who knows how long. This first picture you can see how yellow she got and it was soooooo SAD I just cried and cried when I looked at her in that light box.

Much to our surprise though she is a fighter and kicked the bili lights the next day cause her body did sooooo well under that stupid tanning bed. UGH!! forever now I will think of this when I go to the tanning beds.

BABY HAS ARRIVED!!

2010-02-22T17:24:00.000-08:00

I know it was a little early due to me being under so much stress or my body per say but we have finally gotten to hold, kiss, see and adore our new baby girl on 2/12/2010 @ 5:13 pm. She weighed 6 lbs 11 ounzes and was 18 inches long, just a little thing. She is soooo CUTE and look exactly like Corey. She is healthy and beautiful and we couldnt ask for anything more. The story began with Corey and I going to the hospital that morning to do a Non Stress test AGAIN and just make sure all was well. Well much to my surprise I had been to the docotor the day before and my blood pressure was perfect, baby was perfect and doctor broke the news that we wasnt going to induce me or anything if I and baby were perfectly healthy. Fair enough except that I was under the impression that he would anyway. I was super discouraged but new it just wasnt her time. So when we showed up to the hospital the next morning I was sure it was just going to be another NST that went well. Well baby was fine but for some reason my blood pressure was high I all the sudden had high blood pressure again and my swelling had substanitally gotten worse over night. AAAAHHHH!! My prayers were answered, she was ready. They started inducing me around 10:00 that morning and I had asked for my epidural not to long after that I think around 1-1:30. MAN OH MAN let me just tell you something once I had that medication in me I was the happiest pregnant women alive. I honestly dont know what women are thinking going natural, I had seriously probably the best experience ever, zero complications, could totally move my legs, walk around after its just that I couldnt feel them. WEIRD WEIRD experience but I was laughing during the delivery, and having a good ole time..........SERIOUSLY!!! But anyway soon after the epidural I noticed a little bit of pressure and mentioned it to my nurse she checked me I was complete then "WHALA" baby Avery was here. Seriously that easy!! Everyone says I was super lucky and normal deliveries are like that but I guess its just one more blessing that I can be grateful for. Anyway enough chat here are some pictures of our angel.

COMIN SOON!!

2010-02-06T20:38:00.000-08:00

Went and saw my doctor on Wednesday and now I am showing signs of toxemia. I did my non stress test, baby is doing perfect and mommy is getting anxious. He set me up for an appointment on Monday and we will then decide if he will induce me next week or what. My due date is technically 2/22/2010. I got a little photo shoot done and had a lot of fun. Even though its so close to my due date and I technically could go any minute I am grateful that I was able to get some pictures so I wouldnt forget this special time in my life. Thanks to (you know who for spending the day with me and making me feel comfortable, you are my besty and I love you a TON!!)

BABY BEDDING

2010-02-02T19:07:00.001-08:00

Who is crazy enough to make there baby bedding................................ME!! Thanks to Hillary for pretty much doing all of it, I probably couldnt have gotten it done in time. This is the bedding that Hills and I designed for little Avery. Will she care about it.......NO, at least not until she grows up but she sure will look precious laying in her cute crib. Now if I can just finish her nursery before she comes we will be set. I am 37 weeks and counting. Baby is doing beautifully well, why mom has been diagnosed with gestational diabetes, high blood pressure and group B. YES!!! I am also working 40 + hours a week and trying to get enough sleep at night so I dont drop over dead. I am grateful that I am here at my parents so they can help me a lot and Corey, what can I say about him. He is surely going to be the best daddy ever. Through all my mood swings and drama and temper tantrums he has gained a ton of patients and I LOVE him so much for that. I am currently going to the doctor each week now and have been for the past 4 weeks, doing a non-stress test each week and am dialated to 1.5 and effaced 70%. WHAAHOOO! maybe she wont wait till 2/22/10! We will just have to wait and see.

I love FRIENDS!!

2010-02-02T18:53:00.001-08:00

These are the girls who made it all happen, THANKS AGAIN!! love you guys very much. (oh dont mind the purple dinosaur, you just wait till I can work out again, I am going to be thin again one day...........maybe one day)

There is nothing better than some good ole GIRL TIME, with some of your closest friends. Thank you everyone for coming and hanging out with me for a little while. My best friend Hill, Chan and Ash threw me an AMAZING baby shower. We had it at Chanteles darling house and the food was prepared by what I would say professionals. From the picture of me with it coming down my chin you can see that I am totally obsessed. I got some of the most darling outfits and supplies and the funniest advice and heard some crazy stories. It amazing that its been what 5 years since we graduated high school and all my friends yes friends are giving me advice on how to be a good mom. WHAT?? that is just to weird. It was a ton of fun getting together with everyone and I wish that we would do it more often. We need to come up with some traditions or something. YA YA!!

2010-02-02T18:42:00.000-08:00

Baby Showers GALORE!!

I have been so fortunate this last month and have had so much support with having this baby that I just had to share. Thank you for everyone who threw me a shower, who came and participated and who cant wait to meet Avery as much as Corey and I. The first shower I had was put on by my amazing in-laws. Food was delicious, company was amazing and I got a lot of the gifts that I was in dire need of. The second shower that I had was from my work. Who knew that so many people from my work loved and supported me, what a blessing. The third shower was put on by my amazing mother and sis-in law. Down below are some pictures of our amazing food. They played this hilarious game where you had to put a plate on your head and try to draw a baby. NO OFFENSE anyone, but they sucked!!!! hahahahaha it was so hard to judge but absolutley hilarious to watch. (pictures above) I wish that I would have taken some pictures of the drawings just to show you, but I forgot. I seem to be doing that a lot latley, mmmmmmmmm I wonder why??

CoNgRaDuLaTiOnS!

2009-10-04T11:42:00.001-07:00

CONGRADULATIONS to my sister in law Erin and my big bro Jake for having another BEAUTIFUL health baby boy!! Ethan we sure love you!!

How I told Corey

2009-10-03T09:08:00.000-07:00

So as promised I mentioned that I would do a post explaining how the whole pregnancy came about, (that sounds funny.) Corey and I have been trying to have a baby for over 2 years, we had seen some doctors run a bunch of tests and everything came out pretty much normal. We just came to the realization that it just wasnt our time. So Corey and I decide to sell our beautiful home and get out of debt and try to start over. Sure enough I was at work one day and had been talking to my sister in law Erin about how long it has been between my last period. She of course said YOUR PREGNANT! I had been let down so many times, taken so many pregnancy tests that I refused to check, but finally got talked into it. So on my lunch break I ran to the store and bought a pregnancy test. I took it and it came back positive. I instantly started crying but had to immediatley gain my composer and get back to work. On my way home I was trying to think of a way to tell Corey. He works graveyards so when I got home I knew that he wouldnt be there, but I also got home around 2300 and was so exhausted I didnt want to do anything too drastic. So I thought "what will Corey do first right when he comes home?"......."IKE" came to mind. Corey and Ike have this really really great bond, truly Coreys best friend so I decided to right a poem and post it on Ikes kennel, so when Corey got home he would let him out and come to bed. So I did!! Here is the picture and poem that was on Ikes kennel. I hope that you can read it.

Then of course I can put this up now, but as most of you know the worst thing that you can do is tell everyone too soon cause you never know what can happen but.........................who are we kidding who can wait for such an exciting thing. On the fourth of July we always have such a HUGE family party, with yummy food, fireworks and good company. So this is how we told the family. (real quick this is how long it took me to update this blog......4th of July, Oh brother)

I decided to make a 7 layer bean dip. hahahaha I just think its cute, and to see the family try to make out what the olives said was just hilarious!! Everyone was so excited and that made the whole thing just that more special!! Thank YOU.

Which then leads me to today. I am now 19 weeks and had my ultrasound of what the babys sex is, so here it goes. WE ARE HAVING A...................................................................

