The Demke's!

One day at a t time

2011-12-23T10:29:00.000-08:00

That is how we are living life right now. It really seems unfair all the bad things that have happened to us lately. But then I sit back and remember that it is only stuff. We are healthy and in good spirits considering all that has happened. Each day brings a different mood and some days they are not good ones. When I find myself getting into the grumps or "Turning into the Hulk" as Geoff likes to call it, I have to stop and list all the things that we do have and what I am grateful for. Losing the car really has been a humbling experience for the both of us.

We still have not heard much from the LVPD but we have high hopes that something will turn up after the holidays. If only they could get us a case number so that our insurance can do there part. Even if the car is not recovered it would be nice to get the money from the insurance. At least we would no longer be playing the waiting game like we are now. I think that is the worst part at times. I feel like they have done nothing to help us and that they really dont care that our car was stolen. Geoff kindly reminds me that we are not the only people that were in Vegas that weekend and most likely not the only people to have a car stolen or broken into. This tends to calm me down for a bit, however, I seem to get worked up much easier these days.

Its hard to believe that school will be starting again in just a few short weeks. I was hoping for a nice relaxing time off. I had plans to work on some projects and get some stuff done around the house. Now all I want to do if I am home is lie around and do nothing. I fear that depression has struck our household and it will take some much need sunshine to get rid of it. To bad it is so dang cold outside. It just makes me want to stay inside more wrapped up in a nice warm blanket.

One a brighter note, we were able to go out to Tuachan last night and see the live Nativity. To sum up the night I am going to quote Geoff. "I have never been more happy to drive thirty minutes to sit in the cold for a seventeen minute program" Yes it was freezing and we were not prepared. The family time was great though. I love getting to spend time with my sisters. When we are not disagreeing on something we really do have a great time together. I am looking forward to the rest of the weekend that we will get to spend with our families.

And last but not least! I am going to be an aunt again! My sister Tiffanie and her husband are going to be having another little girl in May! I cant wait. This new baby will be my fifth niece! I still have no nephews so the race is on (on both sides of the family) to see who has the first boy!

Life can be unfair

2011-12-19T07:31:00.000-08:00

I know that it has been a while since I last posted and I do hope to do an end of year wrap up in the next week or so. But for now I have wanted to document how life can be so unfair at times. For Geoff's birthday this year I got us a two night stay at Harrah's in Las Vegas. I was so excited for this trip school had just ended for the semester and I was really in need of a break. Not to mention that I got to spend the weekend with Geoff and that we were going to take in a couple of shows. Friday night was amazing. We went to the Legends in Concert show which is where people do impersonations of celebrities. It was so fun there was singing and dancing and they even did some Christmas songs. Geoff and I had a great time. We decided to play some cards and hit the slot machines for a while. Saturday morning rolls around and guess what? The car is gone. Not just gone but totally missing. Geoff is now without a car, cell phone, or keys. We have no idea what happened and the Las Vegas Police department were not a lot of help. We called them and they told us that with out a plate number or vin number on the car there was nothing that we could do. So we packed up and rode the shuttle home. Not the way I wanted to end my vacation. We got home got the information the police department wanted and then called them. They told us that we needed to go the the police station in St. George so that we could verify that we are who we said we were and that the car is really ours. So we get in the car and head to the police station. Of course this is Utah and nothing is open on Sundays. The hits just keep coming and coming. We now have to wait until today to be able to file a claim. That is two whole days that the car has been missing and nothing has been filed on it yet. Do you know how far away a car can get in two days. I am beyond frustrated that someone would steal a car, but the fact that the police station is closed on Sundays just boggles my mind. I understand the whole taking the weekend off but really?? After we report the car today we will just have to wait and see. I hope that the car turns up. I dont even care what condition it is in as long as they find it. This is the end of a chapter in our lives and we would really like to just put it behind us, if that is even possible. Sorry that this is just a rant and rave but I wanted to document it.

Crossfit day 8

2011-07-07T19:07:00.000-07:00

Todays work out sucked so bad. I went into it feeling so great because I had done RX yesterday. Boy was I wrong. I did not think that I was really sore until I started working out. My whole body aches. I did however manage to get through the least amount of rounds that was available. I did five rounds. Not great but at least I did finish. The work out was
15 ring dips
15 pushups
20 situps
10 Burpee board jumps
I finished in 32 minutes and 12 seconds. Not a great time but at least I managed to finish. Most of the above workouts are easy to understand but you may be thinking what is a burpee board jump, well it is when you jump down into a pushup and catch yourself before you hit them ground, then you push with your legs and arms to get standing back up, then you would have to long jump out in front of you as far as you could go. After ring dips and pushups my arms were dead. That was only one round you had to go again and again. As mentioned I did five rounds. I was somewhat disappointed that I could not do the seven rounds that were scheduled. But I guess there is always next time. So here is looking forward to tomorrow. It is the grand opening of Zion Crossfit and they are going to have a party. The radio station will be there and everything. I am pretty excited about going.

Crossfit day 7 or something to that effect

2011-07-06T21:41:00.000-07:00

So I have been a slacker and have not attended crossfit since Saturday morning. But in my defense it was the holiday and I did do the 5K workout on Monday. But I slacked off and did not go Tuesday. Hence the reason that today Wednesday is the seventh day and not the ninth.
Today's WOD was
AMRAP in 20 min of: (as many rounds as possible)
5 sumo deadlift high pulls 45/75
5 thrusters 65/95
10 toes to bar
25 double unders
Man it was a killer. I did 4 complete rounds and then did all but 10 of the last 25 Double Unders. I was so happy because I did all of the double unders as double unders and not singles. That was a big accomplishment for me. It did end up taking me more time to do it that way though. Oh ya and I did everything at RX. That means that I did all of the rounds at the listed weight. Totally awesome! I am happy with what I did today and hope that I am not too sore tomorrow to get a good workout in.

Crossfit Day 6

2011-07-02T22:54:00.000-07:00

I have made it a week. I can not believe that it has already been a week since I started Crossfit. Today's workout was brutal. You worked with a partner and went through different stations. I will not bore you with the details today because I am too tired and there are not really any numbers to post. I am just glad that I have made it this far. Here's to hoping for another great week. Geoff and I have just been laying around the house today. It was much needed and I am glad that we were able to do it. Tomorrow will be more of the same except we will be having dinner at his dads and hopefully hitting the pool. My Jamaica tan has already faded and I need to get some more sun. I hate feeling like I have no tan. So hopefully we will get to be outside some this weekend.

Crossfit day 5

2011-07-01T20:14:00.000-07:00

I played hookie today. Geoff and I took a nap together instead of working out. Then he took me to Brick Oven for soup and salad. It was a nice relaxing Friday night. Tomorrow is my long run. I think I will do seven miles and then try and hit Crossfit at 8am. I am hoping that I can do it all. My body sure is sore from all of this working out. The weigh in is on Monday and I am excited to see how I am doing!

Cross Fit day 4

2011-06-30T19:22:00.000-07:00

Sorry if these are boring to anyone out there but I want to remember what I have done and what I have accomplished. Today at Crossfit I learned that it was a rest day. I guess since I took my rest day yesterday it was a good thing that I went today. I was still a bit sore from my first two workouts but I am glad that I could go and finish the full workout. We did shoulders today and boy if they were not sore before they sure are now. I finished the whole workout but I had to go down on the weights. I hope to one day be able to do all of the workouts on the weight that is listed. I have a folder that I am keeping track of what I am doing so that one day I will be able to see my improvement. I am just happy that I have made it this far. Tomorrow is another day and I hope to start it off with a good run. So I will be hitting the bed tonight early.

Cross Fit day 3... I mean Transformers!

