there is beauty all around

I would normally post something about the beautiful spring weather.. but we got a couple of inches of snow today... yuck! so i will post pictures of my three beautiful nieces..

EMILEE(17)

BABY ANGIE(16) & ALITA(19)

i am so proud of them and love them -so- much!!

vicarious living

first of all, a big THANK YOU to everyone's thoughts and prayers.. I am feeling much better. The Dr. says it isn't an ulcer but I know she is wrong...
Two weeks from today we head down to Cali to get our Disney on. And now I have nothing else to post from my life so I will borrow from my parents lives.. so sad..

my beautiful mom.. she is a looker for sure --^



dad giving Ron some financial advice..

don't you just want to be right here?!?!

had to share

My wonderful mom and dad are enjoying their annual trip to Hawaii to spend time with my brother and his family and to relax. I miss them so much!!! Love Love LOVE them!!!

I'll follow His example

Saturday was a special day! During the first part of the program while a speaker was giving a talk, the fire alarm went off (Ethan is terrified of the fire alarms in the church, this goes back to when he was in nursery and our ward got a new ward building and little kids kept pulling the fire alarms) Needless to say, I am sure he will never forget that. After he was baptized and in the changing room he told Eric "I feel so happy dad!" Eric explained to him to always remember that feeling. We shared the day with Grandma Jane, Uncle Rich & Aunt Julie, Marianne & Mehki, Uncle Wes & Aunt Pat, Uncle Colby, Aunt Angie and cousin Heather. Very much missed were Grandpa Dave and Grandma Michele (who are in Hawaii with Allen) and Grandpa Ron (who had a big presentation for work).

E's Baptism 2/28 10AM

You are invited! Tooele North Stake Center.

8,8,8 is great, great, great

I can not believe that E is 8 already! What an adventure it has been raising this child, I am positive the adventure is far from over. Today E had his very first "friend" birthday party, we went bowling, it was a blast! The countdown begins now.. 12 days until his baptism.

February 12, 1999

On this day I married my best friend and true love...

Our Story:

It was early summer of '98 and I was still living with my parents and working in Salt Lake. My dad was the bishop of my ward at the time and Eric was serving the last weeks of his mission in our area. I remember seeing him and thinking how cute he was, the missionaries would come over when my dad had bishop's chat and I think my parents fed them a couple of times. I was in the process of moving into the city when one Sunday I went to church with my parents and the missionaries (Eric) were speaking in church. I looked at him and "knew" that this was the man I was going to marry. I even mentioned it to a friend at work the next day. Keep in mind that we had never spoken to each other...So since this was Eric's last area and my parents loved him (my dad was/is a techno-geek and so was/is Eric) Eric left my dad a business type card that had his email address on it. Fast forward a couple of months, Eric is now home in Chicago from his mission and I am living in the big city. I came home one weekend to do my laundry and stock up on toilet paper. I was on my dad's computer and something caught my eye.. it was the card Elder Wagner had given to my dad, you know, the one with his email address on it. So I made a quick decision and typed up an email to this very cute return missionary. From that email came more emails and then phone calls and then trips back and forth between here and there. On one of the trips he made here we went to the Roof as the Joseph Smith Memorial building and he proposed to me, that was on 10/31. There were a couple more trips between here and there. We were married for time and all eternity in the Salt Lake City Temple on 2/12/99.. Ten years down and an eternity left to go...I can't wait!!