Thursday, February 12, 2009

It's been a Struggle...

this month for me has been an absolute roller coaster. Happys and worries and sads and just plain hards.


The Happy

Well like I have already posted before we had a beautiful niece born, Ayla rose Ulrich. I haven't seen her yet and I probably won't for a little while since she is trying to recover. But everytime I look at the pictures of her and read about her I just love her so much already. She is a little miracle baby and she is so blessed to have the parents that she has. I was talking with my Father-in-Law the other night and he was just talking to me about her and telling me how darn cute she is and that she is a true fighter. He was also telling me what good parents Chris and Stac are going to be to this little thing. I just can't wait to meet her, hold her and just be a part of her life. Babies are my weakness I abolutely love to hold them but when they are a new part to your family it is truly special.


The Worry

I just have been so worried about my little brother latety with everything going on with him. I don't know what it is about Adam but so many people fall in love with his personality. He is so fun, energetic and my favorite loves his family. He is a little crazy on the outside with all his different hair dos and pierced ears but let me tell you everyone who takes the time to get to know him knows what an incredible person he really is. I feel like Adam and I have a really good relationship. when I moved back home for a while before I got married I felt like that time was really good for me, Adam and my little sister Amanda. After moving away and then coming back I think we just all realized how much we missed each other. That time was so good to be able to develop better relationships with them both. I won't trade that semester home for the world. I really got to see who Adam was developing into, the things he cared about and was passionate about and things he was really good at.


He is a really amazing person and I just believe he is trying to find himself right now. As of now he is not preparing to go on a mission. I know how important missions are and I am so happy that Ty went on a mission and I know it is what the men in this church are supposed to do. But I love my little brother and I am not going to judge him on that. I mean of course I still hope deep inside that he is still going to go and maybe it will happen but I just know whether he goes or doesn't I believe he is going to find himself and that he is going to be who he is supposed to be. He is also about to join the Utah National Guard. He has talked to the recruiter down in Salt Lake and then the recruiter came to talk to him the other day as like an interview at my parents house. He seems really excited about it and I am so proud of him for doing something like this. I think it will be so good for him. I love you little Bro, you are always keeping us on our toes.

So anyway I have been worried about him a lot this month because of all his happenings. First of all he was break dancing and came down wrong on his arm or shoulder and tweeked it pretty bad and had to be out of work for a while because of it. Second last Saturday I got a text from my mom saying "Adam's car got stolen last night they found it this morning in Magna." I was like what? Slow down. I have to read that again. and then of course I had to call my mom to get the details.Now that he has it back a lot of things were stolen from the inside and they did something to it because ever since he has gotten it back it hasn't been working. I feel so bad for him because he had worked so hard to get that car and then worked really hard on it fixing it all up and stuff. Poor kid. Hang in there everything is going to work out

The Sad

Well this is sad and a worry. I got a call from my dad last week telling me that my grandma Bargar was in the hospital and they didn't know what had happened yet. But that she might have had a stroke or heart attack or both. I was so scared and baffled because my grandma isn't even very old. I didn't think old enough for all of this happening to her. So I was super worried and sad because when I was all alone when I found out so I called Ty at work and they let him come home. The next day my mom called to update us and grandma was doing better they now thought that it wasn't either a stroke or a heart attack but she was low on oxygen. She had been sick and because of all the coughing and her immune system being down she was low on her oxygen consumption. They kept her at the hospital to do some more tests. Well then the next we heard she was still in the hospital and being transfered to another one for exploritory surgery on her heart because they thought they had seen something that needed to be check out. So the latest now is that the surgery went fine and they didn't see anything. Poor grandma she has been through a lot lately. We love you and our prayers are with you.


