Valentine's Weekend!!!

We had a fun weekend. I was WAY too lazy to make Valentine's for all of Lydia's little friends like we normally do but we had to make something to keep our tradition going so we made Conversation Heart Valentine's Wreaths for her grandparent's. I told Lydia to smile for the picture and she just had to be silly!
For Valentine's Jake had the idea to go to a Utah basketball game...shocker, I know! But the real shocker is that I thought it would be a fun idea so we went to an early dinner at Happy Sumo (I've been craving some yummy sushi, the pregnancy friendly kind of course). Then we went on to the game, which was a really exciting one. It went into overtime, but we ended up losing.

So this year we decided not to get eachother anything. We thought just spending time together and going out as a family would be our gift to one another. Well, I kept my end of the deal...and of course, like always, Jake didn't. We had a knock on the door so I looked out the window and saw a Lowe's truck delivering something. Jake got me a brand new washer and dryer.

So pretty...but Jake HAD to get the red ones. They actually had glacier blue but Jake paid $60 extra to get the red ones. He's crazy. He just couldn't have blue in his house. He's a little on the extreme side if you ask me!

Every time we make this pact to not get each other anything he always ends up not paying attention that conversation. For our anniversary last year we decided that our BBQ of the Century would be our gift to eachother so what happened? Jake got me a brand new laptop and a really nice cannon camera. Oh and what did I get him, you ask? Utah Utes flip flops. Oh yeah, I'm awesome! So thank you honey for this awesome gift. You always surprise me and I love you for that! Even if it makes me look a fool! :)

So on a final note...some kinda bad news! I just found out I have SKIN CANCER!!! Ahhh!! I knew it was bound to happen at some point in my life, but not so early at age 30! I've decided 30 sucks and I want to be in my 20's again. Darn this red hair and fair skin!!!!

But knowledge is definitely power and luckily I worked for a Dermatologist for two years so I know all about skin cancer. I noticed this spot on my arm a few months ago and looking at it every day, I noticed it wasn't getting any better so I thought it might be a Basal Cell Carcinoma and today, the dr confirmed that I was right. BCC is the most common type of cancer in the world and my co workers would always tease me telling me that I would have hundreds of BCC's before I died. Well, let the counting begin :) Now I have a 40% chance of getting skin cancer again. I'm prepared for it!

A lot of people think to just look for moles but that's not always what skin cancer looks like. Mine looked like a healing scab that I had for about 3 months that just wouldn't go away. So if you've spent a lot of time in the sun or if you're fair skinned....then PLEASE see a dermatologist. Unfortunately I spend many hours in the tanning bed when I was younger and didn't know any better so I'm paying for it now.

People say that a little sun exposure is fine, which may be true but I think I'll get my Vitamin D from somewhere else, thank you! There's a reason that someone invtented spray tans. I love them and will continue spending my tanning hours there instead of killling myself in the sun and tanning beds. I was young and stupid and will never set foot in a tanning bed again!!!! Sunblock is our friend so please be careful!!!