New Car!

Well since car buying took longer than expected yesterday I didn't get to say Happy Veteran's Day to all the vets out there, most especially to my Veteran! :) 
These are some of my favorite pictures that make my husband the best Vet I know! I love him so much and am so proud of all that he had done for our country and for our family. We have endured alot together during his time in the Army and soon the time in the Army will come to an end but I will always be proud to call him my husband and will always be the proud wife of a Veteran!

Home from 1st deployment(Afghanistan) Nov. 2005 

Home from 2nd deployment( Iraq) Dec 2006

Daddy and Chloe meeting for the first time <3 (Chloe 3 months old)

Home from 3rd deployment(Iraq) Nov 2007

This is LOVE <3

Home from 4th deployment(Afghanistan) Jan 2010

So other than being so proud of my husband on veterans day, Chloe and I made him a yummy breakfast while he stayed in bed and played black ops :) Then we went car shopping! YAY! we ended up trading in our '02 Jeep Grand Cherokee for a brand new 2011 Ford Focus :) we got an amazing deal! Thank you USAA! and are so happy about the choice we made! We have doubled the mileage since getting it yesterday but thats because it only had 16 miles on it when we pulled out of the lot! AMAZING! lol 

Afterwards we went to Outback and got our free blooming onion...delicious! We thought of going to Applebees since veterans eat free but we went there a couple years ago and they were so packed and we both decided Outback was good for us! It turned out to be a really good day for the whole family

Byebye Jeep!!

HELLO NEW FOCUS! :) 

Today we started on our checklist for moving... in 5 months Sean will go on terminal leave and then ETS from the Army so we have been going back and forth on selling or renting our home. We still plan to talk with our realtor before making the decision but it looks like we will end up renting it out. We have a looooonnng list of things to do but the biggest project was cleaning and organizing the garage. It still needs some more to be done but for the most part is finished and looks amazing compared to what it looked like when we walked in there this morning. I hope to get some painting done this weekend...our master bath still needs paint so hopefully we can check that off our list and cleaning cleaning cleaning will be happening all tomorrow morning before we go to Robert's birthday party :) 

Chloe CANT WAIT for Robert's birthday party! She is soooo excited! She's been talking about it all week and I'm surprised I've been able to keep her from opening his present haha 

well thats all for now! Liam is in bed and Chloe is watching some tv before bed...then its time to spend with the hubb... catching up on our shows and playing black ops 

:) 

until next time..

Liz 

You and me baby we're stuck like glue...

I am sitting here watching the CMA's with Sean, so far awards have gone to some great artists and there has been some good performances :) I love Lady A and the Zac Brown Band, I could listen to them all the time...right now Taylor Swift is performing. I like her alot too (especially being from Berks County PA!lol) but am surprised at what she is preforming, I need to download her new album so I know these new songs. Chloe has been begging to get it because she got her CD last year and knows all the songs, then saw the new album at Target and the Taylor Swift Barbie doll so she wants it all for Christmas. I am also LOVING all of Carrie Underwood's outfits! I wanna have a reason to get all dressed up and pretty and go somewhere...still waiting for a ball to come up that we could go to but with Sean getting out in 5 months with our luck his battalion will have one right after he gets out. We ALWAYS miss them because he is always deployed during them. Anyway I really want to see all of these people in concert! I need to start searching stub hub and buying tickets haha..


Soo tomorrow is car shopping day! :) We are finally going to try to get rid of our jeep that is falling apart, well not really falling apart, we've just had to put so much money into it lately that we need something better that isn't going to keep having problems and has much better gas mileage. We are looking at the 2011 Chevy Cobalt, Ford Focus and Ford Fiesta. I think we are starting at the Ford Dealer first... I will update on this afterwards and hopefully have some new pics of a new car!! 


so some of my goals and new projects are coming along...I have come so far with my Yeakley Family calendar, I am hoping that it will be all done by the end of November. I am so glad that poppop and mommom were so excited about the idea when I told them back in early October! Now I am working on getting pictures of every family member now and then once its all together I can get them all printed. I got an email from mommom today and she is going to come visit with us after the holidays and I can't wait! I need to remind myself to call her tomorrow for more photos and everyone's addresses to include in the calendar with the family tree. 


