Ok, so it has been FOREVER since I blogged. So these posts are a little confusing...and unorganized, but oh well! Better than nothing!
So, everyone knows that we moved to St. George by now. We are really enjoying it, and REALLY enjoying the weather (especially now that Northern Utah is still FREAKIN' FREEZING!) We are living in a basement apartment of a very new home. It is actually really nice, but we are looking forward to finding out own place. Our landlords are such wonderful people. They are our age and have a 2 1/2 year old boy and a baby girl due in 5 weeks! Josh and Elijah (that is their little boy's name) really love to play together. They have made this transition SO much easier on both Josh and ME! They have had us to dinner and we have already gone swimming together. Also, having Alberto and Sara (Dave's good friends) close by is fun because they have 3 year old twins that Josh loves playing with them too. It's definitely different living here, but we feel really good about our decision. It is definitely hard not living by family and our friends, but it is a fun adventure!
The move went really smoothly and we are so grateful to my family for their help. Thankfully we had tons of help moving out of our apartment and tons of help moving IN. We are so grateful to all of those people who helped us move in.
It is so nice not working, but definitely a change being home all of the time. It will take some getting used to! Hopefully I'll find a job after the summer. It'd be great to find a job where I would only work about 1 day a week or so. We'll see!
Well, I will try and update more! Now that I'm home all of the time and getting real sleep...I have no excuse! :)
Enjoy all of these dang posts! :)

Catching up!

So before we moved, we really tried to spend a lot of time with family and our friends. We got to see my twin nephews play their first baseball games this year, which they did so good! It was so fun to watch them play. Josh wanted to go out onto the field so bad, but did good at just watching them. Also, we spent a lot of time with our friends the Zollinger's. Josh loves playing with Duncan and we got to go to the park one last time before we moved. They are so fun to watch, they play so well together. It was really hard to leave them. Duncan's mom Kelsey helped us so much the last semester. She watched Josh every Tuesday afternoon so I could go to work. Even though she was pregnant and was finishing school. They are such good friends to us and we were so sad to leave them! Here are a few more pictures of the baseball game and the park.

Riley at his game!

I think that is Riley...it might be Braden! They both did so good!

Josh and Duncan going down the slide together! We sure love these boys!

Josh watching his cousins play baseball. He loved it!

Graduation!

So, after St. George (and Dave accepting the job at Zions Rehab :) ), April was very busy with packing, and figuring things out, like where we were going to move, when, and who would help us with this move. Amongst all of this, I was still working, trying to spend as much time with our family and friends, oh yeah, and Dave had a whole week worth of graduation celebrations! First we decided that we would move the second weekend of May. Luckily my family said they would come down with us. So NICE! It was really nice to have such a long time to get ready to move so it could actually be organized. Dave's work was going to pay for our moving expenses, we just had to do the manual labor. I had no idea how expensive it could be! Anyway, April flew by and May came! Dave graduated the first week of May. His parents came in from California and all of his Utah family came to the graduation. It was actually really nice to have them all come. It was very surreal to see Dave graduate. It felt like it was so long ago that Dave started school, and there we were, sitting at graduation! It was an awesome feeling, and we are so very proud of Dave! Here are some pics from graduation. His parents were nice enough and took us all out to dinner to P.F. Chang's (our favorite! :) )

The Gray's at graduation! Dave looks so grown-up! :)

Dave with his good friends at graduation (Neil and Kii)

Dave waiting to get his name read off! :)

Josh and I...trying to entertain a 3 year old at graduation...that was fun! :)

Dave with his parents, Wayland and Maile...do you see any resemblance?! haha

So back in April we made a trip to Saint George for a very small and quick vacation, but most importantly, Dave had a job interview. We were able to see some of Dave's good friends, Alberto and Sara (he served with Alberto on his mission, and Sara was his good friend at USU...they live in Hurricane), Dave's parents came in from California and we also got to see my grandparents who live here during the winter. We got to go to an awesome park with Alberto and Sara and their kids (they have 3 1/2 year old twins, and a 10 month old girl) and we got to hang out at their house. It was a lot of fun to be with them, and Josh loved hanging with their kids. It was also really nice to see Dave's parents. We only stayed down there for 2 1/2 days, so we didn't do too much!