A GIRL!!!

We are so excited and everything is good and healthy between baby and mamma so far, which we are grateful for!!

Here she is waving at us. HAHAHA she was being so crazy at the ultrasound appointment and I just barley was able to feel her move around the other day. This is a such an amazing blessing, and we couldnt be more excited.

WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS

2009-08-23T20:11:00.000-07:00

Since the last time I wrote which was a while ago my life has completley changed. We sold our house in a whopping 30 days and had to be out in like 20 days so I basically had to just grab stuff and take it over to my parents house where we are currently living. I love my amazing parents for helping us out and giving us a place to stay but nothing is as nice as having your own things, your own privacy and your own SPACE!!! But were lucky its completley secluded, we have our own kitchen, bathroom and 3 bedrooms.............................so really I shouldnt be complaining. Anyway Corey currently is working at Gateway mall as a security guard, during the "graveyard" shift. That time kind of sucks but it was his way of getting ready for the Police Academy and then getting a job, and sure enough the worst shift is graveyards so he's just preparing himself. I am working at Wasatch Valley Rehab as the new SDC or Staff Development Coordinator. I was just promoted which was unexpected but I love it. I basically do all the hiring, firing and educating in the entire building. So its a pretty big job with lots of responsibility!!!
Corey and I just celebrated our 4th Wedding anniversary!! I cant believe its been that long but seriously have loved every minute of it and will treasure our friendship and love forever.
And last but not least the biggest life change and update is that Corey and I are FINALLY expecting. I am currently 14 weeks and am thinking of it as if I am the only one in the world that is even though deep down everyone I know has a bun in the oven. But surley I am taking advantage of every excuse. I still am sort of sick but up until now Ive been pretty miserable. MAJOR MAJOR nausea with occasional vomiting, headache, sore muscles, hungry all the time but all food is sooooooooooooo disgusting, moody, emotional and my "twins" have hurt so bad its hard to breath. (hopefully you get the whole twin thing) Not only that but I am completley scared, nervous, terrified, tired, scared, scared and unprepared, but thats normal right?????? Anyway I will put some pictures up of how I told Corey and some other things but felt that I might just keep everyone in the loop. But its amazing how the lord works in mysterious ways. Corey and I have only been trying for 2 years when we thought we were ready and tried tests that all came back normal and tried clomid which put my numbers threw the roof and living in our own home, but we our little person in my belly wasnt ready until now!!! Thank you thank you for finally making one of Corey and I's dreams come true!!!!!

Its been awhile!

2009-05-01T15:17:00.000-07:00

Well sorry I have been slacking majorly, just like everyone else we have been extremly busy and blogging is the last thing on my mind. I dont have any pictures cause I absolutley hate carring around a camera, plus I constantly forget to take pictures but I do have one that Todd emailed me from Coreys grandmas funeral, that I love. Its a picture of Corey his dad and 2 brothers (-) one since Nate in on his mission and doing fantastic. I am now working at a company called Wasatch Valley Rehab and studying to get ready to take my RN boards. Corey is working for a company called Superior Lamp and is excited about the potential that it can intail. Corey and I are trying to have a baby "WOW BIG NEWS" everybody knows pretty much since its been like a year and half, were not successful yet but I have come to the realization that its not our time and patience is a virtue. Corey and I recently have decided to put our house up to sale again. The sign goes up on Monday. It is a VERY VERY emotional experience, but Corey and I have prayed about it and have decided that it is the perfect thing for us to do for our family. Our goal is to get completley out of debt and start all over and then settle down in a bigger home to put all our crap and continue on expanding our family. I love my ward and neighborhood and it has been nothing but amazing living here and have gained the friendships that we have, and that is what is so difficult. We have such a good thing here!!! I try talking myself out of this decision everyday but keep being pulled towards selling. We will see but seriously THANK YOU everyone who has helped us and supported us in this decision. Until next POST!!!

What we've been up to!

2009-03-15T14:15:00.001-07:00

Corey and I were fortunate enough to experience the NASCAR races in Las Vegas last weekend. We scored the tickets from our bro-in-law Todd. Thanks Todd we loved it! Corey poor thing has never been to Vegas and we really needed a get away. Since it was such last minute we werent able to get a hotel in Mesquite and didnt want to pay $200.00 or more to stay in Vegas so we decided St.George! We were so pumped! Corey went to a Nascar race last year in Arizona and I just laugh at the crazy excitement over the sport. I know what your all thinking, "NASCAR hahahahaha what a hick sport," Well all I can say is you MUST experience it once in your life. It is AMAZING all of the fans and the support I couldnt believe the people and the trailers! hahahaha Corey mentioned going down there and staying in a trailer and I just thought I was going to puke. What a dork! SO we left last Friday after work and stayed until Sunday night. Unfortunatley Kyle Bush WON......BLAH! You would understand, trust me if you watched Nascar. It was so exilarating each time the cars would start and stop because of crashes and we saw about a million. My head was pounding so hard and I couldnt hear a thing the whole way home, but it was all worth it. Maybe we'll make a tradition of it. I cant wait to hear your comments Corey has totally transformed his beached tan skinny wife to a white fat freckeled hick! OH WELL!

Only at Nascar could you get a Turkey leg on a stick. EWE!! Everyone had one.

Our seats were great! We were close but far enough away to see all of the action. THANKS TODD AGAIN!

Look at all of the trailers. These were just fans. You should have seen the parking lot. There were probably 3 x as much. CRAZY!

SHEESH!

2009-03-12T21:39:00.000-07:00

Gosh it has been soooooooo LONG since I have looked at this thing. I couldnt even remember what my last post was. Well just to let you all know that we here at the Lavin household are still alive, but just barley. I have had PROBABLY the worst day of my life today and I am sitting here working which I have been doing since 8:00 this morning, I am exhausted. So NO MORE TALK, I will have to post another day to elaborate on all that has been going on. FOLLOWING POST TO COME NO WORRIES!!!!

Wild Hair Day!

2009-01-25T14:33:00.001-08:00

So one day COREY looks at me and says, "You should dye your hair brown again." I just started laughing cause Corey LOVES blonde hair and is always saying that I should leave my hair just the way that it is. But all it did was give me an idea of really darkening my hair again. I have been all brown before and I loved it, back when my CHANTY lived here and she would be the only one daring enough to do such a crazy thing. So I called my sis in law and talked her into it. ANd I LOVE IT! Maybe people will take me more seriously now. All of my patients just think I am bubbly HOOT, but I want them to confide in me, even though I am young and dont know much, I am learning. WE WILL SEE! Thanks CYDEY for changing me into a brunette I LOVE IT. Oh and Corey...............hahaha I came home and asked if Corey liked it and he says, "I just didnt think you would really do it, I really like your blonde hair, Its just different." Well maybe he will think twice when giving me anymore crazy ideas.

FINALLY CLEAN!!

2009-01-25T14:30:00.000-08:00

Since the new year started or since I have been married it is very rare that my room gets cleaned. I was fortunate enough this weekend to spend 8 hours spring cleaning my bedroom and our spare bedroom and getting our laudry all caught up. Now I just hope that it stays that way.

Completed! Much better in person.

2009-01-19T20:59:00.000-08:00

I finally completed Coreys Office. I personally really like it and I dont even like hunting. I feel like I can go in there and enjoy my work, since I spend most of the time in there and have a good thing to look at. Coreys says that he likes it also and he didnt even have a say other than it is still his room and I cant go in there and girly it up. Well once again I think it is cuter or MANLIER in person...........so if you want to come and see it. hahaha

MAYBE JUST ONE

2009-01-11T21:33:00.001-08:00

OKAY MAYBE JUST ONE, This is Ike in the summer just using Corey and I outside chairs that we use around our fire pit. Ike has made it is own little recliner. I was just looking through our pictures and just started to laugh. He seriously is the best dog. I maybe resent him in a way because Corey loves Ike sooooooo much but am grateful to have such a protective dog. I have never really blogged much about him but he is apart of our family and we are very glad for that.

