Blogging Challenge Day 1: Meet the Gardiners, Our Story

I feel like blogging is a great way of keeping up with whats going on in my life. It could totally be used as a journal. Anyways I feel like life hasn't been that interesting lately and I havn't been blogging much. I would like to have something to say so I decided to do the 30-day challenge idea that i've seen some people do. I found a lot of topics to blog about, but I decided to kind of change some of them around and make it my own thing with my own style. I'm going to try to do it daily, but we all know life happens, AND if something news worthy comes up and doesn't relate to topic that won't stop me from somehow finding a way to put it in. Before I start the challenge of day one I want to give an update on whats been going on. I really can't believe summer is coming to an end. Ours was one of the most boring I can remember in a long time and a little interesting. Paul did summer school again so we didn't get to take our trip yet. We are planning on that for fall break. In June I got sick and ended up with kidney stones. It was also my first trip to the ER and Urgent Care, followed by 2 extra trips to the doctor. We also had a visit from my dad and his girlfriend. July brought me a new job. I got a month off before I actually started. I now work at Granger Medical Sleep Clinic. I enjoy it there and have been able to meet some awesome people. Paul finished summer semester with a 101% and now has a GPA of 3.97 something or other. I'm very proud of him and his hard work.

Day One of the challenge is to post 15 facts about us. When I asked Paul to do his part he reminded me that we did a Random fact thing a couple of years ago. When I looked at what we wrote down, most of it was the same stuff from that post. I know those of you who read this know us and all, but I thought I'd kind of change this around and introduce us again or whatever.
It also said to post a current picture of us. We had our pics done in July and this is a preview of it before I get my real copies back.

Paul and Kelci Gardiner: Our Story
Paul and I met our JR. year of Highschool. We had first period English together. I kind of had a crush on him but never said anything. I had a couple of crushes back then and one of them was known and I hate when people know things when I don't want them too, so I decided not to say anything about this one. Plus we had different groups of friends and all that stuff. Trust me that should never matter. Anyways near the end of the year he came up and asked me to smile because he saw me smile once and thought it was a great smile. I loved that he was easy to talk too. Come to find out years later he had a crush on me too. That was the end of JR. year. We had tried to get together to hang out that summer before I went to my dads but it just never worked out. Sr. Year I had work release and only two classes a day. I never really saw him. We actually saw each other at Sr. Dinner dance and talked forever and he FINALLY asked me to dance. I know I could have, but honestly that night I was determined to not ask anyone to dance. They had to ask me. I'm glad he kind of got a clue, much later on. :) After graduation we kind of stayed in touch that summer while I was gone. I came home and we started dating, even though at the time we were going to different colleges. We have been married for a little over six years. I work full time. Paul works full time and goes to school full time. I'm so excited because now he can start applying for grad school. He will have his bachelors in the Spring. I'm excited to see where life will take us. This will also (hopefully) get us a step closer to starting our family. We love to travel. We love cruises and going to DISNEYLAND. Paul likes to play video games to wind down, I like hot bubble baths and reading. Shopping is my therapy. We are U fans. (BYU to when not playing each other) I'm more the sports fan. I could prob go on and on now that i've started writing. I'll just stop here. Have a great night!

link to pics

Hello! We recently had our pics done. Here is the link. Go check them out!

www.mardelphotography.net/Photography/Kelci-Gardiner/18403611_4wrCnx/

I'm having a hard time trying to decide what to order. Let me know your faves! Thanks.

July's Highlights

Some of these may not fall under highlights, but I just wanted to share some things that have been going on this last month. I may or may not have mentioned these in recent posts, but this is kind of my reminder what we did and this was basically our month.

We celebrated the 4th of July as a weekend event. My mother-in-laws b-day is the 3rd so we did a family bbq on the 2nd and went to lunch with her on the 4th. We also had a bbq at my moms and Paul and I went to the West Jordan Firework show. We had never been to that one. It was fun. We also watched fireworks on the hill at my mom's house on the 2nd. I love the 4th of July. I love all the fireworks and am glad that they let them go pretty much through the 26th thanks to Pioneer day too.

My brother turned 21. We had a big dinner for him. It was a fun night.

I ended up back at the doctors. Luckily I didn't have to go to the ER again. Come to find out the pain pills they gave me caused issues with the other issues I was having so when stones tried to move they couldn't. They gave me more medication and got me on the right track for treatment. I really feel like we are headed for the road of recovery. I have had two good weeks without getting sick cause of the stones. I'm so thankful to have Paul by my side. I feel bad we havn't had as good of a summer as we could.

My sister-in-law was put of bed rest for rest of her pregnancy, so I've gone to visit her. Hopefully I can put in more time for visits next month. I feel way bad. I hope she can get through the next three months. I don't want the baby to come early and him not be healthy. I can't wait to meet my new nephew though.

