Lets Go Broncos!!!!

For our ♥one year anniversary♥ Kerby and I went to Denver Colorado and we had a BLAST!!! Our trip began with a really really really long drive to our destination that I thought would never end... 11 hours in the car is a little too long. But when we were finally there the fun never stopped :) It all began with a totally awesome Denver Broncos game!!! It seriously was so fun, probably the funnest thing I've done in a really long time. It was both Kerby and mines first professional football game, so cool to do stuff together that we've both never done :)

The rest of the time that we were there we just hung out around the city, drove around alot, and just basically checked out as much as we could in the time that we had. Here are just a couple of pictures from the city.

Also, for those South Park fans, we were able to go to Casa Bonita!!! It was absolutely hilarious because it was exactly like the episode!! It really is awesome for little kids to go and hang out, totally a family restaurant but so funny!!

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here's a clip!! :)

Death, Bugs, Rodeo, and One CRAZY Cat

So I haven't posted about all the little things going on in our lives cause really, there has been alot... After my appendix surgery I was kinda out of it to really realize what was all happening. And I know that the timeline within my posting doesn't match the timeline of actual events but who cares :)

For sure, I missed the Dixie Round-Up Rodeo. I mean I was there, in person. But not so much in mind. It was only 6 days after my surgery and I was still in some pain and still heavily medicated. Okay well a little too medicated now that I think about it in retrospect but at the time I felt horrible. I don't even want to post any pictures of the rodeo cause they; 1> are terrible because my camera is so freaking crappy 2> they really are of nothing cause while there I was so disoriented and confused that I didn't get any good ones even if they weren't blurry.

Then I had some tragedy in my life... Junior, our family pug, passed away on September 25. It was really hard to let Junior go, really hard for everyone actually. He was a really old dog and it was his time to go but its just hard when you've had something in your life for so long just for it to be gone. And other than him passing, it seemed to be like this passing away of a time of my life. I know its kinda lame but when our other dog, Pooch, died it seemed that it was kinda okay cause Junior was still there. But now that Junior is gone, that time of my life is gone. The time when my family was just my family, us siblings were all still at home and we were still somewhat small kids. But its all part of the journey and really, its almost nice to be starting this new part of my life when I am starting my own family. I just wish that pets could live forever like the cat in Hocus Pocus, but not die at the end of the movie. Oh and these pictures aren't of him dead, he's just sleeping :) I'm not that psycho.

This second death is very very humorous, well its humorous now.... During the hunt while Kerby's grand parents were on the mountain, we were responsible for feeding the 5 horses at the house. Well... one of the horses, Ricki, colicked and died. Yeah, it died. During the time that we were responsible for them, we killed it. Not really though, Ricki was fine in the morning when we fed and when we fed that night she just died. Kerby went out and noticed she was sick and 15 minutes later she killed over. It was really weird and it was really weird to see a dead animal... just laying out in a corral... in the rain... WEIRD

Then there was the tarantula...

... right outside our door CREEPY

And now the cat named Franklin :)

We put him underneath the laundry basket and just let him do his thing, he really is the weirdest cat I've ever been around.

Catalina Island

On September 30th Kerby was able to take me flying!! He had been planning to take me to Catalina Island in California for a while and we finally were able to go. I was so excited to be back in the plane again with him as the pilot. It is really amazing that he is a pilot and that he within a couple of hours we can be in a totally different place in the country.

We left St. George a little later than we wanted, taking off around noon. Its so cool to see St. George that high up. You litterally can see the whole town from one end to the other.

After flying over Las Vegas and entering Califonia, we stopped in the city of Corona at there airport to refuel and stretch our legs.

When we took off from Corona I knew it wouldn't be too long till we were over the ocean and on our way to the island. Then there in the distance was what seemed to be the end of it all. It was so hazy from the polution and nastiness of California that it was all a blur when you looked towards the horizon. The blue from the ocean and the blue from the sky seemed to blend together which made it a little disorienting. Luckily the island was there and soon we were on the ground on the tiny little island.

