Stressed out!

I know I haven't written here in a while, and here is a small reason. (Actually a large reason)




I am in the process of being a CANADIAN!! This is really exciting to me, because it's a huge part of my life, and I just want to be here for the rest of my life! There is seriously SO much to do for it, and its' reallllly stressful in these parts these days. Randy is sponsoring me, so it's a lot more complex than it should be. We have to PROVE our love. Do you know how much work it is to prove you love each other to the government? You'd be surprised... Who knew how awkward this could be. We are contacting people in Randy's life who he has NEVER talked to (example: birth father, step sisters...) Thank heavens for Facebook!

Our summer was pretty fun, but I'm probably not going to talk about it. There was just too much! Here's to autumn, and hopefully blogging more.

As you could tell, I just needed to vent about how stressful everything is. Any stress tips!?!?

Butterflies & Honeycombs

I guess I'll start with sayign that I'm back. I needed to take a short little break to get everything figured out. I've decided to use this blog a lot more. I'm ready to show my life more. I want to show how much fun I'm having living my newlywed life.

Lately, I've been thinking of getting another tattoo. OOh. scandalous! I know that some people are fans of tattoos and that we shouldn't put permanent things on our bodies. But this tattoo will have a huge meaning to me. My previous post was about my grandma passing away. I've decided on a tattoo of a butterfly with either a flower or a honeycomb. I'm getting really excited about the research & all that stuff!

Now an update on what's been going on!

Last week my friend Christa and her friend Stacy came into town on a roadtrip. Calgary was their last stop after going through Glacier and all that fun stuff! They came into Calgary on Thursday night and we headed off to sushi and had an amazing time! I hope Christa can send me the group picture. Afterwards we headed to WICKED!!!! Can I tell you how excited I was? I saw it when I was 17 or so in LA. It was amazing then and it was amazing now!! :)

Friday I had to go to work and left Christa & Stacy to fend for themselves! We ended up meeting up with them that night at the opening night of the Stampede! So many people, and such good food! Unfortunately it got really windy and cold so we headed home after a couple of hours. We went and got ice cream at DQ and watched some tv. It was a great night to just chill and catch up with Christa!

They took off to head home and I just hung out all day.

So tell me what do you like to do when your friends visit from out of town?

Done.

With this blog.

Peace.

Things change quick!

So far it's been a crazy summer. I haven't been this busy in a long time. I definitely let my blog go to the wayside because some bigger things have been happening.

On June 14th my wonderful, amazing grandmother passed away. It's definitely been the hardest thing I've had to go through. I was really close with her my whole life. When my mom told me that she was getting very sick and she was pretty close to leaving this earth I was devastated. I think I was in shock because when my mom called me and told me she had passed on I still didn't believe her. I'd have to say I was floating on a cloud and it didn't set in until her funeral and I saw her in her casket. It still had been so hard on me and I couldn't be luckier with all my support and especially Randy. He's definitely a trooper and has been helping me our tremendously. One of the hardest things is knowing that my grandpa is having such a hard time with it. He suffers from dementia, and it's making it harder. I've just been praying that he can start to feel at peace and be okay.

We quickly got everything in order so we could head to Utah. We had been planning to go next week actually for a family reunion. Instead we just decided to take a week off and make this our vacation. Despite the circumstances we managed to have an amazing time. Randy met 100's of family members and he was definitely overloaded with all my family.

I will be doing a Utah post because it was so much fun and we did SO much.

I love you and miss you so much Grandma!!

Thirty Day Photography Challenge!

I saw this awesome picture on pinterest the other day and I've decided to attempt this 30 Day Photography Challenge. I'm really bad at finishing things that I've started so here goes nothing.

Day one is a self-portrait.
I took this picture last Sunday two days after my surgery. If anyone wants to join in leave me a comment and link up!

All I want is ice cream!

Me really drugged up and just not very happy!
Me today at my parents house.

Friday I had neck surgery to take out a cyst on my neck. I also had to get it taken out because there was pain nerves stuck in the scar tissue. My neck hurt everytime I would touch it and it was getting rather annoying! I found a plastic surgeon who would take out the cyst and get rid of my NASTY scar! I look like Frankenstein for the next two weeks, but I'm really happy I won't have the pain & scar anymore!

Is it weird that I'm so happy about such a little thing?

Huge Giveaway...

So I'm trying to win a blog giveaway because it is pretty awesome! Go over to Elle.mnop's blog and enter!

http://ellemnop.com/freestuff/huge-handmade-giveaway/