The Sawyers

It's been a while again!!!!

2011-02-23T11:16:00.000-08:00

I dont update this as much as i should, Brad and i have been married for 2 years and are now trying for a baby!!! I want it to come soon, but I know that It will come when it comes. We are still in Roy and I am still at the care center. I like it ok, but am starting to get sick of it. Brads grandma has adrenal cancer which is very rare, but it isnt at a bad stage. Which I am happy about. We are building Zachs structure in Montello right now, and going to work on ours in the spring. Everytime they take a day and go out to work on it, I am working, so it has been a while since I have been out there. I want to be there so bad, but it's ok. I dont know what else to say so good bye

montello property

2010-11-05T17:11:00.000-07:00

So, a while back, my brother in law Zach bought 20 acres of property just outside of Montello, Nevada. Its a really small town in the middle of nowhere, 45 minutes away from Wendover. Brad and I bought 2 acres from him to build a house on and stuff, but we will be sharing all of it. It is beautiful out there. There is a bunch of sagebrush everywhere, and no trees yet, but I am excited to start building. We are all going to build a straw bale hut type things to stay in, and then build from there. I am excited for it to all come together. Church is about a 45 minute to an hour drive, and the nearest grocery store, which isnt a big one at all is 8 miles away. But, I am so excited.

Holy Holy Moly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-11-04T14:12:00.000-07:00

So, yeah, Its been over a year since I last wrote. SOOOOOOO much has happened since I last wrote obviously. A couple days after I did my last blog, we got a dog named Princess, and she is te cutest. She is really hyper, and just fun to be around. A german shorthair. I'm still a CNA at Heritage Park. I have been there over 2 years, it will be 3 in april. I love it, but I am wanting to go to a hospital. It's so hard to get on there though. But, I just need to keep on going. Brad and I also have been married almost 2 years. I love him more than anything. I mean, married life is hard, but I wouldn't change it for anything. We are going to start trying for a baby in February. I am so excited for that. Time just goes by way too fast. I dont even know what to say because I havent updated in so long. My dad is still bishop, and still loves it. My grandpa got diagnosed with prostate cancer a while ago, but it was stage a cancer, so they were able to get rid of it quick, and it was so small, so I was happy about that. My grandma in law may have cancer, but they arent sure where it would be, if she has it. She is ready to go back home to her hubby. My step brother joined the air force a while back, and just graduated from basic training, so now he is a tech school. My own mom and dad built a warehouse in Ogden so now they have a store that my brother manages. The Discount Body Shop Supplies business is still going strong. Everyone is doing fine, and we are all happy.

wowser

2009-06-04T12:31:00.000-07:00

Ok so it has been a long long tine since I have last updated! Our computer at home we dont have internet at home. So I am over here at my parents place. Alot has happened since I last updated. We have lost more residents at work. Its getting into that time again. Brad and I are doing good, just keeping busy with work and family stuff. We went fishing on memorial day and both got way burned. We spent 5 hours on the lake with no sunscreen which was a bad idea. So some of these pics you can see just how burnt I am. Fun fun. We have been married almost 4 months now!!!! Wow where does the time go? Im loving life right now. I have poated here a few pictures taken at random times. The fiirst couple are my brother in laws graduation. The next few are when Grayson was born, which was 6 weeks ago. then one from moab, and then our family pictures. Hope you enjoy them

Mommy Clarissa and Grayson who still has tons of hair

More pics

2009-05-06T07:33:00.001-07:00

me that you cant really see.. Oh and I didnt run out of room. The pic I was trying to load wasnt loading. But Oh well. Hope you enjoy them

Sideways me

I think I ran out of room. but here are more pics..

