I HAVE MOVED ON FROM MY SINGLE BLOG AND WENT ON TO ONE THAT TYLER AND I CAN SHARE...SO THOUGHTFUL EH? DONT WORRY, I WILL KEEP THIS NEW ONE UPDATED!! CHECK IT OUT! TYLERANDJESSDAY.BLOGSPOT.COM :)

I had surgery yesterday, my first time ever! I was really nervous, but the nurses were just wonderful! My parents too. Both came to witness...and I am sure after the 4 hours of waiting while I was in surgery was worth it afterwards...I had some crazy things to say!! I guess I wanted to hit a home run really really bad! And I had to go to the bathroom so bad I thought I was going to explode, so when I sat up I threw up...the nurse caught it though so all was good. My knee had a lot more damage than they originally thought! I ended up getting my miniscus shaved and since it was torn they just sewed it back up. I have stithces inside of my knee! Interesting. My ACL was GONE...so I got a cadaver graft put in there. It is held in with two scews, one on each side! I hope the metal detectors go off when I go through them now :) They took some pictures of my knee but they are only on paper so I found similar ones on the internet so you can see! Exciting eh?

This picture above is a torn ACL...looks gross eh? Mine looked a bit different because my ACL has been ripped and torn so many times it was gone!

This is of a cadaver graft that they would put into your knee...again mine is a little different because you can see the scews on each side! I hope this new person inside of me was very athletic :)

This final picture is of damaged miniscus. Mine was sewed up right where that line was, and than on the bottom there was a huge peice sticking off that they shaved off so that I don't die? I don't know, I think it was rubbing everything and hurting me. I am still pretty drugged up so at this point I am doing great! They say that since I had so much done I can't start therapy for awhile, and its going to be a long process to fully recover. I can't play sports for 6-9 months which will be the ultimate killer. It will all be worth it in the end though! And my family is soooo great to me and take such good care of me...I am being pampered!!

My family and I just got back from our usual Lake Mead trip! It was such good weather, the Marina said 105 degrees on the first day! Even though I couldn't do much because of my knee, I had a lot of fun watching the others and riding in the boat! Kyle took me for an easy ride on the tube though...it was fun! These are pictures from the ride up there. Jordo, Brax, Ty and I all rode in the back of the truck. We took lots of pictures and played card games to pass the time!


These pictures are our 'Lake Shots' Jordan was sick the whole time, and didn't want his picture taken!



It was an AMAZING time at the lake! :)

It has been fairly nice weather and Tyler, his friend Geoff, Lucky and I went up Hyrum Canyon and played catch and in the river! It was so much fun! Geoff is a photographer man so he snapped a few cute shots of Tyler and I. Don't worry, they are not engagements or anything!

I think my computer is being so silly! I can't find how to change the font and color of my letters and stuff...so you just get the same ol' same ol' over and over again! For Easter we all went to St. George for the annual 'FUN IN THE SUN' Easter getaway :) It was really nice weather for the most part, and I even got to go to Cedar and hang out with my friend Meggan and then to Tylers house for more fun and car work! Tyler painted his car black and red, it looks really nice! It has been great to be able to hang out with Tyler so much, especially in the sun! It was fun to be with the younger generation of the family too, they are all growing up and are so much fun!

Its getting to be the end of the school year at Utah State...and I am so happy that I am not worrying about finals right now and having to do homework!! :) I have been going to a lot of end of year banquets, however, and a lot of my favorite people will be graduating!! This is a picture of my Transfer Ambassadors. I LOVE USU AMBASSADORS!

My wonderful parents let me and my friend Kaylie take the Jazz tickets! I love the Utah Jazz and wish them luck against the Lakers...even though I know it would be a miracle if they pulled this one off! GO JAZZ! :)
This is all pretty old news but for the Priesthood session all of us girls went to Market Street Grill for dinner! This is the best part of Conference Weekend every 6 months! Of course I love to hear the apostles speak too :) I love being with the girls! And little Braxton...although he hates being with the girls. We had a good fun time and then went shopping! I am so blessed to have such wonderful examples in my life! I LOVE YOU GIRLS!

