UPSET....But I won!!!!!

Ok- So here is my venting post...My sweet little baby has acid reflux...and it's very uncomfortable for the poor little girl every time she eats. Our wonderful pediatrician let us use these samples of the perscription prevacid for about a month and it worked wonders for her, then we ran out so they called the prescription in to the pharmacy- about a week and a half ago I go to pick it up and the pharmacist tells me that the insurance company isnt' sure if they are going to pay for it because it's a pretty expensive medicine and they want to make sure that she really needs it. So I left pretty unhappy. The next day we went to the pediatrician and I called the insurance company, they told me that the authorization process takes about a week then at the end of that is when they decide if they want to pay for it. Our pediatrician told us he had been on the phone with them as well and they sent them to their ACCOUNTANT! The accountant explained to our doctor that she should try another medicine to see if that worked before they would consider paying for the prevacid! Our Dr. asked him if he would like to take care of the patient since he seemed to know more about medicine than he did. So, we were told we had to try another medicine. We did, Linnea hated the taste of it and tried to spit it out everytime I gave it to her, but what else could I do. So last night was the final straw, mother bear came out, I stayed up with my poor baby about all night because she was too uncomfortable to sleep and watched her tense up and scratch her poor little face trying to figure out how to fix her own discomfort...well our insurance company got a call from me bright and early. I couldn't believe that they would make a poor little girl wait for the right medicine while they decided if they would cover it. Well by the end of our conversation I was informed that they would cover it!!!! What a relief! The medicine takes almost two weeks to really get working but when it does it really helped her. Don't get me wrong I am so thankful for our insurance, but I was sooooooo angry that they acted as if they could care less that a little innocent baby had to be in pain all the time over a stupid payment....Well at least we have the good stuff now, but I am finding out quickly you don't mess with my kid :) I know I am tough :)

Opinions???

Ok- We're asking for some opinions or advice...As many of you know Derek and I are moving up north hopefully around May. We are having a hard time with some choices, should we rent or buy? We have found some townhomes that the monthly payment might be maybe $100 more than an apartments rent...and with a town home it's our own home and we gain equity, however we are concerned about the resale problem in a few years down the road when we do want to buy and actual house are we going to be stuck? I don't know. I would much rather put my money to good use and not just put it towards rent, but we are trying to decide if it is a wise choice to buy right now. We have been advised that buying is smart since the market is so down...I'm just worried for when it goes up again will people buy from us? Any advice from anyone would be appreciated!!!!! Hope everyone is doing just wonderful

Valentines Day

Well I hope everyone had an excellent Valentines Day...We had a great day. It first just started with us going out and about together to get clothes for our family pictures...then we made some lunch and started to get ready for our evening. I had planned to make Derek a dinner of whatever type of food he wanted...he chose latin or mexican. So he took Linnea for me and I went shopping. I bought all the groceries then when I went to check out after she had scanned all my groceries I look in my purse and guess what...I forgot my wallet...so they had to suspend my groceries while I waited for Derek to bring our debit card...I kept thinking well what a great start, but we had a good laugh. Anyways, so I finally got home and made him a big dinner...I made grilled steak quesedillas for an appitizer and Spicy Acupulco Chicken Salads for dinner and attempted to have fried Ice cream for dessert, but I read the recipe wrong and they took alot longer than I had thought they did so we didn't have that. Derek told me to rent whatever chick flick I wanted to (how often does that happen) so I rented that new movie Fireproof- I highly recommend it to everyone especially the marrieds...it has a great moral and thought to think about how to improve you marriages. Derek got me another willow figurine...this one is called grateful, he said it's cause he's most grateful for me :) I've been collecting them, the first one he gave me was for our wedding, and he's given them to me for all important events in our marriage. I absolutely love them ALL. He is the greatest. We had an excellent Valentines I hope everyone had the same!

Reflection...

