Blog Post #1 (Humanities)

Okay readers, for my Humanities class I have to post different things... Just a warning so you know where some of these posts are coming from! :)

Okay a little about myself. My name is Bethany. I am from Salt Lake City. My specifically Murray. I am at Dixie State because I got a scholarship and my sister came down here while I was a senior in high school and loved it. Me and my sister are very close and so we decided to come down together for my freshmen year and try it out. I loved it and so I am back for another year! I love St. George and the red rocks. The heat is kind of miserable but I sure do love living here. :) It is a good place to live! I am just getting my generals done. I will graduate with my associates this Spring. After that I am not to sure what I will do. I love planning things, and so I have toyed with the idea of going to UVU and attending their Hospitality Management Program and get my bachelors in that. We will see though. :) I hope I can figure it out sooner rather then later!

Last Spring, I took Art History 2720, and that was my first experience with anything to do with Art. I am not a very artsy person nor do I like looking at art. Art History 2720 was hard for me. Not hard in the sense of the work load, but hard because analyzing art is not my thing. So I guess that would address one of the anxieties I have for this class. I also worry about the debate it will bring up in class. I don't like conflict and my beliefs may differ from others. I also am not a very outgoing person in a classroom setting and so to participate is going to be extremely difficult for me especially when it comes to sharing my opinions. Those are a couple of anxieties I have for the class!

I guess, just to be patience with my if I am not understanding the material. Academics don't come easy for me and so when I have a patience professor I will do a lot better in the class!
I am excited to learn though and am excited to see what this class brings!

Dixie State Round 2!

 We made our move down to St.George this past weekend! Sophomore and Senior year! Bre will graduate with her Bachelors and I will graduate with my Associates! We can do it! And our dear parents came down to help us settle in! Our bathroom was pretty nasty when we got there, so our sweet momma helped us clean it up so we were comfortable using it!

 Our hard-working dad, helped us clean the carpets and helped (along with momma's help of course) get us settle in! He bought us tons of groceries, and just made it feel homey! Thanks daddy!

 Mom and I came back to grandma's (where they were staying) and baked sister a gluten-free cake and cookies while dad and sister went back to the apartment to finish some things. I love spending time with mom. I was attached to her during the summer with my surgery and all, so she became even more of my best friend. She is pretty great and just love her sooo much! She is the best momma a girl could ask for!

I am so extremely grateful that our parents could come down with us! We are still a little homesick, and don't want Summer to end, but nothing is more constant then change, right? We are taking one day at a time, and enjoying it! This is Bre's last year and most likely mine as well, we got to live it up!!

I love my family :)

 I love, love, love my family! This is my goofball brother that loves to make us laugh and will do anything to get a reaction out us sisters, but I guess that is what makes us love him soooo much!

 The above two pictures are our last Sunday. And only Aly and Brenton decided to come for Sunday dinner. We are missing Brittany's family and Blake and Faye-Dawn. It was fun! We made cookies and it was super fun!

This is sister! She is beautiful and such an example to me! I sure do love her and all our laughs and memories we are making down here in St.Geezy! 

Update On Life!

I have to confess, I haven't posted much because I don't think many people read my blog. I guess I should just post for my own records, but then again it is always nice to have others read it, right!? 

But lets update. I guess really there isn't much to update on, but an update on my foot: I went at my 6 weeks mark and I will tell you I really thought that my bones were going to be healed and I would start walking, that was very wrong because my bones were not quite healed-I had another 2 1/2 weeks without any weight bearing. I seriously was devastated. I cried all the way home. I was so mad, sad, frustrated pretty much every emotion in the world I was feeling. My Savior stepped in and helped me. He knew exactly how to help me, and He did just that. 

