Happy Birthday Barrett

I just thought I would post really quick and tell my brother Barrett happy birthday. I am so proud of you! You are officially done with school and you are a doctor. I couldn't be more proud (don't mean I officially fully trust you:) ) You have 3 adorable 3 kids and I can't wait to be able to get to know Isaac and be part of his life. I am just so happy that you guys are moving back. I am a proud little sister of her older brother. You are such an example to me. I love you so much and I am SO proud that you are my brother! Happy birhtday!

Happy Birthday, Max

Happy Birthday Max! It was SO good to see you Christmas Morning. I wish we were able to spend MORE time with you for your 5th birthday. You have grown up so much. You and Morgan are such good friends. I love how you would run around on Christmas morning and look at me with your hands as an "X" and say "NO MORE KISSIES!" and get closer and closer to me, and would LAUGH so hard when I would grab to give you kissies. I am glad to know I am your Aunt Nicky with the Kissy Lips. I loved spending a few days with you this past summer at Grandma and Grandpa's with you and Morgan and we got to go fishing. It was so much fun. I wish that I could have had a sleep over at my house like I have all the other kids, but it just didn't fit in with the schedule. We will have to get it to work this next time you guys come out to visit. I love you! I hope you had a fun time for your birthday. You are 5!

Happy Birthday, Kayden

Happy Birthday Buddy! I remember the day you were born, your mom didn't even realize she was going to have you. You have been the first miracle in our family. The past year, I have been so amazed at so much you have become independent. You have started to take your medicine by yourself and now you are going to school. Hearing you talk about school just makes me so happy. I love you so much Bud! I am so glad that you live close and we can have our time together. You make me laugh with the little things you say and do. You are such a good big brother to Koy, and you love Lexi so much! I hope you had a good birthday! So now I will just say bye and let you go play!

Happy Birthday, Koy

Happy Birthday Koy

Kayden kissing Koy right after he was born, from day 1 they had such a bond!

Happy Birthday Koy! I love you! I don't know where our life would be without you. You can be such entertainment. You and Kayden are such best friends, I know if I can't find you, look for Kayden. If you're not with Kayden, you're with Lexi. You love your brother and sister so much. You say some of the funniest things "Mom, you are such a GREAT driver with 2 hands" and I just loved how you walked up to the lady at Wal-Mart yesterday and told her your birthday was on 10/10/10 and you'll be 4. Koy has no fear and will do anything, but don't bring a FLY around..:) You are so loving, I know that there will always be a big hug and kiss when I come around you. Even if I do give you a "fart kiss" and you throw a fit! :) I hope you have a good birthday!

This is a typical Koy picture now. Always has to throw up the "DEUCES" sign

At the 24th of July Parade in Orangeville, this is Koy sat almost the the entire time. He told everyone else to go get him candy and he sat there with his legs crossed drinking is Orange Soda.

Happy Birthday, Tyler

So many memories come back to me this special day. It is my nephew Tyler's birthday. He was born 3 months early. I got a call in the middle of the night by my dad to get up to SLC, Nancy was having a baby. I got woke up, and I thought I had slept thru 3 months! Until realization hit, and it was only September. My sweet roommates drove me up and sat with me at the U of U hospital, we weren't sure which hospital he was going to be transferred to. Finally we got the word, Tyler was born. 1 lbs 11 oz, 13 inches long! SOO little!! He was being transferred to LDS Hospital. My roommates took me there, I told them I would be ok and they could go home. I sat there on the curb, finally the life flight helicopter came. I was the family rep, Nancy and Dallas as were at the hospital on the other end of the valley. Life flight nurses asked if I was the aunt the family said would be there, I said yes, they told me to follow. I had to follow fast. I went with them up to the NICU. Before they took him in to get him settled, they asked if I wanted to see him. OF COURSE! He looked so little. I sat there waiting for someone else to show up.

I went up almost every other day to see my little buddy the whole time he was in the hospital (LDS and PCMC). I was so excited (and scared) the day Nancy asked me if I was ready to hold him. I just sat there looking at him and couldn't believe it! He was a miracle.

