Lets all rejoice in the "Passing"

Tipsy (the cat) has passed her rubber band with easy at 6:05pm last night. Ryan and I are proud of her...both kitty and rubber band are doing well. hahahahah

Okay here is the story to go along with the end results....
It all started on Monday when Ry and I went out to buy our new TV. It is the biggest TV I have ever owned.....it rocks. Getting back on track a little bit now so on Tuesday I went to our cable company and picked up a new HDTV box. Ryan and I were like little kids on Christmas morning unwrapping everything and hooking it all up. So, Ryan being Ryan shot a rubber band at Tipsy (one of our cats). I swear she is crazy sometimes because she will play with anything for what seems like 8 billion years and has never had any problems. However, we turn around about 2 min later to Ryan saying "did she just eat that rubber band?". So I immediately grab her and stick my finger in her mouth to try to find it. Nope, it is completely gone. She devoured it! So I try to make her drink water in hopes that she would throw it up.... but nope in true cat form she just sits by her water and looks at me and swear if I could of read her mind you would of been saying you dummy I am as sure as hell not drinking water especially if you want me to drink it.

I call the vet the next morning to see what I could do. She tells me to watch her for the next few days and if she acts sick in anyway to bring her in. I ask what will be done if I do bring her in. She explains test and x-rays will be done and then exploratory surgery to extract the rubber band. Come to find out that the surgery is a min of $600. YIKES!

Needless to say we were very excited that Tipsy "passed" her rubber band with ease. I am just glad that I don't have to pay for her to have surgery now. Hooray for no surgery! :)

Memories

Okay I totally stole this post/idea from my friend Shawna...thx!

This may be fun to some and lame to others, but I wanted to play so those who think it's fun, please join. Those who think it's lame, just move on!

Memories: Leave a comment on my blog of a memory that you and I have had together. It doesn't matter if you've known me for a short time or a long time, anything that you remember will work!Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It is pretty fun to read the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you are playing and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't have a blog don't worry, you can still leave a comment :)

1 Year Anniversary

We had our one year anniversary last weekend. I can't believe how fast our first year went! I loved our first year of marriage. Everyone says that the first year is pretty hard but ours was so much fun. Since our house has been "under construction" for about 4 months now I tend to lose my patience for the house quickly. So, we decided to take a break from the house work and actually stay somewhere that doesn't have tools scattered all over the floor. We ended up staying at the Little America hotel in SLC and seeing a movie and then we went to dinner at the Roof restaurant. I forgot my camera so I took some pictures from my phone again... they aren't the best.

View of the SLC Temple from the Roof restaurant
My cute hubby!

Needless to say that we had a ton of fun and I am so thankful for Ryan and his sweet nature and very patient personality (which is something I need). Ryan is always so good to go along with what ever happens or if I decide to do something crazy. Just the other day he suggested that I go hang out with my sisters when he sands the floor because it will be really loud noises all day long....he is always thinking of me. I hope the rest of our millions of years together are as great as this year has been. Love ya honey.

It's Official!

Okay folks....I know it has been a million years since my last post. Sorry about that. As a quick catch up on everything that has gone on since the first of May until now is. I got a new job up at the University of Utah in their HRIS dept. I am basically doing the same job as before with better benefits and a little better pay. I still miss all of my old friends at IHC a ton though. Okay at the same time of getting the new job Ryan and I had started to redo our house a bit. We started with only putting in new hardwood floors only. That project has now morphed into new floors, new baseboard and casings, new paint on all of the walls oh and did I mention new paint on the ceiling as well. Now the latest thing is that we are toying with the idea of putting in new kitchen cabinets so we can hide our washer and dryer that are located in the kitchen. What have we gotten ourselves into? Geez So, we have a lot of projects going on...needless to say.

Recently, we had some holiday festivities for the 4th of July. We spent most of the day working on the house (surprise surprise) then we spent time with Ryan's family and extended family for a BBQ and then watched some killer fireworks up at Davis High School. We had a ton of fun.

Then the next day was my nieces second birthday so we had a party for my family the following day. It was really great to see all of the sisters and the entire family. All of the kids were so stinking cute. I think I took a few pictures but will post them later.... So, those are just a few of the millions of things that have gone on in the past while.

Okay onto the real reason why I am posting to day... of it being official. What I am referring to is changing my name to be my married name. It only took me 363 days to get it done from when we got married...hahahhaha Funny huh. I get harassed a lot for not having changed my name yet. So, I thought that I would get it done before we hit our 1 year anniversary. Hooray I am now..... Stacie baby Esther Fowers...uh I mean Rigby. Okay for those of you that don't know the inside joke... when I was little when someone would ask me my name I would always say Stacie Baby Esther Fowers. I was called Stacie baby for a long time when I was little (obviously) since it stuck. So now you know.

So, our 1 year anniversary is on Sat (July 12). I am really excited for it even though Ryan and I can't decide on what to do for it or what to even get each other. Ryan came home from work yesterday with roses to celebrate the fact that we got married on a Thursday. Which was sooo sweet! However, I think he got a little mixed up because yesterday was Wednesday instead of Thursday.... Oh well, he was just one day early.

Disneyland Trip Continued

As you all know I am not much of a blogger so I am just going to publish lots of our pictures. I think pictures are more fun to look at anyways.

More Pics Of Disneyland & Universal Studios

Disneyland Trip

Disneyland - Day 1


The first full day after we flew in we all went to Sea World and had a ton of fun. The first thing we see is a group of Flamingos walking down the path for their morning stroll.





Here is a picture from inside the Penguin exhibit....some of those birds were pretty tubby.


The famous...... Shamu



Dylan (my nephew) watching a walrus swim by. He loved it...we practically had to pull him away from it.

Fun With the Fam

Okay so I am a little late with this post... oh well. So some of the sisters came up to my house with their kids 2 weekends ago. It was soooo much fun...it was crazy but a lot of fun. Lets just put it this way within the first 5 min a lamp was broken and a picture was knocked over and both of the cats were running for their lives (tee tee hee..those cats deserve it). I thought it was hilarious though. We watched the kids play with their toys and the Wii for a little bit before we got some lunch. After lunch we decided to go to the local Rec Center to go swimming. Swimming was a total hit except the fact that the water was cold. After swimming we went bouldering at the Rec Center for a few mins. The kids were tired from swimming so they tried to watch a movie but the cats were too much of a tempting distraction. So after some more torturing sessions for the cats we all had a picnic on the floor for dinner.

Look at my SWEET skills

Haley's turn

The Rest of the Kids' Turns