Really Annoying Man..

I love my job and the people that work there and the customers..most of the time.  Every once in a while though,  we get a customer who complains about every little thing. Then we get customers who are too stupid to work a lamp light(this really did happen).  Recently though, I had a customer who wanted details about every single thing on the hotel.  I have never had a customer like this.  This customer wanted to know details on the Internet, who we went through, was it DSL or cable, where each antenna was exactly, then he moved to the breakfast bar.  I told him everything about it, right down to our sugar packets. By the way our breakfast bar has a lot of stuff so this took several minutes.  I finally realized that no matter what I told this customer that his reservation was already paid for.  I started getting suspicious.  I thought, "This man wants to know all these details so if one tiny thing is wrong he can complain about it and get a discount."  Sure enough that's exactly what he did.   I really hate dishonest people. It just makes me so angry how customers take advantage of businesses.  Maybe this could be the irritability that you get during pregnancy, but I am really starting to get annoyed with some of these dishonest customers. Fortunately when I do get irritated by them I go into "Barbie Happy Mode". Meaning my voice gets higher, I have a perkiness to it. I also just can't keep smiling and moving my hand like the flight attendants, showing idiots how to buckle their seat belts.  Only my coworkers can tell when I am in that mode.  They think it's hilarious because while the customer thinks I am being super nice and perky secretly I want to reach over and grab their nose(a customer did this to me, so creepy).So I am wondering has this ever happen to you?  Have you almost lost your cool with a customer?

Something Strange is happening

So this weekend was probably one of the funniest, laugh to yourself, weekends.  I went to the temple with my parents to do grandmas temple work.  It was neat and I felt love and peace.  Wish my parents lived closer, I would go with them all the time.  Funny thing though, since being pregnant strange things have happen.  My temple dress, when I first got it, fit perfectly.  I had bigger girls on top and a flatter tummy.  Now the weight that was in my girls dropped to my belly.  This happened before I was pregnant.  My temple dress now looks like I have a pregnant belly.  My mom saw this and said, "Look!  You're pregnant belly is starting to show!" "LOL, Mom that is my normal belly.  I am only six weeks."  I couldn't stop laughing.  She felt so bad, but I thought it was a hoot.  After that, Brad and I went to his nephew's baptism.  It was so sweet and I love that little boy.  Brad bore his testimony to him and he started tearing up.  Just to let you know there are only two times I have seen my husband cry.  Neither involved him bearing his testimony.  I have never recalled him even tearing up once in the past while doing it.  So this was new and I was loving it.  Next day at church, he bears it again.  He starts to tear up and I start thinking..is he getting pregnancy sympathy?  LOL!  I'm glad he is feeling the spirit, but I sure do hope it's pregnancy sympathy.  LOL!  What a lovely weekend.

A Little Guasp on the way!

We are finally pregnant!!  We started trying to have kids in February.  I took my tempature every morning and kept track of when I was ovulating.  Problem was was that I wasn't ovulating.  So in October we finally got Clomid.  I thought it would take at least three months for something to happen, but nope, first try!  We are going to have a baby!!  On the day of my period, I took a test and it came out negative.  The next three days my boobs hurt so bad and still no period.  So I took another test in the morning and it was positive!  I told Brad and started crying.  I asked him, while crying, "Now can I buy baby stuff?  I couldn't believe that it happened so quick.  I, myself, have been trying to get pregnant for two years.  1 year 6 months with my ex and 6 months with Brad.  It's a miracle that it happened so quickly.  I see why now that it didn't happen with my ex and it did with my Bradley.  The baby will be due around July 28,2011.  This is truly a blessing in our lives and my families.  In my family the only Grandchildren we have are Jamie's kids.  She has strings attached to those kids.  If you want to see them, get them, love them you have to go through her.  You have to suck up to her and make her happy.  She is a dispicable woman.  She lies, and cheats all the time.  She is not a good mother at all.  I hate her with a fierce passion.  She could have given her children everything, but she is so dang lazy!  It has caused such a heart ache to my mom ,especially.  She barely has anything to do with Jamie anymore.  Her behavior has caused her own son to hate her. Being around her brings a terrible feeling of distrust and hate. Her son ended up moving in with my mom and dad after begging her to let him leave.  He didn't even want to go over to his mom's house for the holidays.  That is what this women has made her self to be in the eyes of her kids.  Our children will have no strings attached!  My family will not have to worry about their health or happiness.  My parents can be who they are suppose to be, grandparents who spoil their grandchildren rotten.  We are so happy to have this child come into our lives.  We are so greatful to Heavely Father for answering our deepest prayer. I am so thankful for my hubby for being so sweet and patient with me throughout this process.  I am thankful for a doctor who knows his stuff!  I am so greatful for friends and family's support. 

