~Our Little Beauty~

You can see her 5 pretty little teeth. She just has this STUNNING smile.. The kind that melts you right away!

Again the words just poured out of me while I was at work. Love you sweet little angel!!

Khloe Maddison Meyers

6 pounds 10 ounces, 18 inches long, You're the reason why!

12/22/10 was the most amazing day for your Dad & I.

From the moment I saw you, I knew it to be true.

I'd move mountains and do ANYTHING just to protect you.

The moment that I touched you, and held you on my chest.

I Knew I'd love and support you, teach you to do your best.

The song "I saw God today" finally explained in that first glance.

Like My cousin always says to me, Sweet Girl, "I hope you dance".

There will be times in life you will be scared, but know that I'm right there.

The fear you won't have to carry alone, that burden we will share.

I'll be right there to pick you up , when you fall and scrape your knee.

I'll be holding you in my arms and kissing the pain away, for free.

When you need a shoulder to cry on, I'll hold you all night long.

I'll be right there to help you out, when you've done something wrong.

You're growing up so fast already, Seems Time is NOT on my side.

But I wouldn't change a thing about it, I'm just enjoying "the ride".

Soon you will be One year old, then Five, then Ten, then Twenty.

Just hope that you feel fortunate, & you always have plenty.

I'm sure I'm the proudest mama, the world has ever known.

That pride will keep on growing, even when you're out on your own.

My Sweet little beautiful Khloe, you've definitely changed my life.

You're the greatest thing that's happened to me, since becoming Daddy's wife.

I'm Looking forward to the future, that we get to spend together.

I just pray you truly know, "mommy Loves you ALWAYS & FOREVER"

TOOO MUCH

Sometimes we need a venting session, well thankfully a Blog is JUST the thing for such occurrences..Lately I've been Feeling extremely overwhelmed. Too much loss happening around me. While I am trying to stay positive and focus on the good, its so hard to do that when your loved ones are at risk. At such risks that we are forced to sit back and wait, watch. Powerless to stop it or help them.




Jason's Auntie Mitzi is at home now. The cancer is too much, they also have found 2 tumors in her brain. They have said that no treatment will cure it, but may postpone her passing. While things are difficult she is at home. Unknown at this point the timeline we have. Things are still "touch and go/Day to Day". The family is helpless, waiting to see what tomorrow holds. We all want to repay some sort of favor to Jeff & Mitzi as they are always helping those around them.






Also, my Aunt Shirley is now on her way back to Dillon. She has made the decision to STOP fighting and wants to go home. She too, is being sent home to pass away. She is no longer going to do dialysis(her blood sugar is going from 580 to 115 in a matter of 30 minutes. Then 30 minutes later its back up above 500). The way its going, she'll end up in a diabetic coma. My aunt has been battling her diabetes for over 45 years. She has lost her legs due to infections that weren't caught in time. She is the most amazing woman out there!. We are taking an emergency trip to Dillon Montana this weekend in order to get to say our goodbyes.




I wrote this poem for my Aunt Shirley today, while at work

~Time to Fly~

So many emotions, I don't know where to start.

It's so hard to explain what I feel in my heart.

For as long as I can remember, you've been like a mother.

So loving and caring to me and my brother.

Countless times we ended up at your front door.

To stay for a few days, sometimes more.

You never hesitated, always let us come right in & stay.

We never felt unwanted or like we were in the way.

You'd smile and laugh and make us feel "at home".

I know you'd do it again for us, even though we're grown.

I can't thank you enough for all that you have done.

You've outdone so many, yet you're only one.

You truly are the strongest woman that I've ever known.

I pray you know you aren't going through this alone

I have always been inspired by your strength and ability to smile.

Not stressing over petty things, but focusing on what's worth while.

It's hard to imagine you not being here, I don't want to say good-bye.

But I know you hear him calling, "It's time for you to fly".

It's time for you to be set free and finally be at peace.

Just know I'll always love and miss you, love always, Your Niece

My heart is breaking at the thought of losing both Aunts in such a short period of time. Yet, I know its all a part of life. They are just getting there sooner than the rest of us, they'll be there waiting when its our turn. They both deserve to be at peace & I do know that we'll get through this.. LOVE YOU BOTH!!!

To the next 50 years

2 years Ago

730 days ago

17,520 hours ago

Auguest 22nd, 2009

I was in the basement of Grandma's house getting ready for the biggest day of my life. (at that point). I was so excited. Our families were there to support us, our friends would be meeting us soon. We were finishing up and heading to Aspen Landing.


