Hello again! It's been a little while since I have posted anything of my own, I have been reading everyone else's blogs!
I can't believe that Christmas has already come and gone, and that New Year's is fast approaching!
As for the update from my surgery, the swelling is almost completely gone and I am breathing much much better than before! I am just still not fully able to breathe like I am supposed to just yet! Hooray for the day when I will finally be able to breathe!
For Christmas we went to Cambridge and celebrated with Brandon's parents! It was a white Christmas! It snowed a whole bunch while we were there! We drove up Friday night after B was done with work, and then on Saturday, we went Jeeping in Don and Betty's Wrangler in to the mountains around Cambridge. In some of the foothills, we were able to trespass on to someone else's property and walk around an old homestead that Don (my father in law) thinks is about 100 years old or so. It was awesome! The only thing that I didn't like is that the property is used for cattle, so there was frozen old cow poo absolutely EVERYWHERE! So one had to be totally careful not to step in some!
After we were done with the poo infested homestead, we went up and attempted to go over one of the passes, and got stuck in an area where the snow was almost 3 feet high! Luckily we were able to turn around and come back the way we came, but trying to imagine getting stuck up there without any food would have been a terrible thing for my diabetes! The snow was coming down so much and so fast, it was really hard for Don to drive through it!
Sunday was a first for me, I was asked to sing with my niece who attends Cambridge's small Baptist church! We went to our sacrament meeting first, and then walked across the street to the Baptist church and we sang Away in a Manger. Their preacher had an interesting sermon about Jesus Christ (hence it was the Sunday before Christmas) and he talked about the immaculate conception. He talked about how Christ was perfect because he was born from a Virgin mother. Then he talked about how we are sinful by nature because we were created through a sinful act (meaning sex) and I just looked at my mother in law and Brandon and said "well that's interesting!" I enjoyed the sermon, don't get me wrong, but it was just very different from what I am used to!
Monday, we laid low, and didn't do much of anything.
Christmas was a great day! We woke up early and got ready for the day, then our niece Charity came over and we all opened our presents! I mostly got money for gifts, and got some small things. Brandon really surprised me by getting me a pair of beautiful silver James Avery (my favorite kind of jewelry) hoops.
Christmas is such a special time of year for me. I love the lights, the music, the bright colors and the snow covered mountains. Most of all it helps me remember the real reason why we celebrate it, and the many blessings that I have in my life. Some of the best blessings in life are the friends that I have who have really been there, and who may still read this blog!
I really hope that y'all had a wonderful Christmas. I did. I love you all! Take care!
Thursday, December 27
Thursday, December 13
Swollen Thursday!
Hey again everyone! Here I sit, listening to the 10 o'clock news, with a bandage over my still swollen nose, and in my pajamas! There's a kodak moment for you! Let's just say that the entire world is lucky that I have not entered a beauty contest of any kind whatsoever, because it is NOT a pretty picture right now. I am supposed to get some stitches and splints out on Monday, which in my book, couldn't be soon enough! I am down to only one pain pill every 4 to 5 hours instead of two. And the bandage switch I make every 2 hours or so is to help with the drainage coming out of my nose! It's disgusting! And definitely no fun! Hope all the discomfort and misery I have been through is well worth it, because it was to help me breathe better!
In other related news, my sister Jenny is probably going to have her twins sometime soon because she has had some contractions, so she is on stricter bed rest restrictions and we are excited because she is far enough along that doctors have been very optimistic is saying that even if the babies come early they will be fine! And then my sister Katie has been really sick (something that happens once every blue moon) with strep throat and ear infections! So all of the Voorhees girls have been sick this week! I don't think that this has ever happened before!
I was able to summon enough energy today to straighten up the kitchen and accomplish doing some laundry today. I am beginning to get some serious cabin fever, but there is no way in H$@% I am going to be caught dead in the condition I am in out in public! Not until I am able to stop wearing this stupid bandage!
Well this has been a boring post, but it's something!
Take care!
In other related news, my sister Jenny is probably going to have her twins sometime soon because she has had some contractions, so she is on stricter bed rest restrictions and we are excited because she is far enough along that doctors have been very optimistic is saying that even if the babies come early they will be fine! And then my sister Katie has been really sick (something that happens once every blue moon) with strep throat and ear infections! So all of the Voorhees girls have been sick this week! I don't think that this has ever happened before!
I was able to summon enough energy today to straighten up the kitchen and accomplish doing some laundry today. I am beginning to get some serious cabin fever, but there is no way in H$@% I am going to be caught dead in the condition I am in out in public! Not until I am able to stop wearing this stupid bandage!