2011-06-30T07:31:00.000-07:00

Today I woke up so sore I thought I was going to die. The workout we did was a killer. I got up and went to the gym planning on running 6 miles. I managed to do 3. I ended up walking most of it because when I would run everything would hurt. My arms, legs, and abs are on fire. I do not think that there is enough icy hot in the world that could take away the pain that I am feeling. So I decided that I would not be attending Crossfit today. I did attempt to run so I think that I got my workout in :) Besides Geoff had decided that we were going to go and see the 5:40 showing of Transformers. It was awesome! I am so a movie person and would go and see every movie that comes out if I could afford too. Not that we dont go and see most of them because we do! I am looking forward to attending Crossfit again. I really do enjoy the workouts and the people that are there always encouraging me to finish. My next race is on July 16th so I need to get some running in again. Hopefully I am not as sore tomorrow and I can get a long run in. That would at least make me feel better about myself.

Cross Fit Day 2

2011-06-28T21:15:00.000-07:00

Today I got my butt kicked at Cross Fit. I was already so sore but decided to go anyways. I am now thinking that I should have taken the day off. I missed out on my run this morning because I was so sore. I was planning on doing it tonight but did not make that either. So now I have to run twice tomorrow or pick another day to run on. I am not really looking forward to that. The work out today consisted of dead lifts, turkish arm things (sorry cant remember the correct name) and sit ups. I never thought I would make it through. You had to go through each set three times and you were timed to see how fast you could do it in. I was doing well until I got to the sit ups each round. My abs, well if you know me I have no abs, so I could barley do them. However I am proud to say that I completed all of them. My time was 20:22. Sorry if this is boring to anyone out there but this is for my journal purposes, so I plan on rambling about this as I go. Besides it will be good to keep track of what I am doing and how I improve. Tomorrow is another day and a new start!

97 days until the marathon and Day 1 of Cross fit

2011-06-27T15:05:00.000-07:00

Today I am starting a 6 week challenge at Cross Fit. The program is designed to help you get in shape in all areas of athletics. They are based on improving a persons fitness. On Thursday I went and got weighed and had some measurements taken. But I can not remember the measurements right now so I will not be posting them. I am really excited about trying something new to lose weight. I have been running but it seems as though I have plateaued and I am not sure why. I still have at least 50 pounds to lose. I am hoping that Cross Fit can get me passed the plateau. I will be doing weekly weigh ins on Monday. I am not really comfortable posting my weight on here but since this is for journal purposes I guess I should. As of today I am 173.2. I would like to be 135 or so. That means that I have a long way to go. I will be taking some before pictures tonight but I do not think that I will post them just yet. I look terrible. I started today of well I went to spin at the Summit, the class was good but it kicked my butt. Now I am getting ready to go to my first day at Cross Fit. Wish me luck. I will keep everyone posted on how things go.

There are 97 days until the Marathon. Geoff and I are running and we are getting excited. I wish that I was as far along in my training as Geoff is. Sometimes I just dont have the motivation to do anything. Geoff can always get the motivation to do things. I am so not like that. Geoff ran in the American Fork half marathon on Saturday. He did so good! Even though he forgot his running shoes and had to run in his Doc Martins. He has blisters on his feet and his legs are quite sore but he did so well. He set a new time record. I am so proud of him. So here is to my training to get motivated. I have to get my butt in gear if I want to finish in the time limit. It has changed this year.

Geoff and I are also running the Bryce Canyon half marathon in 3 weeks. This will be my first half marathon. I am very nervous about it but feel like I will be ready. I am excited to be able to prove to myself that I can do this. It is a goal that I have set that I can not wait to to finish!

Our summer... so far!

2011-06-22T07:58:00.000-07:00

Like I mentioned in my last post I was just getting ready to graduate from college with my Associates degree. Well that has finally happened. It was a great experience and I had a lot of fun hanging out with all the family that came to support me. On May 30, Geoff and I celebrated our Anniversary. It was so amazing because we were in Jamaica at the time. If you have never been there and get the chance I suggest you go! It was so beautiful and we had an amazing time. I would post some pictures but I am on the work computer and not my laptop. I will try and add some later this week.
I decided to attend summer school to get some classes out of the way. I ended up taking 9 credits in five weeks. One of those weeks I was on vacation so I guess I did it in 4. I do not recommend doing something that crazy to anyone. But it is nice to have those classes out of the way and I did really well in them so that makes me happy.
This week my cousin Courtney has been staying with us. Lets just say that I was not prepared to have a teenager in my house so soon. Courtney and I have had a lot of fun though! We went to the Jacob Hamblim home and Brigham Youngs Winter house. Then yesterday we went to the temple and did baptisms and went to the visitors center. I have not been to the visitors center in so long. They have redone their Gods plan for the family room. It was so cool to experience this with Courtney. Today we are going to go horse back riding. We are both pretty excited about that!
Other then that our lives are pretty much the same. Geoff and I are still training for the marathon in October. We spend a lot of time running now days. I just wish it would help with weight loss on my part. I have hit a plateau and I am not so happy about it.
We are hoping to do many fun things this summer so we will keep everyone posted on them!

Not a downer

2011-05-03T18:57:00.000-07:00

My last blog was kind down in the dumps well this one is not. I need to learn how to put all of my pictures in a collage so that there is not so many to look at but I have so many fun pictures to post. Not really much to tell about them. Most of them are of the races that Geoff and I have been running. I did my first 10K on Saturday and it was pretty good. I wish that I would have been a little faster but now I have a time to beat for my next one. We are thinking of going to Vegas next weekend to run in a 10K because there are not anymore here in town this month. We ran in the Biggest Loser 5K last month and that was pretty cool. We got to run with some of the contentants from the show. We also got their autographs! I was stoked about getting to see Chole and Darius. They were two of my favorites. I am officially in training for the marathon. I decided if I did not do it this year I never would so here goes nothing. I am hoping to finish in about 5.5 hours. Geoff wants to beat his time from the last one he ran. Oh ya I almost forgot..... I am graduating with my Associates degree on Friday! I am pretty excited. I feel like I have been working on this forever. Now for the pictures that is way you all read this anyways!

The bigger picture

2011-02-25T10:35:00.000-08:00

What is the bigger picture? At times I sit around and wonder why I am doing the things that I am doing. My life is in shambles. Well at least I feel like it is. A typical day starts at 7am when I have to drag my butt out of bed to get ready. I head to class at 8 and finish around 10. Then it is off to job 1. I work for 3-4 hours and then head to job 2 where I put in a full 8 hour shift.This happens 3-4 times a week. I then have to attempt to do homework so that I can pass all of the classes that I am taking. Believe me if I would have known that taking 18 credits and working 60+ hours a week was even possible I would have laughed in your face. Now it is my normal day.

The bigger picture is that I will be paying off all of my school loans before I get accepted in the Nursing program and have the money to pay for the rest of school with out taking out any more loans. I really liked this idea in the beginning but now am not sure that I will last until graduation in May.

I feel as if I am not taking that good of care of Geoff. I know that he is a big boy and does not need my help but is that not what marriage is about? I want to be home to cook dinner when he gets home. I want him to be able to come home to a clean house with all the laundry done. So why is it that the things I want most in life right now are the ones that are getting put on the back burner? The bigger picture. In the end I will have a job that I can pick the hours I want to work and when I want to work and I will have all the time in the world to spend with Geoff.

But for now it feels like I am missing out on so much that we could be doing together. Besides going to bed I do not think that we have had more than 1 hour together in months. It is sad really and I am so very blessed to have a husband that is supportive of what I am doing. He is always telling me that I can do better than what I think. I was studying one night and freaking out about a test the next day. Geoff told me that he knew I would do great and to stop stressing out about it. It was so nice to hear him say that he knew I was smart enough to accomplish this small test! I did get a 98% on it by the way! I was so stoked.

Geoff is the light of my life and I do not know what I would do with out him. He makes me stop and look around at everything that is going on. He has taught me that I should think things through instead of just jumping into them. It does take the fun out of some things but he is so amazing!

Okay enough of that. I am just having one of those days where I just want to crawl in bed and not get out for a week :) But life goes on. Thanks for listening!

2011 Resolutions!

2011-01-03T08:08:00.000-08:00

I have decided that if I don't write these things down I will never know if I completed them or not so here is my list.

