Torgerson Camp

once a year my family and my uncle earl's family get together for the whole week and camp out at Porcupine Pass

camp is full of four wheelers, dirt bikes, and guns. usually around thursday the rest of my family comes up to join in on the fun. then there's little kids runnin around everything and everyone is just having fun.  hyrum had a lot a fun. he got very clingy to my mother. and he wanted nothin to do with me. it kinda hurt my feelings but i got to take naps and go for rides and he was being watched the whole time.

gramma and grampa T came up on wednesday and grampa loved hyrum. he would set his chair next to hyrum's pack n play and talk to him and love on him. 

it was a good week for us. me and lance had a lot of fun on the rides together. we got to giggling so bad sometimes. on one of the rides we saw a cow moose with her 2 babies. they were so cute. lance of course stopped to watch them. they were probably 50 yards away from us. i was freaking out. i was for sure we were going to get charged. obviously we didn't. 

our poor little Fi got sick. she's had the squirts and has been throwing up for a few days. i'm worried about her getting dehydrated so we're leaving little bowls of water where she can get drinks. she seems to get feeling better and then she gets sick again. i've spend most of the day snuggling her today and just giving her loves. she was in doggy heaven there for a while with camp. there was so much dirt and other dogs to play with. she loved it. i was glad she was so happy. she's been so sad since we sent Creature to live in Malta. 

i'm excited for next year's camp. we'll be bringing 2 children instead of just one!!

Happiness is your missionaries coming home

this is my grandma and grandpa Torgerson. aka gramma and grampa T. two years ago they left on a mission to Cali Columbia and on Saturday at 12:42 they came home!! 

we took up a lot of space at the airport welcoming them home. my gramma and grampa are special. they are so funny and love everyone. one time, when i was in college, i was sick. i felt like i was dying. of course i wasn't but jeez.....i did not feel good. so of course i call my mom and asked complained to her. what did she do? she called her dad to bring me medicine. about a half hour later i hear a knock on my door and there he was. my grampa. rescuing me from my terrible impending doom. he had a walmart sack full of all sorts of medicine. he drove all the way from grant to rexburg just to give me some nyquil and other goods. ever since that moment i felt a special feeling for my grampa. he's a special grampa.

gramma was off hugging other people so we weren't able to get a picture with her but grampa wanted hyrum. and hyrum liked him!

then all of us girls were sitting on the couch, waiting for everyone to get to the house so we could eat some fried chicken.

no one loves hyrum more than ashley does. and he loves her. i'm glad he warmed up to her too. before he hated her. 

gramma T. had to love on hyrum before we left to come home. he loves her. she's such a cute little gramma. we all love her. i don't know anyone who doesn't.

it was a good weekend spent with my family. we've missed a lot of our family function for various reasons and i've felt like i've missed out on everything. i'm glad i belong to the Torgersons. they are the best group of people you'll ever run into.

Change of Attitude

I've been having a hard time in Logan. We moved for Lance to go to school...and that's really the only reason why. I've had a really hard time with the transition. I moved thinking that I would be alright. Well I wasn't alright. I hated it here. I kind of still do. BUT moving has been the best for us. We get to go to the temple all the time, and we have to lean on each other for everything. And we spend every day together. We used to go to one of the parent's house and split up and then reunite around midnight when we got home and went to bed. That's just the way things were happening. Anyway now we spend more time together and we are better than ever.

Me and lance have a different kind of relationship. We started out best friends, always having fun and laughing and to this day we still giggle and laugh for hours about something so small as a stupid face that I make. We're constantly flirting and having all sorts of fun. Poor Hyrum is doomed. He's got the weird parents that dance and sing in the car on the way to Wal-Mart.

Anyway...back to my change of attitude. Pregnancy hormones are the worst thing in the world. They turned me into a horrible monster. ok...not a horrible monster, but a ornery person who gets offended by everything. I used to be a happy, giggly person and then I turned into a person that sits in the corner and just watches everyone because someone hurt my tender little feelings and I tend to hold grudges. But I have been thinking, I hurt someone's feelings because of my bad little attitude. I don't want to be that person that everyone avoids. Poor Lance and Hyrum.

So to everyone that I've offended, I'm sorry. I am working on changing that aspect of myself. By laughing more and being more involved and not withdrawing myself because people tend to say rude things to me. I need to learn how to not let it get to me and to just brush it off. Instead of taking it to heart, I need to be the bigger person and not pay attention.

07.14.2013

This is very new to me, but everyone and their dog has a blog (that rhymed...unintentional) so I figure I might as well join in. Plus this way I can eventually print it out and make a book of our family. Anyway I'm probably going to be the only one reading this, but oh well. It's like a journal...ONLINE!

Our story begins in Malta, Idaho at Raft River High School. Me and Lance were really good friends. We went on a lot of adventures, helped each other with stupid high school things, and had secret crushes on each other. Eventually he graduated, then I graduated and we lost track of each other. Well I was working at Valley Wide in Rupert and went to Wal-mart after work to get something for my mom and there he stood. In his bearded glory. Lance. Of course I yelled out his name. It was an amazing reunion. I got his number and we started hanging out. About a month later, 01.13.2012, we ran off to Vegas and got married. No one thought it would last and everyone thought I was pregnant. I wasn't. Now look at us.

In April we found out that I was pregnant. Lance was psyched out of his freaking mind and I was just freaked out. When we found out we were having a boy, we were so excited. Lance yelled the phrase "SUCK IT" in the hospital after we were free from the ultrasound tech. Nice guy. Super weird.

December rolled around and I was waddling around. I FINALLY had Hyrum. I was 6 hours in labor and pushed for 30 min. Lance was so happy. I was so tired. Not to mention, I felt really weird. Epidural made me numb and loopy. Worth it.

01.15.2013 Me and Lance went through the Logan, Ut temple, and got sealed for all time and eternity to Hyrum and our future children. It was an amazing day. The best day in both of our lives.

Now it's July and we're living in Logan for Lance to go to school. He's going into wildlife science to be a fish and game officer. Right now he's working in concrete construction for a really good guy who treats him like more than just a peon. Hyrum is crawling everywhere, has 5 teeth, and loves his puppies and his ball. He's starting to try to stand on his own. He's babbling so much and love love love corn and squash and sweet potatoes. and his cereal puffs. I am looking for a job that i can take him with me and I might have found one. I would be a nanny for 2 little boys. I really hope it works out for me. I'm glad I married Lance. I am happier on my worst day now than I was on my best day when I wasn't with him. He's my better half and perfect for me, and we have the funniest little kid in the world.