This is the only part of the trip I do not like. We arrived at the Catalina Airport too late to make the bus down to the town called Avalon. The last bus leaves the airport at 5:00 pm but doesn't come back.... :( So we were only able to visit the old airport and little cafe. But it was still really fun to fly over the town and see the sights.

As we left for our flight home, Kerby wanted to get a really good view of Avalon and what we missed out on. Avalon seriously looked so fun and I really want to go hang out there and really check it out. Kerby and I will definatly be heading back there to complete our little adventure to Catalina.
All and all it was a really fun trip and I was so glad that I got to go and spend some flight time with the hubs ♥

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 :)

100 Things

Being bored and in the mood to post, I'm going to do my one hundred facts about Jessica :) Here it goes...

1. My middle name comes from my moms' middle name: Betty Jean
2. I love South Park and have every season on DVD
3. I have had the same set of friends since elementary school and we still keep in touch
4. I want 4 kids and Kerby wants 3
5. I was born in Henderson, NV on June 10, 1984
6. My favorite meal is breakfast
7. I hate TV, it wastes time
8. I love to quilt
9. I haven't scrapbooked since I got married (my stuff is in storage) and HATE it
10. I hate canned mushrooms
11. Disneyland is probably the best vacation hands down
12. I have all my future children names picked out and Kerby picked them out (one is still up for debate though...)
13. Kerby loves cats and I love dogs, hence.... we have a problem
14. My parents were born on the exact same day: May 10, 1961 (my dad was a couple hours earlier than my mom)
15. I love guns and going shooting
16. Horses scare me
17. Shoes are an obsession
18. Winter is the best season (Christmas!!!)
19. I hate cat boxes
20. I have had 9 jobs and am currently at my 10th and its the best job ever
21. I love really really strange movies that most people don't like
22. When I win the lotto, I already have a list made that contains everything that I would do
23. I LOVE bad weather
24. I always have a list of things I want to accomplish and it is ever changing
25. I wish I would have kept playing the clarinet past middle school, I really liked it
26. I love to cook and try new recipes
27. I wish I didn't like soda, but unfortunately I do
28. I have naturally curly hair and everyone loves it except me
29. I think I'm OCD a little and dyslexic when it comes to numbers
30. Aliens terrify me
31. I love to read, I have a list of books that I want to finish sometime soon (and no I haven't read Twilight... even though my mother, sister and sister-in-law beg me to)
32. I love to go flying with Kerby
33. I love to travel and I hope to go to as many places that I can in my life
34. Someday I hope my mom, sister and I open our own family business so we can hang out with each other everyday
35. My extended family is absolutely crazy on both sides :)
36. I want a English Bulldog puppy more than a diabetic needs insulin
37. I think laughing is the best thing you can do everyday
38. I have more fun with Kerby than anyone else
39. The one thing I miss about high school is hanging out with my friends everyday
40. I love to be organized and the house to be clean
41. I already have my Christmas list ready for this year :)
42. I want a cabin on Cedar Mountain
43. I'm learning to like football
44. I wish I was more like my Great Grandma Mainor
45. Both sides of Kerby's family are very confusing
46. I love new socks
47. I wish I could play the guitar as well as I play guitar hero.... LAME
48. I hate when people are mean and say hurtful things just to make themselves look/feel better
49. I love to make people laugh
50. I hate when you see someone at the store or something and you know them but don't know their name and you feel super awkward and have to say Hi.... I hate that
51. I didn't go to my 5 year class reunion (I don't think anyone did)
52. I don't think I'll go to any class reunion :)
53. I hate when good friendships fade and you only talk when you see that person randomly
54. I love being silly
55. I hate to drive alone
56. I had my gallbladder removed January 2008 (I hate gallbladders)
57. Kerby and I want a truck really really bad
58. I love to go to the St. George Round-Up Rodeo and NFR in Las Vegas
59. Dirt is in my blood (Thanks Dad)
60. My dad is stronger and smarter than your dad
61. I wish I would have learned more from my Grandpa DeMille
62. I hate wasting time on stupid things
63. I hate Jon Ashman (he is ruining Kerby's life)
64. I'm kind of mean sometimes but its just that I want something done
65. I want to learn how to box
66. I miss golf
67. I hate close-minded people
68. I don't think a woman should be president
69. I love my faith
70. I hate laptops, they're pointless
71. I can't wait to meet my Aunt Bonnie and my Aunt Holly
72. I always wonder what type of person I'd be if I would have grown up in Las Vegas
73. I look a lot like my mom but have the exact personality of my dad
74. I love Natural Gas
75. Vintage t-shirts are my favorite
76. I'm never getting acrylic nails again
77. I'm slightly white trash and kinda proud of it
78. Uneducated people piss me off
79. I believe if you can't laugh at yourself you shouldn't be laughing at all
80. The Temple is probably the greatest place I've ever been
81. I have a hard time trusting people, it takes a while
82. I know for sure that Kerby is going to be a great father
83. I want to take some art classes (painting, photography, drawing, etc.)
84. I don't understand this whole hate your mother-in-law thing, my mother-in-law kicks
85. The FAA is run by a bunch of monkeys trying to hump a doorknob
86. I love really sharp kitchen knifes and I love to chop up stuff for recipes
87. I have a slight obsession with those big black paper holder-together-clips.... they're amazing
88. I love being cold
89. My mom has to be my all time best friend
90. I love Burt's Bees chap stick (I actually need some right now)
91. I fell in love at the Grand Canyon... Toroweap to be exact
92. When I get old I want Kerby to either get a Harley or a motor home and I want to tour the United States and Europe
93. I think that we, as Americans, should switch our work week to 3 days instead of 5 but get paid the same amount as 40 hours :)
94. Family is my most important priority
95. I believe that you can listen to punk/emo/alternative/whatever you want to call it/rock and be a girl and not be ugly... shower emo girl...
96. Big Stick is my all time favorite popsicle
97. Sleeping Beauty/Aurora is the ultimate princess (sorry Cinderella, you're just not as pretty)
98. I'm so excited to spend eternity with Kerby
99. Favorite Quote: "X-Ray Techs know all the best positions in the dark" HAHAHA!!!
100. I had a really hard time thinking of 100 things about me....