I pray I remember this always. The way I felt (giddy TO THE FULLEST meaning of the word). I was officially going to become the WIFE of my best friend. We were going to be tied together forever

Things were going so well. Sammy helped me with my hair, Kristina with my makeup, we got everything ready, loaded into the cars and headed over. I remember being in the "Bride" room adding the finishing touches when it actually began to sink in. In a matter of hours I'd be Jason's wife...

So happy that we decided to be DANCE down the isle. It was so much fun. My Grandma came up afterwards and said she'll remember it forever, it was something she'd never seen before but absolutely loves... So many people said very similar things, they all loved that we did that. It was so much fun. It was hot though. 101 degrees outside and I was in my big POOFY wedding dress( which I was in LOVE WITH), the guys in BLACK on BLACK tuxes, but everyone was amazing. Funny how once we began talking I couldn't hear ANYTHING anyone was saying, felt LOST in his words, in his smile, in his eyes. I was however bouncing and swaying back and forth. (Which my mom and Roberta both told me that was something I did since i was a little girl when I was really happy- so it seems only right that I was doing it).

Things only continued to get better as the day went on. We danced with our family and friends. Surrounded by ALL our favorite people. Everyone made us feel so loved and so blessed. It was such a great day.

This year things seem especially important as now when we celebrate our anniversary the value of it has increased ten-fold. Now we celebrate our anniversary with the love of our little girl as well. She truly has saved our lives in so many ways. Hard to believe we went without her for so long, but I'm so glad to have her now. Amazing to me that I am still falling in love with Jason MORE every single day.

We've been together since I was 18. 7 amazing years later, HERE WE are.

Love you honey!!!

Cheers to 50+ more amazing years together!

Love you Aunt Mitzi.. We're all here to help you through this!!!

8/17/2011

Playing with all the fun toys

8/16/2011
Enjoying her LUNCH

A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN'S FIGHT

Mitzi, not even 50 years old and facing the hardest news around. Lung Cancer. The words seem to rip through me, the way I imagine a knife would. Each time I look at this picture of her, any picture of her or see her face, It makes me angry; Angry that this is happening to her, angry that Uncle Jeff is forced to face this only a few months after losing his dad from another form of cancer. Angry that Her children are forced to sit back along with all of us and helplessly wait to see what is going to happen. Uncle Jeff is the most helpful, loving, knowledgeable person (Our family's GO TO GUY with EVERYTHING.) He always just fixes everything and it breaks my heart to see the pain he carries as he is NOT able to just "fix this".

Suddenly (couldn't have been more perfect for this moment) a song just came onto my phone music player. "Live Like You Were Dying" & the words are making me cry as I am writing this.. "Said I was in my 40's with a lot of life before me, when a moment came that stopped me on a dime. I spent most of the next days looking at the x-rays, talking about the options and talking about sweet time." Granted right now she isn't quite to a point to get out and "LIVE IT UP" I know that we are going to be RIGHT there with her/for her when she does get ready to get out and "go".

Sweet Auntie Mitzi, you just keep on fighting.. We are ALL in your corner. We're all right here and will do EVERYTHING we can to help you get through this, beat this, help provide you with the happiest moments we can possibly give you!

For anyone reading this, please pray for Mitzi. Our family could really use all the prayers we could get at this time!

For now we place this in God's hands and will remain close, united, and supportive in every way we can!!!

Love you soooo much Aunt Mitzi

XOXOXOXOXXXX

PLAY DATE AT THE PARK

Another fun picture from Kerri!!! They are at the park playing today.

She is so beautiful! Every time I glance at her; photo or in person, I am overcome with PRIDE and my heart strings tug with pride and love for her

8 months 3 days old today!

Khloe is always smiling, laughing and I love every second.

She is in a BIG DARN hurry to grow up. While we are grasping onto every moment that we can, she is wasting NO time is growing. Latest update:

She crawls everywhere now. I love it. I am constantly chasing her around our house or she is chasing m. Her little knees are getting a little "worn out" from it, but we are trying to keep some lighter pants on her to help!

She says "mama", "dada", "ba"=bottle (a few times), has said "itty"=kitty(once or twice).. (I hate cats, but she loves them. Grandma Malcolm has a shirt with cats on them and Khloe always pets her shirt, hahahaha!! I swear, if Khloe comes home asking for kitty I'll buy her 2 dogs.. BLUGH!!!) and does this foreign language jibberish which we both just love to hear.