1. Run a half marathon
2. Graduate from Dixie with my Associates
3. Apply for the Nursing Program
4. Train for a marathon (I want to run but am not sure if I will)
5. Declutter my house
6. Lose 10 pounds
7. Finish my High School blanket
8. Go to Jamacia (Trip is planned for May-June)
9. Work out at least 4 times a week
10. And last but not least start trying to have a baby! (This will not be until the end of the year though)

And there they are. I figured if I set ten goals I should be able to make at least half of them! :) Since Geoff got me my new camera (Nikon D5000) I am hoping to have pictures of each resolution as I complete them. So here is to a great and wonderful new year. May it bring much joy and happiness to everyone!

The end of 2010

2011-01-03T07:59:00.000-08:00

It is hard to believe that 2010 has come to an end. I am sitting here pondering on all of the changes I have gone through this year. I feel as if each and every year I become a different person, I am learning and growing each day. I know that I have been terrible at blogging lately and I am hoping to change that this year. So for a recap of the rest of the year I am just going to post some pictures of the holidays. I had to work a 16 hour shift on Christmas eve and Christmas day so I did not get to partake in very many activities. Geoff however took my new camera to his family party and came home with 250 pictures so I feel as if I was there. My family the ones that were in town got together in Sunday for dinner. That is all the excitement we could handle! Oh and this is our new niece Kiera in the photo with us!

Life

2010-12-09T23:55:00.000-08:00

Do you ever get the feeling that life is flying by and that there is not enough time in a day to get all you want to do accomplished? This is how my life seems to be going these days. It is now December and I think that my last post was in September. I really want to keep up to date on this but it seems like there is never any time. The only reason that I am getting to write now is because it is 12:30 in the morning and I am 11 hours into a 16 hour shift. Working NOC shifts can be very stressful and really messes up your sleeping schedule. I am covering for a coworker who has a sick father. I have no idea why I said yes other then the money is nice to have. I should be at home right now curled up in bed with Geoff. (Whom by the way I have not seen in 21 hours, and he will be gone when I get home so it will be like 30 some hours). This is very sad to me. I love my husband and hate to be away from him. I really need to do an update on what has been going on in our lives but non of the pictures on my camera are on my computer so I will not be posting any of them tonight. I usually say that not much has been going on in our lives anyways. I am sure that will soon be changing! I will be graduating in May with my Associates in Science. Not really a big deal but it will be nice to be done with school for awhile. I still need to decide what I want to do for a career. I really was into doing Nursing but at the moment it just seems like to much more school. I am still loving my job as a CNA which is really strange to most people. I love being able to interact with my residents and hearing about their lives. It is funny how much more interesting their lives are then mine. All I do is work and school. But as mentioned before that may be changing soon. My brother is getting married on Saturday. Who would have thought that Tyler would get married so soon after his mission. I am really excited for him. Chelsea is a great girl and I know she will keep Tyler in line. I will have more to post about this later. If you have made it through all of this congrats I know that I did not really tell you much but I am hoping that after finals next week I will have some time to get the blogging world updated on my very boring life. Sorry that it is all in block format I am to lazy to go and make it look nice!!!

August and such

2010-10-04T10:01:00.000-07:00

I know I am a terrible blogger but this time I feel justified. I am extremely busy these days. The only reason I am finding time to write today is because I stayed home sick and I am procrastinating doing homework. Geoff and I are doing great. We are enjoying the time we get to spend together even though it is not much. He is still working for Dal-tile so we are grateful for that. I am going to school full time and working two part time jobs. This leaves very little time to spend together but we keep reminding each other that it is not forever. I am going to graduate with my Associates in May so that is something that we are looking forward to. I will then be applying for the Nursing Program at a couple of different schools. We are planning to stay in St. George because Geoff has work here so I may have to commute daily to school. But we will see how things go.
In August we didn't really do much and this is why it is hard to blog for me. We are not really doing anything new. My sister-in-law did have a birthday so we went up to Dammeron Valley to celebrate. It was such a blast hanging out with family and having a good time. Oh ya and Geoff FINALLY got a haircut. He looks so handsome but he will never look at the camera so this is what I have.

April, May, June, & July!

2010-08-03T15:14:00.000-07:00

Once again it has been months since I have posted. I seem to think that if I tell myself that I will post on here I will but then I never do. I really mean to keep everyone updated on what is going on in our lives but I find that I forget to take my camera or that I just dont have time to post anything. I have been busy with school over the last couple of months. Now that I am out for the rest of the summer I feel as if I should update everyone.

MAY:

The month of May was very eventful for Geoff and I. I finished school on the 7th of May. I had four weeks of freedom before summer school started. Geoff and I decided that we would take an early anniversy vacation. We invited my sister Tiff and her husband Trent to tag along. We went on a cruise to the Mexican Rivera. It was so much fun. But ofcourse I always forgot to take pictures. Tiffanie got a new camera for mother's day so we used hers alot. I only have a couple of pictures that I actually took. Most of them are off of an underwater camera that we used when we were on the beach in Cabo. We took so many funny pictures. The cruise was a blast and so were all of the excursions that we did. We did an extreme canopy and it was so fun. We rode down like 7 zip lines and repelled down two different water falls. It was such a fun time!

At the end of May Geoff's beautiful sisters graduated from Dixie High School. They are the most amazing girls. I am so proud of them. I was like the beaming mother watching them walk through the big D. Even though they went to my schools rival. I guess when you grow up the high school rivalries tend to go away. Well at least they do when you are not watching football or baseball. In those aspects I bleed Black all the way! The first picture is of all the Demke girls that attended the graduation. Nikki, Karen, me, Kathie, and Jill (Peterson, she is no
longer a Demke). Sarah and Jessica were there but for some reason did not make it into the photo.

This is Karen and Kathie! If you know them you know that they are like night and day. They are so different in so many ways and yet they are the same in so many more. They are the best of friends and always are having a good time. The both are planning on attending Dixie this Fall. I am so amazed at the example they set each and every day!

And here they are with their little sister Sarah. Who could be their triplet. They all look so much alike it amazes me!

JUNE:
June was the beginning of summer school. Let me just say, What was I thinking? Summer school was so crazy. I did pass all of my classes but for a while I thought I was going to go crazy. The classes are like half of a semester so everything goes so fast. Plus I started a new job. I am now working as a CNA at Cliff View Senior Living. I really love it. I work overnights so I get to be home during the days. This helps with my school schedule. I can work on the weekends and still go to school during the day. I miss that I don't get to spend as much time with Geoff. But we know that it is only for a few years until I finish school. Then we will have all the time in the world to spend together. On June 25th my brother Tyler came home from his mission. What an exciting time that was. My brother is amazing. I am so happy to have him home. Recently he signed a letter of intent to play baseball at Dixie State College. We are so proud of him. My brother is a stud!

JULY:
Tyler gave his homecoming speech on the 11th of July. All the family came to town. It was so much fun. It was the first time that we have all been together in two years. Tyler has not seen Shelby since she was just a baby and he had never met Brooklyn. It was so fun to see how the girls reacted around Tyler. Brooklyn was just fine but she does great around all strangers. Shelby is hesitant but she is like that with all of us. One day she will really know who we are and not be scared of us. As always I forgot my camera. So I don't really have any pictures.

February, March, and Easter

2010-04-06T12:01:00.000-07:00

I know I said that I was going to try and post each month and as you can see that has not happened. I just forget or don't have the time. So the pictures just keep accumulating on my camera until I realize that months have gone by and I have yet again not posted. I really want to post stuff while it is fresh in my mind so that I can remember everything that happened. I am going to start with February and then go through Easter.

In February not much happened around here. I was busy with school and work and Geoff is working away. We did decided that we wanted to go on a cruise for our anniversy so we booked a trip in May to the Mexican Rivera. We talked Tiffanie and Trent into coming with us. They are going to leave Shelby with Trent's parents for the whole week. We are very excited about it. I had to work on Valentines Day so we didn't really celebrate much. We did go and see a movie. We are pretty exciting I know!!

