A Series of Unfortunate Events

The honeymoon was amazing! Don't think that is what I am talking about, haha. I will write about it and tell you everything once I have a chance to upload pics etc.

However, this week some sad things have happened. It just makes me really grateful for my health and safety. It also strengthens my testimony of Heavenly Father and that miracles do happen. I want all of my family and friends to know that I love you guys and I am so happy you are well.

My friend Molly from Boise (We went to school together from K-12) was diagnosed with leukemia. She is only 23 so it is a very sad thing. She just started her chemotherapy this week and it is really hard. But she is the type of person that always has such high spirits, a lot of faith, and a good attitude. I know she'll make it through.

My little brother, Stephen's, best friend Logan Webb (practically my little brother) was in a serious bus accident with 7 other missionaries in Brazil. Here is the story from his big sister Kim:

Monday Logan was in an accident on his mission. We received details yesterday. Yes, we were all dying and wanted to jump a plane to Brazil! The driver of a flat bed semi carrying tiles fell a sleep on a narrow stretch of road in Brazil. Seven Zone leaders (missionaries) were headed to Rio de Janiero for a meeting on a local bus. The semi crashed into the bus causing tiles to fly through the windows and the impact mangle the bus. Everyone was injured. One missionary was sent home for plastic surgery on his crushed nose and cheek bone. Logan was thrown from the back of the bus to the front, hitting something on the way up that caught his knees for a second. He has a bad concussion that caused short term memory loss. He passed out. They braced his body and neck just in case until the test/ xrays were finished. He kept trying to take the braces off and was like..."Where am I!? Everyone was speaking Portuguese, (which he knows fluently) and he could only speak English, no memories of the 2nd language and what he was doing there. Everyone received HUGE gashes and wounds from the tiles that were sewn up on there face. LUCKILY Logan braced his face with his arms and hands causing his cuts mainly there, with only small cuts on his face. His short term memory slowly came back over the last two days as he has slept and healed. His knees are beat up, but he can wobble and hopefully get back tracting/walking fully in the streets in 2 weeks! He was able to talk to my parents after the Mission President gave the details to my parents. He sounded pretty good, they said. Logan said the picture of this mangled bus is crazy, he knows the Lord protected them in a big way that day and it should have been a lot worse. He said he loves the work and is improving so fast from a blessing they gave him. He is fluent again and pulling memories even at the time off the accident. He is already interviewing missionaries and into his daily duties starting yesterday from the release from the hospital. He and the missionaries remember a chunk of a ladies head landing on him, causing some to vomit. NASTY. There were no deaths... hurray. He has a little ways to go though with his legs and head, he mentioned on the phone he was "going to go now and take a nap on his spider man sheets"...coo coo, I think his memory is still a little floppy. We LOVE him and know he IS okay and the Lord is protecting him. He loves his mission and the people there. He is such a strong individual, and loves the gospel. We miss him, but will see him in JUNE!! ...The other missionaries are okay and are released with wounds to continue to heal. So that's the update, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PRAYERS, NOTES AND WISHES.

How My Husband Shows Me He Loves Me

I love Kory, with all of my heart. I know he loves me too, because he does the cutest and sweetest things to show me that he does. This last week he did a few.

1. One morning he had to wake up at 6 AM so that he could study for his test before he had to go to class. I woke up long enough to make sure he was getting up, then I was out. Kory got ready, and studied for his test. Then 10 minutes before he left, he climbed back in bed (already dressed and ready for the day) and cuddled with me. It meant so much to me that he saved 10 minutes so that he could cuddle with me before he left for the day. It totally made my day.

2. I had just gotten out of the shower and was hurrying to get ready really quick so we could head to work (I had been working in the house all morning and hadn't had time to get ready yet). Then Kory came around the corner with something behind his back and a big smile on his face. I faced him and started smiling, "what do you have?" He kissed me then handed me a beautiful bouquet of orange lilies! (I think they are lilies). For no reason at all, no special occasion, nothing...just because he loves me.