She is very friendly and goes to everyone except sometimes she doesn't like to go to her "Aunt Missy". She loves Uncle Jeff & Uncle Rory (which is strange because most babies don't like them but she does!!!) She even is trying to say "jeff" she has the "ffffff" down and it makes us laugh..

She makes the "rasberry/fart" noise with her mouth now and then she'll giggle.

Up to 5 teeth now- & not even fussy about it!

She loves those cereal puffs now! Which is fun to see her eat them. But she can't quite figure out how to get them from her hand to her mouth. Sometimes she accomplishes it though.

She loves to feed her self with her spoon. Its sooo messy but that's half the fun!

She is much more active in the tub and its a fun time in there. she will kick her legs and slide across the tub to the other side and then turn in circles on her tummy. It makes me laugh every time.

CAKE

MMMMMMMMMM Cake


Cake for Aria's 2nd birthday party!!! Khloe loves cake..

She will eat whatever mom and dad are eating because she is a big girl now. But Cake is for sure one of her favorites!

Yeah, she got her fill! It was tasty!!

~Sweet Auntie Mitzi~

My thoughts cannot seem to escape away from the idea of our Auntie Mitzi. So much love in our family! I know that we will remain close, stand together, come together and TOGETHER get through whatever is ahead of us. Since the first day I met Mitzi I know I would get along with her. She has this outrageous level of positivity and a laugh that is simply INFECTIOUS! Mitzi always provides a solid shoulder in any situation and has a heart meant to LOVE many! Over the course of this past year I feel We have grown extremely close with her & Uncle Jeff. It started once we had Khloe. (Our BLESSING FOR SO MANY REASONS) but we had just been getting together MORE OFTEN!!

She has been actively helping Jason & us with decorating out new beautiful home. We got a phone call a while back and Mitzi was on the other end she laughed and said "I can't hold it any more, we've bought you a few things for your house but need a truck to haul them" I broke into tears. Uncle Jeff & Auntie Mitzi are literally the "FIX IT" couple in our family. EVERY TIME SOMEONE/ANYONE needs anything whatsoever we call them. They always help. Here was a prime example of them doing something for someone else. Of course I absolutely LOVED the things they got for us and they seem to fit PERFECTLY in our new home.

Khloe loves Mitzi too. Mitz would call Khloe her "little auction buddy" & if we missed an auction would hear her say "where were you and my little auction buddy?"
Please pray for a strong recovery of our beautiful MITZI!

WE ALL LOVE YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

MUCH AUNTIE MITZI!!!!

(last night we overtook the ICU waiting room corner. While we all sat there helpless as we waiting for any sign/announcement of great news, I couldn't help but feel some comfort in knowing that we were ALL there supporting each other. All there to show our love and support for Mitzi, Uncle Jeff, Brandon, Brady & each other. It is partially comforting to see that so many people love Mitzi, but so much more comforting to know that our family is CLOSE. THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO BE THERE FOR EACH OTHER NO MATTER WHAT OBSTACLE IS PLACED BEFORE US. May these next few days provide us with some positive news. We could really use it. XOXOX )

LOVE HEARING HER LAUGH!!!

Didn't take her LONG at all. Our precious baby bear is CRAWLING!!! 8/3/2011

Khloe hasn't really shown ANY interest in crawling. I guess because she doesn't see us crawling around. She will grab a hold of our hands, or something and pull herself up. She loves standing. The moment you help her get to her feet she is squealing and happy.. She loves walking around with our help. She is getting so big so fast..

Well today I got this video from Kerri (once again GOD BLESS KERRI) & look at her.. She is doing sooo good. I think by Monday of next week she WILL be crawling & Jason & I will be "IN FOR IT!!!" But I'm sooo excited about it!

"Ring-around-the-Rosie"

"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

Round & Round & Round & Round & each time brought new smiles!

At the zoo we went to the Carousel. She got excited when she heard the music and saw the lights on it. Jason said he'd take pictures so Khloe & I went to get in line. When it was our turn, We chose the Zebra and she was excited the moment she saw him. Khloe does this thing when she gets excited where BOTH arms goes STRAIGHT out word and then she kinda does this "jerky-dance" It is hysterical. Well this is exactly what happened. As I was putting her on the Zebra she did her excited dance and then QUICKLY grabbed onto the pole. It was sooo cute.

At one point on the Merry-Go-Round Khloe was nearly BUCKED Off. She got all wide eyed but when she realized I was right there, she smiled and grabbed on again. But she squealed and sang her "Dada" song a little bit on the ride.

We will HAVE to take her on the Carousel EVERY time we see one now, cause SHE LOVED IT!!

