Friday, August 6, 2010

Perks of the JOB!!!

You know, there are some obvious "Perks" of this job. Such as...seeing Tim Tebow walking around without his shirt on, going to use the GIRLS bathroom and walking in on a couple of players using it because the boys one was full, having crazy people call me everyday and having to pretend like I care what they are saying, getting free Broncos gear, reading a whole book during work hours because all the players and coaches are on vacation and there is nothing else to do, seeing Tim Tebow walk around without his shirt on, getting all the free food and diet coke I want, sitting at a lunch table next to Tim Tebow...and Brady Quinn...and Kyle Orton...and...., having my desk be sitting 20 feet from 2 Superbowl Trophies, and 2 Superbowl rings, meeting John Elway, having 10 people tell me a day, I have the coolest jobs ever! And...getting free Rockies tickets, and dang good seats at that! Did I mention getting to see Tim Tebow with his shirt off, and I am still sure he tried to grab by butt when I was filling my water bottle.

Greg and I got the Broncos season tickets to the Rockies Baseball to Tuesdays game against the Giants. They were awesome seats and I even talked Greg into skipping part of his class to come and be my date--I don't think he has skipped class for any other reason this year. I am going to pretend he was willing to skip class for his HOT DATE and NOT  because it was a SPORTING EVENT! (But, deep down, I know the truth) did I mention Greg, that I get to see Tim Tebow with his shirt off.

It was a perfect night--overcast but not cold and not hot!!


Lets just say that the Coors Field Garlic fries do NOT even compare to Invesco's Garlic fries. It makes me want to go to a Mariners game now, just for the fries!!!


I am obviously better at taking pictures with my I-Phone than Greg is. Look at how clear the picture of Greg is?!?! And then look at how UNCLEAR and unfocused the picture of me is...HMMMM!!!! :)

Monday, August 2, 2010

MAKE MY WEEK!!!

I stole this picture of my niece off of my sister in-laws blog. IT MADE MY DAY!!! She is soooooooooo cute. Although this picture may be used as a blackmail picture when Lauren is a teenager. It has made me happy. I saved it to my phone and many times a day I will look at it just to smile. It makes me want to pinch one of the 12 rolls in her legs and kiss her chubby cheeks. Oh Lauren you are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo CUTE! I LOVE YOU!

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Mark YOUR Calander--July 16th MY BIRTHDAY!!!!

True to Style...I was able to stretch my birthday celebrations out for 2 weeks. Just how I like it! My birthday was great. Greg had school stuff in the morning so I went on a hike with some of my FAVORITE people.  It was an swesome hike. I really like Denver for that reason. Hiking, Biking, and outdoors stuff is very accessible. And you get to see more dogs than people. You see two people hiking with 4 dogs! Did you know that the average rate of children per houshold in Denver is 1.3 and the average dog per household is 2.5. ReDAMNdiculous if you ask me! And, as I watch the news at night, I am starting to believe that if you abuse your dog, you go to jail but if you abuse your kids, you get a slap on the wrist! Anyway...The hike was so fun! After the hike we met Greg at the pool for a couple of hours. Laying out getting skin cancer is an A in my book!! And I am being serious, I loved it. Then Greg and I went and got frozen yogurt and took a nice afternoon nap. After out lazyness, we decked outselves out, (in jeans and flipflops) and headed to a sushi dinner--MY FAV!!!!



After dinner we went over to my FAVORITE people with whom I had hiked with earlier in the day--THE FRANKS and had yummy "Nothing Bundt Cake" and I got showered with gifts. All of which I loved but I especially like the pregnancy test from 9 year old Emma, to which all of them were so excited for me to open. As soon as it was opened 6 year old Ivy says...Erin do you need to pee right now! --haha! I promised to bring it back after I had pee'd on it. It was a fun night and I love the FRANKS!


Eli aka...GI JOE gave me a Magic Glowing wand for my birthday!

Kara came to town the following weekend to take me out for a birthday pedicure. I think it was the best of my life--not sure if it is because I have been sacrificing for school the last year and made Greg a deal that I would not get any pedicures, and was jsut not used to the pampering. Or if it was really THAT good! Either way I loved it, Thank you KARA!! Kara and I had fun, we went for a hike, tried some yummy food, did a little shopping, and of course...got a pedicure.