3. Last night I was doing the laundry and I shut the tip of my finger in the folding door. I was tough for about 30 seconds but it hurt!! bad!! I started sniffling as the tears started to form. I was over by the door about to take the garbage out when Kory runs over to me and tells me to put the garbage down. I put it down and proceed to tell him, "I smashed my finger in the door!" (haha this makes me laugh typing it) He heard the "I'm about to cry sniffles" and came running. Kory put his arms around me and comforted me telling me it would be ok. That's the best! I LOVE it when he comforts me and just says it will be ok, it ALWAYS makes me feel better no matter what. He got a bag of ice for me. I said, "why do we need to ice it?" He looked at me like I don't know the answer to that and then said, "we just do." haha, I told him it made me think of how he is going to be as a father when our kids are always asking him "why?" ..."Because I'm your father and I said so."


It means so much to me that my husband does the little things to show me that he loves me. Married life is the best, I could not be happier! I feel so lucky to have Kory as my eternal companion. This is my way of bragging about him, and saying thank you...I love you Kory.

Possible New Blogspot Site Address

So I am thinking I want to change my blogspot address to www.analeeandkory.blogspot.com or something like that. But my question is, if I change it does it automatically direct everyone that follows my blog to the new site address? What do you think? Should I just try it and we'll find out?


CONCLUSION:

Ok so I tried it for 2 minutes and check it out myself. It doesn't redirect you automatically, bummer! It just says that www.missanalee.blogspot.com doesn't exist, sad! I can't decide if I want to go through the hassle of changing it or just leave it. But just so you know, in case you can't find my blog one day it has been changed to www.analeeandkory.blogspot.com :) ok!

FREE Photo Books from Shutterly AND Snapfish!

I got an email from Shutterly today. It said to place an order by the 17th and get a FREE 8x8 photobook for a future date. We got our guest book through shutterfly and I LOVED it!



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The funny things is today Celeste also called us today and told about how you can get a FREE 8x11 photobook with Spapfish! You just have to start it by tomorrow and finish it by Sunday.



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HAPPY PHOTO-BOOKING! :)

I Am a Housewife, haha

Yesterday morning Kory called me while he was at school and I was running errands. I couldn't take his call at that moment. But when I did get a chance to communicate with him he asked if we could have his two statistics friends over for dinner that night so they could help him study and do an assignment.

So last night after we got home from work Kory helped me start dinner then he went and worked on homework a little bit. While he did that I set the table, and got the rest of dinner made so everything was almost ready when his friends arrived. Then the four of us had dinner together, we talked and laughed. It was funny. It totally made me feel like a housewife making dinner and preparing to entertain my husband's "clients" or "prospective business associates." It was a cute little moment.

After dinner I did the dishes. THEN I found my wireless router!! Yay! Kory and I have been trying to find that for the last month. I had to reset the router and everything. It took me a while to set everything up. But that also made me feel like a housewife because my Mom also set up all of the computer technical things while my dad worked in his office. I wish I knew half of the technical things that my Mom does. She is so good with computers and technology. So fun, I love being married!

We're Married! Woot Woot!

Oh my gosh this weekend was SO fun! Kory and I were married in the temple for time and all of eternity. Then we just got to take tons of pictures and celebrate with friends and family! It was so great! I got to see so many friends and family members. It was truly a special occasion sharing this experience with everyone. It meant so much to me that everyone traveled so far to be there to support us. We sure love you and appreciate you so much!

I will tell you more of the wedding/reception details when I get the pictures back in a month or so. For now I'm going to tell you about our first weekend as newlyweds. We went to this cute little Inn tucked away in the mountains. The room was beautiful, the food was fantastic, and the service was wonderful. But most of all, the company was amazing. I have grown to love Kory so much more over the last week. I can't wait to see how our love continues to grow over our lifetime.

We ate a lot of amazing food this weekend. The Blue Boar Inn has a Blue Ribbon chef. We had a five course Sunday brunch, and then another amazing breakfast on Monday morning. We also went to another special place of ours and had an incredible dinner. So sorry most of our pictures are of us eating, haha, I couldn't resist capturing it on camera! We also went on a nice little drive up in the mountains, and fed the ducks at the state park. It was just so wonderful to relax and spend quality time together. Here are some pics!









