All by Myself

I am all by myself tonight. Brock is out of town on a camping trip for a bachelor party (which I'm glad he went to) and I'm all by my lonesome. It's funny how I always think I need a break to get away by myself but as soon as Brock got into his truck and drove away I almost cried. I miss my hubby.

A Year Already?!

On March 7th, Brock & I celebrated our ONE year anniversary!! Woo hoo!! We weren't really sure what to do to celebrate so Brock came up with the idea to go to Kartchner Caverns in Benson, Az which is right by Tucson. I loved the idea, so we used our Harley rental we got as a wedding gift and took off! We had a blast and it was really cool to see the caverns. The weather was perfect until we realized we didn't bring jackets. Our tour started at 8:15 am and we had to be there an hour early. We didn't know how long it would take us to get to the caverns so we left at 6:30 am. We froze our buns off! It was SO cold! But it was definitely memorable. When we got back into town we invited family to go to Texas Roadhouse for some good grub. Little did I know, Brock had told our waitress about it being our anniversary so they brought out the saddle and had us both hop on as they proceeded to YELL to the entire store it was our anniversary and they had everyone give us a big yee-haw! I was very embarassed but it was fun. Also, Brock took me coyote hunting! That was really fun too. We got up really early and drove out past Florence. We heard them howling as we were getting out of the truck but we never saw any. So, that was our exciting anniversary... We're fat and happy and I couldn't have married a better person.

We couldn't take our camera inside the caves so this is all we have

We're cheesy

I can't decide who's more sexy...Brock or the bike

Denny's for dinner

Oh yeah...

Scratching his head

I look like a cancer patient

Get it? One finger for one year!

Us on the saddle... you can tell the guy behind us really cares

Us trying to get off the saddle...very interesting

Mom & JD

Michael & Calli

Shalene & Jim

The group

Brock in his camo
Some of our view
Another nature shot

Another shot of my man

Happy 28th Garrett

I just want to wish my big brother Garrett a Happy Birthday. He would have been 28 years old and probably would have had 5 kids by now haha. My mom, my little brother & I had his favorite chocolate cake to celebrate his birthday and we reminisced about what memories we have of him. I hate to admit it, but I have very few, which makes me very sad. Garrett was so much older than me so by the time I really remember things about him, he was already out of the house. I remember his sense of humor and how easy going he was. He didn't get mad often, but when he did you knew he was serious, especially because he would clench his jaw super tight. He was always thinking up new ideas and wanting to build something. I remember after we rode my Uncle Doug's zipline, Garrett wanted to build his own and I was going to help. I remember he was always on the phone (usually with a girl)... one day while he was on the phone, Derek decided it would be funny to moon him through the bedroom window. So while Derek had his cheeks planted on the window, Garrett snuck to the back door and mooned Derek back. I remember him driving us other kids around in the Jeep with the top off and the doors off... we thought we were hot stuff. I remember how skinny he was no matter what he ate. I remember he was a good older brother and I miss him a lot. I imagine what life would be like with him here and it's kinda hard to think about because I'm so used to him being gone. It's hard to believe its been 8 years he's been gone. I just want to say I'm grateful for the plan of salvation and grateful to have the gospel in my life. I don't know how people live life without it. I'm grateful for my Savior and I know he loves me and watches over my family & I. I'm grateful for my family (that includes the Huffakers too!) and I hope that everyone never forgets how short life is... don't take it for granted because you never know what might happen.