tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25927478741306995132012-02-02T09:55:40.964-07:00Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.comBlogger1471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-30237821723961553222012-02-02T09:55:00.003-07:002012-02-02T09:55:40.979-07:00

We really are alive. It's just been a crazy past couple of months. For one thing, I am pregnant! I'm due in the middle of August, which will mean David and the baby will be about 18 months apart. So far, I've been feeling pretty good. I wasn't very sick with David, but still had my days when I had to lie down for the majority of the day. That hasn't happened this time around so far, and I'm

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My sister-in-law Heather shared this recipe with me the other day and I'm a sucker for good pudding. Not to mention, I refuse to buy the store stuff and so when she mentioned this recipe, I was excited! I made it after David went to bed, although he would have gobbled that stuff up like he was starving, and it was fantastic! Ashton said that he thought it tasted more like chocolate mouse than

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I love history. It was my favorite subject in High School and I took more history classes than I was required to take. Part of my love stemmed from the ease of it. I have a pretty good memory so memorizing some dates and facts for a test was fairly easy. Then there is the part where I viewed history as fact. This is stuff that happened so there's no hedging about what to do about it. It's in the

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While I am writing this, David is walking around the coffee table. Well, kind of. He hasn't figured out how to get around the corner yet. This has been his favorite game for about a week or so now. He started crawling a few weeks ago and instead of perfecting that art, he has decided to move onto the next thing: walking. He loves holding our hands and taking steps. He hasn't figured out how to

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This morning I tried to ignore everything that was going on to try to sleep in. I ignored the light from the bathroom that was shining in my face from Ashton getting ready for work, the music that was playing to try to keep David quiet and happy, and, of course, David fussing in the pack 'n' play. David chose this moment to say, "Mum-ma." So much for trying to teach him "Dada" first. It was cute

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In my spare time, which usually lasts as long as David's nap time, when I'm not busy with other stuff or I just really need a break, I've been reading. I haven't read anything new really, although one book it had been such a long time since previously reading it that I felt like I was reading it for the first time. I enjoy the classics so after I got done reading the Twilight series again, I

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I started listening to this song a lot last year. I loved the message and the tune. It made Ashton laugh when I'd play it over and over again, which happened a lot. Thankfully, he didn't get sick of it because I have yet to grow tired of it. I don't have to play it now though because I have it memorized and can sing it. I started singing it to David when he'd get fussy or when I wanted him to

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So today we're closing on our house and tomorrow we move. Crazy. Thankfully, we're not moving far away which means I don't have to stuff everything into a box. I thought that I'd take a break though from all the stress and write about the fact that David is 4 months old now!I love my little guy. He has the biggest grin I've ever seen and I love his laugh...it sounds like a sheep sometimes. He

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Yesterday I went in for surgery to get my tear fixed. For those who don't know, I tore my labia when I had David and the stitches the doctors put in it then didn't hold. So essentially, I had a labial separation. It's been a long and hard battle getting someone to approve getting it fixed. For some idea of how long and hard, it took 3 doctors and appointments over 3 months to find someone who

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I know that I haven't been good about updating recently. I always figured when I had a baby that I would have more things to write about, and I do. What I didn't take into consideration is the lack of time I'd have to update.I've also been considering what I want this blog to be. I know, after a few years it seems a little late to be deciding that. Up until now, I've been content enough to allow

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David seems to have had a bit of a growth spurt recently. At least, that's how we're explaining the increase of sleep during the day. He was so easy to put to sleep for about a week. I'd feed him, and often times, as I was feeding him he'd fall asleep. From there I could hold him or put him in the swing and he'd be fine. Well, it seems that has ended.Yesterday we were back to the old schedule of

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It's amazing how one little guy can make your life so busy, but he sure does have a knack for it. David has been battling a cold for almost a week, but thankfully it's not too bad. He has a little bit of a stuffy nose and some coughing. It's been getting better though and I appreciate that. It's so sad to hear him cough although he does have this one cough that sounds more like a yell and that's

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I've been meaning to blog for a while now, and I've even started a couple of posts, but never got around to finishing them or posting them. It's safe to say that David keeps me pretty busy. He sleeps pretty well at night, but I'm lucky to get him down for a nap once during the day. I don't mind him being awake and happy, it's when he's crying and there seems to be nothing that makes him happy

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So I've been meaning to write for a while and post some pictures of our cute boy, but I've been a bit busy. For the most part, David is a calm little guy, but he's not fond of sleeping or being anywhere else but in someone's arms. Once in a while I can get him to sleep or at least be calm in his swing or his newly acquired bouncy seat, but that doesn't happen too often. When it does, I prioritize

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Well, he's here! Our little baby has arrived. I think most people who read this have heard the stats and all that, but if you haven't, let me know and I can give you all that information. The birth didn't go quite as planned, which I know that during labor and birth, a lot of things don't go quite as anyone planned, but one major thing changed in my plan: I gave birth in the hospital.Originally,

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This weekend has been a bit strange in regards to the weather. Saturday started off good with sunshine and temperatures warm enough to melt the little bit of snow we had. We decided it was a good day for Ashton to play mechanic on his car, the accelerator was sticking in the freezing cold temperatures that we had early in the week (by freezing cold I really do mean freezing cold -20 degrees).