I went about two weeks ago Monday, and he told me my bones were healed and gave me the green light to start putting weight on it. HOORAY!! Okay, my bones are healed lets walk out of the doctors office. NOPE. THe nurse brought in a weight scale to show me what 50 pounds felt like, I was extremely surprised on how painful that was. I could not even really get to 20 without it hurting. As I thought about it though, I haven't put weight on my right foot for 9 weeks. Of course it is going to be painful. So now in the process I could walk, but not really because I had to have the crutches because I really could not put all the weight on it. 

Alright, alright now I am walking without any crutches and it is soooo nice! I love it! 

Needless to say, this process has been extremely hard, but I have seriously learned a lot. And, even though I am going a little stir crazy this summer has been nothing but movies, reading, and bumming. Not a lot of people can say that right! Thursday is my 11 weeks and tomorrow I go to the doctors and hopefully I can start physical therapy.    

Thats me!

Bre is working and finished her summer class!

I will post pictures later!

Yellowstone Trip 2014

 This was at the rodeo on Thursday night! We like to take selfies!

 Lava Hot Springs. We thought we were pretty cool with a margarita! So we took pictures :)

 This was at Lava as well. Dad, mom, Breanna, and Blake all went to the hot pools. I just sat and watched! Haha! Love these things I am learning while having this boot on my foot!

We always go to the Playmill Theater up in Yellowstone. It is our favorite part of the trip. The cast is always so funny and not to mention the boys are extremely handsome! We went to Beauty and The Beast and Les Mes! Both were very well done!

Personal Pedicure

 

My sweet mom gave me my own personal pedicure!

 

The final product! I loved the color!

My Little Nurses :)

Two weeks into my surgery, I went from my weekly check-up to find that one of my incisions was wet. I guess, this is not good. The doctor ordered us to redress the incisions and put this medicine on it that would dry it up. Sooooo these are my little nurses that helped me do that! :) They're the best! Thanks to them all my stitches are out and looking good!

 

Dr. Pepper, Please!

Soooo..... This may be a random picture to most people and I guess it kind of is. To me though it will hold one of my fondness memories with my mom and I. Let me explain. The Monday after my surgery, my sister and dad took a road trip to Vernal for my dad's work. That left my mom and I alone at the house. I was still pretty weak from my surgery, and still on my pain meds. I was not eating very well either. My mom had a couple errands to run, and so I decided to tag along. My first adventure out since my surgery!!

Not a good idea! By the time I got home, I seriously felt like I was going to throw up and faint. So my mom being my mom, knew that I needed to eat. Nothing sounded good though, but my mom can work magic and whipped some yummy lunch for me. Along with my lunch, she brought me a Dr.Pepper FULL of ice! I was in heaven. My mom sat on my scooter and me and her ate lunch together! Food was exactly what I needed!

 I loved it, and will never forget it! I love my momma!

Happy Mother's Day

This post is like a month late, SORRY! I was just going to forget it and move on to other things that have been happening, but I couldn't!

Happy Mother's Day to this SUPER MOM!

I could say so much about this women here, but I will keep it short. I can't start to describe how much I love my mum! She has been there for me countless times and I understands me and my quirks and flaws, but loves me through them. She encourages me. This happened a lot down in St. George, when boys and school and work was not going my way. She would let me "verbally vomit" and then give me a pep talk that would most likely include some gospel reference, and then let me go on my way. She is one of the most selfless women I know, and her life is pretty much dedicated to her children.

I love her to PIECES! I seriously don't know what I would do without her!

I love you momma! Happy Mothers Day!

