My Obsessions

Here are a few of my obsessions at the moment...

Yes, I know i have a lot obsessions. But who doesn't?! My most favorite obsession is that cute boy right there.

I love my life and my crazy obsessions. the end.

The Day of Love

This is us on February 14, 2009

The night Trevor asked me to be his for forever... One of the BEST nights of my life.

Here we are two years later on this wonderful day of love celebrating the day that changed our lives forever.

Trevor spoiled me once again on Valentine's Day.

I came down the stairs after getting ready to go out to dinner and this is what was waiting for me!

It was adorable and I loved it all!

He then surprised me with the cutest watch! I absolutely loved it and have wanted it for awhile!

He took me to On the Border for dinner and we ate yummy fajitas! We loved them! We definitely love Mexican food!

There doesn't need to be a holiday to express our love. Everyday should be treated as Valentine's Day! I love this wonderful day of love and am so blessed to get to spend FOREVER with this man. He truly is the love of my life and I wouldn't be who I am today if it wasn't for him. Isn't he the cutest?!

My Valentine is hotter than yours.

My Babies

These are my babies...

These babies make me feel better when i'm home sick and Trevor is not home to cuddle with me. Like today and yesterday... My baby Bella and Tia give me kisses when my hard working husband can't... I'm not looking forward to not being able to see my husband for the next semester because stupid school and work are stealing him from me... Good thing i'll be occupied with school and work too! Let this long semester BEGIN... This is how excited we are for the semester to begin... NOT.

The New Year

"As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change. . . I will always keep falling in love with you." - Karen Clodfloder

I love this man with all my heart. He has been there for me through everything and i couldn't ask for a better guy! I love the little surprises he surprises me with and the love he shows me everyday. It means the world to me. He truly is my best friend and i am so excited that i get to spend eternity with him. He is the love of my life. I love you my sweet Trevor.

A lot has happened since i have last updated. Sorry i need to get better at updating our blog more often... Trevor went in for his final procedure and they were able to remove his stent and blast

his last kidney stone at the same time! It was a happy day and we are thrilled that he is back to normal now!

Just before the last surgery!

Trevor just moments before surgery... You can tell he is so excited haha

We had a great Christmas and New Years with our families. We loved spending time with all of our family and seeing family that we hadn't seen in so long! It definitely was

crazy busy being around a ton of people but we were so glad that we got to spend time with the ones we loved! It is so depressing that the holidays are over already... It went by way too fast! That time of the year is our favorite time of the year. We are counting down the days until next Christmas!

Talking to Matthew on Christmas!

We made the best gingerbread house!

Kissing under the mistletoe!

New Years Kiss!

Fireworks!

As we go through 2011, there will be many happenings all the way...

Events that will happen this 2011 year:

1. Trevor turns 24 in April.

2. Alyssa turns 21 April.

3. Trevor applies for dental school and hopefully gets in!

4. My baby Bella turns 1.

5. My Tia turns 8 or 9 i think?

6. We will be married 2 years in May.

7. Trevor asked me to marry him two years ago on Valentine's day. We will be going to Cafe Boa (a tradition) That place is so good! We love it.

7. Possibly moving depending on what dental school Trevor gets into.

8. Matthew will have been gone a year in October!

9. All my friends come back from their missions!

10. Alec graduates high school! I feel so old.

11. Taking a much needed California trip when summer finally comes.

12. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas come! Happiest time of the year. Cant wait.

I bet there will be many more events that will pop up along our journey through 2011, but this is a little piece of what we will be experiencing together this year. We love you all and hope that 2011 is a great year for you!

The Nightmare

A couple of weeks ago, I was at work working away, when I get a call from Trevor, saying that I need to come get him and take him to the ER because his kidney was hurting really bad again. All i can think of is "oh great here goes another kidney stone." He scared me with this same thing right after we got back from our honeymoon... So I rush to the house to get him and we quickly rush to the hospital (Almost getting into an accident - let me add). We get there and it takes them FOREVER to even get Trevor on some pain medication for his horrible pain. The poor guy was sitting there doubled over in tears because the pain was so horrible. Finally, we were able to get some pain medication for him and he started to relax. The doctor comes in and tells us that he has a kidney stone lodged in his ureter, that is 8 mm, and that there is also ANOTHER kidney stone waiting up in his kidney to come down that is 8 mm too! So we were both like "GREAT." Anyways, the doctor gave us the option of being transfered to another Banner hospital to see the urologist and have a procedure to get the stones blasted and out of there (the urologist on-call was not at the Banner hospital that we were at) or Trevor could just go home on pain medication and he could try and pass the stone. Did they not realize that his stones were 8 mm long??? THERE WAS NO WAY HE WAS GOING TO PASS THE STONES... STUPID.. We decided that we wanted to be transfered to get the procedure done and get the stones blasted right away. We were pretty set on what we wanted to do. Little did we know, the urologist at the other hospital was making a plan of his own. The doctor comes back in and says that the urologist said that he does not want to see Trevor tonight, that he wanted Trevor to be sent home on pain medication, and to call his office first thing in the morning to get the procedure scheduled for that morning. So, we thought that wouldn't be a big deal to wait until tomorrow morning.

We went home and got through the painful night.