Well this has been a boring post, but it's something!
Take care!
Sunday, December 9
Lazy Sunday!
Hey there y'all!
Today is Sunday and it's only 5:15 and I am already ready for bed! I seriously could fall asleep now. But I won't, because then I won't sleep tonight before my big day tomorrow! I am having an outpatient procedure tomorrow on my nose. I have a deviated septum, and some tissue in my nose issues that my Dr. is going to take care of. I have heard that nose surgery is not fun at all, but I just want to get this over with and get better ASAP! So keep Brandon in y'all's prayers for having to take care of me and put up with me this week as I recover!
Other than that, life has been pretty uneventful. We got some snow again, finally enabling all the ski resorts to open. They were getting pretty worried about not having that much snow for some prime skiing time.
It has been WICKED cold here in Utah lately. It seems that with each passing year, I get increasingly more sensitive to the cold. It's not fun at all! I am always cold here in the winter, and try as I might, I can not get warm! But even with all the cold, snow, and ice, I am really looking forward to the Christmas season! I love seeing all the lights and decorations everywhere I go.
Oh, last Saturday was my 3rd Anniversary since I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. It may sound a little nuts, but every year Brandon and I go out to dinner, or out for a fun date to mark the date. I know that some of you are probably thinking that we are off our rocker for doing that because it is not something to celebrate, but for us, it was a day that changed our lives forever. So we went to Good Wood and I ate my fave: baby back ribs, and Utah's definition of a Texas Brisket, and it was a lot of fun. Then we went down to downtown Ogden, (yes in the dark of night) and walked around and took a gander at the lights and displays that Ogden City puts up every year. It was absolutely freezing, but we had fun.
A few weeks ago when Brandon's parents were down visiting from Idaho, I bought a picture of the Houston Temple, and I finally put it into a frame, and mounted it on the wall, as well as a picture that was taken of Brandon and I on the beach in San Diego over the summer. Since we are renters we try to make our duplex's white walls look more homey with pictures.
Yesterday was fun, I was able to make the gifts I plan to send to my family for Christmas! I have never been really artsy fartsy, but I got the idea from a gathering I went to, and I had to go to a friend's house yesterday to make the gifts! They turned out really well. I liked them so much that I decided to keep one for myself!
Well, that's about it from our end! I hope that everyone who reads this is doing well. I think about many of you often and hope that you are recipients of life's greatest blessings, and that you are all happy, especially during this wonderful time of year. My love goes out to each of you!
Love all y'all!
Lisa
Today is Sunday and it's only 5:15 and I am already ready for bed! I seriously could fall asleep now. But I won't, because then I won't sleep tonight before my big day tomorrow! I am having an outpatient procedure tomorrow on my nose. I have a deviated septum, and some tissue in my nose issues that my Dr. is going to take care of. I have heard that nose surgery is not fun at all, but I just want to get this over with and get better ASAP! So keep Brandon in y'all's prayers for having to take care of me and put up with me this week as I recover!
Other than that, life has been pretty uneventful. We got some snow again, finally enabling all the ski resorts to open. They were getting pretty worried about not having that much snow for some prime skiing time.
It has been WICKED cold here in Utah lately. It seems that with each passing year, I get increasingly more sensitive to the cold. It's not fun at all! I am always cold here in the winter, and try as I might, I can not get warm! But even with all the cold, snow, and ice, I am really looking forward to the Christmas season! I love seeing all the lights and decorations everywhere I go.
Oh, last Saturday was my 3rd Anniversary since I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. It may sound a little nuts, but every year Brandon and I go out to dinner, or out for a fun date to mark the date. I know that some of you are probably thinking that we are off our rocker for doing that because it is not something to celebrate, but for us, it was a day that changed our lives forever. So we went to Good Wood and I ate my fave: baby back ribs, and Utah's definition of a Texas Brisket, and it was a lot of fun. Then we went down to downtown Ogden, (yes in the dark of night) and walked around and took a gander at the lights and displays that Ogden City puts up every year. It was absolutely freezing, but we had fun.
A few weeks ago when Brandon's parents were down visiting from Idaho, I bought a picture of the Houston Temple, and I finally put it into a frame, and mounted it on the wall, as well as a picture that was taken of Brandon and I on the beach in San Diego over the summer. Since we are renters we try to make our duplex's white walls look more homey with pictures.