Josh and Allie walking to the park

Also, Josh and I got to hang out with our good friends the Zollingers quite a bit in April. We took the boys to Boondocks and decided to take them miniature golfing...interesting! They actually had a lot of fun, but it was a little bit too much work making sure they don't hit each other with those clubs! :) Josh loves being with his friend Duncan! They are so fun together!

Josh and Duncan showing us their clubs...oh and looking at the passing train! :)

Playing golf!

Josh doing it HIS way! He is so stubborn and wouldn't let me show him how to actually hold the club!

Dave, Allie and A.J. at the park in St. George

Happy 3rd birthday Joshua! (And a way overdue update!)

I know, I know, it has been FOREVER since I last posted anything! I will try and remember! There are multiple posts after this to give more updates...you know, like Christmas! :) Anyway, today his Josh's 3rd birthday! I can't believe 3 years ago we were blessed to have such a sweet little boy brought into our lives. We are so blessed to have him!
So the next few posts will explain what we did for Josh's birthday, and Christmas! Enjoy!
So I thought I would explain what is going on these last few months. So Dave finished his last semester of classes in December and then got to be at home with us throughout December, but began his last internship with Weber County School District at the beginning of January. I was really looking forward to it, but dreading it also because he would be working full time which meant I wasn't going to be able to sleep in...EVER! I would get home from work around 4am and sleep until whenever Josh wakes up (about 8am), and then just pray that he would take a nap around 1-2pm until 4pm. Needless to say...I am exhausted and cannot wait for this internship to be OVER! Well, even though I am not sleeping much I truly know I am being blessed with energy, and patience! Also, I know that the Lord is blessing us with JOB OFFERS! I can't believe it! It is very exciting and very surreal. We have been waiting for this for 3 years and now it is here! So Dave started applying for jobs (even though he won't take his licensing test until April/May and won't graduate until May 6th), but we knew it was kind of a long shot to assume he would get a lot of feedback prior to April...boy we were wrong! So long story short, he has had two job interviews and three job offers. Yes, he has had job offers without interviews! Crazy! So we are seriously looking into two of the jobs. One is a home health/outpatient agency in St. George, and the other one is in Orem with a company Dave is very familiar with (he worked for them last summer for his internship and loved it) Anyway, at the end of March we are going down to Orem to check the place out and see what they are going to offer us, and then the first of April we are headed to St. George to do the same with the other company. We are so excited and a little nervous, but we cannot wait to no longer be "college students"! I hopefully we'll be able to stop working for a few months until I can find a job that I could work maybe part time or PRN (as needed). Anyway, so I WILL blog about this next month or so and keep more updated.
Well, that is about it! I have missed a lot of details but...I guess that is what happens when I blog every 6 months! :)
I do just want to say how grateful I am for my family. Dave and Josh are my world and love them so much! I know that when we move it will be hard to say goodbye to my family, and our wonderful ward family, but I look forward to this new adventure in our lives! Wish us luck! :)

Happy birthday Joshua! And LOTS, LOTS more!

Josh checking out his Cars underwear. Not too sure about these gifts! :)

Josh got a new Lightening Mcqueen! He was pretty excited!

Josh really thrilled with his new underwears...Not really!

Josh opening up his present tonight! Had a lot of fun...even though we are all sick!

Here is Josh at the Discovery Gateway. He sure loved those pipes! We were there a long time!

I took Josh to the Discovery Gateway last week for his birthday. He had lots of fun, and he really loved the water area, but he kept asking where the trains were...the boy is totally obsessed! Also, I think he was getting confused because at the Treehouse in Ogden, you walk in and the first thing you see there are tons of trains. Anyway, he had fun at the Gateway!

Trying out the new underwear...this did not go over well! Truly, this is going to be a very big trial for me! Josh is VERY stubborn, and well I am stubborn, so wish us luck! (Notice Josh screaming because he wanted "underwears off mom!") This will be a long road!

This is Josh's idea of sitting on his potty...LONG ROAD of potty training ahead.