In March I was able to attend Randy and Nikki's sealing. It was such an amazing experience. I was so glad that I was able to attend. There was a dinner afterwords that I was unable to attend due to work, but at the dinner Randy and Nikki informed the family that they will be having a baby. We are all so excited for them. Their baby will be the first Demke grandchild on this side of the family.

On March 29th my niece Shelby turned 2. We were not able to be there for her actual birthday so we all packed into Megan's car and headed up for Easter/Conference weekend. It was a long car ride with Brooklyn. She did really well most of the trip but by the end she was ready to be out of the car and so were we. The weather up there was not all that great but there was no snow so that was nice. We were able to have a small birthday party for Shelby while we were up there. She was so excited about all of her new gifts. Her parents got her a new kitchen to play with so Megan and Curtis got her a shopping cart full of food, and Geoff and I got her a cash register and an apron. She looked so cute and had a blast playing with all her new toys. Grandma and Grandpa Curtis got her a new jump suit. She was so excited to put it on that she didn't want to open any more presents until she had it on!

On Saturday we went to an Easter egg hunt at Tiffanie's work. Her work puts on activities throughout the year for all of the elderly people. It is a good way to get them and their families together. There were so many eggs everywhere. They had a room that was for kids 0-2. This was nice for us because Shelby and Brooklyn could go into the same room. Shelby got scared at first because everyone was running around everywhere trying to get the eggs. When she finally got comfortable with everything she had a great time getting all of her eggs in the basket. After collecting the eggs they had a breakfast brunch set up for everyone to eat. The food was good and we had a blast hanging out with all the family. Shelby and Brooklyn both looked so cute in their Easter outfits.

That night we dyed Easter eggs. Shelby did not really get what we were doing and she kept wanting to do it on her own. It was fun to try and do it with her but I think that she is still just a little to young to know what is going on. We did have a good time and made a lot of cute eggs!

Here Tiffanie is with both of the girls. She had a hard time trying to get them to sit still long enough for us to snap some pictures. But we did get at least one decent one.

Last year Shelby got this Bunny for Easter. She had a great time dancing around to it. We all got a good laugh out of her.

I am watching Brooklyn 4 afternoons a week so that Megan can go to work. Here are some of the fun pictures we have taken over the last couple of months. This has been such a fun thing for me to do. I really enjoy doing things with Brooklyn. She is such a joy to be around!

Megan has a play date group that she gets together with. A couple of weeks ago Jordan brought a pool with her and they put all the kids in. They were so cute out there. Brooklyn had just fallen asleep so she was not all that happy. She had a hard time waking up.

December 2009-January 2010

2010-02-25T09:24:00.000-08:00

Christmas was a blast this year. Geoff and I had a great time hanging out with family and eating lots of food. I think I gained like 15 pounds over the holidays. Not so fun when you have just spent the past year losing 40 pounds. That is what I had accomplished. But by the end of the year it was only 24. So I am back on the working out daily lifestyle. But ofcourse that is more like every other day in my book :) I did not take a ton of pictures over Christmas so I am only posting a couple so that I can remember what took place at our house. Geoff and I did not set up a tree this year because it was during finals week and I needed to study more then I needed to decorate my house. I was pretty sad about that. I love to decorate for Christmas. Here is a picture of the tree at my moms house Christmas morning. The pizza is a tradition at our house. We all get together Christmas eve and make home made pizza's. This is the one that I made.

These pictures are of my nieces. One was the weekend of the blessing and the other was from Christmas. I wanted to post some pictures to show how much they both have changed in just a couple of months. In the second picture I think that they look enough alike to be sisters. They both got their mothers looks. The third picture is of Shelby wearing my shoes. Watch out Tiff she is trying to follow in her "baby aunt Cole's" shoes. That could mean a lot of trouble for you :)

For New Years we all got together at my house. It was all just family but we had a great time. I love that Geoff's family is like built in friends. There are so many of us all the same age that we have a blast when we get together. Not everyone is in this picture but it was the only one that I had with almost everyone in it. Sorry about all the gang signs, and fingers, we are a little crazy when we all get together. After midnight while sipping on sparkling cider we all listed out new years resolutions. It was pretty cool to see what everyone had planned for the year to come. Geoff wants to run the marathon again in under 4 hours. I had a few. I want to pass my CNA state tests, run the marathon, and lose 20 pounds. Here's to hoping 2010 will be a great year!

I didn't want to start a new post for January of 2010 so I am adding it to the end of this one. On January 7, 2010 I passed my state CNA boards. I was so nervous about them. I am so glad that all the time and effort I put into them passed off. I am still looking for a job but I am sure that I will find one in the near future.

For my birthday, Geoff and I went up to his mom's house for dinner. Of course we didn't eat anything because Geoff had a big surprise planned for dinner. He would not tell me where we were going. My birthday just so happens to fall on the same day as Geoff's twin sisters Karen and Kathie so we had a joint party. Geoff's mom made cakes for us and everyone sang happy birthday. This was my cake. I even got to blow out the candles this year! It was awesome. Thanks again momma Kathie! I love you!

This is just a picture of my baby cakes and I on my birthday before heading up to his mom's house. We do clean up nice when we try! I love this man with all my heart. He is such a blessing in my life. It is never a dull moment when he is around.

And finally, this is where we went to dinner. I had never been there before so it was so cool. There are still a lot of places in town that I have never eaten at so we are going to try and hit all of them this year. It was a huge surprise and I was so happy about it. We had a nice dinner of steak. I think this might have been one of the best birthdays so far!!

A long time in waiting.... Very long!

2010-02-18T08:27:00.000-08:00

This is going to be a very long post. I might have to break it down in to different ones because of time constraints. I am at the college library right now in between classes. I guess the best way to start is from where I left off. My last post was about my new niece Brooklyn Grace. She is now almost 6 months and is such a doll. This poor girl has had so much happen to her that she will be so lucky not to be messed up for life! Just kidding, but she has had it rough. Just in the last month she has had RSV, she got bitten by her dog, Charlie, and got her ears pierced. Plus she is getting 6 month shots this week. Poor girl has taken it all so well. Here are some pictures from her blessing day. Brooklyn and her cousin Kianoah got blessed on the same day by their Grandpa's. We are so proud to have grandpa's that hold the Preisthood in our family! I believe that Shelby is eating a Cheetoo in this picture of her!

My amazing husband was training for the marathon in Saint George so he and his cousin's wife Hannah ran a 15-miler in Pine Valley to get ready for it. I would never have made it. The run was all on a dirt path and it was up hills and down and it was so crazy. I was so impressed at some of the people who ran it. I never thought some of them would make it when they were running. But everyone finished. It gave me hope that one day I could do the same thing. I would really like to run a marathon. I was so proud of Geoff and Hannah they did amazing. Hannah got a medal in her age group. I can't remember what place it was though. Sorry Hannah I know your eyes are closed but it is the only one I got of the two of you!

In October Geoff ran the marathon. I was so proud and amazed at him. His finishing time was 4:12. When he finished he said that he just wanted to lay down but the people would not let him. They took him into a booth and checked all his vitals and kept asking him questions about himself to make sure that he knew what was going on. He was fine. Just exhausted. Most of his family was there to cheer him on. I ran the last mile or so with him. I helped out at my parents ward water station which is the very last one before the finish line. I ran to the end with him. He ran so fast I could not believe that after 25 miles that he still had that kind of speed in him. He told me that if he slowed down he would stop running and he wanted to finish the race running. What an amazing man I married!! Geoff's sisters Marian and Jill got him this shirt at the finish line. He couldn't wait to put it on.

In October, I believe it was the 28th Geoff's youngest sister got Baptised. Von was running late due to missing his flight, which everyone had said he better not miss. So he drove like 100 miles an hour from the Vegas airport to Diamond Valley so that he could preform the baptism. It was an awesome event. The whole family was there and that is saying a lot when you see how big this family is. To have us all there and pretty much on time was amazing. After the baptism we went up to Geoff's mom's place and had cake and ice-cream. I love this family I am so glad that I can be a part of it. The keep me on my toes! We had such a blast playing with all the cool sunglasses.