Camping Maniacs

So as most of you know we were able to take a camping trip from Saturday July 19 to Sunday July 27. That's right, a week long camping adventure!! It was so great to get away from everything LAME here in the real world. We had a blast!! The first five days were spent on Cedar Mountain on Kerby's families land. It was great to be free to do whatever; ride four-wheelers on random trails to fun places, take little car rides to look at all the fun little mountain towns, eat tons of delicious Dutch Oven food, play cards (my fav), read Harry Potter (again), and just chillax with my hubby.

When Thursday rolled around, we packed up once again and traveled a little more north to the annual Fish Lake trip with the Dastrup family. I think this one trip we will be taking every year till we're dead :) We go up once a year around Gerricks' Birthday and just have a blast with our friends. After being alone with each other for five days it was good to talk and hang out with a couple other people :) HAHA!!! We slept the whole time in a tent, but thnaks to our fabulous cots, we were able to stay sane. But all and all our trip was sweet, maybe just a little long, but still sweet. I think next year it'll be broken up into two weekends :)

These are just a couple pictures form Fish Lake, I haven't downloaded all my pictures yet :)

whole lotta nothing

Well... The 4th of July was pretty un-eventful. The whole weekend of the holiday was pretty much spent up at the house constructing a fence around the 18 acres. It was a Cedar post fence that needed post holes dug and filled. Kerby spent the whole day working on the fence and we had only left later that day to have a BBQ at my mom's house. It was good to be with that family and hang out but Kerby was so tired from all the days work that we just went home so he could sleep.

Wicked fence though huh?

And this is the nasty aftermath of the work done. Kerby was sunburnt in the most "farmer" way possible. On the arms from the shirt sleeve down and from the neck up :) He had a wicked blister on the back of his neck from the sun. Ouch...

