My thoughts exactly...

This commercial was voted the best European commercial of 2007. I cannot tell you how precisely this commercial descibes every reason Kerby and I are waiting to have kids. I hope you all enjoy!

What the appendectomy....

Yeah that's right, I got my stupid appendix removed. Randomly, and because I'm just so lucky, I had to go into surgery for the second time this year. It all started early Sunday morning around 4 am, I woke up with a stomach ache that was just NOT NORMAL. So after hoping for a miracle and ralphing a couple of times, I woke up Kerby around 8 am and headed for St. George. By the way, that drive from Diamond to the hospital was probably the longest drive ever!!!

Arriving at the hospital I got all registered and what not, sat naked (practically) on a horrible bed, had an IV started by a douche bag, finally got scanned at 11 am, and the verdict was my appendix. So I got admitted and then went into surgery around 4 or 5 pm. I had to stay in the hospital (against my will) that night and then the next day till about 2 pm when the surgeon finally showed up. What a joke!!

So far I'm not in a lot of pain, I just can't move around very well. It so miserable relying on everyone to do things for you and being unable to sit down without help. ITS RETARDED!!! After my gallbladder was removed I thought that this would be cake but being that the incisions were in a totally different spot and a lot closer to my hip joints, I can't really move. As of now its been 5 days since the surgery and I'm no where near how well I was recovered last time.

Sigh.... Oh well, I am hoping to be back at work by Wednesday of next week but who knows. The two things I have realized is that I have an amazing husband and family!!! Kerby has been the greatest guy taking care of me and cleaning up around the house. Plus now with him in school he's been really busy catching up and learning lots of new stuff. So hopefully there won't be anymore surgeries anytime soon and we can have a little bit of normalcy in our lives. I'm predicting that 2009 will be the year of the Leany's and lots of good things will be happening!!!

Oh!!! And by the way 'da-lod-did', its a pain medication, is the greatest thing in the world!! Fantastic!!

Some Fun Videos

Last month there was a really intense thunder and lightning storm and Kerby happened to get it on video. We were over at the Dastrups and it seemed to surround the whole house. I was a little freaked out :) but it was sweet!!!

I love this video!!! Kerby and Franklin were home one day just hanging out, they seem to always just play around and cause a raucous. Well Franklin manage to crawl inside Kerby's basketball shorts and somehow fall asleep :) Don't ask me why or how he managed to get comfortable enough to do that but Kerby had to capture the moment!!

This weekend Metallica released thier latest album, Death Magnetic, and its awesome. I just wanted to share my joy with everyone. Kerby and I are huge fans and were very excited.

YEAH!!!! I'm a PILOT again!!!

This is a really really long story but with the great news of it all coming to an end I decided that it needed to be told... So once upon a time Kerby went to flight school in Cedar City at National Pilot Academy (hereafter called NPA), everything was great and things couldn't have been better. He started in March of 2007 and soon became a Private Pilot in April 2007 and then received his Instrument Rating in June 2007. After which he began a "time building phase" of school where he spent everyday just gaining experience. When the time came that "time building" was over and Commercial training was to begin, that is where our story really begins. Kerby was scheduled to start his Commercial training somewhere around October 2007, the problem started out being that NPA only had one Commercial rated plane and there was in fact six or so other students in line in front of Kerby waiting to receive their training as well. So Kerby began to wait, and wait, and wait...

During this waiting the one plane had crashed in the hands of fellow students several times and we were running out of money and had just gotten married. So with the annoying call of bills needing to be paid, Kerby returned to work at Parts Plus. He decided to take a leave of absence from school until I was finished with school in March 2008 when I could officially provide for our new small family.

When March 2008 finally came Kerby was ready more than ever to begin school again, he realized one major problem; HE NEVER RECEIVED HIS LICENSES!!!!! Back in March 2007 when he took his tests his instructor told him that the FAA takes a really long time to process paperwork and it wasn't unusual for your license to take 6 months to reach you. Well in the mists of all that was happening we both completely forgot since he was flying under a temporary license. Well now that it had expired, Kerby called the FAA and was informed that there was an even bigger problem; the designated FAA examiner (Jonathan Ashment a.k.a. THE DEVIL) had in fact filed his paperwork wrong. He was recognized as a pilot but still in the student status because the problem had not yet been resolved. Kerby then contacted the examiner only to find out that he had been fired as an examiner and been allegedly "robbed" and there was no longer any paperwork.