EWE

2009-01-11T21:19:00.000-08:00

There is nothing more annoying then after Christmas seeing Christmas stuff, INCLUDING BLOGS! Sorry for no updates or pictures or Christmas updates but I just cant force myself to do it. PLUS I didnt take any pictures. WHY? you ask, GREAT QUESTION! It was definatley memorable but I am glad that it is over. SO much work getting to Christmas to have it over in seconds. Well Corey and I have been up to a whole lot of nothing. NOT were so busy I cant even remember what we did like 2 hours ago. Corey is hard playing basketball and setting up leagues left and right for him and his family and ward to participate in. I have been working a lot. I used to do 3 days of 12 hour shifts and now I work everyday just a few hours instead. BUT I do have to work everyday and that is different. This weekend I was just able to take down our Christmas stuff and fold my new cloths and put them away. YES JUST BARLEY! In fact the Lavin house is the "EWE LOOK AT THAT HOUSE HOW CAN THEY STILL HAVE THEIR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS UP, DONT THEY KNOW CHRISTMAS HAS COME AND GONE, SERIOUSLY!" Corey got me a new desk for our computer room which is actually Coreys only room in the house that he can decorate as a hunting room so I am working on organizing and painting it so it looks half way decent. ANyway pictures to come. Thanks for putting up with me and all my CHRISTMAS BLAH BLAH BLAH for so many weeks now.

2008-12-22T15:52:00.001-08:00

I JUST FINISHED MY CHRISTMAS SHOPPING YEEEEEWHOOOOO!! i CANT WAIT TILL CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR. COREY AND I ARE SO BLESSED TO HAVE THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT WE DO. WITH THIS WHOLE ECONOMIC CRISIS I JUST HAVE TO SIT BACK AND BE ALMOST GRATEFUL FOR IT. oNLY BECAUSE IT BRINGS OUT THE TRUE MEANING. ITS NOT ABOUT THE GIFT OR WHATEVER YOU HAVE ALL HEARD IT A MILLION TIMES BUT SPENDING TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND IN THE END THATS ALL YOU HAVE. tHANK YOU TO ALL MY LOVING FAMILY AND FRIENDS. COREY AND I THINK OF EACH OF YOU AT LEAST ONCE A DAY AND CANT HELP BUT THINK HOW AMAZING YOU ARE! HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

SWEET HAND CRAFTED ANGLE

2008-12-07T20:00:00.001-08:00

I just had to show you this awsome angle. My mom made these angles each specifically different from the next and gave them to her sisters, her married daughter (ME) and my sister in law and her closest friends at work. She gave them to us last year! She is just soooooooo talented at everything and I look up to her in many ways, especially her talents. She has taught me many things in life and I hope that one day (if I ever get the chance) to be a mother I will be half the women that she is. THANKS MOM I LOVE YA!

Coreys Birthday Gift and Christmas decorations!

2008-12-07T19:40:00.001-08:00

Okay to start here is our house with our Christmas lights. I didnt think the first picture justified so I took another one. But to be honest it is just way better in person. Corey did such a good job this year it literally looks like a professional did our Christmas lights. Thats where Coreys OCD comes in.

Then here is my Christmas shelf! Once again when I look at the picture I hate it, but in real life i LOVE it.

THEN my favorite part. I decided this year to do two Christmas trees. Mainly because the one that I had previously (which is now downstairs) did not match at all upstairs. So I decided to do a peacock tree. THIS TREE IS AWSOME! I just love the way that it turned out. I defiantley need more decor but these things are expensive. So everyear I will just have to add to it. HOPE YOU LIKE IT!

This is just a desk downstairs by my Christmas tree. Its just festive (and blurry) but my mom made that angle sitting on the chair by hand. IT is amazing. I will blow up the picture and show you in another post to justify its perfectness.

And last but not least my downstairs tree. It was such a disaster down there when I took the picture, but darling. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this tree. It was Coreys and I first and I just love it. It just makes you smile when you look at it. SILLY I know, but true.

Now for Coreys birthday. Now most of you who know me know that I am just not a seamstress but for Coreys birthday I wanted to make him something special. So of course the infamous Hillary Wright who is AMAZING at sewing taught me how. I spent many of hours working on this king size blanket for Corey and I just think that it turned out perfectly. All of the colors and prints scream Corey when you look at it. And needless to say he was very surprised and happy with the results as well. HAPPY BIRTHDAY COREY!

TWILIGHT!

2008-12-03T19:56:00.000-08:00

Um first things first...............I am obsessed and proud to say it. I loved loved loved the movie. ya ya ya its not as good as the book, but how could it be. I think that the movie hit all the major points and flowed nicley. I loved the characters. Like many others who have seen it say, as soon as they saw Edward they thought "EWE" why him, but by the end of the movie........could he have gotten any hotter. I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THEM. I have actually seen the movie twice. Once with my mom and sister and the second time with Hillary. We both decided to go see it randomly and bought the sound track and just listen to it everyday. OKAY OKAY I have a problem, but we can all dream sometimes right? Anyway, funny story when I went to see the movie with Hillary, Corey was driving home from Idaho where he had been hunting all day. So I went and recieved a call from him on Hillarys phone. I answered quietly "Hello" He says "Jess I'm locked out of the house." instantly I got nervous. I thought through my head the only way that he could get in is to come get the keys, but NO I didnt want to leave "THE MOVIE" hahaha so I said, "Sorry Corey what would you like me to do?" He instantly hangs up the phone in a fury. I just ignored it until, like 2 minutes later he calls back. "Jess I am locked out of the house I am going to have to come get the keys." At this point I was pissed. He was disturbing my movie and making me kind of worry which I didnt want to do. It was my girl time, he has been out all day with his friends and I didnt call him once.................but he was locked out of the house. I said "Corey I am sorry but I am not leaving this movie theatre, if you want to get inside the house you better figure out another way." Well maybe that was kind of harsh, but I knew that he would get over it.
So after the movie I called him and apparently he climed on top of the roof with one of my flower pots with his friend lifting him up at the same time. He unscrewed our skylight from the roof which landed into our hallway through this tiny square way. HAHAHA i just laugh thinking about what our neighbors must have thought. But anyway his friend lowered him to the best that he could throught the skylight and Corey landed inside our house. When I got home he showed me the skin that had been skidded off from the walls while he was falling.
WELL MAYBE HE WONT FORGET NEXT TIME HUH? AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH TWILIGHT, you have consumed all of my extra time. Corey is starting to get a lot annoyed. But what can you do. LOVE YOU BABE!

Random

2008-11-30T21:55:00.000-08:00

Its 11:00 at night and Corey is putting up Christmas lights!! I just had to blog about it...............So RANDOM!

Update

2008-11-24T17:04:00.000-08:00

Finally an update from the Lavin Clan. Everything has been fine, Corey and I are reajusting and I just recently put up my Thanksgiving shelf. I think that its a little bare but Christmas will be a whole nother story. Heres the shelf update. Then I went to Carrie Underwood with one of my closest friends from nursing school, ASHLEY! She was so nice to invite me. I have been to a lot of concerts but Carrie was by far one of the best that I have seen. She is simply amazing and blows most artists out of the water.

Last but not least I came home and found Corey sitting by our fire. I just thought that he looked so cozy and cute I couldnt help but capture the moment.

Update!