Halloween was not all that great this year for us. We both dressed up but I had to work so we didn't really get to do anything together. Geoff went out with his cousin Jacob and some friends and they had a good time. Geoff was an old man for Halloween and I could not believe that he would dare wear this costume out in public but then who am I kidding the man loves to be noticed! Even as an old man he is the man of my dreams!

We decided this year that for our birthdays we wanted to go to an Eagles game. Geoff is a huge Eagles fan so we got tickets to the game against San Diego. We were sad that they lost but had a blast at the game. If you have never been to a pro game I suggest that you do. It was a great experience. We had a blast hanging out with Cyndi and Jay while we were in town. They were so kind to let us stay with them. Thanks Jordan for letting us have your room. We promise we didn't move any of the legos. There were way to many pictures from the game to post them all so here is one of us in our seats and one of Geoff and the field. That is how close we were!

On November 24, Geoff turned 30. I made him a picture frame with all of his marathon stuff in it and a picture with him at the finish line. It turned out well. I really think that he was happy with it. He did get kinda mad because I was not going to spend any money on him for his birthday do to our agreement. I broke the rules though :) I was going to make it for him either way so why not just give it to him for his birthday! His mom made this cake for him when we went up to celebrate his birthday. Yes there really is 30 candles in there.

I have run out of time I have to head to class. I still have Christmas and New Years to post about for the end of 2009. I also have all of January and now most of February to do also. I hopefully will have time in the next week to finish up so that I can be up to date on this. I don't keep a journal so this is the best way to keep track of things. Here a a couple of pictures of Geoff and I over the last 6 months! The last one is of Shelby and I at Brooklyn's blessing. She doesn't really know who I am so she was scarred to have me holding her. Plus the sun is in both of our eyes. I just thought that it was a cute picture of the both of us.

Update is coming

2010-02-17T14:50:00.000-08:00

Just for the record, being a full time student leaves not a whole lot of time for anything other then school. If you dont believe me ask my husband! I know that I have not posted in a very long time. Almost six months to be exact. But it is coming and when it does you will be amazed. I have so much to post about that it will take me a long time to get it all together. I think that I am going to go by months from now on. Just posting what has happened in the month at the end of the month. This way I do not get so far behind. But until tomorrow when I plan to post all kinds of pictures I am off.

Brooklyn Grace Graff

2009-09-27T19:41:00.000-07:00

So it has been over a month since Brooklyn was born but I have not had a lot of time for blogging. With school, homework, and work there is not a whole lot of other time. But her she is. She is so adorable!!!!
My husband will make an amazing father one day. He is so amazing when he gets with Brooklyn. Just don't tell him that :)

Sneek Peek

2009-08-22T12:01:00.000-07:00

So I have not blogged in a long time and I have a ton of stuff I want to put up here but no time. School starts on Monday so I am not sure how much more time I will have to work on it for a while. But I thought I would at least put up a few wedding pictures. I promise when I can shrink them all down I will put up more.Dont mind my face in this one. I was holding back the tears. Dad just let them fall! I love my old Man!!!

Yup more tears! I am a sap.

How cute are we??

2009-07-08T14:53:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to post some pictures for everyone to see how alike my husband and I are. You will laugh at how similar we really are. And to think that we are so different now.

We both played soccer as kids.
Our mothers bathed us with siblings.

Our daddy's love us!

We sleep with siblings too!

New Haircut

2009-06-23T18:57:00.001-07:00

I have been wanting to get my hair cu for a long time. Ask anyone close to me I have been talking about it forever. I wanted it long for the wedding so I was waiting. Who would have thought that I would have to wait seven months from engagement to wedding day to get it done. Finally I went and got it done. Geoff's sister Jill cut and dyed it for me as a wedding gift. I think that she did an amazing job. Jill you are amazing!

Before

After.

I totally love it!!

Bridals!

2009-06-13T12:12:00.001-07:00

Here are some of my bridals. There are more to come.

Engagements!

2009-06-13T10:33:00.001-07:00

These are all the pictures that we used on our announcements! They turned out great! We are so happy with the way everything worked out.

Just an update!

2009-04-20T14:01:00.000-07:00

Okay so I got my engagement pictures back a couple of weeks ago and I have been slow in posting them. Jessica did an amazing job. I will be posting these pictures as soon as I bring the laptop somewhere that has an internet connection. I also went and had my Bridals taken. For the way the day started out I think we did great! Jessica once again did amazing. I cant wait to see all the pictures that she took. It was raining in some of them so you can see the ripples on the pond. It should be awesome if they turned out. I will also post those as soon as I get them back. Wedding plans are coming along great. We are hoping to get the invites into the mail next week. We dont have them back from the printer yet and most likely will not until next week. So that is going to make for a crazy week. I am having a bridal shower on Saturday. My moms ward is throwing it for me. If anyone wants to come let me know and I can get you directions!

Shelby Turns 1!

2009-03-30T13:10:00.000-07:00

My niece Shelby turned one yesterday. We had a party at my parents house for her. It was so fun to watch her try and open all her gifts. I am glad that they were all able to come down here to celebrate with us. I thought these were a couple of cute shots of here.

We all sang happy Birthday to her and she was trying to hide her face from all the attention. This is one lucky lady to have so many people that love her. Happy Birthday Shelby!!

2009-03-30T13:02:00.000-07:00

Geoff and I went hiking at Angel's Landing last weekend with his cousin Craig and his wife Hannah. We had such a blast. It was so fun to get out in the warm weather and get some exercise. We will have to do it again for sure.

Randy & Nikki Demke Wedding

2009-03-11T20:32:00.001-07:00

Here are a couple of my favorite pictures from the wedding. Nikki looked amazing. She was one beautiful bride. I am so glad that I was able to attend this wedding. Welcome to the family Nikki!

Kathie Masons Suprise Party!

2009-02-27T09:14:00.000-08:00

Randy and Nikki decided to throw Kathie (Randy & Geoffs mom) a suprise party for her 50th Birthday. They got all the kids to come and even all the grandmas. We had a lot of fun. This family is a blast when they get together! I am so glad that I can be a part of it.

Curtis Family Pictures!

2009-02-12T18:29:00.001-08:00

We took family pictures back in December. It was so windy and cold. These are a few of my favorites! Jessica with Flourish Photograpy took them for us. She did a great job.

Addresses

2009-02-11T13:13:00.000-08:00

Still no internet at home but its in the works. Geoff and I are putting together an invitation list for the wedding. If you want an invite please send me your email. You can send it to my email at soccer_42@hotmail.com or just post it here.

Thanks!!

Update Coming Soon!!

2009-02-06T13:56:00.000-08:00

I will be updating hopefully in the next day or two. I have tons to go over so it will be a ton. Family Pictures
Mom Mason Birthday
My birthday!
Geoff in the pool..
and lots more. Maybe some pictures of the new place. There is not internet there so I have not been able to keep updated. But hopefully there will be some there soon!! Have a great weekend everyone!!

Happy Birthday to my little Bro!!

2009-01-27T15:10:00.000-08:00

I know that he is not going to read this at least not for another year but I wanted to wish my brother Tyler a happy Birthday. He turns 20 today. I cant believe that my little bro is so grown up. I swear it was only yesterday that we were putting his hair in curlers. So we were not the nicest sisters in the world but he has such great hair and when he was little it was long and curly. I miss you tons Tyler. I know the Lord is proud of you for serving him and so are we. Continue the good work!!! I love you!

Bridesmaid Dresses

2009-01-10T23:27:00.000-08:00

I am looking for bridesmaid dresses. Can anyone tell me a good place to look for some modest dresses for teenagers? I swear I have looked in a million places and cant find anything. Help please!

Christmas!!

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

I know that I am late on posting this but I have not had a lot of free time on my hands to do any blogging in the last week. Geoff and I had a very busy Christmas holiday. On Christmas Eve we drove up to his mom's house to have dinner. It was amazing as always. Kathie always seems to out due herself at every get together. We love going up to visit them. After dinner we had all the kids open their gifts. It was fun to see how excited all the girls were. I love having all these new little sisters. Jill we missed you tons!

