Oops! (continued)

This video of Michelle kinda drags on but I just love to make her laugh so I get kinda carried away lol!

Oops!

Ok so I haven't been updating this like I said I would. Sorry. It seems like my life is like a roller coaster. Sometimes I'm zipping along and then there are times when things are calm but I know that there's another rush just ahead! I haven't been able to find the notes from Dad that I promised my family I would post here. I know they will turn up though! As soon as they do I'll post them!
I went to Nevada for Thanksgiving with Michelle and Samuel, Mom, her fiance Ray and Ray's son Nick. We had a full car. I think Ray and Nick were stressing a little because of the babies. They aren't used to the constant crying. :-)We all survived though. The trip back was the hardest because they were both tired of being in the car. The trip there went so much smoother than I would have ever imagined! They were both so good for the 17 hour car trip!! I am so lucky to have such great kids. I was just thinking a couple of nights ago while Don was reading Michelle a bedtime story that we are never going to have this time with her at this age ever again. I know that's kind of obvious, but it just hit me that I'm going to have Michelle as a child, then a teenager, then an adult and she will never be a baby again! I cried just thinking about how much I'm going to miss the 1 1/2 year old Michelle. Same goes for Samuel of course...I guess I probably just think about it more with my first born.
I made a couple of videos of the kids today. I'm going to put one here and one in a new post. I just want to make sure it works this time. I'll post again soon!

Happy Birthday Dad!!!

Today is my dad's 50th birthday! I wish I could be celebrating it with him. I'm sure he's having much more fun where he's at though! We're going to have one of his favorite meals for dinner and then we're going to play a game. I'm sure he would have wanted us to have fun on his special day. I put together a collage of some of my favorite pictures of him. I hope you will enjoy looking through them. I can't believe how alive he still seems! Saturday will be a year and a half that he has been gone. It still feels like he is just on a long trip somewhere and he'll be home soon.

The last picture taken of Dad. It looks like he is pointing up to Heaven...just letting us know where he's heading I guess. :-)

Pictures of Dad

Pictures

September 10th, 2005...what an amazing day!!!

Oh so romantic! :-)

This is just the girls who were in our wedding party! LOL

Our honeymoon in Hawaii! We can't wait to be able to get back there

Michelle in her baptism dress

Michelle's baptism

Samuel in his baptism outfit






Samuel's baptism




Michelle and Samuel in the outfits that their aunt Deb got them. Go Huskers!

Michelle playing with her Mommo (aka Grandma)

Happy Halloween!

Samuel, just about two months old

Introduction to our family

Since this is my first blog I thought I'd start out at the beginning of our family. September 10th, 2005 I married the most amazing man named Don Veik! For one year we grew together as a couple. On Don's birthday (September 26th), just one year after we got married, we found out that we had a new member of the family growing inside of me! We were so happy! Our daughter, Michelle Marie, was born on May 27th, 2007. Just three weeks earlier we lost my dad, Michael Manak. His death was completely unexpected. It's still difficult for me to deal with it just because I didn't have time to prepare myself let alone the chance to say goodbye. I miss him so much! We got pregnant with our second baby in October 2007 but we lost that baby after only about 6 weeks of gestation. We didn't know if that baby was a boy or a girl but we both had a feeling that the baby would have been a boy. We named him after my dad, Gabriel Michael Veik. The loss of that baby was pretty difficult to deal with just because I wasn't ready to deal with another death so soon after my dad's. I have learned that God makes good come from bad things though. Just over a month after the loss of Gabriel we conceived our son Samuel Joseph! Samuel was born on August 26th, 2008. I was able to deliver him without any drugs which was totally awesome for me after having to have Michelle c-section. About 4 months before we had our son we lost Don's dad, Ronald Joseph Veik. Ron died of cancer on April 17th, 2008. This, like my dad's death, was a pretty big shock to the family. Ron found out that he had cancer less than 2 months before he passed away. Since Ron's death we have moved in with my mom to help with bills, Don started a truck driving job at United Rentals, and I quit my job to stay home with the kids. Even though there have been a lot of tough times I really do love my life! I love my husband, I love my daughter, and I love my son!