Disney Part 1

Disneyland was a blast! I know that what everyone really wants to see is pictures but here is a quick recap of the days:

Friday, April 8th: I get off work at 5 and Ty and I drive to the airport. We arrive in LAX at 8:45. We take the shuttle to Dollar Car Rentals. We meet up with Grandma mimi and pick up our rental car. We arrive at the hotel 30 minutes later. It's 10:30 and we are starving. We eat at Denny's and go to bed. We are sharing a room with Strat, Lauren and Oaklen. The weather is about 60's and we are so tired. We have a great night sleeps.

Saturday, April 9th: Everyone gets up by 8 to get dressed and eat breakfast. We all wear our cool matching shirts and walk to California Adventure. We spend the day there. Debbie and Gaylan buy us big ol' turkey legs for lunch. My feet kill. Grandma mimi, Debbie and I leave at 9 pm. We hit iHop for dinner. Tyson stays with the gang and grabs McDonald's for dinner - a really late dinner.

29 hours...

We fly out to California in 29 hours.

I've been busy with my usual routine to try and get the house in complete order - ha! it's funny the kicks we get into. Just this morning after Tyson cleaned his office - first time in 3 months :) He suddenly decided that he MUST CLEAN ALL HIS SHIRTS - or he would diiiiieeeeeee. Seriously. I came into the apartment to hear music blasting and Tyson in the kitchen with all his 20 dress shirts laid out and one by one he was scrubbing the necks and sleeves with a new dish scrubber. It was hilarious. I thought about getting mad but hey - I get into weird kicks too.

Travel makes you feel all sorts of productive. I cleaned the bathroom, cleaned the kitchen, threw out lots of food that made my frigde smell yucky. Tonight I plan to do lots of laundry and get all my uniforms cleaned so when we get back on Tuesday and ready to go Wednesday.

Today I went to Target and bought lots of travel size stuff - well $7 worths which was alot for me, but it made so much sense rather than paying $50 roundtrip to check in a bag. What a rip off!

Work has been slow the last two days - thank heavens. The first of the month were so busy I wanted to hide and sleep. I'm glad for the break.

Conference Weekend

Ah conference weekend. It just makes me feel at home. Saturday both Ty and I were busy with work but thanks to the internet we were able to watch it later that night. Sunday we woke up and we made pancakes and a yummy ham casserole. We watched both sessions in the comfort of our homes and loved it. The talks were amazing. My favorites included Elder Scott's on marriage and how wonderful it is. I also loved Elders Pratt's talk on tithing.

We are so blessed to have the gosple. I've said it before but thanks to the gosple every good thing has come into my life. I'm so grateful for it. I love to hear the choirs sing and the prayers said. The Lord wants a unified people.

After conference we had a Gerber family conference call to finalize Disneyland. We are really excited. I need to take tons of pictures and post them. Another blessing was that Tyson closed some business this week - we are starting April with lots of momentum and we are so grateful.

Work the last two days were insanely crazy. I had 12 rentals within 24 hours. Usually it takes me 10 days to get that many rentals! Primerica is doing great, church is great and I can't wait for warmer weather to come :)

March Updates...

March has been a pretty fun month. The highlighs include:

1. Brad Austin coming to Denver and us getting to meet up for dinner.
2. Attending the Denver Home Show
3. Free pancakes at Perkins Restaurant.
4. Free Chicken Sandwhiches at Chick-Fil-A
5. Tyson passing his securities CE course
6. Spending $1.60 and making $15 at Walgreens with coupons :)
7. My grandmas birthday
8. Oaklens first birthday and the cutest pictures
9. Finding out about Disneyland
10. Eating at the Cafe Rio in Denver.

Overall it's been a pretty calm month. Lots of staying inside at night but fun activities in the day. April will be so fun with our trip and conference and Easter. The weather is looking great. We have been at 60 degrees all week - some days even warmer :)

Fun News...

Debbie and Gaylan called Ty and I two nights ago. They had a surprise for us! They said that by some miracle everyone was able to get off and they want to take the entire family to DISNEYLAND!!!! all 12 of us!

So Ty and I scrambled to see if we could get time off and it all worked out. She just confirmed our flights tickets last night. We leave April 8th and fly back April 12th in time for opp meeting! We are so excited. I really hope we get matching shirts :) The last time I went was during our first PFS trip in Orland and we went to Disneyworld - I cried. It really is the happiest place on earth.

My house has felt like a total disaster lately. My once passion for cleaning has just died. Today my goal is to vacuum. Now this is not that my house is a war zone -I've actually learned that having a really simple house can hide alot of lazy days. I've had about two lazy weeks - still I have been able to do laundry and keep the kitchen decent. It's true what they say that if you 1. clean up your bed and 2. keep your counters clear - everything else looks way better.

I am actually on a feeling that I will want to start throwing stuff away. This always happens when I think my house is closing in on me. I have a trunk full of things to donate and I can feel more coming out.

Birthday Fun Recap

It's funny how birthday's seem to change the older you get. This years birthday has been really mellow. Tyson spent a good hour last night decorating the house and I woke up to a great looking room. I worked all day but was happy to receive fun calls from friends and family. Most importantly my sweet Grandma. I don't know how she does it but she always remembers it. My grandma is the only one that actually remembers my birth and I love hearing about it.








For my birthday I have been wanting a Clarisonic skin cleanser. Both my mom and sister have one and I fell in love when I tried it out in December. I have been saving all my fun money for this and thanks to debbie's last contribution I ordered online this morning! It's cute. It's yellow! Can't wait.

After work we started our fun night on the town. We made a quick trip to Ross and got a brown sugar canister and a new cutting board! I have been wanting both fora while.

