Lives cut too short...

Caylee Marie Anthony...Sandra Cantu...Hayleigh Cummings

If you havn't heard by now, these are just a few children in this country that have either come up missing or have been murdered in the last year. The media publicity has been over whelming for these girls and unfortunately have somewhat shadowed the REAL tradgedy that has happened.

These precious lives have been cut short in the hands of selfish, cold and cruel humans. It is unfortunate that we have people in this society that feel they have the right to take lives from this world for their own benefit. Hearing about these children and the way they spent the last moments of their lives is a hard pill for me to swallow. I have found myself getting angry and making judgments...and now I am realizing that these feelings are not what is important. What is important is these children.

I have so much sympathy for the families affected by these tradgedies, and I can only pray for them and hope they come through all of this with the support of their friends and family.

So, before you put your children to bed, drop them off at school, leave your parents house after dinner, kiss your husband/wife goodbye, or hang up that phone....take a moment to tell them you love them AGAIN! Take care all...and I love you!! XOXO

Fun with Shelbey!

Shelbey got a new camera for Christmas this past year, and she likes to take ALOT of random pictures. She likes to play with the colors and graphics on her camera...and no, she really doesn't have green hair!! I thought I would share some of these "creative" photos with you...keeping in mind she likes the close ups!! :)

GO TEAM STEWART!!!!!

Boy do we have news!!!

For those of you that don't know (you are the one's I didn't call or inform of this event...sorry!) Ian and I got married on Friday April 3rd. For those of you that already knew...here are some of the long awaited pictures!

After starting the immigration process for Ian, we came to the realization that being married would not only move the process along much faster, but would save us lots of money and it was WAY easier as far as forms, technicalities and stress!!! We are still going to have our ceremony in Mexico in February 2010 with our friends and families, however, getting married now was the way to go. We like to call it our "Formality Wedding".

We are both extremely happy and can't wait until the day comes when all this "process" is final. Thanks to mom and Phil for being our witnesses and to my brother Matt for taking the great pictures. To those of you that didn't know or maybe heard it second hand...we apologize. It was kinda a last minute decision and we just hope you are as happy for us as we are together!!! :)

We have so much to look forward to as a couple, a team and above all friends. Take care. XOXO