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During Sunday School about a year ago, the teacher passed out copies of this poem to everyone in attendance. I loved the poem and decided to glue it to the front of my journal. There it stays and I read it often. I've been meaning to share it, but have gotten distracted by other things. So, here it is:The tree that never had to fightFor sun and sky and air and light,But always got its share of

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So, some of you have asked for a picture of my pregnant belly. Here it is. I'm about 34 1/2 weeks along now, for those of you who aren't keeping track of how much longer I have. I'm still getting stuff organized and ready for his arrival, which will be the case until he comes I'm sure. Thankfully, our Christmas stuff will be going back into storage so we'll have a bit more room in our apartment.

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Well folks, I guess it's that time. It's that time of the pregnancy that everyone wants to know exactly how much longer I've got. As if I know. I should have seen it coming. I knew it would happen, but I guess I forgot or didn't think it'd happen so soon. In my mind, I've still have a few months when it reality, I have plus or minus 6 weeks. So, I was a little surprised how many people this past

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Since it's New Year's Eve and since Ashton is currently out walking Dusty, I decided that I would update the blog.Our Christmas was pretty uneventful, which suited us just fine. We went up to Ashton's mom's house for Christmas Eve and spent some time with her as well as Nate and Anjanette. We enjoyed the time just visiting, eating, and opening presents. Christmas Day we stayed at home enjoying

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This past weekend, we got our Christmas tree and decorations out of storage so that our apartment could look more festive, although we still have yet to get snow. For some reason, I really want it to snow this year. Not some major amount of snow, but a little would be nice. Enough to make it feel winter and like I'm actually getting closer to having this baby. Even if the outside doesn't look

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Thanksgiving started out with me getting up at 6:30 because I couldn't sleep. Although I haven't really gotten any bigger, sleeping has been difficult. Partly due to being uncomfortable and partly because the baby has decided that kicking me in the middle of the night or early in the morning is fun. This has been going on for about the past week at least so I'm a bit sleep deprived. It was kind

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During this time of year, Thanksgiving and Christmas, I try to focus on the real meaning of the holidays so as not to get caught up in the food, however wonderful it is, and buying gifts. This year, I have felt that come easily to me. Maybe it's because I have so much to be grateful for, which is true, or maybe it's because I have heard so many people talk about the need to be grateful, which is

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Lately, I've been making baby things. I actually had several baby things made previously. Since learning to crochet, baby blankets were the easiest to make so I've made a few of those over the years, and I made some booties back when I made them for the pregnant sisters in our ward. So I had a small collection of baby things already started, but I wanted to make a few new things for David like

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It's kind of sad when finishing a puzzle feels like a major accomplishment, but it does! Granted, this puzzle was no ordinary puzzle. Not only was it a 1500 piece puzzle and more like a painting than a picture, but we had started this puzzle before and had given up on it because it was so hard. It took us a while to finish this time, but we did it! Ashton, I'll admit, did most of the work. I

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I'm an organizer. I like having things put in specific places and I'm always trying to figure out the best place to put things. Ashton has come home a few times to find that I've reorganized the closet or something because I was determined that it could all fit better in a different arrangement. I used to pack and repack my suitcases about 3-4 times when I was in college, and going back and forth

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Lately, it feels like all I do during the day is read books and look at baby stuff. Not that I'm complaining. I enjoy both activities. For those who are curious, the books that I've read are Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, 1984, and the Hunger Games series. All were good books and I would recommend them. If there weren't so many books that I've finished in the past month,

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Ashton and I have had several discussions over the years, and particularly lately, about public schools. We had different experiences growing up in the public school system, which have led to different opinions on what's best for our kids. We do agree, however, that public schools today have many things wrong with them.Some of the biggest problems with today's public school system come from this