Yesterday was fun, I was able to make the gifts I plan to send to my family for Christmas! I have never been really artsy fartsy, but I got the idea from a gathering I went to, and I had to go to a friend's house yesterday to make the gifts! They turned out really well. I liked them so much that I decided to keep one for myself!
Well, that's about it from our end! I hope that everyone who reads this is doing well. I think about many of you often and hope that you are recipients of life's greatest blessings, and that you are all happy, especially during this wonderful time of year. My love goes out to each of you!
Love all y'all!
Lisa
Sunday, November 25
Slacker!!! AGAIN!
As my friend Shelly has said, hopefully there are people who haven't given up on me for not having posted in forever and a freakin day!
SO much has happened in the last month or so since some of you faithful viewers of DopfDetails last tuned in!!
Let's see... where to start?? Well, it turns out that we did end up getting that call from my parents that they got a job offer from a small privately owned oil company in Denver. After some discussion with Brandon, we went ahead and purchased tickets to Houston to celebrate one last holiday in the house I will forever consider home! It was agreed that while we were there to visit and have some R&R, we were totally willing to help out with helping prepare the old house for sale on the market really soon.
I flew out a week before Thanksgiving, and Brandon flew in the Sunday following. The area where I grew up used to be considered the boonies, but now it is quite the opposite, hustling and bustling shopping centers and businesses are now sprawling where huge beautiful trees and forests, and farms once stood. There is now a major tollway close to my house where I grew up, and some seriously huge master planned communities with gargantuan homes springing up everywhere. It has changed so much, I couldn't recognize much of the landscape as I once knew it. It was exciting yet a little saddening at the same time. It wasn't the home that I remembered and was blindly expecting to stay the same forever.
While there we certainly enjoyed rolling up the sleeves and diving in to help around the house. I went through my old bedroom and desk, flooded with memories that I have not thought about for years it seems. Went for a drive to good old Galveston Island (for those of you poor souls who have no idea where that is, get out a map if you have to) and then out to Brazos Bend State Park. You may need to sit down and brace yourself for what my twisted mind considers fun.... but this state park is filled with nothing but swamp, trees, snakes, alligators, and turtles. Basically this park is full of man-made trails that go through the swamps and forest around this area of southern Texas! Brandon and I walked around and altogether we saw 41 alligators, 2 turtles, and no snakes (I was okay with that last one!) 41 alligators doesn't hold a candle to the record of 111 allies I saw with my dad 1 1/2 years ago! The coolest part about this that I had never seen was a mama alligator with her little brood of about 16 babies! It was freakin awesome! (Will post pics of all this!)
Another thing that was awesome was the opportunity to go home to where everything is green and beautiful all year around! Oh and it was in the 70's and 80's while we were there except for the last two days. One thing that I must say is that I prefer the flat lands of Texas to the brown, dead looking mountains of Utah in the winter when there is absolutely no snow anywhere! I also made sure that while I was in Texas, I indulged myself with the best food that the world has to offer, meaning Ozarka Spring water (an absolute must when one feels a sense of thirst coming on), Southern cooking at the good old Black Eyed Pea, ham and cheese and sausage and cheese kolaches at Southern Maid, as well as donuts from Shipley's Donuts, Schepps chocolate milk, Texas BBQ from Goode Company, but one thing that I will regret was no Bluebell Ice Cream! Dangit! And of course eating at Escalantes with my best friend! Oh and getting to enjoy the humidity that does wonders for dry skin here in Utah, and going from dry limp hair in Utah, to volume in an instant of stepping off the plane!
I could go on and on about all this, but the biggest thing that was difficult was saying goodbye to the house that I grew up in! Cheesy as it sounds, I went around the house taking pictures! I just didn't want to forget the rooms and memories!
We came home late Friday night, and then all day Saturday, went and ran errands with Brandon! Saturday night we came home and had to go through all our crap in the storage underneath the stairs in order to dig out our Christmas decorations and decorated the house! It was a lot of fun to try and figure out where we wanted to put everything!
And another side note, Lexi was anxious to come home from her week long doggie day care!
Well, that's it for another lengthy and in way too much detail episode of DopfDetails, but tune in for hopefully a sooner next time!
Love you all!
Lisa
P.S. Are you happy Lo? Thanks for your message! You'll have to get in touch with me soon!
SO much has happened in the last month or so since some of you faithful viewers of DopfDetails last tuned in!!
