Birthday Boy

We had a birthday boy in our house last week!!!

I had so many plans for spoiling him rotten but just about every one of them fell through and at the end of the day I think we had mostly just tortured him rotten.

It was amusing how things kept falling through.

But snow (which there was plenty of) or shine, we had fun celebrating this amazing person we are blessed to look at every day.

And there is so much to celebrate. 

We really would sink without you...at least I would.

It has been so much fun (most of the time) watching you fill the shoes of a medical student.

Hearing you express simple gratitude for just being able to be a doctor and watching you become this well of strange medical terms and diseases.

I am so thankful for the pages of this marriage that I get to turn over ever day. With more to learn about you and discover with you. We are so glad to have you and I love you.

Happy Birthday

Frederick's Birthday

 The Leap Year Frederick's Birthday/Pirates of Penzance party.

Dress up like someone from the movie.

jack and I were pirates and Mikey was the Major General.

obviously?

March 5, 2012

 I couldn't decide which one of these I liked more so I decided both would get added.

The other one is at the bottom.

This picture says lots and lots to me.

It was an image that I took and immediately saw so much of my marriage and the way I see my Mikey.

I love it when my images show that much to me. 

well, a little outing to st. george was in store because this last week was spring break for mike.

I was so spoiled to have him home!

i took a lot of pictures while we were there because it was rainy and cold quite a bit.

 we went to this amazing natural hot springs outside of filmore.

It was SO warm which was perfect until we realized we forgot towels and it was SO not warm outside.

 jack fell while I was getting BANGS on our way there and smashed up his little face.

(note the blue lips. these were taken post no towel hot spring incident)

 molly. the dinosaur that hangs from the mirror in the car and reminds me to be brave.

jack asleep, stuffed animals lined up next to him and books close by. love this view.

 jack: rocking the sun glasses and picking up rocks like a pro.

 love.

where's waldo

 sweet baby bottom

hiding from the diaper after bath time.

we'll always have Hunter Douglas

So we had, what I at first, lovingly labeled the date from H***.

Expectation: Drive out to remote location, lay on top of car and look at stars bundled in blankets and drinking hot cocoa.

Reality: Lay on top of car in Hunter Douglas Parking lot in West valley to look at clouds.

We headed out and realized it was cloudy. Somehow neither of us remembered that clouds were a key detail of star gazing. Decided we didn't care, lowered our expectations significantly and kept on going. Got lost and ended up in Tooele...??? Could find NO WHERE to stop in Tooele....??? We started to worry because our gas gauge is broken and only has two settings: full and empty. We turned around to go get gas and realized we had no money with us...??? Crossed our fingers and started home. We pulled off at Saltaire but the roads were closed and Saltaire is CREEPY at night so that was a bust. After several stops on several different exits that had zero options for star gazing except in people's driveways, we had reached the city again. So, once again, we lowered expectations significantly and found this Hunter Douglas parking lot. We hopped out and snuggled up, laughed our heads off harder than we had in a long time, and left because it started to rain.

 

 

check.

 magnet board and magnetic US map for jack's room.

 3 different church bags to be rotated around. 

I made picture books with pictures from Ensigns, scripture color pages that he colors on with dry erase crayons, lacing cards that I made out of cereal boxes and ensign pictures, popsicle stick puzzles and a bunch of other things.

 I finally got my BLOG BOOK!!!

Valentine's

There is so much sadness in our lives and we go through so much that is tough

so I say to the world today

CELEBRATE Valentine's day and the chance to enjoy something that is good: LOVE.

Choose to show those around you that you love them to pieces. 

We work hard on our marriages, our relationships with kids, friends, parents, siblings, etc. 

So just take a day to enjoy your success and blessings!!

I am enjoying my two Valentine's

(although I am going to ditch the shorter one tonight so I can sneak Chinese food into a movie with the taller one)

LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!