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I am now 21 weeks! I have finally gotten used to my baby belly although it still gets in the way. Thankfully, I don't bump it into things too often. I have purposefully, and gently, bumped Ashton with it. It's hard not to when you're trying to get a hug. In any case, to celebrate the halfway mark (I was going to take a picture at 20 weeks, but that didn't happen), here is a picture at 21 weeks:

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boy! We're so excited that we're having a little boy. (I couldn't resist saying, "I told you so" to Ashton when we saw that it was a boy.) He looks healthy and all of his organs look good. We couldn't get a good shot of his face since was sleeping with his hands in front of his face, and he was content to stay that way. The doctor tried to get him to move, but there was no persuading him.We're

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The month of September was the month of trips. We started out with a weekend trip to Utah for my freshman roommate's Open House. It was so good to see her and meet her new hubby! It was also nice to see friends and family that live out there. We had about a week to recover from that trip before going to Maine for almost 2 weeks.It was so nice to have Ashton come with me on this trip to Maine.

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I started writing a post about how I wasn't sure how we'd fit the baby and all of the baby stuff in our tiny apartment. Right now, we're living in an one bedroom apartment. It's not the biggest apartment we've lived in, but it's definitely not the smallest. Thankfully, the list of true baby necessities is short. There's no way that we'd fit bigger things in our apartment. Two people plus a dog

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The moment that you've all been waiting for is finally here. I'm posting pictures of my pregnant belly. I already posted them on facebook, but figured that I'd post them here as well.This is my belly at 13 weeks. You can't really see it because of the shirt that I'm wearing, but trust me it's there.16 weeks

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Things haven't been too exciting here. I'm showing more and more, which is kind of exciting until I looked down yesterday and realized that my feet are starting to disappear from view. I'm comforted by the fact that, as Ashton puts it, I have "little Zarah feet." So, I guess it's not too hard to lose them. I'm mostly excited that, although I still have some moments of queasiness, my nausea is

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-72520392248527519462010-08-10T07:41:00.003-06:002010-08-10T07:47:46.925-06:00

I came across this video on Facebook and I just had to share. So, for all those who want a laugh, particularly if you are a wife, enjoy! (Oh, and thanks for all the congratulations, well-wishes, and support! We appreciate it!)

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Big things are happening in our house. We're having a baby! The due date is February 19, but I tend to just say that the due date is in February so as not to get attached to a certain date that the baby is coming on. As everyone knows, babies come when babies come. For those who are curious, we both would be happy with either a boy or a girl (since I'm 12 weeks along, it'll be a little while

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So a few posts ago, I mentioned that I was working on reading a couple of books. Well, I finally finished one of them, I had gotten a bit distracted by the World Cup. Yesterday, I finished Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie.It was one of those books that I had thought to read for a long time, but had just never gotten around to it.

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Last night, Ashton and I had the opportunity to go to a James Taylor and Carole King concert with his company. We ate dinner with his company. I got to meet a lot of the people that he works with, obviously, and talks about. It's nice to put names to faces. After dinner, which was in the Pepsi Center, the same place as the concert, we went into the concert.I can't say that I knew who James Taylor

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If there's one thing that bothers me, and there are plenty of things that bother me, it's people demanding tolerance while showing intolerance. What I mean by this is that there are people out there who want, even demand, that people accept them and their beliefs. There is nothing wrong with that, except for maybe the demanding part. There's no sense in demanding that people accept you because

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When I read books, I read a lot of books. I have currently 5 books that I've started reading and have yet to finish. That's not including reading General Conference talks and the scriptures. There are some of those 5 books that I haven't picked up in months. The reason for so many books is that most of the books that I'm reading are informational books so they're a little harder to get through in

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It was a long weekend, but a fun one. We started by celebrating my birthday on Saturday. I realized Saturday that this is my last year of early twenties. Then Ashton pointed out that this was his last year of twenties. That made me feel better. Ashton did a good job of picking out my presents and I only guessed one of them so he was pretty happy about that. It doesn't get much better than a Spain

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This morning I was reading blogs. In my sister-in-law's blog, she talked about a woman named Stephanie who had been in a plane crash and suffered severe burns. My sister-in-law also included a video of Stephanie's story and it was a huge inspiration to me.There are many days that I struggle with the challenges I face. Those challenges vary from day to day and some are as simple as struggling to

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There are so many things that I've been meaning to write about. So many thoughts, too little time. Recently though, I've started watching Glenn Beck on Fox News. Usually, I don't get into politics, but the things that have been happening lately have been worrisome enough to me for me to watch Glenn Beck every day and look up some of the stuff that he's talking about. The part that I find even

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-27070334648549151462010-05-07T08:17:00.010-06:002010-05-07T08:36:22.160-06:00

