Newlyweds: The DeWitte's: November 2011

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Tribute to Jason Jeter

This is going to be a hard post to even write, but I feel it is something that needs to be recorded.

On Monday, November 7th I got a phone call from my sister that left me completely numb for the rest of the week.

At the young age of 34 years old, Jason Jeter, my sister's ex husband of 14 years of dating and marriage passed away.

[Just writing those words makes me cry...I knew this post wouldn't be easy]

Jason was and forever will be a part of my family. I was only 7 years old when Ashlie and Jason started dating in 9th grade. They continued to date throughout high school, college, and were married in 1999. While their marriage may have ended too short, their life together was such a wonderful thing to be a part of.

If you grew up with these two you always heard about "Ashlie and Jason" and knew they had something special. Their picture can be found at the back of their junior high yearbook, walking down the hall, holding hands. In their high school yearbook, you will find they were always voted "cutest couple" and "couple to make it last" and of course were named Homecoming and Prom king and queen.

I grew up with Jason. I was so young when he first came around that I can say, I have known him all my life. He was the only guy my sister dated, he is all I know. Their relationship was one I envied and looked up to all my life.

He was always smiling and always making people laugh. His personality was infectious and you just wanted to be around him.

I can't even find the words to explain Jason's life and what he has meant to me. He was a blessing to have as a part of our family and most of all, he made my sister happy.

We loved Jason so much and he will be missed greatly.

It still doesn't seem real. This may be my first loss that really, truly just doesn't seem real. I'm still numb and in shock. Jason is gone.

I look forward to the day that I will get to see him again. When I do see him again, I know he will be smiling and laughing just like this picture, ready to tell a joke to make me smile. He was so good at that.

I will forever cherish the memories that I have of Jason and will forever be grateful to have had him as a long time friend and brother-in-law.

I ask for your prayers for my sister, Ashlie, the entire Jeter family, and all those who knew and loved Jason. We are hurting because of this loss but can find comfort in knowing he is in the presence of the Lord and knowing we will meet again someday.

"Jason, I love you and miss you."

Rest in Peace

Jason Allen Jeter

February 24, 1977-November 7, 2011

Jason was also a fabulous athelete. To read more about his golf legacy at Cameron Univeristy in Lawton, Oklahoma, click here.

Friday, November 4, 2011

OSU Football Weekend and Anniversary Plans

What a great week this has been! I'm not even really sure why it has been but my mood is just bursting with happiness!

This past weekend, Wes and I made a trip to Lawton to see my parents. This was OSU's Homecoming weekend and we are usually in Stillwater participating in the "walk around" and going to the game. This year we decided not to go to the game but still wanted to get together to watch the game.

We got into town early Friday afternoon and took some time to go visit my grandparents. I don't do this often enough when we are in town and I'm so glad we made the time to this trip. We discussed with them about having Thanksgiving all together at Wes's grandparents house in Yukon this year. It has been hard trying to figure out how to spend the holiday's now as a married couple. Of course both families want us there but that is pretty hard to do, especially with me now working full time. So Wes's grandma invited my family to her house for Thanksgiving this year. And maybe next year we will switch it up and have Thanksgiving in Lawton.

We are so fortunate and blessed to have families that enjoy being with one another. I know this isn't always the case with many families and I am thankful for it. I am looking forward to starting new traditions with our families. It's so hard to break tradition and do something new but change is good. And it will only bring about new traditions that we will all learn to enjoy.

So Thanksgiving will be all together in Yukon. Christmas is still yet to be figured out. I have no clue how my schedule will end up but am hopeful that it will allow me to have Christmas Day off. If not, no biggie. It will all work out. :)

Saturday was game day!!!! We get very excited about OSU football every year and this year has been even more exciting since OSU is doing so well.

My mom and I went to Affair of the Heart a few weeks ago and picked up some soup mixes. We knew the weather was supposed to get colder for the game weekend so we had already planned what our game day meal was going to be...chili!! Mmmm.....and it was SO good!!

We let it simmer all afternoon and had it for dinner after the game.

As our game day snack, Wes wanted to fix his jalapeno peppers stuffed with cream cheese, wrapped in bacon and cooked on the grill. Here is the grill master himself. :)

These are awesome as long as all the seeds are out. :) I'm not a huge fan of spicy foods but these were done just right and tasted delicious!

The dogs were decked out in their orange too!

Orange shirts on...check! Game on...check!

Lexi and I

My other half <3 Orange Power!!

After the game was over (and OSU won, of course!) Wes and I went to the mall to find me some new boots. I couldn't not snap a picture of Wes in the shoe store. Such a good husband :)

We had such a great, relaxing time in Lawton. We realized that we need to get out of Oklahoma City more often. It's always so refreshing to leave town and get away from the normal day to day routine. But of course, that refreshing feeling was short lived as the week started up and I had to work Tuesday thru Thursday.

I must say, 12 hour shifts are not easy but they do pay off when you get four days off. I will work three 12 hour shifts any day over working five straight days a week. So I have the entire weekend off which is so nice.

I can't believe it's already November. November is a very special month for us. Our 1 year anniversary is coming up in just 9 days! <3

Wow. Already ONE year?? Where does the time go??

We knew we needed to make plans to go somewhere to celebrate and to actually have the honeymoon we never got to have. It's so hard though because we don't want to spend a bunch of money (especially at this time of the year) but we know we NEED this trip. We owe it to ourselves and each other to take some time to spend together.

So we decided to save money by not going very far, somewhere within driving distance but far enough away that we feel like we are on somewhat of a vacation. I asked around at work if anyone knew of a good place to go and someone mentioned Beavers Bend in Broken Bow, OK. I hadn't heard of it but they said they had friends that go often and love it.

I looked it up online and immediately fell in the love with the cabins! We picked a the cabin we like the best and was the most affordable and booked it! We are going the 16-18th. I can't wait to just get away and spend time together. Here a few pictures from their website of the cabin we booked, Starlight Creek.