Anyone else get the "after Christmas blues?" I hate when it's all over. I had a great Christmas, and got more than I could ask for. I got to read most the day, which was really nice, and I played lots of games, and ate lots of food. Now today It means I am one day closer to going back to work. I use to love my job, and I still do most the time...but sometimes I just want to not have to. Ah well.
We missed my dad of course, but I didn't miss him so much on Christmas day as I thought I would...I missed him a LOT the day before. It's strange having Holidays without him, and I know my brothers missed him a lot. They weren't quite the same as I remember them, because usually they would sit and visit with my dad...they kinda looked out of place this year. Oh the changes we have to get use to. Bummer!
Happy New Year everyone! I truly hope it's the best year ever!
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Too busy...too fast...too bad...
Well, that's how I am feeling this Christmas so far. It's been too busy a month to get anything done I wanted to before Christmas so I could spend time concentrating on the real meaning of Christmas. Christmas is coming on too fast for my liking...the lights just got up, and now it seems they will be coming back down again, and the Christmas music turned back off way before I got a chance to even get sick of it. And it's too bad that I am not yet getting to feel the Christmas spirit. I feel a little scroogish...something I have NEVER felt at Christmas time EVER. I use to get mad at my dad for being a scrooge. My brothers (some of them) have expressed the same feelings this Christmas. Maybe it's the absence of the real scrooge in our life. My parents use to dress up as Santa and Mrs. Clause, and we'd go caroling around, and people would hire us to come be at there Christmas parties. My dad made an EXCELLENT Santa. So I am attaching a picture so you can all see what Christmas past was like.
I hope that others are being able to enjoy the Christmas season. I have decided that next year is going to be different. I'm starting my Chritmas early...I realize that most get annoyed when Christmas starts right after Halloween, but I have decided that it will be the only way for me to enjoy it and have time to tire of it, so that I don't feel that I missed it. I think that will feel better than it feels this year. Too busy...too fast...too bad...isn't the best Holiday feeling...
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! And thank goodness for our Savior and the Atonement, who knows where I would be without it!
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Call Christmas Letter
Well everyone, this is our Christmas letter...unless by some miracle I get time to send out Christmas cards...but I doubt it. If I ever do get any time to do anything, I usually choose to take a book and go soak in the bath while I read...so Christmas cards aren't at the top of my to do list...maybe next year!
This year was a crazy one. Full of lots of surprises. In March Ashton came home from Iraq a week before Aspen's 1 year birthday. I had previously been living with Veda and Floyd Salisbury. My wonderful friend Charlotte's parents; for about 8 months. Veda was there for me when I had Aspen since My parents were on a mission in Guatemala, and Ashton was in Iraq. Boy was I happy to have someone there for me, especially when I had to have an emergency C-Section, and Aspen ended up having to stay in the NICU for a week. They are the most generous people I know, and took me into there home and treated me like I was family. I felt so blessed! It would have been a very hard year if I hadn't had them helping me out and giving Aspen and I a place to stay and feel at home.
When Aspen was about 6 mths old or so, my parents got home from there mission and I moved with them into there new home in Providence, UT. I was sad to move out of Salisbury's, because if you know me, I hate change. I don't adjust to it well, so the only way I know about going about change, is to do it as fast as possible, and not look back. (which sometimes gets me in trouble and I move too fast and hit a brick wall) It's an uncomfortable thing for me. But it was also good to be back with my parents and spend some time with them. Aspen and "Bampa" Peck became fast friends and went on walks every night, and played on the floor together everyday. They enjoyed having her living with them, and every morning, the first place Aspen wanted to go was to "bampa". I was glad they were such good friends, since I loved taking her to him, and bowing out gracefully...(so I could go back to bed - ha!)
Ashton came home in March, and my dad asked him if he wouldn't mind staying here in the home and watching over it while they (my mom and dad) went on another mission. And so the paperwork began. And off they went to Peru! Changes were happening so rapidly, and like I mentioned earlier, I hate change! But it was nice to finally have Ashton back after a year and a half, and start being a family.
Ashton went right back to school upon returning, he's going into engineering, and I have just been working on building my Virtual Assisting Business. Both things keep us so busy, we rarely see one another. When Ashton is home, Aspen loves to occupy his time. She loves her dad.
5 months after my parents left, we got a call saying my dad was hospitalized for heart problems on a Monday, on Wednesday, we got a call saying all was fine, they were going to put a pacemaker in him, and he'd be good to go, then by Friday morning, we got a call saying he had passed away. It was a very sad time for the family. Made sadder by the week we had to wait to hold his funeral, and wondering if Shalee would be able to get back from Iraq for it (we were so happy he made it one day before the funeral). We had to wait for his body to be released from Peru. The funeral was a beautiful one, and each of us had our turn to say goodbye for "now". It was hard, and still is some days. Thank goodness for the gospel, I dont know what I would do without it! I can't imagine how others feel when they lose a loved one if they do not have the gospel. Aspen has missed him so much, and it is sad to listen to her cry about "Bampa" being gone.
We are still living in the Providence home with my mom, but will probably be moving out in the next few months. In about 3 years of marriage, we have spent less than a year of that together, and less than that living alone. It's been an adventure to say the least. And Ashton is ready for some family time in our own place. I think mom will like not having Aspen into all her stuff too...
Aspen is almost 2, and boy have we hit the "terrible" she is a handful, and oh so cute! (even if she still doesn't have much hair!) She signs almost all her words, and she is smart as a whip. She loves to make messes, cawer (color), dance, sing, (weed a boot)read books, and help lead the music at church. She keeps everyone laughing with her energy. She gives wonderful kisses, deadly scowls, and great squeezes. Her favorite things to say lately are "bye, see ya," and blow you a kiss. The cutest thing ever! We are sure happy she is part of our family.
