The Month of April...

We are so excited for the month of APRIL!! We are making a huge decision that we have been contemplating for a while, and it will be great to see where it leads us!
It's my BIRTHDAY on the 5th! YAY!!! That's not really the excitement of the month but you gotta love birthdays!
What is so exciting is....that for my birthday, we decided to take our next step in the Fertility Process!!! We both can't wait!! It's so expensive to do anything! Just to talk to our doctor for 30 mins is 175$! BUT...he gave us a great deal on artificial insemination so we thought that would be a great place to put our money for a birthday gift this year! We are trying SO SO HARD to not get our hopes up but just can't help that maybe great things could happen by the end of next month! We have prayed long and hard about procedure's and what we should do from here and we feel strongly that giving artificial insemination a shot, would be a great place to continue!
So.... lots of mixed emotions right now for Jody and I, but we know if we keep trying to do what's right, the Lord will hopefully bless us!!

The only place in this crazy world....

Jody and I have put off going to the temple for WAY to long! We have no kids, nights and weekends are mostly free, and we have one that's maybe 5 minutes away, so there is definitely NO EXCUSE!! It seems like everytime we plan, somehow we never make it, but everytime we go, it is such a GREAT, GREAT experience!! We have had so much to be thankful for and we're glad we have been able to make it monthly like we should! It brings so much joy into our lives and how comforting it is to know there's one place in this crazy world we can go and reflect on everything that's important!

A Great Weekend....

Jody and I have been SOO busy lately! Life has been crazy, crazy, but we are so thankful for all the new changes! Jody is doing great at work! He just designed a real estate coaching package for today's market and it's AWESOME!!! They are selling like crazy! I can't believe the things he puts together and how he makes it all work! Amazing!!! I wish him luck in Chicago this week and wish I could go with him but I'm stuck with work this week too!

We are also busy working on our latest rental property! I'm loving all the remodeling we are doing!! It was okay when we bought it, but since we are going to live in it for a little while, we are trying to make it as "HOMIE" as we possibly can! We have been spending all nights after work painting, ordering furniture, and finishing the batheroom but we are really enjoying it!

And last, it was so good to see Alyssa this weekend! Nothing is better then seeing old friends and picking up right where you left off! We had such a good time and appreciated her and Chelsey TONS for the help down at our new place!

Thanks for the visit Alyssa and can't wait til you move here in August!

Finally a Nephew :)

Ethan James Bowler was born on Feburary 23rd!! We are so excited to have a little boy in the family!! We spent all weekend at Nate and Lezlee's hanging out with my nieces and helping out where we could! My parents also came up and it was all a great time!!

Grandma holding Ethan James Bowler

While the other girls were at school, Becca was posing for the camera! She's such a fun girl!




Jody and I had a busy weekend besides being with the new baby! I posted ALL my furniture on KSL and it sold in minutes!! (Not a good sign... I probably should have sold them for more but oh well!!) We sold our TV, our Sectional, our 2 black leather couches, dining table, desk, and seriously everything else!! Jody and I are moving next month and we are going from a 3 story house to a lot smaller place!! We are really excited to get down there and fix it up to have another rental property but it will be an adjustment for a while!!! :)

Our New Truck

Jody and I have been looking for a good 4 wheel drive for a while now! We have decided we need one due to the snow and for Jody to go racing as much as he wants! We found a GREAT deal on a Black Lariat F-150 in Hurricane, UT!! It has all the little extra's that Jody wanted so he was excited! We drove down together today to pick it up and I really didn't want to do that whole drive back and forth in one day thing, but Jody told me he would buy me In-N-Out so I was sold! It was really so much fun taking the day off from work and going on a little road trip!!!! The things I do for In-N-Out....it's seriously SAD!!
And the weather was gorgeous!!

He was SO excited...

Seriously??

So....Anyone who knows us, knows we have been wanting a baby for a good year now! We have been so patient and are fully aware that it takes alot of couples some time to concieve at first! We went to see our Specialist and he is absolutely wonderful!! He always assures us that we are two great healthy people who will eventually conieve, but it does take time at first for some couples! Luckily, we both know that there is a plan and a family waiting to come down to join us but its all within the Lord's timing! That makes everything ok! ....Jody and I are loving our time with just the two of us, going on great vacations, loving our jobs, and trying to strengthen our weaknesses so we can be the best parents we possible can for our future family!

In the meantime, the Doctor gave ME some requirements that I need to meet to help make things hopefully more successful and me more healthy!! He told me he has had great success rates on doing all of these steps! Seriously???...........Ha, while Jody gets to continue being a daily "Pepsi/Red Bull/Monsters/RockStars/No Fear" drinker, (which he's cut back a TON, just for this reason....SOO grateful for that!!) living life as normal, I am busy on my 10 step plan! He's been great to go to the gym in the morning's with me but when we eat dinner, and he orders Pepsi....that's when I get jealous! That's okay though!! They are all great things that I need to put in my life anyways, so I'm excited to get in the best shape possible!!! Here we go!

Amy's Daily Steps......
1. Drink a gallon of water a day, 1/2 by noon, and the other 1/2 by 6:00 pm! (Is this possible?)

2. Exercise a minimun of 3 days a week!

3. Take a MILLION vitamins! B vitamins, Pernantals, Multi-Vitamins, all the above!

4. Eat healthy foods, spinach, salads, WATER!!, fruits, and veggies!

5. Take Fertility Pills 5 days a month!

6. Dont Stress! Minimum of 30 mins baby talk per week....(Really? Don't Strees? Let's be honest!)

7. Certain Tricks..... (You all know what I mean!)

8. Ovalarian Tube Surgery Test....(Painful!)

9. Take a bath weekly and a massage montly to relieve stress!! (I'm ok with this!!)

10. Find out my Ovulating Days with Ovulation Sticks....
(Ovulation Test and Pregnancy tests, have officially became a Montly Bill!)

So...... When I first got this list, My Doctor and I were in a fight, (not really!!) but I've decided to be positive and be thankful that there are simple things I can do to help the long journey be more succesful!! I'm excited if anything else to just be healthy and get in shape! Can't be that bad of a plan right? ....BUT, just wanted to remind everyone who can have kids easily, to be FOREVER GRATEFUL!!!!!

YaY...a BBQ!!

Gotta love BBQ nights!! We finally put together our BBQ that we recieved from Jody's family at Christmas!! We Love It!!! Jody made a great Sunday dinner for us... with yummy steaks, potatoes and baked beans! Thanks Leavitt Family for the great present!!

He was glad to finish putting this together...

Lately, the winter has been so great up here! All the snow had pretty much melted by Saturday afternoon and it hadn't been that cold! Yesterday, reality hit us....we had SO much snow! Here's a picture of our backyard while we were out BBQ'ing! Our poor dogs hate the winters here but here is Frank in the snow!!!