I lost a dear friend and family member

On April 29th, 2010 I recieve a call from my Aunt Vicki to tell me that my cousin Dawna had died in a car crash. She was a beautiful soul that was taken from this earth for another calling. She left behind so many that loved her. She was a loving mother to her children Emily, Adia and Liam. She was a loving wife to her husband Scott. She was a loving sister to Jim, Wayne, Duncan, Jill, and Alexus. She was a loving Aunt to Morgan, Alex, Alyssa, Nevin, Katylynn and Danica. She was a loving cousin to many including me. She is going to be greatly missed.

At her funeral there where so many nice friends of hers there expressing how much she loved everything. It was so nice to see that there will be many people that are going to be there to help the family while they are going through the grieving process. It is going to be weird to not see her smiling face at family functions. But I know that she is going to be watching over us.

Colorado

As a family we recently took 13 hour road trip up to Colorado to see Chris' family and the new baby. We had a pleasent drive with all 5 of us in the car. We were able to rent a Ford Flex for free with Eric's points from traveling so much and got our hotel stays for free. The perks of him traveling for his job. We enjoyed the lovely senery on the way up and back. Bruce enjoyed pointing out different shapes in the mountains. In one he pointed out that it looked like it had a face on it.

After leaving all the beautiful rocks and entering into the beautiful ski country of Colorado we were able to see Vail and many other ski resort towns and feel in love with all of the beautiful senery.

After traveling all day we got there around 10 at night. We droped Bruce off at Chris' house and went on to our hotel to get some much needed sleep. On Saturday we got together and went to a beautiful park there in Parker and took lots of pictures of the kids and families together. Here is a picture of the 5 oldest grandkids. Starting left we have Trent, Joshua, Layton, Lizzie and Jake.

The boys enjoyed pertending to be army men at this little stream. Here they are holding their guns. Of course you have to imagine them being there.

Here they are plotting about how they are going to cross the stream.

We then got a picture of all the grandkids together. Poor Lizzie is the only girl so far. I know how that feels. I have 6 boy cousins before me and then one after me before I got to have girl cousins to play with. From the left we have Layton, Lizzie, Joshua, James, Trent, Adam and Jake.

The kids even enjoyed getting all together in their own little circle and play games on their DS's. It is cute even Lizzie gets right in there and plays with the boys.

The kids did really well and had fun playing with each other and of course they all had to go in the same car with Uncle Eric and Aunt BB. So we got back from the park first and took pictures of the oldest on the front steps.

Here is a wonderful 3 generation picture with Bruce and all of the brothers and their children.

We even got to take a rare picture of Grandpa holding Lizzie.

Look for more of our trip to Colorado and Adam's Blessing in the next post to come.

A New Year

We started our New Year with surprising the boys with a trip to Disneyland for New Years Eve. We spent the whole day at Disneyland and California Adventures.
We started the trip off by telling Jake and Trent that daddy need to go to LA for a one day training trip. We rented a car and drove down to LA and found our hotel that was in Santa Ana. The next morning we woke up early and told the boys we needed to find where daddy was going to train. After driving around Disneyland once it took them until we pulled into the parking garage to figure out where we were taking them that day and oh they were so excited.

This was taken on the tram to the entrance to buy the tickets to Disneyland. This time we decided to do a park hopper ticket. So we did both lands.
Here the boys are racing to get into Disneyland they were so excited to see everything. I was excited to be able to see Disneyland all decorated for the holidays
Here the boys are in front of the famous Mickey face and Disneyland Train station.
This is Trent on his first Star Tours ride. Last time we went to Disneyland he was to little to ride this ride. He was so excited to be able to finally get on all of the rides that he wanted to ride. We got to also see the new Finding Nemo ride on the Submarines. But I think the best part was seeing both the boys faces after we got done riding Space Mountain.
One of Jake's favorite characters lately is Jack Skeleton from Nightmare before Christmas. So he was excited to be able to get this picture taken of him with Jack. We also went on the Haunted Mansion ride that was all decked out in Nightmare before Chrismas.
After awhile and a lot of rides at Disneyland we went over to California Adventure to see what that was like. We went and saw the 3-D Muppet movie, rode the Monsters Inc. ride, rode the Grizzily rapids ride twice and soaking wet and we also stood in a long line to ride the Toy Story Mania ride.

