Kynzi Smiles

The Antibiotics worked! I still have a small remnant of a cough, but my throat is completely healed, I'm not contagious anymore and my nose is clear! That meant I needed to go visit my cute little Kynzi for the first time since Christmas Eve! My how she has grown, isn't she just the cutest little girl you've ever seen?

 

 

 

Watching Uncle Bob play video games



WARNING: Rant!

This week was horrible! The only cool thing that happened was we got this cool 3-D Printer at work and printed a comb and bracelet. Everything else was rotten!

The 3-D Printer

The comb and bracelet we printed

I have been fighting a horrible cold for three weeks now. I am coughing my lungs out every couple minutes, dry painful coughs. They keep me up all night because every time I try to lean back I end up in a coughing fit. My throat is so sore and swollen that it hurts to even swallow, and my nose has taken a second job as a faucet. Worst part is trying to lock myself away from my nieces, nephews, Benton and Kynzi for fear of getting them sick too. I have been trying everything to get better. I took some time off of work to try and rest, drank lots of tea, tried every concoction involving honey, cinnamon or lemon you can think of, I took doTERRA's OnGuard, I took Air Borne and Emergency C, I even gargled salt water. When nothing worked, it was off to the doctor to get some Antibiotics. I'm hoping these will finally kill it cause I can't deal with it any longer.

To make matters worse, things with my boss have hit a new low. Remember last month when I was working 9, 10 hour days, sometimes 12 hour days with no breaks or lunches? When I was doing all the jobs no one else wanted to do like unpacking and organizing all the boxes we just moved to the new warehouse? Remember my new boss who was sitting at her desk watching Mary Poppins instead of helping with anything? Well she had the nerve to tell me that she has noticed that I am a work avoider who always has an excuse for why things don't get done. She then continued to explain how negative and difficult I am to work with while I sobbed at my desk. This wasn't constructive criticism, it was just an attack with no solutions or things for me to improve on. Luckily after talking to Mariah (my fellow Receptionist) and Becky (HR) I learned that no one thinks I'm lazy or that I'm difficult of negative. The only feedback they had for me was to take advantage of learning opportunities especially with the files instead of asking Mariah to do it. After that feedback though, I officially HATE Jessica. I don't want to work with her anymore. If Amy Kay doesn't come back from maternity leave and she becomes my new boss, I will be looking for a new job. I won't make myself work with someone who makes me feel that bad about myself and makes me dread going to work the way I do right now because of her. Sorry for the rant, but I had to get out all the anger I have towards her somewhere... Here's hoping next week will be so much better than this one!

Happy Birthday Sarah

As I predicted last month, Utah has put a hold on all same sex marriages while they appeal Judge Shelby's ruling that banning same sex marriage is unconstitutional. I am very disappointed in my home state, and I wanted to voice my frustration as well as show support for the 900+ couples who are in limbo right now while they wait to hear if their marriages will be granted recognition. Friday afternoon I went to a Same Sex Marriage Support rally at the Capital with my friends Emily and Josh. We are all straight but that doesn't mean we can't love our fellow Utahans and want them to be treated the same way we are. That includes the right to marry the person we love. Despite being straight, The Salt Lake Tribune still posted a picture of Emily and I together and cropped Josh out so we looked like a couple, it was pretty funny!

Crowds at the Pro-Marriage Equality rally

More of the crowds

Some of the couples who were married
and their families

The place was filled from wall to wall

Crowd selfie, you know -to prove I was there

Cute family!




Our picture on Salt Lake City Tribune's site,
My sign says "The gay agenda = Equality"

Saturday I went out to celebrate my best friend Sarah's birthday! She wasn't very happy when she heard Bob and I wouldn't be drinking, but she got over it when I told her I would still dance with her and I would stay the whole night. We started off with dinner at The Copper Onion. Bob and I ordered bone marrow for an appetizer -yes you read that right - BONE MARROW! Bob hated it, but I didn't think it was too bad! You were supposed to spoon it out and put it on some hard bread. It almost tasted like greasy butter on a crouton. Weird, but not bad. After dinner, we went to Gracie's to dance until our feet wouldn't let us stand any longer!