And the just plain hard

Well Ty and I are in a place right now where we don't know what our future holds. We have no idea where we will be going to law school in the fall, we don't know where or when we are going to be moving, I don't know where I will be doing my teaching licensure, or how long it is going to take and most of all we have been back and forth of when to start our own little family. It is hard not knowing where we are going to be moving because we can't even start looking for apartments or houses yet. I am so proud of Ty for taking this step in his life and I am so excited to see what our furture holds and I just want to know so badly where we will be. I just have to have faith that we will end up where we are supposed to be and where Ty will have the best education for him personally. I need to have faith that I will get to be a mom one day and I just need to be patient and find out what our furture holds first. It is just really tough for me to wait any longer. Babies are always on my mind and everytime I hear the words baby, children, kids, pregnant I just have the best feeling in the whole world. But it will come I know it will. As for where we end up in the fall we will keep you all posted when we find out.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Some new Additions.... or shall I say eXtEnSiOnS!

There are two new additions in my life but of course the most important is our new little niece Ayla Rose Ulrich. She was born yesterday morning 7 weeks early. Scary but from what we have heard mom and baby are doing fine :) I just have to say when Chris sent us a picture of her early that morning my heart just melted. I don't know why but seeing her got me really emotional. I cannot wait to see her and hold her. It is so crazy to me that all of a sudden you have this little living thing that you are responsible for. Isn't creating life just amazing and a miracle?! She is such a blessing for Chris and Staci and we are so stinkin excited for you two that you have this sweet baby girl in your life now. We love you guys and we hope that you will keep us posted on everything and give her kisses from her uncle Ty and aunt Whitty.

And now not even close to as important, but still exciting to me, I got extensions on Friday. I know this isn't a very good picture to see them because of the hoodie but it is all I have of them right now. They aren't super long because of how short my hair was that would look silly and you would be able to tell I have them. And isn't the whole point is for them to look natural? Well anyway my hair was way too short and not getting longer because of the ends just breaking off from damage so my awesome extensions added about three more inches of length. My hair was only to about mu nose (I know crappy and ugly huh I hated it) and now it is an inch past my chin.
I only got them in the front so it is a sharp A-line and super duper cute. even just getting them in the front I had to get a million because of my stinkin hair is way to thick. But I can actually put my hair in a pony tail now and it looks way healthier. I totally love them and I am going to get so addicted. The only problem is they are expensive but hey so worth it. My talented friend Natalie that did my bangs also did these extensions. She is the one that gave me the idea to just do them in the front. And right you were missy I love them. She has been so good to me doing my hair so much lately. I feel like a whole new person with longer hair thanks Nat! You are one of the most talented people I know :)

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Getting into ShApE...and more

So I am starting these new aerobic classes that I am super duper excited for. My friend Runge introduced me to this incredible workout. they are free aerobic classes at the SUU PE building. The instructor is super cute and I totally want her body she is such as inspiration. But anyway she offers a whole bunch of classes through out the week. Abs lab (everyone's favorite so she teaches it three times a week), Plyometrics, hip hop (which I totally want to try probably next week), body Pump, and kick boxing! She went to school to be an instructor and she is so amazing at it. It is funny but one of the things I want to do in life is be a PE teacher but I also want to teach aerobic classes to high school students or athletes. :) Probably weird but i really want to work up to that goal. The best part about these classes is that they are FREE! Love it.
So on Tuesday I went with Runge to the Plyometric and Abs Lab. Let me tell you that plyometric class was crazy. It was so hard and I was sore for three days after, but I can't wait to go again. I hadn't had a work out this good since I was in gymnastics. I even work out at a gym three-four days a week and ru 20 min each time I go and this was still so much better and different of a workout. My thighs, hamstrings, calfs and butt were all sore. everything it was amazing. If I didn't work nights I would love to go to all of her classes. Plyometrics is athletic training and jump drills designed to make you jump higher, run faster and increase overall fitness. It consists of 4 30 second drills followed by 30 seconds of rest for an hour and is HIGH intensity. LOVE it! I also went to an abs lab which I loved so much it was full of all sorts of different ab exercises and lasted 30 min.

