Trip to the Coxes

A little bit ago, Brent and I made a trip to see Brent's brother Mark and his sweet family. It is always so nice being able to see them. We have such cute nephews and it is so great being able to make memories with them when we can. We had fun going to Cabela's with the kids, eating YUMMY food (Em is a seriously good cook!), and us girls, and Scott, painted our nails - which were awesome by the way, mine were done like pac-man and Em's were peacock feathers. My most favorite moment of the trip was when Em & I were forced to go to take a midnight fun to Walmart. We were not happy about it but decided to make the most of it. We blasted the radio on the way and sang out hearts out to Queen's 'fat bottom girls' and other classics. We had a blast goofing around and plotting what we were going to do the next day. We laughed hysterically when walking down the ice cream isle and found this in the freezer....

And to top it off ... our cashier and hit on us! It was great!

Thanks Mark & Em for letting us come visit.
We had a great time and loved spending time with you!

Sweet Violet

Our beautiful new niece! Congrats to the Winget family!

Turning 30 BLOWS!!!

30 Reasons why I love you Brent     

  1. Your wonderful smile

  2. You are always such a gentlemen

  3. You are caring

  4. You are hard working

  5. You can always make me laugh

  6. Always fun to be around

  7. You are an AMAZING cook

  8. Your sweet kisses

  9. Your goals and dreams

10. You spoil me like crazy 

(but I'd still love you even if you didn't)

11. You are always willing to help those around you

12. Your love of the gospel

13. You always make me feel beautiful

14. You are extremely good looking!

15. You love to travel and experience new things

16. You are a big kid

17. You are so talented

18. You are mindful of others

19. You do everything possible for our family

20. You are spontaneous

21. Because you make my life wonderful

22. Because you will be an amazing father some day

23. You are always thinking positive and help me think positive too

24. Your personality and sense of humor

25. You love me for who I am

26. You are romantic

27. Your testimony

28. You make home a wonderful place to be

29. You are an amazing husband

30! Because you are my world, my everything!!!

 My wonderful hubby just celebrated his 30th birthday! I can't believe how fast time has flown. I am seriously the luckiest girl in the world to be able to spend this life with him!

I had a lot of fun planning his party this year. I had the fun theme of  "Turning 30 BLOWS" and had a million balloons, bubbles, candles, and anything that fit. We had a delicious ice cream pizza from Maggie Moos and had friends over to celebrate.

I was also able to surprise Brent with a trip up to see his family and have a small party with them and bowling. It was fun having everyone come celebrate his birthday and I know it meant so much to him. 

Thank you everyone that came and helped make this a memorable birthday for him! Love you Brent!!

7 years FULL of love!

I can't believe we are celebrating our 7 year anniversary!! These past 7 years have been such an amazing time and I have loved every minute. Not everything has been sunshine and rainbows, but I'm so grateful to have a husband who tries to make me smile and laugh everyday, who never gives up on me, who apologizes when he does something wrong even if he doesn't always agree, and who always does everything he can to make our life better. I am so lucky to be married to the man of my dreams, the most youthful, faithful, truthful, respectful, trustful, meaningful, cheerful, thoughtful, careful, skillful, hopeful, playful, mindful, and just plain WONDERFUL man I have ever met! These past 7 years have been so full of love and happiness and I have truly been so blessed to have Brent by my side. Brent you are my everything, my best friend, my support, my love, my LIFE! Thank you for everything you have done, for loving me, and sharing your life and eternity with me.

To start our adventure off we headed up to Sanpete. We were able to stop by and have lunch with my parents and sister. My family is so funny when we all get together!  Paige and Dad really know how to tease the crap out of each other... which in turn makes great entertainment for the rest of us. The evening went from Paige poking my dad's eye with a straw to making fun of Titanic in 3D to Paige's talent of nostril flaring - it was quite the meal. By the time we got our food we were all laughing so hard that it was a challenge to eat. I'm sure everyone in the restaurant was wondering what the crap we were doing!

We headed up to Salt Lake the next day. We ate at Olive Garden and then Brent surprised me with tickets to see The Hunger Games at the IMAX theater in the Clark Planetarium. It was so fun walking around Gateway Mall and going to the Planetarium. It had been so long since the last time I was there. We both loved the movie and had so much fun!

