Fobian Family

2011-11-05T10:30:00.000-07:00

2011-08-15T10:04:00.001-07:00

So much has happened in two years I need to spend some time catching up but the most exciting thing is Paige!

A Time to Remember Dave March 9th

2009-03-13T21:30:00.000-07:00

It has been a year since Dave died, the time has past so quickly. I still think of him often and how much I miss him. This picture is our last family photo it was taken at Dave's funeral. a while later when Jen was going through her pictures she found it, as you can see it has Dave in the background, this was not planned but the slide show that was playing behind us had the perfect picture. "Our Last Kirby Family Photo"

PAY IT FORWARD

2009-03-05T21:46:00.000-08:00

Pay It Forward Exchange is based on the concept of the movie "Pay it forward". I will send a hand made gift to the first three people who leave a comment to this post on my blog requesting to join the PIF exchange. All the gifts will be made and posted out 'sometime within the next year'. How exciting to not know when your surprise package will arrive! Please note that this could be any kind of gift ranging from a card to a blanket to well just about anything! What you need to do in return, is pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog. This Exchange is only open to those with active websites or blogs. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PROMISE TO POST THIS SAME 'PAY IT FORWARD' MESSAGE ONTO YOUR BLOG, WHICH MUST BE ACTIVE IN ORDER TO PLAY. YOU WILL PAY IT FORWARD TO THREE PEOPLE WHO COMMENT ON YOUR BLOG. I'd love for you to join me! Will you? Other comments are welcome, but only the first three will be my Pay It Forward recipients. Come and join me who doesn't love a gift or giving gifts???

Computers Breathing

2009-02-20T20:54:00.000-08:00

So I am sitting here reading blogs and looking on facebook, what an exciting friday night, and I lifted up the laptop and it almost burned me it was so hot. Chuck looked at me and said it is because it cant "breathe." so the blanket that was on my lap was "sufficating" it.... not..... if that is the case it should have a warning lable on it that reads "please allow to breathe- blankets or soft surfaces may cause harm"

Chuck is Sick

2009-02-18T20:49:00.000-08:00

Chuck is sick!! so that means that I get to work really hard at making him comforatble. We all know that when we are sick we milk being served as much as possilbe so I cannot say anything about him wanting the same attention in return. So I cooked dinner, exactly what he wanted, went to the store to get him the drink that he wanted, got off the couch to get the remote that he wanted, went upstairs to get the pillow and blanket that he wanted. I cant wait to have kids i bet it gets 100 times worse and then when you are sick no one cares to get you what you want you still have to get it yourself.

I hope chuck gets better soon.

Just to update the blog

2009-02-10T22:07:00.000-08:00

So I am posting today "just to update the blog" I don't have any new pictures to look at but just my thoughts to read. Last year was a crazy one in my life. It made me reflect on myself and what this life is all about. I really don't know how to describe how the events in the last year have changed me, all I know is that the Heather that didn't care about anything and anybody needs to change. life is too short to just always be busy with only my stuff and not reach out to others. I still haven't done very well at this but I am willing to try harder.
It is coming up on one year since my brother died and it still seams like it didn't happen. I still cry every time it comes to my mind (like right now) I don't know why it is still so raw. It just makes me sad to think about his family that is left behind and that I have one less brother here. That is the true reason why may attitude needs to change. He gave so much love and in return people loved him, if i could only be a fraction of what he was. Jen keeps telling me that I need to be more caring and I agree so I did do a few extra things to improve in this area but I can do much better. So to anyone that is reading my Blog I hope that I can be a better friend to you this coming year.

Heather

Merry Christmas

2008-12-25T11:28:00.000-08:00

We got a White Christmas, and we are snowed in so we cant go to Mom and Dad's.

Our family photo shoot

2008-12-09T21:32:00.001-08:00

Thriving Ivory Concert

2008-10-25T14:28:00.000-07:00

Myself, Chuck, Jen and Mark went to the Thriving Ivory concert. (Chuck's second concert, first one being the Collective Soul...we didn't know any of their songs. Someday we need to go to a real concert, but we are not to adventurous so I don't know when that will happen.)

Mark was the first to get on the Thriving Ivory band wagon as they reviewed the CD on 101.9 the end. It was good and he got Jen into it, Jen told me and I liked the music also, the next thing I know, I was buying tickets to the concert. They were cheap.

That night we got the the Murry theater and were in line... Jen and I were talking and a car starts honking... all of a sudden ice is flying everywhere and Jen yells, "it hit me in the head." Well the drink did hit her but it hit Mark in the arm first and he was grateful that it was not his hurt arm that he just got surgery on. We started laughing and I took some pictures. People around us thought that we were weird to be laughing... at least we didn't let it ruin our evening.

The Concert was fun the band is just starting out but the are really good and they were surprised with the 1000 people there.

Afterward, when we got to the car, there was a ticket, we didn't see the "no parking" signs (you think we would look due to the fact that Northridge, California received a lot of our money for parking tickets) so all in all the night was not good but we didn't let the bad parts ruin the evening.