Paul got an A on his second test for this semester. I'm happy he is enjoying this class a lot more than he did last summer. I guess its more interesting than regular statistics.

I got a gift card from a photography place, so Paul and I had our pictures done. I can't wait to get them back. They will for sure be posted.

We celebrated Pioneer Day. I love the month of July with all the fireworks.

The biggest thing this month is I got a new job! I'm so excited. I start in August. I'll have a few weeks off that I need to find stuff to do, but I'm so looking forward to something new. It really couldn't have come at a better time. Its full time, more pay, and benefits. Paul is looking to go part time for the next two semesters of school so he can graduate next spring and we can move wherever grad school will take us. I'm trying t help out by working full time and hoping to get through school faster so eventually I don't have to work and I can be a stay at home mom. I feel like we are in the right direction for my goals and dreams to come true too! I also feel like with out clinic moving downstairs and having to combine with others it would cause problems and I would come to not like my job. I can honestly say in the years I worked at the SMART Clinic I have never once dreaded work. I hope with this new job I will feel the same.

My dad's divorce is final too! He doesn't have to put up with his CRAZY ex anymore! Hope she will leave him alone.

This pretty much sums up our July. I hope everyone is enjoying the summer.

Happy Birthday America!

HAPPY 4TH!

This 4th of July was a long weekend adventure for us. Friday the 1st we went to the hill at my moms house in DayBreak and caught a show of the fireworks around the valley. I love going there for that. On Saturday we had a lunch with my Aunt who was in town and we also celebrated my mother-in-laws birthday. On the 4th we went out to lunch with Pauls family then had a BBQ with my side. We also decided to go to the West Jordan firework show. It was really cool. I love fireworks. I also loved having an extra day off from work! I took a few videos of the fireworks and can't figure out how to get them on my computer right now so i'll use them as photos. Hope everyone had a great 4th of July!

Family Fun

Family Pictures
Taken at the BBQ we had at Rhett and Becky's.

Random shots of our fun.

The last weekend of June, we had some of our family from Texas in town. Unfortuantely, Paul actually had some plans that weekend and missed the visit. He had a good weekend out with the guys. At least I was able to go out and play too. We met our cousins for lunch on Friday then went to see Cars 2. I gotta tell ya that is a great movie. Later that night we went bowling and out for icecream. Saturday I met little Eli for the first time. Rhett and Becky hosted a BBQ at their house. Jill took a lot of fun pictures. I love the ones of me and my sisters-in-law. Then we added Lynette too. Notice the missing guys? Josh and Rhett were the only husbands there that night. We had so much fun though. I love when we have family come to visit. Hope everyone is having a great summer!

Kelcis Update

Just a quick update for whats been going on with me as far as having been sick for awhile. I ended up in the ER last week for what I thought had something to do with my gallbladder but it ended up being kidney stones. I have been sick the last couple of weekends but havn't wanted to do anything about it. I just thought it was stress and what not. Plus it would always go away and it only came on the weekends. I found that odd, especially when I can go and have a good week and work and stuff. It was just stomach pain and what not. I finally decided to go to InstaCare only to be told it was the flu. I knew it wasn't. I had sharp bursts of pain in my chest and ribcage and it made it hard to breath. You can only imagine my frustration when all the tests and labs came back normal. Then they found blood in my urine and determined with what I was facing that it was small kidney stones. They havn't passed yet, and I'm nervous about what i'll be facing. I just hope it happens soon. I'm sick of being sick over my weekend. I want to get out and have fun. I did yesterday and today I feel like I've over done it, especially since I have more pain today. I want to thank my amazing husband for all he did with all the craziness of last week. He never left my side and he put up with me be onery. I love him and couldn't have asked for a better husband. His patience is amazing and I don't know what I would do without him.

Fridays and Summertime

I am SO HAPPY that its finally summer time around here! I've had a couple of great weekends along with some of the bad and scary stuff. I have officially decided that I love having Friday afternoons off, especially this time of year. Last Friday after work I went over to visit my brothers and mom. My sister and her kids were over there too. We had a fun and relaxing afternoon. My mom, sister, and I did some shopping. DayBreak has an amazing bakery so my brother and I took my niece and went and got some dessert. We also took time to play in the water. I didn't get pictures of me, but I got some cute ones of the two of them. Halle was wearing a dress and was standing right over one when it went off. That was funny. As I took my turn the wind shifted a little and got me soaked. I guess you can say that was pretty funny too. We also went and played at the park with some of my brothers friends. My favorite thing was kayaking on the lake. You can always find something to do at DayBreak. I love spending time with my family. I also love being able just to hang out and have a great day. Its a great way to start off the weekend!