So I've had people ask me to take pictures of our apartment for a while, and well it's been a bit of a mess, still is, but I decided to take the pictures anyways. Please don't judge me, too harshly anyways. I still have to get Ashton to finish putting up the rest of the pictures on the walls. The slacker, but he has had a cold the past couple days and has been all stuffed up. So I guess we'll

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-39956838112407633292010-04-30T07:58:00.011-06:002010-04-30T08:23:51.612-06:00

Since getting back from Maine with a bunch of pictures to play with, I've been spending a lot of time working on my pictures. It's so much fun. I seriously spend pretty much all day doing this, only taking a break to eat or do something else when my eyes start to hurt from staring at the computer. I'll post some of the pictures that I've been working on, but I also wanted to mention one picture

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-31326436856582476732010-04-26T08:22:00.009-06:002010-04-26T09:36:51.764-06:00

So, I've fallen behind on blogging. Mostly for a lack of time recently more than anything. This month has been a bit nuts for me.A couple of weeks after moving into our new place, I left to go to Maine to help my brother Jacob and his family get settled into their new house. The trip out in and of itself was eventful since I missed my connection by a few minutes (thanks to a combination of snow

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-46512120189540597932010-03-26T08:30:00.006-06:002010-03-26T08:49:06.090-06:00

So, it's been a while. A lot of things have changed since the last time I wrote. For starters, we moved into an apartment closer to where Ashton works! Ashton is loving the shorter commute and who wouldn't with the commute dropping from an hour down to 10 minutes?We love the area that we're in. We took a drive Sunday, since it was so nice out, just to go exploring and we had a lot of fun. There

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-67902940778330601872010-02-26T08:50:00.002-07:002010-02-26T09:25:16.792-07:00

Well, Ashton's had his first week of work. That's right, I said work! For those of you who haven't heard, Ashton has a job now. He got offered a job last Friday and started Monday. The job is here in Colorado although it's about an hour away. For right now, he's just been commuting down there.We're pretty excited about the job. Hooray for money coming in! It's been a bit of an adjustment though.

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-22929887063819623892010-02-10T14:59:00.002-07:002010-02-10T15:39:21.692-07:00

Ashton and I were asked to give talks this Sunday and while I've started writing mine up, I'm now taking a break. I haven't gotten too far into it, but in my defense, what sounded good and complete in my head, has turned out to be far from the truth. I always spend a lot of time thinking about what I want to say and then write it down on paper. It's taking a lot longer than I thought it would to

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-76066824186449195742010-01-11T17:33:00.003-07:002010-01-11T18:22:15.985-07:00

Ashton started up a blog of his own to talk about his programming projects. He's much better than I am about the whole updating thing seeing as he created the blog yesterday and has already written twice. I thought, however, that I'd create an entry with the link to his new blog for those of you who would be interested in reading it. http://halla-dev.blogspot.com While I'm here, I might as well

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-73014951797249570782010-01-06T16:35:00.006-07:002010-01-06T17:04:39.655-07:00

Generally, I'm not one for New Year's resolutions. I figure that it's not going to last very long anyways, so why bother going through all the trouble of making special goals simply because that's what you're supposed to do at the beginning of a year? Not worth it. I prefer to make my goals because that's what I want to do.Looking back on the last year, I did accomplish some goals that I wanted

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-8955718853717218082009-12-26T10:07:00.005-07:002009-12-26T11:26:54.744-07:00

Hope everyone had a great Christmas! We sure did. Here's a very brief overview of our Christmas holiday. Last weekend we went back to Utah for a few days to celebrate Christmas with Ashton's siblings and Dad. Steve and Gail let us stay with them and we had fun hanging out. It was great to see everyone again. It was a bit sad to leave again, especially when we're not sure when we'll get to visit

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-59001929359913146172009-12-09T09:04:00.013-07:002009-12-09T09:51:14.674-07:00

Things have been a little crazy here since I last wrote and a lot has changed.We successfully made the move from Utah to Colorado and it only took about 8 hours. Believe me, it felt a lot longer. Maybe that was because I was following Ashton who was driving the truck with the majority of our stuff. Wyoming apparently isn't as flat as I thought it was because on any sort of incline, it struggled

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-41530708114794302382009-11-10T11:02:00.004-07:002009-11-10T11:26:25.348-07:00

I keep trying to think of things to write about because I enjoy writing posts, but unfortunately, I don't feel like I have anything interesting to say. My time has been spent packing, trying to figure out we need to do to move, finding places to live, as well as other moving related things. It's been a crazy past couple of months.I feel a bit ashamed that I haven't even taken any pictures of the