2008-11-11T17:53:00.000-08:00

So just recently Corey and I have both changed jobs and started a different life style, maybe or obvisously for a reason but we know that someone up there has a plan for us, but havent quite reaped the benefit of it yet or havent noticed, either or we are living in a crazy house with things everywhere, papers, vacuums, food, dishes and laundry that neither one of us wants to get to cause were to tired by the end of the day. I just started a new job at Millcreek Home Healthcare and so far really enjoy it. BUT there is nothing worse than orientation, I hate it! but have to learn it. I love everyone that I work with. Its truly how I picture nursing. Corey is still selling Tyvek just in a different way and for a different company and doing manual labor to. Our house is still for sale, but daily I think that were making the wrong decision about it because its ONLY THE WORST TIME IN HISTORY TO SALE A HOUSE! But were in no hurry and if we have no one thats interested we will just keep it. I do love it. I mainly just want to thank all of those who have been concerned or prayed for Corey and I in this past month. We have been through a lot but mineute stuff compared to others lives. But thank you. We have some great friends and family and would never trade there friendships or love for anything. Corey and I are looking towards the future and cant wait even though we know with OBAMA as the boss the world is going to come to an end and were all going to die, but man I am going to go out with dignity. haha

Tag of 8's!

2008-11-11T17:41:00.000-08:00

I havent been tagged in a really long time and I kind of like it, mainly because I like to talk about myself and let people know some things that they may not know about me! hahaha JK
Crazy 8's
My 8 favorite TV shows
1. Hills
2. Amazing Wedding Cakes
3. Gossip Girl
4. Anything on the Health channel ( I learn a lot)
5. Friends (even though their re-runs)
6. Seinfeld ( even though their re-runs)
7. Real world, or Road Rules ( I LOVE MTV, so high school)
8. Surprisingly sports, just caue I do it with Corey and he is sooooo it to it.
My 8 favorite restaurants ( I eat out way to much their all gross to me now)
1. RUMBI
2. Cafe Rio
3. Sampan
4. Panda Express
5. Pei Wei
6. Italian Village
7. Super Grinders
8. Olive Garden
8 things that happened to me yesterday
1. I started my new job
2. I met a lot of new people
3. Read an entire policy and procedure manual
4. Drove my care
5. Talked on the phone
6. Payed all our bills
7. Looked on the internet for like an hour
8. Watched all my DVR shows
8 things I look forward to
1. Family gatherings
2. Weekends
3. Starting a family
4. Going on a vacation of some sort
5. Getting out of debt
6. Talking to all my close friends
7. Helping my patients get better
8. Passing my NCLEX test
8 things on my wish list
1. Starting a family
2. Passing my NCLEX
3. Get out of debt
4. Having a new cute home with amazing decorations
5. SUMMER and HOT WEATHER
6. A vacation that Corey plans and I just have to go
7. To be organized
8. Fore me and my family to have good health
8 people I tag
1. Everyone or anyone on my list!
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YOU JUST NEVER KNOW!

2008-10-31T08:01:00.000-07:00

COREY AND I RECENTLY HAVE BEEN THROUGH SOME LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCES. IT HAS BEEN A SPIRITUAL GROWING AND HUMBLING EXPERIENCE. no I am not pregnant! UNFORTUATLEY THAT DOES HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT. I AM NOT GOING TO GET INTO TO MUCH DETAIL, BUT NEEDLESS TO SAY OUR HOME IS FOR SALE AND COREY AND I HAVE BOTH STARTED NEW CAREERS. CRAZY! IF YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED OUR HOUSE IS SO CUTE. I AM SUPER SAD, BUT I KNOW THAT IT IS FOR THE BEST. JUST LET ME KNOW! OH BY THE WAY HaPpY hAllOwEEn!!!!

FINALLY

2008-09-26T19:46:00.000-07:00

Okay so a lot has been going on lately including I was asked to speak on church last sunday, which I did and then we had my family pictures on Saturday and Coreys family pictures on Sunday. Also it was my siser in laws birthday and my dads. Then Corey and I finally decided that we would do a project. OOOOOOOOH how I love projects! When we bought this home there was a "so called" bathroom, laundry room down in our basement. Well come to find out a few months from living in the house we had a flood. Corey and I realized that it was coming from the toilet from downstairs and called a plumber. He came in (oh by the way it was like 11:00 AT NIGHT) but he came and pulled of the toliet and we saw a tree. There was a Tree with leaves and everything coming out of the plumbling of our toilet. IT WAS CRAZY! so we had to tear it all out including our yard to fix it. ANYWAY needless to say we never finished or remodeled the basement until now. I decided that I wanted to change the whole thing around which meant that Corey had to go rent a cement saw and cut the cement and hammer it out. It was a project thus far. BUT WE DID IT! here is a picture of poor Corey with the cement dust literally sticking and hardening on his face. I was laughing but he didnt think that it was funny. IT was as soon as you walked into the basement you starting coughing like crazy because of all the dust. Here are some pictures of our upcoming newly remodeled bathroom/laudry room hopefully.

HERE IT COMES.................

2008-09-17T09:23:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I was sitting in side cleaning my house and wondered why I havent heard Corey for a while. So I looked outside and this is what I saw. Corey cant wait till duck hunting, which is in like 2 weeks I guess. This is the time of year that I never see him. He has an OBSESSION, and I mean obsession. THank goodness I knew this before we got married and I knew what I was getting myself into. All it does is give me time to do the things that I love, like crafts, decorating and work. These pictures are of our dog IKE and Corey just sitting in the boat "pretending" like there shooting birds or something. hahahahaha I just thought that it was pretty cute.

Whoever said that it was to EARLY?

2008-09-16T16:31:00.000-07:00

So last week I decided to clean my house. Seriously thats not very often, anyway, while I was cleaning I noticed that in my kitchen where my shelf hangs I had all of my spring stuff up. So this year I decided that I would change my shelf out every holiday or season, you know for some change. In the meantime I drove to TAI PAN and spent way to much money.....but I love the way that it turned out. Now Corey on the other hand was kind of mad, cause even though he is more excited for fall to come he doesnt want to see Halloween stuff up until at least October. But I thought, "why spend money to see all of it sit in a box in a closet and only out of the box for like 20 or 30 days." Needless to say I like it and I kept it up and thats just the way that its gonna be. Let me know what you think, I rearranged the shelf like 50 times till I personally liked it, but no one has been over to tell me what they think yet.

The girls in my family got together and made these cute "BOO"S I exchanged my "FALL" that I made last year out and put the BOO in its place. Now this shelf couldnt get any SCARIER. haha

Wow!

2008-09-01T17:40:00.000-07:00

Wow its been a long time! SOOOOOOO Much has been going on. Corey and I have been really busy, but not really. hahaha But I have some recent pictures to update, since thats all thats really fun to look at anyway. Corey and I have been the same old, no changes here. I am still working at the same place as an RN though, under my temporary license. I am planning on taking my NCLEX test to become state certified this month. Corey is really busy at work, taking more job responsibility on, and now has to drive to St. George every other week for a couple days at a time. Just recently two of my closest friends went through the temple and were sealed to there companions for all eternity. You can look at Hillary's blog to see her pictures, but it was so amazing for her to invite us and for us to see the happiness in them both. Also while in Nursing school I met Ashley who I have now become really close to. Her and her highschool sweetheart, missionary got married on August 22. Here are some pictures of them and them at there amazing wedding. She had her wedding in her husbands (Forrest's) backyard. It was gorgeous.

That night we also went camping. Corey if you didnt know is an avid hunter, so whenever we can get away to the mountains he will try. Thank goodness Corey is so good to me, we used to tent it, but I hated it, so for Valentines day he surprised me and got a trailer. YEAH! he is really nice to me. But mostly it was for him, cause then I could join him. WHAT A DEAR! he took a picture of our "set-up" Corey calls it. He's so proud of all of his hard work, and so am I.

If you dont know my friend Hillary, you should meet her. I am so envious of her and her talents! She makes all the new wives look pathetic (no offense.) She is the perfect homemaker. Some of her talents include: Sewing her own wedding dress, bridesmaid dresses, and flower girls. She also makes these extravagant meals for her and her husband each night. EACH NIGHT!

