.:.Prove You Exist.:.

My first from scratch craft project. I am so proud of myself!

Crafter's Corner in AF...you can buy whatever bare wood, metal, etc.

Then for $5 you can use their craft room that is

full of scrapbook paper, paints, glitter, ribbons....

anything in there to create your own ideas!

We do a monthly ACS craft day there,

super fun!

(Front)

I love letting my creativity go...

I love making these decorated tin boxes.

It's so much fun & I cam spend hours

creating them.

They're also great gifts.

I made one for my cousin Katie

as a wedding gift,

and others for birthdays.

I also do journals, notebooks...

 even did a score book for my grandparents

Christmas present since we are

always playing cards & what not.

It's a great personalized present!

(Back)

This is one I made for

Will & I...(duh).

(Will's side)

(My side)

(Top)

(Inside)

I tend to make a lot

for myself too (hehe).

This is my journal entry

celebrating our 1 year anniversary.

As you can see I decorate pretty much everything.

I love creating my own things.

Its a great way to de-stress...

Every Love Story is Beautiful...But Ours is My Favorite...

Despite the ups and downs,

through thick & thin...

We made it...

Happy 1 Year Babe...

Get ME out of HERE!

We're OFF to

SAN DIEGO!!

Peace Out!

the bad news is that Time Flies...but the GOOD news is you're now the Pilot.

First off can I just say that I wish

SUMMER

WOULD COME ALREADY!!

Why does Utah have to have such tempramental

weather. In 4 days alone we had

Rainy

then

Sunny

then

Snowy

then

Windy

GAH!!

I just want the sun & some shine.

PLEASE!

As for us Myers we're starting our final month at our apartment.

I'm not looking forward to packing

as you all know my disgust for it,

but I am looking forward to cleaning the place.

Is that weird?

One of my favorite things to buy is new cleaning products.

Ok...that does make me weird.

We will be moving in with Will's dad for a few months

while we are in the process of finding/buying a house.

My sister-in-law has also moved back into the house since

she does with school till fall.

Lets just say this shall be quite an interesting experience.

SAN DIEGO is in 26 days!!

Pretty stoked for that. In all the years the Shepherd families have been going there

(over a 40 year time span at least!)

its been an adventure with where we stay.

In the very beginning when

Shara, Johnny, Katie, and I went we were the only grandkids

so everyone smooshed into condo # 101

with my grandparents.

Their condo had a master room/bath & then one other bedroom that

has a full size bed & then bunkbeds.

Kitchen, dining room & living room as well,

with the couch being a pull out bed too.

Not a ton of room, but it worked.

As the years have gone by

with more and more children born

families began having to rent more then one condo

with 2 families in each.

I've always slept in 101 with my grandparents

on their bedroom floor, Katie usually sleeping next to me.

This year is a first for us.

Shara is married + 2 kids.

Katie is married.

I am married.

There is NO room for us to try & fit into any other condos

with our families....since there are tons of kids in those as well.

The 3 of us are having/forced to rent our own condo!!

The $$ we have to spend blows

but it will be nice actually having our own place to ourselves

and not having to fight for a place to sleep.

I guess it means we really have grown up.

Being an adult is over-rated sometimes.

But #508 is quite nice

and I look forward to staying in it!

The bathroom & bedroom we'll be sharing

with Katie & Mikey.

I am just ready for some

FUN IN THE SUN!!!

That's kinda all for now.

OH but if you are a crafter in Utah County

check this place out!!

http://crafterscornermetal.blogspot.com/

Yesterday was the grand opening

& I am now IN LOVE

with this store.

First camping trip on 2010

Will has been itching to go camping for at least a month now

and last weekend we finally went out west

with his dad.

That night was pretty cold

but the 3 of us squeezed into our little tent

and with the help of extra blankets,

slept great!

Will and his dad are quite seasoned campers,

I however, am not.

Except for girls camp

I never really camped anywhere without at LEAST

a port-a-potty.

Which are disgusting

but work.

The Myers are not those kind of campers.

They go into the middle of NOWHERE

to set up camp.

To say the least it is something I am still getting use to,

but don't want to.

But this trip was very fun and relaxing.

Will had custom ordered a new gun

15 months ago and just recently

was able to pick it up.

The bottom one is his new one.

Looks like a plastic toy gun.

Anyways my main goal of the trip was to

actually HIT a clay pigeon with the shoot gun.

I got

1 out of 3

and called it a day.

Those 3 shoots alone gave me a nice bruise

and made my arms sore the next day.

I spent the rest of the day reading, enjoying the sun

while the guys did their thing.

Will is quite amazing at shooting.

He always hits the clay pigeons,

even when we throw out 2 or 3 at a time.

But then again he has grown up shooting

and always was award excellent at the shooting range

when he was in the Marine Corps.

Out west. WAY out west.

I also got to wear my cowboy hat.

I know this trip will be one of many

this year.

Here are some pics off Will's iPhone

that I found....

From last fall when Will

sliced his hand at work.

From our Montana trip

in November.

My first time in a ground blind.

(Camoflage tent thing for hunting)

Roses Will brought home for me

a few weeks ago

for no reason.

<3

And lastly some fun doodling

I did while bored at AF court.

(I wasn't there for me, but as a court attendent for my job).

With the Good comes the Bad.

A Smile is a Curve that sets everything right.

It's been awhile since our blog has been updated 

and my awesome excuse is that 

we still have no internet @ our apartment

with the exception of Will's iPhone.

An update for Will isn't anything too exciting.

He's still working his butt off pretty much 7 days a week.

Last week alone he worked 68 hours.