Like I said, Josh is obsessed with trains, tracks and anything to do with that stuff. He made a long line of cards and then rolled his trains over his "make-shift" train track! He is creative! :)

Joshua posing with some of his new toys that he got for Christmas. His BIG new blue train(that was the one thing that he literally begged for!) Also, he got his pillow pet! He loves that thing!
We went and saw the lights prior to Christmas. Josh was so darn funny. He wanted to go into the temple. He would go up to the door and try and open it and look at Dave and I and would say "it's locked mom, I want to go into the temple". We tried to explain that he couldn't go into the temple, but one day he'll be able to. He then looked at us with a puzzled face and say "oh, ok mom, I go someday." What a cutie!

Josh would NOT look at the camera! Oh well! We had a good time at Temple Square!

Josh and I hanging out one day, soon after Christmas.

The traditional Christmas morning picture with Grandpa. That was my dad's gift to himself! The boys look thrilled don't they! :) Josh actually is quite obcessed with "popies (sp?) snowmobile". That is until my dad turned that machine on...Josh did not like that loud machine! :)
Christmas was great! I worked for about 1/2 a shift Christmas eve so on Christmas eve-eve, we did our Fisher Christmas Eve dinner. It was really fun to be with family. Then obviously Christmas eve I got home around 9pm and literally didn't sleep at all. I was so stinkin' excited for Christmas morning. I woke up at about 7am, and woke Dave and Josh up. This was truly so fun with Josh. He was so overwhelmed with the amount of gifts he got this year. I didn't take tons of pictures because I video taped it, but it is so funny to watch. I am pretty sure Josh would have been content with just the stuff in his stocking presents. But after a while he got into it and just got more and more excited with all of the gifts...well, he could have cared less about the new clothes! :) Anyway, Dave and I went pretty low key for one another. We bought Dave a new suit back in November, so that was his Christmas present. He got me lots of stuff, new clothes, lots of new movies, and a big new blanket (which was my favorite!). Anyway, it was a great holiday.

First time for everything

So it is that time...unfortunately and I have my mom to thank for this one. I had my yearly exam last week and my doctor (actually an awesome CNM), she wants me to make sure I get a mammogram. (Is this ok to talk about on my blog? Oh well!) Anyway, everything is ok but she is nervous because my mom was first diagnosed at the age of 32. Well, I am 30...so now it is my turn. She even went as far as to call the mammography office and my insurance so they will for sure pay for me. Well wish me luck. I go in this Friday. Honestly, I am not at all scared for the actual mammogram, just any bad results I could get. I'll let anyone who wants to know how it goes! Thought you might like this comic. Too bad this really doesn't happen! hehehe

September and October

So, September pretty much has come and go...and I can't be any more thrilled! I month of school down and 3 more to go! That is right, Dave is now in the middle of his last semester of classes! Oh my goodness, I can't believe we have almost made it! He has this semester and then during the spring he has another 3 month internship. But that is it, so hopefully he will be done with everything by the end of March. Truly, these last 2 1/2 years have flown by, and yet it feels like this is what we have been doing for forever! Anyway, other than Dave's school, not much has happened.
Dave did turn 29 years old at the beginning of September. Couldn't do much for that because I worked most of that weekend. I can't believe we are that old! :) Crazy!
I am again, just doing the same ol' stuff! Work, taking care of Josh, and being a wife as well! :)
Josh is growing like a weed. He is honestly such a good little boy. He is finally talking more. (Thank goodness! :) He is SO obsessed with Thomas the Train. Oh my goodness, I can't believe how obsessed he is, that is pretty much what he talks about! Also, he makes us laugh all of the time! He cracks me up! I love him so much! Anyway, no other news right now...and you might be asking, "I wonder when they are going to have another kid?" Ummmm, not for quite a while! NO HURRY right here! The thought of working late into the night, being so nauseated and throwing up all of the time, not getting a lot of sleep, etc, do I need to go on? Yeah, I can wait! :)

Anyway, here are just some random pictures of Josh...I know I am biased, but what a handsome little dude! :) Josh's new favorite spot...our bed! He LOVES looking at our old phone and the pictures on there!

Josh being cute

Josh showing off his Harley shirt

Josh loves sitting in his wagon, and making me pull him around the apartment.