so yeah

2009-05-06T06:36:00.001-07:00

Lynn's tahoo, and Zeek, The dog that died

The Jeep

There is the tahoo

Its been a while since I last wrote. I need to update a lot, so prepare for a long post. Lets see, I will start with Moab. We went down on April 9th and stayed til the 14th. This year was more of a relaxing trip than the passed couple of years because our uncle brought his tahoo down (pardon my spelling.. Its still early) but the trip was still fun. Even though I was sick for some of it. I started throwing up on Sunday night all night, and so brad and I stayed in camp on monday while everyone went to do Hells Revenge. Which is Brads favorite, but he wanted to be with me. Such a sweet guy. On Saturday we did Gemini Bridges,and on the sand hill by it, our friends dog slipped off the cliff and fell to the very bottom, and died which we all thought was so sad. We came home on Tuesday. I went to the doctor a few days later, because the day after I was throwing up, I got really bad stomach pain, and it wouldnt go away. At the doctor, they took a pregnancy test, and that came back negative. She was really concerned it was appendisitis so she ordered me to go get a CT scan. I drank the barrium, 2 bottles of it, which is the most disgusting radioactive stuff ever, BLAH, and went to the Ogden Clinic on Harrison. Got the scan and they sent me home. Called back about an hour later and said everythig looked normal on the scan, so they said Gastritis is what I have so I need to eat bland foods. I think it was something to say just because they ran out of options to diagmose me with. Luckily now I feel better, but I hope the CT scan bill isnt going to be too much money but who knows. Then on April 20th, my very cute sister in law Clarissa gave birth to her first boy, and my brother in law Zach;s first child by blood. They named him Grayson Elmer Sawyer, which is Zach and brad's deceased grandpas first name. He is the cutest thing. He doesnt cry too much and just sleeps and eats all the time. One of my favorite residents, even though she beat me up alot, died yesterday morning. My coworker text me and told me, and most of the night, I was just so sad and crying. She went to the psyche ward because she tried to strangle another resident and she came back a little bit ago, but she was so doped up on meds that she just wasnt herself. I think it was the meds that killed her but I dont know. Oh well. She is in a better place now, so thats good. I will now post some pics from Moab, which are up top now......

SOOOO

2009-04-17T16:03:00.000-07:00

It has been a little bit since I last wrote. Stuff has been kinda crazy. Work is going ok. We recently went to the Moab Jeep Safari like we do every year. This year was fun, but there wasnt as many people there as the passed years. Our friends dog Zeek ended up tumbling down a cliff the day before Easter, so we burried him down at the bottom kindof by Gemini Bridges. It was kinda sad because this family has had the dog for a very long time. I ended up getting sick Sunday night, so I was up all night throwing up and my awesome hubby was up all night basically with me taking care of me. He cant stand the sight or smell of throw up but he was a trooper and even though he was gagging the whole time, he cleaned it all up. I felt way bad though. Everyone on Monday went to Hell's Revenge, but Brad and I stayed back because I wasnt feeling well still. Ever since Monday my stomach has been cramping up a whole lot and has been driving me crazy. Everyone was saying I was pregnant, and my step grandma in law (hehe) told us that she had a dream we were expecting. I went to the doctor today to see if we could figure out what was wrong with me. So they were concerned the cramping I have been having was appendisitis, so they ordered a CT scan and everything came back normal with that. And I am not pregnant. So this has been so fun. Pics from Moab will be posted soon.

some more pics

2009-03-23T07:48:00.001-07:00

So here are more pics from the wedding, and a couple of bridals. Hope you enjoy them. Im now going to enjoy watching "Twilight"

Everything is coming together,,, Thanks to Taxes

2009-03-12T10:08:00.000-07:00

So I must say that this debt I have been having for a couple years now is now going away. I just payed off my Mary Kay loan which I have learned a lesson on in the first place. I decided when I started Mary Kay that I wanted to start out with a really big inventory so that it can motivate me to sell sell sell. So therefore I invested in like a 4000 dollar inventory. HUGE MISTAKE!!!!! I wasnt doing good at all, and I wasnt as motivated as I should have been. So I had product just sitting there either collecting dust, or I would get it out and use it. Brad kinda helped me for a little bit on being motivated by saying "We will not hang out today until you book at least 3 classes." So that worked for a while, but people just didnt really wanna buy anything, so there it was again sitting on the shelf. I decided that selling just wasnt for me. So I closed out my contract and got money back to pay it down. But still had a bit to pay off after that. Every month I would make payments on it and the digits just got lower and lower. And then today, WAALAAA!!!!! They disappeared. And let me tell you it feels so good to have it all payed off. A bit of advice to people who are looking into selling makeup or pretty much anything... Do it and love it, and be motivated because you dont want to make the mistakes i did. And also, dont fall into the seller's trap of "If you join today and start an inventory, you get this and this and this free" Bunch of bull. I dont know how people can do it. Now all I have left to pay off is my parents and they helped me so much a couple years back when i decided to get a credit card and went crazy with it. They helped me pay it off, and now I am almost done with that. Now I just hope we can get brads debt gone soon..

wow

2009-03-06T09:47:00.000-08:00

So I cant believe how fast time flies. I cant believe it has already been a month since my husband and I got married!!! It has been an amazing month. And I am proud to say that I am just getting used to saying my husband, altough yesterday at work, my coworkers caught me saying my fiance. Which you cant blame me. He has been my fiance for 6 months before he became my husband one month ago today. I wish I could go back to that day and play it slower. I thought it went too fast. And by the time I could enjoy it it was all over. I love not going home to the parents, and not calling them every night asking if I can stay out late. And just coming home from work and saying "ok babe lets go to bed." It was so funny. When we got to Florida, we called our parents to let them know we got there safe, and just for the heck of it I asked my dad if I could stay out late, and he got a big kick out of it. It was fun. I love being married, and couldnt ask for anything better.