Kara and I hiking--people really stared at us when we did not have dogs with us?!?!?!?!

Also to make my birthday special my Relief Society Presidency came by to sing to me and drop off a treat. Such neat ladies who sure take care of me!!



Well unless someone wants to step in and stretch my birthday out for an entire month. I guess I will have to start making my list for what I want next year!!

Monday, July 12, 2010

4th of July, SAN ANTONIO style!!!!

Gregs parents are currently on a mission in San Antonio. So Greg and I met his twin sister Erin and her little family in San Antonio for 4th of July weekend to visit Doug and Lucy.  It was a short trip that required as much car time as vacation time. But...it was lots of fun and so good to see everyone.  They were having a Alcoholics Annonymous convention in San Antonio that weekend. Therefore, we had to share the riverwalk with 70,000 recovering alcholics. I was keeping my eye on their drinks, It would be pretty daring to sneak something. But, I still had my eye on them :) It was SO crowded, we were trying to manuever a double stoller through the narrow riverwalk with 70,000 PLUS other tourists. We had yummy Mexican food and went for a boat ride down the river. It was so hot and muggy that I was tempted to fall out of the boat to cool off. I do love the heat, and San Antonio was a neat place but it makes me really really like dry heat. I am a baby when it comes to humitity!!



One of the best finds on the Riverwalk was ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHOCOLATE factory and their caramel apples!! This is how excited Erin and I are waiting for our apples!!
By the way, the dang guy in the back ground, cut in front of us. I even said loud enough for him to hear, "I love when people cut in front of me, take a picture of him." Yet, it did not deter him, he still set his chocolate on the scale, shoved us aside, and walked off, not even phased, chocolate in hand!!

Greg and Ellie!!

 HAPPY 4th of JULY!!!!!!!

We jumped in the car and made our long trip home!! It was kind of fun to be trapped in a car with Greg for 16 hours.  He had no where to RUN--hahaha!! He could not even study, beacuse he would get car sick, instead I had his undivided attention! It was GREAT! Although, we were excited to get out of the car finally when we got home and were perfectly fine having alone time for a while. Maybe even for a couple of days. Just Sayin!!

Monday, June 14, 2010

NAGGY!



Naggy! As girls, we get a labeled as being naggy. It is something I really try hard not to be. I consciencely keep my mouth shut ALOT (although Greg might not think so, I really do) just to avoid being to naggy. But here is my argument. We would not have to be naggy if guys would just do things on OUR time frame. We would only have to ask ONE time, things would get done, we would be happy because what we needed done would be done, and the guys would be happy because we were not nagging because we were happy. Seems pretty simple to me?!?!?! Our vacuum broke a week and a half ago when the house was only half vacuumed. Well, I immediatly said to Greg, will you fix the vacuum to which he agreed. I walked past that vacuum for 10 days, many times a day. Getting more and more annoyed everytime I passed it. Every piece of anything on my floor made me more and more mad. I just kept thinking. Does Greg not notice how dirty the house is? There is no way he was not noticing the big vacuuming in the middle of the hallway. One time I think he even stubbed his toe on it. To which I said in my head "you deserve that, I hope its broken" ( i really did not hope it was broken but I am glad it hurt a little bit)!  Well one night after work, I could not take it anymore...Greg was at school until ten that night so my only option was to fix the vacuum myself.  I took it apart and yelled and cursed it and Greg for an hour and a half. But...got no where, I could not even get one certain part unscrewed to fix it. Every minute just got me more and more mad and Greg and I was starting to think, I really do wish he had broken his toe :)! I even got to the point where I considered just going out and buying a new one. Finally after and hour and a half I text Greg, who was sitting in class, a nasty and very NAGGY text, telling him that "I was sick of the dang vacuum not being fixed and had given him ample time to fix it, and I was going to get more than naggy if he did not fix it!" (It might have even been a little bit more nasty than that, but I am editing for my reputation. I felt a little better after interrupting Gregs consentration in class and giving him my naggy piece of mind that had been builing for 10 days.  He obviously got what I was saying because at ten-thirty at night, Greg walked in the door and straight to the vacuum. And proceeded to spend an hour and a half also trying to fix that vacuum. 


After an hour and a half of watching Greg struggle to fix the vacuum and my glaring eyes sitting across the room saying repeatedly naggy things in my head, the vacuum was fixed!!!


