My Dear Sweet Grandma passed away today.

My Grandma has had Parkinson's Disease for quite a while now, and she has been really suffering of late, so it is really a blessing that she was able pass on. She had been telling my grandpa lately, "Why can't I just get out of this old and broken body?". I know that she is happy to be with her parents and her brother now. I have a testimony of Christ's ressurection, and that one day we too can be reunited with our bodies forever. I have a testimony of Eternal Families, and am so gratefull that Heavenly Father loves us all so much, and blesses us with such hope! I will miss her so much. She is such a wonderfull, spiritual, and amazing woman!

I lived with my Grandparents for a year while I was in school, and my Grandma was my best friend! She would sleep out in the living room in the recliner, and sometimes I would sleep on the couch. She loved having her head massaged and her hair combed, so we would stay up late, me scratching her head to help her tremors go away, and her listening to me chatter and babble on and on about this and that. It was like a weekly slumber party! My Grandma has such a great sense of humor. One time the dishwasher melted a cup, so that it was shaped more like a triangle. My Grandma picked it up and said, "Your Grandpa is going to love this! Finally a cup that will fit over his nose when he drinks!" Another time I was having some chocolate milk, and my grandma asked me if I wanted her to hold it for a minute so it was "mixed real good" (because of her tremors). Edward's favorite is when one time I was telling her about a friend of mine who is Hopi (Native American) and whose parents fixed an arranged marriage for her. My grandma said. "Well, I guess they just 'Hopi' for the best!" And her cute little 'tee hee hee' laugh was so infectious!

My Grandma was a very talented woman. She loved to read and was a grammatical expert. She helped me edit my school papers several times. She got her Bachelors in "Large food quantity production" from BYU, which came in handy later when she had 10 kids and lots of visitors! She taught me how to cook, and her special recipe for french bread, Edward is very gratefull to her for that! She was an amazing seamstress. I still have the baby blanket she sewed for me. She sewed the outfits my dad and the twins are wearing in the photo to the right. But most of all she was loving, patient, and kind, a wonderfull wife, mother, and grandma, and a disciple of Christ all her life. Her testimony shone out of her and touched all who knew her. I love you Grandma!

Stuffing Everywhere….(and not the Thanksgiving kind)!!!

In Oct. Edward and I went to San Antonio to visit his Parents. We had a really nice time -I love them so much! While we were there Edward found his old teddybear he’d had when he was a baby out in the shed. It was dirty with holes and stuffing coming out, but I told him I would try to restore it. He was so nostalgic with the thing, everytime some stuffing would float out he’d catch it and poke it back inside, trying to keep "teddy" whole.
When we got home I just stuck "teddy" in the laundry room so I could figure out what to do with him later. Well somehow he got caught up in a blanket that I threw in the wash, and when I looked in the machine there were millions of little crumbly pieces of stuffing everywhere! I decided to bundle up the blanket and take it outside to shake. I don’t know if I was thinking it would all just blow away in the wind or dissolve or what, because when I was done there were little pieces of stuffing all over the back yard! It looked like it had snowed! I got a mental picture of Edward trying to pick up all the little pieces of his bear and put them back inside the little limp body and I panicked! I got the vacuum out and using the attachments I started vacuuming it all up. I saw the neighbors in the two story behind us watching me, I’m sure they were wondering why this crazy lady was vacuuming her grass! Anyway, all the evidence has been disposed of, and when I go visit my parents after Thanksgiving my mom said she’ll help me put new stuffing in "teddy" and sew him up. I always seem to make so much more work for myself!

I have a thing for "Edward's"!

I bought the book Twilight awhile back because I've heard so much about it I wanted to find out what the fuss was all about, but I kept putting off reading it because it sounded kinda dumb to me. I think because I was so determined not to like it, I hated the first chapter and almost didn't read anymore. I say almost because it hooked me after that and I stayed up till 2am reading! (Yup, I got 4hrs of sleep last night, the hardest thing about being an adult is telling myself when to go to bed). I've only read the first 150 pages, but so far I looove the Edward character! I even went back and re-read the Edward parts at lunch today before continuing on :)

When I think about it I always like Edward characters. I love Edward Rochester in the book "Jane Eyre", and the Edward in "Sense and Sensibility". When I was in college my 3 roomates all left to go home for a three day weekend. (I lived to far away to go home, and I had an old car running on hamsters that wounldn't have made the trip anyway.) So I had a movie marathon and one of my roomates had an edited (TV recording) of Pretty Woman. I must've watched that 3 times that weekend cuz I loved the Edward guy, I even went to the mall and pretended like I had Richard Gere's credit card (the part where she goes shopping) and I tried on everything I liked at Ann Taylor and Bannana Republic just for fun. (I couldn't really buy anything).