I love having them close. He makes me laugh. Everytime he has a new phrase, Nancy calls me and he has to tell Aunt Nicky Mouse. It has been amazing seeing him progress sooo much the last few months. Saturday at his party he was such a little talker. He made sure everyone knew when it was time to clap. He would say "everybody say LIMBO!" "Everybody say CLAP!" and if people didn't clap, he would count, "one, two, three! CLAP!" Saturday me and Tyler were just laying on the blanket outside, and we were just laughing at each other. I feel a special bond with him. I love teaching him new words (pooh pooh, or MISSION COMPLETED!)

Happy Birthday Tyler! I love you so much! You are such a miracle!

Celebration week for the Ware/Olsen

This week is birthday filled in the family. On the 19th, mom and dad celebrated their 33rd anniversay. Happy Anniversary Mom! Here is to another 33!

Yesterday was Grandma Nell and Todd's birthday. I don't have a pic of Todd, only one I have is of me, him and Chels, when we were just little.. Happy 28th Birthday Todd! :)

Grandma Nell would have been 76 yesterday. It was her first birthday with my grandpa in 30 years. I bet they had a great time!

Saturday we are having the Olsen family reunion. It would be Grandma Olsen's 102 birthday. Happy Birthday Grandma Olsen!

I hope I didn't miss anyone!Just a fun filled week in the family. Nancy got her own post so I didn't forget her! Happy Birthday everyone!

Happy Birthday, Nancy

I know it is late.. I had a dentist appointment in Provo to get my cavities filled (only a few, not bad after not going for 2 years) My mouth was completely numb, you can ask Nancy on that one.. Or ask Jeff (the dentist) he was pretty proud of himself. He was laughing at me because I literally couldn't talk because my tongue was so numb.

Just wanted to tell Nancy, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I know this isn't the first time I've told you today. I told you last night when I was being the BEST sister EVER and babysat Tyler so you could take your husband to the instacare to get his stitches. Then I told you today, when again, I was the best sister EVER and stopped in to say hi on my way back from the dentist. I know we have our differences, what sisters don't. But I am glad you are back here in UT and I am able to go down to your house and "hang out" with you. I know we don't really do a lot but just hang out at the house and make Tyler laugh, but that's the best. You know it is the best when your son is laughing so hard at us that he lays down in the grass and sighs because he's been laughing. Then gets up and asks for "MORE" and all we were doing was bumping the volleyball back and forth to each other until some rude person hits me in the eye and then that REALLY got Tyler laughing! :)

I'm glad I have got to know you guys better and I have getting such a close bond with Tyler. I don't know how many names he has called me now. It was Aunt Nicky Poo Poo, then Aunt Nicky Mouse. Then today, he started calling me Aunt Mickey Mouse. . On the phone has has called me Goofy, Baby Einstein and Donald Duck. I'm glad that you guys call me when he gets a new word. It really makes my day.

I hope you enjoyed your dinner at Red Lobster and Tyler enjoyed the Cake. :)

Read the lyrics to Tim McGraw's "In my next 30 Years"
I think I’ll take a moment, celebrate my age
The ending of an era and the turning of a page
Now it’s time to focus in on where I go from here
Lord have mercy on my next thirty years

Hey my next thirty years I’m gonna have some fun
Try to forget about all the crazy things I’ve done
Maybe now I’ve conquered all my adolescent fears
And I’ll do it better in my next thirty years

My next thirty years I’m gonna settle all the scores
Cry a little less, laugh a little more
Find a world of happiness without the hate and fear
Figure out just what I’m doing here
In my next thirty years

Oh my next thirty years, I’m gonna watch my weight
Eat a few more salads and not stay up so late
Drink a little lemonade and not so many beers
Maybe I’ll remember my next thirty years

My next thirty years will be the best years of my life
Raise a little family and hang out with my wife
Spend precious moments with the ones that I hold dear
Make up for lost time here ,In my next thirty years

In my next thirty years

Happy Birthday Nancy!