And, I was able to vacuum my house at MIDNIGHT, yes MIDNIGHT for the first time in ten days! But I still don't get it. If guys don't want to feel like we are nagging them, or don't want to feel like "they can do nothing right" then why don't they just do things when we ask the first time?!?! It is simple in my mind :)


Going to the Temple!!!


My Younger sister Kara went through the temple. I was excited to get to fly to Washington to join her. She went through the Columbia River Temple in Tri-Cities.  It was SO neat! After the temple we went to PF Changs and ate until we were sick.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

AUSTIN...ELDER ALLRED, MY LOVE!!!!



I absolutely HATE living in the same mission as Austin. I drive by places all the time that make me think of him. I see his mission president at church occasionally. I know people who know him. I break into his apartment. I know where he lives. I know where he goes to church. I know some of the people he has baptized. I run into missionaries every couple of days who know him. I go to the temple minutes after he has been there. I go to the same library that he emails in. The AP's of his mission live across the football field from me. I HATE IT, I already hate that missions are two long years. But, now, it is thrown in my face, I think of Austin all day, everyday. I think it makes it way harder. If I did not live close to him, at least I would only have to think about him once a week when I read his emails.
But...I have found one positive out of this HARDSHIP!!! I got to meet Austin for lunch yesterday. I stalk him all the time, but now the fruit of MY labors have paid off. We got permission from his Mission President. It was so fun, we went to a park and had a little pizza picnic.


Austin is FORESURE a missionary geek. But I guess that is better than not being one. At least this way we know he is working hard, and a good missionary. He is following the rules to a T--hence the hidious part you will notice in his hair. Apparently, you have to have a visiable part in your hair. And...Austins is visiable!!! From a mile away! But he still looks HOT and GEEKY at the same time.

We are proud Par..(Aunt and Uncle) of TWINS!!!!



Sooooo!!! Gregs twin sister Erin, had twins!!! They were born April 28th. They are very very very cute. There names are Janie and Ellie. I am trying not to be mad because the only two names I have even decided I wanted to name my children are Lauren and Ellie. I LOVE both of those names. However, Derek and Carly (my brother and sister in-law) named their girl Lauren and while back and now Mike and Erin (Greg's sister and brother in-law) stole my other favorite name, Ellie. They act like just because they had kids first they have the right to use my names :) I guess now, my children will not have names. They will just have numbers since I don't have anymore options for names.
Greg finds it really funny to lay in bed at night and throw out baby name ideas (and no this is NOT an announcment). I have now made the rule that if he is not being 100% serious than I don't even want to hear the suggestion. However, he is still throwing out ideas like...Mike Pike, Titan, any black football players name that starts with Ty... or De...?!?, Hassan, Hooper, Paublo, Diego, these are just a few. I will have to do another blog to see what he comes up with tonight.

Greg sat and held the twins for hours and hours a day. He talks about how cute they are all the time. Erin is just lucky that Greg did not name her babies. But then, I kinda wish he did, then the name Ellie would still be available. HAHA!!

Monday, April 12, 2010

Flowers

There is nothing better than getting surprise flowers and not just flowers but TULIPS! My favorite!!!! They make me extra excited for spring.  Now before you start to give Greg any credit, STOP! Because he gets none! A friend of mine brought these over for me. I have been hinting ever since, how nice it would be if Greg would surprise me with fresh flowers, say...just once a month!?! I highly doubt he is catching on to the hints and am pretty sure he is completely tuning me out in fact (only time will tell)! Diamonds are a girls best friend and to that I will never argue. Now chocolate I really don't care for, not that I don't care for it, but I already buy myself chocolate almost everyday, but I could never rationalize bringing myself home flowers. Only because whenever anyone came over to my house and saw the fresh flowers on my table and ask, "who are the flowers from" I would have to make up some romantic story because it would be boring and anti-climatic to say "oh I bought them for myself. Anyways, it really does brighten my day to walk into our house and have fresh flowers sitting on my table. We will wait and see how well Greg is listening!

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Cancer Shmancer!

