The Adventures of Man Hands and Fluff

This past weekend my best friend was able to come down and spend the weekend with me in Cedar. We had a blast! Friday night we went to the Tuachan and watched "The Little Mermaid". It was so cool! The effects, costumes, songs, everything was so awesome! The play started out with water flooding the stage and Prince Erik's boat "floating" into the scence. Everytime the play was "underwater" they had a sheet of water coming out of sprinkers attached to the top of the stage and they would project images of fish and water onto it. It looked awesome! My favorite part was "Under the Sea". That song was so much fun and just kept on going! Saturday night we went to the Demolition Derby in Parowan. Heber has set some high expectations for Derby's and Parowan let us down. The arena was so small, not very many cars entered into the derby, and they kept doing a mini car figure 8 race that was not fun. I go to derby's to see cars smash into each other, not to race around tires. Oh well, we still had a good time. The rest of the time was spent laughing, reminiscing, and just having a good time! I have the best best friend :)

After eating awesome Tiki Shack (wish I would have taken a picture with the actual snow cone)

Ready for some Demolition! Too bad we didn't get any

A Really Cool Place

Last week Travis and I were able to go to the temple and I had two really neat experiences that I would like to share.

Neat experience #1: About an hour before we left for the temple we found out that some of our friends were getting a divorce. They had been married about 1 1/2 years and he found out some things about her he wasn't ok with and he left. When we found this out it kind of shook us up. They seemed like a solid couple that were really in love and willing to work things out. We talked about this the whole ride down to St. George. We went through our session and made it into the Celestial room. I was walking around and looking into the sealing rooms and had an overwhelming peace come upon me. Looking in that room I knew that Travis and I will be together for all of eternity. We will have hard times, but nothing will be strong enough to tear us apart. This was such an amazing feeling and was so reassuring after the sad news we had just heard.

Neat experience #2: As I mentioned in my previous post I got my wisdom teeth out. The healing process was long and hard. They had been out for a week and I was still in a lot of pain. I went back to the dentist thinking I had dry socket only to find out that some food had gotten in the holes and was rotting (sick, I know). He cleaned it out and told me to continue to clean the sockets out and I should be good. Wrong. I was still in just as much pain as before he cleaned it out. (To make matters worse every time I took a Loratab I threw it up). By the time Saturday rolled around (the day we went to the temple) I was fed up with the whole situation. I was in so much pain, out of ideas of what to do, and completely frustrated that it seemed like there was nothing I could do about it. I took enough Ibuprofen to get me through the next couple of hours and we went to our session. While I was in the temple I knew that if I had enough faith in my Heavenly Father he would heal me. I said a prayer in the Celestial room and told Heavenly Father that I do have faith in him and asked that he would take some of the pain away from me so I could complete my day to day tasks. Sure enough, the Lord took care of me and lifted me up when I needed it. I wasn't instantly healed, but the pain level dropped drastically and it has continued to drop as time has gone on. It has been two weeks since I had them taken out and I am almost 100% better.

I am so grateful for the blessings I have received in the temple, and that I know I will continue to receive. I want anyone who is able to go to the temple to go. We can always make up excuses and reasons to not go, but I know that when we do go we are blessed beyond measure. I am so thankful for this church and the knowledge is gives me.

And The Winner Is.....

If I were to give out an award for the best husband, I would give it to Travis (duh). There are numerous reasons why he is the best, but here is the reason why I choose to blog about.

Last week I got my wisdom teeth. I was really scared because EVERYONE felt like it was their duty to tell me horror stories about it. Especially since I was only getting numbed. I told Travis he didn't need to go with me, but he gladly said he would go with me. He brought his Athletic Training book with him and said he would study in the lobby.

They called me back and as I turned around to sit in the chair there is Travis right behind me. He said that he was going to sit in the room with me instead. (lucky for him the dentist let him watch the whole thing. He loved it) I was so glad he was there because every time I would flinch, he was there holding my hand or stroking my leg to let me know he was there and that it would be ok. I know that getting your wisdom teeth out is a routine proceedure and it happens to everyone, but it was a big deal to me and I was glad he was there for me.

When it was over, he gingerly helped me to the car. He was so sweet the next few days (week)making sure I was ok and that I had everything that I needed (want). After he got me home and situated he went to the store and bought me ice cream, fruit bars, pudding, soup, juice, and all the essential lack of wisdom teeth foods.

Since I was numb I couldn't tell when there was a blood/saliva running down my chin. That is something that should gross normal people out, but he would just help me wipe it off and tell me that he loved me.

He told me as a reward for doing this (since I am a little kid and need a reward for doing things such as this) he will buy me Pringles as soon as I can eat them and he will watch a chick flick with me.

I love Travis so much and am so grateful for how well he always take care of me. I think of all the times I have been sick (which is a lot because I catch everything) and how he is always so sweet and tender to me. I am so lucky to have him and appreciate all he does for me.