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-69499848924432960792009-11-02T09:57:00.004-07:002009-11-02T11:12:55.651-07:00

It's been a while since I wrote saying that we were looking for a new job and moving and I thought that maybe people would be wondering how that was going. Well, it's still going. We haven't found a job yet although we're still optimistic and still applying for more jobs. Sooner or later, though we'd obviously prefer sooner, something is bound to show up.As far as moving is concerned, we're still

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-41327860455406037452009-10-27T11:14:00.002-06:002009-10-27T11:38:39.648-06:00

I found this article/video this morning about the swine flu and the latest updates. Now, I've never believed that the swine flu was a big deal. The symptoms and health concerns not being unlike your traditional flu. I still don't plan on getting the vaccine, even if they were to tell me I had swine flu, I wouldn't do it. I do realize, however, that some of you might be considering it. I think the

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-31162333989091074342009-10-19T09:59:00.013-06:002009-10-19T10:19:48.355-06:00

It's been cold here in Utah for the past few weeks, although the past few days have been actually fairly nice. This morning when I walked outside to go running, I was surprised that it was actually warm enough to not need a sweatshirt. Found out while I was running that there's a storm coming. I don't mind thunder and lightning for the most part, but I don't particularly like being out running in

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-62083320616807426772009-10-15T12:31:00.003-06:002009-10-15T12:48:32.942-06:00

As most of you know, I like crafts. I'm not always the most creative, but I like trying lots of new things and I like to be busy. It's little wonder then that I have a lot of projects going on.These projects include: scrapbooking, crocheting, a few plaque projects that are almost done (just haven't bought the hooks to hang them), and somewhere there's a cross stitching project that I started

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-925879010491914222009-10-01T10:36:00.004-06:002009-10-01T11:08:00.765-06:00

As many of you know, Ashton and I have been planning on moving out of Utah come November when our apartment lease is up. So, Ashton started looking at job options back in August and soon after started applying for jobs. Although we have a general idea of where we'd like to end up (he's got his favorites, I've got mine), but we applied for jobs in multiple states. Even States we don't really want

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-20658301559158390192009-09-25T10:32:00.005-06:002009-09-25T11:04:34.546-06:00

Our Stake just started doing an adult institute class on Thursdays. The teacher is a former CES teacher, having taught seminary and such. Ashton saw it on the program this past Sunday and immediately asked if I had any interest. Well, when Ashton is interested enough to point it out to me and ask, it means that he really wants to do it. I thought that it could be a really good idea, so we made

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-61207406639607158752009-09-21T10:42:00.007-06:002009-09-21T15:21:05.434-06:00

As we were walking into Gospel Doctrine class yesterday, I noticed the saying above on the chalkboard. It came from our teacher, who has the most interesting ways of saying things.It was fitting then that we were talking about hardships, in particular the handcart companies. Not much to do with seagulls, which was fine. At the end of class, he brought up the miracle of the seagulls, but only to

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-4859989844477976212009-09-03T10:04:00.014-06:002009-09-03T14:43:21.756-06:00

Normally after coming home from Maine, I get bored within a few days, especially while Ashton is at work. Most of the boredom comes from not having a set schedule anymore. I do enjoy being able to have some time to myself, but there comes a point when too much alone time is just as bad as not having any. I've been fortunate this time that I only had to spend one day where I was sitting around

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-2583633359999123772009-08-21T11:03:00.020-06:002009-08-25T12:24:27.106-06:00

So I got to spend the last two weeks in Maine on "vacation." My vacation was actually a lot of fun. I got to spend it with Jacob and Heather helping them with their new baby girl and two other girls. Definitely stressful at times, especially when it's the end of the day. You're tired and they're tired, and it becomes a battle of the wills. However, it's always nice to "experiment" parenting on

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-11918133034688796972009-07-27T10:28:00.007-06:002009-07-27T10:48:22.826-06:00

So, last Friday (the 24th) was Ashton's birthday. Although he wasn't all that excited to be a year older, we had a fun time celebrating. Unfortunately, he was one of the only people that had to go to work on his birthday. (For those of you who aren't familiar with Utah holidays, the 24th is also Pioneer Day and just about everything closes for it, and there are also fireworks.) It was good for me

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-36089645499675164832009-07-23T15:05:00.011-06:002009-07-23T15:40:34.319-06:00

We finally got our desktop computer fixed. The screen kept flickering and got so bad that we'd have to shut down the computer for a while if we wanted to play a game and even that didn't work. Eventually the computer wouldn't even turn on. Well, we figured out that it was the motherboard and since the computer was still under warranty, Dell sent someone to replace the part. He came, the part was