Happy Birthday, Barrett

Sorry Barrett, gotta keep the tradition of posting the "helmet" picture! :)
Happy Birthday! You are a great big brother. You are such a good example to me and I don't know how I was able to get such a smart brother. Growing up, I had to share a room with you (and we had the most awesome wallpaper) and I had to put up with you laying on MY bed drawing the Chicago Bulls logo on YOUR bed since we had bunk beds. I remember you always wanted to be a doctor and look at you now. You are a doctor. You have amazing little kids who I just love (even if Max doesn't let me kiss him) You have pushed your way thru college with a family and you have made your dreams come true.

You are such a sweet man. I love the picture of you helping Mom at Grandpa's funeral. It was such a snowy day and you were such a gentleman to walk over and give Mom your arm to hold on to so she wouldn't fall. Nancy captured a GREAT picture. Chantel is a lucky woman!

Hope you have a great day! Love ya and can't wait to see you!

Happy Birthday, Morgan!!

I can't believe she is 6! She is such a cute little girl and says some of the funniest things that we can't help but laugh. She is very protective of her brother Max. She LOVES horses! Morgan, I love you so much! You are growing up so much! I hope you have a happy birthday. I have a card in the mail for you. This year I decided since last year I did big gifts for the kids, this year I would just give them money (the same amount I would use on a gift). You can spend the money anyway you want, it's your birthday! I love you! Happy Birthday sweet girl! Aunt Nicky loves you SOOOO much!

Happy Birthday, Tammy

Happy Birthday Tammy. Man, you are OLD! :) Koy tells me you are 4! (but I am 6) I hope you have a good birthday. I am glad you live just down the road and I know I can rely on you guys to help me out when I need it (or the other way around) You have been a great, big sister to me. Glad you have the day off work, not for your birthday but for mothers day hehehe. Happy Birthday Sis! Love ya!

Happy Birthday, MOM

Yes, it is ANOTHER birthday! This time it is moms. That's why I had to let Dad get all the glory of a birthday for a full day before Mom got the glory of a full day of a birthday!



Mom is always there for me. I know sometimes when I call, I will be on a "can I talk to dad" kick. And mom will say yes. I hope she doesn't take any offense. But she knows that then there are those times that I will be on the "can I talk to mom" kick.

I love you mom so much. I know I don't tell you enough. I know this past year has been hard for you. I know it made you so happy having all your kids together at Thanksgiving AND Christmas. That was probably the best Christmas present anyone could have given you. I know it wasn't under the best circumstances, but I know you were so proud to have all your kids together since it has been forever since that has happened.



You are so proud of all your grandkids. Each one holds a special place in your heart. You are so talented and I really am proud of that, I make sure to tell everyone at my work how talented you are! (the lady at my work is so grateful for you of sharing your cross-stitching secrets)



You and Dad are the best parents anyone could ever ask for! You guys show so much love and support. I know my friends tell me all the time that I am so spoiled by my parents, what is a girl supposed to do when her parents love her so much.. RIGHT? :)

Hope you have a great birthday. I love you!

Happy Birthday, DAD

Yes, it's time for another birthday! I am posting this now so it can be up for a full day for his birthday before we have ANOTHER birthday!


I just want to tell my Dad happy birthday. I love you dad. You are wonderful. You are a great support to me and the rest of the family. Growing up, you always did whatever needed to be done to make sure we got what we needed/wanted. You worked so hard and you still do. You work 2 jobs now and I never hear you complain. Dad, you always give us good advice and you are always there for us when we need you. You have been there for all of us, we have lost count how many times you have helped us move.


All the grandkids love to be with Grandpa or PAPA (as Max calls you).


You are a kid at heart when you are with them. You teach them all to fish. You take time to read them a story or play with them in the swimming pool. The 6 grandkids love their grandpa, and the 7 kids you have love their dad.



Dad, you always give us good advice and you are always there for us when we need you. You have been there for all of us, we have lost count how many times you have helped us move. You are a great dad and I love you so much! I'm so glad you're my dad. I feel I'm the luckiest girl to have you as my dad.

