Memorial Weekend

Memorial Day 2009

First of all, I want to thank our Soldiers. The ones who HAVE fought, who WANT to fight and who have LOST their LIVES in the fight. I appreciate and love every ONE of you!

On Friday night we met Candace and Hayes at Cory's grave. We helped her decorate it and played around for a while.

Hayes was so cute! He left a sucker for his Daddy then said...

Hayes: "Mom can I have the sucker?"
Candace: "No Hayes, it's for Daddy!"
Hayes: "But Mom, he cant even eat it!"

It was so dang cute and funny!

Daddy, Jack, Mommy & Jaden on Cory's grave.

Jack... ALWAYS doing something he is not supposed to!

This is my dream... (I only wish it were real) My babies metting my Grandma Shirley. Oh man... she'd would adore them!

Candace taking some flowers off a Friend's grave who recently lost HER battle to Cancer.

Grandpa Brad telling Jaden about HIS Dad, Grandpa Verlo

Jaden and Uncle Mike, My Dad's Brother.

Jaden with Donna and Elmo. Unfortunatley he didn't know Donna BUT man did he love Elmo!

Jaden and Grandma Shirley after we got her grave shinned up!

On Monday, the Actual Memorial Day we went back up to the cemetary and found Bryan on Jen's grave, it was bitter sweet.

Memorial BBQ at my Dad's house. Ben and his Daddy, Steve.

Ben and his Momma, Donna!

We had an awesome weekend with Family and Friends, Dead and Alive :)

Weekend Fun...

So, I decided that since I am so far behind... I will just skip the last few weeks!

SAD? I know but I get too overwhelmed and then I don't want to even attempt to blog.

Weekend Fun

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike.

If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

Thursday Night (I know it's not really a weekend night but who cares huh?!) we watched

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. If you haven't seen this movie, you should. It's a love/hate relationship... some love it and some hate it. I LOVED it! There are so many hidden messages. Ben liked it too...

Friday Night Ben and I went on a date, just the 2 of us. We went to see Angels & Demons, a movie we have both been looking forward to since the previews. I LOVED it! Ben said it was "okay". I guess he was a little disappointed because he read the book first. You know how that is!

Saturday Morning we woke up and headed to the park for Jaden's 8am baseball game. He did great, all the kids did. We lost BUT learned a very valuable lesson from our Coaches... Winning doesn't matter, having fun is what matters... and Boy O' Boy did they have fun!!

Saturday Afternoon (pictures to come soon) the boys and I went to Candace's and worked in her yard, Holy crap it was a ton of work!! Candace, her Mom...Mary Jane and I worked our butts off for about 5 hours. We got some major weeding and planting done, we even put together a way cute chair for her front porch! Even though I got FRIED and my butt muscles were KILLING me... I had a great day with the 2 of them talking and laughing all day!

Saturday Night Me, Ben, the Boys (well 2 of our 3), my Handsome Dad, Rylee, Rick, Reagan and a few more friends met up at WingNutz for a Beer, some wings and good converstaion!

Here is Daddy and Jack having a "stare-down"

Grandpa, Best Friends, Baseball Coach AND so much more... AND Jaden

Grandpa and his Boys
B.A.C.A. Babes on our friend Todd's Harley.

Grandpa Brad with Reaga Roo, Jaders and Jackee
Sunday Morning I woke up before the kids and made Chicken Enchiladas. We had plans to spend the day swimming and I knew I wouldn't feel like making dinner when I got home.
Sunday Early Afternoon the boys and I met up with Sarah, Kaden, Aunt Lydia, Stephan and Byron for a day swimming. Everyone had a great time.




Sunday Afternoon/Evening when Ben got home from work and we got home from swimming, we ate our "already prepared" chicken enchiladas then watched the movie Red Dragon. I liked it, Ben has seen it, Jack fell asleep and Jaden was scared to death!! Oh well, we gave him the option and told him it was scary... I really liked having him cuddle with me though, there is just something so magical about cuddling with your HUGE 7 year old baby!!

During all this fun...we were missing a very important LINK to our family,
our little Jensen "Ding"! We missed him so much!!
Here is a picture of him having fun on his weekend with his Mommy.











I hope you enjoy our weekend as much as we did!!
Love, "Us"

Opening Ceremony...

FINALLY!!!

It's Baseball Season... The BIG, bad, board members! Thanks for making everything work!!

The National Anthem and Raising of the Flag

(Jack is so special...he was born with his heart on the RIGHT side.) LOL

Dad, Jaden, Jack and Grandpa Brad

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!

A little more of this... AND a little more of that...

Here are some random pictures to make up for my blog slacking...

Jack, Grandpa Brad and I went to the U of U to see our new baby cousin... when we walked out the sun was begining to set!

I love this picture so much. Jack was talking to Jensen thru the "sun roof" of the stroller. jensen thought it was the funniest damn thing ever!

Jack, Kaden (Sarah's baby) and Jaden... Best buddies!

Grandma Barb and Jackee mowing the lawn.

Sarah, Lydia and Byron (in the back) on "craft Saturday."

Aunt Rylee went to Vegas, Uncle Rick had a seminar, so Reagan got to have a sleep over with us!

She wanted to sleep with Jaden AND that is exactly what she did!

Reagy Roo

Jensen Dingy laughing his butt off!

CHEESE!! I don't really like this picture BUT, it shows what a ham or lil' Jackee is!

FINALLY... a nice, warm day AND a snow cone!

Jaden and our Neighbor Tamaya

Her and her Brother Ishmell are the best kids!

My NEW Love!!

Deagyn Veriti Sperry

6lbs 11oz, 19 inches long.

Born Friday, April 17 at 8:42 pm.

My cute Cousin Derek, his adorable Wife Megan and the new baby!

She was mad because I unwrapped her, took her hat off and held her hand away from her face. I just wanted a picture!

Back, safe in Mommy's arms!

Good job Megan and Derek... She is PERFECT!!

It's that time...

This has been a hard decision to make, I have tossed it around and around BUT,

we have decided to go PRIVATE!

I love my blog family and my stalkers so... if you are 1 of them let me know!

I don't care if you know us from a Friend of a Friend who had a Dog that came from your Cousin's Uncle's Farm! I want to include you! :)

Send me your email...

MoM...

This is to my Mom, whom I miss so much everyday.

Even though you are just a phone call away, sometimes it seems too far.

Last night was the scariest night of my life, (yes scarier than my "near death experience" and you know... I didn't think ANYTHING would top that!) I can't explain how many things went thru my head. I was so helpless. I have thought about you all day, I have cried tears of joy knowing you are fine and laughed as I realize I may have overreacted (just a bit :). I have thought about how lucky I am that I can write this and you can read it. I can't imagine life without you. I am so thankful for you, for what you have taught me, given me and the way you molded me into who I am.

I am happy, happier then I have ever been. I have met my soul mate, the 1 I live for, who I couldn't love anymore. I have 3 of the most amazing boys in the world. I have an awesome Family but most of all... I have you.

Love you Forever, Love you for Always...