Sisters weekend finally (4 weeks later)

We started the weekend off with our beloved crepes in Paris.
Then beth and I found these high style pants at zaras originaly $69.99
pretty close to mom jeans

Who looks better in the dress?
Love'n the MAC store

Sitten pretty in Paris
Long story (this was the dare)
Beth will most likely explain. look at her blog bethandbrandoncurtis.blogspot
The big girls go out late to do NOTHING
Here we are at our favorite Restaurant "Joe's" Erin and I are eating the most delish salad We are at the entrance of the show "O"
Waiting patiently for "O" to start Beth and I are sad that it was are last night together

Well its been awhile since we had this blessed weekend. I love sisters weekend. Growing up I never thought I would ever miss my sisters or even love them and enjoy being with them. But I do I really love being with my sister and of course my wonderful mother. The night before we left I felt like it was going to be Christmas morning when I woke up. That's how excited I get. We had a blast and I haven't laughed so much in a long time. We were all funny at one time. or another. But I want you to know that I was the most daring of the sisters. I will show some pics of the dare. My mom is a little ashamed of us for this one but sorry mom it had to be done.

wedding weekend

This is us with the lovely couple Ryan and kim "congrats you guys"
This is us at the wedding dinner
This is us at dinner with brocks good friend Drew and his wife brenda

We stayed up pretty late chatting and laughing at good ole chicago pizza.

This past weekend we went to Denver for one of brocks good friends from childhood. Actually both the bride and groom were his goods friends growing up. Well, we had a fun time in Denver we left on Friday around 6:00 pm and arrived there at 2:00 am. then left Sunday around 10:00am. So it was a really short trip. One thing that I learned on this trip was don't be so sure of yourself. What I mean by that is I pride myself in how organized I am and how I like to be in charge of the family. One of the things that I make sure I do is pack for brock. He is just used to me packing for him so I can't stop now. I rather have it that way anyways ( I guess that's my controlling side). Any ways, Saturday morning I just got out of the shower and I realized I forgot to pack my make up. What is a girl to do with out makeup. I told brock that we had to go to Nordstoms or the nearest MAC store. So we went to Nordstroms, me with out make up and brock pouting (because he hates the mall). So of course I had them do my make up and I also bought some to touch up with. I was a little shocked because of how much it was because I also had to buy brushes those things are expensive I spent $1??.00. But I had to buy the good stuff, no use of buying the cheap stuff that I wouldn't use. Right? anyways I was happy . After Nordstoms we went to meet one of brocks friends and his two girls at Orange Julius the girls were so cute and were in love with Hanna Montana of course. Then We got home to get ready for the wedding and and of course I had everything for me but then brock asked, " amy where are my socks and cuff links?" in a sweet voice. I was about to have a melt down. But instead I insisted that we go to the store on the way to the wedding. But brock (if you don't know brock he could care less what he is wearing) he said its not a big deal I'll just wear my suit jacket over my shirt and fold the sleeves and then he just slipped on his shoes with out any socks. I was feeling really bad but he didn't care. But good thing that brocks dad had an extra pair of socks so he only had one thing wrong with his outfit ( I mean attire). So the wedding was beautiful and it was fun to see all his old friends. While the wedding was going brock leans over to me and said hey guess what? I have made out with all those brides maids and the bride except for like two girls. I was like thanks for letting me in on that little secret of yours.

So my forgetfulness doesn't stop there as we got home from Denver, so
I thought. As I was going to brush my teeth and wash my face I couldn't find my face wash or tooth brush or MY NEW MAC MAKEUP!!!! I was about to have another melt down but then I was to tired. I went to bed. I could have sworn that I put everything in a grocery bag and had brock put it in the car. That next day I was just sick I looked in brocks car and had brock text jay the guy we stayed with, And brocks mom looked in her car and called the family we stayed with. So it got to be evening and brocks dad got home and he said I saw all that stuff in the car. So he looked at the car that we drove and lifted seats and there was my make up, face wash and tooth brush. I was so happy. And that's my story.

First day of school

This is when we came home from his orientation. I'm so proud of him
My mom always made us take a picture by the door on our first day of school. Isn't he cute!!
This is our family's studying ritual. Blitzlii loves cuddling. The sad thing is, is I'm on the living room couch by my self.



We are really excited for brock. We will finally be moving on with our lives in the right direction. Brock has worked so hard going to school , full time work, being the young mens president at our church, and going through the adoption process. Here's for two years of the baby.