After Ross Tyson started our "Progressive Dinner". We first had appetizers at home, then went to Burger King (I have been having the biggest Whopper kicks lately) for dinner, then Wendy's for dessert. It was actually really cute.








It's been a pretty crazy last year. I am still in awe that I am 28. I don't feel 28. I feel 23. I feel like I just graduated college and have no idea what is going on. In 28 years I have acomplished alot:

1. Came to America and became a citizen
2. Graduated college
3. Found the gospel
4. Married a fantastic man
5. Growing a great business
6. Learned to budget and save money
7. Kept great friends
8. Obtained my own testimony
9. Learned to keep a positive attitude throughout trails
10. Have became an avid reader
11. Have found a passion to be a good wife and keep a great home.

I've changed alot in my lifetime. Heck just the last 10 years have been pretty monumental for me. I'm grateful for my experiences. This next year holds many surprises - one of them I am crossing my fingers will be actually having kids. God delayes are not God's denials.

Martha's Birthday

Surprised Birthday Dinner!

My birthday last year was such a blur. We literally filled our truck and drove to Colorado on my birthday. This year my birthday falls on a Saturday and although I won't be getting any big parties I am having a great birthday week.

The 1st thing is the great weather! We are in the 60's baby. Sunday it's suppose to get cold but that's after my birthday. The 2nd fun thing is dinner with the girls. The coolest girls in my ward (12 to be exact) planned a little girls night out in honor of my birthday. The funniest part was that I did not even know about it until Julie Kellis - who is my missionary visits partner in crime - mentioned that she was excited for Thrusday. I was liked "what's thursday?" So Celeste Hutchinson called me that day and made me aware that they needed me there. Tyson was great and took over me studying with some of our teammates so I could go.

We met at Red Robin and had an absolute blast. We talked and talked and talked. We ordered yummy food and I got a free Sunday and an embarrasing song. The girls were super awesome and even paid for my dinner. I did not get home until 10 pm! It was so fun.








I'm so thankful for our ward. This is honestly the first married ward that Tyson and I feel really a part of. Even in our last ward I served in YW but we were such a young couple that we did not have many friends. A weird thing that I noticed when I got home is that I was the only one there without kids - which made me feel old but also excited for the future.

These girls made my night!

Funny Valentines Day

This years valentine's day started pretty normal. We went to managers meeting, we had a good time learning to overcome objections. After the meeting Tyson & I got a special treat and got half hour massages! Our favorite treat for sure. (This was such a cool deal. I got a coupon for $30 and it included three free massages for this new spa. These are regularly $35 each! So we paid $10 in tips so we will get three massages for about $45! This is freaking phenomenal. Our massage therapist Lisa was absolutely amazing)

After massages we went home, had some of my homemade freezer burritos and really just relaxed. We watched Saraha and ate grapes. It was really nice. At 5 we got up and got ready for opp meeting. We changed the date due to the Jon & Melissa going to Puerto Rico. We picked up the Scottorns at 5:30 because we were taking them to the airport. Opp meeting rocked. Tyson spoke and did amazing. After opp we all hung out at the office until 9:45 pm. This is where things got interesting.

We all went outside to pack into the cars when Jon & Melissa told us that we were also taking Rey and Iziquiel. So we hand to cram 6 adults into a 4 passenger car! Tyson, Rey and Iziquiel rode in the back. Jon drove and Melissa and I shared the front seat. It was pretty funny. We got to the aiport and Jon said that we were almost out of gas and that Ty & I might not make it home. We made it 30 miles and were running on empty. We thankfully made it to a gas station and put $10 in gas. Right as we got to the gas station Angela & Ben Larsen (who took curtis and katie to the airport too) called and said their car died on 104th and Tower. So we got in the car and pretty much drove BACK to the airport to pick them up - ps our airport is almost an hour away.

We were all starving at this point so we looked for a place to eat. Well we got half way home when we hit a track stop and had to wait 30 minutes for a BIG train to pass. On man! Then we found a Burger King and ordered but waited forever for the food! It was insane. All we wanted was just to eat.

We finally made it back to Jon'hs house at 12:30. We dropped off his car and jumped into ours. We got home at 12:45 and finally ate something. Angela & Ben slept over and we all got to bed around 1:20 am. We were so exhausted! It was such a crazy Valentines night. It will surely be remembered.

Gas Experience

Tyson and I got home Wednesday night at different times - but when each of us got home we both smelled the house and it STUNK! Now my house is very clean and I air it out on a regular basis but this was different. Tyson said it was almost like rotten eggs. Ty started researching this while I took a shower and started to clean up a little bit. We had opened all the doors and windows - oh and a little side note. It was -10 in Colorado!

Tyson called his dad and Brad Romero and both of them said this could be serious. Supposably companies put an "rotten egg" smell in natural gas so that it could be detected. His dad suggested we call the police. Tyson called and the police started to ask if we were feeling bad or if we had headaches. They told us to go outside immeidatly and wait for the police. Well we wasted no time. I grabbed my purse and camera - which contained a video of our entire house - in case our renters insurance needed a copy, and we ran outside. We ran the car and waited there. I started to txt Melissa and Jael the crazy news. Melissa reminded me that I was waiting for the police in my robe and long john garments! I had not even thought about that.

We saw the police arrive and Tyson started talking to them. All of the sudden I saw an ambulance and firetruck screaming down the road and they were coming to US!!!!! It was kind of embarrasing.

They went inside and they detected nothing. urg. How embarrasing. They said it was probably because we aired our the house for an hour. They told us that if we smell that again to call them again.

So they left . Ty & I were pretty paranoid for the first hour and half but said a prayer and were able to fall sleep. Two days later we bought donuts and brought them the firemen. Just to say thanks.

It was pretty crazy.