3 Years!

Today we are celebrating our 3 year anniversary! I am so happy to be married to my best friend and the love of my life!

updates

This past weekend I went down to St. George and got moved into our apartment down there. I call it our vacation home since I will be living up in Provo when I am working. We got a great deal on a 3 bedroom 2 bath apartment that is downtown and in the middle of everything. We even have a small pool, so if you are passing through you will have a place to stay!


Joe started his internship at Bingham and Snow and is enjoying it. He works 3 days a week at the St. George office and then 2 days a week he travels to Mesquite to work in that office. I am so proud of him.


I have an appointment to get my "stubborn heart" worked on. My ablation is scheduled for June 20th, but I have appointments starting on June 16th. So I will be out in Minnesota for about a week and a half total. The insurance is giving me the run around and it has not been approved yet because it is out of network. So we have been praying a lot lately that the insurance will approve it. It has been a real headache and part of me wants to give up on the whole Minnesota thing and give another local doctor a chance to fix this broken heart. Why are insurances so difficult?

Laziness

So the past little bit I have not really had a lot of energy. Dinner time will roll around and I will be too tired to make anything, and so i find me and Joe eating out (I do have to eat Cafe Rio weekly or I will die). I remembered when my mother in-law Renae brought me all these frozen meals she had made and to put in my freezer for these lazy days and I loved it. (They didn't last in our freezer for a long time) Well the other day I found myself with a burst of energy and so I took advantage of it and made 7 meals in about 90 minutes.

This brought me to thinking....wouldn't it be great if I got a group of girls together in Utah County together and we could each make the same meal but triple or even quadruple our recipe or more, and then trade and so we would get lots and different meals for our freezers with not too much effort???? I know a lot of my friends can cook!

Do you guys have any good freezer meal recipes??? I am very interested.

Today I am having one of those lazy days and we are eating the chicken and dressing casserole.

Chicken and dressing casserole:
Chicken enchiladas and Lasagna
(not pictured pulled pork burritos)

The appointment

Friday I met with my cardiologist to discuss my heart (stupid Moab). The appointment went like I thought it would because of my incident on Wednesday being cardioverted and admitted to the hospital. My doctor put me back on all my medications, and we discussed that I need another cardiac ablation. For this next ablation he is sending me to Minnesota where I will have "the best in the world" try his hand at my heart, at the Mayo clinic. I feel at peace about this decision and I feel like it is the next step to get me better. I am hoping to make a vacation of this trip and visit Minneapolis. Do you have any ideas of some fun things to do? (please leave a comment with your ideas) It looks like we might be headed out there some time in the last half of May so the weather should be good!

Favorite author

This week wasn't a total bust! On Monday I got to meet my favorite author of all time with some of my favorite ladies! Any guesses on who he is? I will give you some hints .

1. Basically every book he writes gets made into a movie

2. I cry and cry reading all his books.

3. His books actually have a lot of truth to them (I did not know this until Monday and when he was telling us the stories behind the stories I was fascinated)

4. I follow him on Twitter, actually he is the only person I follow on Twitter, I may have even joined Twitter because he told me to.

5. Mandy Moore

Any guesses??

6. The notebook, A walk to Remember, Message in a bottle, Dear John etc. (Zac Efron will be starring in his next movie)

Answer: Nicholas Sparks!!!

He spoke Monday night at the University of Utah. I swallowed my pride and stepped on their campus only because he was there. It was amazing because he told all these great stories behind the books. And after he signed books and I was able to get 2 signed. My friend Rachel is one of his favorite Twitter followers and so when it was our turn to get our books signed he posed for a picture even though there were signs up to not ask Mr. Sparks to pose for pictures.

It was great. I have spent yesterday and today catching up on all my Nicholas Sparks movies since I have needed to rest. It has been great!

April heart update

It is time for another update about my " stubborn heart". I have been wearing a heart monitor for the past month because I have an appointment with my cardiologist scheduled for Friday. I have been having problems off and on for the past couple of weeks. Once I was walking a patient around at the hospital and I almost passed out. After talking with my doctors office the reason why was that my heart rate was 212 (way too high), and out of rhythm but they said my heart went back into rhythm so nothing to worry about. Fast forward 2 weeks when I am out running errands and I get a phone call from my doctors office telling me that my heart rate is 185 and has been all morning as well as it has been out of rhythm. I get orders to go home take some extra medicine and take it easy. My doctors nurse tells me to call back in the morning and if I am still out of rhythm then I will need to get cardioverted (they shock your heart and it resets it and it should go back in rhythm). I woke up and my heart was back in rhythm so I didn't need to get cardioverted. The next day I was working a day shift at the hospital and a little after 8 o'clock I started having symptoms with my heart. I talked to our telemetry tech at the hospital about it and he immediately set me up with a 5-lead heart monitor so he could just check up on me. My heart rate was 185 again, and out of rhythm. Before I knew it the house supervisor was by my side and the cardiac unit was warned that they might be getting a new patient on the unit. I called my doctors office and again they told me to take some extra medicine and if my heart rate didn't go down I would need to get cardioverted. Well my heart rate wouldn't go down and because it was so high I could not really do my job, before I knew it my supervisor had me in a wheelchair and I was being admitted to the cardiac unit to get cardioverted. Note: I hate getting cardioverted! Thank goodness they gave me lots of drugs to put me out, so at least I do not remember it. I woke up to the doctor telling me it was a success and that my heart rate was now 74!!! I was even able to leave the hospital that night!!!! This morning my heart still feels in rhythm and good. I am just taking it easy and will be laying in bed all day! Tomorrow morning I will meet with my cardiologist and I will get to hear what my treatment plan will be going forward. For now keep my heart in your prayers!

The job offer

We have been waiting so patiently to see if Joe would get a job offer to work for a law firm this summer as an intern. This week Joe got an offer for a place in China and....... St. George! Joe accepted the position in St. George and we are so excited! Joe will be working for Bingham and Snow. Joe will start May 2 and will be there all summer, and I will join him as often as possible because I will be commuting between Provo and St. George for my work. We now need a place to live for about 3 months. Do any of you know anyone who wants to rent us out there place for the summer? We are terrific tenants!