the one about the New Year

Happy New Year!!!
I know, I know. I haven’t been very good about blogging lately. I don’t know what it is, but my life just hasn’t slowed down. I keep thinking that it will any day now, but it’s just not. Anyway, blogging is truly one of my favorite things in the world so I am trying so hard not to get too far behind in my blogging world.
I don’t really have any good reasons, but I am excited to start a new year. 2008 was a good year for us. I was so excited for 2008 to start, because 2007 was so rough. Mike passed away, Brett had his motorcycle accident and I lost my wedding ring. So 2008 came and now it is gone. I know this might seem weird, but I have always welcomed change. I love to experience new things and I don’t really freak out when big changes come my way. I look forward to the future and anxiously await new things. I am not really big on “resolutions,” so I don’t generally set them. Of course I have the standard ones… Lose weight, get healthy, be more organized, blah blah blah. But instead of worrying about what I will and will not do in 2009, I would like to reflect on 2008.
Here are just a few things that happened in our little world last year.
Quayd started indoor soccer, and later started AYSO soccer. He found a new love for this sport and really has no desire to try any others.
We got TONS of snow in 2008. It was the longest winter in the whole world!!
I joined the working world again. I hadn’t worked since before Quayd was born, so it was a huge lifestyle change for all of us. It has been good though. I substitute taught for awhile, worked in lunch lady land and now I am at the Holiday Inn Express. In fact, I remember mentioning a few months ago about a possible promotion. I got it by the way. I am the Front Office Manager. It has brought many new responsibilities, but I am loving it. Schedule is still good. I am home before Quayd gets off the bus.
We had major construction in our front yard this summer. They filled in our ditch and we got a sidewalk, grass and our own driveway.
I got a new bike!!!
Brett took and passed the EMT class. YEAH Brett!
I got my very first iPod. I have since upgraded from an iPod shuffle to and iPod touch.
I went to the Panic at the Disco concert in SLC.
Quayd rode his 4-Wheeler ALL SUMMER!!!!!
My friend Janice moved clear across the country to Kentucky. L
We took a weeklong vacation to Lagoon. We took our camp trailer and Brayden and had a blast!!
We all loved watching the 2008 Olympics.
Quayd started first grade.
My Great-Grandma Karren passed away.
Quayd turned 6!!!!
Brett and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary.
Brett spent 10 days in Washington DC.
I turned 30!
Ga got super sick and spent weeks in the hospital. It took quite a toll on all of us, especially her, but I am glad to say she is doing much better now.
Brett’s brother Brandon and his wife Brynn had a new baby, Brycen. And he is SO cute!!!!
Itty Bitty Kitty. Nuff said.
So that is kind of our year in a nut shell. We are excited to see what 2008 brings our way. Thank you for reading my blog. I promise that in 2009 I will try to be better about keeping everything current. But that is not a resolution!!!!

the one about my smartie-pants husband

I have to give a big shout out to my wonderful husband! I am so crazy proud of him! I am gonna brag a little, and I bet he will never even know. He never reads my blog. He thinks its weird that I put our family story on the Internet for all to read. He is a weird-o. Anyway, I am going to brag on him anyway. I mentioned in an earlier post about him taking classes, and finally being finished. Well, he took the EMT course offered here in town and he passed on his first try. He had great scores and I know he will be great at being an EMT. He has always wanted to take the class and when the fire department offered to pay for it, he jumped on the opportunity. He is not quitting his "day job" or anything, but he is thinking about taking a few shifts on weekends. Mostly for fun. It is just a goal he set, and he accomplished it! I am so proud of him. He has done so much to further his education in the safety/fire/medical fields. You may or may not know this about him, but he went to police academy, and is P.O.S.T. certified. He just never per sued it. He finished at a strange time in our lives. I had just found out I was pregnant with Quayd and I ended up getting really sick. There were no jobs available at the time, and when one did become available, out of town, he knew he would have had to take all of the night shifts. I had just given birth and was WAYWAYWAY sick. I had to have a "babysitter" 24/7 and the scheduling just didn't work out. So he moved on to something else. I feel a little responsible for him giving up on that dream, so I try extra hard to support him in all of his other stuff. He is very involved in the volunteer fire department. He takes tons of classes, lots of meetings, he is the Assistant Chief and he is very good at what he does. I am so proud of him. He is one of the smartest people I know. I joke that he "thinks he knows everything!" But he really kindof does know everything. I love him to death and I am so proud to be his wife! These pictures are from his EMT class. They had to learn Extrication, and Brett already knew everything about it, so he ended up teaching the class that day! Isn't that weird!?!? He was a student in the class, but taught that part of it. Way to go Brett!









So Brett is a cutie and he really has a super cute butt. You can't really tell from this picture, but I decided to post it anyway.