We left there about 6 and headed to my parents house. It is tradition to always make home made pizza on Christmas Eve. I dont know when it started but I have never had a Christmas with out it. Tiffanie, Trent and Shelby came down from West Haven to spend the holiday with us. It was good to catch up with them. Also Megan and Curtis came over so we had everyone except Tyler with us. We got to talk to Tyler for an hour on the phone. He sounds like he is doing amazing. He loves the work and I can see his testimony grow with each passing day. It is hard to believe that he has been gone for 6 months already. The time is flying by and he will be home before we know it.

Christmas morning Geoff and I headed over to my parents house to open gifts and hang with the family. It was fun to spend some quality time with them all. We managed to all get along most of the time. That is a plus with me because I have a temper like non other. Geoff is helping me work through my family issues. It has helped a lot in the way that I act towards them. He is such a blessing in my life. I dont know where I would be with out him.

One Saturday night we had our friend party. Everyone but Paige was there. We missed her but she was with family for the Holidays. It was good to get together with everyone. I dont know how I got so lucky to have friends like these. They always care about what is going on in my life even though we do not always see each other. I can always count on anyone of them to help me with anything I need. They are the best ever.

HELP!!

2008-12-24T08:21:00.000-08:00

Does anyone know why when I try to follow a blog I get this response to some of them

You have followed this URL, but we couldn't find a feed for it. Please check that the URL is correct:

I need help....

Thanksgiving!

2008-12-15T15:44:00.000-08:00

I know that is is late but I wanted to post about our Thanksgiving. We played football in the rain for a couple of hours. It was so fun. We all were muddy from sliding and falling on the ground. Or getting pushed. Sorry again Cassie..... After football we went to my parents for dinner. It was just a small dinner my parents and Geoff and I. After that we went to Geoffs dads house and had dinner again there. I was so full by the end of the day. We spent the rest of the weekend hanging out with Geoffs family. We also went out to Orderville to go to Geoffs high school reunion. It was fun to see where he went to school. It was not very big.
Our Team: Geoff, Uncle Jay, Me, Jessica, Michael, My Dad, Matt and Jon. We played against the rest of the family.

This is an action shot. Uncle Tim took like four hundred pictures. He is crazy with the camera.

A team huddle. There were a lot of them. We killed the other team.. Sorry family but we rule. Any family that was not there we missed.

Man VS. Women

2008-11-12T08:27:00.000-08:00

HOW TO SHOWER LIKE A WOMAN:

Take off clothing and place it in sectioned laundry hamper according to lights and darks.
Walk to bathroom wearing long dressing gown.
If you see husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas.
Look at your womanly physique in the mirror - make mental note to do more sit-ups/leg-lifts, etc.
Get in the shower.
Use face cloth, arm cloth, leg cloth, long loofah, wide loofah and pumice stone.
Wash your hair once with cucumber and sage shampoo with 43 added vitamins.
Wash your hair again to make sure it's clean.
Condition your hair with grapefruit mint conditioner enhanced
Wash your face with crushed apricot facial scrub for 10 minutes until red.
Wash entire rest of body with ginger nut and jaffa cake body wash.
Rinse conditioner off hair
Shave armpits and legs.
Turn off shower.
Squeegee off all wet surfaces in shower.
Spray mold spots with Tilex.
Get out of shower.
Dry with towel the size of a small country.
Wrap hair in super absorbent towel.
Return to bedroom wearing long dressing gown and towel on head.
If you see husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas.

HOW TO SHOWER LIKE A MAN:

Take off clothes while sitting on the edge of the bed and leave them in a pile.
Walk naked to the bathroom.I
f you see wife along the way, shake wiener at her making the woo-woo sound.
Look at your manly physique in the mirror.
Admire the size of your wiener and scratch your rear.
Get in the shower.
Wash your face.
Wash your armpits.
Blow your nose in your hands and let the water rinse them off.
Fart and laugh at how loud it sounds in the shower.
Spend majority of time washing privates and surrounding area.
Wash your hair.
Make a Shampoo Mohawk.
Pee.
Rinse off and get out of shower.
Partially dry off.
Fail to notice water on floor because curtain was hanging out of tub the whole time.
Admire wiener size in mirror again.
Leave shower curtain open, wet mat on floor, light and fan on.
Return to bedroom with towel around waist.
If you pass wife, pull off towel, shake wiener at her and make the woo-woo sound again.
Throw wet towel on bed.

I came across this on a friends blog. I laughed so hard I had to repost it. I hope you get a laugh out of it also!!

Blog Crazy

2008-11-02T11:51:00.002-08:00

I got kinda crazy with the Halloween blogs there are three below this one. They are from three seperate nights. Enjoy!!

Halloween Party!

2008-11-02T11:37:00.000-08:00

This year we had a Halloween Party at Randy's house. It was so much fun. We decorated the house with balloons and streamers. We made a dance floor and had the music going. We also did some karaoke. It was so much fun. So many people showed up. Randy said that he had more trick or treaters this year then ever before. We went through over 300 pieces of candy. It was so crazy. It was fun to see all the costumes.

Can you say Lieutenant Dangle?

Its all about the cops!

Jessica and Jacob

Michelle and Bart

Jacob, Sheldon, Marian, and Geoff Demke!

There were a whole lot more people there but once the party got started I forgot to take pictures. I am sad that Geoff and I didnt get one together. I didnt even really get a good one of my costume. I guess there is always next year!!

Carving Pumpkins

2008-11-02T11:31:00.000-08:00

Geoff and I went over to Chelsea and Rafs house to carve pumpkins again this year. We always have such a good time with them. I think that all the pumpkins turned out nice. The kids didnt stick around long. They had better things to do then hang out with the adults.

Rocky Horror Picture Show

2008-11-02T11:24:00.000-08:00

Last weekend we went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. If you have not seen it I recomend that you do. It is the funniest show in the world. The Red Cliffs Cinema showed a midnight showing for two weekends in a row. Geoff, Sheldon, and I dressed up and went. We met Randy and Nikki there. They also dressed up. The movie is about a transvestite so pretty much every guy dressed in drag. It was so funny. Here are some pictures from the night!

Tagged

2008-10-22T15:34:00.000-07:00

I dont usually do this but my sister Tagged me. I was bored so I thought I would fill this out.

8 things I'm passionate about:
1. My soon to be husband
2. Friends
3. My family
4. Food
5. Sleep
6. Movies
7. Music
8. Sports

8 words/phrases I use often:
1. I love you
2. Do I have to?
3. How was your day?
4. Money?? Whats that?
5. I love you
6. Are you kidding me?
7. I need food. Feed me
8. Sleep

8 things I've learned in the past:
1. Choose your friends wisely
2. If they really are your friends, they will be there no matter what you do
3. Be myself
4. Love will come when you are not looking for it
5. Think before you speak
6. My parents are right more then I want to admit!
7. I have to live with the decisions I made as a teen
8. Slow down, life is moving fast enough as it is

8 things I want to do before I die:
1. Sky diving
2. Scuba diving
3. Get Married
4. Para-sailing
5. Have a family
6. Own a house
7. Be out of debt
8. Grow old with Geoff

8 things I currently want/need:
1. To make more money
2. To have my wedding planned
3. To have my laundry finished
4. a clean house
5. to be done moving
6. My car to be paid off
7. to be financial stable
8. To be less selfish!

8 places I want to see/visit:
1. Europe
2. New York
3. Maui
4. Costa Rica
5. Fiji
6. Paraguay- My little bro is serving his mission there right now
7. Mexico
8. Philly- to see the Eagles play

8 favorite restaurants:
1. Texas Roadhouse
2. Pasta Factory
3. Olive Garden
4. Cafe Rio
5. Pizza Factory
6. Iggys
7. Ruby River
8. Samurai 21

8 TV shows I can't live without:
1. Grey's Anatomy
2. House
3. Gossip Girl
4. Law and Order SVU
5. The Office
6. Gilmore Girls
7. CSI
8. Jon and Kate plus 8

I tag:
1. Chelsea Capitan
2. Paige Marshall
3. Stephanie Wilcox
4. Cassie Demke

Engagement Weekend!!

