What a gift

Lately I have been having really bad pains in my stomach. At first I thought It was just something I ate. But after a week of my stomach still hurting in the same spot and not being able to handle it. I had Vaughn take me to the urgent Care on Cortaro and Silverbell. to get it checked out. They did blood work and some other tests, to see if maybe I had a U.T.I. but all the tests came back normal. They explained to me that because it's a abdominal problem they are going to have to refer me to the E.R.

Long story short I went to N.W. Medical Center.They did some more tests gave me some Milk of Magnesia and some Morphine, and made me wait for an hour or so. When the doctor came back he told me all the blood work was fine and had me point to where the pain was. Then he so kindly started pushing in that area( I guess to see how funny I look when I'm in pain. he diagnosed me with an ulcer and gave me some Ranitidine and Viciden for the pain.

Wow do I know how to give myself a Christmas present or what? Maybe next year I can outdo myself, stay tuned to find out.

Pictures of Cody's Baptism

Me and my little man


Vaughn, Grammy, Cody, Alecia


Posing for a milk add



Vaughn and Cody

Had the time of my life and cried like a little baby. but I'm glad we were able to witness this. More pictures on my facebook account

Cody's baptism

I will never forget Saturday December 19th for as long as I live. Our oldest son Cody was baptized and Vaughn, Grammy, and I got to go. It was amazing to witness my little boy turning into a fine young man. His baptism was in Sahuarita were he and his brother now live with their new Mom and Dad. We were just very blessed to be a part of Cody's special day, and Cody was more than pleased to see us there. So was our little man Zachary.

Have tons of pictures to go threw and figure out which are the best to post in my next blog, but for now I am tired and need to go to bed. I will post more later with pictures of the baptism.

Here's your sign

Okay I know that I am a big girl, and that I could stand to loose a good 30-40 ounds or more.

But when I have 2 people in less than a week and a half come up to me and ask me What I'm having and when I am due. I know there's a really bad problem. Especially considering we have two girls at work that are both 5 months along with somewhat big belly's.

So I have made a promise to myself that I am going to start eating better and tryibng hard to lay off the sweets.

Wish me luck!

Proud of myself

Today is my oldest son Cody's birthday. And although it is tough to not see him on his birthday I have to say that I did pretty well today. I only cried 3 times through out my whole shift at work. Which is truly amazing.

Cody,

I really hope you are having a great day and got lots of presents. We'll see you on Saturday when you get baptized.

Love,
Mom

And the Moral of the story is...

Okay so the last couple days I have not been sleeping very well. So needless to say when I go to work I am tired and cranky. Well last night I finally got tired of being up until 3 am for the 4th day in a row, so around 2am, I took a sleeping pill that my doctor prescribed to me a while back to help me sleep .

BIG MISTAKE! By the time the pill finally kicked in I was out like a light. I ended up sleeping from around 2:30am until almost 3pm. Not good considering I was supposed to be at work at 9:30am.

I called my manager and she explained to me that this is the kind of thing that could get me fired from other jobs, but not from this one since this is a training facility to help me do better in other jobs. I explained to her that I'm very aware of that and thanked her for not terminating me.

The moral of the story this time: Never again am I taking something to help me sleep. Next time I will just have to suck it up

Seriously??

So I'm at work and it's already 7pm. the time we close. A lady walks in to the store and I tell her ma'am I'm sorry but were closed. She says she only wants to get one thing and it will be really quick. Again I tell her sorry but we are closed and need to get everyone out of the store now so that we can clean up and go home on time.

To this she replies: " It's because I'm Jewish, that's why you won't let me get the item."

I reply " It has NOTHING to do with your religion, it's just time for us to close."

Seriously? How the heck am I supposed to know that she is Jewish? And even if I did it has nothing to do with what religion she is. Some people really don't make any sense to me.