Let's see... where to start?? Well, it turns out that we did end up getting that call from my parents that they got a job offer from a small privately owned oil company in Denver. After some discussion with Brandon, we went ahead and purchased tickets to Houston to celebrate one last holiday in the house I will forever consider home! It was agreed that while we were there to visit and have some R&R, we were totally willing to help out with helping prepare the old house for sale on the market really soon.
I flew out a week before Thanksgiving, and Brandon flew in the Sunday following. The area where I grew up used to be considered the boonies, but now it is quite the opposite, hustling and bustling shopping centers and businesses are now sprawling where huge beautiful trees and forests, and farms once stood. There is now a major tollway close to my house where I grew up, and some seriously huge master planned communities with gargantuan homes springing up everywhere. It has changed so much, I couldn't recognize much of the landscape as I once knew it. It was exciting yet a little saddening at the same time. It wasn't the home that I remembered and was blindly expecting to stay the same forever.
While there we certainly enjoyed rolling up the sleeves and diving in to help around the house. I went through my old bedroom and desk, flooded with memories that I have not thought about for years it seems. Went for a drive to good old Galveston Island (for those of you poor souls who have no idea where that is, get out a map if you have to) and then out to Brazos Bend State Park. You may need to sit down and brace yourself for what my twisted mind considers fun.... but this state park is filled with nothing but swamp, trees, snakes, alligators, and turtles. Basically this park is full of man-made trails that go through the swamps and forest around this area of southern Texas! Brandon and I walked around and altogether we saw 41 alligators, 2 turtles, and no snakes (I was okay with that last one!) 41 alligators doesn't hold a candle to the record of 111 allies I saw with my dad 1 1/2 years ago! The coolest part about this that I had never seen was a mama alligator with her little brood of about 16 babies! It was freakin awesome! (Will post pics of all this!)
Another thing that was awesome was the opportunity to go home to where everything is green and beautiful all year around! Oh and it was in the 70's and 80's while we were there except for the last two days. One thing that I must say is that I prefer the flat lands of Texas to the brown, dead looking mountains of Utah in the winter when there is absolutely no snow anywhere! I also made sure that while I was in Texas, I indulged myself with the best food that the world has to offer, meaning Ozarka Spring water (an absolute must when one feels a sense of thirst coming on), Southern cooking at the good old Black Eyed Pea, ham and cheese and sausage and cheese kolaches at Southern Maid, as well as donuts from Shipley's Donuts, Schepps chocolate milk, Texas BBQ from Goode Company, but one thing that I will regret was no Bluebell Ice Cream! Dangit! And of course eating at Escalantes with my best friend! Oh and getting to enjoy the humidity that does wonders for dry skin here in Utah, and going from dry limp hair in Utah, to volume in an instant of stepping off the plane!
I could go on and on about all this, but the biggest thing that was difficult was saying goodbye to the house that I grew up in! Cheesy as it sounds, I went around the house taking pictures! I just didn't want to forget the rooms and memories!
We came home late Friday night, and then all day Saturday, went and ran errands with Brandon! Saturday night we came home and had to go through all our crap in the storage underneath the stairs in order to dig out our Christmas decorations and decorated the house! It was a lot of fun to try and figure out where we wanted to put everything!
And another side note, Lexi was anxious to come home from her week long doggie day care!
Well, that's it for another lengthy and in way too much detail episode of DopfDetails, but tune in for hopefully a sooner next time!
Love you all!
Lisa
P.S. Are you happy Lo? Thanks for your message! You'll have to get in touch with me soon!
Monday, October 29
It's been just over 2 weeks since I last posted anything about my life. Several things have happened, but I won't bore y'all with all the details....
Let's just say that another cool moment I have experienced with my job was meeting and interpreting for some political figures. I was able to interpret for Utah's Senator, Mr. Orrin Hatch, and also meet Karen Hughes. I showed up for that appointment completely and blissfully unaware of exactly who and for what I was going to be interpreting. So it was a totally awesome experience.
My continued love affair with the Harry Potter books has come to a screeching and anxious halt. I have read the entire series over the last month, except for the 7th and final book, due to the fact that it is still in hard cover only, and you have to pay an arm and a leg if you want to read it and own it at the same time. I bought the first 6 books from Walmart, making it no big deal to purchase them. Given the fact that I purchased the first 5 for the same price as the hardcover 7th book, this is the obvious reason why I am anxiously awaiting for the last one to come out in paper back. (We'll see how long this lasts, given that I am not the most patient person)
For the last several weeks, my husband and I haven't seen a lot of one another due to work and crazy busy schedules. So this last weekend was totally ours for the enjoying. We just spent the entire weekend together, had fun, and relaxed. On Saturday we went down to the Salt Lake City Hogle Zoo, because we wanted to see the "Ghost of the Bayou" exhibit. It is a rare white alligator that seems to be a "traveling" exhibit, and was here most of the summer, and will be leaving in the coming weeks. It was pretty cool to see it. We took some pics, which I will either post on my facebook page or here, I am just not sure yet! The inside of the exhibit was really humid (reminded me of my beloved Texas) and it had a lot of plants that you see when you visit a place like Brazos Bend State Park in Houston, and it made me seriously homesick.