With everything that has gone on the past 2 weeks I am trying really hard to keep myself busy, if I dont I'm going to go crazy... so I've been trying my hardest to get my Thirty One business going! I want to succeed and go far with it! I'm hoping to book more parties, do some events and possibly get new recruits! So far I am doing good and was happy to receive my first paycheck this week :) anyone that wants to check it out and have a holiday party should let me know! I love the stuff and its a lot of fun! :) www.mythirtyone.com/mrsfen


Well I think I will get back to the CMA's and spending time with the man I love <3 especially with our kiddos in bed, sound asleep for the past hour now and I got him away from his new call of duty game LOL 




Until later... :) 




Liz 

It's been awhile

Well its been a week since I wrote anything here... my poppop passed away soon after I wrote my previous post... my dad called and I started getting upset before he even said the words...Then I called my sister and brother and had to tell them the bad news.. Sean called and I told him... :( no words can even describe how upset, sad and angry I felt! We went to PA on Wednesday... I just wanted to get there soooo bad! It felt so good to see my dad and my sisters and my mommom, all I wanted to do was cry when I walked into mommom and poppop's house but I couldn't yet, I had to be strong. After seeing everyone we went to my dad's house and stayed up most of the night just talking, when Sean and I finally went to bed I just broke down.. I can't believe that he is actually gone now... I'm so thankful to have such a wonderful husband that has been so helpful and understanding and comforting during all of this. I love you sooo much Sean! <3


Thursday we went shopping for a few things that we needed, made 2 photo boards full of pictures of the family and poppop and then spent the evening at the funeral home for the viewing. There were sooooo many people that came! Poppop was loved by so many people!
It was really hard seeing him, he didn't look like him...but I will always have the memory of him in my mind... I picture him the way he looked when I was a kid and spent so much time with him.. 


Its hard to write about all that I feel right now because this is all too new that I don't know if I'm ready to talk about everything...
My sister and I wrote something to read at the service on Friday and it was the hardest speech I've ever had to give....
this is what we wrote and read at the church

A man in Ireland once said, “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” But ‎"Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, and no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.”

My Poppop had a full life filled with love, family, friends, and happiness.  He touched the lives of so many people he met. He touched my life in a very special way and I know that he will always be with me.

Not everyone is fortunate enough to have a strong bond or relationship with their parents and having only one present parent in my life caused me to lean on the loved ones closest to me…my Mommom and Poppop. Having this kind of love and bond was like having 2 fathers in my life. At a very young age I began spending a lot of time with Poppop. He would drive us all over Berks County just to find a new playground to explore and on the way there my brother and sisters and I would have so much fun in the back of his van. Even on rainy days we had fun inside, watching the Sci-Fi Channel and playing Memory. As we got older and were actively involved in school, he was always there behind us, routing us on. Whether it was at a Track meet, Basketball game, Musical, Chorus concert or just encouraging us to get A’s on our report cards with the offer of an extra dollar.

Poppop loved having kids around the house and spending his time with his grandchildren although he couldn’t always get our names straight. One of the boys would be doing something and he’d be yelling Ray, Darryl, Gary, Joel, Jon, Kyle, Jason, Matthew, until he finally got to the right name. Same thing with the girls but the list was even longer!

I’ll always remember Poppop around the holidays, he loved having the family surrounded around the tables for dinner, at Christmas he’d get the snowman and nativity set out along with Mr. and Mrs. Claus to set out on the porch and the train set he had to set up around the Christmas tree. Family was everything to him, he was a warm-hearted spirited man, who was the back bone to the family.

Poppop has always been a man of faith. He always encouraged us to keep our faith and to keep the Lord on our side. Poppop knew when it was his time to come. Before I left for college I sat next to him one day and he said to me he wasn’t scared anymore, he knew God would protect him. He told me that while he was in the hospital one night he was scared to go and to leave his loved ones behind but one night angels came to him in his sleep and told him his time was soon and that he wasn’t supposed to be scared anymore, he was going to be at peace soon where he could rejoice with the Lord.

If he were here with me today he would tell me not to be upset but to be thankful for having the opportunity to share wonderful memories that will last a lifetime with him. I will always be able to look back and know that up until now each time something significant occurred in my life, my Poppop was there to be a part of it. I was able to grow as a better person with him in my life. I grew with him there by my side. I know he will always watch over me and continue to help me grow to be stronger and wiser person.

I love you Poppop! <3

My sisters wanted to get tattoes on Saturday for Poppop and I wanted to, too, but I couldn't go through with it... I was nervous I felt like I was going to be sick. 

Being without Poppop is all too new that I was too emotional and couldn't do it, but I stayed there and watched my sisters. 

I'm so lucky to have my sisters and my brother! We all have always leaned on each other and this is one time when we really needed to lean on each other and it was great to have the 4 of us together. 

I love you guys sooo much! 

I can't wait to move closer to home! Sean gets out in 5 months and I can't wait til the day we are closer to all the people we love




RIP Poppop....9/20/1935-11/1/2010