Wow its Been a Long Time!!!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Its been a little busy with everything going on, I hardly ever have time to get on. But I will update soon with pics.

Family

April 1st was Jeep Pose Days for the Sanpete County Search and Rescue. Since my brother was part of the S&R for 10 years we decided to see how many donations we could receive in memory of Shane. So we all dressed up in out S&R "Get Lost" shirts. My mom even wore a shirt too!

Us girls all dressed up. Shannon couldn't be there to participate.

Us posing! Gotta love Cody's pose.

On the way to the radio station to take the donations.

Easter this year just wasn't the same without Shane. However, we still did have our Easter party with dinner and an Easter egg hunt. Gage and Sheena weren't there, they were at the sand dunes. All the other kids were there and got to have fun with the egg hunt and playing with eachother afterwards.

I love this picture! My mom looks so happy, even happier than the kids!

New Car!

On March 5th, Saturday, Cody said, "Let's go test drive cars..." We've been talking about buying a vehicle for a really long time now so I thought why not? At least we could get an idea of what we want. We talked about it several times in the past few months and said we didn't want to buy over so much and only could afford this much in monthly payments. We walked into Ken Garff Nissan in Orem knowing we were getting a used car since we didn't think we could afford new, and walked out with a brand new 2011 Nissan Rogue!

Isn't she a beauty!I love the spoiler on the back! Its so cute!

Cody bought me this sticker forever ago. I was so excited to finally put it on our new car! Now everyone knows its me!

Weight loss, Thanksgiving, Christmas, & My Amazing Brother

Sorry I haven't posted for so long. Things have been going on and it seems life is passing me by. So just a recap of what has happened since last June. First off, I worked my tail off from June to December to get to my goal weight. On December 1 I managed to hurt my back and now am unable to do much in the ways of exercising since I have a herinated disc and my siatic nerve is killing me. It has been very hard on me to not be active like I have been the past year.

Thanksgiving with the family was great and helped remind me how important everyone is to me.

Just before Christmas we took a trip to Temple Square to see the lights. It was a great date night for me and Cody. I love that being something we try to do every year.

About a week Christmas we decided to spoil ourselves and bought new couches!!! We've had the same low rider hand-me-down 1970's couches since we were married. We had some extra cash and decided to put it to good use and make our house a home. We absolutely love them!!!! And Vinnie loves them too! We used to never ever spend time in our family room because our couches were so uncomfortable before. Now every chance we get we're down in the family room.

Christmas was great, my parents loved their gifts we had made them. I made my book called "I Love Grandpa Because..." and all the grandkids explained what their favorite things about grandpa were with tons of pictures of him and the kids. For my mom, I scanned all the pictures of our first Spain trip and made it like a journal so she knew the days we were there and the names of all the places we visited.

On New Year's Eve we had a tragedy happen in our family, we lost my amazing brother Shane. It has been a rough thing to get through for all of us. Every day I miss him and think about him so much. I have never noticed how much love could come from such a sad thing. Here are some of the pictures of him and from his funeral that we took.