The Most Amazing, Jubilent, Beautiful, Wonder Woman In The World

This is from my sister in law, Kelly Curiel....

Our family has suffered an immense loss. My beautiful mom has passed away on December 28th, 4:05 a.m.

My mom, Pamela, collapsed from cardiac arrest Christmas night. Raul and I performed CPR on her until the paramedics came and they attemped to revive her as well. After 20 minutes without a heartbeat they rushed her to the hospital where they finally brought back her pulse however she was dependent on a breathing machine.

It took 24 hours to find that she had also suffered a stroke and there was very little brain activity. After 3 days, in which Aubrey, I, Raul and my dad never left the hospital, my mom's brain activity completed ceased. We waited for my moms brother to fly in from Florida to say his goodbyes and released her from the machines.

My mom was my best friend. I spoke with her 4 times a day, everyday. Everyone who knew her loved her so much. She had dozens and dozens of friends from church come by to see her. They all loved her dearly. She was the most generous, gracious, and loving soul in existence. I know her family who has gone before her is thrilled to be with her now.

She will live on forever in our hearts and stories. The pain we feel from this loss is unable to be expressed. The magnitude of this traumatic event at such a festive holiday will never be forgotten. Our family has lost a piece of our hearts that can never be repaired until we meet with her again.

We love you mom. So so much. We cherish you.


Please contact Raul for the funeral arrangments on Wednesday morning, Dec 31st at 8:00a.m. in Mesa.

We are also asking for memorial contributions to be deposited into a specific bank account. We will have additional information soon so please ask Raul. We greatly appreciate your thoughtfulness at this time.

Your prayers will give us strength.


(We loved Pam so much, she took GREAT care of us everytime we went to her house. My kids automatically adopted her as their grandma and she her grandbabies. She was so generous and took care of Adams every need always making sure he had Coke to drink and food to eat, and he gladly accepted. :) Her smile made me laugh and her smile would just melt you. The love she had for everyone always showed. I couldn't but help loving her to pieces!! She was an amazing woman and will be missed dearly. WE LOVE YOU PAM!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I know I haven't sent our Christmas cards yet, there is a good reason why but you will get a New Years card from us. I hoPE you guys have a GREAT CHRISTMAS...LOVE ADAM, SHEENA, LOGAN AND JANAE

She Said "YES!!"

My sisters boyfriend proposed today....it was sooo cute!

Attack of the WHITE TRASH MOM

So if only you could have seen me today. Here is how my day started I got up at 5am with Adam to take him to work so I could drive to my mom's house and get my kids who stayed the night. So I grabbed my clothes and just went in the car in my pajamas. Well I realized once I started to get ready that I grabbed Logan's pants instead of mine. Luckily I lost weight and now fit into my sisters pants but also realized I forgot my bra. And we moms know how IMPORTANT it is to always have a bra and I had to run errands. So needless to say the kids and I went to Linens n Things and Mervyns and I was all natural (and you could SOOO tell there was supportage).

Then to top it off I didn't do Janaes hair but with a bobby pin and didn't even brush it and it was ratty oh yeah and I had greasy unbrushed hair too. When we were in Linens n Things Janae smelled really poopy like the whole store could probably smell it but I left the diapers in the car and was trying to hurry so I changed her in the car when we finished but she wasn't even poopy so who knows maybe it had to do with me being white trash. Then we went into Mervyns and I kept smelling it but just thought it was me and whatever but once I got home I checked again and she was poopy. Maybe she had gas....but wow I was pretty surprised with myself that I would actually do that. Poor Logan had to be in pubic with us :)

SHEENA'S FAVORITE THINGS 2008

1. Magellan 1412 GPS System - Amazing, you can find anything

2. Push broom - Cut down sweeping time for 35 minutes to 5 minutes

3. Skinny jeans so they can tuck in your boots and not look puffy - Goodbye kankles HELLO ankles

4. Uggs - Super cute and super comfortable
5. Snowboarding - New hobby, I am so good I could be a pro...lol

6. Cafe Rio's special ranch sauce...homemade - it makes anything amazing

7. Extensions - Do I need to say more HOT!!

8. Dodge Durango - Great way to travel

9. DVD player inside Durango - A MUST!! On a 13 hr car ride

10. Skillet - French toast done in minutes and all are hot

11. Roll outs in cupboards - How else do you find you stuff in the back?!


WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE THINGS THAT YOU DISCOVERED IN 2008