Speaking of homesick, it has yet again been another long time since I have been back, and after I explain a new development, those visits will probably become few and far between!
A few weeks ago, I got a call from my parents saying that they were looking for a job in Denver, Colorado. My dad has been with a certain company for a while now, but feels it is time he and my mom return back to their beloved state of Colorado, (or somewhere closer to the mountains and their kids) and so my dad sent out his resume, and landed an interview with a company in Denver. They haven't given real go ahead with everything, but it looks like the chances are pretty good they will be moving soon in the next 3 to 4 months, possibly even sooner if need be. This comes with both excitement at having them closer but also at a loss for words when it comes to facing the reality that they won't live in the house that I grew up in anymore. I mean nothing is set in stone just yet, but my heart breaks a little just thinking about it. But in the end it would be so much better to have them closer in order to see them more than once a year. They would just be a few more hours away than we are from Brandon's parents in Idaho. So we will see, and I will keep y'all posted (for those of you who really care that is) and we will see that pans out from all this.
Other than that, nothing is really new with us. We are having Brandon's parents come visit for a week or so, staying up in Eden, UT, which is gorgeous by the way, but it will be good to see them!
Love to you all!
Lisa
Let's just say that another cool moment I have experienced with my job was meeting and interpreting for some political figures. I was able to interpret for Utah's Senator, Mr. Orrin Hatch, and also meet Karen Hughes. I showed up for that appointment completely and blissfully unaware of exactly who and for what I was going to be interpreting. So it was a totally awesome experience.
My continued love affair with the Harry Potter books has come to a screeching and anxious halt. I have read the entire series over the last month, except for the 7th and final book, due to the fact that it is still in hard cover only, and you have to pay an arm and a leg if you want to read it and own it at the same time. I bought the first 6 books from Walmart, making it no big deal to purchase them. Given the fact that I purchased the first 5 for the same price as the hardcover 7th book, this is the obvious reason why I am anxiously awaiting for the last one to come out in paper back. (We'll see how long this lasts, given that I am not the most patient person)
For the last several weeks, my husband and I haven't seen a lot of one another due to work and crazy busy schedules. So this last weekend was totally ours for the enjoying. We just spent the entire weekend together, had fun, and relaxed. On Saturday we went down to the Salt Lake City Hogle Zoo, because we wanted to see the "Ghost of the Bayou" exhibit. It is a rare white alligator that seems to be a "traveling" exhibit, and was here most of the summer, and will be leaving in the coming weeks. It was pretty cool to see it. We took some pics, which I will either post on my facebook page or here, I am just not sure yet! The inside of the exhibit was really humid (reminded me of my beloved Texas) and it had a lot of plants that you see when you visit a place like Brazos Bend State Park in Houston, and it made me seriously homesick.
Speaking of homesick, it has yet again been another long time since I have been back, and after I explain a new development, those visits will probably become few and far between!
A few weeks ago, I got a call from my parents saying that they were looking for a job in Denver, Colorado. My dad has been with a certain company for a while now, but feels it is time he and my mom return back to their beloved state of Colorado, (or somewhere closer to the mountains and their kids) and so my dad sent out his resume, and landed an interview with a company in Denver. They haven't given real go ahead with everything, but it looks like the chances are pretty good they will be moving soon in the next 3 to 4 months, possibly even sooner if need be. This comes with both excitement at having them closer but also at a loss for words when it comes to facing the reality that they won't live in the house that I grew up in anymore. I mean nothing is set in stone just yet, but my heart breaks a little just thinking about it. But in the end it would be so much better to have them closer in order to see them more than once a year. They would just be a few more hours away than we are from Brandon's parents in Idaho. So we will see, and I will keep y'all posted (for those of you who really care that is) and we will see that pans out from all this.
Other than that, nothing is really new with us. We are having Brandon's parents come visit for a week or so, staying up in Eden, UT, which is gorgeous by the way, but it will be good to see them!
Love to you all!
Lisa
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