Happy Birthday!!!

Hey Everybody, I (Lance) have the most amazing wife in the world, and it is her twenty-third birthday! I have written a poem for the occasion.

Dani is a girl.
she is also a person.
I am glad that she is.
If not it would be awkward.
because you can't be married to an animal or alien.
except for maybe in Amsterdam
where i don't live.
so I'll be happy I married a person.

Sorry, I get so choked up over these kind of things. It's just that she means a lot to me. Happy birthday honey! I love you and hope that we have many more together.

Decisions...Decisions.....Decisions

I have had so many things I have wanted to blog about lately but just haven't gotten to them. There was Lance's Birthday, 4th of July and lots of other things but they have passed so we won't go there. The biggest reason why I am throwing this blog in here is because things have simply just been stressing me out. I haven't been able to just relax for a while and it drives Lance crazy! I'm always planning or stressing on what him or I have to do next. He has been very patient with me!

Our latest dilemma has been INSURANCE! It has caused more then one problem for us, but I think it has also given us answers to many decisions we have had to make. Let me explain. It all started with the adoption process getting started. In order to adopt you have to have proof of insurance that you can provide insurance for a child. That got me thinking about what we were going to do for insurance once the plan we currently have is up. I have been keeping my eye out for something that will work in our situation which isn't very much. There is one plan that we had about a year ago that covered accident and illness, we were able to have it for a total of a year. I was thinking OK so we will just get on that plan again and add the child to the plan. Well I had made a phone call about getting back on this plan but I found out that one of the questions on the paperwork for the insurance was, are you in the process of adoption? Well crap there goes that! If you are in the process you will be denied! There goes my option for insurance unless my husband tries to find a new job that pays what his current job pays with benefits. Not so easy right now. No insurance means no baby!

All these things just kept hitting us. When I had finished the phone call about the insurance I had a nervous breakdown because all Lance and I want are to be parents. I couldn't handle it so I took a minute to breakdown. I then picked myself up and pulled myself together. I just keeping thinking to myself why does everything in my life have to have so many loops and hoops and twists and turns. Never is there a nice paved road. Such is Life! Grin it and bair it. As I have been thinking about how on earth are we going to do this. Well I won't bore you with all the other info since you have the gist.

Lance and I have been thinking the last couple days that maybe we need to wait on the adoption. As hard as that is to swallow and accept it takes care of alot of the stresses I'm feeling which maybe a sign that our little baby isn't ready for us yet or that Lance and I just need more time. That's the conclusion we have come to and who knows maybe after we go talk to a caseworker we will feel differently. Things change.

There is good news in the insurance department. The state of Utah has a plan for people who are uninsurable. It can get costly but it's doable. So there is relief through this whole mess and it feels great! Now what am I going to have to worry about? Ahhh yes! Lance getting his Medical School applications in! I will always have something to worry about!

P.s. Sorry for the rambling but it feels really good to just write all this down and get it out of my brain and relax! Thanks for listening( or reading)!

Caution: Results May Very

It all starts with a what I thought was a wonderful box of lash and brow tint. I have had it for a while but haven't tried it. Lash and brow tint is something I do on a regular basis at school so I wasn't to worried. But things didn't go as planned! Also let me mention this is after using color remover and anything else I could find!


So after laughing and crying for a minute with my buddy Baillie I tried doing some waxing and well lets just say I hope it wears off the skin a bit after a couple washes!


P.S. I scare myself a little more every time I look in the mirror.
P.P.S. Evidently Baillie says I look like Mr. Potato Head! How Rude! It should look a little better once I put some makeup on, maybe a heavy eyeliner to match the brow?

A Day of Happy Happynings

Today was an exciting day! Being that it was our second anniversary, we were finally able to go over to LDS Family Services to pick up our initial paperwork so that we can adopt a child. Those guys don't mess around when it comes to making sure that the perspective adoptive parent are well qualified. The packet we picked up outlined what will likely take several months of work to complete. Oh well, I guess none of the important things in life come easy.
Another bright and cheery moment of the day occurred when Lance checked to see if his MCAT Score had been posted. It had and he got a 33!!! (For the majority of you that may be unfamiliar with the MCAT, The score is out of 45 possible, with 24 being average. That puts him in about the ninetieth percentile of all medical school applicants that take the test which will hopefully mean that getting accepted to a medical school will at least be possible).
We celebrated the happy day by going out to eat at Iron Gate Grill. When we got home, we ate some of Lance's Creme Brulee. Yummy!

Caving Adventures Above Tony Grove

My Friends and I have recently taken advantage of the rapidly melting snow in the tony grove lake area. Last wee we were able to drive within a mile of the lake and so we set off on foot to the high country around the lake in order to explore a few of the many caves in the area.
Below are several of the pictures from our adventures.