10 years

Andrew & Jaime

February 23, 2001

We celebrated 10 years this past month. This first picture is us celebrating. The following pictures are a few of my favorite pictures with my sweetie. I never would have imagined all that has happened in these first 10 years, I try to imagine about the next years to come ... I'm just grateful to be with him.

Valentine's Party

Bradley received a Valentine from one of his Grandma's and opened it up and disappointedly said, "Oh, I thought there was going to be money in it."

Me: "This is better, it's a card telling you how much they love you."

Bradley: "I think money is better, you get to buy something with it"

From the mouth of babes ...

Yesterday, I got to help out with Gabrielle's School Class Valentine's Party. I also got to help out at Jared's school class Valentine's Party his 1st grade year so my thoughts were on that memory as well. I didn't let my thoughts go there too much because I didn't want to be crying as we played "the really super fun game" I was in charge of but I loved thinking about Jared and Gabrielle and just how different they are, were at this age.

On the way home I picked up sugar cookies for our family night treat. I knew if Jared were here he wouldn't like the sugar cookies so I picked up a snicker doodle for him as well.

Happy Heart Day Everyone!

The Big 30!

So ... I'm officially 30! I had a great day celebrating. I felt very loved, remembered and spoiled! Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes and friendship. It means so much. My cute husband and kids decorated me a very cute cake -

If you look closely I'm the lego girl on the "lounge chair" relaxing. They had a fun time doing it - very fun. Thanks family! And here are more pictures of the celebration ...

Christmas 2010

A Wishing Place

So we went to the Make A Wish Place. We arrived with this sign at the door. What a wave of emotions that came. We stood in the lobby and reminisced of Jared's night there. We searched and searched and searched for Jared's star and found it. And we got to visit the wishing tower again. A hard night - that place will always be so special to us.

Festival of Trees

So our dear family, friends, and Taylor Elem. all worked together in bringing this big project to reality of funding, decorating, and contributing to this beautiful tree in honor of Jared for the Festival of Trees. The theme was super heroes and legos - two things Jared loved. It was such a neat tribute to our boy and we loved it! It just so happened that this event took place the same week of Jared's passing and services one year ago. The week ended with a great big surprise. Someone purchased Jared's tree anonymously but had it delivered to our home! We were speechless and still are ... how excited and grateful that we get to enjoy this tribute for years to come! Although we will never be able to thank them, we say it anyway - thank you! And a great big thank you to all who contributed and played a role in this special project. Thank you. Especially you two Liz and Marilee - we just can't say it enough!

Bradley's 4th Birthday!

Happy 4th Birthday Bradley! For Bradley's cake he wanted to duplicate the Indiana Jones show that we saw at Universal Studios last year on our trip. Bradley was very specific in what he wanted - a big, gray rock chasing Indiana Jones. So this is what the final product was. Happy Birthday Bradley! Jared would have loved this Indiana Jones party!