So behind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I have finally decided to take the time to post some pictures ( a lot of pictures) from our vacation in California. Yes, we took this trip at the beginning of August, and I am now just posting this! Oh well, better late than never! :)
So we left for California the second week of August. The first day we drove just to Las Vegas and stayed over night there. Actually we stayed in Henderson ( I hate the strip, so dirty!) Anyway, Henderson was actually very nice. The next morning we woke up and took our time and went to the strip and decided to find some free things to do. Pretty much all we did was go to M & M world (which by the way, I refuse to pay like $10 for a 1/2 lb of M & M's that you could pay $3.50 at Walmart! :) Dave was bummed! He LOVES M & M's! :) Anyway, we couldn't really find anything else that we wanted to see. (Dave and I just wanted to get to his parents house! I was so anxious to get done with the drive to Bakersfield)
Anyway, we headed out and got to Bakersfield like 5 hours later! Yuck, I HATE driving! I literally asked Dave, "Are we there yet?" Josh did much better than I did! Next time, we are FLYING! :) Anyway, it was so nice to get to Wayland and Maile's house. We had a nice dinner that night and finally slept in a nice bed! :) The next day was my 30th birthday! Yuck! I am officially old! Anyway, that day we decided to go to the Bakersfield "zoo". Ummm, this was NOT a zoo. It was absolute crap! The zoo up in Logan was better than this one! And it was expensive! Aghhh, what a waste, even though Josh still had lots of fun! Then we came home and Josh went down for a nap, and so did we! That night, Maile watched Josh so Dave and I could go to a nice dinner. I opted for P.F. Chang's. YUMMMMMMMMY! Seriously it's my favorite restaurant EVER! Everything was good! Then we came home and had some Marie Callender's pie!
My birthday wasn't exciting, but it was very nice and just nice to be with my family! A Mexican cruise would have been even nicer, but it's not really in our budget right now! Maybe next year!
Anyway, the next day we headed to Santa Cruz (it was a 4 1/2 hour drive north-west). It is so beautiful up there, but oh, the drive! Yuck! Anyway, we went to a very yummy pizza joint and then went to bed. We were all exhausted! The next day we met James and Trisha and their kids (Dave's brother and sister in law) and headed to the beach. Ummmm, the high was 65 degrees that day. We were FREAZING, until the sun came out, and even then we still stayed in our warm clothes. Dave and James did get in the water! So funny to watch! They were SCREAMING like girls, but they stayed in the water for about 45 minutes! Crazy boys! And the rest of the kids were freazing but they too were in their swimsuits! Crazy kids!
We had such a blast with them, we were so sad that we only had a day with them! We love visiting with James and Trisha!
After the beach we drove the 4 1/2 hour drive back to Bakersfield. We were so tired that night we went straight to bed. The next day we got to just hang out at home, went to lunch with Dave's good friend from high school, Ryan, and then just hung out the rest of the night with Wayland and Maile. The next day we went to church and then came home ate lunch and then we headed back to Utah. Yes, 12 hours more of driving! Oh my goodness, I was about to die! I still can't believe how well Josh did! Seriously, he never had a break down, he just loved watching all of his movies, colored, ate food, and I read a lot of books to him.
It was such a fun trip, LOTS of driving, but overall it was great to get out of our normal routine!
Well, that was our life in August! I will post some more information later! Nothing too exciting! :)