July recap

well I've been pretty bad updating my blog. So July we had a lot going on, so I thought. Now that I'm writting this I have lost my July main events. well it will be a short one then. It was my birthday on the 24th and I of course went to the spa. Brock takes me to a different spa every year and this one was called the Zeramit in Midway Utah. It was amazing. We had a little twist on my birthday massage during my spa treatment. I HAD A MAN MES SUES.( missed spelled?) I was okay with the message but at first I felt a little awkward and I knew that Brock would have a fit about this. So the message was good, so I told Brock about the situation when I was done. The conversation went something like this. "Brock did you know that you ordered a man to touch my body in ways that you have never touched it". Brock "What, did he see anything?" Amy "No, surprisingly he new how to maneuver the sheets to not see anything." Brock "no, he had to of seen something" Amy "No, I'll show you later how he did it". Brock was convinced that the man saw stuff ,but I can still assure him that no one saw anything. But it really did add a little twist to my Birthday. So after the Spa we went and walked the Main street of midway it such a small town ,the main street isn't really anything. But we really liked it. Every thing had a Swiss back ground. We ate lunch at the restaurant called coo Koo clock or something like that. The sandwiches were amazing. it was such a good birthday. Then we went home and I got the mail and we got a letter saying we were finally approved through the state to adopt. so now we are on line with the agency itsaboutlove.org . Any ways that night we went with Brock's family to a park and had tin foil dinners. Brock's two older sisters were there with their family's and Brock's oldest sister really wanted to float my birthday cake down a river. She baked two cakes and had them all set to float down the river and it was a success. I wish I had pictures I know we have some somewhere. any ways , that was my birthday. So I guess the other news was we are officially in the waiting game for adoption. We Breed our dog Regen she's our female. So hopefully we will have puppys on september 27. All I have to say about the breeding process is "Creepy" if you have'nt ever been around it or seen it I think you should just try it out its very educational. Sorry , for this blog its kinda been a little vulgare an away. Any Ways, I thought that I had more to post about but I guess I didn't .

Happy anniversary

Well I'm a day late, but it was our wedding Anniversary yesterday. Sadly we were apart most of the day. Brock was gone on a high adventure camp out. from Wednesday to Saturday. Which lead me to be by myself for four days. On Saturday I went with my mother in law to an adoption convention. I had a good time and learned a lot. I didn't get home tell five. Brock got home on Saturday around 1:00, but wasn't finished tell around five he had to clean everything up and put away stuff. So I get home and Brock is so sick and so tired he didn't really want to do anything. But I wasn't going to have that so we exchanged gifts and then went out to sushi we decided to take it home. We rented Be kind please rewind. It was the stupidest movie we couldn't even finish it. So we kept watching the Olympics which was fine because I was able to watch a lot of beach volleyball. So , this was our first year that we didn't go all out for our anniversary. I hope that this is a one time thing. Brock knows that I'm pretty high maintenance when it comes to my birthday and anniversary. we usually go to the lake and go jet skiing or travel somewhere. But this year it was spent apart and then being lazy. He is lucky that I missed him so much that I didn't care what we did. I love you Brock, Here's to year # 6.

Try again

I'm trying to see if something works....

This is our picture that the birth mothers are going to see I need to post it some where.

Being self sufficient

Well, I had made this post awhile ago. I just had not had the time to post this. I've been trying to work on my adoption blog and all the agency online stuff that is so old school. I consider my self somewhat computer savvy, I HAVE A BLOG!!!:)
Well the other night I was feeling just like Martha Stewart. All day I cleaned my house and then I realized I didn't have dinner planed or ready and Brock was home. So I went out to my garden hoping things where growing. Lo and behold Everything was very fruitful. So I brought everything in and started skimming up what I was going to make. It turned out to be an amazing dinner. here are some pics.

I have always thought gardening was a little white trash. Even Brock admitted he hated gardens growing up. Where I grew up no one gardened. The only people that did were the people at my church that had 10 kids and they would can and do all sorts of stuff with it. But , my point is I feel very self sufficient doing it. When I go grocery shopping I buy mostly the organic produce. So by doing it this way I save a lot of money(for about three months out of the year), and I can just go in my garden and grab an onion and not have to rush to the store. I love it.

Happy swiss days

This is our swiss day celebration. Thanks to our friends the plowmans we didn't have to celebrate alone. It lasted 5 minutes.

You may notice that I'm reffering to batman. We just got back from seeing Dark Night. Our friend Nate who is with us. He makes cool stuff at work that could pretty much be for batman himself.

Happy 35 years

My parents decided to come see us for there 35th wedding anniversary. They came in on Sunday and left Wednesday then flew out to Arizona to see my sister in Arizona. My Dad told my mom that she could go anywhere for their anniversary Fiji, Hawaii, anywhere in the world. But she chose to see her daughters. My mom and dad are the greatest. We love you.

Happy belated birthday Brandon

This pic was on Beth's blog and she didn't want him to see it, because he would delete it. So, being the wonderful sister in law that I am, I told her that I would take care of it. So Happy Birthday big guy.

Bear Lake

Bock trying wake surfing
Brock and me on the boat
Garys showing off his legs. Brock is very jelous of these legs

Brock in the rat race ball
The Three men acting a little suspicious.

We went to bear lake with 6 other couples this weekend. We had a blast, the weather was perfect. We did some wake boarding, skim boarding, wake surfing and chilled out in the sun. Here are some pics from this weekend.