Boring...

So things have been pretty boring here at the Leany residence... Granted our days are filled with work and the usual normal stuff that everyone else does; i.e. the bank, Costco, WalMart, the dentist (again), the post office, Cafe Rio, Costco again, the gas station, etc, etc, etc.... But I've come to the realization that I need more excitement in my life. Don't get me wrong, Guitar Hero 3, South Park, Whose Line is it Anyway, Call of Duty 4, Family Guy, ATHF, are all great but I need more.
So we're going to take a week long camping trip!!!
I KNOW... We like the out doors way too much but not the normal out doors that everyone else seems to like (i.e. the lake). We're mountain people. Kerby's a cowboy and I was raised to like dirt, so it works. We plan on starting this adventure Friday the 18th of July and ending Sunday July 27th. First Cedar Mountain with the Mackelprangs and then to Fish Lake with the Dastrup family. Its going to be great!!! I plan on taking lots of pictures so you'll get to witness all our shenanigans first hand. BE EXCITED!!!

P.S. As an update: Kerby finally quit the black hole that is Parts Plus and will hopefully have his licenses and new flight school squared away so he can get back in the pilots seat. I recently went to a Mammography Conference in Las Vegas for a week and learned all that there is to know about breasts and breast imaging.... yay.... So hopefully that means second modality which means more $money$ (not that I'm greedy or anything) And Franklin the cat is great, slightly homosexual but still really cute.

Camping on Cedar Mountain

This past weekend Kerby and I went up to Cedar mountain and hung out with all his family and went camping!!! We LOVE camping and LOVE the mountains!!!

Riding four wheelers, laying in a hammock, making dutch oven, sitting by the fire, does it get any better? I'm hoping that this summer we're able to go up every other weekend but who knows with all the gas prices and stuff. Hopefully though!!!

New Obsession

This is a video my friend Justin sent me and I have become obsessed with these guys now :) They're called the "Flight of the Conchords" and there's a ton of videos that they've made and I pretty much love them all. So enjoy :)

Franklin

This is our cat Franklin, we've had him for about seven months and at first I didn't want him but he is growing on me :) But one of the funniest things he does is watch TV. He sits and watches with us all the time and even follows when the images move and stuff, its hilarious!! I'm trying really hard to get a video of Franklin and, the other cat, Shadow fighting cause that is even better. But yeah this video is pretty boring, I don't even recommend watching it. I really was just wondering if the videos I take on our camera will work on here.

Oh and thats our sweet basement apartment :) I hope you are able to see the awesome couches.

But whats with that weird "A" lady in the pink shirt in the commercial...

She's "Gollum" - like

Still don't quite understand...

So I was just playing with this blog thing and I picked out a new layout at Pyzam.com and put it in the thingy and saved it. Well, it deleted my friends spot and my music player.... I don't get why or how but yeah... I'm pissed. I fixed my friends spot but i'm not doing the music player again. It sucked anyways... But needless to say I still don't know what the "H" I'm doing :)

Other than that and Kerby's teeth, nothing too exciting at the Leany house.

Fun Times on Mother's Day!!

So this weekend was full of fun family activities!! On Saturday May 10th my mom and dad shared there 47th birthday, yes they were born on the same day, and we as a family went out to dinner and then watched a movie and had ice cream at Jeremy and Jenny's house. It was alot of fun!!! I miss my family and love any chance I get to hang out with them!!

For Mother's day the Miller/Mackelprang side of the family always have an annual bar-b-que out in Leeds at the Peach-Pit Pavillion :) It was great to see all the mothers and grand mothers and great grand mothers at the bar-b-que!! I love Kerby's side of the family and we all always have a good time!!

Here's me and Kerby's mom Carolyn

Good Bar-B-Que

Kerby and his mommy!! And yes, I know she looks kinda crazy :)

Crunchy

This little cousin of Kerby's peed right in the middle of the park. It was so funny!!

Cute Kerby Leany

Silly Girls!!

Not so safe park activities :)