"Devil Cats"

2008-10-11T15:37:00.000-07:00

Ellie has a unique personality. She is the kind of cat the bites the hand that feeds her thus this costume is appropriate as she is our little "Devil Cat".
This is our angel April. We couldn't find an angel costume so we dressed her up as a devil too...but it doesn't really fit her personality.
Not a happy cat.

This is ridiculous!

The devil went down to Georgia and is looking for a soul to steal...

If only I could fly.

Chuck and a Butt

2008-10-06T23:00:00.001-07:00

This is at Goblin valley, Chuck just had to give it a squeeze

Bear Lake

2008-10-06T22:41:00.000-07:00

The first question that Chuck asked when my family chose Bear lake to go water skiing was "are there bears there?" We had had enough bears for one year at Tahoe. We all had a great time and I even got a little more practice on my wakebording skills, I am definitely still a novice but with practice maybe I wont face plant in the water every time I try to go outside the wake. (I must tell you I was very sore from some serious whiplash when I got home)

The other fun boating thing we all learned on this trip was "wake surfing" again very much a novice but learning, Jen is amazing at it ,the point is to ride behind the boat and surf the wake right behind the boat. If you do it right you don't even need a rope to get pulled by the boat because the water pushes you along.

Just on example of the horrible wipe outs. Hey it was only my second time ever wake boarding

Tahoe with the Fobians

2008-10-06T22:14:00.000-07:00

We had so much fun in Tahoe Chuck has been talking about wanting to ride a horse since we have moved to Utah and we finally got to go for a ride. It wasn't the best but it was fun my horses head followed the horse butt in front of me very well. We will have to try and get in a real ride sometime, just need to find people that have horses.

They are just sooo cute!!!

We had a great time camping with the family, Misty cooked great food, we actually used the tent Chuck won for being such a great video game player for the first time (he won it four years ago) I guess we never found a good place to camp in California, or we were just too lazy. We even got to sleep with bears. literally the camp next to us in the middle of the night was screaming about the bear in the camp ground. Of course Chuck being Chuck then decides that he needs to use the restroom and me being a great wife I am wouldn't go out side the tent. Are you kidding the camp next door screaming Bear my thought is that you insure that you don't have to go the bathroom, I wasn't leaving that tent. So again Chuck being Chuck again goes over to his sisters tent and wakes her up to go with him. she gets up (makes me look bad) I told Chuck that he better not pull that stunt again the next night.

The next day we actually see the bear, I don't know but seeing the bear with light brown puffy hair actually made me less scared of it although there was no way I was going to get out of my tent even if Chuck has to go the bathroom again.

We watched the fireworks at the lake, went bike riding, horseback riding played games, relaxed and of course ate more food.

I did forget Catrina and I got real creative one night and had a photo shoot this is one of the many photos that came out of that.

We all had a blast and are already trying to decide what to do for the next year Fobian family trip.

Summer Fun!!

2008-10-06T21:53:00.001-07:00

So we actually got out this summer, last year we were trying to save money for our house, move out of the condo and lived at my parents while our house was being built so we didn't do anything, we made up for not doing anything last year to doing more this year. First I went to Lake Powell with Andy and Wanda and Wanda's family, the first day was very fun, I had never been there and I must say it is beautiful. We did a few wrong things on the trip

First... we did not have a house boat and had to boat in to our site but we still packed like we were on a house boat it took forever.

Second .... we camped in the bay area, this is not a pretty as everywhere else so i didn't get to actually experience Powell.

Third..... we camped in a tent on a rock. Good thing I brought a pad to sleep on... the ground was still hard!

Fourth.... the wind came and blew and blew and the sand blew and the tent blew and everything blew (remember that lovely rock.... we couldn't stake the tents so when I say blew they were "rolling" around on the rocks)

Fifth .... we left a day early

Mark says that I need to go when he has his house boat so maybe next year it will be more fun.

It was so bad that I don't even have any pictures

2008-07-07T21:20:00.000-07:00

The Fobian Family

I thought that it might be time to start a blog, many things have happened in our lives and unless we write them down my kids will never know us when we were young and “fun” but it will also let you know what Chuck and I are up to.

Chuck and I have been married for five years now I can’t believe that the time has gone by so fast, one day you are just meeting each other staying up all night talking about nothing at all the next thing you know all you want to do is go to sleep as early as you can. Life has treated us well. I couldn’t have asked for more.

We met in Northridge California where I was playing volleyball and going to school and Chuck, well, I think he was going to school but maybe he was just trying not to have to live at his parents house so he moved in with his brother and sister-in-law in Sherman Oaks, Ca. We met at church and I will have to give the credit to Catrinia for forcing Chuck to get up the confidence to ask me out. It was St Patrick’s Day 2002 (it only took him four months to ask me). The rest is history and we were married nine months later in the Mt Timpanogos Temple which was the best day of my life so far.

We lived in California until I finished school then I told Chuck that he was moving to Utah. He was definitely unsure about that move but we both agree that it was the right thing to do at that time. We bought a condo in Lehi and I thought it was going to kill Chuck as we went through the escrow. When it was over, he said “Why was I so scared, my mortgage is cheaper than rent?” Well that inspired us to buy a house 8 months later in Daybreak (South Jordan Ut), we love it!

So that brings us to the present we have no kids so you will see a lot of us and probably the cats since they are our children (at least for now).