"Backstreet's Back ALRIGHT!" ba ba ba bam

YES! It's official. My Backstreet Boys our on tour and stopping here in SLC! June 23rd. What? Lame and oldschool you say? Possibly.. None the less, We bought tickets and got them in the mail today. Brody decided to be a sport and come along because I know deep inside he is a big fan. Our seats our 4th row for $35 a piece so everyone jump on board and come. We'll have blast together screaming like little teen boppers again.
As I said on facebook, it's time to dust off my 6 cd's, pin my posters back up, and refresh on my BSB dance moves.
"oy, oy, oy, oy"

P.S. Does anyone know what happened to Kevin? Maybe he's just too old to tour? You tell me..

a WHAT under my WHAT?

Agh..I guess my number was up for something unusual to happen to my health. When I went to bed monday night I was fine, when I got up the next morning I was in the worst pain. I've been having salivary duct problems under my tongue for a couple years now but nothing to this extent. I couldn't eat any solid foods for 3 whole days (and kind of today) because everytime my mouth would water my gland under my tongue felt like someone was pinching it, my gland under my jaw would swell, my left ear felt like it was being pricked with a needle and then I would get a pressure headach. I was trying to wait it out because this wasn't that uncommon for me, i thought it would pass.
After and idea of brilliance between me and Stef, she called her father in-law Dr. john (who is my dentist) he called me immediately and prescribed me some antibiotics and told me to come into the office the next day. So he took an x-ray, saw a cyst in there, numbed me.. and kept on numbing me under my tongue. He worked on it for about 15 minutes draining a ton of puss,digging, poking, pinching, shaking trying to break it up. I was in some pain at this point when he said he couldn't get it and was sending me to an oral surgeon who would see me in 20 minutes. So on my way I go to Dr. Dedecker who numbed me somemore under my tongue and it felt like right on my tongue! made an incision and got that thing out. I thought I was going to be in a lot of pain when there was an assistant to my left, the Doc to my right and another assistant behind me holding my head steady and firm. But it didn't hurt at all (besides the shot on my tongue)!
Today is a great day, although i'm a little tender, the drainage is almost out and I'm starting to enjoy solids again. All thanks to Dr. John Christensen. He's a great guy!
The pics below are the cyst, and the other 2 is of the white stuff under my tongue being puss everytime I salivate. be lucky for your working salivary glands- I wouldn't wish this upon my worst enemy haha.

Jazz, Cali, Wedding

This year has been full of events...
I'll start out by saying Brody and I love the Jazz. Since our Birthdays are in February we decided to treat ourselves out to a game against the Nuggets. Little did we know how AWESOME the seats were! We got Carmello Anthony's autograph and slapped "Bird Man's" hand everytime he went in and out of the locker room. (If you know basketball,you know how wonderful that night was for us! haha)The picture of Carmello is right where our seats were.
Next we went to Cali to suprise the Christensen's. We had so much fun just playing on the trampoline and being in the warm sun. We went to Monteray Bay aquarium and grabbed some great shots of jelly fish.
The picture of McCord hanging onto Brody was pretty much what the trip was like for Brody.. McCord and Dane could not get enough of him! Brody loved it though.
Oh and Zach and Mikell's wedding was so fun and pretty--minus the pouring rain! This was the best picture I got of them that day.

Out with the new.. in with the NEWER

Yes, you read correctly.. in with the newer. I call her Pearl, Brody calls him Apollo.
Goodbye truck. Goodbye trailer (Brody sold his sat morning after posting it on KSL for 7 minutes--not exaggerating either).
Change can be good... right??

Pictue overload of our events the past 2 months

Here are a bunch of pictures I have of Christmas, New years, Ben and Brigettes reception, and Robintino's with them fam. We had so much fun with everyone here. Hope you enjoy all the pics. (it's this blog post and another one under it)

More random pics of Christmas/New Years

These pictures are of New Years Eve, Dane almost made it! McCord and Jack were having fun all night and even turned into bumble bees (the cones on their bootys)and the awesome car brody got for Christmas that goes like 50mph.. he's still a young one at heart.

on my mind

I have been pondering on why I super suck at keeping this thing updated.. It's because I feel like I have to post pics. everytime because everybody likes pics. Even I would prefer a picture book to a novel.
So if I want to keep this updated I will not post pics everytime.

I have been following the blog "Liver for LuLu" For those of you who don't know what it is, it's about a little girl who needs (and recieved) a liver transplant. Such an inspiring blog. I cry everytime I read any post from there.

Brody and I are back in school.. Brody keeps getting on the honor roll and is super close to the high honor roll. Me on the other hand, am still shootin for that honor roll. Brody is going into athletic therapy and I am STILL undecided. I love school and every class I take is a challenge but I love it. I have been thinking about teaching lately and I can't get it out of my head.. so I will go with my instinct and hopefully that will be the answer to my many prayers.

We miss Jackson, Rylee, McCord, and Dane like crazy,. We can't get enough of them (although sometimes it may seem like it). Move back to Utah! I'll take you guys living anywhere within a 4 hour radius. and that's a big compromise.

Well that's all my thoughts for now. Thanks for reading.