Of course I think the hottest most charming Edward is the one I married! I love reading in my journal about our first dates. He still makes my heart flutter!

Crazy Gato!!!

Katie LOVES lucky charms! Whenever she hears me pour a bowl she skids into the kitchen. She waits till I turn to the fridge to get the milk, then she'll hop up on the counter -paw out a few marshmellows and race off before I can scold her for being up there.

There is one corner in our family room that has a potted palm tree, and today I noticed a stinky smell whenever I got close -so I've been shampooing the carpet in that corner like mad -but it still stunk. So I got real close and sniffed everything to figure out where the odor was coming from, turns out Katie pooped in the soil there! (I know it was her -she's devious) DISGUSTING! Now everything is cleaned and fabreezed, and I'm wondering 'Does anybody want a cat?' J/K

The mad "hat"-ter family!

My dad is very light skinned. He freckles in the sun and burns very easily -so he never goes on any outdoor adventures without one of his floppy brimmed straw hats! (He was pretending to be a pirate on this rafting trip last yr -that's why he has the goofy eye patch on, he even talked in Pirate lingo with words like 'matey' and 'aaargh' :) I appreciate the fact that he is skin cancer conciouse now, but when I was growing up I was always a little embarrased that he insisted on wearing his farmer John's hat, and he often tried to get us to wear one too! I love my Dad so much!.........Now to preface the next picture I need to explain a little about my brother Jay. He is one year younger than me and has low functioning Autism. He is the sweetest boy and I love him so much! He has a hard time understanding the purpose of things. For example, my mom taught him how to empty the dishwasher -so then he started putting all the dishes he found away in the cubbords -clean or dirty, and regardless of whether you were done eating your meal or not. All he understood was that "dishes go in cubbords". So she tried to reverse it by teaching him how to put the dirty dishes in the dishwasher -but then he started taking clean dishes out of the cupboards and precaroiusly trying to balance /stuff them all in the dishwasher. Needless to say, he was quickly excused from helping out with household chores (mabey he's secretly a geniuse!) He understands that "hats go on your head" so anytime he finds one he'll put it on -and my brothers have a lot of baseball hats! My mom found him asleep in bed like this one night and I thought it was pretty funny :)

My Brother's on a Mission!

My brother Brian lived with us for about a year while he was going to school, then in June he left to serve a mission in Atlanta, Georgia Spanish speaking! I miss him (he was my work-out buddy, now I'm just getting chubby J/K) but I'm so proud of him! He's picking up Spanish really well and his zone just had 7 baptisms! (My brothers the tall one with dark hair)

Emily pictures!

This is Emily! Edward calls her Ratatuii cuz I shaved her for the summer and she really did kinda look like a big rat! Her ears are big -I've looked at other Yorkie pics and hers are definately on the large side. Sometimes I wonder if she secretly uses them to fly cuz she's like a jumping mountain goat -she gets on top of everything. One day I found her on the fridge! (I think Edward must have put her up there -but he denies it). I made an appt with a fertility doc on Halloween (spooky), but for now Emily's my baby and I love her!

My ambitious husband!

I was looking forward to a relaxing 3 day weekend (Labor Day), but Edward had other plans! We went to IKEA Fri (a wonderfull furniture store where you walk for miles following a yellow brick road, at the end you get hot dogs and frozen yogurt :). Edward has always sworn he'd never drive a mini-van, but broke that vow since we had to borrow our friends vehicle to transport a piece of furniture home. I hemmed some curtains we bought and helped Edward assemble a dresser. We had a really big wind storm that cracked the main branch of our tallest tree out back (luckily it didn't land on the house!). So Saturday we worked outside all day. I climbed way up in the tree like a monkey with a handsaw and finished cutting the broken mast. I'm usually afraid of hights, but not when I'm in a tree for some reason. I love climbing them! (Edward loves spraying me with the hose when I'm up there.) Then I held the ladder while Edward whacked off the lower branches with a chain saw (scary). I've made trimming the tree's my official duty since Edward tends to massacre them. Then on Monday Edward went into spring cleaning mode. He moved all the furniture to the center of the room and we dusted railings and ceiling fans, cleaned windows and blinds, shampooed the carpet, etc. Edward even washed the walls and repainted several areas! I was in charge of spackling any nail holes I found. A black bug landed on a hole I had just filled and Edward pointed at it and said I'd missed a spot. When I told him I had just spackled that one he looked closer at it and saw it move. He got a wierd look on his face and said, "I think I've inhaled too many cleaning chemicals, cuz that hole's moving!" When we got close enough to see it was a bug I had to make fun of him! It was an exhausting weekend, but all stuff that needed to be done and it feels so good now!

