Happy Birthday Pops.

Happy Birthday to the Greatest Dad Around!

Love you!

Hope you have a great day ya Old Man! :)

The Office

I've had a recent OBSESSION with these guys...

Tyler and I have had a marathon going.

He bought several seasons of THE OFFICE.

He'd never seen a SINGLE episode, but thought he'd give them a try.

I've seen many episodes but have never gotten really into it, til now.

We started watching and we can't stop.

 I think I have a new favorite character every episode.

I can't seem to pick just one.

Let's face it, they're ALL hilarious.

We finished off all the season's Tyler had so he ran out and bought more.

We haven't started it yet, but I can't wait.

Needless to say, I'm going to have a Dunder Mifflin weekend!

Arizona

 This Month Is Not Going Like I Had Planned...

I did plan on going to Arizona.

...but a Grandpa who was supposed to be on the trip with us, getting hospitalized & passing on was not in the plan.

It was a great trip, don't get me wrong, but my Grandpa Schaefer passing away while we were gone definitely put a damper on things.

Early morning before we were even out of bed on Friday, January 9th we got a call from my brother, Kevin, telling us that he (my Grandpa) got taken by the paramedics to the Emergency Room after a struggle he'd had that morning. A lot of the signs to us sounded like a stroke but he'd passed a stroke test. We were worried, but went on with our day cuz it was Nate's Birthday.

As the day progressed we learned he had quite a few things wrong with him, all things, however were completely curable. Things weren't looking too serious, he just seemed to be really sick. The hospital figured a few days there and he would be fine, sadly though, things got worse from there.

He ended up in ICU...still we were positive, and figured he'd recover.

But by evening things weren't looking up.

Early evening he told my aunt that he was going to go quick.

I don't think any of us knew how serious he was. We still figured he could and would recover.

But by late evening...his heart stopped.

A nurse performed CPR to bring him back, but at that point it was decided that when it happened again, we would let him go. A little before 1am Saturday morning, he did go.

It was a shock to us all, but the hardest part was knowing that my aunt had been the only one in Utah & she gone through it all basically alone.

Luckily, she flew out shortly after he passed on and was able to fly out and be with us for the whole reason we all went to Arizona, which was for my cousin, Melissa's, wedding.

Here are a few shots from the event:

 

 

No offense to the groom.

I didn't cut him out for any reason other than I wanted a close up of her.

She looked so beautiful & so happy!

Besides the wedding we also went to a baby blessing for my newest cousin, Baby Mia.

I look a little scary, no makeup due to a morning full of tears with my family.

I decided I'd be better off not putting any on until RIGHT before the wedding.

I had puffy red eyes from crying & apparently he did too.

I realized after...I never even held her. Couldn't believe myself.

That shows how crazy the weekend down there was!!!

Last but not least we celebrated Nate's Birthday.

We went to Breakfast.

FREE breakfast at Denny's for the birthday boy!

...And a FREE ice cream sundae. EVEN at 10am.

We also went and saw Alvin & the Chipmunks.

Arizona is full of Snowbirds...and apparently the old folk didn't wanna see this flick.

Nate pretty much had the theater to himself.

BIRTHDAYS. BIRTHDAYS. BIRTHDAYS

January 8 is the most popular day of the year for birthdays I swear!

I don't have too much time, cuz I'm out of town, but I do want to acknowledge them.

So...here it goes!

Happy Birthday Nana!

Happy Birthday Bubba!

Happy Birthday Nicole!

Happy Birthday Hope!

Love you all! Hope you have great days!

Oh...What would he do if I didn't bleed blue???

Last Saturday Ty and I went to the BYU Basketball game.

During the game I found my mind wandering as it often does when BYU is so far ahead that watching becomes pointless, because there is no way the other team can possibly catch up. Anyway, I started thinking about sports & how fanatical Tyler is about BYU sports. I found myself playing the what if game...What if I wasn't a BYU fan already. Would Tyler have converted me to becoming one? And what if I was a Ute fan? There is no freakin way he would have ever dated me! And to top it off, if I had not have been, what on earth would we have done for fun? It made me laugh about the rivalry. How it literally divides us in every way, who would have thought choice in sports teams could be a deal breaker?

Lucky for him: I bleed blue!

Lucky for me: I look good in blue!

2010

How did I ring in the New Year, you ask?

...by dancing of course!

My Family & Bunker's & The Grandparents got together for a fun party!

We played Just Dance on the Wii, which is SUPER FUN!

I suck at it...I've onlywon once and I've played it probably 30 times now.

My excuse: this game has no clue how to judge REAL talent.

...or I might just suck, all I know is I get really intense and into it when I'm playing so win or lose it is a blast. We even had a "Drill Team Challenge" for all past & present drill girls.

All of us pretty much rocked.

It was like pulling teeth but I finally got Tyler up there, and what do you know?

He beat me, but what else can you expect from the son of a dancer?

 

Someone fell to sleep BEFORE 11. Just Dance must have worn him out.

 

...lucky for me I had a goofy sister & a new camera to keep me entertained all while he slept.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!