Bishop's Shopping Night

Yesterday was the start of our two say event at work. It's called Bishop Shopping Nights. What it is, is a night especially designed for those LDS or non families that have talked to a bishop and gotten an order to go Christmas shopping.

The nice part about it is these families don't pay a dime for the things that they are getting.

Anyway, as I was saying this all started last night @ 6:30 and kept going non-stop until 9:30. I don't know how many people were there but we had a line for 3 hours so that gives you an idea.

I felt like the jolly fat man himself as I helped these people with their orders, well okay maybe not Santa but at least an elf.It was a truly amazing sight to see all these people be able to put gifts under the tree this year even though they are not able to afford them. It made me stop and think how truly blessed I am to be a part of this, and how much my life has changed because I am a part of the church.

I am not going to fib, I will be one of the families that gets to go shopping like this for our children and for my husband and I for clothes.But I am waiting until Friday to do this so that our customers are able to get what they need first. Never fear we will still be able to get some really good stuff.

I just want to take a minute and thank God for all the many blessings he has given me and my family this year. I love you Heavenly Father and words will never express how much this means to us.

Proud Mommy

Okay so he's not a baby anymore, but he will always be my baby.

I'm talking about my oldest son Cody who will be turning 8 on the 15th and getting baptized on Saturday the 19th. I am so excited to be a part of this, as well as my husband and my mother-in-law. We have been waiting for this day for 3 years now, and I can't believe it's almost here.

Part of me wants to shout for joy, because I know my son is growing up and this is a big step in his life. But another part of me wants to cry because my son is growing up. I feel like one of those mask with the Smile Now, Cry Later theme like this




More will be posted with pictures. Keep a look out for it

Stop Raining on my Parade

I am so tired of people coming in to work just to criticize our religion.
Today for example I was waiting on this guy and he asked me

" Do you have any discounts today."

I reply: " No sir we don't give out discounts, because we feel are prices are already reasonable"

To this the man replies " Oh you only give discounts to the Mormon's huh?"

I simply said "The only people that gets discounts are the one's that work here, and yes a lot of us are Mormon."
To tick me off even more he says" Oh that's right you have to have multiple wife's in order to be Mormon and get a discount."

I simply had, had enough by this time so I said to him
" Sir I really don't appreciate the way you're acting. and if you knew about Mormon's you would know that we don't believe in more than one mate."

GRR. To this I say:
Stop raining on my parade. Just because you can't understand our beliefs or are to lazy to look it up doesn't give you the right to bash on us. I am Mormon and proud to be one. My life has been so much happier since I became Mormon. And to all you non-believers out there that think we believe in crazy things and our a cult. I got a great book for you to read that helps explain it all. You'll never guess what it's called:



Stop being ignorant about our religion, pick the book up and read it. Maybe then you will will realize that this is how you look when you put us down:


You may think you are putting me down when you insult me, our any of my brother's are sisters. but in all honesty the only person you are insulting is God himself for being so cruel to his children. Believe me when your time comes you're going to wish you were nicer.

It's ok to say Merry Christmas to me

I am shocked to hear little kids asking their parents if it's okay to say Merry Christmas, or should they say Happy Holidays.

Friday I was helping a mother and daughter with their purchases after I was done with the order. I simply said

"Thanks and have a nice day, and Merry Christmas" Like I always do. To this I hear the little girl say:

" Merry Christ" and then she stopped looked at her mom and asked
" Is it okay to say that?"

The mom responded with : " I don't know, some people don't apporve of that just say Happy Holidays."

Are you kidding me? I am outraged at what this world has come to. I used to love Christmas time when I was little and NEVER remember having to trip over myself on what to say to someone. It was always Merry Christmas.

I want all those of you out there that read this and feel the same way to please post back with :

And the Award goes to...

Today was a good day at work. Every month we have a devotional where we sing a song, have a prayer,give out awards to the hard workers, and celebrate birthdays with cake at the end.

