March 12, 2005

March 12th, 2005 Steve asked me to marry him!!!! The pictures above were taken after our date when we went to tell my parents we were engaged. We had a date planned that night. I had lots of homework to finish and also wanted to clean my room, bathroom, etc. I told Steve to give me the day to get all my work done and I could go out at night. He secretively called my dad earlier in the afternoon and they met. Steve asked my father for his blessing and told him he was going to ask me to marry him. I thought my dad was at the church getting his clerk work done, but he wasn't I found out later. They both had me fooled :-)

Steve came to pick me up and we went out to dinner. He then took me up Casper Mountain. It started to snow really bad that day... another one of those wonderful went spring snow storms. He had to somewhat adjust his plans at the last minute to make it work... I found that out later. We drove up to the falls in the deep snow. Good thing his car could make it... the Maxima was tough… the tires were spinning in spots though.

When we got there I said "What are we doing? Is this a good idea?" He parked and had gathered all my snow gear somehow earlier in the day. He had everything from my coat, to hat, gloves, and snow boots. He was prepared. It was pretty cold and still snowing, but very beautiful in the mountain snow. We hiked up to the falls in the deep snow together. We were the only ones there :-) and enjoyed the nice hike together. We talked for a while and later headed back to the car. When we were close to the car he pulled out the ring, said some amazing words... I wish I could have written the whole speech down... and asked me to marry him. Of course I said YES!!!! He then pulled out beautiful flowers from the trunk of his car and gave them to me.

Even though the weather didn't cooperate with his original plan, he had decided today was the day and he wasn't waiting any longer. I still remember the look in his eye and I will never forget it.

I love you Steve!!!!

Spring Break 2009

Spring Break was this week... I went and visited my sister Toni and her family in Worland and had a great time. I love you guys!! I also went to Greybull and stayed with my parents. It is always nice to go home to visit my parents and I am always greateful for the wonderful food. I love my mom's cooking!!! I got to see Lindsey and the girls too...

This is how Cloe and Dakota like to watch cartoons.. front and center...TOO cute!!

This is our new niece Paige Brooklyn Casey ... she is so adoreable!!!

This is soooooo funny... It is Cloe's "super bark" :-)

I also got to go hang out with Erica and Ren for the afternoon until the boys got home from school/ track practice. They got out rockband...Ren and Wes are ROCKSTARS!!!!!

Thursday I headed to the beloved Rock Springs to hang out with Stevo. Of course,we went to eat at the Wonderful House. Steve LOVES his job and starts his shift work Saturday... he is done with his two weeks of initial training and although he still has more training, studying, and tests, he is considered one of the crew:-)!!

Firefighter Casey :-)

Not every little boy who says they are going to be a fireman when they grow up gets to be one (Aunt Melea).


This comes with being married to a firefighter... he has to have a set of bunker gear at home and one at work.

Steve has been doing all sorts of training. He has to put his gear on in under 1 minute and his captain will randomly say "go" and he has to stop what he is doing and go put his gear on that is laid out by the fire truck. He practiced using the jaws of life on an old car they brought in for him. He has to work out for an hour every shift and has been retraining on force able entry, ventilation, and fire behavior. He also was training on the ladder truck. I wish I could of had a picture of him on the ladder at the top when it was all the way stretched out. Those fire truck ladders stretch 75 ft. in the air :-) Glad that is him!! Steve has to do a lot of studying on his time off and at night and takes one of his big tests Thursday... Good Luck Steve!!!!!