Thanksgiving...

Wes and I were able to make it to Cottonwood to have Thanksgiving at Mom's house... We had a blast there were lots of people there!! (Elmo, Mom, Tara, Will, Landon, Tristan, Avery, Emily, Ryan, Joey, Ryans daughter {I forget her name}, Victor, Kevin, Shane, Shawn, Wes and myself) There was definitely a house full of people!!

Thursday afternoon Wes wanted to go for a drive, originally he wanted to go to Sedona but I thought he would like Jerome more... So off we went, and he was like a kid in a candy store!! He loved it up there!! He was driving, and kept looking around yelling out, "Babe, look at that!!", and, "This is so cool!!" I loved every minute of watching him look around and be absolutely mesmerized by everything up there!! He wants to go back sometime and "explore", so eventually we will do that!! We found this little spot that had like a man-made waterfall and stairs and it was so green and pretty!! We stood there and looked around and just enjoyed the view!! Wes had to head back to the valley to work for Black Friday, luckily he was able to get off early enough to come back out to Cottonwood later that evening... He told me he wanted to go back up to Jerome so we could take some pictures... After he got into town we got ready and took Deanna up there with us to take some pics...

We walked around and he told me he really wanted to go up to that spot again and get some pictures there, and after we took a couple he got down on one knee and proposed!! I had no idea at all!! So, yeah... Now begins the planning!! I'm so excited!! I love you Wesley...

(My ring, I know it's not a great picture... But, you get it...)

Thanks to the family for a great Thanksgiving weekend!!

Smelling the roses...

I was looking through some pictures the other night and found this one... I think I was supposed to look at it because the thought popped into my head that I needed to take my time and stop and smell the roses... Life is too short and if we don't take the time it passes us by in the blink of an eye!! I hope that we can all slow down and take some time to smell the roses from now on...

Miracles do happen...

So, I know that this is a little late since I probably should have done this like Friday but better late than never, right?

I was lucky enough to be able to be in the room when Hailey Marie was born... And I must say that I do know that miracles really do happen. Some may not think that when they watch a baby being born, some may think it's gross and that's fine but I truely feel like I was blessed on Thursday night. I have been so excited to meet this new niece of mine for the last 9 months (give or take a few weeks) and when I heard the news from Shane early Thursday morning I couldn't go back to sleep. I must say that I really wanted to skip work and be there the entire day but I knew that it was going to take a while for Deanna to actually be ready... I think it's safe to say that I waited as patiently as I possibly could (Shane will probably beg to differ if you ask him) for this baby to make her way into this world.

I got to the hospital at about 9 pm, and sat in the room waiting for something to happen... Deanna didn't take long after I arrived, and about an hour and a half later there she was... As she was born this spirit that I had never felt before filled the room and at that moment there wasn't a care in the world... For the first time in a long time I felt close to my Heavenly Father, and I know that that is really sad for me to admit but I felt the spirit so close... She is a miracle, all babies are and I was blessed to be able to witness that miracle of life...

Congrats to Shane and Deanna, and welcome to the world Hailey!! It was an amazing experience to be a part of it all and I am grateful that I will get to witness more in the future... I cannot wait for Erin, Tara and Heather to bring their beautiful babies into this world... So I can smell them (it's a Willoughby thing) and love them unconditionally!! I am the luckiest Auntie Jenny in the entire world!!

Hailey Marie Willoughby, born September 17, 2009... 6 pounds 7 ounces, 18 inches long...

Lame-OH...