So for 6 long months filled with complete and total frustration/despair/hatred/helplessness we called this examiner to beg and plead with him to file new paperwork. But when you are dealing with the biggest douche in the universe, you get nowhere. During this 6 months of nothing.... Kerby had found a new flight school called G&B Flight Academy here in St. George, we were very excited because things at NPA had become rather bad since Kerby left. (Mind you this whole time NPA hadn't helped at all with the license problem) This new school was professional and outstanding compared to what we had dealt with at NPA. We contacted G&B and told them our situation, within a matter of one week we had gotten everything ready for him to switch from the old to the new but still had not solved the license problem; mind you we had contacted every person imaginable to try and fix this problem.... So we thought....

Monday September 8 rolls around and we get a phone call from G&B, they tell us to come into the school and they'll help us figure out this whole fiasco. When we arrive at G&B I am expecting an older male, around 30 or 40, to be the one to help us figure out this major problem we've been having. But what we got was a 25ish guy that was just one of the random instructors there. I thought, Oh this is a waste of time, this guy is never going to figure this out. He's not going to be able to do anything that we haven't already done.

Within a matter of 45 minutes, OUR PROBLEM WAS SOLVED!!!!!! He fixed it. I don't know what he did, I don't know how he did it but he fixed it. Low and behold there was someone else that we hadn't been talking to that got around the old examiner and resolved the situation. Words do not describe how happy I am!! Kerby is now going to start flying again this week. After almost over a year he will be flying again!! Don't worry he'll be with an instructor so he'll be able to remember how to do it. (I'm a little worried) But he's back in school!!!

Now within 3 months Kerby will be done with all his training and will be able to make some money for all this hard work and stress. Then hopefully soon we will be able to move out of Diamond Valley and finally get a place in St. George!! Who knows?? All I know is that now life can move on and there is no more stress about a stupid piece of paper :)

Finally Pictures

Okay, so I know its been over a month but I thought I should post some more pictures from our camping adventure. Since we don't have really much going on besides trying to fight to get Kerby back into school, I thought these would be the next best thing.

On Cedar Mountain we took a sweet four wheeler ride out to some fun spots; Ice Cave and Cascade Falls. The Ice Cave is a cave that has ice and snow inside year round. Its crazy to drop down just a couple of feet into an open cave and have the temperature drop about 20 degrees. Then we headed over to Cascade Falls, a huge gyser that just springs right out the side of the mountain. With all the good rain fall and snow over the winter it was a serious shower of water.

Over at Fish Lake we spent a lot of time just hanging out and relaxing. We did take a trip though to Mytowgee... don't know about that spelling but okay. Its just some random road that takes you right to the top of the mountains on the south side of the lake. Its a sweet look out where you can kind of actually see the outline of the "fish" in Fish Lake.

But yeah, I've totally come to the conclusion that I need a new camera. Almost every single picture that I took came up out of focus and I really don't take very many pictures come to think of it because my camera is so crappy. Good thing Christmas is coming!!!

Labor Day

So as I sit here alone (except for only one other co-worker who seems to vanish for hours without notice or concern) eating a delicious cookie from Mesa View Regional Hospitals' fine cafeteria, I find myself pondering on dumb stuff you find to do on the internet and how much I really like chocolate milk. Its amazing, with 8 hours of total boredom and only 3 exams, you find out a lot about yourself. One of my favorite videos ever made on Homestar Runner was the simple and short clip about the strange and unusual event of Labor Day. This clip happens to be in the "Puppet Stuff" section of the "Toons" menu, if you find yourselves lost in the world that is Homestar...
But anyways back to being bored in a radiology department with only the emergency lights on and glare from my computer screen, I'm just a little freaked out. Not actually being scared but just that I'm here alone... not really. But when did I become an adult who works in a hospital, has a title and is sort of responsible for medically important stuff?? I still remember when I use to sing along with Ariel everyday under the sea and wish that I could be a mermaid too. What happened??
Well I guess that everything these "older" people have been telling me for years is true, time freaking flies and soon I'll be writing these same thoughts when I am 40 wondering, remember when I was just an x-ray tech and I worked in Mesquite???
Wow.... I am incredibly bored... I wonder what Kerby is doing....
Oh well back to Harry Potter and his wizardly shenanigans :)