I decided that since I'm just starting this blog that I should post some pictures of the Booth Family. Our family consists of Walter and I our two dogs and three cats, also our precious puppy and cat we lost along the way, but they're waiting for us in heaven. Carmel, the beautiful one on the bottom. We lost her first, we had her from January 2007-May 10, 2009(mother's day) R.I.P. Dayzie, we had from the beginning of March 2009- May 13, 2009 R.I.P. The black dog with the funny ears(I'm mean and put them up in a hair tie) is Lynyrd, we brought him to our home in June this year and had him for about a month before we brought his brother home Skynyrd the brown doggie. Oscar is the gray cat and Harley is right behind him and of course Carmel. I'll have to post pictures of Jack a little later. We're one big happy family and we can't wait until we get to share our animals with a little bundle of joy! If only we could get pregnant...HA HA!

I'm obviously new to all this, but I think it's all great! I think I'll start with the basics. Walter and I got married on June 3rd, 2006. We met on the Internet in St. George in October 2004 and finally met in person in November 2004. We went through a rough time and then officially got together in January 2005. He let me know quickly that he would be moving to Sacramento California that June, so naturally I didn't think we would actually last through his time in California. I started to sabotage our relationship, but luckily I knew I would do it and I told Walter about it. When it seemed like I was doing it, he would quickly redirect me and we made it through it. He left in June and I moved back up to Layton with my parents. We talked for an hour every night and occasionally he would call me on his breaks during school. In July I started getting bad headaches and my sister Amy(who was preparing to leave on her mission) and I would joke with that line from Kindergarten Cop "it's not a tumor". Amy left, and my headaches persisted. We went to the doctor and I was diagnosed with migraines, given imitrex and was sent on my happy way. Not so much! When I took the medicine it would last until about 7 p.m. and there was the headache again. Soon after this I was at work and the right side of my face started to feel numb, I didn't know what to think. We ("we" being my Mom and I) went back to the doctor again and I was given another migraine medicine. Didn't work. . .so I decided that I didn't want to go back to that doctor again and made an appointment with a different family doctor. He ordered an MRI and I went in for it quickly. A few days later I woke up with a MASSIVE headache, I walked into my Mom's room in tears over this headache. Now, I don't cry over pain that often because I have a high tolerance, so my Mom knew something was wrong. She rushed me to the doctor, but he wasn't there so we saw Nurse Practitioner. He called Davis hospital for the results of my MRI, the told him that there was a mass on my brain. . .okay, TEARS! Is it cancer? No, it can't be cancer. The NP gave me a prescription for Lortab and I went straight over to work to get my shifts covered. I was amazed at some of the responses, I'm in tears saying I have a mass on my brain and this girl Jessica flat out told me no. I don't remember a lot from the days following, but here's how I remember it. A couple days or a day later I started throwing up, my Mom didn't really think much of it, but she talked to my sister Megan and she said "GET HER TO THE E.R. NOW!" We got there and they developed my MRI and said they wouldn't attack it with surgery and referred me to the University Hospital. We went straight down there, but not before telling my brother Michael that we were going down there and got me something to eat. I'm pretty sure it was a Sunday, I was tested and poked and prodded so much and I think I had like 3 MRI's within that couple of days. I went in for surgery on Tuesday August 23rd and I guess I was under for 6+ hours and I woke up screaming that I couldn't breath! The only thing that calmed me down was knowing that Amy was asleep at the MTC and that I could send her brain waves that she would be able to pick up easier. I feel that she sent the waves back in the form of Babe by STYX. I calmed down and spent the next week in the hospital. They only removed 10% of the tumor so they could do a biopsy, the results came back and it was a Giant cell tumor. (Walter was freaking out silently) This is a tumor that is usually found in joints like the knee or the elbow, I was the first case ever seen in the brain. Well, I went home and soon after that I went blind in my right eye and I think they were prepping me for radiation. My doctor called me the middle of September and asked if I would be interested in another surgery, I asked him if he was sure that it would help. He wasn't sure, but he didn't think it would do any harm. My parents were going to the temple that night so they prayed about it and got a good feeling as did I. I went in for my second surgery on September 13th, and they went in aggressively because they didn't book an ear, nose and throat doctor who specializes in cutting into small areas. They cut open my upper lip and went through my nose from there. I woke up and freaked because there was a catheter in me! I was pissed, but my eyesight was back! I lost my voice and my Dad had to put his ear to my lips to hear me at all. Because they went in so aggressively my face swelled up and the fitted me for my radiation mask and I went down to St. George to see Walter on his school break. When I got home I started my 6 weeks of radiation and everything has been fine since! Walter and I started talking marriage and I went back to work two jobs shortly after my radiation was complete. (Big mistake, I've been tired ever since) I flew out to Sacramento in January and we got engaged on our one year Anniversary January 16th, 2006! He put my ring in a fortune cookie, it was so cute! We set the date for June 3rd and I started planning! Our first year was really hard and I instantly wanted to have kids, so we constantly fought about that. In October of 2007 we decided to start officially trying for a family. Two years later, I am very frustrated, but truly enjoying being a couple and knowing each other through and through. We can read each other like an open book! So there it is! Our big, long, crazy story! I love Walter, life, and my 2 dogs and 3 cats! Lynyrd and Skynyrd the doggies and Oscar, Harley, and Jack the kitties! I love it! We have fun and love it! My favorite quote "if I couldn't laugh at myself I'd be dead right now" I live life by this philosophy!