I just want abs like hers ^ :)
I also am super excited about our newest purchase! We got a Dell Desk Top. I love it so much. My laptop's harddrive crashed after only having it one year and Ty's also needs to be fixed from a virus. Well the day that we took my lap top into the shop and found out it was the hard drive my brother Chris called us and told us about the sale that SUU was having on used desktops so we just had to check it out. We got there and the computers were in awesome shape. We got a nice Dell computer, monitor, mouse and keyboard for only $110! Sweet huh. It was a lifesaver and it looks brand new.
Also this week we finally got the internet. I love having our own we are finally able to get online in anypart of our house. Before there was only one spot in our livingroom that we were able to get in from the neighbor (haha) and if you moved it would kick you out. So now I am able to blog in bed while Ty is sleeping he is happy about that because he used to wait for me to get done and sometimes it was really late. One thing that is kinda a pain is that because we don't have a cable jack in the middle bedroom and don't want our computer in our bedroom or livingroom we had to pay $60 to get a wireless router and card for our desk top. Lame! oh well. Internet is worth it. Silly thing to be way excited about but we love it! Thank you Bresnan.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

BANGS-a-rama

So My cute friend Natalie cut these bangs and I love them. They are kinda crazy but they are a good change and so much fun. I just hope I pull them off. Thank you Natalie you are so talented! Bangs Now... extensions Next! I can't wait for that next step! :)

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Happy birthday Mom!

So Today was my mom's Birthday and I just wanted her to know how much I love her. My mom is the greatest! she really is. She will do anything for her kids and my dad. My mom puts other people first all the time maybe even too much (mom you deserve a break too :). Here are some of my favorite things about my mom:
1. She is so loving
2. She has always been supporting of me in everything I do even when I don't think I am good at it
3. She is a hard worker
4. She is talented: amazing organizer (read her website it is on my friends and family list- she owns her own organizing business), she makes the cutest cards and scrapbook pages, and she is the most amazing decorator. My mom's home is beautiful
5. She is so spiritual and a great example to me
6. She is so much fun to go shopping with
7. Growing up when I got a little older in my teen years and would stay up later she would stay up with me sometimes (We are both night owls) and now when Ty and I visit she always stays up late with us talking atleast one of the nights we are there
8. She is beautiful (and has the silkiest hair I have ever seen haha I wish I would have gotten her hair and not my dad's course hair)
9. She is very family oriented
10. She is so smart (way smarter than me)
11. She was always teaching me something
12. She makes me want to be a better person
13. she is easy to talk to
14. she will talk to me on the phone everyday if I called that much. A couple times we have talked like 3 days in a row
15. she is good at comforting
16. she will play games with us and watch movies with us
17. she is a super mom... she has to be with 8 kids and still 5 at home
18. she knows everything about mothering and I am sure I will be calling her everyday when I have kids with all sorts of questions I know she can answer
19. she has a huge heart and cares so much for people (She gets very emotional when it comes to christmas stories and spiritual stories :)
20. And most of all she is an amazing mother and I know she is a amazing wife to my dad because he has told us!

I love you mom and I hope you had a HAPPY BIRTHDAY. (don't worry you are still young)

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Our 2008

January
-Started our second semester married
- Went shooting with Dan

February
-Ty had his 23rd birthday and it was his first birthday we celebrated together as a married couple
- We moved to our home Sunset Ridge
-We watched my siblings and had such a fun sleepover while my parents went to the St. George parade of homes
-Ty's parents Dave and Julie came down and helped us to much with the move
-I read the first Twilight book in 2 days and continued reading the series throughout the year (Iam in love with these books. Thank you Amanda for introducing them to me)
- Celebrated our first married Valentine's Day

March
-Had a well deserved spring break which was partly spent up north and partly spent in cedar
-Brought Ammon back with us to cedar and spent some good quality time and had some fun sleepovers with him
-My family came down to cedar and spent Easter with us :) it was so much fun to have them here.
-First Easter as a married couple
-bought so many cute decorations and had so much fun decorating our new home

