Sun burn or chemical burn?

So a few weeks ago Jay and I were helping his dad out on his Christmas tree farm. Yes thats right my in-laws have a awesome Christmas tree farm along with soon to be 3000 strawberry plants. The picture doesn't even show a tenth of the farm. It HUGE!! They also have a huge garden and rows upon rows of corn. I can't wait for fall to eat the yummy corn on the cob!!! Anyways. The day we were helping out it was probably like 22 degrees celsius outside, which is kind of hot. Well it was a great day of labour let me tell you. Oh my goodness. Now I don't like the out doors very much so moving trees that my husband has dug up was for sure not a fun day for me. But alas I did it because my father in law needed help. I only worked out in the sun for about 3 hours and Jay worked out there for like 6 hours. I watched the kids for a while and went to the market in the morning first. Jay has extremely sensitive skin so we made sure he put lots of sunscreen on. Well he put on Neutrogena sunscreen and I hate anything Neutrogena! Its awful stuff!!! We finally go in to rest and eat and we all notice that Jay is very burnt and that his hands are much worse. Well later that night Jay and I are going to our friends Dave and Letha's house we he notices that he is starting to blister on his right wrist. I make him call tella care to see what they say about it the lady tells Jay that as long as the blister doesn't get any bigger then a dime he should be okay. Well it got way bigger then a dime!!

Can I just tell you it was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen!! I was so grossed out by it. That was taken on Sunday. It had grown over night to be that big. Thankfully its gone now. It accidentally popped after church and this nasty orange liquid came out of it. So a note to everyone out there don't ever use Neutrogena!! Unless you want an awesome blister like my husbands.

Pootech and Healthcare

So my husband had this great idea to start his own business. When he first told me about it I'm not gonna lie I was little taken back by it and the thought of it. The business is called Pootech Services. He goes around and picks up dog poop from peoples yards. Here we are on the second month of our little business and we just went to our third clients house tonight!! Its all very exciting for us. Jay still works full time and he just does this as a little side thing. He's always wanted to own his own business and be successful at it. I would say hes doing pretty good so far! I'm very proud of him. Jay still works full time though as an NDT Tech. That stands for non destructive testing technician. Pretty much hes a welding inspector. I have to give him credit he loves his job and works so hard! Some days he comes home and his whole body just hurts from doing some pretty heavy labour, but he still gets out there and does Pootech. If you want you can check out our web site at www.pootech.com.

So just this past week I was able to get approved for medicare. Which if anyone knows anything about Canada you would know that medicare out here is not like it is in the states. Medicare in Canada is the free health care they have. I was so excited when I got approved for it! Words can not even express it. And here is why. I never get sick enough to have to go to the hospital or even the doctors. Just the normal yearly health check ups for this girl. So Jay and I didn't bother signing me up for it before I moved here. Well lo and behold we aren't even in Canada for 15 min when Jay has to bring me to the hospital. Of all the luck in the world. I had a very bad bladder infection. The likes of which I hope to never again have in my life! Who could have known that just going to the washroom could hurt so much. So a thousand dollars later and I'm feeling much better and taking two cranberry pills day.

The Graefs.

This is me, Mary. I'm from Utah




This is my husband, Jay, hes from New Brunswick Canada.

This is us together.

On January 31, 2009 we were married in the Bountiful Utah Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We are loving married life! Right now we live in Canada. We hope to one day move back to Utah. Might not be for a while though. For now we are just working and loving life. We both help out in the youth groups for our church and love being with them! Its great to help infulence the next generation. This little blog will be about our life and the fun and silly things that go on with us. I'll be posting lots of pictures I'm sure cuz I love pictures! But as for now this will have to be the end of my first post. See you soon! :)