Happy Valentine's Day

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." --Helen Keller

Great Husband!

I Just wanted to hurry and say I have the greatest husband in the world. Two weeks ago he came home from a business trip and informed me that he would be gone all the following week including the weekend. Knowing that I would be all by myself over the weekend, he called my sister and set up for her to come up and visit for the weekend so I wouldn't be by myself. I loved that he thought of me and I had a wonderful weekend with my sister. 

Love you babe

4th Photo

Okay so I was tagged by Kathy, here you go Kathy 

Miss you

Ok here are the Rules....

Go to your album where you store your photos post your 4th photo in that album. No exceptions!!!

Here is my 4th picture, it is the day Paige my beautiful niece was born. Paige has such a cute little personality I have loved watching her grow this past year. She is always excited to see me when I come to visit she always has open arms and plenty of kisses. Love you Paige!

Okay now I get to tag four people and they are Lauren, Annie, Brandy, and my mom

Making Sausage

So as many of you know Ben and I love to hunt. We decided last year that we would save up all of our duck and make sausage out of it. Yesterday Ben and I pulled out all of the duck and made homemade sausage. We had a blast grinding the meat and making the sausage, it was so nice spending the afternoon together learning something new. We decided that this is going to be a annual thing, can’t wait till next year… 

Clam digging!

I just have to start out and say I am one amazing clam digger. Ben, Jordan (Ben’s brother) and I went clam digging and although it was really cold and windy we still had a blast. I was amazing that night I dug up seven out of the nine we got. Ben thought he knew what he was doing and left me to do my own thing. Boy was Ben wrong I was pulling them up left and right. Jordan, you should have stayed with me. J I finally found something I can beat Ben at and have not let him forget it. Here are some pictures from that night. 

Here comes 2009!

As 2009 is coming near! I wanted to say goodbye 2008 and hello 2009. We hope that 2009 treats us a little better than 2008. Here is a re-cap of our bad luck this year.

1. Bow shatters his leg due to his mom throwing him from the four wheeler 25 weeks of pins and physical therapy.

2. Ben backs into a pole while in a rental car (Ouch there goes our insurance)

3. Ben gets ticket for not yielding for three seconds before turning right (stupid photo cop)

4. Ben gets speeding ticket on the way home from hunting.

5. Ben gets into another accident thank goodness it was not his fault.

Looking back on all these things, I can see that they weren't too bad (except for Bow's leg). We made a lot of memories in 2008 and we look forward to 2009 and what this year will hold for us 

I thought this picture was funny of Ben so I had to post it. 

Loves

Christmas Cheer!

We had a wonderful time in Utah I loved that it snowed and we had a white Christmas. We were so busy while we were their, but loved every minute of it. Ben and I started the week out by going to look at lights at Thanksgiving point, it was a blast being with Ben's family and listening to Lucy come up with funny things to say. 

After Mass on Christmas Eve we headed up to my Aunt and Uncles house for our annual ValDez Christmas party. We had such a wonderful time laughing, drinking and catching up with all of our family (I miss them so much). 

We split up Christmas this year, the morning was spent with Ben's mom who made a wonderful breakfast. We were glad that Grandma Syphus decided to join us it was really nice spending time with her. Thanks Mary for the wonderful time at your house. Then we headed to Megan's to meet up with Ben's dad and Wife for the afternoon. The evening was spent with my family eating dinner and opening up presents. 

We decided that we should leave early because of bad weather and good thing we did we got stuck in Ontario Oregon and had to spend the night until they re-opened the highway. Had we left when we were going to we still wouldn't be home, They shut down highway 84 right after we went through on Sunday. We made great memories driving to and from Utah and both Ben and I decided that next year we will fly. 

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