It has been awhile

It is amazing how much time has passed since I last posted.

We had a wonderful Christmas. My parents ended up in Arizona around Christmas so a quick drive and we were there. My brother's son was baptized so we had an eventful weekend. It is always nice to see family, especially when they live so far away.

A few weeks after my parents visit we heard my grandma had passed away. The funeral was in Ephraim, Utah which is about 5 hours from us. We left our house when Ted got off from work and Just made it in time to the end of the viewing. I was a little nervous about my kids seeing my grandma like that, but my mom was there and helped them make it not as scary. I was able to see alot of my aunts and uncles and cousins that I haven't seen in over 10 years. It was really nice. Well we went to check in to our hotel and we both had missed calls from his family saying that his mom was in critical condition and we needed to get back, they were not sure if she was going to make it!! What! Ted was a wreck! We drove back to Vegas in record speed to find out it wasn't as bad....They thought.
The doctor said she had a tear in her aorta, the next day they said she still had a tear but it was clotting on the outside. To them it seemed to be healing itself. About a week later she went home. She was home about a week when she was having chest pains again and was brought back to the hospital. She still has the tear and now she has a blood clot in one of the valves to her heart. She had open heart surgery a little over 2 weeks ago. She has days where she is doing better and then the next she is worse than before. Teds dad is having a hard time dealing with all of this. He broke his leg around Christmas, he had to have 2 surgeries to fix it. So he is in a cast up to his thigh. He sits there every day in ICU.

On a happier note....
I decided last year I was going to get my cosmetology licence here in Nevada. Ashlyn is going to kindergarten this year so I will need a part time job. After looking into it I will have to take my written test over. Now it is a national test so if i decide to get a licence in another state I wont have to take the test again. I went down there on a Thursday, they said I needed to wait for a letter in the mail to tell me when the next test date was. I got the letter the next day! And the test was for the next Monday! I had a week to learn over what took me a year in beauty school to learn. I was a little freaked out! I got on an online site and started studying. When Monday came around I didn't feel totally prepared as I didn't really know what to expect. At the beginning of the test she tells us she will send out the letters for those that didn't pass right away, if you did pass it would take a few weeks to get your letter. The test was about 150 questions, and after it was done I was quite relieved but honestly I had no clue how I had done. Some of it I had to guess...
After a week of being totally scared to check the mail in case there was a letter in it :) I received the letter 3 weeks later with my licence in it! I had received an 84 on the test! Holy crap! I was so excited! So now I work part time in a salon less than a mile from my house. I totally love it! I go to work for a few hours a night when Ted gets home and on Saturdays. I think when Ash goes to Kindergarten I will be able to work longer.

Next time i wont take so long to post :)
Love you all!