My favorite days!

I wrote this last week and forgot to add the pictures so I could post it! Pretend it is June 10th, and go:

Oh boy was this last weekend eventful! I really enjoy having so much to celebrate all once! It sure made the work week flyby.

Starting on Friday we had Casey's 25th birthday. That morning he requested to open a present so obviously I had him open the most obvious one: the hammer! Fast forward now to me getting off work early and getting home just in time to see my beautiful anniversary flowers from the birthday boy himself. They are still so beautiful! Peonies are my absolute favorites. They were supposed to be my wedding flowers buuuut the florist apparently had her own ideas and replaced them with all sorts of stuff that we never even talked about!!!!! I am still bitter. I digress.  So that was just a wonderful surprise.

Casey opened the rest of his presents after that and did a very good job at pretending not to notice that there wasn't an iPad. We then headed out to get some cupcakes. Our biggest weakness! They were so delicious guys. After that it was time for a celebratory dinner. My grandpa Lyle decided to take everyone in the family out to celebrate his 54th anniversary with Grandma Sheri. We had so much fun! After spending so much time together before Grandma passed, we were all missing each other a bit so we had a great time catching up again. I will also note that we ate at Joy Luck which is where we had our wedding dinner!

Saturday was our crazy day. We had Casey's flag football game and management test and yard work. Then we were off to Park City for the weekend with our money jar in tow! Casey found a whole bunch of stuff at the outlets. I was not so lucky but it's ok. We stayed at the Caledonian on Main Street which was really really cool. Funny thing though, we have awful luck traveling so of course there was no AC and the bathroom hadn't been cleaned because the fixtures were all broken (so no water could be turned on). We laughed and gagged. All was well. Then I magically found a black mini iPad with Casey's name on it. Weird! I set up a decoy present for him and then had that one set aside as a surprise. He was so excited! That was really the only thing he wanted for his birthday and he thought I didn't get it for him. He also surprised me with some stackable initial rings that I had completely forgotten I had asked for awhile back. I love them. And him.

We completed our anniversary celebrations with Cole family pictures Sunday night and then we ate our year old wedding cake of course! It was interesting to say the least. Definitely not as good as it would have been a year ago.

And that was our weekend. It was lots and lots of fun! I'm sad it's over. And I can't believe it has been a year already. That was honestly my most favorite day ever and i think about it all the time. We had the best first year of marriage anyone could ask for, complete with a puppy and lots of fantastic adventures!

Here's to a zillion more years plus eternity! I LOVE CASEY!

Love

Becca

I am very behind on my posts again. Bear with me!

We had the wonderful honor of burying my sweet grandma this last week. The service was beautiful as were the viewings that were held prior. My aunts and my dad all did a spectacular job in speaking about their mother. I think everyone walked away from it all having their testimonies strengthened and wanting to be a little better and love everyone a little more. It is still so hard to believe that any of it was real. So crazy! And I just have so many thoughts on the day I don't know exactly what to even write about. Just know it was beautiful chaos!  We definitely shared a lot of happy and sad tears with both friends and family. Thank you for all of your prayers, flowers, cards and well wishes. The support from everyone was really just amazing and will be remembered. Plus, we got Casey to sing in both the cousin and family/friend choirs so that is a little victory!

Our family angels on Grandmas 74th birthday.

Memorial necklaces for all the girls!  Made by one of Melinda's friends. 

Grave side

Family gathering night of the services. Wayne is the family photobomber.

Our Memorial Day weekend was fantastic! We spent a lot of time with our families which is always wonderful. We even had a chance to go swim at the old family pool which I loved because that is where we spent our summers as kids and I really wanted Casey to experience it! A funny story for you now: I was trying to teach Casey a guessing game we used to play while swimming that involves dunking and flipping under water. Well I went to dunk Casey, which he mistook as me trying to flip him over, which then forced water up his nose, which also lead to his flailing extremities and his fist punching me square in the face. Not our best moment. He came up laughing and unknowing while I stood there and cried, hoping my teeth were still in my mouth. Fortunately for him I still have my teeth and escaped without a scratch...just a sore face. Casey may have found himself at the bottom of the pool had things not turned out so nicely.

Other recent blessings have come our way, in the form of a job for my dad! Thank you again for your prayers. Looks like Adam and DebTina will be shipping out to Kentucky later this month, for the next two years. It is a really great opportunity so they kind of have to go. And it will be their chance to be missionaries since they will be members of a branch instead of a ward. We are being entrusted with keeping the house standing in their absence. Wish us luck!

As for now we are getting ready to celebrate Casey's 25th (i think?) birthday on Friday! We have a really hard time remembering how old he is. Annnnnnnd we will also be celebrating one year of marriage on Sunday! We have saved our pennies in our money jar and are going up to Park City to shop and eat all the things! A fun fact for you now: June 9th is also the anniversary of my Cole grandparents (54 years together!). Such a blessing to share that with them, especially now that grandma is celebrating in heaven. Oh and I would like to take this time to ask my parents to babysit Nora while we are out? I promise to not guarantee that your shoes will be safe, or that special spot on your floor go unpooped on....

I need to try and make a better blogging habit! Here again I find myself with so much time passed that I am not sure what has all happened, that needs to be shared here. 

Casey did pass his dreadful math final! Thank you to all who prayed and hoped along with us that he could do it! He has started summer semester this last week. He is very motivated this time around so we are trying to make more of an effort to help him study and stay on top of deadlines. The hard part is that Weber doesn't do first and second block semesters like some of the other universities around so this is a summer long event. 

We are both just working away these days so there isn't too much to report there. We are hoping to have a little more free time as we get organized and more adjusted to all of these work changes. Maybe we see Lagoon passes in our future! Oh and we have tried to start running with Nora. It is HILARIOUS. She runs right alongside us, so we don't use the leash, and she loves to chase away the birds!

Onto more serious matters...

Just a couple of weeks ago my dad's position with Eagle-Satan-Gate College was eliminated. For those of you who are close to our family, you are probably thinking "Is this real life?". For those of you who aren't, I will fill you in: This is the 4th or so time that our family has dealt with unemployment, over the last 6ish years. It is never a personal issue with my dad, it is just circumstance. I think Heavenly Father sees us all as seasoned pros with this trial though and we are all feeling like there will be a light at the end of this tunnel. However, please keep my parents in your prayers as this is still a very open ended journey.

Now onto the next matter of business, my beautiful Grandma Sheri. Just within the last month her health has taken a very bad turn. She has graciously battled cancer these last two years, and that combined with other complications have really taken over her body. We have been very blessed to be able to spend a lot of time with her in the hospital and now at home as she has started hospice. Many of you have reached out to our family and offered such great love and support, and for that we thank you! All of us, Grandma and Grandpa included have really felt the influence of your prayers on our behalf. How grateful we are to have such wonderful piece of mind because of the gospel. It is because of that solid testimony of eternal families that our family is so close and strong. We don't have much time left with her here and that just breaks our hearts more than I can say, but we are blessed to be able to look at this as a celebration of life and love! Our whole family is so close and perfectly crazy (some people find it a little odd) and it is all because of Grandma Sheri and Grandpa Lyle. Thus, we have spent a lot of time as a family laughing and happily talking. There are tears of course, but more and more we are finding the peace and joy of this adventure. Again we can't thank you all enough for your thoughts and prayers, and very kind words/memories. Grandma is as optimistic and faithful as ever and we love her more and more for it.

More updates to come! Pictures below!

Becca

Photo Cred: Landon Welch. True Love.

Grandma's 74th birthday! We had happy-teary-sunshine and "Sheri-Oke"- (thanks Mickey!)