For the past few weeks Shaye's been working on his new short film, "Not Found". At first he started out shooting random footage in the hills by our house with his friend Kyle Fisher. Then from there they tried to fit their strange shots and dialogue into a plot. This movie should give you all a good laugh and give you insight into Shaye's strange brand of humor. Let me know what you think!
The other day I was reading my good friend Kenzee Anderson's blog and I came across this:
I really got to thinking about this and I wondered, am I laughing my way through life? Until about 3 years ago, laughing at my life's problems had not been a problem--not until we had a hard time getting pregnant. Admittedly, though I've had a lot of good laughs, I haven't had as many good laughs about this struggle as I should have...So I started looking for the humor...
I started to realize that one of the reasons I've had such a hard time with it is that I grew up with a lot of negative associations with infertile women. First impression--Sarai--she had to wait to conceive until she was 90 and had to watch Hagar have Ishmael in the meantime for her husband because she could not conceive. Not fun.
Then I thought of the movie Raising Arizona that I saw as a kid. In this movie, the woman finds out that she's infertile and then gets her husband to steal a baby for her so she can be happy again. Not exactly a stable image... (P.S. I'm making this movie sound like a horror flick, but it's actually a comedy.)
Even so, all joking aside, I've been blessed with Shaye, who is so good at making me laugh. I know that he cares about having a family just as much as I do, but he is always good at balancing me and helping me keep things into perspective. Just the other day I was feeling really weird because of a medication I'm on. I kept saying I felt weird and I was kind of moody and weepy. We were watching TV and Shaye was skipping through some commercials and all of the sudden this hospital commercial came on with a mom holding an infant and talking about the joys of motherhood and how you need a good hospital when you deliver. Shaye looked over at me hoping I hadn't seen it and then we both busted out laughing. I'm so lucky to have him.
Another example was the other night when we were at the table praying over our dinner. He said "please help us get pregnant with one baby when it is thy will." I had to laugh. Shaye knows that as we proceed further with treatments, our chances of multiples rises, (mostly the chance of twins...not sextuplets or Octomom style pregnancies)--which makes him a bit nervous, understandably. But I'm like--bring it on!
So until things work out, I'll continue to learn to laugh. We have so many things to be grateful for. If this is our trial for the moment, we're in pretty good shape. But I want to thank you, our friends and family, who've given us so much support. It's helped so much!
Hi Everyone! I hope you're all doing well! I was just realizing something fun and kind of crazy that I wanted to share with you all. As many of you know, I'm a PhD student at UNLV (earning my degree in British and American Literature). This semester I am taking two classes, which is only part-time, and I have approximately 800 pages to read each week. That translates to 21 novels, and about 12,000 pages in all.
I guess when you're a grad student in Literature they want you to read a lot. Weird. :) It's a good thing I love it! I have to admit though, I do miss the Read-A-Thons in elementary school when I could wear my pajamas and read the Boxcar Children and eat Swedish Fish and M&Ms... No, grad school is much different than that!
Shaye and I had a fabulous Christmas! We spent Christmas Eve at the Scotts' where we had a nativity scene, games, and caroling. We had our own little Christmas and opened up our presents to each other on Christmas Eve also. (Shaye got his fancy, new camera and I got a treadmill :))
We spent Christmas morning at my family's (as usual) and it was a GREAT time! Shaye created this awesome little video of our Christmas morning festivities. (You'll want to click on it to make it full screen.) Hope you're all having a wonderful holiday season!
We took a fun weekend trip a few weekends ago to the Salt Lake City area to visit Shaye's brother Shane. We had such a great time. We went shopping at the Gateway and went to Temple square. I also took Shaye to Ikea...he tried to act unimpressed, but I'm pretty sure he thought it was cool. :)
Below is a short (5 minute) video that Shaye created of our fun little outing in Downtown Salt Lake. (You might want to view the video full screen because my blogger template will cut off some of it if you just view it normally.) You'll see that a lot of these shots are experimental and there's a lot of boring footage of me, but I'm really impressed with how artistic Shaye is in editing videos, so I decided to show it off. Due to his creative flair, hopefully I'll have a lot move nifty stuff to post here.
Hope you're all well and having a great holiday!
Sorry I've been so an inattentive blogger lately. With starting my PhD in Vegas and teaching college at Dixie, UNLV, and for University of Phoenix online (6 classes in all) I haven't had a whole lot of extra time. However, when I do have extra time, I have been so happy to be able to get out with my mom and sisters, and my friends. I've been blessed with such an amazing family and such supportive friends that have helped me through the hard times and even just the super busy times. What would I do without you all?!
Here are some pictures from my girl adventures over the past few months:
Mom, Steph, and I before a trip to Spoon Me. :)
Cindee, Jenny, and I at Ericka's reception. She looked so incredibly beautiful!
And this is from an infinite ago, but I thought I'd still post it. Caitlin left on her mission a few months ago and is doing awesome. She's stationed at Carthage Jail presently. Love you Cakers!So, at this point there's just no point in denying that I'm a huge Twilight fan. Yes, I know they're not the best written books in the world, but I adore the characters. Being the dork that I am, I can't WAIT for New Moon to come out. Here is the new trailer that was just barely released. I don't care if your a Meyer fan or not, this movie looks really cool! (Shaye, who usually mocks my interest in Twilight even agrees with me on that.) Anyone want to have a party with me on November 20th? :) Enjoy the trailer!