Scott just got back from Dallas, Texas!

Down town Dallas and Six Flags! (Neither of which he got a chance to go to! Just drive by...)

Scott went down to Texas to help out a friend by installing security systems. He has been gone since Thursday. Cohen and I have really missed him and are so happy he FINALLY came home. It felt like an eternity! Scott didn't get a single picture of himself while he was there, silly husband! But he did take quite a few pictures of random streets to satisfy my curiosity! No mountains, no beach... I think I will pass.
He was so busy that he hardly slept! In fact, last night he didn't sleep at all. Both my boys are taking naps and I think I will join them. Good bye for now!

I am a Facebooker!

So I gave in and signed up on Facebook! I already have a myspace page and this blog and a toddler and two dogs and a husband and many other things that keep me hopping, but I decided, why not add one more thing to take up my time! And that is just what is it, a time sucker! It is fun though! I have enjoyed catching up with old friends from junior high and high school. It is weird to think back to those days! Boy, if I could do it over....
Anyway! If you are on Facebook and we aren't friends yet, I wanna be your friend! If you don't have a Facebook account, jump on it!!!

I am having a Scentsy Party!

All friends and family and their friends and family are invited to experience Scentsy!
When: Tuesday, Dec. 9th
6:30 - 8:30
Where: My mom's home
62 west 940 north Orem
Why: Because the warmers and leadless, wickless candles are freakin awesome and smell WONDERFUL! They have so many to choose from! Plus, they make perfect Christmas and other holiday gifts!
I am so excited about their new plug ins!

If you would like your house full of yummy fragrance without the risk of fire and minus the danger to children (the wax doesn't get hot enough to burn, Cohen has touched it) then you will love Scentsy!

Ok, enough on selling the product... once you smell them, they really sell themselves!
I really want to help out my friend who just became a cosultant and I really want to see all my friends so I am hoping whoever can make it will stop by to at least say HI!

Hope to see ya then! Please RSVP if possible.

Also if you are interested, but can't make it to the party you can also buy online at www.scentsy.com/ashleyd

Happy Thanksgiving!

Warm California wishes for the holidays!

Green Family
Tracy, ME, SCOTT, COHEN, Andrew, Nate, Mom and Dad, Kya, Mia, Michelle with Jada, Joe "Cool", Zoe, Stephanie with Jimmy and Mike with William!

We have been in southern California for the past week spending time with all of Scott's family! We have had so much fun going to the beach, DISNEYLAND, seeing Twilight (FINALLY!), shopping, Tracy did my hair (YEAH!) and most of all being thankful for family and having fun together! We have all been staying in one house so the chaos is, well highly chaotic!
More pictures to come...

Follow up doctors appointment....

I just got back from my follow up appointment with my doctor (as the title would give away). I am feeling so sad, I just don't know where to go from here...

He gave me comfort through his empathetic smile and body language, but nothing he said could help because he just doesn't know why or what we can do. He didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. He said where each of my 5 miscarriages have been so early, statistically it would be chromosome abnormalities. Once we saw the heartbeat we should have been good from there. They would worry about my progesterone if I had been further along or they would test for a blood clotting disorder, but generally that is for second trimester losses. But again, it has just been so early...
I had him order several blood tests for me for a new place I am going to go to. My mom has referred a lot of clients to a natural hormone replacement center called Wellnique. They also help men, women and children with everything you can imagine with homeopathics and herbs. My sister-in-law Michelle also told me she has heard they have helped many, many women who can't get pregnant to conceive so I am hoping they can help me stay pregnant since we have been lucky these last few times to conceive so quickly. Before these last two miscarriages, I use to be more afraid of it taking us a long time than I was about miscarrying since it took us a year inbetween our first and second miscarriages. Now I am just really scared about getting pregnant again. I want to try again, but I feel like we are playing Russian Roulette with a bullet in every spot but one instead of only one bullet total.
I know we will move forward from here because our desire and hope is still stronger than our fear and weakness, I just pray it doesn't come to a day where we are too weak and beaten down to continue. That we stop trying to have children by choice because we are done and not because we can no longer hope.

Blessings in Disguise?

