A New Year

Is it really 2016, where did the last 2 years go? As I have read back on my blog posts, I'm sad that I didn't continue to blog. The passed two years have been wonderful, hard, challenging, and full of adventure. I don't have the time or memory to go back on the last 2 years but I will high light some of the things we have done, gone through, travels and just about our lives. 

Wain: Is still and hopefully makes it his life long job working for what use to be Us Airways and is now American Airlines. He loves it, I love listening to his stories :) He is know a lead which gives him a lot more responsibilities. I'm super proud and happy that he has such an amazing job that he loves. He is still the scout master, which he truly enjoys, he loves the youth, the scouting program and an excuse to go camping. He took the scouts to Utah for a week camp out last year and has taken them camping many times throughout the last year. I love watching him with the youth, it has field a gap in his life and gives him the opportunity to do a lot of manly stuff.
He is STILL into video games, he just got the xbox one which he plays frequently with his buddies and brothers that he does not get to see that often. I don't love the xbox or video games but I try and am trying to be more understanding of this so called outlet/hobby that he needs. He is also working hard in school he is doing the pathway program through BYUIdaho. He changed his major when we moved to Arizona and hardly any of his credits from UVU transferred so its like he is starting over. He has maybe 3 years left. I'm just proud that he is not giving up and going into something that he enjoys (internet security) and that he'll one day be able to support a family. That is Wain in a nut shell.

Alisha: I am STILL at discover card, I started working@home in April and it has truly been a blessing. Especially now that we are back to a one car family. On November 4th I was driving to Kanab to visit my dad who has just wrecked on a 4 wheeler and broke his back. I was about 30 miles south of Flagstaff when I hit black ice and went head on into the mountain. It was the scariest experience and one I hope NEVER happens again. My car was a total loss, I was ok but they still look me away in the ambulance just to make sure I was really OK. I was in such shock that I didn't really know if I was ok or not but they did some X-rays just to double check. It could have been a lot worse and I was/am so thankful for my life. By the looks of the car, I should have been hurt. Angels were watching out for me for sure. We thought about buying another car but it's nice only having one car payment and when I have to go into work it's not a big deal to take Wain to work first.
I am still in the young women presidency, which I LOVE. It's been almost 2 years sense I was called and I could stay FOREVER. The young women program has changed so much sense I've been in there and it's very different how things are done living in a big city then when I was a youth in a small town. I am truly grateful for the young women, a hole in my heart has been filled and that alone has made this calling that much easier. Besides work, young women's I always try to find time to read. I read or try to read a book a month (sometimes more) I started going to the gym with a friend back in July and she recently had to move and it's been hard to go back by myself. I will get back I'm sure.

We've been blessed to do travel quit a bit. me more than Wain :( we made several trips to Saint Louis to visit family, play with nieces and nephews, a family reunion and attend the funeral of Wain's amazing grandpa fuller who passed away of cancer. I married into a wonderful family and for that I truly grateful for. We've also been to Salt Lake number of times (me most of the time) Its nice having my brother Thomas right by the airport that will let me come hangout and be a part of their kids lives. I also went to San Diego for my 30th birthday with one of my girlfriends Myranda Sampson. It was a blast. We went to SeaWorld, the beach, different restaurants, etc. I'm ready to go again :) I also last month on a week cruise to Jamaica, Bahamas, Cayman islands, and Mexico. I went with my older brother Thomas his wife and 2 kids and my parents. We had been planning this trip for almost a year and December 12th it finally came. We had so much fun, the beaches were amazing, the cruise was OK (will go on a different ship next time) ate amazing food, shopped, met a lot of people from all over the world, spoke a lot of Portuguese :) Visited with the locals in the areas we went to. It was an amazing trip and memories that will last a life time. It's not very often that I get to spend one on one with my parents so that one was worth the trip. Next time Wain will come, I missed him and a cruise is just not the same without the person you love.

We are still dealing and coming to accept our lives without children. It will always be hard, I still cry in church when talks are about families and children. I don't think my heart will ever not stop wanting children or will I EVER give up hope that we will have children of our own someday. Adoption is something we are hopefully about it. We have been prompted and felt that adoption is the way we will become parents, and I am OK with that. There are millions of children that need a good loving home and we hope to bring children into our home through the adoption process. It's just so expensive and we know miracles happen all the time. So we will keep you up to date on that one.

This is our journey, and I hope I will keep blogging because I love looking back on the memories of the good the bad and the ugly times we have had.


If you would like to follow me on instagram you are more than welcome to.. Come find me alishaswapp. Lots of pictures to see where we have gone, what we are doing, and our not so boring lives.  I am not currently on facebook taking a break.

Until next time. I will try to post pictures next time.