April
-Spent a night and day in St. George together for a well deserved little get away. We stayed in a hotel, played at fiesta fun and went shopping.
-Survived finals

May
-Watched my siblings up in Syracuse while my parents went on a little vacation to vegas. It was so fun. We hung out at the duck park, played, went to the dinosaur park.
-Took a job with living scriptures with Ty selling and moved to Phoenix, Arizona
-I looked for a job day in and day out this whole month
-Got a job at Target
-Made good friends (Trevor and Keesa) in Phoenix
-Took an online Chemistery class and lab over summer semester
-Went to the Mesa Temple. It was beautiful

June
-Phoenix didn't work out best for our little family so we moved back to Cedar in June
- Ty went back to work at Chillies
-I got a new job at Lin's in the deli
-Went up North for a while for my families big summer party Luau. Traci and her family came to visit from Canada

July
-Ty and I spent our first fourth of July together married
- My family came down to Cedar City visit for the fourth of July and we went boating
-I finished my online Chemistry Class and Lab and got an A in both!
-Spent our first 24th of July married together

August
-Celebrated our first anniversary in Vegas and stayed at the Stratosphere for three days
-Went to Jeff and Brittany's sealing (what an amazing experience)
-Got our first year anniversary pictures taken by Justin Bowen
-Went boating with Dave and Julie, Amanda and sparky (sparky almost drowned :( ) This family got me to try and love water skiing!
- Started fall semester

September
- My car accident case from October 2006 was finally settled and we finally got all the hospital bills paid and got a check for ourselves
-We were able to start a saving account
- We bought our Jeep. We love it but it needs some TLC and fixing up

October
-Spent conference weekend up North with family
- Went to Vegas with Ty's parents for part of my birthday weekend
-Spent the rest of my birthday up North
-I turned 22
-celebrated halloween in both Cedar City and St. George. Hung out with Ty's parents, Zach, Dan, Brooke and kiddos. Ty was a wrestler and I was a disco girl for halloween.
- Went to Dan and Brooke's pumpkin carving party

November
-Ty got really sick. (The only time he has thrown up since we have been married) it was so sad. I was grossed out. I am bad around throw up. I am going to be a horribel mother if I can;t be near barf
-I started my own interchangable beaded watch band business and I love love love it
- Ty and I got a calling together to be CTR 5 primary teachers
-went to the twilight movie opening night at midnight. Ty came with me what a sweet husband
-We had an amazing but very fast thanksgiving at the Ulrich's
-Decorated for Christmas early :)

December
-Finished up finals
- Ty took the LSAT Dec 6 and I am so proud of him for taking it
- I got my best college GPA this semester 3.95
-Ty won his fantacy football championship against his brothers
-Spent a week up North over Christmas/New years at both the Jacobs and Ulrich's and had the best time ever
-Traci, Stephane, Ben and Julien visited from Canada
- Ty and I went snowboarding with amanda and her friend. Ty and Amanda taught me the whole time. They are so nice and patient. I had a blast

Throughout the year
- Went on a lot of fun dates and midnight movies
-Made some life long friends
- I got Ty addicted to one of my favorite shows One Tree Hill and we now own 3 seasons
- Ty got both of us super addicted to the TV show scrubs and we just bought the sixth season
-Shaved Ty's head four times
-Whitney Started with Dark hair at the beginning of the year, then blonde in the middle and a mix with blonde on top and a dark shadow box at the end of the year and it also got shorter as the year past instead of longer
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

OuR 2nD cHrIsTmAs

Wow I can't even believe that this is already Mine and Ty's second Christmas married. I absolutely love this time of year and we were so blessed with all the time off our jobs gave both of us. Sorry for the picture overload but it was hard to leave certain ones out. So I hope you all enjoy.
There is a tradition in both mine and Ty's families of getting an ornament every year. So we started to buy each other an ornament that pertains to that year. We were pretty creative this year. Ty got me a slot machine because this year on our anniversary in Vegas was my first time gambling. :) and I gave Ty a motorcycle because he wants one so bad and itis all he talks about but we can't afford one yet so I got him this motorcycle for Christmas. See honey I do care and I do take your love for motorcycles seriously hehe.