D I N O S A U R S

At first, it was a little spooky to see these giant "creatures" move around and make noise. It was rather intense at first. While I was in awe at first watching how amazingly real these creatures did end up looking, Khloe didn't seem phased at all. She loved T-REX. She kept smiling and giggling at T-Rex every time he'd Scream at us. It was so funny. She loved him. There were two smaller dinos near the front gate that spit on you (water) and she loved that too.. But back to T-Rex.

While taking a few pictures and watching the excitement in Khloe's face as she heard T-REX yell, this little boy comes up right next to us, looks at us and quickly says to his mom (but loud enough so we can hear him) "Mom I'd never bring my baby this close to T-Rex, its dangerous" I began to laugh a little bit and he quickly added "T-Rex will get her, not a good idea for little babies.." bwahahaha.. A little baby girl wouldn't be safe, but a noisy, wiggly 7 year old was safe from T-Rex? hahahahaha It was priceless!!!

Dinosaurs Invade the Zoo!
May 14- August 21

On your next Zoo visit, you'll think you're in a time machine. A time machine primed and ready to take you and your family on an educational and fun-filled journey back to prehistoric times. A time when dinosaurs ruled the world!
Are you up for it? If you are - read on and make plans to visit the Zoo now.

Zoorassic Park presented by Les Schwab Tire Centers, features13 life-like animatronic dinosaurs. They are scattered throughout Zoo grounds and, thanks in part to the support of our sponsors, may be viewed at no additional cost. These engaging monsters feature futuristic technology that makes them seem to come alive, moving, roaring, snarling - even spitting!


The dinosaurs that will be included in Zoorassic Park will be:
-Tyrannosaurus Rex
-Megalosaurus-Kentrosaurus
-Allosaurus
-Parasaurolophus
-Coelophysis
-Suchomimus
-Brachiosaurus
-Styracosaurus and baby
-Dilophosaurus and baby
Also, your kids will enjoy pretending to be a paleontologist at our special free dig site and having their photo taken with a T-Rex!

The ZOOOOOOOOOO

Since we had our Family pictures done in June & saw how excited Khloe got when she saw the horses and the pigs We've been wanting to taking Khloe to the zoo. Well Sunday we did it, "we quit Monkeying around" and took our precious "Monkey" to the zoo.

She loved every second of it. She was "wide eyed" staring, reaching and squealing at so many things. She was so patient too, cause we'd put her in the stroller and strap her in only to unstrap & pick her up to show her, to put her back in, then get her right back out.. hahahaha. But she did soooo great!!

Of course when we got there, the first place we HAD TO GO, was over to the Elephant.. Not the Elephants, but THE BIG ELEPHANT at the zoo. She was excited to Stand on the trunk.. Then is SPIT the water out and she giggled.. It was sooo great. She is getting big enough now where more things are funny to her, which is PURE entertainment for Jason & I!

We took full advantage of the space. Right after this picture was taken about 15 kids and parents were racing over so it worked out perfect... I love how excited she looks in this picture..hahaha She is sooo precious!

Then it was off to see the REAL elephants. This was amazing because at first she didn't notice them, she was too busy staring at the little kids next to us, but then the baby Elephant did a little head/trunk stand and she noticed.. hahaha..Also Zuri (think that is her name) copied her mommy & stood on her back legs too. Khloe got sooo excited & spread her arms out and just stared. She wasn't even blinking. She was ENGROSSED in these GIANT creatures she'd only seen on tv and on blankets before this. :D It was so cute to see her just LIGHT up at the sight of them. The mommy Elephant balanced on this concrete beam. It was cool to see. Lots of tricks, turns, and even jumped up on her Hind legs and put her front two hooves on the gate. She was amazing!

After the show, we went to the Big scale to see how things would add up... But it was even CLOSE to being accurate. Jason was hold Khloe's hands and placed her on the scale.. The darn thing popped up saying "41 pounds" YEAH RIGHT!! NOt even 1/2 that..

But for the fun of it, we continued to mess around.. When all 3 of us were standing on it, it said that we weighed as much as a NEWBORN elephant.. DANG!!! Yeah we are proud of that.. Our lil Family weighed as much a BABY!! hahahaha It is cool that they have these though, a lot of other kids were laughing at it too.

There were SOOOO many amazing animals for Khloe to see: Leopards, Tortoise, black swans, kangaroos, Tigers, buffalo, monkeys, Porcupines, Goats, Bald Eagles, Parrots, Hippos, Elephants, Giraffes,