SHOW OFF!!!!

Her and I have gotten together to do a few crafts and some have actually turned out pretty cute. We both hand made these turkeys last year and have decided to make these IGOR's for Halloween this year. We named them SHELA! hahaha inside joke, but I love them. All we have done our the faces and there hilarious. We couldnt stop laughing. It took us 5 hours to make. We sewed moles on them and little hairs. I guess you just had to be there but I love it.

Oregon day 7 and 8

2008-07-12T19:05:00.000-07:00

This is the morning of day 7. The day before when we ran around everywhere people just came home and went to sleep, we were all exhausted.

Starting from the bottom to the top and finishing 2 days. Sorry for the delay. We currently are waiting in the airport to take off to go home. Its bittersweet as always to leave here to go home, go back to work and life, but at the same time were sick of being here. hahaha well I have to tell you a little bit abou the bottom picture. Coreys brother Shawn has 2 boys one name is Brayden and ones name is Briggs. The picture shows Briggs with his "spiderman" who he is obsessed with. In fact as soon as we left from SLC Shawn asked if Briggs wanted to take his spiderman or not and Briggs said "no" and that he didnt want to loose it. UNFORTUNATLEY thats not what he meant. Since day 1 Briggs has cried everynight just cause he wants his spiderman. So thank goodness Corey went and bought him one cause poor Briggs couldnt go a day longer without it. Thanks Corey

OREGON DAY 6

2008-07-11T09:32:00.000-07:00

WELL SORRY ABOUT THE LATE POST, BUT AS FAMILIES WE ALL KIND OF SPLIT YESTERDAY. THE LINDQUISTS' WENT TO CAPE PERPETUA TO HIKE AND SEE SCENIC VIEWS ALONG WITH SHAWN, BRADY AND BRIGGS. THE EISENHOURS WENT TO THE SEA LION CAVES AND SAW A BLUE WHALE. BOB AND JO WENT TO THE FLEA MARKET ALONG WITH NEWPORT AGAIN TO SHOP AROUND AND EAT AT MORE COOL RESTURAUNTS AND COREY AND I STAYED AT THE BEACH HOUSE RELAXED AND SLEPT. HAHAHAHA YOU KNOW STAYING WITH ALL THESE KIDS YOU DONT GET SLEEP LIKE YOU NORMALLY DO AND WE ARENT USED TO THAT. BUT UNFORTUNATLEY I CANT BE EVERYWHERE AND DONT HAVE THE HOOK UPS FOR EVERYONES CAMERA TO LINK TO THE COMPUTER, BUT JUST SO YOU KNOW WE ARE STILL HAVING A TON OF FUN AND ARE LOOKING TO HAVE A LOT OF FUN TODAY ON OUR LAST FULL DAY OF OREGON FUN.

Oregon Day 5

2008-07-09T22:26:00.000-07:00

And Crabbing day 1...................... this morning we all got up around 10:00 am, ate breakfast and decided to go into a new town called Newport to shop around and try out this whole crabbing thing that people just rave about. This is a picture of the fam at the docks and piers at Newport and we found a boat called "miss sue" that we all thought was pretty neat, because we have a family member whos name is SUZANNE or SUE, haha I hope she sees this we were thinking of you today.

We also ate at this yummy restaurant called Port Dock One. I had their kids meal grilled cheese and everyone else had some sort of seafood crap. You know the one when you chew up your food in your mouth and then show everyone.....................ewe. JK

Then after much delay we finally decided to go catch some crabs, that sounds bad, but you know what I mean. So we drove to this place that BOB HAD TO GET OUT OF THE CAR and ask for directions and from all places a police officer. We joked around that he must have been reminising (spelling?) about old cop stuff event though they had never met, but he told us to try this place called Walport and try their dock. He claimed that where we were was to windy, so we agreed, left and ended up to Walport, Oregon. When we got there the wind was blowing only about 40 mph and 40 degrees (maybe some exaggerating there) but needless to say it was a cold one. Here are some pictures of the putting together of the crab crew.

How to catch a crab: First you have to get a crab license which is about $9.00 then you had to get a crab net or basket. We rented those for about $10.00 each. Then you have to buy bait. Some people were just using raw chicken or raw something, but where we were they had frozen minks, which were about another $7.00 EACH. So all in all we spent about $26.00 dollars or more on catching crabs. This is a big deal, and with clamming the day before the men knew that they had to provide for there families so whoever could catch the most or whatever the joke was that that family would be provided for. There were rules though, the crabs had to be over 5 and a half inches wide and they had to be male, so it wasnt an easy task. As you can see from the picture of Bob above he was getting pretty nervous about it.

Nate caught one but it was toooooooo SMALL, sorry Nate no food for you.

First caught crab for the family went to my brother in law Chris, unfortunatley he has 5 kids and a wife so they would need more then one crab to cover them.

Corey caught a crab for him and I so I knew that I wasnt going to go hungry.

But we ended up with 3 crabs total and I think that the boys had a lot of fun. The fisherman of the dock talked the group of guys to come back up in the morning at about 5:00 am to try for the best time of crabbing, but I couldnt even dream of getting up that early to do that and just to take pictures, NO WAY! Right at the end of the trip Bob noticed something white and all buy itself swimming around. Corey had a water bottle that he squished into the water to suck up the white blob and it ended up being a little jelly fish. I thought that it was kind of cool, so I took a picture of it.

PS. Congradulations to Shane, Emily and Brooks. YOu guys look adorable together with your new addition to the family. We are glad that all things went well and safe. We love you guys and cant wait to see the little guy when we come home. Congrats to the HOFHINES.

Oregon Day 4

2008-07-08T21:25:00.000-07:00

AND clam day 2. So today we woke up and had a fairly early morning and started with more clamming. The boys refused to give up on the whole clamming idea. But thankfully there were some Oregon natives to help us all the way to success. Now I am going to explain some of these pictures because you may be thinking some crazy things when you see the actual clams and maybe rethink eating them...................................hahahaha

Some of the family went to go clamming, but there were some that came yesterday and didnt want to waste their time watching for some tiny little stupid clams, but boy were they surprised when we returned home.

Corey was so hungry he couldnt wait

Diggin.......

Diggin.....................................

and then JACKPOT!!! picture is Coreys dad, BOB or papa. We ended up with a whole bucket full of clams.

We were so excited that we couldnt wait to go home to have NANA actually cook us up some clam chowder or clam dip or clam whatever. BUT when we took them home they started to dig but had no place to go, only to show us something that we werent expecting.

Now I know exactly what your thinking. But its nature people...............Those "thingys" that are emerging are called SIPHONS. Those are how they dig into the dirt or sand. They say that they can dig up to 9 inches in 1 minute which is pretty incredible.

How to catch a clam is you walk around the sandy bay and you can spot these random holes in the ground. You penetrate the shovel into the ground straight down and all of the sudden this "SQUIRT" of water flies out and you have to get down on your hands and knees to start digging as fast as you can to try to catch them. These actual clams are called soft shell clams so there shells are extremley hard to not break, but it was a lot of fun and something that we'll always remember.

The whole clamming group.

The weather got to about 65 degrees and the wind blew about 45 mph maybe faster. It was soooooooo miserable. Next to our house there is a little cove that we were able to get out of the wind a little bit and started to play volleyball, which our family just loves.