Why is it that Doctors can be the dumbest people on this planet? Yet…they are the smartest as well, curing disease, diagnosing illnesses, and expanding modern medicine. For all of this I am grateful but sometimes I feel like Doctors are just playing the guessing games and pretty much just practice “the process of elimination." Ever since I was a little girl I have been terrified of doctors. In fact I remember when I was 6 years old riding in the back of the Caravan, after my parents tricked me into a doctors appointment. I sat in the backseat of the van having a inner panic attack thinking “what am I going to do?” Suddenly I had an idea, but I waited until the last second possible to execute it. As we pulled into the parking lot of the doctor’s office I slowly crawled under the seat of the Caravan. My parents came around to get me out, but they could not physically get me out so it took quite a while to coax me out from my hiding place. However, I was still not ready for the doctor. So I tried to be a big girl and did everything the doctor said to. Then, suddenly, I had an escape. He wanted to draw some blood (NO WAY!!) So, I pretended like I needed to pee. I excused myself, went to the bathroom, and locked myself in the stall. Sadly I was not able to hide very long. After some more coaxing, my mom got me out. In the end, I had to give blood, and got my tonsils out. It was very traumatizing and  now it takes a lot for me to get to the point of actually going to the doctor. But what is even more traumatizing… is that I feel like every time I do finally go to the doctor, after putting it off for a while, I come away feeling let down. Let down, because the doctors pretty much always make me feel like nothing is wrong with me and say, go home and if you still are sick in a month, come back. See why Doctors are DUMB!!


Well since October I have been sick on and off, so I finally went to the doctor in the middle of February (see it takes me a while to get up the guts). Well, this doctor did recognize something being wrong and instantly started testing for Lymphoma Cancer. Well, it is now 7 weeks later and I still have no answers. I go from test to test, from scan to scan, and from doctor to doctor. NO ANSWERS…just the waiting game. In fact one of the doctors told me last week, nothing was wrong with me and if I still feel sick in a month come back. Hmmm…never heard that before. So one doctor is telling me nothing is wrong with me and the other two doctors are saying. Well, Lymphoma Cancer is really hard to diagnose, we think that is what we are dealing with and then wait a week before deciding the next step. So in turn...I an going CRAZY! 
The funniest thing happened  last night I got the mail on my way to pick Greg up from class at 10:00pm. Well, imagine my surprise when I opened the mail and have a letter from my insurance company that says.


Dear Erin,


We have received the request from your Doctor for a certification of the services listed below. Based upon the information given us, these services have been certified as medically necessary.


Dates of Service                Service                                Units


3/4/2010 to 3/4/2011   RITUXIMAB, 100 MB           12 Months


Please call with any questions.


WHAT THE HELL???? (Yes it is my blog Mom I can swear) This is my what the HELL face to go along with my WHAT THE HELL???comment, just for my mom!


 I look at the service “Rituximab” what is that? I have been prescribed nothing? So as I am driving I am frantically goggling it. Well, this is what popped up on Google Rituximab (Rituxan) is a drug used in the treatment of Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas (NHL). It is one of a special group of drugs called ‘monoclonal antibodies’ used in chemotherapy treatments.
So imagine, going from Doctor to Doctor from test to test and just feeling like you were getting the run around and no conclusive answers. Yet, one day in the mist of all of it, you get a letter from your insurance company saying per request from your doctor you have been approved for a 12 month supply of chemotherapy medicine. WHAT!!! So now I have made my own conclusion. Either I really do have cancer and my doctors, who have been out of town for spring break for 2 weeks, know I have cancer and have failed to mention it to me. Or, my doctor is into insurance fraud and is just getting money from my insurance company. Or, like the doctor said last week, nothing is wrong with me, if I feel sick in a month come back. AAARGHHH!!Either way, I still have no real answers I am just laughing about getting that letter in the mail.

Monday, March 29, 2010

SHOWER


Greg's twin sister is pregnant with twins so I got to go to Utah for her and Lisa's double baby shower this last weekend. It was so fun to see everyone. I had a really hard time coming back to Colorado. If I did not have to work Monday I think I would have called Greg and told him I was staying and to just come visit me on the weekends, haha! It was so fun to see all the girls! It was a great weekend! I think my gift to Erin was the best (so humble)! Mike, Erin's husband LOVES, or should I say is obsessed with U2. So I had little baby onsies made one with Bono on the front and one with Uchtune Baby on the front with some cute little capries.  I also added binkis that said "Rock Star" on them and a babys first band set that included a soft little quitar. And then to top off the gift was a U2 lullaby CD. I think I am so clever!!
Dani--purposfully putting a roll in front of her face because at this very moment through my smile I am yelling, Dani, "you better be smiling for this picture" silly girl does not listen. Mattie, with her cute perm, Mattie had a soccer game after the shower. She did great!! Jen, looking hot as usual! Me eating the 2nd of the 5 eclairs I ate at the shower. Not really, I only ate one. But, I loved them and wanted to eat 5!!!!