I call the doctor's office the next morning and his nurse tells me that they wont be able to get Trevor in for about two weeks and that was what the urologist specifically told them! I was like are you kidding me???!! I was so pissed, you have no idea. The stupid urologist just told us, the night before, that we would get in that morning and that he would get Trevor getting better, but no....

So i decide to call a different urologist and get him in for an appointment that day. We go in and that urologist tells us that we won't be able to get a procedure scheduled for a couple days. Here is my poor husband in a ton of pain and they tell us that we have to wait a couple of days. So we go home and decide to wait it out on pain medication until we can get the procedure scheduled.

That Saturday, Trevor was taking a nap and I was cleaning down stairs. Out of no where, he yells my name and I go running upstairs panicking. I go up there and see him shaking (i thought he was having a seizure) and he had a fever of 100.4!! I quickly called 911 and the paramedics got there right away. Trevor was then taken to the hospital and we were there yet again... They told us that Trevor was septic, had a really bad kidney infection, his liver was shutting down, his kidneys were shutting down, his white blood cell counts were down, and by this time he had a temperature of a 103. My poor Trevor... We were so sad and devastaed... If only the stupid urologist, from the first night we were there, would have taken him and done the procedure or if he would have taken him the next morning, Trevor would not have been almost dying from a septic kidney infection.

The new urologist that we had, had to call in an emergency team for the next morning and do a procedure by putting a stent through his ureter to relieve the urine and infection that was backed up in his kidney. After the procedure was done, Trevor was feeling ten times better. I was so glad. The doctors in the hospital told us that most people usually die from getting as bad

as Trevor was. THANKFULLY that was not the case. I thank Heavenly Father everyday.

We were there for a couple more days and then they finally sent us home after his infection was under control. Now we have to go through three more procedures in order for Trevor to get better. One was just done today and that was to blast the biggest kidney stone. The second will be to blast the second kidney stone and the third will be to take the the stent out. Hopefully after that last procedure, we will be done for a long time!

Trevor just coming out of the first procedure when they put the stent in.

Trevor getting an EKG.

This was the worst night ever... Second time being back in the hospital. We couldn't sleep at all this night because he was so miserable, as you can tell...

The second time being back in the hospital :(

Trevor was growing a beard in the hospital so

he thought it would be funny to just shave everything else and keep a mustache! It grossed me out haha. i couldn't stand it and made him shave it as soon as we got home. :)

Trevor has been through so much these last couple of weeks and it was so hard to sit there and watch him go through it all. Tears would fill my eyes and my heart would sink every time I would even look at him. It made me so sad to see him go through what he did. I am so proud of my husband and the strong person that he is. He is so good to me and I could not picture being with a better person. Heavenly Father truly has answered my prayers and everyone else's prayers in our behalf. We are truly blessed and I know that our Heavenly Father is watching over us. I love my Trevor and am so glad that I have him back. I was really missing him for a while... Trevor and I are also grateful for all of you that kept us in your thoughts and prayers. It really meant a lot to us!

Thanksgiving Already?

I have a lot to be thankful for as Thanksgiving approaches.. I love this time of year because we can all give service to others and spend time with the ones that we love. Not to mention, I always remember the reason why I am still living in Arizona... Just because of the beautiful weather we receive during this time! I couldn't ask for anything more... I really cannot believe that it is Thanksgiving already and then it will be Christmas and and New Years before we know it! This year has flown by!

I am especially grateful for these certain precious things in my life as we celebrate Thanksgiving this year:

- A wonderful, loving, caring, thoughtful, and handsome husband

- My awesome families

- My wonderful mom and dad

- The best mother and father in law in the world

- The cutest little baby yorkies in the whole wide world!

- Great friends

-Awesome co-workers

- A job

- The Gospel

-Blessings

- The opportunity to be sealed in the temple with my family and my Trevor

- My brave brother serving the lord for two years

- Heavenly Father

- My Savior and his love for me

- Church families

- My cute little CTR 8 class

- The Temple

- The gym!

- Having the opportunity to obtain an education

- Our cute home

- Out loving Prophet and the prophets before

- Being Healthy (well somewhat... when it comes to by stomach, that is a whole different story)

- Peanut and Peanut Butter M&M's (my favorite)

- Chocolate animal crackers (also another fav)

- My cute little beach cruiser

And the list goes on! I have so much to be thankful for! What are you thankful for? I challenge you to ponder that. :)

I love that we will all be able to spend tomorrow family and thinking about what we are all grateful for! Oh and I can't forget the yummy food all day! :)

Happy Turkey Day from Trevor & Alyssa!

He Left...

Today, October 20, 2010, my brother Matthew left on his mission. He will be in the MTC for about 2 months while he learns spanish. Then, he will be in Pennsylvania soon after that. Today was a very hard day for our family as we said bye to him at the airport... We know that this is what he is supposed to be doing, but we are really going to miss having him around. I keep noticing little things that remind me of him and I break down and cry because I miss him so much already. I love my little brother and cannot wait to see him again in two years. He is my brother and one of my best friends that I will miss very much over the next couple of years. Make us proud Elder Matthew Austin Gallego! We love you so much and will pray for you everyday! I know it will go by fast...