As Jake will say mommy loves to have pictures of everything. So I try and document the fun we have.
This is just me with the boys having Eric take more pictures of us.
There was a nice couple that was even nice enough to take our family picture at the Hollywood backlot spot.
We were lucky to find a short line and take some pictures with Characters. We took one with one of my favorite characters Goofy. We even took some with the Cars from the movie Cars.We had a lot of fun but after 17 hours at the park we were ready to go. We stayed all the way until it was New Years Day. We had a great trip and loved being able to celebrate the new year with Disney.

Christmas Newsletter

I thought I would also post my Chistmas newsletter on my blog.


Vegas Bronley’s Newsletter

Breaking News:
Trent was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints by his dad on November 28th, 2009.

Jake:
Is in the 4th grade this year. He was excited to be able to be in the school choir this year and did a wonderful job. He was also chosen to be on the News team by his teacher. Jake is also a Webelo’s in Cub Scouts and is still enjoying to go to scouts. His teachers says that he is a unique character to have in class. Jake also received the Principles award for Citizenship at school for his continued efforts in making his class room environment a happy one.

Trent:
Is in the 2nd grade this year. He has joined the cub scout this year and is excited to do things that his big brother does now. With his teachers help he has decided reading is not so bad and has improved greatly. Trent also received the Principles award for hard work in the classroom.

Brandi:
She is still being a substitute teacher and is enjoying the chance to work with different students. She has also had the opportunity to go on a couple a training trips with Eric. Eric and Brandi got to take a week and go up to Idaho Falls in June for a training trip that he had up there. She and the boys also went to San Diego with Eric for two weeks. She is almost done with Master’s degree. She will be starting her student teaching next school year.

Eric
He traveled more than usual for work this year helping in other market’s mostly in California. We were able to go with him to Fresno, Visalia, San Jose, San Diego and Brandi was able to leave the kids with Grandpa and spend a week with Eric in Idaho Falls. He has now visited 30 different cities in 2 years with AT&T and with the cities he has revisited has almost traveled 100 times.

The Bronley family wishes all of you a happy holidays and the best for 2010

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Jake's Choir Concert at School

Here is a couple of videos that are from Jake's Concert. It was really good and seeing my son sing was wonderful.

This video is of them singing We Need a little Chirstmas. Enjoy!

Trent's Baptism

This last Saturday my little boy was baptized by his father and was confirmed a memeber of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints by his father too. It was a nice day and it was nice to be able to share it with my grandparents and friends from Church.

Jake was such a great big brother to Trent when he showed him what it was like to be baptized when he was 8 years old 2 years ago. And he said a great prayer at the end of the Trent's baptism.Trent was able to have his primary teacher Sis. Scharmann, Our home teachers Bro. Beals and Bro. Thompson, and our Bishop. It was nice of them to all show up for his special day. Trent had a big circle for his confirmation. Those that took part were Bro. Beals, Bro. Thompson, Grandpa Bronley, Great Grandpa Mealey, Uncle Tim, Bishop Nelson and Daddy. He was blessed to be able to have everyone there.

It was a great Baptism and a very special day for our family.

Daddy with his two boys. Next big event will be Jake getting the Preisthood in 2 years. Atleast I have 2 years to get ready for that.

Our family on Trent's special day.

Trent with his Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Mealey on his Special Day.

Trent with his Uncle Tim(TJ), Aunt Mary, and Cousins Lizzie and James on his Special Day.

Trent after being Baptized and Confirmed.