First and foremost, I have gone back to school! Kind of a last minute decision and I am fully engulfed in the curriculum. It is a program from SLCC for a certificate in medical coding and billing. So far, tons of memorization, but way interesting. Matt is still loving his history class and has been doing loads of x-tra credit so he doesn't have to write the 25-page paper due at the end of the semester :) He still hates math but is doing amazingly well. He has found a math instructor that is willing to sit down with him and chat about the stuff. This is good because I am a horrid teacher! I know the stuff, but am very impatient. We would end up yelling at each other about the problem at hand and once we came to a conclusion it would start all over on the next one. LOL! It's a good thing we have a great relationship.

This is where we spent our Conference Weekend, in the mountains. My uncle has built 3 cabins on his property in Sanpete County and it is gorgeous up there! Early Saturday Matt and my bro-in-law Steve went hunting (first day of hunt = VERY excited Matt!!) They came back drenched, cold, muddy, and Matt with a broad grin. He could even wring out lots of water from his coat! We left early unfortunately, due to snow.

Cute niece Ashley and her cup of hot chocolate, a staple on Staker family camping trips. It was only the Ed Staker clan, my parents and my sister Kelly's family that went up. It's just so peaceful.

My new toy!! I have been telling Matt that I want a Cannon camera since day one of our relationship. Well, he got me one!! I absolutely LOVE IT!! We need to do more stuff so I have more opportunities to use this beauty.

If I get a toy, so does Matt. These are our early Anniversary gifts. It is his AR - Left handed. Boys and their toys. Wait, I like the 'toys' just as much as he does...what happens then?

Every time we go to my parents house in Sanpete we go to a shooting range that the locals have set up. It is quite fun really! I get to see Matt so serious and running funny scenarios in his head and practicing how fast he can pull the gun from his holster. He loves this stuff and I love watching, I mostly get a chuckle out of it.

I don't look nearly as good. But it's fun!

As a 3-year old self found out, never, never stick your finger in the crack!

He (my Pop) is actually trying to get Patches out from under there so he can play with her.

What a funny kitty!! Need I say more?

LOL!

I was reading Annie's blog and these were just too good!

• I wish I were a glow worm, a glow worm is never glum, because how could you be unhappy when the sun shines out your bum?
• Boycott shampoo, demand real poo instead
• Stupidity is not a crime so you're free to go
• I love to give homemade gifts, which one of my kids do you want
• Don't drink and park - accidents cause people
• Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines

The first one is by far my favorite!!

Cute Morgan

Sorry, no pictures yet. But, I have a great story for you.

Sunday we were sitting to dinner at my parents house with my brother Wayne, his wife Becca and their two girls Morgan and Hailey. Wayne was watching Morgan eat her mashed potatoes with her fingers and said "use your fork Morgie." Her reply was that she didn't have one. Wayne then points our her fork near the top of her plate and asked, "what's that then?" With a very straight and serious face she said, "A dinglehopper".

I haven't stopped smiling about that for about 2 days now.

Officially

We are officially in our new place and will be there for the next year!! HOORAY!!!! I am so sick of moving. It's a great place and we both really like our ward. Our building is a 12-plex and there are 8 of those within a block. The 8 are split in 2 different wards though. I will post pictures later but we have 2 bedrooms, a great living area, and a patio!! My aunt that got married had an extra grill and they gave it to us!! Matt and I love to BBQ and it is fantastic that we have one now. Thanks Auntie-D & Brian!! We still have boxes to put away, but far less now than when we moved in last weekend. We even have a washer & dryer!! We bought those second-hand and they work and will last (except for the fact that Matt dropped it on his foot while being dumb and un-loading it from the truck by himself! Yep, the one he just had surgery on!)

Matt hates math, surprise surprise. He is a trooper though and does his best to not only understand the stuff but to get all the work done timely. He does love his history class which is a subject that he has enjoyed for as long as I've known him. His teacher likes to talk about wars and that is his favorite topic.

Me...nothing new. Just working and putting things away. I have to say that it is amazing to be out of my parents house!! I totally appreciate the fact that they were so willing to let us stay there and that it wasn't even a question. But it is great for them and us to have our own place. My mom now has her basement back. The downside: Patches. She loves my dad and has gone into a bit of a withdrawal when we moved, I believe the feeling was mutual. I suppose she will be making the long 5 minute trek in her box to see him.

