Family Pictures

I am a few posts behind, but this one should be quick and easy so ill squeeze it in now between studying! This past weekend Heather, Charles, Abi and Ellie came down to spend the weekend in Denton for Easter and Nana & Papa's 60th wedding anniversary(blog and pictures to come), and while she was here I put her to work taking some family pictures of us! She is so talented, and I am so glad she was able to get some awesome shots of my sweet family! She will be back down here this next weekend because she just got a job as a wedding photographers assistant, and there's a wedding in Dallas and I am going to try and attempt to return the favor and get some pictures of her sweet family this weekend, but she set the bar high! Thanks again Heather, I LOVE having you so close :) enjoy!

Update

I realize it's almost been a year since my last post, and so much has happened! I'll try and summerize with some quick highlights- Daniel started taking the missionary discussions in May of last year, and was baptized on August 7th. It has been such an amazing experience to both grow in the gospel together and we are now we are currently in our temple prep class and will be going through the temple to be sealed the second week of this August. We have grown so much closer and prioritys have become so clear in our lives, and neither of us have ever been happier! My sweet, sweet neice Celia Marie (Kyle and Alissa's little girl) was born on August 10th. She is a doll and such a sweet little happy spirit! I love every minute I get with her!! My sweet grandmother lost her battle with Cancer on October 26th. She is greatly missed but we are grateful for the knowledge of eternal families. Emily turned 4 on Nov. 20th. She is so much fun and is such a sweet little girl that we love having in our house as much as possible! She has made it clear that i'm "kind of" her mom but im really her best friend!! Which I am obviously okay with, we have grown so much closer over the last year and she is such a joy and source of laughter for me and Daniel! Our second child, Moe(our great dane) turned 2 on November 3rd! Heather had another little girl on November 30th who she named Ellie Mae, who is quickly developing a funny personality! She is such a chunk and very tolerant of Abigail and all of her "big sistering". I had a long 5 week break from school over christmas....that is definitely noteworthy. My nieces Annie and Chloe turned 6!!! they are huge and we miss them so much! I turned 22 shortly after that in Febuary. I am now in the Presidency of Young Women's at Church and love the other leaders and being able to teach the youth! I am also the supervisor for visiting teaching in our ward and Daniel is a ward missionary and has a full home teaching plate with 7 families!! Daniels 25th birthday, our 2nd anniversary, my graduation, our sealing, and hopefully a pregnancy :) will be right around the corner and I want to have them documented so I can print out a cute little book with all these milestones in it, So sorry if this seems more like journal entry's as apposed to a public blog for family! So i'll bring on some updating pictures from the last year or so...

Happy One Year Anniversary!

Its a little late...but better late than never! Me and Daniel celebrated our one year anniversary on June 11th...this year has been full of excitement and went by really fast. I worked this last year for a home health company, I had a 41 year old quadriplegic that was a very challenging case but i was able to learn ALOT about health care and was able to observe a nurse often doing different things with the patient and it was a great hands on experience! I finished up all my remaining prerequisites for nursing school, and was able to finally get an acceptance letter and will be getting my RN from Weatherford College and will start the program in August. Daniel's old company (union drilling) started really slowing down with the recession and the fact that the barnett shale is slowing down and his rig was stacked out (had no more work, so everyone was laid off) we were fortunate enough for him to find another job before the lay offs happened so he began work with Nomac drilling which is the oil company that Chesapeake energy owns. He hated it to put it mildly and was just able to find another job with Ves Vaughn Energy...he is loving it and so happy to finally be off a drilling rig! This last year has been alot of fun for us! We were able to take a trip to Seattle to see heather, Charles and Abigail- a trip to New Jersey to visit Daniel's brother Ben and his wife Hailey for bens graduation from Princeton Seminary- We were also able to take a last minute trip to hawaii with heather and charles, and I was able to go to Utah and visit with my grandmother! I feel so blessed to have such an amazing husband that would do anything for me. He is such a sweet husband and best friend and I can not wait for many more years together!

Utah & New Jersey

This past weekend Me and Daniel were able to take a trip up to New Jersey to attend his brothers graduation. Ben received his masters in divinity from Princeton University. It was alot quicker of a trip then we were hoping for but we had a blast. The campus was unbelievably beautiful, and we were so happy to be able to be there!

The previous weekend I was able to fly up to Utah with my parents to see my grandmother(dad's mom) who is suffering from brain cancer and isn't doing very well... I feel so blessed that we were able to have a weekend filled with lots of love and laughter and that our last memories of her will be sweet, sweet memories. She is such an amazing woman, and i'm so happy that I was able to get up there to see her and have some one on one time with her, along with my grandfather.

p.s sorry the pictures are so random.

chilling.

This is chilling.

In
1952 President
Truman established one day a year as a

"National
Day of
Prayer."

In 1988,
President Reagan designated the
first Thursday in May of each year as the National Day of
Prayer.

In June 2007,
(then) Presidential
candidate Barack Obama declared that the
USA
was no longer a
Christian nation.

This year
President Obama, canceled the
21st annual National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White
House under the rouse
of "not wanting to offend anyone"

On September 25,
2009 from 4 am until 7
pm, a National Day of Prayer for the Muslim religion was
held on Capitol Hill,
beside the White House. There were over 50,000 Muslims that
day in DC.

I guess it
doesn't matter if "Christians"
are offended by this event -
we obviously
don't count as "anyone"
anymore.

The direction
this country is headed
should strike fear in the heart of every Christian.
Especially knowing that the
Muslim religion believes that if Christians cannot be
converted they should be
annihilated

This is not a
rumor - Go to the website
to confirm this info:
( http://www.islamoncapitolhill.com/ )



I hope that this
information will stir your spirit.

The words of 2
Chronicles 7:14

"If my people,
who are called by my
name,
will humble themselves
and pray,

and seek my face, and
turn from their
wicked ways,
then will I hear from
heaven

and will forgive their
sin and will heal
their land."

Hawaii, wreck cars, and awesome grades :)

Okay im going to try one more time to keep up with this blog because I think it is so cool to be able to look back over the year and see everything that happened. This last month has been a crazy one, we were able to visit hawaii, I made 96's on my first two microbiology test, and we are still waiting to hear but pretty sure daniel totalled his truck yesterday. I am so grateful that he is okay considering that the collision was with an 18-wheeler. Hawaii was so much fun, we were able to met heather, charles and abigail there and it was alot of fun. Other than the tsunami scare that we had the second day we were there (read heathers blog for details on that... www.himmerfam.blogspot.com) i'll post a couple pictures from our gorgeous stay there! and ill try and get a couple of pictures from daniels truck and post this week. All in all me and daniel are having a blast being married trying to figure out how being an adult works haha!

Happy Birthday Daddy-O!

Okay I know im so bad at blogging- and my dads birthday was on the 8th but I just wanted to let him know how much he is loved and how much I appreciate everything he does for me.  From hanging blinds in my new house while Daniel was at work so that I would feel safer, to washing my car for me, to putting lotion on my feet, to rubbing my back, and cooking yummy brisket and homemade rootbeer, everything he does is so thoughtful.  He is honestly the most selfless person I know(along with my mother) I always will remember growing up and I always noticed that my dad's shirts would have a few holes, I remember one pair of shoes he had were so worn out that his feet would be soaked everytime it rained...I never remember once him buying anything for himself, he was always so worried about taking care of all of his kids that he loved so much and making sure we had everything we needed/wanted. You really are the best dad, and pops and I can not wait for my future kids to have a relationship with you like I did. You are amazing Dad and I love you so much! Happy Birthday!