The past few weeks I've been thinking about some things. The past two months since Linnea has been born have been FULL of so many blessings, that I do notice. I feel that I am given everything that I ask for...but it hit me the other day that I am getting blessed, but what are you doing to keep the blessings? I always have the thought in my head like...Ok today I'm going to read my scriptures...but never do...or today is the day Derek and I are going to start our family scripture study again (which has been slacking since Linnea came), but we only just talk about it...or I am going to do a service project for someone every month...but again it's only thought about...the list I found sadly goes on and on. I feel that the Lord knows that I want to do all these things, but for some reason all they ever do is just get talked about. It made me sad that I have been excepting sooooo many wonderful things from the Lord, and I feel like he's just waiting for me to pay it forward by serving him throughout the week other than just Sundays. I think if we all reflect on ourselves, at least I have found its amazing even if I was doing all those things religiously the Lord would still be handing out the blessings ten times more...I feel so grateful right now for all that he has given to me and my family...so last night Derek and I seriously said we were going to start doing the things that we used to do. Since our schedule has changed alot and most of the time we'd like to take our free time to relax or do our homework or something else we feel we also need to take those opportunities to do things that spiritually we know we should. So I have my own goals, but as a family we are going to say morning and night prayers...even if I've just put the baby back down I told Derek to wake me up to pray...which he did and we will begin our scripture reading again. I think the Lord was teaching me a lesson lately. That I need to sacrifice something I enjoy doing...like something dumb like watching a show I really enjoy, and need to show him that He is the important priority in my family. I don't know if this makes sense, but I've just had it on my mind. I hope if you reflect on your own lives you're doing better than I am...but we'll get back on track!!!!! :)

Life....

Well things are wonderful for us right now. Linnea is a wonderful baby, she loves to smile, go on her walks and hang out with mom and dad. She has slept through the night two times already and usually sleeps for about at least five hours a night, it's very nice. Derek is back into school and he says it's getting pretty tough, he is trying really hard at balancing working 50 hours a week being a full time student and being a hubby and new daddy, he is doing a GREAT job and I appreciate him so much he is so willing to help me. I am in my anatomy and physiology class online and sometimes I struggle and finding time to work on it and take my quizes but I am trying. I am already nervous for the final, because it's 50% of my grade, so hopefully I do well because I need to get a B in order to apply for the program.

Well this past week Derek and I headed up north to celebrate our anniversary. We made it to my parents house Thursday night, Linnea did very well in the car I thought and then she slept all night so I was very happy. Friday came and Derek and I headed down to Salt Lake for our over nighter...and my parents watched Linnea. It was sooooo hard to leave her. I've only left her at the most for two hours, so I got a little emotional, but I was ready to have a night with Derek. So we made it to our hotel and just wanted to relax, so the nice husband I have bought Twilight on the T.V. so we could watch it again...he let me watch what I wanted over his movie he wanted cause he is a sweetie pie...then we decided to go to dinner...we asked for recomendations from the front desk, at first we went to the NEW Yorker, but it had a long wait so we went to a place called Christophers. So we should have looked at a menu first because it was very pricey for our budget, but we decided we could splurge for our anniversary. So I ordered my usual chicken alfredo and Derek got a steak. When we got our expensive food I took one bite and thought I bit into a glove of garlic smothered in vinegar!!!! And Derek pretty much was eating charred meat. His french fries were good though so Derek told me to eat up because those french fries were like 10 bucks each :) We are both pretty passive so we said we should've asked for something else, but all we told the server was we didn't like the food....dang we need to stand up more. So after that we went Ice Skating which was really fun...Derek showed me his skating moves :). So the next morning we planned to go to the temple and do an endownment session, but another funny story happened for us...so I hope this isn't too personal for everyone, but I nurse Linnea and obviously I didn't have my baby there to eat so I get filled up alot in the upper body, and I didn't bring enough bottles to pump into so we made it to chapel of the temple before I realize there was niagra falls leaking onto my temple dress so we had to go. We had a lot to laugh about at our first anniversary attempt. The whole reason we wanted to come up for was to go to the temple so we are trying to plan another time to come up so we can do a session...it was an interesting night, but at least we can laugh at ourselves and our unprepardness :) My parents loved having Linnea for the night, thankfully she slept well for them so that was great. On our way home we got to go visit Derek's sister Crystal and her new baby Asher...he is ADORABLE so the cousins got to meet eachother. They are only six weeks apart so hopefully they'll grow up as good buddies. Well that was our weekend and life at the moment. I hope everyone is doing fabuolous....