Onto a different subject. So about a week ago, on Sunday my dad got called as bishop of the Fort Lane Ward. I think it will be so awesome for him. He will do such a good job and I just know that peoples lives will be touched by him. All the little kids will just love him, as he does little kids. I am just glad that I am married so people wont be looking at me to see if I am going to do anythin bad or anything. Im proud to say that Im a bishops daughter!!!!!!!!!!!!!

here are more pictures

2009-02-23T12:19:00.000-08:00

I really like this one!! My sister edited these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think this one is way cute

This one is a saying that she got offline

The sky is edited you can tell. But its cute

The whole family minus some people who decided to leave right after the temple

I really love this one!!!!! It shows tons of love

oh hug hug

kissing at the temple

I think this one of my favs

I love this one alot

so it's been a while

2009-02-23T08:47:00.000-08:00

This is our frst dance as husband and wife. Kinda blurry but i still think it is cute

Wow its been a while since i wrote. Things are going great here at the Sawyers. We are just really busy with cleaning up the house that the bro in law and cousins trashed while we were on our honeymoon. We are almost done with that. We are also working alot too. But still life couldnt get any better, and I am loving being with such an amazing guy. Here are some pics from the wedding. Some of them didnt turn out too well, but oh well. Its all good.

Wow!! One more day!!!!

2009-02-05T08:21:00.000-08:00

I cant begin to describe all the excitement I am feeling, as tmorrow, Brad and I get married!!!!!! Crazy stuff!!!! I went through the Salt Lake Temple and received my endowments yesterday, and that was such an amazing experience. Even though it will take me a while to learn all the symbolisms and such. But it was still so amazing!!!! It is such a beautiful temple. I loved that Brad was able to walk me through the veil. It was there that I probably cried the most. I love him oh so very much and am so grateful for everything he has done for me. He really even doesnt get teary eyed alot, but yesterday, I saw a few tears, and he said that he had a hard time looking at me because everytime he did, he would get emotional. It is amazing. I'm so exited to go through Bountiful since the last time I was there, was when it got deticated way back a long time ago. So It will be so nice to see it again. Time has just flown by so fast. I just thought I would write today, since I wont have time to write anymore today or tomorrow. So the next time you will see me or hear from me, I will be LERRIN SAWYER!!!!!!!!!

so this is how I am feeling right now...

2009-01-30T14:35:00.001-08:00

So, as I sit here in my room, looking at the almost empty space, I cant help but feel this overwhelming sense of emotion, as I let the fact that I am finally getting married, sink in. (Its about time huh) I think before, I knew I was getting married, and I was just stressing, but now that mostly everything is done to where I can just sit and wait for a little bit, until brad gets off work, and we go tie shopping for the men, it is finally sinking in, that WOW I AM GETTING MARRIED IN EXACTLY ONE WEEK. Just listening to songs today while I was packing, hence the empty space, and just started crying just because I cant believe that the part of my life that I have dreamt about for a long time, is finally here. And I am moving onto the next 2 chapters of my life, the first being, moving out of my parents house and moving in with Brad. I am looking forward to that part of just being on my own and not having my parents check on me every night to see when I was coming home, to having the midnight curfew, and now just being FREE!!!! I am more looking forward to getting married to Brad, my best friend and soul mate. The love of my life. I cant believe it is finally here. I thought it would take forever to get here back in August, but boy does time fly. I am glad that we had the 2 years of dating to really get to know eachother, even though I knew I wanted to marry him since like 3 months of dating. But he has been here for me through what I think is the hardest thing in my life, and he supported me, when I though he would run away. That was the moment where I knew I totally loved him and wanted to be with him forever. So cheers, with sparkling cider, to the next chapter in my life. Goodbye Lerrin Ott, in one week, and HELLO TO LERRIN JANAI SAWYER!!!!!!

so if you want to see my bridals,,,,

2009-01-25T08:37:00.000-08:00

My sister has posted some of my bridal pics on her blog. Since I am not posting them on here yet until after the wedding, you can go check them out on her blog::::

tuckandchels.blogspot.com

I think alot of them are way cute. So there you go.