Oregon Day 3

2008-07-07T18:50:00.000-07:00

Soooooo Today was a lot of fun, but..........................the weather sheesh its freezing, but of course we made the best of it. The kids couldnt even tell that it was high of only 62 degrees and the water burrrrr, and they just kept a truckin. HAHA there nuts. Corey was along side of them every step of the way. This morning started with a clam hunt. We bought licenses to go clam digging and claimed that we would bring all of them home and have NANA cook us up some clam chowder..................................LOL

(JUST DIGGIN)

(MORE DIGGIN)..... and then success

HAHA look at all those clams...........either way it was fun, but no clam chowder for tonight

Next we all went to a cute restraunt and had a few burgers for the kids and Halibut fish and chips for the adults and mmmmmmm were they tasty, heres a picture of the after word clean up.
A full day of fun....................................................

Led to this...............................................................

WE ALSO STARTED AND FINISHED A COOL PUZZLE TODAY heres the group of the puzzle wizzes and the finished product.

P.S. WE MISS THE FAMILY THAT COULDNT BE WITH US AND THAT IS ANOTHER REASON WHY I AM DOING THIS TO KEEP YOU GUYS UP TO DATE AND NOT FEEL LIKE YOUR MISSING OUT ON TO MUCH. love you

OREGON IS HERE

2008-07-06T15:28:00.000-07:00

So here we are Oregon time. Coreys family all decided to plan a trip to Oregon, which I love it keeps us all close and we love being together. But anyway so we all bought plane tickets and went in on renting a beach house RIGHT NEXT TO THE OCEAN! I have never been to Oregon before but Corey and there family have been there a few times so I have decided (since I am so bad at blogging) to do a 8 day diary of the trip. So here we go.....................We left on July 5th and flew Southwest straight to Portland Oregon. Our flights didnt leave until 7:00 pm so through out the entire day we have been so anxious to leave. NOTE: Coreys family consists of 20 people who are going 8 adults and 12 little children. Here is some pictures in the airport and on the plane.

The picture on the left is just Corey and I waiting for our plane the one on the right is outside the window of the plane just as we were pulling up to Oregon.

Briggs or (mister mister) and Corey are just snoozing away on the plane ride.

We got to the beach house at 1:30 am in Oregon and 2:30 am at home time. We were exhausted. What happened was from the airport in Portland we had to drive 3 hours to the Oregon coast. So as soon as we got off the plane we went and rented 4 cars drove for over 4 hours due to stops of the little kiddys and adults having to go to the bathroom. UGH!! I was soooooooooooooo onery. I just asked everyone to leave me alone so NO ONE WOULD STOP LIKING ME, cause I can get pretty nasty. HA

Heres the picture of the beach house in the front and the back, our rented car is the F150 truck is was brand new, so we got lucky.

Here are just some extra pictures, of the trip of our first day the best one is the star fish they were everywhere it was weird.

Mission Call

2008-07-06T15:21:00.000-07:00

Coreys brother got his mission call. How exciting we are so proud of him. He will be the very first male in the family to ever go on one so its quite a deal here from the Lavin house hold. He got his mission call to Pheniwick, (spelling?) Whashington. Congradulations Nate we love you. He is leaving on October 2nd. GOOD LUCK! Youll be a great missionary.

AM I ACTUALLY DONE?

2008-06-18T09:44:00.000-07:00

WHAT AN AMAZING FEELING! I have finally graduated from Nursing school. On June 13th I had to wake up early to take the "exit exam" to finally finish my nursing school career. The exit exam is the test the you take before the school can send your transcript to the state for you to recieve your actual licensure. It was literally one of the hardest tests that I have ever taken in my life. I was smart by going to the temple to night before and then having Corey give me a blessing that morning, cause I passed. PHEW! Unfortunatley the school had computer issues and everyone was freaking out that morning so out of 50 students only 8 of us passed. But for sure next time all my fellow classmates will do GREAT!

I dont know if I have mentioned this to anyone, but I had to plan our entire graduation for our class of 50. We decided to do a pinning ceremony instead of "walking" in a cap and gown. IT was a little bit more personal for each one of us and I was glad that we did it. But I decided to have it at Willow Creek Country Club and have a sit down dinner and after words having the pinning ceremony. I couldnt believe the effort that it took, I kind of felt like I was planning another wedding, except that I was the wedding planner, financial aide personal, the decorater, the speaker, the cordinator, the seating arrangment guru............etc. WOW! So for me it was that much more of an accomplishment. BUT IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS and I am grateful for that. Her are a few pictures of the night, I took more on my parents camera and will update later. Thanks to all who supported me and wished me a Congrats, I really appreciate it and am so pround of myself which is an amazing feeling.

This is a picture of me my parents and Corey sitting at our dinner table waiting to eat.

This is the "CLAN" Corey wasnt that good at taking the picture so its not that cute, but these are my girls they are the ones who helped me get through the toughest 2 years of my life! thanks love ya!

This is a random picture but one of my favorites. Our school colors are red, white, and blue and my mom and I came up with this idea for our center pieces. I rented these glass vases from Diamond Rental and we put blue rocks that are usually suppose to go in the bottom of fish tanks. Then we put water and white floating candles on top. We also bought some cute ribbon to put around them to dress them up a bit, and I think they turned out so cute.

WELL WELL WELL

2008-06-03T18:23:00.000-07:00

Okay so heres the deal-e-o I GRADUATE IN 2 1/2 weeks. aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh what a thrilling experience. I will offically be an RN grad and cant be more excited. Corey and I have already have just been planning away for our future and what is to come. A lot has changed since I last blogged, some good some bad. My besty CHANTY CLAIRE moved to BFE or Indiana and my nephew Isaac has offically turned one years old. I cant believe how time flew. Oh and I am going to be done with school (for now) well until I want to go get my masters or something. BUT I am defiantley taking a break. My friend Ashley got engaged FINALLY to the man that she knew she would marry and our closest neighbors and friends the HOFHINES are due in about a month and we are soooooooo EXCITED for them and for baby Bentley to arrive. So as of right now I am doing homework and studying for my last final and am getting a little emotional on how amazing it is and what an accomplish it is for me to have completed something that I have always wanted to do. Thanks for all my family and friends and there support and especially Corey for his patients and help throughout I love you all!

MODBE MODBE WHOS GOT MODBE!

2008-05-18T08:30:00.000-07:00

HEY EVERYONE SO MY MODBE PARTY IS ON THURSDAY MAY22, 2008 SO IF YOU WANNA COME PLEASE LET ME KNOW. THEY HAVE SO MANY NEW CUTE MODEST SWIMSUITS AND CLOTHES TO WEAR. LET ME KNOW AND I WILL GIVE YOU DIRECTIONS TO MY HOME.
THANKS

CUTEST BABY EVER

2008-04-27T20:41:00.001-07:00

My nephew Isaac is just the cutest thing ever. He is going to celebrate is one year at the end of May. He is just walkin and talkin and being a little booger butt. But I love him to bitz and pieces and just think that he is the cutest thing ever.

Camping with the HOFHINES!

2008-04-27T20:18:00.000-07:00

So Corey, I, Wendy, and Cody went camping on Friday to get away from the world and try out our trailers. Corey and I just bought a trailer a couple weeks ago and Cody and Wendy bought theres at the end of camping season last year so we both needed to go take it out and enjoy the mountain breeze. It was a lot of fun spending time with them and there cute family. They have a dog just like Ike who they have trained and grown to love like we do with our little pooch. It was still a little chilly while camping but Corey insisted that we go home on Saturday so he wouldnt miss the JAZZ game on Saturday night. THANK GOODNESS THAT THEY WON. Here are a few pictures of the trip.

This is Ike just watching Corey shoot his BOW!

This is Corey just practicing his shot!

Our little family!

MODBE PARTY

2008-04-12T20:48:00.000-07:00

TO ALL WHO ARE INTERESTED I AM HAVING A MODBE PARTY AT MY HOUSE. I WILL GIVE OUT MORE INFORMATION SOON. JUST LET ME KNOW IF YOUR INTERESTED IN COMING SO I CAN PLAN ACCORDINGLY. THANKS! ILOVEMODBE

HUBBY TAG!