So, I've been totally lame and haven't written for a while... Been busy and when I'm not I have thought about updating but I don't have much to update on. Life is same ol' same ol'... We're trying to find a new apartment, we live in Phoenix and you would think that it would be easy right?? Haha... You think wrong!! It has been the biggest pain in the butt to find something decent that isn't going to kill the wallet... Found out this last weekend that my sisters are all prego!! Geez, and they're all due within a month of eachother!!
So, CONGRATS to Tara, Heather and Erin!! Yay you guys!! Then on top of it, DeAnna is scheduled to have her baby in like a month, well a little over a month but still!! I can't wait for all these babies... I will have lots of them to hold and kiss and smell for a while... I couldn't be happier for everyone!! Plus I get to be a favorite auntie to four new babies!! Haha...
Oh, I decided I'm gonna start dieting, like hard core!! I need to lose weight big time!! I wanna be skinny again... So I'm gonna try Sensa and an Acai Berry supplement... Read up on both of them and they both sound promising!! So wish me luck and we'll see what happens, if they do work like they're supposed to I will post pics and update... I need to take before and after pics, maybe I will have Wes do that tonight... (BIG maybe) Haha...
That's all for now, toodles!!

10 things I love about Wesley...

1. His laugh... It's contagious, plain and simple. If he laughs so does everyone else around him. All of his laughs are from the heart...

2. His baby blue eyes... You can look into those eyes and know he is a good person inside and out. They hide no secrets, I can see the love he has for me just by staring into them... They melt my heart.

3. He is a hard working man and loves everything he does. He never complains about how hard he works and always thinks of other people first before himself.

4. His hands... They're hard working hands and yet they are so soft. Those hands have caressed my body and held me tight each and every day. You can see that he works hard just by looking at his hands, they tell their very own story.

5. His smile... It too, melts my heart and soul!! His smile brightens even the darkest of days and moods... Everything in life seems to disappear when I see that smile and there is nothing else except us at that moment.

6. His smell... I could lay there and breath in his smell all day and all night... There is something about his smell that comforts and calms me, it puts me to sleep every time.

7. His love of music... I love how he picks out random songs to dedicate to me at a specific moment... (And sometimes, he even sings them to me) His love of music will be passed on to others, he's passed it to me in the short time that I have known him.

8. His dancing... Others would probably shake their head and look the other way but I love the way he swings his hips back and forth and looks at me with that quirky little smile on his face to see how I react...

9. His passion for life... He has told me time and time again where he wants to end up in life and how he's going to get there. He's so willing to show me that I will never have to worry because he's going to be there to take care of me forever and always.

And last but not least...

10. His heart... He truly loves life and every one in it... He has opened his heart up to me and shown me all of his thoughts and feelings... I only hope that one day that my heart is as pure and amazing as his... He is a truly amazing man and I love him with all of my heart... I can't imagine life without him in it!!

I love you Baby Cakes... You make life worth living and you are the reason I get up out of bed every morning... I can't wait to see where life takes us together... I know that there will be ups and downs, but as long as I have you by my side everything will be okay!! I know that because you have reassured me of that time and time again!! I never knew that there was a possibility of loving someone the way that I love you and I can't wait to keep for that love to keep flourishing... Every time I look at you I love you a little more, I can't imagine loving you any more than I already do but somehow it happens and it's the most amazing feeling in the entire world... I love you so much and I can't wait to call you mine for forever and ever...

-Sugar

Thinking...

So, I don't work on the weekends anymore with this new job that I have and this is the first weekend in a while that I have been able to sit at home and do nothing... But that always leads me to thinking and wondering about things... On todays menu of thinking...