Meeting Uchtdorf!

So today we went to church and in walks President Uchtdorf!!!  I saw him and I thought,"Sarah, don't blink.  He will disappear if you do!"  He was really in our Saint George College 19th Ward.  It was so neat!  I got to shake his hand twice!  No one knew he was coming, not even the Bishop.  Bishop Caplin asked the two speakers if they could speed their talks.  They did...each gave their testimony which lasted maybe five minutes.  Uchtdorf got up and said,"I will never doubt that a high council can end his talk quickly again."  LOL!  He talked to us about marriage.  How we shouldn't bring our past luggage with us into it.  That we should make our marriage how we expected it to be.  He read D&C 121:41, D&C 12:8.  He said some more and gosh dang me I didn't think to take notes.  All I could think was his talk in Fall.  About how to slow down and enjoy life..at least to me that is what I heard and needed to hear.  All day the ward was talking about him being there.  It was such a blessing to see him there.  I am so thankful for Heavenly Father.  Who truly loves us and gave us a wonderful message their a wonderful man.  Uchtdorf's talks have always been a favorite of mine.  I met him wife too.  She is a lovely woman, with such grace and virtue.  I felt like she was another sister in the ward immediately.  I truly believe that behind every good man there is a great woman.  She was invitied up by him.  He said, "this is my sunshine."  She told us that we need to praise each other every day.  Uchtdorf also mentioned that we need to have character and not be characters.  Meaning act with grace, kindness and intergrity, not with pride and boastfulness.  Just to let you know I am paraphrasing all of this, but I felt such love today.  Before he arrived I was fighting a battle with Satan and while he was there I thought, I am winning.  I am so greatful for this church and nothing not no one will ever take me away again.

Thankful for Brad

You never know what you have until you see what others have or have lost it.  I love my husband.  He is smart, funny, easy going, straightforward, temple worthy, and loving of everyone..no matter what.  He easily forgives and forgets and stands up for those he loves.  He might act tough and cocky on the outside, but he really is sensitive on the inside.  I realized what I had yesterday when I was with someone who didn't have these fine qualities.  He cussed like a sailor, chewed his tobacco and was ready to kill someone.  He is a Marine also.  He doesn't have the priesthood and has given up all hope of God.  We met him while having dinner with our dear friends.  I felt uncomfortable by the swearing, the lack of respect and the anger that he had.  He made me realized that I am so lucky to have my husband.  My husband is a Marine, and a worthy priesthood holder.  I know that not only will he be an example to others, and our childern, but he will be an example to me.  I love him and am so proud of him.  I am thankful for my Bradley.

Hanging while married..

When you get married there is this weird thing that happens..all your single friends stop hanging out with you!!  It's cool.  That's fine..I'm married and you're not, so there.  LOL!  That's what I would like to say to my single friends who I truly love. They know it's a joke.  This is how it goes through out your life,"When are you going to start dating?  When are you going to get engaged?  When are you to get married?". Then my all time favorite, "When are you going to have a baby?!"  While now we want one, but at the beginning it made it worse. A word of advice for all of you, do not pressure anyone to do anything that you want them to do!  They will fight it even harder if it's not something they are ready for.  So to all my single friends, enjoy your wonderful singledom until you are ready to fall in love forever and work hard for it, because marriage ain't a peice of cake.  I love my marriage and I am so glad to be married now.  I have my best friend with me almost all the time.  I have my own freedome and  I get to do it without worrying if my parents will find out.  LOL!  I also love ALL of my married friends.  They are blunt, funny and kind hearted people.  I know that I can count on both my single and my married friends. 