Hello everyone! I am alive, just have been very busy with all of the same garbage...well and a little bit of fun as well. I didn't realize just how long it had been and how many holidays, and Dave and I's 4th anniversary have gone by without me posting anything. I know, I'm awesome! NOT! Anyway, things are going well with us. We haven't been able to do much extra-activities this summer but oh well! Here is the "low-down" on what we have all been up to these last few months.
Dave has one more week of his summer internship at Pineview Transitional Care in Riverdale. He is enjoying it so much and is sad that he has to go back to school! He is getting very anxious(almost as much as me! :)) to be done with school and just be able to have a "normal" life! He has done so well there and has impressed the director of the rehab center that they have already talked about offering him a position...in Henderson, NV...um, we shall see! Anyway, he starts school the end of August again. BUT, this is his third and final year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe we are almost done. This fall he will have his last semester of classes (which isn't too many credit hours, he will go mostly on tues, and thurs and one class on monday...which means he has all day wednesdays and fridays off! Yeah!) Then next spring he will do another 12 week internship and no classes, then will be done around April 2011. I can't believe we have almost made it. It has been a long two years, I feel like we have sacrificed a lot but it will all be worth it in the end.
I am still working full time at Davis Hospital on the medical floor. It is getting a little rough for me. I am just loosing a lot of energy lately. I think two years of not getting hardly any sleep is really catching up to me. I pray I can continue what I do for another 8 months. I am hoping one day I can work in the woman's center (ex. Labor and Delivery, nursery, etc) or I really would like to try the NICU and see if I like it. Unfortunately, rarely are there job openings in these departments, unless I want to drive to SLC to work. No thanks! Oh well, maybe someday! Anyway, that is about all that I do. I work, try and sleep whenever I can, take care of Josh and try and take care of my husband, oh and keep up with all of the household duties as well! Agh, I am tired! :)
Josh is doing well. He is honestly just the best little boy I could have ever dreamed of having. I always say that the Lord definitely sent him specifically to me at this particular time, because if he were to have sent me a high maintenance child right now, I know I couldn't handle it! Thank you Josh for being such a fun and good little boy. He is growing like a weed. He has really thinned out, but is still kind of short! :) He has loved going swimming at Surf-N-Swim in Layton, spending a lot of time with his Grandma and Grandpa Fisher, loves being around any other people. He is very social, and is amazing at sharing things with others. He absolutely LOVES going to church and even more so, nursery. His nursery leaders all tell me he is so low maintenance and loves playing with everyone in his class. They say if another kid comes and steals a toy he was playing with, he will just go find another toy. What a good kid! :) Josh is beginning to FINALLY talk more. For a while there I really couldn't get him to say much, but now, he really is saying a new word everyday. I was very worried there for a while. The only thing that drives me crazy is, he call Dave "cheese" instead of "dad". Seriously, I have NO idea what possess him to call him that. Just one day he started saying it, and we can't get him to stop. What a weirdo! :) Anyway, Josh is growing and learning so much all of the time. I love him more and more every day.
Some of the little activities we have done is, obviously we go swimming, but one day Dave and I wanted to escape the heat so we drove up to Pineview Reservoir and just hung out for a while. Come to find out, Josh LOVED it. He kept saying "mama, rocks in lake". And then he would throw all of the rocks he could find into the lake. He loved it, and loved the weather. It was perfect! Anyway, here are some pics from that one particular night.

Josh and Dave throwing/skipping rocks into the lake.

Dave posing for the camera...and sucking in his gut! Sexy honey! :)

Josh and I smiling for the camera

Josh showing me his rock

The Gray's (don't mind my appearance...didn't get ready that day)

Well, I will try and post later in August. We are headed out to Bakersfield the second week of August to go visit the in-laws! It will be so nice to get away. Oh, and yes, I turn 30 in two weeks...um, it totally sucks! I'm officially old! Oh well!

Joshua turned 2 !!!!

So I am a horrible mom, I wait almost 3 weeks to post something about Joshua's second birthday! Aghhh, I'll try harder to stay up to date! So these pics are actually from today, we got Josh's pictures taken for his second birthday. They turned out pretty cute! I like them!



I love this last one. Josh was playing "peek-a-boo" with the number two. We had a bit of a difficult time with Josh at the beginning of the photo shoot, but after a while, he decided to have fun with it! He is such a good boy!
Anyway, Josh's second birthday was a great day! It was VERY low key because his birthday landed on a Sunday and unfortunately I had to work the day/night before, so I didn't have the greatest amount of energy to put on a big show for a two year old...and no offense, he could have cared less whether or not I spent a lot of money on him, or if I decorated the apartment for his birthday. Josh just enjoyed having his Grandma and Grandpa Fisher there and his Aunt Sarah and Uncle Chris there...oh, and he LOVED the presents he got, and he LOVED the cake he got to eat! We had a great time! I honestly can't believe just how fast two years have gone. He is so much fun and we love him more and more each and every day. Happy Birthday Josh! Your mommy and daddy love you more than words can express! We love you!
(p.s. Josh turned two on March 7th...just to let you all know! :) )