2008-10-19T21:58:00.000-07:00

This weekend Geoff and I went down to Mesquite. When I bought my car in February they gave me a free two night stay at the Eureka. After we checked in we went up to the room and there were rose petals all over the floor and bed.

Also there was a vase with roses in it and balloons in the corner. It was so crazy. He led me over to the bed and had me sit down. He got town on one knee and was all teary eyed when he pulled the ring out of his pocket. I was so suprised. I didnt not even see it coming. Geoff is such an amazing guy and I am happy to be able to have him be a part of my life.

We spent the weekend hanging out and relaxing. We went bowling and played bingo. We also spent some time at the pool and hot tub. The pool was so cold and the hot tub was almost to hot but it was a lot of fun. I am glad that we got to go and have a weekend away from everything. It was nice and relaxing.

Conference Weekend

2008-10-09T16:33:00.000-07:00

We went up to conference with my family this weekend. It was a quick trip. We headed up Saturday morning, it rained the whole way from St. George to Salt Lake. It was so crazy there was so much rain. It was good to get to see everyone. Its funny how Megan and Curtis live here in town and the only way that I get to see them is when we go up north with the whole family. I am glad that we got to see Tiffanie, Trent and Shelby. I swear she is growing up way to fast. The only pictures I got of her is when she was eating so that is all that I can post. She looks like she is all bent in half.

You cant tell in this picture that Shelby has a comb over but she really does. Also her hair looks dark but it is growing in lighter. We still dont know what color her hair will be. Her eyes are a hazel color. Not brown but not blue.

Curtis took this picture of us so he is not in it but it was the best one that got all of us and the temple. The one below we asked some guys that were walking by to take our picture so that everyone could be in it. He totally missed the temple.

It was a fun weekend. I am glad that I got to spend some time with my family. They are pretty amazing. One last picture for the road. I know that you are not suspossed to take pictures in the conference center but I could not resist. It is so huge and there were so many people there.

I need advice...

2008-09-24T09:31:00.000-07:00

I need to do something new with my hair. I am going to donate it to Locks of love next year so I cant cut it short but I need a change. It is so drab right now. I cant do much with is and I am sick of it. I am tempted not to wait another six months and cut it all off now. But I know that I will regret it if I dont wait. So I need your advice.... What would you do if you were in my place???

Rock Band Party

2008-08-20T22:41:00.000-07:00

Last night we got together for a little Rock band. Here are the pictures from that.

K.J. Demke's 1st Birthday!

2008-08-20T22:20:00.000-07:00

This past Saturday Geoff and I went to his cousin Jon's, sons birthday party. K.J. just turned one. He is such an adorable little guy. I thought that I would just show everyone some pictures of all the fun we had.

K.J. The birthday boy. Not looking so happy in this one.

Getting ready for the cake. Aunt Marissa, K.J. andUncle Michael.

Tasting the cake. He ate almost all of it. He was scared at first to try it but once he had he wouldn't stop.

Being silly. Need I say more??

Excited for the party. We are such party poopers! Got to love the hats though.

My man will make a great dad one day!

Demke Family Pictures

2008-08-16T10:28:00.001-07:00

A couple of months ago the Demke family got together and took family pictures. We went out the the Masons house (Demke mom remarried). It was a lot of fun to have everyone there. Jill and Brett were in town from Arziona so everyone was there. After they had taken the picture of everyone I borrowed Randys camera and the girls and I took a bunch of pictures. These girls are so photo genitic it makes me sick. I had such a good time taking pictures of all of them and playing around with Geoffs sisters. Just thought that I would post some of the pictures that I took. Sorry there is so many.

The Whole Family.

Neldon, Thomas, Randy, Geoff, and Sheldon

The Demke Men!!

Sarah, Karen, Marian, Jill and Kathie

The Demke Women!

Just messing around

mom even got in on the fun!

This is one of my favorites. They all have stunning eyes!

Having fun in Beauty

Brett and Jill Peterson

Thomas goes to the MTC

2008-08-07T18:19:00.001-07:00

I know that I have not posted in a while but there has not been much going on in our lives at the moment. The most exciting thing that we have done lately is go up north with the Demke family to drop Thomas off at the MTC. Geoff and I were going to take the motorcycle up there, but with the rain and the flash flood warnings we decided to ride with his family. That was an experience. I stayed in a room with five teenage girls. I am so glad that I am out of that stage. They are all boy crazy like I was and that is all that they wanted to talk about. I told Geoff that I was going to sneak into the boys room so that I didnt have to share a bed with two other girls, but I figured that they could have one last brothers night in there with Thomas. Thomas was very nervous about leaving his family. I am sure that he is doing fine. I told him to go and find Tyler if he needed to see a familiar face. Its crazy to think that Tyler has been in there 7 weeks now. I miss him like crazy.

After we left the MTC we headed to the mall and then to Fuddruckers for lunch. While we were waiting we all wrote Thomas a letter that we sent to him in ten different envelopes. We all wrote one. It was so funny. I bet that he laughed his butt off when he got all of them. I guess thats what you get when you have a large family.

After lunch Geoff, Laurie, Sarah, and I went and saw Julie Housley. I was so excited to get to see her again. It has been way to long since I have seen her last. She has the cutest baby in the world. I was so happy that I finally got to see the famous Boston. I wish that I would have gotten some picture of him while we were there. Geoff even held him. Which is a big surprise because he never really holds the babies. I think he prefers the children to be a little older. He is always so cute with them.

Anyways pictures to come later. I took my camera but of course the battery was dead so I didnt get to take any. Randy is going to make me a cd so that I can have all the pictures that his mom took.

Please pray for Matthew...

2008-07-22T07:52:00.000-07:00

Matthew Demke, was in a terrible car accident July 21st. He was life-flighted to the U of U and we are told that by the extent of his injuries that he may not live. Matt's fiance was with him and I'm truly heart broken to say that she is now with our heavenly father. So even if Matt makes it through he has some major hardships to face. We are not only asking to keep him in your prayers, but for the rest of the Demke household. This will be a very trying experience for everyone that is related. Remember to pray for them and be thankful for what you get everyday in life. You never know when someone you love will not be around anymore.

Remember!!! Memories!!

2008-07-19T11:50:00.001-07:00

I've been tagged!As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.

4th of July!! Vacation well sorta!

2008-07-06T20:31:00.000-07:00

This past week my family made the 10 hour drive up to my grandparents house for the holiday weekend. It was a very long weekend but a ton of fun. Geoff, my mom and I left St. George Tuesday night after work. We drove up to Megan and Curtis house in Layton and stayed the night. The Wednesday morning bright and early we were up and in the car again headed for Idado. We got into Boise around three Wednesday afternoon and went to the mall for lunch. Then it was off to the grandparents house to be put to work. Grandpa and Grandma had all of these projects for us to do before the reunion that started on Friday. They wanted us to paint a fence and weed a garden, we also picked a bunch of cherries off of the tree for them so that the birds would not eat all of them. So we spent the rest of the afternoon scrapping and sanding all of the old paint off of the fence.

Thurdsday morning we got up and painted the fence. We were about finished when my uncle Todd and his two sons showed up to help in the backyard. While we finished the fence they started on the weed patch that used to be a compound heap and a garden. When we finished with the fence we headed to the backyard to help. Geoff and I started on the new garden while mom and auny Lisa worked in the garage. It was a long hot day.

My grandparents also have planted a couple if their old christmas trees in the backyard. Don't ask me why they would do a thing like that they just did. These trees have grown huge. We had to trim them down so that they did not take over the yard. That was hard work. But in the end the yard looked great.