Love
Lerrin

its getting close

2009-01-19T09:24:00.001-08:00

So WOW it is getting so close to the time of me being Mrs Sawyer. I cant believe it. Last night I was listening to 2 songs that made me start crying. One is the song i am dancing to with my dad called "I loved her first" and the other one is "Unanswered Prayers" by Garth Brooks. I still am trying to figure out why Brad came into my life when he did. I believe he is truly an unanswered prayer. That sounds cheesy but its true. I got my bridals done on saturday, and they turned out good.We went to Inkleys, and I thought they could haave been better, but then my mom and dad got a professional camera for christmas and we took some with that and those are so cute. I LOVE my dress and am so excited to wear it again. and i loved my hair that my sisters boyfriends sister did, that my sister payed for as a christmas/wedding gift to me. It turned out so good. I cant thank Chelsey enough. You are awesome Chels!!!!!

It's been a while.

2008-12-29T22:50:00.000-08:00

So it has been a good while since I last wrote. Since the last time, I have gotten in a car wreck. That happened on the 8th of December, and it totaled my car, but its easy to fix. So no worries there. Im just driving around a rental that I am liking alot, so it is going to be hard to give up on Thursday.
A few residents died at work, Its the season of people leaving or dying, so our census has gone down a ton. So some of the CNAs have had to go home early all the itme. So that has been fun, NOT!!!! Just the passed couple days, starting on Christmas, we have had 3 deaths in 3 days, and its all been on the floor I mainly work on. So it has been a little hard to get used to not having them there after so long of me working with them. But oh well. It happens, and life goes on. I am getting used to people dying, and not taking it as hard as I did when I first had to death with the death of a resident for the first time. I love my job even though it does have crappy days, and I do have to work holidays, it does pay off because I am helping people who cant help themselves, and I love some of the residents.
So now, me and Brad are down to 39 days until the wedding. Which I think is so crazy!! It's amazing how time flies. I am getting so excited, but also so nervous too. We areent quite ready for the wedding to be here, but we still have 39 days. I go to an interview with my bishop in 2 weeks to get my temple reccomend so I am so excited for that. Im excited to be a part of the Sawyer family. They are all so awesome and I love them all so much. I am so glad I have gotten along with them all from day 1. They are just like my family. I think that is all the updating I need to do right now. So there you go..

Shay has tagged me, well not really me, but anyone but good heck im gonna do it

2008-12-02T10:47:00.002-08:00

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 16 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 16 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

#1- Brad is my third boyfriend. How weird is that? I didnt get kissed, or get my first boyfriend until I was 19. I dont know but I just think its strange.

#2- I talk to myself sometimes when I am alone and really bored.

#3- I love going to Moab and getting the adrenaline rush of 4 wheeling on the really fun but dangerous trails. THANK YOU BRAD

#4- I always wanted to be a teacher up until 8 months ago, when I changed my mind and now want to be a nurse.

#5- I was way boy crazy when I was younger. I would meet a guy, take one look at him, and then talk about him for months. I was weird.

#6- I was born cross-eyed. I had to get a surgery to uncross them, and still sometimes they go crossed.

#7- My brain stem doesnt go all the way up to the top of my head like most people's do, So it takes me longer to think things like math and stuff

#8- I love Twilight. the movie is amazing. So are the books. I am excited to see the next movies

#9- I am getting married in 66 days!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#10- I have weird dreams about my residents at work, I dont know why.

#11- "Forgotten Carols" is my favorite play. I just love the spirit of Christmas that is there

#12- I have bever been anywhere further east then Wyoming, But in February I am honeymooning in Florida

#13- I cant wait to go toEngland in July.

#14- I like to play the piano.

#15- My brother and sister every once in a while tease me about when I was younger, having a crush on my neighbor who was like my moms and dads age. And I also had a crush on the weatherman, Dan Pope

#16- I think it is so hard to come up with 16 facts about myself. But I did it, now You can.

I tag everyone on my blog. Since I dont have 16 people yet, I just say everyone does it.

the weekend!

2008-12-02T10:32:00.000-08:00

Ok so Thanksgiving I had to work, but it was ok because we were overstaffed so I went home until 5 and worked 5 to 9. So it wasnt as bad as I thought it was going to be. I had my dad's side of the family over before I went to work, and it was kindof enjoyable seeing them because I only see them 1 or 2 times a year even though they live in the Salt Lake area, we all are just not that close. I went to work, and after being sent home I went to Brads brothers house and had a little Thanksgiving over there. The food was good, what I ate of it because I was so full. I went back to work only to feed my residents and throw them in bed, and then left again. After I went over to Brad's dads house and had some pie over there, and we played the game "Signs" and that was way fun. I went home after that and went to bed. I lvoe Brad's family. I have gotten along with them from day 1 and they are just like my own. The rest of the weekend was just spent woring, and when I wasnt working, I was either home or with brad. On monday, which was yesterday, Brad was sick, and I went over to his house to spend time with him for a bit, and then last night we went to "Forgotten Carols" with Micheal McLean. For those of you who havennt seen it, I think you should. It is the best play. You can hear the meaning behind the words, and its just great. For any religion too. This is my 3rd year of seeing it and it just gets better and better each year. I actually closed my eyes and felt the meaning behind the words and started crying in all the songs. Like I said before, I highly reccomend it to all. That was my short weekend, and I now cant believe that its already getting so close to Christmas. The year has just flown by. AYE AYE AYE