To deploy or not..

In the military things change just as quick as the weather.  Which is why you regard everything said as a rumor until it's written down.  Brad might be going to Japan for 11 months.  We can't bet on it because, well, it's the military.  He signed up for this MEU thinking that he wouldn't get the call because he has little experience.  I was so upset with him when he told me he signed up for it.  He told me, "This will be the safest deployment that I could ever get.  I probably won't even get a call to go."  One month later, his Sgt. called, asking if he still wanted to go on this MEU.  He told him he would give him a call at the end of the day.  We fasted and prayed, asking Heavenly Father if he should go or not.  Our answer, either way we will be fine.  Don't you just hate those kind of answers!  So Brad and I both talked about it more.  The pros and the cons of staying and leaving.  How hard it would be for both of us.  How we would be able to talk while he is away.  I felt calm about it I prayed again by myself.  I felt that he would be safe.  That I wouldn't be alone in this and this time would be alot different then the first.  I also felt that I should trust my husband's judgement and his priesthood. So in one month we will either know for sure if he is going or not.  I know that us doing this would benefit us so much more than if he stayed.  Yes, I know it's a full year of not seeing him, not holding his hand, but it's what we have decided.  On the whole baby thing..we are going to keep trying until we know for sure if he goes or not.

Hopeful again.

Brad and I are finally trying to get pregnant.  We actually have been trying on and off since Feburary.  Off meaning, we weren't pregnant and instead of facing failure I didn't want to try again. It was a very hopeless time for me.  Brad and I wanted to start our family as soon as we got married, but because of finacial difficults, and bootcamp we put it aside.
  It was a very difficult time for me while he was at boot camp.  We had only been married for three months then he was gone.  While in bootcamp Brad wrote to me telling me to start taking clomid.  I have PCOS and the only way for me to get pregnant is God's hand and/or fertility treatments. I didn't feel right about having a baby at this time but I went in to the doctor anyway. While waiting for him in the exam room, panic over took me.  I couldn't stop thinking, "Why do I want to do this?! I've only been married for three months! I haven't even had a chance to live with my husband yet!". Panic was written all over my face when Dr. Lunt walked in. He could see it.  I wanted to run out and never look back.   He asked me if I was really wanting this and without thinking I quickly said,"No.".  He gave me my perscription for the birth control and sent me on my way.  Thank goodness for him.
 Looking back I am so thankful for waiting.  Now I am still terrified and more nervous then ever, but I know it's right.  I feel God with us in this step of our journey 100%.  It took my friend's little boy looking up at me with his fussy cries to realize, she had more hope in her eyes then I ever had in mine.   I have asked my dearest friends if they are happier now that they are mothers.  All of them have said, yes.  I am hopeful that with God's loving hand we will be blessed as they are and finally have hope in our eyes as well.     

Debt Diet

We are going on a diet.  Brad's friend, Spencer loves Dave Ramsey.  He is a finacial guru.  He is an author and hosts his own radio show.  I listened to him with the boys and didn't think much of him.  I thought he is just another rich guy saying get on a debt diet.  Brad's sister, Christy owns one of his books called " The Total Money Makeover".  Brad read it in a week.  If you know Brad then you know that he hates to read so for him to read this book in record time made me want to read it too.  Until he told me,"Honey you have to read this book!"  Do you ever do that?  You watch someone doing something like skate boarding and you think, Huh I want to learn to do that too.  Then the moment you think it the person doing it tells you that you have to do it. You rebel, even though it was your first thought to try it out.  That is what I did.  As soon as he said that I HAVE to read it, I didn't want to.  Don't tell me what to do! is what I thought.  I wanted to make Brad happy though and I knew that by not reading it I would make him feel like I didn't care about his opinion.  So I started to read this book.  Best decision I ever made.  I am not done with this book all the way, but it really seems possible.  Now Dave Ramsey isn't just someone who is rich giving poor people advice.  He use to be poor.  He almost went bankrupt!  He decided one day that the only way to get rich is to ask the rich. While studying the rich, He realized that most millionaries do not live high in life, but live within their means.  Most having a four year old car, like an Impala, ahem, and have a moderate four bedroom home. What made them to be rich was them saving their money.  He tells that they saved their money to live like no one else.  Live like no one else so you can live like no one else is Dave's motto.  So for friends and family, we are going on a debt diet.  We are saving our money.  We would like your support and not your mockery.  Saying things like, "You will always have debt." or "It's just this one time."  will not work on us.  We are going to live like no one else so we can really live like no one else.  So don't be hurt if we don't go out to eat with you.  Wish us luck!

