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My Last 10 Years


1998- I was a sophomore at Evanston High School in Evanston, Wyoming.. It seems like just yesterday, time goes by way to fast i've decided. Lets see my sophomore year i don't think anything exciting happened well i am sure it did but everything that happens in high school is exciting. I was in Cheerleading and Student Council and i loved being a part of that. My favorite part was the opportunity i had to do them both with my best friend and sister Melissa. Ever since we were little we did most things together, if it was playing barbies, riding our bikes, taking clogging lessons, playing with the neighbors, you name it we probably did it together.. it was like that all the way through school too.. I loved every minute of it i was so blessed to have a sister who wasn't annoyed with me, well maybe she was but thats who she was, she didn't let that show (most days). She let me follow her every footstep.

1999- Melissa was taken to heaven and i have never been the same since, i don't think i ever will be, I know she is with me every day but that day she passed away i felt like half of me was gone too. I was working at the bakery at Jubilee when i found out about the accident and i was there when my little brother Mark and my aunt Janet came to tell me that she didn't make it. They took me home and i never went back to work there again. It was diffinatley the hardest time in my life. Thankfully i have an amazing family and had amazing cheerleading friends to help me stay focused..We all missed her fun bubbly spirit on the squad and her bright smile and contagious laugh.

2000- Hm i was definatley still struggling with not having Melissa around. Mark and I went to some counciling that they had at the high school with other kids who had lost loved ones but that didn't do me any good it really just brought back the painful fact that she was really gone. I had many thoughts of killing myself that year, i didn't want to be around if i didn't have Melissa with me. I had many hard times this year. It was hard to know that all of her friends would be graduating and i wouldn't have them around either they were all going their separate ways moving away going on missions and i felt even more alone then ever by the time graduation came around. I had many happy moments this year as well it was my Junior year and of course junior prom...

2001- It was my senior year and i couldn't wait to move out and be on my own. My senior year was fun i was the Student Body Secretary and that along with being a senior on the cheerleading squad kept me really busy. Of course friends and boyfriends there was always something going on. I was sad to have it be my last year on cheerleading but also i was ready to be done with it. It was hard for me to go back to cheering without Melissa i strongly considered quiting and not trying out the year after she passed away.. My mom, bless her, convinced me that i should stick with it, Melissa would have wanted me to. I am so glad that i did.

2002- I was finally graduated and it was fun to be on my own. I moved to Logan with my cousin Jamie Smith. We had so much fun. I got a job working with my cousin Heather at Feature Films for Families, Well Visaplex kind of a telamarketing job. It was fun i was just going to take a year off of school and work to earn money for beauty school. Jamie went and got married on me so i didn't really want to stay in Logan.

2003- I moved to Provo to start beauty school. This was kind of another hard year. Mark and his girlfriend at the time, Jocelyn George got pregnant in high school. They decided to keep the baby so in January of this year they got married and in May, their sweet little Ayden was born. I was in beauty school and i wasn't really loving it at all i did't feel like i was getting the education we had paided for so yet again i moved... To Layton this time and i got a job at the Layton Hills Mall working at a store that sold beauty products. And i started Nail School at Fran Brown. In May i finished school and took the test and got my Utah license to be a Nail Technician. I found a job at a salon in Salt Lake so i moved again....there was other reasons to the move to Salt Lake i was dating my now sister-in-law, Jocelyn Georges brother Jeremy... He lived there so i thought it would be the perfect move. I got an appartment with Jeremys sister Holly George...

2004- I was loving every minute of Salt Lake. Jeremy and I did so many things together and i loved it.. I worked at the salon for a little while till i found out i wasn't building a clientle very fast and i still had bills to pay so i got a job as a cashier at Media Play. I loved this job but most of my pay check went to buying movies. I then found another job working up in Bountiful at Consulmed with my cousin Jamie. I really loved my job at consulmed. Is was so fun...

2005- I was still working at Consulmed in Bountiful and loving it. By now i had my own apartment in Salt Lake and i loved having my own place. I could control if it was a mess or clean, loud or quiet it was perfect. Jeremy and I broke up this year and i met, well sort of met Kyle this year. Kyle was on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. His sister Katie thought i should write him so in May i started writting Elder Jones and we wrote back and forth until December 22nd when i met him for the first time in person at the airport when he came home. We spent everyday after that together...

2006- Kyle and i got engaged on January 11th... We got married in the Salt Lake Temple for time and all eternity on April 28th. It was the coolest day of my life i felt Melissa so strong i knew she was right next to me the whole time in the temple it was absolutely amazing. We lived in Salt Lake for the next little while. I still worked at Consulmed and Kyle worked for his dad delivering water. In July we moved from the city that i had grown to love to Henefer Utah, where Kyle was raised. I quit my job in Bountiful and when we moved i started working at the Lab for Kiddie Kandids thats in Henefer. Kyles uncle owns Kiddie Kandids so the Lab were most of the pictures are printed is in Henefer. It was so hard for me to get used to Henefer. It was a hard move but i knew it was the right move for us at that time.. I still missed Salt Lake though Henefer didn't even have a gas station. In the fall we found out that we were going to have a baby.... I was so excited i couldn't wait to be a mom...

2007- In February we moved from a little apartment to a little 2 bedroom house in Henefer. I loved it. Getting the babys room ready was so much fun.. On July 17th we welcomed our sweet baby boy Karter to the world i can't even describe my feelings that day.. I have loved every minute with him since that day. I have the great opportunity to stay at home with Kater and i couldn't ask for anything better. Kyle got a job working for Staker/Parsons in Park City driving cement truck and it was going great till winter came and work slowed, well kind of just stopped.

2008- Now here we are, Kyle got a job the beginning of the year in Evanston, working for Deru's Glass as the Garage Door Guy i guess you could say. I have grown to love Henefer. We have thought about moving up to Evanston, but part of me would be so sad to move away from Henefer it is the perfect place to raise a family and the people there are absolutley amazing.. We are surrounded by Kyles family in Henefer and its only a 35 min drive to Evanston so we visit VERY often. Karter is growing up so fast and am loving every minute of watching him although it goes by way to fast...

Hey All my parents left this morning for Hawaii... Kyle and I are in Evanston staying with Marty, Mandi and Annie until they get back home. I think i am finally getting things figured out with this blog thing thanks to my fabulous cousin Heather... This are same ol same ol in our life... Nothing new. Marty finally got his braces off yesterday so that was exciting. His teeth look so great. Karter is getting more teeth he has 2 on the bottom and working on the third and one on the top we think. Kyle and I are planning a trip to Hawaii in the fall i can't wait.. Kyle wants to attempt to surf so that is an adventure all in its self we will see if he goes through with that dream or not. Thats all i have for now happy blogging till next time!!!

Hope you enjoy this cute video as much as I do!!!!!!!

Here are the new photos of our family and of our sweet Baby Boy Karter David!!!!!

Kyle and I are living in Henefer, Utah. Kyle works in Evanston at Deru's Glass as the garage door guy. We will have been married for 2 years in April of this year. Kyle and I welcomed our first baby, a boy, in July of last year. We named him Karter and he is the absolute greatest blessing in our lives. We have to much fun with him. He is 7 1/2 months now and getting ready to walk. He crawls everywhere and pulls himself up on almost anything. I get the great opportunity to stay home with him and be a mom. I absolutely love every minute of it. He keeps me busy thats for sure.