Life is good...

Wow, it's been awhile since I've posted anything. The last few months have been busy. I've been able to spend allot of quality time with family and friends. Another niece and nephew were born in October. It's definitely been a full couple of months with every day life, family festivities and so forth. Christmas was wonderful! Always love being able to spend time with family and friends...lots of yummy food, laughter and good times! I'm looking forward to the New Year and all that it has in store for us. I am very blessed and thankful to have such a wonderful hubbie, family and friends! All in all...life is good!

Happy Birthday!

A quick shout out to wish my honey a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I love you!!!

Bitter Sweet

Today is our 13th wedding anniversary. As we reflect back on our year together we can't help but remember a call that we recieved on this day. Our cousin had called to tell us that Tim was KIA. Today marks a year that one of our hero's was called home to our Heavenly Father. I know Tim wouldn't want us to be sad and would want us to make our special day a happy one. However, I can't help but think that our day will always be "bitter sweet". You will forever remain in our hearts Timmy and we will never forget your sacrafice! We love and miss you Tim!!! Rest in peace and love!!!

P.S. Don't worry Tim, we will be sure to always celebrate our day as we know you wouldn't want it any other way. Just know that we will always remember!!!


PFC Timothy Ray Vimoto
(2 August 1987 - 5 June 2007)

P.S. I love you ....

What a great movie! I just spent the last two hours laughing and crying through out it. I definately recommend this as one to watch. I now want to get the book and read it as well. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Rock Band

This is my new addiction. I love playing this game. My honey got this for me on mother's day from him and our fur babies. ^^ The first night I played it until the wee hours of the morning. Now I want to learn how to play the drums. I had such a blast playing this at a friends house that I wanted my very own. Yes, we are a gaming couple. It's one of the many things we enjoy doing together.

Life has been busy for us, but good nonetheless. When I get time to relax, you can find me getting my "rock on".

Ten Years

Dearest Mom,

I will never forget the day daddy called to tell me you had passed. It was so unexpected. I remember sitting there thinking this all has to be a dream. My heart had never hurt so much. How could this happen? Why did this happen? So many questions just filled my mind. There are days that pass by that I still wonder the whys and how. However I find peace in knowing that Heavenly Father needed you there and that you lived a wonderful life. I can't believe today makes 10 years since I received that phone call. Thank you for always being a great mom and a wonderful example of what a strong and caring woman is. I am who I am cause of how you and dad raised me. Thank you! I love and miss you so much mom! Until we meet again....Rest in peace and love always!

Here are a few quotes that made me think of you mom....

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
Washington Irving

Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly.
Sarah Malin




~This song makes me think of you. When it rains I always smile and look up and tell you and dad how much I love and miss you both. (Holes in the floor of heaven)


Forever in my heart and thoughts! I love you mom!

Never Forgotten.....

SGT Amanda N. Pinson (31 July 1984 - 16 March 2006)




My hubbies tat in honor of a wonderful friend and soldier.


Manda,

We love and miss you girl! You will forever be a part of our lives and always in our hearts. Your sacrafice will never be forgotten. May you always rest in peace and love!


Here is where you can read about Amanda's story...
http://www.myspace.com/amandapinson

Dance with my father.....

Dearest Dad,

I can't tell you enough how much you are missed. Today makes 5 years since our Heavenly Father called you home. Thank you for being such a wonderful man to always look up to. You were such a great dad! You will forever be in our hearts and your memory lives on through us kids. I dedicate this song to you dad. "Dance with my father" by Luther Vandross. I love and miss you so much! Rest in peace and love!

Got Snow???

Malo and Nuu enjoying last nights snow fall. I love how their faces look. It reminds me of eating a powdered doughnut. Lol!

Camera, Where?

LOL! Here are a few shots I took of our "boys" this morning. Anytime they see a camera they sit and pose. Meet Nuu and Malo! (Malo is pic 1 and 2)

Lunar Eclipse

Brrrr, last night was a cold night to watch the Lunar Eclipse. I bundled up, grabbed my camera and snapped some pics of what was unfolding before my eyes. I am in search for a new camera with a bigger lens so I can capture things like this better. I can't complain though, my camera did a pretty good job. Enjoy! :)

Thank You!

To my family and friends:

Thank you so much for all that you do. It made my day to recieve all your texts, emails, phone calls and such to wish me a Happy Valentine's Day. To my honey...thank you for the lovely message you left on the answering machine. I love you tons! To Jasmine and her gang...thanks for the beautiful tulips and yummy lunch! I am so thankful and blessed to be surronded by such wonderful people. I love you all!

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

Woo!

A few days ago we found out we will be an Auntie and Uncle (Again). My little bro and his wife are expecting their first child in September. They will make such wonderful parents. We are all so excited! Yay, another niece or nephew to spoil! *Does the happy dance*

Still here.....

