Port Aransas

SO this weekend we drove down to the coast and enjoyed the Gulf of Mexico. We camped at Mustang Island state park. It was great, until about 4 am when the wind decided to roll our tent with us in it. So I stood inside the tent with all my weight against the wind while Daniel took out the poles, and then he held the tent down so I could crawl out. Then we stuffed it in the back of the truck and climbed in the cab. That's when I got the most sleep. We then watched the sunrise and got ready to go to Sand Fest, in Port Aransas. Which was awesome. we walked on the beach and playing in the ocean and had a ton of fun.

We weren't the only ones with tent problems.. :)

This is the moon. It was so bright.

The sand was soooooo soft!

Our campsite. The tent was my birthday present! I LOVE it!

I LOVE MOLASSES

Alrighty I've go lots to cover in this post, so here it goes. Tuesday April 12, I had an upper endoscopy. Which is when they knock you out and stick a tube with light/camera down your throat and look at your esophagus and stomach. And we found something!

All of my insides there were inflamed and irritated, of course from all of the throwing up I have been doing, but we found I have Hiatal Hernia; which is when your stomach pushes up through your diaphragm into your esophagus. This then causes your Sphinx to not work. So when I lay down my stomach acid can slosh right into my throat because my sphinx isn't there to be closed to keep it in my tummy. So we are fairly certain that this is my problem. So I have yet another medicine to take. Omeproazole, which is an acid reducer delayed release tablet. I take it 30 min before eating every morning.

Along with this is a diet change. Staying away from:

fatty/greasy foods (fried),

chocolate

Acidic fruits, grapefruit, oranges, pineapple, and tomato sauces. :( Less Italian cooking for me

So between all of this hopefully here in the coming weeks i'l be doing much better.

Next: I went in for an eye exam finally, and got a new pair of glasses! I rather like them. So here I am in them.

I've also been Scrap booking pictures I have printed out from various things and decided they needed to be fixed up. ( I don't know why the blog does this, I take the pictures regularly and they get turned around when I upload them... grrrr)

This spread is Elder Derek Hess' Mission. Derek is a close friend of mine from college, that I also wrote on his mission. He sent me lots of letters and pics.

I had little things from trips that I don't have pictures for yet..... :) My first trip to Ghirardelli square and San Fransisco.

Daniel took me on a date to the Idaho Falls museum when we were dating. We rode the motorcycle down to the exhibit, Titanic, which was awesome. Then we went to Red Robin for dinner! yummy

These are a bunch of pics I had of family. I found more yesterday too! I don't have everyone sadly, so one day i'll have to do a really nice one with everyone.

Then this. Last week I was looking for a recipe and ran across my recipe for molasses bars. Yup, "the" recipe; the one i got from mom, who got it from her mom, who got it from her mom, nicked named Bammy. So I bought some molasses and raisins, and made me some nummyness.

So over all life is good. Things are busy and crazy as ever, but the sun shines and the weather is nice, and God continues to bless us! Love you all!

The Weekend

So we had a great weekend. It was warm and we were able to be outside for most of it. We did go swimming a couple times too. :) But we spent some time at Lowes. We were lookign at things for the house. We also helped a friend work on a deck he is building..... Hence the following 2 pictures. We were starting to burn so he grabbed hats for us.... ;)

Later that evening we made sushi for dinner. We love making sushi, it's fun. Though it makes quite a mess... and since the kitchen was already a mess........

Daniel's 1st Roll

My 1st Roll

Daniel's 2nd roll

And the mess that is my kitchen