2008-04-11T19:52:00.000-07:00

How long have you been married? 2 years and 8 months!

How long did you date? around 3 or 4 years, it is all blended now!

Who eats more sweets? Corey for sure. HE LOVES CHOCOLATE! (what a girl)

Who said I love you first? Corey did and that then led us to our first fight because I couldnt believe that he could have fallen in love with someone so fast and I didnt want him playing with my emotions.

How old is he? 24.

Who is taller? Corey.

Who is smarter? that is kind of a sad question, of course were both smarter in certain things, but mostly me. hahahaha

Who sings better? Definatley me, Corey cant carry a tune PERIOD.

Who does the laundry? OH MAN, this is one of the most common arguments that Corey and I have, but recently he has been doing all the laundry and I like it.

Who pays the bills? ME, FOR SURE! SAVE SAVE SAVE Corey SPEND SPEND SPEND.

Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I do.

Who mows the lawn? Corey, I love doing yard work though, I would much rather be outside then inside anyday.

Who drives? Corey typically drives.

Who is more stubborn? I would definatley say COREY but he would without a question would say me!

Who kissed who first? Corey kissed me first and it was my FIRST ONE! first and only, now how many ladies can say that?

Who asked who out? I asked him out for our first date, weird I know.

Who has more siblings? COREY.

Who wears the pants? DEFINATLY ME, Corey puts up with a lot but that is why I married him, because there is no one else that could do it. XOXOXO

I tag...EVERYONE ON MY LIST

How long has it been?

2008-04-10T14:32:00.000-07:00

SERIOUSLY I NEED TO BE A BETTER BLOGGER!

I have been extremely busy with school and work and school and husband and the list goes on. Right now my schedule consists of going to school on Monday, hospital on Tuesday and Wednesday, school on Thursday and work on Friday and some Saturdays and Sundays. WHOA! And not only that busy schedule but latley I havent been sleeping in the same room or bed with Corey because I have come down with a nasty cold and cough. Needless to say that is why I havent updated my blog.

TO be honest though nothing has changed hahahahahah. BORING OLD MARRIED COUPLE!! A few weeks ago I woke up and looked outside and noticed that it was a blizzard. I am so upset, so I called my friend Ashley from school and asked if she wanted to go to St. George and bask in the sun. She agreeded! So I went and picked her up and we drove to St. George on Thursday and came home on Saturday. While it was a blizzard here is was 80 degrees there. Best decision thus far in the month of April. Here are a few before and after pictures of the trip.

The first picture is right by Ashley's house when we were leaving and the second one is right when we got there, right next to JIMMIE JONS. YUM! what a difference.

NEED TO UPDATE

2008-03-14T18:16:00.000-07:00

Well I need to update this thingy, but just havent found the time and to be honest with you havent had anything fun to talk about. Corey and I went to the dealership to buy a new trailer today and found the perfect one. So tomorrow there suppose to call us and give us all the financial updates and then we'll be on our way to the high country to camp in luxury. hahaha Seriously though if any of you were thinking about buying a trailer but never did, think about it again and do it. It is such a good investment. You can claim it on your taxes as a second dwelling and you can take your family out and fill your life with lots of memories. I also had to say something about the whole BABY thing. I look all around me and see that someone is having a baby. Close friends, lots of family members and strangers are all PREGNANT!! Good for you guys it makes us all who arent getting pregnant jealous and all who eventually want to have a baby, baby hungry. CONGRATS to all!! I will update our blog with pictures and things that I have been promising when I get the time to do it. OH and when we buy our new trailer.

TAG TAG TAG A ROO!

2008-02-29T14:20:00.000-08:00

10 years ago... I was 11 and to be honest with you, nothing worth remembering. I seriously cant think of one thing. PATHETIC!

6 places I visited..New York, Oregon, Bahamas, Cozumel, California, Florida.

I enjoy... Crafts, decorating my house, talking with old friends, going to weddings, and spending time with my husband and family.

Bad Habits...
1. Not cleaning my car, it is seriously disgusting.
2. Never being on time.
3. Eating junk food when I am bored
4. And Corey adds one and says when I yell "COR" hahahahaha hilarious

5 things you may not no about me...
1. I still turn on the sink when I go to the bathroom at home, so no one can hear me. haha
2. My favroite color is green
3. I am obsessed with the sun and summer
4. I hate going to see movies (I will go but I dont like to)
5. I am the pickiest eater that you will ever know.

Jobs I've had... LPN (LEGACY), CNA (home health), Mikes glass, VW, Copper Rivet

I tag..EVERYONE ON MY LIST

UPDATE UPDATE READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!

2008-02-28T12:59:00.000-08:00

FINALS are over and I feel like I did a pretty good job. WHO KNOWS cause for some reason my school dosent tell you whether or not you passed until you have already started your next semester and then................"We're sorry to tell you but you didnt pass your finals so you are unable to go on and you have to retake your classes." What A JOKE!!! ANyway-------THE FEELING OF SPRING is in the air. It is like 55 degrees today and it feels amazing.
Since I am off this entire week I couldnt stand just sitting around and Corey is constantly sick of me starting new projects, which I will admit I do one at least everyweekend. Whether it be a craft or a remodel in our home. So I started cleaning out our second bedroom and was looking around and we have this hidious furniture that Corey had in his old bedroom that had been passed down from grandma to mom to brother to sister to Corey.........................so as you can see it needed a face lift. So as of right now I am giving it one. I will for sure to before and after pictures when it is completed. But so far so good my time off has been. I cant wait to get going to school again so I can finish. YEAH!!!! 3 more months.

FiNaLs!!!!!

2008-02-19T08:10:00.000-08:00

Today is the last day of this semester for me. It is a big one too because my next semester will be my last. I just got teary eyed writing this because it is such a huge accomplishment for me to do something so big and meaningful. So today I have 4 huge finals and then I am free of school for 2 weeks. I am really looking forward to this time off and hopefully Corey and I can take a trip somewhere. WEll CONGRADUALATIONS to me I am super excited and anxious to get it all over with here in the next following months.

True Story

2008-02-08T17:30:00.000-08:00

So now that I have graduated with my LPN Corey insists that I got a job. Well deep down I knew that I didnt want to waste all the money that I spent on school and not use it. Sooooooo after getting out of the shower one day ( which everyone knows that that is for some reason my time to think. My mind all of the sudden becomes clear and I remember all of these things and thing of all my ideas.........................which explain why there 45 minutes long) but anyway so I was getting out of the shower and decided to just post my resume on careerbuilder.com. The next day I had almost 7 phone calls with people who were interested in me to work for them. So I set up a few interview days and at one job which is called Legacy Rehab and Nursing I went and she was so desperate for nurses that she hired me on the spot. I have to work two days a week for 12 hours. Some wonderful things about it is that its just up the street from where I live seriously like 5 minutes away and the pay is great, compared to the hospital going rate. So I am deep down excited to actually distribute some around the house but nervous cause I hate working and I hate getting up early and working oh did I mention that I hate working. I am looking forward to getting to know how things work around the company and becoming a better nurse.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHLEY

2008-01-29T08:51:00.001-08:00

It was one of my best girl friends birthdays on Sunday. She is 22 now. She is one of the sweetest most genuine people that I have ever met. Throughout school she has been my back bone and I seriously think that without her it would have been sooooooooo HARD to get through. She is a great girl and an amazing example to me I love her to bits and pieces and I am glad that we are such great friends. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHLEY. (shes the one on the farthest left)

TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE

2008-01-29T08:15:00.000-08:00

So this morning has been a complete disaster coming to school. I was 25 minutes late and am sitting here in class and now almost an hour later people are still walking in late. The teacher hasnt even showed up. I wish I knew cause I am sooooooooooo TIRED!!! welp what do ya do.

Over the weekend continuted.....

