yep... we're still here

So it has come to my attention, alot, that I haven't been to good about writing on the blog lately. But I have some excuses. Rick has a little tool thing he can strap to his hand and type with so he told me not to write and he would. So I was all excited that he was going to write on the blog instead of me, and needless to say he keeps putting it off. I think he'll do it soon, but I decided I'd better do a quick update because who knows when he'll do it.

Well for my birthday my parents came and for my present they gave me all sorts of cute stuff to decorate my house. We got my plant shelf all decorated and we added a cute little shelf (or is it spelled shelve?) and cute stuff for the bathrooms. I'll post pictures of those next time. It was so fun to have them visit. And before they came my brother shay got home from boot camp and stuff, so he came and stayed with us for a weekend. We had a crazy wii tournament. First he played Rick in tennis, boxing, and baseball. Rick kicked his butt at tennis. Then me and him had a bowling tournament. We were up till 1 in the morning! We played the best of 5 and I won 2 and he won 2 and on the last game he beat me by 2 pins!! I was so mad!! But we had tons of fun!

While my parents were here, I kind of had a strange experience. Well strange isn't the right word, but a interesting experience. Lately, as I've already said, Rick hasn't been making tons of improvements. He's still been making them, but not as fast as they were or as fast as we'd like. So I think we've both been having kind of a hard time these last couple weeks. I've been praying harder than I ever have in my whole life. And sadly there are days we just get so down that it's hard to feel the spirit and it doesn't feel like our prayers are even being heard. Well during one of these days there happened to be a rain storm here. Right when it got done, our neighbor called me and told me to look out the front door. When we opened the door there was a rainbow so bright and close, I've never seen a rainbow like this in my life. And right above that rainbow there was another one on top of it. So it was a double rainbow, and the prettiest one I've ever seen. To most people I'm sure it was just a really pretty rainbow and that's about it. But right when I saw that rainbow, my eyes filled up with tears and my heart just swelled. It's almost like I heard a little voice in my head saying that rainbow was just for us. I felt a complete calm come over my body, and right then I knew that everything was going to be okay. I've always learned that a rainbow is a sign of a promise, and I know in my heart that Heavenly Father sent us that rainbow that day promising that he would keep those promises that he gave to us in blessings saying that Rick would be healed and that everything will be okay.

I know that this looks a normal rainbow because a picture of it doesn't do it justice, but it was amazing! Sorry to get all personal and tell everyone that but it made me feels so good and it just amazes me the ways Heavenly Father will remind us that He is there, and He is listening to us.

Well we got the news that we got accepted to Neuroworx, and our insurance is going to work just fine!!! We are so excited! We think it's going to do great things for Rick. A little bit more of a drive, but it's worth it! We have our first session this Thursday. So I'll take lots of pictures and tell you how it goes!!

Always a new adventure

Well we've had an interesting last week. On thursday we drove up to south jordan and went on a tour of Neuroworx. The founder of it took us on the tour and told us all about himself and neuroworx. He was such a nice guy. He was in an accident 9 years ago and he injured c4 and c5 which is a level higher than Rick. But he has been mostly healed and can walk now. He said alot of his bottom half is still paralized but he's blessed enough to be able to walk. We are so excited to start there! Hopefully we can figure out all the insurance stuff this week and get accepted and start this next thursday. They have so many machines and stuff there that we think will really help Rick. And everyone has such positive attitudes! Which is a great change from when we were in the hospital. So hopefully I'll be writing in these next couple days saying that we got accepted and we're going!!


On Friday we went up to Fish Lake for a picnic with our neighbors Ady and Hollan. It was so pretty up there! We were cursing ourselves the whole time because we forgot the camera and it was so beautiful! It was just a fun little day trip to kinda get away. I love living here because our backyard is the mountains and we only have to drive 30 min. and be somewhere so beautiful. But we had a picnic and then went on some trails and on a walk and watched some boats in the lake. It was a fun little get away. On friday night we walked down the street to the highschool and watched some of the football game. Then we just hung out outside and talked to some of the neighbors till it was dark and headed home.


On Saturday our whole neighborhood had a big yard sale. Sadly I threw most of the stuff we didn't want when we moved so we didn't have anything to sell but in the morning we took a walk over and saw all the stuff that they had to sell. It sounds like everyone did pretty good and got rid of alot of stuff. After we walked over there Rick's dad came and picked him up and took him birthday shopping for me. I'm going to have such a hard time when Rick goes back to work because even when he's gone for like an hour I miss him so much! But I was really excited that they were birthday shopping for me! Poor Rick has had to hear about my birthday for the last 4 weeks. I'm one of those people that think that my birthday should be a national holiday and Rick thinks that birthdays are no big deal. But i have taken it upon myself to convert him to my side! But luckily for him my birthday is tommorow and then I have to stop talking about it for at least another 8 months. Well after he came back we just hung out for a little bit then alot of our neighbors went to one of our neighbors house and we all had dinner together and just talked and chilled. It was really fun, we love having tons of friends all in our neighborhood, it makes things so easy.


For the next couple day my parents are coming to hang out for my birthday and because they want to see us ( and the house). So we should have fun and I'll keep ya posted on everything for Rick's rehab. We think this week is going to be a great week for Rick and we're going to see alot of improvements, so hopefully he proves us right!!