This is our nephew Parker at the ward Christmas party. Santa was of course the surprise guest and to all of our surprise Parker wasn't affraid of him. We think its because Santa gave him a candycane. The Candycane didn't sell most of the kids though I think more kids were crying then smiling. They are scared of him but they don't mind him coming into there homes and leaving presents. ha. Silly kids.
CHRISTMAS EVE
I was scheduled to work Christmas eve so I went in at 8:00 am dreading it the whole way there. Well I got there and everyone was just so cheery I couldn't help but be happy. Well then 10:00 rolls around and my manager comes to me and says I want you to get to your family safe and I am worried about the weather so you can leave. Oh my goodness. I was so excited I got to leave work 4 hours early which was great because then we would be able to get to my family's house even earlier. My sister, Brother in Law and their two kids came to visit from Canada so I couldn't wait to see them and everyone else. We left Cedar City at about 1:00 and got to syracuse at 5:00, 2 hours earlier then we had planned!

Ty and Ammon in their new Christmas PJs

Amanda and cute little Julien showing off their new pajamas

Mom and Dad! They are the most amazing people I have ever met and I was so happy we were able to spend so much time with them over the holidays. We love you mom and dad thank you for everything you did to make it such a wonderful time.

Mom and her Baby. He is her little buddy and I think always will be. We love you Ammon

My baby and I in our new PJ's from Edwin the Elf. You like? My Pj's this year was a robe and I absolutly love love love it. Thanks Edwin ;)

My sister Traci and her husband Stephane
Christmas Eve Rockband
We brought up our rockband because my family loves it. Then they got rockband the next day as a present from grandma Bargar.

Even the little kittys like to participate and they were pretty good. I see a hit in their future

Dad loves to sing and Ballroom Blits is for sure his favorite and I have yet to see anyone sing it as well as he does.

My brother Adam. Well he already has the mohawk what else do you need?
He is a rockstar. Thanks Adam for hanging out with us and making a laugh so much



My nephews Ben 3 and Julien 1 1/2
They loved to dance while rockband was on

Christmas Morning with the Jacobs

Ty and I both got each other racquetball equipment with the money grandma Bargar sent. We love playing racquetball together :) Thanks professor Julie Taylor for introducing us to this sport
Ty's presents:
1. Racquetball equipment- Grandma and Grandpa Bargar
2. Snowboarding coat- Santa
3. snowboarding goggles- Santa
4. Sweater- Whit
5. Hat- Whit
6. comfy robe- Whit
7. Charging station- mom
8. rotating tie rack- mom
9. drill bits- stocking
10. tim Mcgraw cologne- stocking
11. A sweet Jacket- his brother Chris



Whit's Presents
1. Racquetball equipment- Grandma and Grandpa Bargar
2. SUU hoodie- Ty
3. Sweater dress- Ty
4. Ihome- Ty
5. matching gloves and scarf- Ty
6. comfy socks-Ty
7. Twilight hard cover and Twilight soundtrack-Ty
8. jewelry-Stocking
9. Lucky perfume- Stocking
10. Zebra shoes, zebra purse, and pocka dot bag- sister-in law Brooke



So my family has a tradition of having pillsbury cinimmon rolls with green frosting and shaped as a Christmas tree for Christmas Breakfast. And man is it delicious. Ty's family also has a Christmas breakfast tradition of baked french toast, egg caserol and apple cream so we had that for dinner at his family and it was so delicious :)

Julien loved Ty's hat and kept stealing it saying "My shapo" meaning "my hat" in french it was so cute the way he said it
Presents Ty and I got from mom and Dad Jacobs:
1. Yahtzee
2. Smores kit (we love it and we will always keep refilling it)

Christmas Day at the Ulrich's
At about 3:00 we went over to Ty's parents house and all his brothers and their wives and their kids were all there as well. It was so much fun to see everyone and to have the famous Ulrich christmas breakfast for dinner.
My niece and nephew Oaklyn and Connelly opening presents from Grandma Julie and Grandpa Dave. They look so cute opening their presents.