 

My Surgery Experience

This post is about my foot surgery experience! I had to post about this because this was my first MAJOR surgery. I guess to some people surgery has to happen and why cause such a fuss, but I was absolutely terrified. This was my first experience with "being put out," with operating rooms, and the whole ordeal. My foot needed to be fixed though. My arch collapsed every time I would walk on it, my bunion need to be taken out, my big toe needed to be straightened, and they had to cut my heel bone and align it correctly. The doctors could probably describe the whole process a lot better, so I hope that made a little bit of sense. All of these problems were contributing to my pain I had in my foot. So my thought of just my bunion was hurting turned into a 3 hour surgery.
Who would have thunk it?? :) 

The night before I was to go into surgery, my dad and my brother gave me a blessing. As my brother anointed my head with oil and started the blessing I broke down into tears. I was so grateful for the priesthood that could administer to me when I needed it. I knew that I had power on my side. I was so scared and fearful and The Lord knew that. After that my dad gave me the blessing. I can't remember everything that was said in the blessing, but I will always remember the last part of it. My dad said to me "we know Father that you are the Master Physician." Right as my dad said that to me, I pictured my Father In Heaven right by my doctor guiding him and helping him through my surgery. We could not see him, but he was there guiding my doctor.  I can't describe the comfort this gave me. My Father in Heaven was aware of me and understood who I was. He understood that I was scared and he was the only one that could help me and hold my hand through the whole process. How very grateful I am for this gospel and priesthood blessings. I truly know that he is the Master Physician and lives.

   

 No pictures on this post! I guess I could have put some pictures that Breanna took of me after my surgery and while I was waking up, but they don't look to hot! :) haha!

He did it! :)

Pretty much just wanted to post this because HE DID IT! It has been a long time coming for this guy here, but he did it! I am super proud of him.

Love these pictures of us!

End of our AMZING Journey!

Splash Pad!! Loving that finals are over and the warm sun!

Packing up! Sad day :(

Our roommates and I made a quote wall of all the funny things we said throughout the year!

Done and all packed up!

Our last Swig for at least 3 months! 


Gosh! This is super late, but had to share this! Well... May 2, 2014 we headed home from my (Bethany's) first year at Dixie State University! What a journey! Leaving was much harder than I ever thought it would be. I don't know if many people know this, but after arriving in St. George in August I was not loving it. I was extremely homesick. I was ready to leave the next day, literally :)!! The Lord had different plans for us. As our family likes to call it- A Miracle! May sound cheesy or even kind of crazy, but I was coming home for sure.
  I hate endings, I actually hate change in general. This is a bad  thing in my personality because of the fact that change happens all the time! Being in Dixie State and St. Geezy was seriously one of the best years of my life! I can't begin to describe what I have learned about my Savior and Father in Heaven, and what I have learned about myself. I grew a stronger testimony of this gospel. I know it is true. My Savior lives and is very aware of me. Time after time down there I had to rely on my Savior. I had to rely on the HOPE the gospel gives me. Let's not forget the people we met, the laughs we shared, the tears we cried (many times because of stupid boys, but seriously :)), the decisions we had to make, the many grocery store visits, Dairy Queen/Milkshakes, Kneaders and our handsome manager, meeting Daagel, Chick Fil A, Larkrise to Candleford, Dixie State Baseball games, Bonfires, and I could probably go on and on, but I am going to stop! 

Last WEEKEND in St. Geezy!

 Friday Night

As the title so adequately informs, this post is about our last weekend. This is Breanna by the way. The weekend started out rough for various reasons that are not worth mentioning. Kailie came over and had dinner with us (tacos) after returning from a less-than-thrilling SAA activity of skimboarding and hotdogs. It was really windy and a bit on the chilly side. We played "chubby bunny" that night. We also went to Fiesta Fun Center and rode Go-Karts. Bethany couldn't stop laughing. Saturday we went to the temple (hence why I look like a drowned rat, WHY I LOOK LIKE A DROWNED RAT- THIS IS BETHANY) and then just hung out. We had to walk over to the library at one point to study for finals. That night we played a game of Fugitive and after 2 quick rounds because it didn't prove to be too awesome, Bethany and I and a group of friends talked to the University police for an hour and a half. Kailie slept over that night and the next day we went to church and came home to make fajitas (oh my goodness, they were bomb). It proved to be a productive weekend. It may not have been the way we had the weekend planned out in our heads but it was very eventful, productive, and unforgettable last weekend in St. Geezy! :)