My Dad!

I decided that i am going to try to do a post about each one of my family members to let them know how much i love them and how they have made my life what it is....

So todays blog is dedicated to my wonderful daddy!

I love my dad so much we have been through quite a bit together and he hasnt always had the easiest life but he never talked down on how rough his life has been or done the pity me thing he has always tried his hardest to make sure my brother, sister and i were happy... My dad is just about 51 one but if you met him you would think he is still a teenanger he loves potty jokes loves to play pranks on people and has such dry humor but everything to him in life he can find the funny in it all. He was brought up in Rosepark with one sister and 2 awesome parents, his dad for example was a awesome man even though i never met him my dad has never said one bad word about him they always talk about how he has always tried to do new things so he could keep close to his kids... my grandma even told me that he picked up golf so him and my dad could do something together... He sadly later on in life became a quadraplegic (dont know how to spell that) so he lived for a few short years like this then he passed on when my dad was in his 20's as for his mom she is one of the toughest ladies i know she is 85 now and still gets around really good and lives completly on her own. Whlile my dad was serving his mission in Orgeon he found out he had Diabetes he was insulin dependant so he has always struggled with this he was always in and out of the hospital with the diabetic flu. He also married my mom in his late twenties and had three kids shortly after my sister was born my mom found out she had lung cancer and my dad was always at the hosipital he was there everyday and always was making sure we were taken care of then after almost a year of fighting the cancer my mom passed away leaving my dad with a 10yr old, 7 yr old and an 8month old baby this was really tough for him but he never showed it he was always so worried that someone would bring up my mom and we would get our feelings hurt or be sad about it so he was so protective over us since my little sister was so young my dad didnt want her to keep getting passed around while he was at work and my mom never wanted us in daycare so he had to do one of the toughest things in his life he let my aunt Cathie and her husband my dads sister take care of her so she know lives with them. Through all of these rough years my dad always tried to keep postive and make sure we have everything possible. I remember when i was in high school my dad would think it was so funny to fart in the car and lock me in there. he is such a character. I love him so much later on when i was about 10 he remarried and then right around 9/11 my dad lost his job and shortly after his kidneys failed and he needed a transplant this was very hard for me, brother and my sister to see this when we had already lost one parent we were terrifed this would happen again but luckily my dad got one pretty fast and also got a pancreas so he is no longer diabetic and hasnt had any complications. I Love my dad more than words could describe he is the best dad in the world. Even through the past rough times he has had i want him to kow i am always here for him and we will get through all of this. He always has my side and i will never doubt him, or look down on him for his choices everyone might not make the best choices all the time but he really tries hard and i will always be there for him through the thick and the thin! I Love you dad!!! Never forget it!!!

My Birthday,Christmas,New Years and our Big move...

