Year 2009

i can't believe that the new year is almost here. man me, daniel, and our three kids did a lot this year. i took so many pictures of everything we did together. we had a great time spending time with my parents and sister. we went to a lot of fun places this year, like the boondocks, dinosaur park, lagoon, thanksgiving point, and many awesome restaurants. daniel and i celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary this year, and we have been together since 2000, we both have come along way in our marriage and it makes me so happy. jaden and sissy are in boy scouts and girl scouts and we got to watch the pinewood derby event with the boy scouts and jaden won the races. we had a great fourth of july with jim, and glenda. we had a great time at lagoon with my parents and sister. daniel, me and jamie went to the britney spears and pussycat doll concert in utah and we had a blast going to it. we went to a really cool playground in utah made as a castle and we had a blast. spencer started kindergarten this year and he has been doing really good, and he has lots of friends from his class, and i have been helping out in his class since he started school and i really love being there. my husband graduated the college of technology in december of this year and we are so proud of him, and jaden and sissy are doing very good in school. we have done so much this year and i can't write them all down but we had a great year as a family. next year 2010, happy new year everyone!!

Christmas Vacation in Utah

we had a really good time in utah this year for christmas. we went to a really nice restaurant something that me, daniel, and the kids have never experienced, and the food was delicious. spencer loved the restaurant. then we went to thanksgiving point there in utah and went in the thanksgiving point light displays that you have to go in your car to see, and they had really neat light displays the kids really enjoyed it. then we went back to my parents house to stay for christmas eve so we can wake up in the morning at their house. the kids got lots of really cool toys and nice clothes. my mom, dad, and sister made us feel very special while we there, they put a lot of the ideas and fun stuff together for us to have a great time. and we did have a great time, and it was really nice to be able to go there this year. thank you mom, dad, and jamie for everything you did for us. the kids had a great christmas and so did me and daniel. thank you so much for doing all of that for my family. i love you all very much and we call you new years eve.

The Count-Down Begins!!!

we are so excited the count down has begun to get ready for utah this christmas. we are going to spend it with my mother, father, and sister this year. we never get to have christmas by ourselves with my family so this year we are and we can't wait to have fun and spend the three days there. i haven't been home for christmas in a long time so its going to be awesome. our kids are going to love christmas this year, we will have so much for them to do and have fun. i can't believe how fast christmas is coming but we are excited to leave next week on the 23rd. can't wait to see my family love you all very much and we will see you soon!!!!!!

Mine and Daniels Journey together!!