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-79758875262815969152009-07-17T11:33:00.004-06:002009-07-17T13:31:05.182-06:00

Ashton and I tend to read a lot of books. We plan on having an entire room dedicated to books when we actually get a house. The entire room is not just because we like books, but also because that's how much space we're going to need to store our books especially when we gather the rest of our books from the various parents' houses.Although we both like to read, we enjoy different genres of books

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-2853032393500101962009-07-12T11:07:00.003-06:002009-07-12T11:45:23.712-06:00

So, it's been a while and there are probably tons of stuff to catch everyone up on , even if it doesn't feel that way. However, I'm not going to try to catch up on everything we've done in the past few weeks. That would take a while and you'd be bored by the end...I'd be bored by the end. So I'll just talk about this weekend, or more specifically yesterday.We had a rather busy Saturday, but we

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-66625575579378149382009-06-16T09:07:00.009-06:002009-06-16T12:36:41.220-06:00

We like our adventures here well enough. They spice up life, especially the spur of the moment adventures that you don't know are coming. Well, we had one such moment a few days ago.We were on our way to the airport to pick up Lance and Stacy. It seemed like a normal enough trip. Everything was going fine until we got on the freeway. We didn't even make it a full mile to the next exit when the

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-66826923593164168282009-06-03T10:42:00.002-06:002009-06-03T11:07:31.159-06:00

Life always seems busy until I go to write about what we've been up to. Then it doesn't seem interesting enough to write about and so small. I mean the hardest decision I usually have to make during the day is what to eat (it's a toss-up though. Deciding whether to shower or not and what to do with my hair in the case that I did shower are also hard decisions).In any case, we did have a fairly

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-29353891451168056862009-05-19T10:18:00.004-06:002009-05-19T10:42:15.201-06:00

Somehow I know it's going to be a good day when some of the first words out of Ashton's mouth to me is, "Zarah, get your head out of my armpit!" I couldn't help it, he smelled good...and I was also half-asleep.I love spring\summer time. Spring only seems to last a couple weeks here in Utah. Then it's on to hot weather, which I love. I could still go for some humidity, but that's mainly because

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-55103918855026404182009-05-01T09:48:00.021-06:002009-05-01T10:36:40.912-06:00

Ok, so I'm a week late on this, but here it is, Ashton graduated last Friday! It was a crazy day since he wasn't the only one who was graduating in his family and amongst our friends, but it ended up being a beautiful day. His ceremony was at 8:00 AM and we hung around campus with his family, taking loads of pictures and such, until we had to go to his sister's (Melissa) and sister-in-law's (

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-22385515960805776372009-04-20T10:00:00.012-06:002009-04-20T10:23:29.631-06:00

We've been having beautiful weather here and it's great! Ashton had to take a final this past Saturday and so I had a few hours to kill. It was really nice out and I felt like a drive, so I grabbed my camera and headed out. 2 parks and 80 pictures later, I decided I should head home. It was fun to take pictures of spring and things in bloom, as you can probably guess by the volume of pictures I

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-4600371925636227052009-04-13T09:54:00.002-06:002009-04-13T10:22:55.592-06:00

I hope everyone had a great Easter Sunday yesterday! We enjoyed a great day with sunshine and, of course, some Easter eggs.While I was showering and getting ready for church, Ashton hid some Easter eggs for me to find after we got home. Of course, I couldn't let him get away with just sitting around and watching me find the eggs, so after I got done finding, I hid some for him to find.We spent

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-33210605454255945872009-04-03T09:46:00.005-06:002009-04-03T09:51:25.911-06:00

I got my hair cut yesterday! I've been told that I needed to post pictures of it, so here they are! I didn't take a "before" picture, so you'll have to be satisfied with the after shots. Keep in mind, this was taken late at night so my hair was kinda falling flat at that point and although it might not look so different, there are some things that are different. Just not as drastic as they could

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-48552270568427371212009-03-28T15:33:00.003-06:002009-03-28T15:56:40.349-06:00

I had some time to kill sitting in the JFK airport, so I thought that I'd update the blog. I've spent the last week in Maine with family. I wasn't too excited to come back out East this time. Funerals aren't the best reasons to go on a trip. It turned out to be fun though, after the funeral stuff ended that is. I spent a week with my brother Jacob and his family. I got put to work playing with

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-14699429612564943732009-03-16T10:33:00.009-06:002009-03-16T10:50:30.391-06:00