Wow!!!! sorry it has been such a long time since my last post, we got all wrapped up in the holidays, my birthday and then we found out we had to move and had to be out the weekend after new years... then we didnt have internet until just barely... Anyways this is going to be a long post so bare with me.... First off 12.22.09 was Karstons Birthday party which alos happened to be the day we found a place to live... so on Karstons birthday it was a blizzard, so we were very late to his party but sure glad we were able to make it, he was so stinkin cute on his birthday he wasnt not that into opening the gifts but i think that was because of all the little kids were overwhellming him. Then it was off to him eating his cake he was so cute with that he got it everywhere and i have plenty of pics that i will post. 12.23.09 was my 22nd birthday, it was sucha great birthday that morning my brother came and picked up me and his wife becuase my dad had my car so he took me to go get it then i treated myself to mcdonalds breakfast with a huge MR.PIBB it was delicous then i went home and hung out with Hyrums mom and got ready for the day then Cheri took me out to lunch to chilis it was awesome i love their chips and salsa then i went home and hyrum came home and gave me my gift he bought me a awesome video camera because we really want one once we start having kids. Then it was off to olive garden which i love that place and tons of his family came it was such a great birthday. 12.24.09 CHRISTMAS EVE.... I am such a child when it comes to christmas i get so excited that i still cant sleep i cant wait to give everyone their gifts and hang out iwth family. well me and hyrum have this tradition that we give eachother christmas eve PJs and we open them in the morning and stay in them all day so i woke up at 7 of course because i was too excited to sleep so i grabbed the christmas eve gifts and woke hyrum up and then we decided it would be fun to go bug Kasey and Tsalaph so we went and woke them up and their kids and hung out with them for most of the morning. Then we decided to go see avatar with them so we went to avatar came home then went to his moms for the traditonal Norman Christmas eve bash it was so much fun they always do a talent show and i will have to post what the boys did it was too funny... They would kill me though if they knew i posted it but i am going to anyways LOL :) So we stayed over there till about 2 am then we went home went to bed. 12.25.09 CHristmas day!! Of course once again i woke up early around 8 so not too early ran and grabbed my video camera and jumped up and down on the bed telling hyrum it was christmas... I think he regrets getting that camera for me lol. so we woke up opened all our gifts which this year i got my new bedding i wanted, tonz of clothes, shoes, underwear, bra, the worlds softest blanket, a snuggie (which i think hyrum bought that for him he is always stealing my pink snuggie and walks around in it) i also got a cd candy, gift cards and much more. As for hyrum i got him alot of clothes, a leather jacket, a new golf bag, i made him a Dallas Cowboys blanket, tonz of socks (which he loves) and much more. Then my parents and my brother his wife and my step brother came over for breakfast and we did more gifts and hung out it was awesome! then we were off to all the inlaws first we went to his moms and she made hyrum the coolest gift she put together all his school work and letters his dad and grandpa wrote him when he was little all in a book he loved it! then we were off to my grandmas for dinner and gifts we do this every year no matter how many grandkids she has or how old we are getting she always gets the girls matching clothes and the boys too.. its cute and funny. then we went back to his moms and stayed there again until about 2 am it was so much fun so we had a awesome christmas! 12.26.09 the day after christmas is Christels birthday so later that day we all went out to dinner then we were off to see sherlock homes it was such a fun day as well but i was so tired after the last few days. NEW YEARS EVE!!!!! New years eve we went over to hyrums buddys Sam and bens house and all just hung out there and had such a great time. 1.1.10 new years day me and hyrum didnt do to much but pack all day and relax i know it sounds boring but we had to be out of the house by saturday so we had lots of packing to do! 1.8.10 this was the day we started moving out of our house and into our new townhome. Which we love tghe new townhome so much it is so close to everything its only a 20 min drive to work for me instead of 45 min and usually closer for hyrum too. we live less than 5 min from Jay and Cheri and we love that, we were sad to leave our house cause we lived right across from Tsal and Kasey and really close to his mom... so we are so happy that we are still so close to family. the townhome is right by the first lehi exit and it is 2 bed 2 bath and we love it... Also on 1.8.10 we celbrated Rykers 1st birthday he was so cute too... he loved the cake and opening gifts he thought it all was so fun. Unfortuantly i didnt get any pics because we were in the mist of moving so i didnt have my camera. so that is all that has been going on with us for the last few weeks so as you can tell we were so busy thats why my blog is so behind...

One Year Ago

One year ago on December 6 2008 Hyrum proposed to me, so this year on December 6th we decided to do the exact same thing he did when he proposed, so we got my Brother and his wife Cassidy and went to Temple Square to look at the christmas lights, man it sure is BEAUTIFUL there i dont care if you are LDS, religous or not how could you not just find that place one of the most BEAUTIFUL places on this earth... so we walked around for awhile took some pictures, it was alot colder this year so we didnt stay as long and since it was a sunday the actual temple grounds were closed so we couldnt take a picture exactly where he propsed but we still had a great time then we all walked to olive garden and had some yummy food! It was so much fun and we will definatly make this a traditon the rest of our lives.

Here are some pics!!!

Family Pictures

so here are the family pics we did last weekend.