Happy Birthday Dad
I love you so much
Love,
Nicky ....Peanut

Happy Birthday, Lex

I can't believe she is 10! She is such a big help to all of us. She is growing up to be a beautiful young lady. I am so glad I have had the chance to spend a lot of time with her since they live so close. I even got a phone call from her a few weeks ago, she needed my help to open a can of peaches because she couldn't get the electric can opener to work. I'm so glad she knew she can always call me when she needs something. I will always be there for her no matter what. I hope you had a good birthday Lex. Enjoy your time at Disneyworld! I love you!

Happy Birthday, Josh

I meant to this earlier but I didn't wake up early enough and my work computer will only allow me to read blogs not post on my own (weird I know). Want to wish Josh my brother in law a happy birthday.

Happy Birthday, Chantel

Happy birthday Chantel! I hope you have a great day! I'm glad you're in the family and you make my brother so happy. Thanks for being there for me when I need someone to talk to, it really means a lot. You seem to "get it" since you're the youngest in your family :)

Hope you do something fun! Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Grandpa

Today is Grandpa Rue's birthday. He would have been 79. It is the "first" birthday since he has passed. Every year since I have been on my own I have called him to tell him Happy Birthday. I would wait for him to pick up that phone and hear him say "Oh my stars!" and then when I would tell him Happy Birthday, he would say "how did you know it was my birthday" even though it seems we all knew it was his birthday. It was always around Stake Conference and we always tried to have a family BBQ on the deck. I have thought of Grandpa all day today. Mom and Julie even said on grandpas blog that he would always remind everyone that it was around the first day of spring and growing up, that meant he could take off his undershirt. Well, it didn't feel like spring today. It has been snowing! I hope Grandpa has been enjoying his birthday today. I've been thinking of him all day! I love you grandpa! Always and forever!

Happy Birthday

Just wanted to make a quick post to tell my brother in law Dallas Happy Birthday. Hope you have a great day!

Happy Birthday M-A-X

What an eventful December I've had. I am posting this a day early because I want to make sure it is up for his birthday.

Barrett and his family were able to fly in for Grandpa's funeral last week and they flew back to Kansas City today. When me and Dad picked them up from the airport, Max told us how he had his birthday at Miss Kaffee's. Chantel said that Max has said he's already had his birthday.

I was on the ball and sent his birthday present early so they got it before they came out here to Utah. When I asked him what his favorite animal was, he said "hippopotamus" in his cute little voice with the lisp. I said, "well out of a dog and a bear, what is it" he said a BLUE DOG. Well Build-A-Bear didn't have a BLUE DOG, so he got a dog that I conveniently name Blue.

On Christmas Day, we met at Nancy's and had a little family Christmas party and a little birthday party for Max. I had asked Max what he wanted on a birthday cake and he said he wanted a "DINO CAKE" so I went to Smith's and ordered a cake. It turned out so cute! Except it had these little brown spots on the cake, I'm not sure if they were supposed to be rocks.. But once Max saw them, he started singing "every dinosaur poops" and that is exactly what I thought!

Max looked so handsome at Grandpa's funeral, flash back to when Barrett was little. In his cute little suit. I just love him! He is so cute with his big blue eyes.. Just another little Labrum who got Grandpa's eyes! :)

I hope he has had MANY fun birthdays this year. Not many people get to have about 15 parties! :) I love you Max!

It's MY birthday

Well, it's finally MY birthday. I had a good day today for my birthday, thanks to my family.

I thought I was going to be sick because I came down with laryngitis but thank goodness I got over that just in time. My voice came back Sunday! But I took Friday off of work for a long weekend to recover.

I was hoping that I would have a nice birthday weekend and be able to celebrate it with my friends but it didn't turn out the way it was planned. Like I said, Friday I took off work to get extra rest because of the laryngitis. I wouldn't have been any help at work since I do customer service and talk on the phone for my job. I couldn't even get a squeak out and I deal with Medicare patients so that was pretty useless. I woke up Friday to pounding and scratching on the walls and floors from the neighbor, they were putting carpet so that lasted all day. I had a hard time sleeping because of the coughing but I was able to get in to the dr to get cough medicine and just to make sure it WAS just laryngitis since you never know with all the different sicknesses going around now.