Reunitation!

I finally got to see all of my Snow College friends!!! Shawnee is ready to have her baby boy and was having a baby shower, so we decided to have a slumber the night before! I have not seen them in a long time, so it was so exciting! I have not seen Maddie since before her mission! We all stayed at Jills house and talked and talked and talked :) We also went on a mission to find Twilight..don't worry, 8 red boxes and they were sold out! Thank goodness for Blockbuster!! I LOVE YOU GIRLS!!!

Road Trip!

Buff and I went to Arizona to visit her old school! It was a lot of driving but SO much fun! As you can see we got kind of bored in the car... :) We also stopped at the Hoover Dam which I have never been too! And we saw President Kimballs house where he grew up in...right there in the town of Thatcher! It was so hot there, and hard to come back to this crappy Utah weather!!!

When I got back to the good ol' USA my family took me to St. George! It was nice weather and so much fun! My niece Addie is getting so big, and she is so much fun to play with! All of the girls went to Vegas to shop, go to dinner, and go to the PHANTOM OF THE OPERA!! It was so cool! What a good weekend with the fam :)

Welcome to the Jungle...

After Ecuador I had the opportunity to go to the Yachana Lodge in the Amazon! It was such a cool experience! We flew to Cokee in an airplane that was really small! We then took a jungle truck to the Napo river. While we were waiting for our canoe/boat I started feeding some monkeys and they jumped right on my shoulder! We got to go on many hikes through the jungle and saw many different Jungle animals!! Bats, tarantulas, the harpy eagle, dwarf camens, HUGE spiders, bats, hawks...etc. We also got to FLOAT DOWN THE RIVER! We were just floating with the paranas and anacondas...no big deal :) We went to the medicine man and got cleansed with tobacco and learned how to throw spears and shoot blow guns. The whole experience was the coolest thing I have ever been able to do!

I love Ecuador!

Hello everyone! Have no fear I am back to the blogging world! I just spend the past three months having the most wonderful time of my life! I was living in Cuenca, Ecuador working in many different orphanages! I fell in love all of these children and got very attached to quite a few of them! It was the hardest thing to leave them. This blog is a tribute to my babies! :) I love you! Oh and PLEASE...if you are even slightly interested in going to Ecuador to do this they are in need of volunteers! You would not regret it! Also, if you are looking for ways to help these orphans but don't know how, contact me! You can sponsor a child for only 30 dollars a month for a year! What a wonderful thing to do :)

Hola from Ecuador! To do a blog here takes FOREVER, because the internet is slow. I am going to do one for this first time, but if you want to see all of my pictures I put them all on facebook! There are a lot :) Ecuador is great...the whole traveling experience was not the best. I have never had so many delays or had to wait in such long lines in my life! My casa here in Ecuador isn't bad! I live with 16 girls, my Cuenca parents, and the head family is here visiting with their 4 kids. It is crazy, and there is always something going on! I work a lot in the orphanages and keep busy! I was pretty homesick at first, but I am starting to get the hang of it! It is hard because of the language barrier, but hopefully I will overcome that soon! I know enough words right now to get by, I just can't communicate like a normal person! There are a lot of hand gestures, thats for sure! I have about 10 weeks left...my first week is already done! This is me and my parents before I left on my way to Ecuador! The other picture is supposed to be of me and Tyler...but seriously it is hard to get the right picture because its all in Spanish! I don't even know the word for delete...so it is staying! The picture is of the sign that went on our doll...the Ecuador people burn a doll when it is New Years to burn old bad things that happened to them! We burned our ex's...and we wrote down bad habits we have and burned those too. It was an exciting night! I have never seen so many fireworks in my life! We were not allowed to go out on the town because it wasn't safe at all! But family and friends, I love you all and I am doing ok! It is scary and different than the US. I am happy to be here to help these children. I love working with the special kids...there are almost 20 that we are working with, and than the casas kids, cunas babies, OSSO babies, HML girls and ladies...and than a couple other orphanages that I have not been to. I will be putting my pictures on facebook from now on...so be ready!! :) Love you all!