Brent then surprised me with a night stay at the Anniversary Inn. I have always wanted to go to Italy and Brent made my dream come true for a night (So sweet right! Made my heart melt!!!). Our room was decorated like Venice, including a bed in a gondola! It was so beautiful! There were rose petals sprinkled all over and cheesecake & sparkling cider in the fridge waiting for us. It was absolutely perfect! We ordered pizzas from room service, and snuggling in the reclined couch while watching movies all night. They had a huge jet tub with overhead fountains that I especially loved! Can't beat a nice relaxing bath!

 

On our way home we stopped at Brent's all time FAVORITE place to eat - Tucanos (a brazillian grill that is so very, very yummy!) I even got the servers to sing happy birthday to him since his birthday was only a few days away!

 Thanks again baby for the amazing and so special anniversary! I look forward to many, many more with you!! I LOVE YOU!!!

Brian Head

Brent took me to Brian Head for the night. It was so beautiful there and so much SNOW! We stayed in a condo that Brent's boss let us borrow. It was so much fun to snuggle up and watch the snow fall in such a beautiful place. We ate yummy pizza, watched movies and talked all night. It was such a wonderful night! Thanks Brent! I always love our little adventures together and creating new memories.

John's Blessing

Our adorable nephew John was blessed on the 5th of February. Isn't he SO cute! It was so great seeing family and sharing this special day with Mark & Em! I really have married into such a great family and I love spending time with them and getting to know them more and more each time! Congrats again Mark, Em & big brother Scott!

Christmas & a New Year

I love being able to celebrate the birth and life of our savior Jesus Christ. During Christmas season it is hard to keep him in our hearts when everywhere you go it is all about spending money and buying presents. It’s all about the ME’s. Granted it is nice to get a gift from someone showing how much they care about you, but for me that is not Christmas. I could live without the presents, the big dinners, the trees, and lights. I love this season for the special spirit it brings, for the wonderful time spent with family, and the peace you feel from Heavenly Father.

This year, I had the fun opportunity to help my parents wrap gifts. We went to walmart to pick up a few gifts for my dad - some things totally random! Then we created the most evil style of wrapping them we could think of. Mom secretly asked Cam and I to "wrap" one for Paige. We told her it was another one for dad and she even helped us do the most evil wrapping techniques yet used.

Later that day we spent Christmas Eve with Brent's Family. It was so much fun, and we got to see our new nephew John for the first time. He is such a cutie. We had such fun playing games and eating really good food and talking to family we don't see often. I enjoyed spending time playing with our cute nephews and niece. They are such funny kids! We didn't want to leave, but we couldn't stay too late because with my dads new schedule at work he needed to be there very early the next morning, and we wanted to do my family's 'Eve' traditions too. 


This year my family traditions were really special to me. Every year my dad reads to us 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' and the nativity story from the Bible. I love listening to my dad read, he has such an amazing voice! And this year, after my dad read, he told us all how much he loves us and how proud of all of us and who we were turning into. How much we mean to him and that we make him want to be better. And yes, to everyone who is wondering, I did cry like a baby. It really meant so much to me to hear my dad say the things he did. It was the best gift!


We all decided to wake up extremely early in the morning before dad left for work to open our gifts. It was hysterical watching Paige realize that the gift we horribly wrapped was for her and not dad. It took her a 1/2 hour to unwrap it and we were all laughing so hard! It really was a wonderful Christmas morning! Later, dad decided to get even with mom and took us all to walmart to find gifts for her. We again wrapped them as horribly as possible and loved watching her try to open them.

Paige and Cam were going to come down for the week, but Paige's ball coach changed that plan. It was so DUMB! But I decided that since I already took the week off that I would stay and spend the time with family again. It has been so great spending so much time with them, but I did miss being with Brent!!! 



Then my family and one of Cams' friends came down to celebrate New Years. We had a lot of fun playing games all night and watching movies. It was a great way to bring in the New Year!


We just want to let you all know how thankful we are for you. Thank you to all our family and friends for the gifts. They were so amazing and are very appreciated! We are so grateful to have such wonderful people in our lives.We hope you all had a very wonderful Christmas and that this year is great one.