This weekend, we had a ward activity that was a chili/pie cook-off with a Western theme. We were in charge of decorations and I had a lot of fun picking stuff out, although it was a bit stressful. Thanks to our brother-in-law Trevor, some of that was made quite a bit easier. He let us borrow some cowboy hats, a saw horse, lasso, and some other stuff. He even taught us how to use the lasso that

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-25053603704417894902009-03-10T12:54:00.007-06:002009-03-11T20:31:58.935-06:00

A couple weeks ago, I had a Relief Society lesson on gratitude. I immediately thought of the quote that Heather had put up on her blog months ago by Melodie Beattie:"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It turns problems into gifts failures into success, the unexpected into

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-32192249137655342972009-03-07T10:23:00.001-07:002009-03-07T10:24:47.428-07:00

I'm usually such a wimp about this kind of stuff. I figure what I have to offer isn't always that super. But with a year time commitment, I just might be able to swing this. And I couldn't resist the friend it came from.So, here's how it works: the first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive, at some point during the year a handmade gift from me. What it will be and when it will

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-67578809263241202722009-03-05T09:44:00.004-07:002009-03-05T10:56:20.294-07:00

Yesterday, we got the chance to go to the Draper Temple Open House. It turned out to be the perfect day to go. This week has been wicked busy for Ashton with both school and work and so it was a nice chance for us to spend some time together and for him to take a break.We had to park at a chapel nearby, and, after watching a short film, take the "green" bus to the Temple. The color was for us to

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-18532586382684185842009-03-02T09:42:00.006-07:002009-03-02T10:17:44.094-07:00

One thing that Ashton and I love to do is to take things out of context. We tend to giggle a lot when we think about a quote that sounds normal when you know the story, but makes absolutely no sense if you just say it.For example, the other day I said, "That's what everyone says until they rub a penguin on their head." Yeah, makes no sense without the story, but it sent Ashton into near hysteria

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-53614552033872727082009-02-16T11:11:00.002-07:002009-02-16T12:33:35.948-07:00

Having grown up a tomboy (inevitable when you have 5 older brothers and 2 younger ones), I am usually all for "boy stuff." For example, when we watch movies or shows on TV, they are usually of the action or geeky type. For games, we've networked our computers so we can play Warcraft together, which I have fond memories of hovering around the computer watching my brothers play growing up, other

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-79747110379007794932009-01-29T10:59:00.003-07:002009-01-29T12:33:38.773-07:00

It's been a crazy month and I can't believe it's not over yet. Good thing February is short. Definitely makes me feel better about the 3 more months that Ashton has in school. Counting days is probably not the way to make that go quickly.Although this month has felt long and hectic, we've had some fun times as well. We had the chance to go to a Stake Fireside, a few weeks back, where former

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-60993588474738351602009-01-19T10:19:00.007-07:002009-01-19T10:36:47.586-07:00

The past few days, we've gotten some frost/snow on the trees and bushes without anything sticking to the sidewalks or roads. The affect was pretty cool, so I took some pictures before we went to Church. We have Church now at 9 am and although it's hard some days to get up, we're loving it!

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-9747354181725686942009-01-14T08:53:00.004-07:002009-01-14T09:22:21.994-07:00

I was staring at our blog page, trying to think if I had anything worth writing a post about, when the title of our blog caught my eye, "I Am A Leaf On The Wind." I started to think about the different ways that could be taken. Some might say that it means wishy-washy-ness; going with whatever society deems as correct at the time because let's face it, society changes its mind so often that it's

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-28795745096146246932009-01-07T09:06:00.004-07:002009-01-07T09:32:47.877-07:00

So far it's been a good start to the new year, even if it's been including a lot of snow in the past few days. We're excited for a few possibilities that the new year has for us, including graduating for Ashton in April! He started off his last semester this week and so far everything looks good. It might be too soon to tell though just how busy he'll be and how often we'll really get to see each

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-13631398032912522008-12-28T19:02:00.006-07:002008-12-30T17:56:36.190-07:00

This year for Christmas, Paula (my mother-in-law) flew in from Colorado on Christmas Eve and we drove up to Idaho to spend the holidays with Ashton's grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other extended family. Although I had been up there once (we stayed at his grandparent's house for a night on our way up to Yellowstone last year), I had never spent a holiday up there. There was never a dull moment

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-35264962090623643862008-12-19T09:36:00.007-07:002008-12-19T10:00:10.731-07:00

It snowed yesterday and I couldn't help, but take some pictures. I didn't take pictures before it stopped snowing, but there was plenty of snow on the bushes so they became my focal point. So here they are!

