My sister, My hero

Day - 04 - A song that makes you sad

Baby Mine - Amy Gileadi

This song reminds me of my nephew Logan. I was fortunate enough to be able to see him in the hospital the week before he passed. He was so adorable. I have no way to express just how much he has changed my life and the life of my family. I have the world of respect for my sister Rachel. I'll never forget sitting in the hospital room having to watch my sister and her husband say their final goodbye's to their baby. Or watching Rachel with quiet dignity as they closed the casket. Or my sweet brothers as they carried his little casket across the cemetery. Rachel is truly my idol. I don't even want to know what life would be like without her. She has always kept up her spirits. I love being able to go over to her house and just sit and talk for hours, or play games with Clint while Rachel works. This is a couple I adore and when it comes time for me to have a family of my own I just pray we are 1/100th as cute as their family!! I can't really say much on this subject cause all I do is bawl my eyes out just thinking about him, so I thought I'd attach his obituary. I love you little Logan.

Our sweet, little miracle came to earth May 26, 2008 with his two brothers, Brayden James and Conner Clinton Emery. Your time here was very short before you left your little mortal body and returned to the loving arms of Heavenly Father June 16, 2008. In the three weeks you were here with us you brought many smiles to our lives. You taught us how to love more than we ever knew our hearts could love. You will always have a special place in our hearts. You will be greatly missed by your sweet parents, Cinton Ronald and Rachel Anne Emery, and your brothers, Brayden and Conner. The family would like to express a special thanks to the doctors and nurses at Primary Children's Medical Center and Intermountain Medical Center for their loving care.

"Sleep well, little Logan, our little hero, until we can hold you in our arms again."

Love and Rockets,

Rodney

There's good, and then there's igloo good...

Day 03 - A song that makes you happy

Go Getter Greg - Ludo

So this one was tough! I had to think of a song that makes me happy. I thought of pretty much every song I've ever sang at the top of my lungs with my friends, danced to in the back seat on a long road trip with my brother, or did a music video to in front of a small web cam at Whitney's. So after much deliberation and even more video watching on youtube I decided the song that makes me happiest is this. I mean, there's good, and then there's igloo good! Enjoy friends!

Love and Rockets,

Rodney

p.s. I had Canteen on here until a certain friend told me she hates me.

Sometimes, you want to miss things...

Day 02 - Your least favorite song

I Don't Want to Miss a Thing by Aerosmith

This is not a good song for me. Let me take you down memory lane for a bit...

It was the middle of February 2010. I was living in St. George (Mistake #2, I'll get to mistake #1 in a second). I was kinda dating this boy, let's call him Chad (Mistake #1 my friends). Chad was coming home from California for a week and decided he wanted to stop in St. George for a visit. So Friday night rolled around and I was sitting on my couch waiting for Chad to get there. He was 2 hours late. I kept getting texts from him all day about how he couldn't wait to get there, he had a surprise for me. Yeah, I was nervous out of my mind! I'd dumped him before but never in person (I'm a flake). He had told me early to plan on going to dinner cause we've never had a real date. So finally Chad gets there and we go for a walk. A walk to his truck that is. We get in and we're sitting there making small talk. About an hour of talking he decides he is hungry so we head to the local Walmart. We walk around for a while and he decides to get Lean Pockets for dinner. Yeah. I didn't eat that day. So we go back to my apartment and he makes his Lean Pockets and then we go back out to his truck to talk for a bit. He puts on some music. I start to ask him questions about what he expects out of this and I start letting him down. He gets all frustrated saying he didn't want this to happen until the next day. I say it's better it happened that night. At this point he's acting like he's all upset. He changes the song. This is where things get weird. He turns on this song. The song I remember my sister hating, the song she made me hate. He gets weird and finally says "well do you want to see it?".

Let me back up here. For Christmas he gave me a gorgeous blue diamond necklace. When I got it he said it came with a counter part....

So when he says those 7 words my stomach drops. I know exactly what "It" is. I say "well do I have a choice?" He says no and reaches behind the seat. He pulls out a plastic sack (this kid's got tact!). He digs in the bag and finally pulls out the ugliest rose I've ever seen. He says "you can have it on one condition... I keep the box." ..... "ok?". And he gives me the ring. All the while Steven Tyler is screaming the lyrics to possibly one of the creepiest songs (he has it on repeat). He goes over some bull crap of how he loves me and no matter where life takes us he'll always love me and yadda yadda yadda. He makes me put it on. It's disgusting. It's too big for my finger but he makes me keep it on while he's there. Finally I say goodnight and go inside. I find his phone in our kitchen. Big mistake Bud! He had texts to another girl about how he's single again and looking so hook him up with someone hot when he gets back. Yeah, they were a week old. In the morning I say my final good bye. I think I made it clear I didn't want to see him again, I hope his face still stings. And that's my almost engagement story.

So long Douche bag Chad.

Smile when you feel the sunlight.

Let's face it friends, I'm not a blogger! I don't know how, and I don't know what to put on here! I always see my friends blogs and think "Oh they're fun, they have a blog, they must have a life" and then I think "Oh I'm no fun, I have a blog that does nothing, I must not have a life". And I'm correct in my thinking! So as I was unable to sleep last night I was on Facebook and one of the coolest girls I've ever known is doing this 30 day song challenge and I want to be cool like that but I don't want to do it on Facebook cause the Facebook world needs to think I'm cool and only on there to do my stupid status updates. So long story short I'm going to do the 30 day song challenge on here! I figure it's a good way to get me on my blog and a good way to keep me entertained! So without further adieu, I give to you Day 1 of the 30 day song challenge.

Day 01- Your favorite song.

Mine is Snails by The Format

(go to that link and tell me you don't love this song!!)

I swear the first thing someone will ask me when they find out I'm a freak for music is "Who's your favorite band?" Well that's just stupid! With well over 8,000 songs, 573 artists, and 21.1 days of listening, that's a big question! So Asking me to pinpoint my favorite song should be more difficult right? Wrong. I have this song and no matter how many times I listen to it, it never gets old. I listen to it and I get that same giddy feeling I had when I first listened to it. I've dissected it, I've gone over every little word, the way he pronounces every line, the way the guitar will hold in all the right places building up the suspense for the next chorus. I KNOW this song. I know what it means to me and why it's my favorite. So go smile and feel the sunlight!!

Love and Rockets,

Rodney