The start of a happy New Year

I have to say that 2008 was an extremely hard year for us. I truley did not believe we would see the light at the end of the tunnel. It seemed like we were just standing still and everyone else around us was moving so quickly and enjoying the life. Well 2009 seems to be starting off great, #1 I still have a job (lol) My beautiful little sis is getting married to a wonderful man, I am sooo very excited for her. Gabe and I have found eachother again it seems and are truley working to make things work out. It has been touch and go with us for the past year and we finally took off our blinders and realized that no matter how bad things may get in the long run we have eachother to fall back into and to be quite honest its seems we are falling in love again all over (I know corny) I have never told anyone how bad our relationship had gotten and how we almost lost eachother however now I just want everyone to know that we WILL make it regardless of what others think or what comes in our lives. I love Gabe with all my heart. Jaxson and Alexa are doing amazing in school with grades and actually enjoying what they are learning, now if I can just get them to clean their rooms. I was able to get a great shift at work that will help Gabe with work and along with that I get more money Yeah!!! We have had a house full of wonderfull people my neighbors who we have come to love and care about dearly it a house that has roomates all older adults from all walks of life that have brought such joy to our lives. I just want to say how much I love and appreciate each and everyone of you that are in our lives I could never imagine. And I hope that your 2009 is going as well as ours and that it will continue.

Our Christmas

So I can honestly say that this has been the most eventful Christmas in years. All I wanted for Christmas was to be with my entire family, Gabe the kids, my bro his family my sister and Matt and of course my Mom and Bob. We stayed up late Christmas Eve playing with the kids and then eventually wrapping presents from Santa. The kids woke up opened their gifts and I begged Gabe to let us go to Utah because I knew my family would be up there, he was touch and go the whole week on the subject because we knew the storm was going to be bad and because we are the poor of the family we really couldn't afford to go up but he knew that is all I wanted so he agreed, we got together and left the house at 11am keep in mind its only a 2hr drive to my moms house, as we get on the road we get a damn flat tire and to make it even better there is no air in the spare so we were off the side of the road Gabe's friend came to our rescue but we had to wait for him to get to us, then they had to drive back to town to get air in the tire then we had to wait for them to get back and put the tire on UGGHHHH!!!!!! By now 2 1/2 hours have passed and the storm is getting worse finally by 3pm we are up and running, Gabe's pissed the kids are tired of being in the car and we have 2 1/2 hours more to go. Everything was pointing for us to turn around and go home. But I wouldnt give up I knew what I wanted and I was going for it but in the back of my head I was replaying all the reasons we shouldn't be going. But it's Christmas so it didnt matter, we finally get up to my moms about 6pm after going through the storm. Everyone was there the kids were soooo happy and excited to see the family they love their cousins soooo very much it reminds me of growing up and always being with our cousins. The kids miss grandma and grandpa sooo very much that they couldn't get out of the truck fast enough. Mom had made some wonderful food we sat around and chit chatted for a bit and then we saw the storm, holy hell complete white out and mom lost power at the house, Gabe and Justin (my bro) jump in the trucks and drive around to see if we could make it home, sure enough they were ready to go, it took a matter of 5min to get the kids up and in the trucks which to me was funny since goodbyes usually take 30min. We drove no faster than 35mph all the way to Hurricane, then Gabe was tired and exhausted and thought we were out of the storm so let me drive HA HA on us, got to the gorge and complete white out again I couldn't go over 10mph in some places. Gabe was sooo tired at this point from the days events that he didnt say much but I knew he was ready to crap his pants. We finally made it home and we were all sooo exhausted I don't think any of us got out of our clothes before we went to sleep. Needless to say as many things that went horribly wrong I was happy to see my family as short lived as it was.

I'm back!!

Ok so this might be a long one since I have JUST now updated this page. I guess I will just start by sharing some pics of what has been going on and leave it at that. Over the weekend we had Gabe's brother Jaime and his family here. We had a lot of fun it was good to have family here and their little one Brenden is such a cutie pie. We went to a place called Magical Forest its a place that is run by Opportunity Village which is a community of people with mental and physical disabilities. They decorate this Christmas village and its amazing we had so much fun. I however forgot to charge my batteries so I only got a few pics Sorry!

Since we got SNOW here in vegas we needed wood so we went out in the hills to get some and ended up playing in the snow a little more than we should have here are some pics. Jaxson and Gabe had a snowball fight and Miss Alexa as you can see wasn't too impressed she pulled her pants up so they wouldn't get wet and only spent maybe 5min in the snow.

Ok and last but not least, I have said before about how my team at work always wins competitions that we have at work. Well its Gingerbread building time and we all being pet owners created the HSBC Pet Lodge here are the pics. Tell me what you think I think we are going to win, Such great detail, the pic of the tree and presents, those presents are made out of starbursts and the ribbons are icing. I made the rug in front of the fire place. I wish you could see it in person it is awesome right down to the deer in the field to the firewood pile to the white picket fence so old fashion.