Guasping my life..

I met Brad at a perfect time in my life when I had found myself.  I was married before I met him.  It wasn't good for me..or for my ex  After 2 years of marriage we divorced.  Best decision of my life.  He is happily married with a kid.  I couldn't be more happy for him and his wife.  After our divorce though I became really depressed, even though it was the best decision for both of us.  I started going the wrong way about handling my depression.  I started partying hard core.  I didn't stop for eight months until I moved to Saint George.  Moving to Saint George was the next step I needed to a fresh beginning.  In secret, I started to go back to church.  I first went to a church next to my house. I walked in and the ward was one for all old people.  I realized that when the bishop made an announced, "The college singles ward meets at.." LOL! I laugh now, but I knew if I went back to a singles ward that would mean I would have to date.  I hadn't dated for three months.  I refused to because I needed to know what was important to me.  After a month of sneaking into other wards I finally went to the singles ward.  First day, I met boys, particularly my hometeachers.  Boy, did they try to get me to date.  They asked me if I would go on a date with their roommate.  If I wanted to go with them.  They were a little cocky.  Each time I said, No they looked stunned that someone would say no to them.  A month went by and I was working at Mcdonald's as a manager.  I was in the drive thru and this really cute guy drove through.  I told my boss, who also tried to get me to date, that I would totally go on a date with him if he asked.  My boss ran up there told the guy that and next thing I know I am on a date with my now good friend, Nolan.  Our second date was a friendly BBQ with all of his friends.  That is when I met the love of my life.  Yes..I was on date, but Brad pulled up on his motorcycle and all I could think of was, Why am I dating this guy?  I should date that guy! Two weeks later Brad and I started dating.  You should ask me about that sometime.  Our first date wasn't perfect but it was obviously perfect for us.  He is absolutely wonderful to me and perfect for me.  I think now a days with so many people breaking up and divorces happening, we forget that while our love might not be perfect they are perfect for us.  And Brad is so perfect for me.

"Guasping" life

Yes..I am married to a Guasp.  I come from a very conservative family.  Don't talk about sex..don't do this.. don't do that.  Don't hang out with people who smoke or drink or swear.  If you swear you go to hell..at least that's what I thought before I graduated and went out into the real world.  I learned that sex is fun..but should be respect and only in marriage.  That hanging out with people who smoke can make you stinky doesn't mean that they as people are stinky.  That drunk people are really funny and you don't need to drink to have fun with them.  And sometimes you just need to say shit to get the edge off of a Monday.  Now I don't cuss all the time.  Thanks to my dear husband..I only do it when I am mad..not just at him.  I remember one day in particularly saying S@#* to him. He looked at me and said, "Sarah, I don't think you should cuss.  I don't cuss because there isn't a need for it."  I immediately stopped after that.  Flash forward to after he has gotten out of boot camp with the Marine Corps, we are driving back home and all I can remember about our Bickering(I capitolized the B because it was a fight, but fight just sounds down right dirty) is that he cussed, "S*#%!"  I start cryin.  "Sarah, what is wrong with you?" Brad asks "I'm not crying because we are [Bickering].  I am crying becasue you can swear and I can't!"  He immediately stopped swearing too.  It's become so normal to just cuss here and there.  I don't mind it.. The D word, S word, A word and H word are sometimes brilliantly used.  But the F word and saying God in vain makes you look like the A word.  I would look at someone in a whole different light if they did used those words then if they didn't.  Just thinking about it.