I LOVE the temple!!!

When Edward and I argue it would probly scare some people and make others laugh. For instance, sometimes Edward's only day off is Sunday and our ward starts at 8:30 am, so often Edward doesn't roll out of bed till 8:20ish. (It's a good thing our church is just down the street!) One week I decided to go on time and then come back and pick him up after taking the Sacrament. I told him my plan, but he was in the shower so I guess he didn't hear me. When I came back to get him he was back in his pajamas and back in bed! I was so mad! I guess he had been calling for me to help him pick out a tie (color blind) and when he discovered I'd left without him he got his feelings hurt. So the next Sunday when we were late again I kinda blew up! I was yelling at him but he said "I can't hear you crazy lady cuz I'm in the shower" so I climbed in the shower fully dressed in my sunday clothes (make-up and hair done too) so that he could hear me yell at him better! By the time I was done with my tantrum I was soaking wet and we both just started laughing. I am sooo gratefull for the temple, when I go it helps me put things in proper perspective (pretty much all of our fights are over really stupid stuff) and it helps me realize how I can handled certain situations better in the future. The blessings from the temple give Edward and me a good chance at making it foverever! Granted we've only been married for 3 years and don't have all that much expertise yet, but I do know I love him more and more all the time!

DeHoyos Petting Zoo

We have been trying to knock me up for a while, but no luck so far :( I tried an ovulation test last month and I never ovulated so I'm going to try it again and if it's still nada I'll go see a Doc. I was feeling kinda crappy about it and one of my patients had Yorkie puppies, so I went and bought one! She is so loving and adorable! (Hopefully I can upload some pics sometime). We named her Emily! I know we have way too many animals, but odd numbers bother me and this evened us out -now we have Katie & Kitty, Emily & Emma! Edward joked if we don't get me pregnant soon we're going to have to start charging people to come to our small petting zoo. I have to vacuum lots and Emily has to wear a doggy diaper till I get her potty trained. I have bout 15 friends who are pregnant right now and I'm so excited for them! 13 of them are having girls which is kinda crazy! I'm thinkin now would be a good time to have a boy!

Our Family!

Edward and I started off with Emma, our Lahsa dog. She was jelouse of me and always tried to squeeze inbetween me and Edward -but now I'm her favorite! We got Kitty (the fat Garfield) when we were in Idaho, cuz I wanted too. Edward didn't think he was a cat person, but turns out he is! Then in January we were driving home from church and we saw this squirlly lookin thing tumble into the canal, so we pulled over to make sure it was ok and it ended up being a tiny Siamese kitten with big blue eyes! Our plan was to drop it off at the ER Vet (she was bleeding and had a broken leg) but when we got there and the lady asked "Are you planning to keep her?" and Edward said "Yes". (I was kinda surprised!) We named her Katie. Edward spent a couple grand getting Katie fixed up (she had to see an animal surgeon for an artificial hip implant) so he was really smitten with this kitten. She is a little terror with her bionic leg -she likes to climb and destroy stuff!

Cancun!

For our 3rd Anniversary (April 23rd) we went to Cancun! It was so pretty there! We rode 4-wheelers and horses along the beach, and the horses would go swimming way out in the ocean if we rode them bareback (I did! Edward was too chicken). It was a lot of fun! We went to find an LDS church on Sunday and the Taxi Driver got lost so I was afraid we would be late, but because of the time change we ended up getting there an hour early. The bishop came up and asked Edward if I played the piano, they didn't have anyone in the ward that played except this Elder missionary from Utah that came sometimes. I had never played in public before, but I got borred sitting on the hard bench (Edward and the Bishop were talking -but it was all in Spanish so I could only catch one word out of every 500). I played ok till people started comming in, the more people sat down the more mistakes I made! I played prelude music till the Elder from UT came and then I went and sat back next to Edward, but I was kinda proud of myself! The Elder sat down and played like Motzarts 5th Syphony version of the hyms (show off :) he was a dang good pianist. I guess I need to practice on my keyboard some more! I loved hearing Edward talk Spanish to everyone in Mexico! (kinda sexy :)