I started going back to a couple years ago when I really wanted to move away from Cottonwood cuz I was tired of living there and seeing the same things day after day... So that's just what I did, quit my job, packed my bags and moved out to Queen Creek... Couldn't find a job for the life of me and decided one day that I was going to see where being a nanny would take me... So, once again I went out on a limb and applied to be a nanny... A few days later got a call about two possible families and an interview later that day... Low and behold I landed a job out in Corona, CA!! I was so excited to get out of AZ and try something new!! I moved out there and I will say that SoCal is not all that it's cracked up to be... The people are different, no one cares about you, no one can take 5 minutes out of there day to even think about the remote possibility of caring about you... To be honest all they care about out there is themselves and making more money than their neighbor down the street and having bigger and better things than anyone else they know!! I know that not everyone out there is like that but just from the experiences I had and most of the people I met out there that's the impression they left in my mind... Nine months later I was hating my job and every person out there that I had associated myself with... But as I look back on it now I'm grateful for the experience it provided me with... I learned a lot about myself and a lot of life lessons... I also learned that if I hadn't moved out there and gone through the things that I had gone thru that I wouldn't be where I am today... Some may say that that may not be such a bad thing if I wasn't where I am today but I am truly grateful to be where I am and to have what I have in life...
For example, I never would have met Wes, seriously... If you want to know the story I'll tell you but I know that every day from here on out that I will look at that man and be grateful for all that I have been through... We watched a movie the other night and a professor said in it that there are two different views on the world and the way that things happen, some think that every thing, whether big or small, that has happened up until this point has happened for a reason... And the other part of the world just thinks that sh** happens and it doesn't matter what other things have happened, it didn't make the world what it is...
So, I questioned that today for myself and I believe that everything happens for a reason and that everything in this world that has happened has led me to where I am now... It could have been different, it very well could have been... But for now I am glad that things are just the way that they are because I love my life and I wouldn't trade it for the world... I have an amazing family that I love very much, I have an amazing man that I also love very much and am excited to start a new life with him by my side, and last but not least I have amazing friends who I love, too!! All of the people in my life where meant to be in my life but without the past I wouldn't have any of it...
I don't really know if this post will make much sense but I just needed to get it out there and let you all know that I'm glad I have you in my life, and maybe you're not part of my life right now or anymore but I'm glad either way... I'm excited to see what the future has in store for me and to see what other great people out there I will meet and grow to love as well... Until then...

Idaho

So Wes and I took a quick weekend trip to go to Idaho so I could meet the family... We left at 6:30 am to get to the airport, only to find out that our flight was delayed. They announced a few times that they would have an update a little later. An hour later we finally boarded our plane and waited for take off. Our Pilot announced right before we took off that they reason our plane was delayed was because they had a loose rivet on the wing and it had taken a while to find it. Crazy right? Why would you announce to your passengers that there had been a loose rivet on the wing and that they had a hard time finding it so they could fix it? Yeah, so it was a good way to start off the flight... Needless to say we made it just fine. We landed in Salt Lake around 12:30 pm and Wes's really good friend Clint and his wife Ashlee picked us up from the airport. We ran around Salt Lake for a little while and got a bite to eat and we were on our way to good ol' Idaho Falls... The car ride was long and I zonked out for a little bit but we made it in record time thanks to Clint!! (You speed demon you)
He dropped us off at his Mom's house so we could say hi to everyone, then we were off once again... First to the old shop Wes used to work at to say hi to the owners... I found out that Wes doesn't go on vacation to relax he goes to work... He changed a dirt bike tire for a customer then we left before some stuff hit the fan. Then I got to go meet his Mom, absolutely sweet!! She gave me a pair of hot pink boots cuz I have always wanted some... Love them!! We didn't stay long there either, cuz we were on our way to go see his Dad and Step-Mom. They fed us a delicious dinner so we could head over to Ben and Laura's house to play games. We had talked about going to bed early, yeah right tho... We were out til almost midnight...
Wes took me horse back riding the next day, had an absolute blast... He told me that I was going to burn cuz I was out in the sun and I honestly think I was the only one to not burn, his poor neck was bright red. Fireworks that night, they were amazing!! Wes had told me that they were amazing in Idaho Falls and I definitley recommend that everyone needs to watch them in Idaho Falls at least once in your lifetime... We sat with his Dad, Step-Mom and her three daughters... We wrestled with them and tired them out...
Sunday we went to Yellowstone with Wes's sisters, Ashley and Leslie, and his Dad. It was awesome, but I have to tell you that his Dad seriously had more energy than the four of us combined. We were so pooped by the end of the day and he wanted to stop at Mesa Falls on our way home. We saw Old Faithful, way cool!! The weather was beautiful!! I didn't want to come back to hot Phoenix. Sadly, we had to come home on Monday... Almost missed our flight, that was a good time in itself!! There was a ton that we did but I don't want to bore everyone with it!! Thanks to everyone in Idaho, I enjoyed my time out there and can't wait to go back!!