Dad, Curtis, Megan, Trent, Tiffanie, and Shelby all arrived Wednesday night. We all went to Red Robin for dinner and then we went back to the hotel and hit the pool. Shelby was really funny in the pool. She would stick her legs in and then pull them out, but put them back in again. I think that water might have been to cold for her. But she never cried. So we kept her in there for a while.

The next morning we all met at the park to play games and have lunch will all the cousins. (There will be pictures posted later. I need to get them from my sisters) There was a lot of people there. My family is growing every year. I got to meet three of my new cousins. That was very exciting. It was fun to get to spend sometime with all of them. Courtney and Amy played some horseshoes with me. We had a blast. I have some pretty cool cousins. I am really glad that they all got to come. After that we all headed back to grandmas to get ready for the fire works. We went and sat on the ridge to watch them. There was a bunch of us all on a blanket. Geoff and I were sitting side by side but ended up with Amy between us. Courtney sat on Geoffs left and Abigal sat in between his legs. Caitlin sat in front of me and Baily sat behind me. Coulson was sitting between Geoff. We were very crammed in on that one blanket. The fireworks were a lot of fun to watch with all of the kids.

The next day we went down the Boise river. The water was like 50 degrees. But it was a ton of fun. We were getting pushed into the trees and there was some pretty cool rapids. After that we all headed to the institue building to have dinner and play some games. Then it was time to say goodbye to everyone.

Sunday morning we packed back into the car and headed home. It was a long drive for one day but we made it in one piece.

All in all it was a great trip!! Geoff and I had an amazing time. I am so glad that he survived a weekend with my crazy family! (Your right grandma he sure is a keeper!)

Weight Loss Month 1

2008-06-30T10:42:00.000-07:00

So I posted earlier that I was going to be doing a weekly post on my weight loss. But then I realized that I am not losing enough weight each week that it is worth posting over. However I just wanted to let everyone know that I have successfully completed one month and I am 10 pounds lighter. When I look at myself I dont think that I have lost anything. But then there are days like today when I put on a pair of shorts that I bought this year and they are to big. I have also gone in a buckle length on my belts. It is a very exciting feeling to know that all of my hard work is finally paying off. I will be getting a new meal plan today. So I will be able to try out some new foods and I am excited about that. Heres to month two. Hopefully it is as good as month one!!

MTC

2008-06-20T19:32:00.000-07:00

We took Tyler to the MTC this Wednesday. He is serving in the Paraguay Asuncion North mission. It was a very emotional time for my family. We are so proud of him. He has made a very hard decision in his life. He is putting off playing baseball at Dixie State for a couple of years so that he can serve the Lord. I am so proud of him for making this decision. He will be greatly missed.

We took some pictures while we were at the MTC. It was cool to see all of the young men preparing to serve. They were all teary eyed and scared looking. Tyler handled everything very well. We got Ty to hold Shelby and as soon as she was in his arms she started screaming. It seems that everytime he holds her she cries. I am sure that will change. It is hard to think that when he comes back she will be two years old. She will have changed so much in the two short years that he will be gone. I am sure that we will all change. I think that our family will be blessed because Ty is serving a mission. Good Luck Tyler! We love you tons!!

LA Weight Loss

2008-06-12T13:31:00.000-07:00

So last week I joined LA Weight loss so that I could get myself looking better. I am going to keep a weekly post going on how that is working out for me. I completed a week on Sunday and I was down five pounds. It is not really a lot of weight but for me it is tons. Now to keep it off. It is very interesting how this works. They give you a journal to keep track of all of the foods that you are eating so that they can help you work though your problem foods. Well in my world all food is a problem so this is going to take a lot of effort to complete. Here is the menu plan that I am on for the first month.

No red meat. No pasta. No potatoes. This will change after the first month.

Breakfast:
1 starch
1 dairy
1/2 protein

Snack AM:
1 fruit

Lunch:
2 starches
1 protein
1 fat
1 vegetable

Snack PM:
1 dairy

Dinner:
1 protein
2 vegetable
1 fruit
1 fat

When I first saw what they wanted me to do I thought that they were crazy. It is so much food to eat in one day. I am always full. But I am still losing weight so it is crazy. I can have all the water and diet drinks that I want. Also sugar free jello. It amazes me how the body can handle a change in diet. I thought that I would be hungry all the tine. I am craving all kinds of food that I can not have at the moment and that were not really a part of my diet before. But I think that happens when someone tells you that you cant have it. That all for now. I will keep you posted on the out come on a weekly basis. Well I will try to.

House Search 102

2008-04-11T15:46:00.001-07:00

Geoff and I are going to put an offer in on the house today. Hopefully we can get it. I am going to take pictures of the place this weekend so I should have some pictures posted soon. Wish us luck!

*UPDATE*
So we decided not to put in that offer. We are going to wait until the end of the year in hopes that prices will go down. If you know of a house that is for sale in the Bloomington Hills area let me know. That is where we want to be.

House search 101

2008-04-10T13:07:00.000-07:00

The other day Geoff and I were driving back to my place from my parents and we saw a for sale sign. Because of the economy black hole that seems to be going on we have decided we want to buy a house but not until the end of the year. So we have been looking here and there just to see what the price range is like around the Bloominghills area where we would like to live.

Anyways we passed this house and didnt stop. We decided to turn around and go back just to see what it looked like. Mind you this is the first house that we actually got out of the car to see if we could see in the windows. To my amazement the house is empty and better yet it has an amazing yard. The lot is a third of an acre. The house is a little run down but it could be fixed up nicely. We call the real estate agent that is listed on the house and guess what. It is in our price range. I call that fate.

So yesterday Geoff and I went and met with a Mortgage officer just to see if we could qualify for a loan and see what the payments would be. We qualify! Not that either of us doubted that we would. But the nice thing was that the payment for the house would only be $200.00 more then I am paying on my town house right now. That is still an afordable price for us. We now have to decide if this is really something that we want to do. It just came to easy and that makes me want to consider it some more. It is never that easy to get something that you want. There was no work put into it.

I will have pictures up soon so that you can all look at it and let me know what you think.

Snow in STG

2008-01-29T10:11:00.000-08:00

It snowed today. It didnt really stick to the ground in town but all the hills around town were covered in white. It was the most beautifull thing that I have seen in a long time. I wish that we could have snow but not the cold.

Crazyness!

2008-01-23T15:41:00.000-08:00

I have titled this blog crazyness because that is what my life is like right now. Let me just recap on what is going to be happening this week. My sister, Megan is getting married on Saturday so we have been planning that. I have still not found a dress or jewelry, but I do have the perfect shoes. Not that it really helps much but I pretty much love them. I also have not gone and gotten my nails done yet. Which in my opinion is not really a big deal. But to everyone else it is so I have to go and do them.

My grandparents are staying at my house for the duration of the wedding and birthdays that are going on. So I have been busy trying to make sure that everything is ready for them. I am a single student so my house can look pretty scary at times. It is actually looking really well right now and I am proud of that.

Then my english teacher decides that she needs to assign a 2-3 page paper on tuesday that is due on thursday. Who has time to do that between a full time job and a wedding and other classes. Let me tell you I am not that person. But I am going to bs my way through it. I signed up for the classes so I better do the work. It is only helping or hurting me in the long run. No one else.

I want to post some pictures up here but it is going to have to wait a little while. I had everything on my laptop. My laptop went missing. No wait it was taken. By who? I have no idea. I have my thoughts on the matter but I can not prove it and the police told me that I am pretty much out of luck. How crappy is that? I just cant imagine why you would take something that did not belong to you. I worked very hard to save the money to buy it. I am glad that I was raised to know better then to do something like that.

First Blog

2008-01-17T13:46:00.000-08:00

I was looking at some friends myspace page and I noticed that she was using blog spot to keep in touch with her family and close friends. I decided that it was a good way to keep everyone in my life posted on what is going on. I am still debating about whether I should try and get everyone up to date on what is going on in my life or if I should just start with 2008. I guess that time will only tell. If you are reading this and think that I should back track let me know. More to come ! I love you all and I hope that 2008 brings you all love and happiness!