Today I was shocked when I was given the award of



I was given this award because my manager says I always look for things to do and don't stand around at work. With this award I received a card and a bag of Hershey's Mint truffle Kisses.

Dear Santa

Dear Santa,

It's been a long time since I have written you a letter, and I'm sorry. As your song says you see me when I'm sleeping and know when I'm awake.You know if I've been bad or good. So this year I hope you and I can agree that my name should be on the Good girl list.

If that's the case then I would like to ask you for a Wii game console and the Super Mario Brothers game as well. I hear this Wii thing is the newest rage. It's like the Super Nintendo of my time only newer and cooler. Even though I am asking you for this. My biggest wish this year is that you take care of all those families that are struggling to make ends meet this year. Many of those will be blessed soon when they come to Bishop night at my work. But for those that can't or don't know about this. Please Santa help them find the joy in Christmas as well.

With love,
Alecia

We love you all

The reason I have this picture posted on my blog is because I want to show the world how truly amazing this family is. They are always there for both my husband and I with no questions asked.

When my husband needed help fighting his addiction for cigarettes they generously bought him tons of stuff to help him quit.

When I had my tonsillectomy, they generously made sure I was okay and gave me soft foods, and medicine.

They have invited us numerous time over to dinner, have called to make sure we are okay and don't need anything. They have done so much for us, and I justed wanted to dedicate a spot on my blog to this strong, loving and amazing family.

We love you guys so much.

Are you calling me a liar?

( This is a long blog, but it needed to be written this way)

As most of you know I have been sick since Friday. Well before then but Friday I went to the doctor finally because I was tired of coughing and being in pain. The doctor diagnosed me with Bronchitis and prescribed me the Z-pack. I thought it would be no big deal to work the next day so I did, even though the doctor advised me to stay home until Monday. But I thought to myself if I can't go to work that I can't see my kids. NO WAY was I going to let that happen.

So I go to work on Saturday and am feeling pretty good, until I start working really hard, and start coughing to much. On my lunch break I went and talked to my manager about how I was feeling and that I have bronchitis, and even tried to show him the doctors note.

Me: " Aaron, I am not feeling to well and was wondering if possible can I go home a little early? I have a doctors note here explaining that I really shouldn't be working today because of my bronchitis."

Thinking that he would see I was being tough and look at the note. But not even looking at me he says

" You know Alecia you've been sick a lot lately, I think it would be best for you just to toughen it out. I'll see what I can do."

To make a long story short. He let me off register 15 minutes before I was supposed to end my shift.

Needless to say I went to see my kids that night, did not go to church the next day, and went back to work Monday. Mind you by now I not only have bronchitis, but a VERY bad cold as well.

Before I even clocked in I talked to Sherri, another Manager. Explaining my situation and telling her how much I didn't want to spread my germs to others.

Making a long story short I stuck it out even though I was blowing my nose and coughing all day long. I literally had customers walk away without buying anything because they were not interested in my germs. I even had a customer want to talk to Sherri to give her

"A piece of my mind, for letting you work when you look so miserable"

By the time I came home from work and checked my temp. It was at 100 point 5. I was so sick and sore from coughing and sneezing that I just crashed and didn't wake up until noon the next day. Which was when I was supposed to go to work, still in pain and not feeling good I called in only to hear this from Sherri.

Me:" Hey Sherri it's Alecia"

Sherri: " Hi Alecia, what's up?"

Me: " I just woke up and know I am supposed to be on the clock right now. However I am not coming in because I'm still REALLY sick."

Sherri:(sarcastically) " Well you picked a really good time to call in, you know you're supposed to be closing tonight."
Me: " Yeah I know and I'm really sorry. It's just that I still..

(interrupted by Sherri) " Well just make sure that you get a doctor's note. I mean you were able to toughen it out yesterday, why not today?"

Can you believe that? I really wish I would have recorded the conversation to show just how sarcastic she was being, and how much she made it sound like I was faking the whole thing.

Okay I have said my two cents and am done now.