Saturday I got up and cleaned the house because I was supposed to have a bunch of friends over that night for a party. I got cute homemade cards from 2 little kids in Missouri who I miss SOO much! My friends Abdul and Ahmed were also going to take me out to dinner that night for my birthday so I had to have the house cleaned before I left. I went and treated myself to a new outfit for my birthday and a new digital camera since my broke. Ahmed fell asleep so Abdul took me to dinner at a Sushi restaurant (YUM!) just down the road from our house (he lives really close to me). I got home right about the time people were supposed to be showing up for the party. It wasn't long that I soon realized that nobody was coming. I then sat there alone and cried. I felt pretty sad for myself (I know, I shouldn't have but I did).


Sunday I got the cutest call from Morgan and Max. I couldn't help but cry when they got on the phone and started singing happy birthday to me. They are getting so big. Then I had to laugh when Morgan told me "Nicky, you are getting OLD!" and when Max got on and he was so excited for me to have a birthday and REALLY wanted me to have an ELMO cake and for me to be with Kayden for my birthday. Those kids are growing up so much, they talk so well. Makes me miss them so much, I wish they lived closer so I could spend more time with them.

Today we had a potato bar at my work for my birthday. It was SOO good! Yes family, I ate a potato! Around 2, I got a nice delivery from the receptionist. Mom and Dad sent me flowers. It was 2 yellow roses! BEAUTIFUL! I was able to leave work early to spend the rest of the afternoon with Tammy and Nancy and the kids. We went to Nancy's and carved pumpkins and did crafts. I just wanted to tell my family that I love them so much. Thanks for letting me cry to you when my weekend didn't go as planned. I know that it hurt you guys as much as it hurt me because I could hear it in your voice when you said you were sorry. I could see it in Tammy's eyes when I told her because she had nothing to say but sat there saying "i'm sorry" Nancy said that you guys wanted to show me how much you guys love me and that YOU guys care. You guys DID show me! I know no matter what my family will always be there. I also want to tell my friend Abdul thank you. Out of all my friends, he was the only one that did follow through with his words. He even came up Sunday to check on me to make sure I was ok. He even brought me a gift (new sunglasses, a necklace that says BFF and a card.. that's big for a guy)

I just want to end saying that for 14 years my birthday always hasn't been the greatest. Grandma Labrum died 14 years ago and that is always the first thing I think about when I wake up on my birthday. It really makes me miss her more and more.

Thanks again for all the birthday wishes!

He is 5!

Kayden is turning 5! I remember getting the call from Tammy saying she drove herself to the hospital and she was in labor. I just sit back and think that it has only been 5 years but then also I think wow, it has been 5 years. So many things have gone on in the 5 years of this little boys life. When he was 2 weeks old they diagnosed him with Hypoplastic kidneys (small kidneys). His kidneys stopped growing in ureto. He was in renal failure. I remember staying 1 night at PCMC with this little tiny 2 week old so my sister could spend some time with her husband and their 4 year old daughter (the nurses were a little upset because they wanted to hold the baby all night). Kayden was able to undergo a kidney transplant 1 month after his 2nd birthday. We will always be grateful for that donor!

I love having Kayden close by now. Everytime I talk to him on the phone is always asking me if he can come to my house. Last week he asked if I would come "hangout with him" at him house. He is so happy to be 5! (unless you tell him he is a big boy now and he can do things by himself because he is 5. Then he'll tell you "I'm ONLY 4!")

A few things I have learned about Kayden:
1)He LOVES green, if there is anything green, he HAS to have it
2)Loves his "pink milk"
3)Lately he is obsessed with "army guys"
4)Loves to be with his grandpa
5)He is so tender-hearted
6)You know if you have Kayden around, you will have Koy following him. And you KNOW that means T-R-O-U-B-L-E!!!


Happy Birthday "little man"