2008-01-28T16:20:00.000-08:00

Next my good friend Maloree D showed me this cutest idea of a calender so I decided to go and make me one. Now this calender was made from scratch and all my idea. But I think that it turned out pretty cute.

Over the Weekend

2008-01-28T16:14:00.000-08:00

Over the weekend I was pretty bored. And if you know me at all you would know that I just cant sit down. I have to always be up and doing something. So I decided to do a few projects. One being I came up with an idea of how to paint my front room. So the pictures show that.

What a GREAT man!

2008-01-27T19:25:00.000-08:00

How sad this day is and how sad the week will be. We have all looked up to him and loved him dearly. The president of the church, Gordon B. Hinkley has passed away today, January 27, 2008. He has done many things for our church and a wonderful man that we have all looked to for advice and comfort. We will personally miss him and it has been a shock to us all. We loved him dearly and are some what satisfied that he is now with his sweet wife. It just gives us more motivation to try to be more like him and to look at all of the wonderful things that he has done for us all.

Holy Cow

2008-01-24T18:55:00.001-08:00

HOLY COW I NEED TO UPDATE THIS THINGY MAGIGGY. WELL RIGHT NOW I AM SITTING IN MY FRONT ROOM PAINTING, SO BEFORE I GO AND TAKE A PICTURE AND POST IT I WANT TO FINISH. SO I WILL BE ADDING THINGS SOON OR AS SOON AS I GET OFF MY LAZY BUTT AND DO IT. oh AND I HOPE THAT IT SNOWS TONIGHT AND TOMORROW THAT WAY I DONT HAVE TO GO TO CLINICALS. THAT WOULD BE AWSOME. I DONT FEEL LIKE WAKING UP AT FOUR THIRTY.

School :(

2008-01-16T15:29:00.000-08:00

Heres the deal, I am right now sitting in school listening to who knows what. I should be paying attention but it is so hard for me do to the fact that I cant stand how unfair I think that this school runs. We have about 40 students in our one semester which is too big for certain classes, so what they did was split us up into 20 each. So when one 20 group is in one the class the other one is in the other..................................get it? Normally we are suppose to stay in class until about 5:30 but for some reason or another there is always one class that gets out earlier. Now as annoying as it sounds, who cares is what everyone is thinking, well after you sit in class for 7-8 hours if you have the opportunity to get out, you would want to get out. Anyway last week while my group sat in class until about 6:00 overtime the other group got out around 4:00. So this week when we were suppose to get out early the other group started to complain soooooooooooooooooo MUCH! LONG STORY SHORT NOW WERE STAYING UNTIL 5:30 AND THERE STAYING UNTIL 5:30. I AM PISSED, SO UNFAIR. STUPID I KNOW BUT I JUST WANT TO GET OUT OF THIS HELL HOLE.

Update On the Surgery Dealy Whacker!

2008-01-09T08:32:00.000-08:00

So first of all I would like to thanks all those folks who fasted and prayed for Corey cause I can tell you that it helped. Corey and I went to the hospital on Monday morning at 11:30 ready for the surgery. The night before neither I or Corey slept one bit. I have never been more sick about something in my entire life. Anyway, Corey and I sat in the waiting room for about an hour just waiting for the doctor to finish his surgery before us, and Coreys mom showed up to keep me some company, but manly to keep me from going crazy. Finally the nurse came in to get Corey and we followed him into the pre-op room. Corey changed into a gown and socks and a hair net to get ready for surgery. The nurse came in and put and IV into Corey and injected some normal saline to keep him hydrated and some antibiotics to keep infection from attacking his body during the surgery. The doctor came in and I expressed my concern to him about how I didnt feel comfortable about him going into surgery without them doing another CT scan or x-ray to see where the stone is. Seriously why though if you think about it why would the docotor go in there and fish around down there and find that there is nothing there. SERIOUSLY! So he listened to me hahahahahaha a so called nurse and rechecked with an x-ray to make sure that the stone hasnt moved or even where it was. Coreys mom and I just sat and waited for a while and until Coreys returned. Not long after after they returned the doctor came in and sat down and told us that the x-ray showed nothing. There was no longer a stone or if there was it wasnt in sight. The doctor kept insisting that Corey must have passed it but I personally have watched his every move and he hadnt. Plus I think that Corey would have known whether or not that he passed the stone, why would he lie. It was a medical miracle. hahahahahaha No seriously how else do you explain it. So there for Corey didnt go through with the surgery and he is doing totally fine. We are so grateful for my family and all their support. It is such a blessing to have the church in my life and for the love and kindness that surrounds us everyday with everyone that we know and love. Thank goodness Corey didnt have to go through with the surgery and we thank are lucky stars for that.

2008-01-07T20:02:00.000-08:00

I CANT WAIT TILL TOMORROW TO SEE MY GIRLS!!!!!!!!! (but thats the only thing that I am excited about)

Monday Morning

2008-01-06T18:45:00.000-08:00

So Corey on Monday @ 11:30 is going into surgery for his kidney stone thingy. He is nervous but thanks to our family support we are feeling much better about the whole ordeal. We all had a family fast for him today including all of Coreys' neices' and nephews', which was so sweet. It is the first time Corey has ever been completley under anesthetics. But surprisingly even the family members that arent religious fasted to, so I would just like to say that sometimes the hardest ordeals that occur are what can bring the spirit even closer......................even for those who claim that they dont have it. Coreys nephew and neice wrote the sweetest letters to corey hoping that he gets well soon.

SURGERY!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHH

2008-01-04T16:23:00.000-08:00

So as of today Corey still has not passed this bloody stone and he might have to go to surgery on Monday if it doesnt pass by then. What a nightmare! Oh and above all that school starts again on Tuesday, and I have to get my lazy butt up and try to find a job.
GOOD NEWS I PASSED MY NCLEX! So now I am offically an LPN!

OVER THE HOLIDAYS

2008-01-02T11:37:00.000-08:00

Oh man, I cant believe that Christmas has already come and gone along with the NEW YEAR! 2008 what a year this will be. I have already set up a ton of goals and things that I would like to accomplish.
Over this holiday we have been inseperable to both of our families. We have been hanging out and doing things almost everyday.
On new years eve Corey and I went to my parents house to have a huge family bash. During the party Corey got really really sick and just decided to lay down for the rest of the time. I woke him up around 11:45 so he could see the ball drop and have a new years kiss. When it was all done we went home and went to bed. Still though Corey didnt feel good so I gave him some IB profen and a heating pad and went to bed. Much to my surprise around 2:30 in the morning I can hear the bath running and Corey sitting next to the toilet, throwing up. He was in so much pain that he started to throw up. So I got dressed and took Corey to the emergency room. The stuck him with an IV and gave him some morphine and took him to do a CT scan, and low and behold COREY HAS KIDNEY STONES! We didnt even get home till 6:30 that morning. Still today Corey has not passed the stone. I am just cleaning my house and babysitting him. GOOD THING I AM A NURSE! Seriously cause he is probably one of the worst patients that I have ever had...............no offense to him. But it has been quite an experience, there is nothing worse then having someone you love so much in so much pain and you cant do anything.
So as of right now Corey is calling his dad to come give him a blessing and we are having Corey's sister bring over some dinner. And then on Tuesday school starts again, so hopefully Corey will get better and we can have a good rest of the holiday.

2007-12-17T17:24:00.000-08:00

HERES ANOTHER PICTURE, TELL ME WHAT YA THINK OF IT!!!!!!

2007-12-17T17:22:00.001-08:00

COREY JUST RECENTLY SURPRISED ME WITH THIS GIFT OVER THE WEEKEND. FINALLY FRONT ROOM FURNITURE. IT JUST CHANGED THE WHOLE LOOK OF OUR HOUSE, MORE AND MORE IT FEEL LIKE HOME............................... NOW ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DECORATE THE ROOM.