This is Kory feeding the ducks, haha. My laugh is so silly in this video.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KORY! (October 24th)

We celebrated Kory's birthday last week! It was so fun. His birthday was Friday the 24th. I wanted to do something really special for him so I decided to plan a surprise birthday party! I originally had it planned for Friday, but I found that a lot of our friends already had plans or things going on so they wouldn't be able to make it. So, I planned the party for Thursday instead (the day before Kory's actual birthday, what better way to surprise than to throw a party the day before? haha).

Things went really well all day long. That morning I took Kory to school then ran to the store to get party stuff: happy birthday plates and cups, birthday hats, birthday noise makers, and birthday streamers. Then I ran to Costco and got a chocolate birthday plate. I only had a limited amount of time before I had to get Kory from school so I ran the things over to my friend Emily's apartment for her to bring over to our apartment later. I was able to swing by the post office on campus to drop of some invitations that needed to be mailed and buy more stamps. It saved me a lot of time instead of having to run all the way to the Provo or Orem post offices. I picked up Kory for a little bit and then he had to go back to school again to take his statistics test. That gave me enough time to run to the creamery on campus and get balloons and candles, and then drop those things off at Emily's also. I ran home to shower and get ready I cleaned the apartment and did some finishing touches on the decorations. I hung up a frame with some of our engagement pictures and another french style bulletin board with pictures on it. I arranged for friends to bring all of the things I had picked up, ice cream, and root beer.

Kory and I went to work and had a normal day. As we started wrapping up and getting ready to go home I was starting to get anxious and excited. I called friends really quick to make sure that everything was running smoothly. Then the whole way home I was texting them to give them the play by play. Kory was driving and I noticed he didn't make the turn to go home. I asked why and he said he was heading straight to our Bishop's interview (which I had secretly rescheduled for later). I told him I needed to go home first so he re-directed towards home again. As we approached our door there was a skateboard sitting outside of our door and Kory stopped and looked really puzzled. He checked to make sure the door was locked...

Kory's Version:

So we're going to our interview with Bishop, and we start passing our street, and she's like "where are you going?" I reply Bishops, as in, duh, don't you know? My type-A inherited from my father was on a scheduled basis right now. She replied then that she had to go home first. Partially annoyed, I didn't ask why and just decided to go home. As I approach our apartment door there's a skateboard outside. Puzzled, I'm looking around this skateboard, and then I just say aloud, "punk kids." Then as I'm about to unlock the door, I get this gut feeling that something isn't normal inside. I immediately just think to myself, "some kids must have broken into our apartment." I check the door and it's locked. I unlock the door and open it only to satisfy my presumption, seeing something white hanging from wall to wall in front of me. "The punks TPed my apartment!" I thought to myself. Then, keep in mind this all processed within 3 seconds ... then the lights flip on and .. "SURPRISE!" ..... yes, I was surprised. 1. who's in my house 2. how'd you get in here 3. why are you here? ... "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" Oh, yeah, it's my birthday! HA! I was totally not expecting anything to happen walking into my house that night. Ana Lee was successful with her surprise intentions. My next issue ... what do you say to your guests at a surprise birthday ...? Best I could come up with was "thanks for coming!" hahaha.

It was so fun throwing a surprise party or Kory! I loved it. After everyone had some cake and ice cream we gathered in the living room and talked for a while. Then we played the game where everyone took a turn saying something that they love about Kory. There were so many wonderful things said. Kory is one of those people that others really enjoy, admire, and grow to love. It was very apartment that his friends think very highly of him.










On Kory's real brithday. I took him to Tucanos for lunch, it was a special occasion! :) We had a lot of fun.





Well Kory, I just want you to know that I love you very much. I am so proud of you and I am continuously amazing by you. I hope that you had a wonderful birthday, and that I am able to pull off many more surprises in our future :) Happy Birthday!