Just wanted to drop a quick note to say we are still here. I haven't been able to get on and blog due to things just being so busy right now. All is well on our end. I will try and write soon as I have alot to blog about. I am too tired right now. Our day started at 08:00 and we just got home. Spent the whole day going up to visit with all the family. It was a fun and very full day! Hope all is well with everyone. Good night all!

Last Weekend.....

LOL...a weekend later and finally on here to blog about last weekend. It's definitely been a busy month for us. Seems like we are always out and about. Last weekend was definitely no exception. Well let me take that back, we did have a relaxed day on friday. Saturday - Monday was three fun filled days for us.

Saturday: We woke up early to get ready for our hour and half drive to finally meet some great friends. We met A & C via the world of FFXI. We have only known each for about 8 months, but clicked as if we have always known each other. This would be the first time we met face to face. We decided that we would make a full day of it. Can't go wrong with shopping, starbucks, good ole' southern BBQ and bowling. We had such a wonderful time with them. Our day was filled with lots of laughter and good ole' QT with great friends. Thanks A & C!


Sunday: Our sister R and her partner K along with their kiddos came down to spend the whole day and night with us. They brought along their new puppy who just loved being around our dogs. We thought she may be scared considering our boys are way bigger then her. Hah, she proved us all wrong. She went after them as if she was the same size of our biggest dog which is about 90-95 lbs. It was too cute.

The kiddos had no idea they were coming down to visit and stay the night so they were super excited. We definitely love our Auntie and Uncle time. It was great to have them all here. We ate way too much, laughed like we always do and enjoyed just spending time with each other.


Monday: Our sister K, her hubbie J and the kiddos came down to spend the day. We had a full house in which we loved every moment of it. Nothing like 6 adults, mixed with 5 kiddos and 3 dogs. We spent our day lounging, laughing, watching a movie and stuffing our faces for lunch at all you can eat pizza buffet. LOL...as you can see our w-end had a theme of us stuffing our faces. Uncle taught the kiddos how to do spit balls in the restaurant. The kiddos got the hang of it after a few tries, but Uncle and J had the kids beat in best spit balls. It's a good thing we didn't get kicked out. Our table definitely was causing alot of ruckus. Hehe. Another wonderful time with our family. A great way to end our 4 day w-end.


We are very blessed and thankful to have wonderful friends and family. One of the greatest things we enjoy is spending some QT with all of them. The best part is when you can just hang out, do nothing but talk and have the best time ever.

To our family and friends far from us....We love and miss you all lots!

What a way to end our 4 day w-end......

What a great w-end with family and friends. However my PC seems to have crashed. I was looking forward to logging on to blog about our w-end and low and behold my PC starts resetting itself. The last time it did this, I had to use a can of air to clean it out. However that did not do the trick. A buddie of ours thought it may have been missing a file so had me to try and repair/reformat but no such luck. I will write more, but I am a tad frustrated. Thankfully I have my hubbie's laptop to check things online, pay bill and such. I am annoyed that if my PC has crashed that I have lost all the pics of family and friends on there. *Fumes* Let me end this for now as just typing about this annoys me. I will try and catch you all up on our wonderful w-end minus me wanting to take a sledge hammer to my PC.

The Bucket List

The other night we watched "The Bucket List" starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. If you have seen the previews then you know they are trying to full fill everything on their list before they kick the bucket. We both enjoyed it. The movie had us laughing and me crying. After watching this movie, it had me wondering of how many of us have a bucket list. I wondered if my parents had a bucket list and if they completed their list before our Heavenly Father called them home. I know I have thought of things I would love to see or do in my lifetime. How bout you all? Do you have a list?

It's Snowing....

Woo! It's finally snowing here. Doesn't look like it will be much but nonetheless I am way excited. Oh how I miss the snow. We lived in Colorado before here and Germany before that. Needless to say I was loving it. Every snowfall you could find me outside playing. LOL! I'll be dreaming of making snow angels tonight. *Smiles*

What a day!

Today I met up with one of my girl friends for our routine of lunch at Olive Garden. This is something we try to do a couple times a month. We sure do love us some OG. How can you go wrong? Good food and good company. We decided to go to Wal-Mart and look for some material after. To our surprise, the road in front of where we were going was blocked off. We were able to get to WM, but all we could see ahead of us was a dozen of cop cars and few other emergency vehicles. Perhaps there was an accident of some sort. We went in to WM to look for material and other little things we both needed. When we went to check out, the cashier had informed us about all the hoopla outside. There was a bank robbery, hostage taking and shooting that if we had left just a few minutes early would of stumbled right into it. Craziness I tell you! I'm glad we decided to get dessert like we normally do and enjoy a little bit more of girl chat. This will definitely be a girls lunch we never forget.

Blogging, here we come!

We started to create a page a few months ago, but that's as far as we got with it. We decided to give this a whirl as a way to keep our family and friends updated with life on our end. So blogging here we come! :)