Connelly and Max playing with their new toys

....Even sparky had some Christmas toys, treats and fun. Isn't he the cutest Doggy.

My Zebra shoes, Zebra purse and pocka dot bag from Brooke. Thank you Brooke I absolutly love them!

Ty's awesome Jacket from Chris. Thanks Chris it looks great on him.

Mom Ulrich opening one of her presents from Dad. Money to spend on their anniversary cruise in January. We are excited for you guys and very jealous.

Chris, Dan, Mike and Ty. You can't tell they are brothers can ya?! haha. Anyway they have a lot and I mean a lot of Murray High School pride. They love that school and they were all so involved during those years. Ty was in the top choir, played football, rugby and wrestled. So anyway their parents got them these plaques that have a tile from the old hallway before the remodel and a brick from the old part of the school then it has their names and everything they were involved in and acomplished. Cool huh? I think it is awesome and so thoughful and the boys loved the present.
Presents Ty and I got from mom and Dad U.
1. gift card for food storage
2. 48 hour emergency kit
3. the Murray high school plaque
4. a wooden pan cooler
5. a game
Presents from grandma and grandpa kjar
1. a emergancy 100 hour candle
2. $30 gift card to walmart

The rest of the week was fulls of fun and blessings. We hung out with family and friends. I went girl shopping with my mother in law and sister in laws and then went to lunch with them. Thank you for that fun time. Chris taught us all a new game called hot dice and it was way fun we played it a lot. We went to a Kjar Christmas party and an Ulrich Christmas breakfast party. Ty and I went snowboarding with my sister Amanda and her friend Eric. I went shopping with my mom and sister Traci. We played a ton of games. Played a lot of rockband. We went to lunch with our cute friends Mandy and Jeff. And Ty got a great LSAT score back and I am so proud of him. He has taken the first step!
Presents we gave:
1. Aero Jacket- From Whit to Mike
2. Aero Sweat pants- From Ty to Dan
3. Baby doll- From Ty and Whit to Londyn
4. Aero sweater- From Ty to Adam
5. 2 watch bands and a watch face- from Whit to mom J
6. Slippers, garden gloves and a back massager- From the Jacobs kids to Mom and Dad Jacobs
7. a Declaration of independance picture- From Ulrich Kids to mom and dad Ulrich
New Years Eve
We spent New Years Eve at my parents. Ty and I went to lunch with our friends Mandy and Jeff that are in town from Kentucky. Then my mom, Traci, Amanda and I went bargain shopping for Christmas decorations at Tia Pan and Hobby Lobby. Then we got home I made Traci a cute watch band for her birthday, ate dinner and hung out. My dad took Traci, Stephane and the boys to the airport at about 9:00 pm. We were so sad to see them go. They live way too far away. We then just played games with the little kids and when dad came home we watched rockin new years eve said happy new year and we were all exausted so we went to bed. Haha but it was fun.
My sister Emilee and Ben We all had so much fun with everyone together.

Me and Ju Ju Bean. He loved playing with Aunt Whitty and loved giving big loves and kisses. Cutest Kid. I wanted to take him to Cedar with me.

Julien and his Cute uncle

Me and Ben

Ben is so funny and very He loves uncle Ty

The HUSBANDS :)

A little New Years Eve Rock band before they had to go to the airport. We miss you Traci, Stephane, Ben and Julien
Thank you Mom and Dad Jacobs and Mom and Dad Ulrich for an amazing Christmas and holiday break. We love you all and miss you already.