My LoVe

So this whole post is deticated to my awesome husband Hyrum!! I dont even know where to start i love him more than words can describe... i still havent figured out how i ended up being so lucky to have him as my husband... he is willing to do anything for me at anytime if im sick at 3 in morning he will wake up with me and make sure im ok or tickle my back until i fall back asleep, comforts me if im sad, he is just awesome! He has such a great love for kids and his family which both mean so much to me, i love children and we just cant wait until we have our own. His love for his family is undesribable he would do anything for any one of his family memeber s and as you guys know thats alot of people :) i Love his family too so much, at first yes it was scary comming into such a big family but they have always opened their arms out to me and i love them so much they are such a caring and great family... They are all truely each others best friends... I am just one lucky girl and i still cant figure all this out how i became so lucky. Hyrum is always purshing me to do better with things i want in my life and making sure i am the happiest girl in the world... He also shares such a great love for my family too which wasnt the easiest for him at first because i am from a very religous family and since he was not mormon they were not always the most accepting at first but they got past that point and they all love him to death and he loves them. I still remember when me and Hyrum started dating my dad was so worried i was going to get hurt or my values were going to change but my dad knows hyrum so much better now and he loves him like he was his own. Even though my dad really strugells with showing his love, we both know he loves hyrum so much. My brother Jourdain is truley one of my best friends we have been through so much together with my mom passing when he was 10 and i was 7 that definatly forced us to stick together and always be there for eachother we have had other diffculties my dads health has always been really bad he is always in the hospital and about 6 years ago had a kidney pancreas transplant and that was really hard for me and my brother because he had it about a couple days before he left for his Mission but atleast he got to see my dad come out of the surgery and know that he is ok. I started dating Hyrum when Jourdain was on his mission and we had been dating for a year by the time he got home and Jourdain was nothing but loving and awesome towards hyrum he took him right in and so did hyrum. Wow sorry i keep blabbing but this is my little journal... I know my mom would have loved hyrum so much... even though she never got to meet him i know she looks down on us and i know she is very happy for the both of us.

Here are 30 reasons why i love hyrum so much:

1. caring

2. his love

3.the way he is with kids

4.how much he loves me

5.how he looks at me when he thinks i dont know he is looking

6.his sweet kisses

7. when he kisses me on the head when i am sad or sick

8. his love for his family

9.his love for my family

10. how he will not change what he believes in even when someone calls it dumb

11. his laugh

12. his sexy body:)

13.Awesome Smile

14. how he talks in his sleep

15. hes an awesome snuggler

16. how senstive he is even though he tries to hide it

17. his hugs

18. when he sings

19. his love for his mom

20. his love for his dad

21. how he will try to alwasy suprise me with clean laundry or a clean house

22. how he will always help me with dishes

23. his love for his job

24. hard worker

25. supportive

26. his love for his brothers and sisters

27. when holds my hand

28. his humor

29. when he dances with me he always sings in my ear

30. how he always knows what wrong with me even if i dont tell him

I LOVE YOU BABY!!!

St.George and Vegas Pics!

St.George, Vegas and Jays Birthday!!!!

So this past Thursday Hyrum and I, Dan, Kim, Tsalaph, Kasey, Jay and Cheri all went down to st.george for the weekend to suprise jay for his 30th birthday, It was so much fun it was a little hard to keep it a secret being that jay is Hyrum and Dans boss and all but Cheri was able to keep it a secret until about 5 min before we meet at her house. Then we all took off on our road trip to st.george it was so much fun and i know everyone else was way excited to go because no one took their kids so they got a little break. we got to st.george on thursday around 10,1030 and we stayed in this awesome house that cheri found it was so nice we each had out own room with our own bathroom it was freakin amazing... then we all went grocery shopping and loaded up on snacks and breakfast food... then we headed back and stayed up til about 3 playing pool and hanging it out. IT WAS A BLAST... then on Friday/jays bday the boys got up and went golfing and the girls went and got pedicures and went and saw a movie in the middle of the day which everyone else was way excited about because they can never do that since they have kids. then the girls went to harmons and cheri got jay roses and cake and we took to olive garden where we were going for dinner so that she could suprise him... we got 30 trick candles and that was hilarious they were all melting in the cake and almsot set the smoke alarms off. Saturday we all slept in and got ready then we headed to vegas where the girls shopped and the boys played poker Hyrum and Kasey had so much to drink they were hilarious but then poor hyrum got really sick so i felt really bad for him. Sunday we all slept in way late and hung out and had breakfast it was such a fun little getaway....we will definatly have to do it again!!!!

It was so awesome to be able to share a special birthday with Jay. Me and hyrum love Jay so much he is such a great father and husband... He would do anything for anyone..... He is such an inspiration to me with how strong he is with his faith and how he never judges anyone!!! I love jay so much and i am so happy i got to spend his 30th bday with him!!!!
WE LOVE YA JAY!!!