Oh canada

Here is Brock and I on the American side of Glacier parks.
This is us on the road to the sun, in the Glacier national parks
This is Brock and I by this waterfall that was on the highway.
this is Calista and I at grandmas house. this is the cute girl in the goggles.
This is Brock and Marky playing (I don't know what)

Well most of this is old news for family and some friends. We just got back from Canada. The day before we went to Canada, Brock's aunts house burnt to the ground. Every thing was going to be canceled but the family decided that they need the support. It was a memorable experience. Their small town that they are from all rallied together, people bought them clothes and kids had lemonade stands that raised hundreds of dollars. As our family went through the ashes of the home, they found some pictures and love letters. We all thought it was a miracle. Out of all the ashes and there were pictures.

I really enjoyed going to Canada. I had some fun times with Brock's cousins that we only see every other year. Here are some pics. The rest are on Brock's computer.

Real man

So I just got off the phone with my sister Beth. She was complaining that I don't blog. Well ,either does she her blog goes weeks with out her writting anything. I was telling her the reason that I don't blog as much is because all our pics our saved on brocks computer. That being said its a long process to get them to the blog. So Beth this ones for you.

Brock and I just got back from Canada. We had a wounderful time. I 'll put pics up later.

anyways, a cute thing happend I wasn't there but I was told by Brock's sister Rebecca. They were going to there hotel and something happend which our 2 year old niece callista responed "mom we need a real man , we need brock". When Rebecca told me that I was laughing so hard . Our neices and nephews think the world of brock , he is the real deal the real man. This is a picture of callista in her goggles which she takes very seriously.

Happy Birthday Brock

Its Brocks birthday today. He is the big 28. I'll post more on his birthday later with pic's maybe I'll even be in some(something to think about). Anyways Happy birthday baby!!!!!

MTV supporting adoption !!!!

Hey everyone sorry it has been awhile. We have been busy , but that is no excuse for a blogger now is it? Any who, I came up on this article (its been really boring Brock's running a relay race from Logan to park city tonight) about MTV starting a true life serious on unwed mothers choosing to place their baby's for adoption. I thought what better place to advertise adoption. Any ways I just wanted to share that with everyone. We are still waiting to be approved for adoption. They said that all our paper work should be finished by the first of July,then we are officially legal to adopt, and we began the waiting game.

High heels VS Crocs??

well, I have re injured my left foot. I injured my foot back in high school playing volleyball. I cracked the ball of my left foot(I don't know how to describe where it is). The short version of the story is I played volleyball all year around for 6 years. the position that I played was an outside hitter. The constant pounding on the ball of my left foot(the foot I would land on first) cracked into two pieces . The doctor fixed my foot by giving me Cortozone shots ,and other things that weren't pleasant. I had to be off my foot for a couple weeks.

So yesterday I was wearing high heels at work (nothing unusual) ,but I must have tweaked my foot just right because the pain has gotten worse ever since. I got home from work and I thought it was just a cramp didn't really think about it. Went to my friends house didn't let it bother me. But I woke up this morning and I have been crippled, my foot is swollen and I can barely walk. Its a Saturday and I can't call a doctor and I don't think I'm that desperate yet.

Any ways , my big delimma is what shoe should I wear to church. My most comfortable shoe is the world ugliest shoe"Crocs" . Yes, I really am considering wearing my Crocs with a dress to church tomorrow. What a fashion statement I will be. Every one will think I've gone mad, or my new calling is to stressful for me. So I guess I will start icing my foot, and maybe practice walking in my high heels so I don't have to wear the Crocs. It's sad but true that my biggest delimma right now in my life is high heels vs Crocs.

This one's about Amy

Our MBA student

Brock is trying to be a student right now. He is also working full time and is the Young Mens Presidnet for our church. He has alot on his plate. So for our fun filled summer weekends, we will be in the books. Maybe next summer we can have are living is easy attitude . Oh how I will miss those days spent by the water.

So this is how we study at the Miller's ,out side sun bathing. Actually right now brock is fast asleep on his books. He works so hard and i'm proud of him.

Leaking faucet?

Well the other day I just mentioned to Brock that maybe the kitchen sink is leaking. After I said that I found myself at Lowes. As we walked down the ailse of Lowes ,pluming supplies kept piling in our cart. I then was asked "Don't you think that we should get a new sink while were here. My new found cheap skate attitude set in and I said, "no we can't afford it." After about a couple more times of going down the faucet and kitchen sink ailse my sweet husband asked me for the fourth of fifth time , "Don't you think that we should get a new kitchen sink." The thing is Brock knows how to work the system with me. He can get any thing out of me. examples being a new jeep Wrangler (which was a bad purchase we got rid of the thing a year later), brand new snowboarding gear,and pretty much any tool that he think he needs. But the thing is he is just so sweet about it. Truley underneath my new found cheap skate side I really want it to. So we get home and Brock puts in our new sink and faucet. It looks great , after it was all in I really knew why Brock wanted a new sink. He knows how much I live in my kitchen and he wanted to make it extra special for me. He really truly means well. But, I really need to start living my penny pinching ways.

My very first blog

Hey I'm now officially a blogger