Volleyball Groupie

Ryan and I have been playing volleyball since we started dating. at first I was a little hesitant since I knew I wasn't great but I liked Ryan enough at that point I wanted to spend more time with him. I believe that it was two seasons outdoors and two seasons indoor every year. It was fun. In the beginning I was warming up to the idea of it I liked it but wasn't great. I later started getting better. Though I felt as though one of the players put me down sometimes when I wasn't so great and I didn't feel like she was that great a player herself. So I had a time I didn't care for it much. As I got even better I realized I like sand as Ryan liked indoor. He liked to be able to control it more and spike while I was afraid of some of the opposing teams spikes during indoor. Outdoor was much funner for me. Near the end I kinda phased out since I felt like we were always out playing volleyball and we didn't go out on date nights just the two of us. So I boycotted it :-D Not long after Ryan phased out too since he needed to study more as classes were getting harder.





This picture is of us at Famous Daves. We collect quarters for missed serves and every now and them bought dinner with it. I know we didn't have enough to cover dinner for all of us there is no way! But it's fun to think of it. This was also in celebration of Arlie's Birthday. Left to right (& wrap) is Mark, Kelly, Arlie, Cookie, Ry, Me, John, Brett, , Kelly.

A year and eight months

It seems so crazy that is had already been that long. Ryan is still chugging along in school. I can tell that school is not his favorite thing. He is a very hard worker and loves to learn but when it comes to school I think he just wants to pass the class and move on.

He is still in scouts and since it is starting to get warmer I think they will be going on more scouting trips. I am still in primary but they have moved me to an older class. I used to teach the little ones that just started coming to primary. Now I am going to be team teaching the ones that are starting to go to Young Women's and Young Men's. Our ward has a small primary so I believe that our class consist of four classes combined. The first week I went to this class was last week. They were not so reverent to today I asked Sister Strickland if I could speak to them right after the prayer. The jist of what I asked them how they act at school, and how they should act in the House of the Lord. They did WAY better. I hope that we will be able help remind them to be reverent so that they will learn more from the lessons.

As for living accommodations we are still living at the house that Ryan grew up in. His mom has been incredibly awesome by letting us stay there free of rent. All we have to do is pay the utility bills. While this incredibly awesome still do long for the day that we can one day have a place of our own so that I can call a place our own and decorate it the way I please. This may be many years before we can even begin to even think of such a thing since Ry is still in school. We are most definitely looking forward to having the place to ourselves. Dale will most likely be getting married in August.

We will see how long that last. Mike has dropped a hint of Ryan possibly taking part in his counter top company. UNLV may possibly cut the engineering program (because the way the economy is and budget cuts taking place) and if they do it may not be for a few year but it still is an option for us. If that happens we may have the option to possibly move up to Idaho. It will be pretty darn cold for a chick that prefers the summer and grew up in Vegas but other than that I am not supper opposed to the idea. I definitely would miss being close to my family but I would like to consider myself a strong independent person.

Also I have had hopes of starting our family soon but my thoughts today had turned to really wanting to be able to stay home with my kids. Neither of us have a great paying job at the moment so our fear is that our savings would quickly diminish if we start a family now. I am not sure what to do. I really want to be able to spend as much time with them when we do have them. Also my main reason to stay home it do my best at teaching them as best I can about the gospel so that they have a fairly strong testimony by the time they are teens. As Satan's war rages forth they will be needing stronger testimonies then past generations have had. I'm thinking of trying to get someone to help us to know where to go with this decision through prayer.

As as summer is approaching I think I will be able to go to our family's timeshare. I've been wanting to take Ryan with me since he hasn't gone yet. Though I'm not sure he will be able to go again. Last year he took a week off for scouting and also Mike and Mom were getting married and wanted us to help in pulling off. This year I think it will mostly be because of him already taking a week off of work for scouting. I think it has at least been two years since I've gone so I'm longing for a vacation. I look mostly forward to dipping in the pool and laying out be the sun. Will be needing alot of sunblock for sure though since I haven't seen the sunlight much recently.

Shorter Haircut

A Christmas Gift

This was a Christmas gift from Wendy. A few weeks earlier we had gotten together one day and made some home made bread. I told her I would like to make cinnamon rolls with some of it. She said that would be fun and we tried it. I told her a trick that I had learned not long before that of how to cut the dough roll without squishing it. It was by using a string and wrapping it around and pulling across each other. I thought it was a pain to have to lift the roll and put the string underneath. She came up with the idea of crossing the knifes and bringing them together. It was a great idea and worked perfect. Then she shows up with these platters and the even had our last name etched on the bottom! :-D As you can see I couldn't resist these cream cheese frosted sweet rolls before taking a picture.

Primary Class

I was called to be a primary teacher in my ward. The class is fairly small. I wanted to remember them so I took a picture.