I am VERY grateful to have a husband

who is a very hardworker and has great work ethic.

I credit the Marine Corps and simply how he was raised.

The boy knows how to get dirty and work.

As for myself I am still at Alliance Clinical Services

and loving it. That job never gets old.

And every day is different.

BUT

I finally made an appointment with my Orthopedic Doctor

to get some updated x-rays of my back

to see if the curves in my Scoliosis has changed in 5 years.

Amazingly enough....IT HADN'T!!

Which is very great news.......

unfortunately with it came not so great news...

When the doctor was testing my reflexes he detected

that I have quite overreactive nerves 

and became worried about my Tethered Spinal Cord.

He scheduled me for a MRI, CT scan, and a L Spine scan

for later in the week, along with an appointment 

with a Neurologist.

I became a little curious as to why the doctor was so concerned about my spinal cord.

So I did a little research....

Hyperreflexia is defined as overactive or overresponsive reflexes. Examples of this can include twitching or spastic tendencies, which are indicative of upper motor neuron disease as well as the lessening or loss of control ordinarily exerted by higher brain centers of lower neural pathways (disinhibition).

This for me explained the crazy twitches I always get

throughout my body at the most random times.

The Tethered Spinal Cord research kinda blew me away though...

Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome  is a rare neurological disorder (occurring in 0.05 to 0.25 of 1000 births) caused by tissue attachments that limit the movement of the spinal cord within the spinal column. These attachments cause an abnormal stretching of the spinal cord. This stretching interferes with the function of the nerves in the spinal cord and can cause problems with sensation, movement, and control of body functions.
  In this variation, the filum terminale (which joins the spinal cord to the backbone) thickens or hardens and causes downward pressure on the spinal cord. This can actually cause scoliosis as well as most of the other symptoms of the more typical tethered cord. 

In adults, onset of symptoms typically include severe pain (in the lower back and radiating into the legs, groin, and perineum), bilateral muscle weakness, and bladder and/or bowel incontinence. Neurological symptoms can include a mixed picture of upper and lower motor neuron findings, such as amyotrophy, hyperreflexia, and pathologic plantar response, occurring in the same limb. Profound sensory changes, such as loss of pain, temperature, and proprioceptive sensations, are common. Last, progressive symptoms of a neuropathic bladder are noted on over 70 percent of adult patients, versus only 20 to 30 percent of children. These symptoms include urinary frequency and urgency, feeling of incomplete voiding, poor voluntary control, and urge and stress incontinence. Chronic recurrent infections are common and occasionally lead to nephrolithiasis (kidney stones), renal failure, or renal transplantation. Female patients also give a history of ineffective labor and postpartum rectal prolapse, presumably due to an atonic pelvic floor.

Uhhhhh.....yeah.
Now out of those symptoms I have the lower back pain
(actually my entire back aches ),
my hands and feet are constantly cold,
and the tips of my fingers always feel numb,
random spasms and twitches.
I also get sharp shooting pains in my arms and legs,
  quite overreactive nerves,
and sorry if TMI
but I do feel like I gotta pee all the time.
My appointment with the Neurologist is on
April 8th.
I'm anxious to find out whats really going on.

And on top of that I'm pretty sure I has some
serious Carpal Tunnel in both wrists.
My hand always get numb
and
"the pins and needles" feeling
wakes me up multiple times at night.
When its at its worse my wrists begin to ache
and a mixture of sharp & dull pains
work their way up to my elbows,  and higher.
Then they just ache to hold anything.
For example it'll hurt you hold a book, my cell phone to talk...
It's a pain quite honestly.

Anywoo....
that's what is going on with the Myers.
Sorry for the lack of updates.
What we have to look forward to is:
San Diego the end of May!!
Going out west to shoot some guns
and go camping.
And just life in general.

There's always the bad things in life.
But I just can't help
but Smile.....

Life is Good.

Create.

Just some fun stuff I've been doing.

I love creating.

Whoa...Time Flies...2010

First post of 2010!

My bad.

So I haven't update since November

and its weird because of how OBSESSED I use to be.

But ever since we moved to Draper

we haven't had a computer & have lived off the internet 

on Will's iPhone.

I'm going to a quick run through.

November:

 So nothing too new happened.

The Mazda got fixed (YAY)

and Will was still working at his job doing getting all the 

electric wiring done for a new ebay data center.

December:

We are kinda scrooges & put up NO christmas decorations.

Whatsoever.

No tree. Nothing.

Will figures we have no kids yet.

And no one was going to see our apartment anyways

and it'd be pointless.

(which ended up being true).

We have both had a hard time with this holiday for quite awhile.

Neither of us like the pressure or presents,

or christmas shopping.

People have told us it'll be better once we have kids

and we look forward for that experience.

However christmas was fun,

and we enjoyed getting to see family.

Of course I also took NO pictures which is strange for me,

a picture addict.

January:

I rang in the New Year alone.

Will of course had to work

and since his hours have been

5:30pm to 4am

for quite some time,

obviously we don't get to hang out at nights.

It has been hard with work hours

but we've managed.

We're still in Draper and I promise to post pics of our apartment soon.

February:

Ahhh Valentines Day is coming.

Another holiday.

2010 is going very fast is seems.

Will is almost done with this job

and maybe we'll get normal hours again.

I'm still at ACS 

and since I work evenings there right now its helped with us getting to spend time together.

So 

luckily today was Super Bowl Sunday

and we've been at Will's dads watching the game.

So heres a quick, kinda lame blog update.

Will is standing next to me telling me to hurry

so we can go home....

welp love ya all.

And i promise to do better this year!!

Love Will & Tacy