So we packed up and headed to Park City on Friday night with our little Cohen, excited to get away for a night of pizza, swimming, movies in bed and fun.
We checked in and had the smaller (normal sized) room this time. As we were unloading we realized we (I) forgot the porta-crib! Well, we would just let the little restless sleeper sleep in between us and hopefully get some actual sleeping in.
When we got to the room Cohen was really really whiny because he didn't have much of a nap that day so we ordered pizza and kept him busy until it was time to head up to the floor to get it. We passed the pool on the way and it looked like it was closed for service but they said it would reopen in an hour and a half. So we got our pizza and went back to the room and hung out and ran around the cubical for the next hour and then got into our swim suits. I was excited to take Cohen swimming to wear him out! I called down to the front desk and they informed me that the pool would actually be closed the rest of the night for maintenance! AHHH! We had two plus hours until he would hopefully go to sleep and who knows if he will sleep with us, and nothing to do so we called the front desk back and told them that was the reason for our stay was to swim with our son. I told them we would prefer to check out and use our prepaid night another time. Reluctantly, they let us.
So we drove home in time to put Cohen down in his own bed. The frustration and let down of the night went along with the rest of the week before, but then I thought that maybe there is a reason it all turned out like it did. Maybe something would have happened if we had stayed, something worse than just a pool being closed and a grumpy child with out a crib. I like to understand most everything that goes on around me so when I don't have an answer it drives me insane. Even when we watch a movie I always have lots of questions and Scott just tells me not to worry about it if he doesn't have the answer.
We were passing through Heber and came so close to hitting a cat that I about had a heart attack. After that I, for some reason, started thinking about how sometimes the annoyances and road blocks in life could actually be protecting us from harder trials. That they may be blessings in disguise.

!!!Trans-Siberian Orchestra!!!

So I got another chance to blog...

Last night Scott and I went to the

It was so so amazing! We went with my mom and Kay, my two sisters, Missy and Chantelle and two of my mom's friends. We also went to dinner before hand.
This was the first time we left Cohen with a babysitter to feed him dinner and put him down and everything and he did great! We really liked the girl who my sister-in-law Michelle referred from her ward, Megan. It is really nice to have someone you feel comfortable leaving your most precious "possession" with. We have left him with my mom and sister, but it is nice to not have to bug my family when we want to go out.
Anyway, the show, like I said, is completely amazing! My mom went to it last year and kept raving about it and said if anyone is ever going to see a concert, this is the show to see!
The first half went a little slow because they tell a Christmas story, but the last half I could barely sit still, well I didn't sit still! I just wanted to dance and bounce all over to the incredible festive music! These people are so of the best musicians in the world, you can feel like excitement and passion in what they do and it makes you want to run out and buy an electric violin and play your heart away! Although, with my experience with piano and guitar lessons, I never really stuck to it... I still have my guitar.
Anyway, there is also a fabulous (I got sick of saying incredible and amazing) light and FIRE show that plays up the beats.
Click here for a small taste Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Before dinner we had parked in a lot next to the restaurant and across the street from the E Center. After the show we booked it out of the building hoping to beat traffic to get home by 11pm for Megan.
(WARNING: RANT AHEAD)
Well, we didn't notice the tiny signs clear up on the polls, spaced far apart in the dark that said "Hotel Parking Only". We ran when we saw people towing the car next to ours. We went to hop in our car for a quick get away when the towing guy shouted that we had a boot on our car! We didn't see a boot, but he said, "It's there!" It was ONE HUNDRED AND TEN freaking dollars CASH to remove the "boot." "Conveniently" there was an ATM on the other side of the building so Scott ran around to get the money. ATMs only give $20 dollar bills, nothing smaller and again "conveniently" A+ Towing doesn't carry change either. So Scott and I by this time are extremely annoyed about the cost, the delay and how rude the idiots from A+ Towing were. They guy takes his sweet time writing out a receipt, gladly takes the extra ten dollars and then walks around the car and says we can go. Scott just about flipped a lit when he realized the liar had never even gotten around to actually booting our car. The guys completely lied about it being there and when we confronted them about it the owner said he had already removed it! We had all been standing right there and no one had removed anything. Kay and my mom came over and talked to them with us and gave them a 10 so we could at least get our 20 back. Kay is the former Utah County Distric Attorney and he was trying to talk to them about the situation, but the owner just lied right to Kay's face and said he did actually remove the boot. We told them they are running a dishonest business and they will be hearing from us.
We understand that we were in the wrong about parking there, but they were sleezy and dishonest in their actions. I don't know if we will be able to do anything about it, but I feel better that we got out 10 bucks back, I didn't want to give them a penny more than I had too. The entire thing kind of took away the Christmas spirit we were feeling, but now I feel all excited about the upcoming holidays so they couldn't take that away from us permanently! :)
So, to make a short story long, we finally got home at midnight.
Since we didn't do anything for our very special 5 year anniversary we considered that our celebration night. We are also going back to Park City tonight, with Cohen this time! I am excited to take him swimming! Hopefully he likes it more this time than he did last...

Also, one more thing! I just want to say how FREAKING EXCITED I am for TWILIGHT the movie! It is coming out in just one week from now! I have been rereading the book in preperation (which will sound completely weird and obsessive to anyone who isn't a Twilight fan) and cannot wait!!!