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!!

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!

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.

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!!

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.

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.