oh the joys of "Twilight"

2008-11-22T22:00:00.000-08:00

so on Thursday me and some friends from work got togetther and went to the midnight showing of "Twilight". Well, first we went down to Salt Lake, where we were goig to the movie at the gateway, and had dinner at the sushi place. I dont like sushi, but the other thing I had was good. We then went to the theater, and sat and talked. We were all getting so anxious for the movie it was funny. We ran into some die hard fans, that were dressed in Prom dresses, and had signs saying they would love for Edward to take them to the Prom which I thought was really funny. After what seems like hours, the movie finally started. And when we first see the Cullens as they are walking into the cafeteria, you can tell eveyone knew that this was when they were going to first see Edward, and when he came on screen, everyone just started screaming. We had a lively crowd. I thought the movie was way awesome. Probably better than the book. But seeing the movie makes me want to read it again. But I think i am going to go see "Twilight" a few more times, and am going to buy it when it comes on DVD! Any takers on wanting to go see it with me? I cant wait to see how the second movie turns out. But it will be interesting...

Our new President...

2008-11-04T22:09:00.001-08:00

I am finding myself bitter about Obama being the next President of our country!! I was at work watching it and I just stood there watching when I should have been putting my patient to bed, but she was as shocked as I was about it, that she didnt complain on how long it took me to get her ready for bed. But... WHY OBAMA??? What makes him so great that he deserves to be out next president? He isnt patriotic in any way, and he says he is going to take away gun laws and all that crap, raise our taxes. I think its cool that we have a black president but why obama? I think the end of the world is coming. And our country is going to go down the crapper. I think so much is being taken away from us. It makes me mad and sad at the same time. In the D&C it says that in the last days, the constitution is going to hang by a thread, and I am sad to say that I believe we are now in the last days. Which really scares me and I am sure it will scare alot of people because we arent ready for it to be over. Sad sad. Im going to say now:
GOODBYE AMERICA!! I WILL MISS YOU!!!!

sick of it

2008-10-30T09:09:00.000-07:00

Im so sick of the altzhimers or however you spell it, and getting treated like crap with them. Everything was all fine yesterday and everyone was in the best mood, even the ones that are mostly in bad ones. But When I had to go change one of the residents briefs, or diapers, he starts punching and kicking and everything. It usually takes one CNA to change him, but last night it took 3!!!! I cant wait until my time is up there to where I could say goodbye and go to a hospital. I mean I know that the altzhimers does things to them and they dont know what they are doing or whatever, they forget about it the next day. But we cant really do anything about the behavior other than let the nurse know about it. But when we do that, she really cant do anything about it either because they cant really control it. Its almost 5 months away to where I can leave and to where a hospital will accept me. I thought it was at least 6 months experience that a hospital wants, but looking at the 2 places I want to apply, Mckay Dee, and Primarys, they want a whole year!!!! GRRRR

so here they are...well some of them

2008-10-27T09:28:00.000-07:00

My soon to be Nephew Chaz ccame along for the ride, and he had alot of fun playing aroud. He is such a cutie. He will be 2 in May

His dad was out photographer. We got these done at the Layton and Syracuse Parks. He did a pretty dang good job if I say so myself.

So here is a start

2008-10-26T09:29:00.000-07:00

So Im finally giving in and creating a blog. Where do I start? Well I will tell you a bit about brad and I. We met back in high school, but never really talked. He went on a mission, and I never wrote him. He came back and we started to talk a little online, but had a girlfriend and boyfriend, so we never thought about dating, He ended up breaking up with his girlfriend in june, and my boyfriend broke up with me in July. He was talking to me online one day and asked how I was doing, and I told him I was dealing with a breakup. So he did a smart thing and asked if a date would help. So 2 weeks later, we went on our first date, and have basically been dating since. We have been together now for over 2 years, and are getting ready to spend our lives together. He popped the question on August 8,2008 and we are getting married February 6, 2009 in the Bountiful Temple. I will post engagements soon.