We took this picture and texted it to Greg, just to rub in what he was missing out on for this weekend!

This is my new favorite treat. You take strawberry's and then dip them in sour cream and the raw sugar--SO good! I may have held off on eating 5 eclairs but I did not hold back with this treat.

Dani and I! One of these days I will get Dani to smile for one of her pictures. Luckily she is cute anyways!

P-Town BABY!

I got to experience the old college days again. Thursday night I spend with my sister Kara and brother Tyson in the hop "nin" city of Provo. Awe--it made me miss the roomate days a little but not very much. Kara has a really cute house and Tyson has a really cute face (I just had to say that because I did not see Tyson's house). We went out to yummy ice cream/frozen yogurt. As I sat surrounded by a bunch of college students I whispered to Tyson "can you tell I am thirty hanging out with a bunch of 22 years olds" He told me no and that I looked good for my age--he is good, he knows exactly what to say!



This is my yummy yogurt. They have 25 soft serve flavors to choose from and then a topping bar with everything you can imagine. I think it is the best idea ever!!

A little blury...but Kara, Tyson and I eating our yogurt. I hope I did not embarass Kara and Tyson by making them hang out with their OLD SISTER!!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Husband for Sale!!

We are in the middle of a BLIZZARD!! It started snowing at 5:30, it is now 8 and we have at least 3 inches and it is not letting up. I am just glad we have no where to go tonight. Well, I kinda wish Greg had somewhere to go. We were just sitting here watching boring basketball, (as usual) and I was looking out the window watching the snowy blizzardly weather and though, hmmm...wow, a nice bath would feel good. So I left Greg to boring basketball, put a little Keith Urban on and was laying in the warm bath tub relaxing when all of a sudden a pile of snow was dumped on me. Its not like I can chase Greg through the house soaking wet so instead I tried to throw as much back at him as possible. But then, it all ended up on the floor for me to clean up later. Greg sure likes to tease me, I try not to give him the reaction he is looking for because then I think maybe it will stop. But, no, he is obviously getting the reaction he wants :) (and no, I am NOT DRAMATIC!) haha


On a good note, Greg got his grades for last quarter and did great! I am so glad, he put so much time and effort into his school that I would really have to complain about it taking away from ME time if he did not do so good! So good job babe! I would say lets go out and celebrate but that costs money that is paying for next quarter so lets stay in and watch boring basketball.

I am very impressed with Greg though and his work ethic. He gets up so early and studies and  puts alot of effort in to his work. He is working so hard to get his 18 month program done in one year. I complain alot and am SO excited for this to be over, but I know it will all work out and be a good thing in the future. So in other words...Greg is not for sale but, he might have a black eye next time I get snow dumped on me in the bath.

Monday, March 22, 2010

DISNEYLAND

It is Gregs spring break so we met my family in California and spent a few days in Disneyland. It is so fun to see how excited the kids get about all the fun things at Disneyland. However, next time I am requesting a stroller for me. I felt like and 80 year old lady about half way through the day.

Happy St. Patty's Day

We had a great St. Patricks Day this year. However, it was celebrated as my sister Kara's birthday. We had lots of fun. The whole family got together in Disneyland to celebrate--Kara must be spoiled for the whole family to fly to Disneyland for her birthday. It was fun!!!!We had a birthday dinner at Cheesecake Factory and then had cheescake later that night (and it was my second favorite kind...lemon/rasberry).
I made Greg wear this hat on the airplane out to California--he thought it was a great idea!! HAHA The cute glasses he stole from Dylan.

Greg and Lauren. Lauren was more into chewing on the headband than wearing it. But don't they both have cute smiles!

These guys are singing happy birthday to Kara all decked out in their St. Patty's outfits. I wish you could see the video. Althoug the Allreds singing does not show alot of talent. The amazing dance moves make up for it.