Janae wanted to wear my glasses, then Logan did and then I decided to make it a family affair, Adam wasn't overly thrilled :)

My friend and I saw a group of guys wearing white sunglasses and we decided there should be a rule that guys shouldn't wear white sunglasses cause its kind of gay, but they thought they were sooo cool

Ooo Pitty

So while I was trying to organize underneath my sink Janae thought it was a great time to put all of her headbands on my head and get into everything I was trying to clean...gotta love little helpers! Then it was Janae's turn

CHRISTMAS CARDS

So for the first time EVER I made Christmas cards and would love everyone to put their address in my comments because its way less work then calling a million people to get everyones address. Thanks!! The sooner I get your address the sooner you get your card :) OR YOU CAN EMAIL IT TO ME AT acuriel@platinumproductionsaz.com

It's beginning to look a lot like CHRISTMAS!!

So yeah we got our Christmas tree up, thanks SOOO much to Adam for helping me out, I really don't think I could have done it better myself. So this tree has taken me 4 years to get it the way I wanted it because every year I would ask if I could buy all the decorations for the tree and he would say no just get one thing and so every year I would and then get it on sale so I could get two things and now I am so happy with it!!!! And all of our lights are up outside so yeah!

Where Did November Go?!?!

So yeah I just realized yesterday was December 1st am I the only one kind of stressed out that Christmas is around the corner. I hadn't even thought about making X-Mas cards yet, I better get on top of that pronto! And we have to put up our tree, decorate the house, make my parents X-Mas gift, make lots of junk food, study for school, all within like 3 weeks. Can we please pause life but keep going, like how Zack from Saved by the Bell did...I WANT THAT!! I have a whole list of stuff I should be doing, atleast my intentions are good but expect our house to get decorated like the week before Christmas and my parents gift to be half way done, and probably no junk food made and not as much studying done as I would like and all of it done most likely 3 weeks after Christmas....that sounds about right

FREAKIN AMAZING!!

So we are finally home from Utah and even though it was such a great vacation I am glad to be able to sleep with just a sheet and not two pairs of socks and pants and two shirts on a sweater, plus 3 blankets. We did lots of fun things, thanks to our handy dandy GPS system adam got for an early christmas present....anyways I will post more about our trip later I am too excited about what I was going to post about I just got a bit sidetracked.

....SO....

I was inspired while up there to cook because every morning my aunt made us breakfast and had lunch stuff prepared and made dinner. And I don't think I have ever been THAT good of a wife. Well I pulled out my recipe book this morning before I went to the grocery store because for like the past, FOREVER, I have just been winging dinner and not putting like any major planning into anything. Well I decided on this for the week 1. Loaded Sandwhich - bacon, avacado, lettuce, tomato, cheese, mustard and mayo on toasted french bread (I got my friend Shannon hooked on them) 2. Crockpot Enchiladas - red sauce with hamburger meat 3. Spaghetti and meatballs with homemade breadsticks (never have tried it before so we will see how it turns out) 3. Cafe Rio burritos with their special ranch sauce (I am addicted to that place!) 4. Tiny Spicy Chicken - found in cookbook, it sounds good and is super easy 5. Chicken Divan - I have had it before and I think it was good also super easy recipe

Then I made a list of desserts because I never make cookies or anything for Christmas so this year I want to be like the rest of my friends and be able to make them fat like they make me by bringing over tons of junk food :)
1. No Bake Cookies 2. Holly Cookies (from my amazing baker of a friend, Shannon) 3. Butterscotch Red Hot Cookies (also from Shannon) 4. Dump Cake also known as Pineapple Upside Down Cake (adam loves it) 5. Banana Cream Pie 6. Pumpkin Waffles

So today my kitchen and I finally became aquainted and we whipped up a banana cream pie and the cafe rio burritos with their special ranch sauce. I was feeling pretty good almost like Betty Crocker, I think she had some stiff competition. Adam said to Logan, well we will see how it tastes. Then all of the sudden I heard "WOW THIS IS FREAKIN AMAZING!!! THIS IS SOOO GOOD BABE, I LOVE IT!!" He kept going on and on, I think I blushed. He has never said that to me before, then he was like where have you been hiding this woman all my life? So YEAH TO ME!!! I guess maybe I set myself up for failure doing the best thing first hopefully the rest of the week turns out as good. And he better enjoy it while he can cause we know this can't possibly last long.