last night at the Stephens Performing Arts Center my husband Daniel graduated from the college of technology. i just want to tell you how far Daniel has come since i have known him. we met in high school and became friends at first and hung out with the same people. then we started dating each other and we fell for each other months later. we were always together and having fun hanging out with our friends. then we had something happen to us that we never saw coming, i found out i was going to have a baby my senior year. we were terrified and worried, cause we had no clue on what was going to happen. well at 6 months of my pregnancy Daniel left me all alone, my mother and father helped me all the way through it, and i was very thankful for that cause becoming a teenage mother is a scary thing. the day Jaden was born i called Daniel at school and told him his son was just born and he came up and wanted a second chance to be together. so yes i did get back with him and things were going okay being parents to a baby boy, it was a lot of work and lots of stress with everything we had to do for Jaden. months later daniel proposed to me and we ended up getting married about a week later. we had a beautiful wedding that my parents threw for us. when we got married we got into a trailer home to live at with our new family and life together. things were going okay until we found out a year later that we were going to have another baby, this time a girl. we were excited cause we were married and things were going great for us and nothing could be better. our baby girl was born that April in 2002 and we were so happy. after that things just got weird, Daniel didn't want to be home all the time and he was always going out to be with his friends. he just seemed like he didn't want to be a father or husband anymore cause he wanted to still have some of his teenage years. we were still together but on the day of out daughters blessing he left me a note saying he didn't want to grow up yet and that he didn't want to be with me anymore. it was really hard that day for me going through all of that, and for my family to. so i stayed alone from Daniel for quite awhile and it was rough but i had my family to help me and get me through it. we got divorced and decided that we didn't want this anymore, so we went our seperate ways. i missed him a lot all the time and it was hard for me to do anything specially be a mother. he was out there having the time of his life with his friends and girlfriends while i was being a mother to our two kids. after that i decided to go to Nebraska and live with my aunt Jill and uncle rick for awhile. they helped me out so much and i was doing really good, until Daniel found me and wanted to have me back in Pocatello with our kids and be a family again. i didn't do it i was hurt and i didn't want to go through everything again, i had been hurt way to much and i didn't want to go through it again. i did end up going back months later to try me and Daniel out again. he had promised me that he wanted us back together again and he wanted to marry me again. i had a hard time believing him cause he had hurt me so much in the past years. we got married October 2003 at the court house. we were happy and thing were going great and he was always happy with me and loved being a father and husband all the time. he did so many wonderful things for me and was always there during every medical problem that i started to have. we also ended up finding out that i was pregnant again with a boy, i was shocked and so was Daniel but we were very happy. Spencer was born that following year in April 2004. we were so happy to be parents yet again to another baby boy. he was always there for me and was happy and always was there at home with us. after awhile we moved into my parents old apartment building which was where we raised Spencer and it was awesome. then months later Daniel got into trouble with the law and ended up going to prison for a year. it was really tough on me and the kids that Daniel wasn't here anymore for awhile. he called us everyday and wrote to me all the time. while Daniel was away Spencer started to act weird all the time, he wouldn't talk a lot or eat any food, he was always fussy and having a lot of tantrums. i knew there was something wrong with him but i didn't know what it was. we found out that we had a son with autism, ADHD, and PDD. Daniel was there for me while i was dealing with Spencers disability. it was really hard to do it on my own while Daniel was locked up. having a child with a disability is a very hard thing to deal with by yourself. he never stopped loving us behind bars like i thought he would, cause of the past of how he used to be and with our sons disabilty cause i thought it would be to much for him. he was the opposite he did so much for me behind bars. he graduated the G E D program at cottonwood which is a jail rehab center, and he was well behaved and was let out on good behavior. after he got home he made me so happy and helped me with everything that he missed. with Daniel being on probation it made it hard for us to be together cause if he didn't have a job he could go back to jail. our life was good but it was annoying cause we had to have permission to go everywhere and permission to do a lot of things, it made it really difficult to have a life of freedom. Daniel started going to college instead of working so he could be with us in the evening and be able to help me out with Spencer. Daniel got hurt in college two years ago in October from a saw cutting his thumb all the way to the bone, he had lost a lot of blood that day and he was in so much shock that i thought i was going to loose my best friend and husband. since he got hurt he couldn't be in the automotive program cause he was hurt in that program. Daniel decided to go into computer technology and loves it so much. Daniel has been through a lot in his life, he didn't have a father growing up he had a step father but not a father figure that he needed. his mom was always working and never had time for Daniel, Daniel had to work for everything while his brother was always getting spoiled. Daniel has had a lot of problems with the law and being in and out of jail, cause nobody ever cared besides me. i have always been there for my husband no matter what he has done to me in the past. Daniel has had a tough life and i'm so proud of how far he has come. i never thought in a million years that Daniel and i would still be together after everything that has happened to us in the past. but we are and we have been through everything together and thats what makes a marriage last, i know when reading this you might think Daniel is a awful person, but hes not, he has changed in so many ways that none of you could understand. i know he put me through so much in my life with him but i became a stronger woman because of it. i have been divorced with Daniel and i ended up marrying him again and we are still together till this day. we are very happy and have a lot going for us. Daniel has come such a long way and i never thought he would. i'm so glad to have met Daniel and been able to be with him with no problems anymore. i know we don;t have a lot right now but i know that Daniel will give us the life that he has always promised me. and hes finally doing it slowly. i love my husband so much and i don;t think i could ever live without him in my life. like i said we have been through so much and we are still standing strong together. i'm very proud of you honey and i'm thankful to have had a wonderful journey with you good and bad. i can't wait for the years ahead of us as a family and getting into a new home and being able to have a great life finally. i love you Daniel so much and i'm so proud of you!!

all the christmas photos of the kids with santa and christmas tree are on the blog they are just past the experiment pictures. i tried moving the christmas pics up but it won't save right now, so if you want to see the pictures of the christmas tree and santa scroll down.

Kids Decorating The Tree!!

Yesterday me, daniel, and the kids decorated the christmas tree at my mother in laws home. she needed us to help with the tree, so we when out and did the christmas tree. i did the majority of the work but the kids put the ornaments on and they did a great job. we had fun decorating the tree and now we are going to do our tree here at our home. also yesterday at spencers school i helped decorate a tree for my sons school, i had a good time cause i learned how to do different decorating on the tree, and i'm good friends with the people that i helped at spencers school and i was very happy to help out. they were very thankful to. i love the holidays specially christmas. we are so excited that we get to leave for utah in 18 days, and we are counting down the days. this year at my sons school me and daniel are making the christmas background for spencers christmas program, daniel is a very great artist and he has done a great job making everything, and i have been decorating everything with glitter and markers and coloring. we will post the pictures of the background as soon as we get it done, and when its time for spencers christmas program. love you all and here are some of the pictures we took yesterday of the school tree, and the christmas tree at grandma burts house.