Oh, PS- Patches has figured out how to open the bottom cupboard in our kitchen, and is a thief of my hair things in the bathroom!! I know she is hording them under our bed where she likes to sleep!! Funny kitty.

Doreen's Wedding

On August 11, 2008 the newest member of the Ostler/Visher clan was blessed in Las Vegas Nevada. Here name is Aloria. She is such a cute little girl! Not too surprisingly she and her brother look nothing alike and both kids are adorable. Go to Annie & Josh's blog to see more!




Doreen got married to Brian on the 12th of August 2008 at Rockport. They rented a couple of yurts for camping in 2 nights in a row and had their boat up there for all to enjoy. .






Brian loves to BBQ and did an amazing chicken that Matt was overjoyed to help cook! They hired a band to play during dinner and after and they were just fun. Our family is quite talented in music and took over while they had something to eat and were just so fun. A cousin, Tawni, sang a couple of songs from my Grandma's funeral and my mom and I are boobs and cried. It was amazing.



My contribution to the wedding was the flowers. Doreen loves bright fun colors and I volunteered to put them all together. It didn't take long and I really enjoy doing this stuff.








Here is my cute niece Morgan holding Doreen's bouquet. (apparently she is the next to get married :)













The official ring exchange. Doreen looked absolutely beautiful and Brian has nerves of steel. Both Matt and I were totally shaking when we said I do!


CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

CATALINA

In July I went on a SCUBA dive trip to Catalina with a bunch of my extended family. It was a live-aboard boat called 'The Sand Dollar'. It was SO much fun. We would dive then the staff would fill our tanks up and we would go again! We saw Sea Lions, Kelp, Sand Sharks, Rays, a Seal, and tons of other amazing things that most people only see on the Discovery channel.




This is a bunch of people headed to a cave dive one morning. The Captain went with them and said that it was an advanced dive so I chose not to go.







This is a very small island that I think they called 'Bird Island'. The white stuff is not sand, it is bird poop. There are tons of rocks and other smaller island that are exactly the same. They jut out of the water and are pure white. The Cap. made a comment that it was 2 feet deep, yuck!





This is inside the galley. There are 3 tables and the cooking area. The food was amazing! The cook would have something ready for us every time we would surface from a dive. The staff consisted of two deck hands, a cook, captain, and co-captain. We got to know one of the guys and he is on his off-season with his Caribbean job due to tropical storms. He was from Louisiana. The rest of them were from CA. They were so fun and willing to just chat and give us all the info we wanted. I would recommend this trip to anyone!

Matt's Surgery & Skydiving

Matt went in for his surgery on June 27th. We got to the hospital around 6:30 AM and chatted with the doctor, then Matt wrote 'YES' on the foot that was to be cut and broken. It was supposed to be just an hour surgery and I'm in the waiting room wondering what's going on as 1.5 hours go by. Come to find out the anesthesia wore off and they were a bit frantic to put him out again. We were home by around noon. It was so tough though, having to make sure he took his pain pills on time and that he was eating...I've never had to do that before and it was hard to cater. He is all better now and just got off light duty at work. He is quite happy that he does not have to sit in dispatch for 10 hours a day any more!




This is what his foot looked like 2 weeks after surgery. Grody!! The 'YES' is still visible HAHA. I must say that the fact that he could not wash his foot for about that long was STINKY!!






Here is the Skydiver!! We happen to be heading through SLC off of 3300 South and noticed a helicopter WAY too close to the buildings. We decided to follow it to a very small field that was blocked off by officers and the works.





This little helicopter would circle it's way up in the sky to just a speck, we then would see this other tiny speck falling from it. It was so neat to see this person circle around the city and land so perfectly in the field. When he landed there were cheers and it was very cool!








Here is our little kitty. We think she is teething because she has become a biter! We occasionally leave her out at night and I will hang my feet off the bed. Well I get rudely woken up by little sharp teeth wrapped around one of my toes! YEEOUCH!! Then she will do it again like it's a fun game.