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-32558878745261884062008-12-14T17:09:00.010-07:002008-12-14T17:45:44.378-07:00

So, here's the moment some of you have been waiting for. A picture post! It's been long overdue, but that couldn't be helped. Last night we went up to my father-in-law's house for a Christmas celebration with his family. We had a great time and of course, got some great pictures.We watched Sadie while Nate, Anjanette, and Ashton's dad took Katelyn sledding.Sadie was pretty fascinated by

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As always, life has its ups and downs. Sometimes more ups than downs and sometimes more downs than ups. One of the hardest things for me recently is to learn to appreciate the small and quiet moments, and to recognize them for their importance in life and in healing.People often can point out one or two big moments that have changed their lives. I think that it's easy to recognize the big moments

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Well, this week starts the beginning of a few crazy weeks. Since Ashton has a new job, he gets to start a new work schedule. Although he found out Wednesday, he couldn't find the right moment to tell me until he started talking about it at the dinner table at Thanksgiving with his family. Why this was the right moment or why he needed a "right moment," I don't know. I don't overreact at all....

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...or magic apples or bickering short people. Or really anything that made Snow White such a classic Disney rendition.After several weeks of suffering the effects of the strained economy (at least, that seems to be the scapegoat these days when people lose their jobs), I am back among the working class. Tomorrow is my first day at T-Splines, which deals in 3D graphic technology. There is

Ashton Halladaynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-50306603800318849382008-11-21T14:36:00.005-07:002008-11-22T16:44:59.409-07:00

(None of these listed are in any particular order)My 8 Favorite TV Shows1. Charmed2. Friends3. Dancing with the Stars4. So You Think You can Dance5. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart6.7.8.My 8 Favorite Restaurants1. Bajio2. Gandolfo's3. Panera Bread4. Arby's5. Olive Garden6. Cafe Rio7. Carl's Jr.8.8 Things that Happened Yesterday1. Worked on Ashton's Christmas present2. Listened to music3. Did

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I had forgotten how therapeutic music is for me. I used to play the piano all the time to express my feelings. It was so much easier for me to express myself in that way than to try to find the words to do it. It was a very useful tool growing up. Even when I went to college, I tried to take as many opportunities to play as I could. There's just something so satisfying to play sad music when

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So, I've been told that I need to update our blog. For the most part, it's just been same old, same old. Job hunting, classes for Ashton, where do we spend the holidays, etc. We've had some good times this week though.For one thing, I made pumpkin whoopie pies. They are amazing, hence why I made them. Well, I also made them because while I was in Maine, I was trying to make Ashton jealous by

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-76780986598658537222008-11-10T09:33:00.002-07:002008-11-10T10:24:12.515-07:00

So, it turns out that today is going to be another one of those days. Dark, gloomy, and rainy. Usually I don't mind some rain, but I prefer it to be warm summer rain rather than cold rain that might turn to snow. Ugh, so not looking forward to snow. The first snow fall is pretty, but I'm just not ready to be staring at white for 6 months. Give me another year or two...I might be ready then.Well,

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Ashton Halladaynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-67604851977263720662008-11-05T10:30:00.004-07:002008-11-05T11:08:56.341-07:00

Well, the election season is over. Can't say that I'm happy about the outcome. Ashton and I were hoping for a different outcome, although we knew that it was not likely. I spent a lot of time in front of the TV, keeping track of which states went to who, yelling at the different people talking on the TV, and soon needed comfort food. So, I baked a pumpkin pie. Took too long to bake so I haven't

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-86037525979456893172008-10-25T11:21:00.011-06:002008-10-25T11:36:13.417-06:00

Some of you probably think that I've fallen off the face of the earth. Well, I was just in Maine for a few weeks and kept busy by a couple of munchkins. I had a great time with Heather and the kids and plenty of good memories and pictures to remember the trip by. It was definitely a beautiful time of year to make the trip. There's nothing like Maine in the fall. I've been home for 3 days now and

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Yesterday I spent some time driving around and taking pictures, but not at the same time. I drove up into the mountains a little ways to an area that had a little park and a bunch of hiking trails. I spent about an hour or so just snapping pictures, which was a lot of fun. It's amazing how many different angles you can take a picture at and every angle makes the subject look different. Anyways,

Zarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09541486324686235751noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592747874130699513.post-84848049448004354262008-09-16T13:28:00.009-06:002008-09-16T15:27:55.764-06:00

The other day, my in-laws brought over the rest of our bedroom set. We already had the bottom of bed, but not the headboard or the other stuff. It's really nice to feel like we have an actual bedroom instead of a room that just happens to hold our bed. So, here are some pictures of our new and improved bedroom, but first, the before pictures. I think you'll agree that it's a big improvement.Yeah,

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