Our bone marrow

Bob's dinner

My cute hubby and I

My dinner!

Ignore Brian being a prick in the back! Sarah, Corrin and I

Cute sisters Renee and Sarah

Funny face pictures, again ignore Brian...

Renee, Sarah and Corrin

A blurry picture of me with the birthday girl

A Proper Kick Off to 2014

2014 started with a bang with a much anticipated visit from my Sister-in-law Ana and her kids David, Jonathon and Lauren, who drove all the way from Washington to see us! They couldn't stay for too long, after all the kids had to go back to school, but we took advantage of every minute we had! We stole the kids for a sleepover, visited ice castles in Midway, had a New Years Eve party and then wore ourselves out sledding until we were so famished we went to the buffet to stuff our faces. It was such a fantastic couple of days that I was nearly able to forget about all my stress and worries and just have fun. At least until I started developing this nasty cold! Here are the pictures of the highlights of their stay:


Jonathon at our sleepover

Lauren and her new friend



David at our sleepover

One of the Midway ice castles!

Spooky ice



Jonathon

Grandma Marcie with Ana's kids



Lauren

Ana and her kids

Lauren with her Aunt Dani

Lauren exploring the ice castles



Ana taking pictures



Jonathon and Lauren

Dani holding Lauren up to see the water fountain

David was being difficult to get pictures of

Ana and I

Lauren really like the ice castles even though this is
the best smile I could get out of her

Jonathon was being such a goof ball

Now he's pretending to be gangsta

Cool blue icicles

Believe it or not, Lauren asked for this picture to be taken
and made her face look like she was miserable. Little
stinker!

Dani and I

The kids decided to have a snow ball fight, too bad I didn't
catch most of it.

The best picture I got of the snowball fight, Lauren
making her snowballs

Blue ice

green ice

More blue ice

Group shot:Lauren, Jonathon, Ana, David,
Dani, Marcie, Wayne and me

Mimi at the New Years party

Lauren and I at the New Years party

Pulling faces

Just like her cousin Robert

Nerd Alert! My cute little nephew Ryan

Can't resist this bugger

Jonathon and David

Russell

She's a poser just like me!

Cheesy grins from Jonathon

Stealing a New Year's kiss from this guy!

David

Lauren spinning something around in the hammock chair

Ah - ha! It's Russell!

Ryan and Robert making the bunk beds into a jungle gym

Miss Lolli

New Years Day sledding, this was the
long train, Jonathon and David tried to
chicken out but we got them in the end

I'm the only one that got the act scared memo
obviously



Don't mess with my nieces, they're tough!



Sugar challenge, I won!

Bob was easy competition

Robert thought this and some cotton candy
would be enough to win...

Sorry Russell, weak sauce!

Their parents didn't teach them how to handle
their sugar rushes

Nice try Lolli

Even his second round couldn't catch up to
my first round pickings

Robert and his cotton candy

It's a hit with the kids

Even David was enjoying it

And when it's gone, what do you get? A
unicorn horn of course!

Even us "adults" got in on the action

Whether we wanted to or not

Lolli unicorn

Evil unicorn

She decided to kill me with her horn



The boys didn't want to be unicorns,
so they became vampires

We teach the kids really great habits, like
playing with your food is fun...

She thought she could hide from the camera

Then she gave up

And Mimi joined in

Funny face pictures

Duck face pictures

Jonathon and David

Group pic from back row to front: Me, Bob, Dani, Ryan, Lisa, Marcie, Wayne, Russell, Mimi, Robert, Jonathon, David, Ana
Ryan and Lauren (front and center)

It was fun! Don't stay away too long, we miss you already!