Vivir Sin Aire

I wanted to dedicate a song to Jen...I love the lyrics, they hit home on how im feeling right now. I sang this song to Jen with some random restaurant singer at the Mayan about a month after we met. I felt like a total idiot, but she liked it..and we found ourselves talking about that experience for years. I love you Jen!!!

Camping in Midway

Hey there family and friends. Last weekend Noah and I went camping with Jen's family, it was fun. We haven't been able to go camping in a couple of years, although I don't know how it was actually considered camping being that we spent the night in a trailer. I took Noah fishing on Friday night, but got skunked...I was impressed that Noah sat patiently for a good 45 minutes. Everyone else seemed to be pulling trout from the pond, but they for whatever reason didn't want our worm. Saturday

morning I woke up early without Noah and pulled my limit from the pond in less than an hour. It was awesome, the fishing God's finally took the lid off my ten year dry spell.

We also broke down and bought a 2008 Trailblazer, we love it. Jen and I had seriously considered buying one last fall, so I felt somewhat justified. I can just picture her riding in the passenger's seat with a big smile on her face. Life is going pretty good, we're trying to settle into what we can expect to be the norm. Thanks again to all the friends, for you love and kindness...you mean the world to us. We wouldn't know how to approach our challenges without your prayers and support.

Catching up and San Diego

It has been too long. I have been meaning to jump on to let everyone know how much you all mean to me and Noah. We owe the world to you, we are so thankful to have family and friends who care so much. I was inspired to see all the pictures of Jen circulating on facebook. It left me wondering how it ever was that I landed such a popular "Hottie". She is now my eternal Hottie. I think my brother in law (Todd) put it best. In his most serious high councilman face, he walked up to me at the viewing and pointed out that Jen had passed the test....he then paused and said, boy you sure better not mess this up. Right on Todd!!! I feel that was good advise and feel the responsibility to carry on with faith. We have such a rich heritage to turn to in order to deal with overcoming adversity. I happened to read a quote from President Kimball about two years ago, I loved it so much that I wrote it at that time in my scriptures and it has continued to help me address Jen's death with hope. He said: "If we say that early death is a calamity, disaster, or tragedy, would it not be saying that mortality is preferable to earlier entrance into the spirit world and to eventual salvation and exaltation? If mortality be the perfect state, then death would be a frustration, but the gospel teaches us there is no tragedy in death, but only in sin". Enough said, all I have to say to that is Amen. On a different note, Noah and I went with the in laws to San Diego. It was alot of fun, I hadn't been there for a couple of years. We stayed in Dean and Joanne's condo, it's ocean front property with a great view. Here are some pic's we took.