Ryan is not a team teacher with me but I think he enjoys coming in with me since it more fun than his class with our ward. There are some interesting members in our ward ans they sometimes get off topic in the lessons. I only hear about this from Mike, Debbie and Ryan since I've been in primary this whole time.




From left to right is Preston, (visitor/grandaughter), Rylee (her lil pose reminds me of all the posses we did as kids), Juliana, Brianne, and Hannah (in front, she reminds me of my friend Hannah).

A Little Summary of Myself

This is one of those tagging things but I really don't think anyone has read my blog recently so I don't think they would even see it. I don't blame them I don't post much.

Joys

1. The Gospel: Life just wouldn’t be the same without it. I’ve gotten frustrated at times with certain things in life but I know that as I followed the guidelines of the Gospel I have been shaped into the women that I want to be. I strive to be who our Heavenly Father would want me to be.

2. Family: My family is my everything. I love talking to them. I learn and grow so much from their opinions, thoughts and feelings. I could spend hours talking to them.

3. Music: It soothes my soul. I seriously believe that music affects the mood that we are in. Church music makes me cry when I let the melody sink in. When I am frustrated with things I like to listen to more upbeat songs to get my mind off of it. Also I love to dance. I’ve been dying to go to a dance… I keep teasing Ryan that I’m going to drag him to singles dance since they don’t have any for newlywed’s haha.


Fears
1. For my children (that I’ll have one day) to not except or GREATLY appreciate the Gospel.

2. Night/Dark/Unexpected Harm (from someone): I greatly fear Satan’s impression on people. He deceives so many to do wickedly. Their actions to follow those whispering are all so evil in their own way. They all lead to harm in one way or another. I don’t want any of those actions to harm me or my family. For ex. Drunk driver hit our car, break into our home while were home, attacked by someone.

3. My house to burn down: If someone broke into your home you would still have the things they could have cared less for. If you home burnt down you would lose most of your possessions and hopefully no one.

Goals
1. Build up Images by Krys – Photography. My goal in a career was something artistic and hands on that I could stay home with my future kids. I feel upon Photography and decided after one class this was it. I chose this career so that I can stay at home and raise my own kids. I greatly believe that most of the problems in today’s world are because of poor child rearing. I want to be there for my kids and raise them to the Lord.

2. Stay as debt free as possible.

3. Raise my Children to the Lord.

Collections/Obsessions

1. Music: Like mentioned above I love it. I had the most music in the family. On road trips I was the one bringing the music. In my teen years that is, I think Gary had a lot too. Also I LOVE the Piano! I want to collect more of it. But it’s got to be from certain artist, two that I do like are Jim Brickman and Jon Schmidt.

2. Clean: If the house it dirty and cluttered it drives me Crazy. I can tolerate dust but items everywhere make me tense up. I feel like I can’t function properly without tension with it mess. I can’t wait till I tuck more stuff away when we have the house more to ourselves.

3. I collect pictures like crazy. Well if I like a images and think it’s inspirational. I’ll save it to my computer. I don’t think I’ll ever get to try ALL of them. There are just way too many that I love. Some of them are even amateur pictures but were inspirational in one way or another. I ricochet ideas from things all the time.

Random facts

1. Wisdom: Many people have told me that I have great wisdom. I’ve found that I love to learn and grow from things around me and others wisdom. I always enjoyed learning from others. The only thing that I feel is that is sad is that I’ve been told that I have wisdom beyond my years but it’s sad to see that others my age do not have the wisdom that they should have had.

2. Goofy: I love my goofy husband! Life would be boring without being a little goofy. I love funky his funky impressions. When I get frustrated (like girls do) he can take my tears and turn them into laughter in only a minute or two.

3. Inspiration: I get inspired all the time from so many different things. Like mentioned above I ricochet ideas from things all the time. Also when I see things I want to try and do them myself. I just can’t seem to find the time or money to try all the home maker crafts, recipes, hobby things… etc that I would love to do.

Baby Kadence

Tara was supposed to be induced to have her yesterday morning. All of the rooms were full so she never was admitted to a room. She called back later to see if they had cleared up. They hadn't but she was still determined to have that baby since Pete had already taken the day off. I teased her that Heavenly Father wasn't ready to let Kadence's sweet spirit go yet. Lois teased she was spending her last moments with great grandpa Sanders.

She was eating spicy foods drank some oil (not sure what Oil it was) walked alot. I thought for sure she wouldn't be able to induce herself but that crazy girl some how did it.

Right before Celestial's baby shower she came over and dropped her boys off crying cause she was in pain from contractions. Possibly around 6:00pm I think.
She ended up having her with out the epidural. After her water broke Kadence came faster then they thought she would so she missed that chance of pain killer.

She had baby Kadence on 5/5/09 at 10:30 and both are doing great and she weighs
6lb's 8oz.

More pictures to come.