Rich RIP

Growing up I must admit that I was in love with boy bands, any boy band would make my heart sing. You might might remember LFO for "Summer Girls" I know you are trying to figure out what song that is, let me help you.

"New kids on the block had a bunch of hits Chinese food makes me sick and I think its fly when girls stop by for the summer, the summer. I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch..."

Today I was flipping through US magazine and found out that Rich died from Leukemia earlier this month. I once went to an LFO concert and I got to sit on the front row. Good times. RIP Rich

Backpacking Trip

Joe has been swamped with school and he hasn't been able to post some pictures from his backpacking trip, so I am here to help him out.

Before school started Joe went backpacking with his Dad, Sam, John and Cheri to the Sawtooth National Forest in Idaho.

After their backpacking trip they always go eat at the same place in celebration of surviving the wild I suppose.


This is John (aka the Boy) who was the only one who caught a fish

Tim was in charge of cooking and from what I hear he is quite the cook!
I think this picture below is beautiful! i love the reflection in the lake. Joe said the water was clear.

Family reunion

This past week Joe and I headed up to Burley for the Preston family reunion. We both have not been to the Logan temple so on the way to Burley we stopped in Logan to go to the temple. What a beautiful temple it was!
The family reunion started with 9 holes of golf for all those interested. A year ago I would not have been interested, but about a month ago I decided that I wanted to try golf and since Joe is going to be a lawyer in 2 years we figured it would be good to start going on his golf game too. I'm not that good, but it sure is fun!


This picture below was at our last hole. I was tired and instead of getting my pitching wedge out I decided to just use my putter out of laziness, well it paid off because I made it to the hole from this spot. Lucky me!

It was really fun to see family that we don't get to see all the time even though they are just in Salt Lake. The cute girl in the picture below is my sister in-law Cheri who will be a freshman at BYU this fall! I am so excited to have her so close!!!
All of the Preston girls went to this ladies house in Rupert and we learned how to make lotion, we even got to pick what scent we wanted. It was a fun time!


The last day of the family reunion we went on the Snake River and went boating. Look at Joe's amazing biceps! I have not been wakeboarding in almost 3 years, but I got up on the wakeboard the first try.


A day on the Snake river is not complete without a ride on the water weenie.

My new hobby

So recently I took up "couponing". Smiths had a double coupon event and the night before I was so excited I could hardly sleep. While I was at smiths and visiting with the other coupon ladies I found out my sleeping problem was quite normal among the group. I am still so excited I have to share with you all! My last trip really paid off, I got all of the stuff below some yogurt and string cheese for $28.71. I saved $84.42!!! If I would have paid regular price I would have paid $113.13! I apologize for what could be a boring post, but if any of you want I can teach you the joys of couponing!Below is the stuff that I got for free after using my coupons!!!

Park City

Joe and I met up with Suzanne and Seth in Park City on their honeymoon and went out to eat with them for dinner as well as my parents. We actually didn't go to just any old place in Park City to eat, we went to my moms old garage where she grew up that is now a whiskey place. (they have amazing pork and hamburgers so if you can handle the whiskey smell you will be fine). My mom grew up right next to main street. For years her old house has stood vacant, but who ever bought it most recently did an amazing job bringing the house back to life. They have places to eat/drink throughout the house and garage. We went to eat with my mom who took us on a tour of the old house and told us stories and told us what was different about the place, the main difference was the big bar where the living room was, and they moved the house forward on the property.

Before: This was taken years ago, my brothers Jeff and JB sitting on the porch. (I don't know what I was thinking but I didn't take a picture of the garage.)
After: From a different view, but you can tell that they painted the house, and changed the doors of the garage, but the garage still looks like I remember it.

Thanks to the newlyweds who let us crash their honeymoon because we were not ready to say goodbye yet! (They moved to South Carolina the day after Park City)

Suzanne and Seth's wedding!!!!

Suzanne and Seth got married in the Salt Lake Temple yesterday!! It was a beautiful hot day! It was great to see these two tie the knot!
These two cute girls our my nieces, aren't they adorable!!!

This is my brother Jeff, he lives in Arizona and is headed back today! I wish he could stay up here, he has been in town for a while helping out with everything, and so we have been able to see him a lot.
Siblings picture

My mom made Jeff's dogs a bow tie for the male dog (Diesel) and a dress for the female dog (Zoie) They spent most of the wedding wandering around the yard and just looking cute!



I am so happy for you two!!!

Heart Update

It has been 1 1/2 weeks since my last cardiac ablation. I am feeling much better than I have recovering from the past previous ablations. Here is how my doctor said the procedure went.

Dr Bunch said that they found 2 areas of my heart with irregular electrical activity (this had gone down from the 20 areas from the 1st ablation). They were able to ablate the first area very easily, but the second area gave them more problems. It actually went up the aorta which is not common and that is a hard area to ablate, but it was also very close to the SA Node (which is the pacemaker of the heart, if you ablate that you need an emergency pacemaker). My doctor said that my heart was very resilient, and had healed completely from my previous procedures and he did not see any scar tissue. The procedure lasted about 7 hours and I was able to go back to recovery. When I was being wheeled back to my recovery room I apparently started shaking uncontrollably and was very cold to the touch, with all the fluids and the cold cath lab room I got hypothermia, so the nurses tried to get me to warm up with blankets and other things such as my nurse hugging me in my bed, when that wouldn't work they allowed Joe in the room to hug me and that helped to warm me up. I was out of it and do not remember any of this.

My doctor said that we will have a better idea of how my heart handled this procedure in about 3 months because by then my heart should have calmed down and healed. Hopefully he will start to wean me off some of my medication and that will be when the real test occurs. Hopefully my heart will stay in rhythm and my heart rate will be normal and eventually I can get off all of my medications.

Thanks for all of your prayers! Joe and I have been comforted and we are grateful to all of you!