Sorry for the LONG letter, but this was a funny long year! Happy Holidays Everyone and much love to you all! Thanks for the part you play in our lives! And maybe you'll get an actual Christmas letter next year...but then again...
Love the Calls
This year was a crazy one. Full of lots of surprises. In March Ashton came home from Iraq a week before Aspen's 1 year birthday. I had previously been living with Veda and Floyd Salisbury. My wonderful friend Charlotte's parents; for about 8 months. Veda was there for me when I had Aspen since My parents were on a mission in Guatemala, and Ashton was in Iraq. Boy was I happy to have someone there for me, especially when I had to have an emergency C-Section, and Aspen ended up having to stay in the NICU for a week. They are the most generous people I know, and took me into there home and treated me like I was family. I felt so blessed! It would have been a very hard year if I hadn't had them helping me out and giving Aspen and I a place to stay and feel at home.
When Aspen was about 6 mths old or so, my parents got home from there mission and I moved with them into there new home in Providence, UT. I was sad to move out of Salisbury's, because if you know me, I hate change. I don't adjust to it well, so the only way I know about going about change, is to do it as fast as possible, and not look back. (which sometimes gets me in trouble and I move too fast and hit a brick wall) It's an uncomfortable thing for me. But it was also good to be back with my parents and spend some time with them. Aspen and "Bampa" Peck became fast friends and went on walks every night, and played on the floor together everyday. They enjoyed having her living with them, and every morning, the first place Aspen wanted to go was to "bampa". I was glad they were such good friends, since I loved taking her to him, and bowing out gracefully...(so I could go back to bed - ha!)
Ashton came home in March, and my dad asked him if he wouldn't mind staying here in the home and watching over it while they (my mom and dad) went on another mission. And so the paperwork began. And off they went to Peru! Changes were happening so rapidly, and like I mentioned earlier, I hate change! But it was nice to finally have Ashton back after a year and a half, and start being a family.
Ashton went right back to school upon returning, he's going into engineering, and I have just been working on building my Virtual Assisting Business. Both things keep us so busy, we rarely see one another. When Ashton is home, Aspen loves to occupy his time. She loves her dad.
5 months after my parents left, we got a call saying my dad was hospitalized for heart problems on a Monday, on Wednesday, we got a call saying all was fine, they were going to put a pacemaker in him, and he'd be good to go, then by Friday morning, we got a call saying he had passed away. It was a very sad time for the family. Made sadder by the week we had to wait to hold his funeral, and wondering if Shalee would be able to get back from Iraq for it (we were so happy he made it one day before the funeral). We had to wait for his body to be released from Peru. The funeral was a beautiful one, and each of us had our turn to say goodbye for "now". It was hard, and still is some days. Thank goodness for the gospel, I dont know what I would do without it! I can't imagine how others feel when they lose a loved one if they do not have the gospel. Aspen has missed him so much, and it is sad to listen to her cry about "Bampa" being gone.
We are still living in the Providence home with my mom, but will probably be moving out in the next few months. In about 3 years of marriage, we have spent less than a year of that together, and less than that living alone. It's been an adventure to say the least. And Ashton is ready for some family time in our own place. I think mom will like not having Aspen into all her stuff too...
Aspen is almost 2, and boy have we hit the "terrible" she is a handful, and oh so cute! (even if she still doesn't have much hair!) She signs almost all her words, and she is smart as a whip. She loves to make messes, cawer (color), dance, sing, (weed a boot)read books, and help lead the music at church. She keeps everyone laughing with her energy. She gives wonderful kisses, deadly scowls, and great squeezes. Her favorite things to say lately are "bye, see ya," and blow you a kiss. The cutest thing ever! We are sure happy she is part of our family.
Sorry for the LONG letter, but this was a funny long year! Happy Holidays Everyone and much love to you all! Thanks for the part you play in our lives! And maybe you'll get an actual Christmas letter next year...but then again...
Love the Calls
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
My Christmas Post
Well, it would seem that everyone is posting Christmas posts now, and as usual, I am late getting anything done for Christmas...even blogging about it. I rarely get time to blog, that's what happens when you run a full time business, try setting up a new one, and have a baby that's busier than 5 babies. Even now she is sitting by me screaming because I won't let her touch my computer. We have so much fun here.
We have our Christmas tree up, decorated only from the middle up, so that Aspen can't touch any of the ornaments. I liked to sit up long after Aspen and Ashton go to bed, and just be by myself in front of the lights. It's great peaceful time. And It gives me more time to think about my dad. I don't get much time to think about him throughout the day. It's nice to try to remember him.
We aren't doing much for Christmas. Just going to Ashton's parents. Hopefully Aspen will enjoy Christmas better this year than she did last. I'm hoping to get all my Christmas shopping done by the end of this week, so that I can actually think of the true meaning of Christmas. And I want to watch every Christmas movie I can get my hands on. I love this season, and wish it could last longer. I hate when it ends. Hope everyone has some great plans.
We have our Christmas tree up, decorated only from the middle up, so that Aspen can't touch any of the ornaments. I liked to sit up long after Aspen and Ashton go to bed, and just be by myself in front of the lights. It's great peaceful time. And It gives me more time to think about my dad. I don't get much time to think about him throughout the day. It's nice to try to remember him.
We aren't doing much for Christmas. Just going to Ashton's parents. Hopefully Aspen will enjoy Christmas better this year than she did last. I'm hoping to get all my Christmas shopping done by the end of this week, so that I can actually think of the true meaning of Christmas. And I want to watch every Christmas movie I can get my hands on. I love this season, and wish it could last longer. I hate when it ends. Hope everyone has some great plans.
Sunday, December 02, 2007
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