Honeymooners

When we got married almost 15 years ago We went on our honeymoon to Puerta Vallarta. We had heard that some acquaintances we knew from college had gotten married the day before us and were also in Puerta Vallarta on their honeymoon. To make a long story short we ended up meeting up with them and spending our honeymoons together. (we were staying at resorts that were right next to each other) We became fast friends and when we went back to school our husbands ended up going through the accounting program together at BYU. So we were forever bonded. We spent our early married college years with this couple. We would get together on the weekends and play cards or games (because that's what you do when you are poor, newly married and college students) Then after we graduated we went our different ways for careers and jobs. We haven't always been together for our anniversary's but, this year it just so happened that they were going to be in town the weekend before our 15 year anniversary. (Jen the wife came to do the Vineman Ironman, yes it was insane she biked over a 130 miles, swam 2 1/2 miles and ran a full marathon. She is amazing and kind of crazy.) It was so fun to spend time with this great couple. To laugh, reminisce and catch up on our lives, children and other stuff. You know someone is a true friend when even though it's been a few years since you've spent time with each other it didn't feel like that much time had passed. Too bad we live thousands of miles away from each other and only get to see each other every few years.

Here we are young little kids enjoying our Honeymoons together in Puerta Vallarta


Celebrating our 4th anniversary in the Bahamas (nice big hair on me)



Celebrating our 15 year anniversary in Northern California (look at her buffed arms, that's what your arms look like when you train for a Ironman Triathlon. Tomorrow I start my mini training. I am inspired I want arms like that. Okay I am not really going to do an Ironman, but I can pretend)

Thanks for a fun weekend Darian and Jen!!! Great job on the Ironman, Jen you are amazing!!!! We love you guys!

Week in Review

So we started school this past week. It's the good news and the bad news.

Good News:
the house stays a little cleaner during the day. A quiet house. I get to just hang out with my sweet baby. Get back to a schedule and routine. Start working on projects like loosing this baby fat.

Bad News
going to the school a millions times a day, waiting in long lines at drop off and pick up at schools, My big kids keep getting bigger, (who is letting them grow up so quickly?) No more fun summer stuff, and it is still summer outside, jealous when we hear others going on trips that we want to go on, homework, sports and piano practices, scouts, art lessons. Basically running and shuttling children all over town.

My sixth grader and my third grader

Our little kindergartner. I was proud I didn't even cry when I dropped him off for the first day of school. It's the first time for me. Maybe it's because I know it won't be my last kindergartner...

This is what he does while his brothers are working hard at school all day....sleep,sleep and more sleep. Isn't he so sweet?

Bye bye swim team

Our last and final swim meet of the year. We kind of fizzled out the past few weeks. I think we hadn't been to a practice in 3-4 weeks. So he was a little out of shape,form and not much endurance. Oh well, he still gave a pretty good showing at the league finals. On to the next sports for the season............ soccer and tennis.

Big brothers

This is what happens when you have 3 older brothers and they just got new darts and dart guns.

I came downstairs to see my baby ready for combat with his brothers. The boys thought they were pretty funny!.

Lake Tahoe with cousins

A little swimming

A lot of digging
One Mormor (grandma) with a broken wrist
Lots of cousins in a jacuzzi

Some serious cute Lacrosse players

A future fisherman

More digging............

Some serious Kayakers

A little river rafting down the Truckee River

Catching waves Tahoe style

Two sisters

A 2 year old Diva with a lot of spunk and too cute for words.

Good Bye Lake Tahoe!!!

Thanks Family for a wonderful and fun vacation!

A really bad dream?

I need your help!!!

Have you ever had something happen and you wish you could close your eyes and it would go away or that it never happened in the first place??? Well I had such an experience lately. I am embarrassed, mortified and now just trying to figure out what I should do. So if you have advice for me I'd much appreciate it.


So the past few weeks I have had a few people tell me I should get a facebook account. Apparently there is a group of my fellow graduates from high school that set it up and made a THS reunion group. Making it a way to contact people and inform people of our upcoming reunion (whenever that is) and reconnect with old friends. So one bored summer afternoon while my children were in their dreamy fog of electronics playing, I decided to do a little electronics playing myself. I got on the computer and started to check it out, mind you that mid setting up my account my sweet- perfect baby woke up from his nap and so I got up to get him and return with baby in arms and continue the process. Well, I guess I must have pressed something that said "send an invitation to everyone in your yahoo address book" because apparently everyone in my address book got this invite. Yeah for me!!!

This should be a lesson for me to read things clearly before clicking, which is a problem I seem to have. (thus the internet shopping)

I don't like reading directions to put things together. I find it boring to read the istructions, just ask Mark, he is very good at putting childrens toys etc together, not me.

Sometimes I click away on the computer without reading what it says. Now I have 200 plus people who are probably wondering what I am doing on facebook etc. It's been fun going through my yahoo address book to see all the people I sent this facebook invite too. I am excited to say that my Bishop, his counselors, Stake President, Stake Young Women's President, Stake camp directer, my relatives in Germany, all the young women in my ward, just to name a few. (I am sure those girls are thinking why did sister H. tell us not to play around on MYSPACE and now she is on Facebook?? What a big hypocrite she is!!)


There are people in my address book that I haven't spoken to in years. So the one upside was getting email reply from some of these people I haven't talked to in a while. So if you are reading this and you got the invite then you know you are in my address book.

Here is the question I need answered:

What do I do now????

1. Send everyone in my address book an email with "oops, sorry about the facebook invite I'm really not on facebook." And explain to them what happened!

or

2. Pretend it didn't happen like when the 70 year old lady in my ward who said thanks for the facebook invite, but I don't think I am interested in joining at this time.

or

3. Avoid people for a few weeks until it's all a bad dream and a forgotten memory.

The one silver lining is that I now have 52 friends, and I found and reconnected with my ex-step sister(is that what you call someone whose father was once married to your mother) that I haven't talked to in 20 years. So I guess it's not all bad. But I prefer blogging to facebook. I don't get it, I think blogging allows for more creativity and facebook is more for quick messages to people and perhaps posting pictures. Well I don't have time for both so I will choose blogging.
There you have it, please give me some advice. I am in desperate need of some.

Love/Hate

Love/ Hate relationships

Have you ever had a love/hate relationship with something or someone?

Its seems as though lately I have a love/hate relationship with many things in my life. Not sure what to do about it.


Love my baby/hate that the baby stage is flying by.

Love not being pregnant anymore/hate my post-pregnancy body

Love summer/hate that it is flying by

Love having my kids to myself during the summer-no schedules/hate how when they get bored and don't have a lot of things to do they bug each other.

Love having parties at my house/hate cleaning up after them

Love that my baby is sleeping through the night (well at least until 4am and then back asleep until 7am) Hate that it means he is getting older

Love hotel points and frequent flyer miles/but hate that it means someone travels. (and it isn't me.)

Love all the ice cream I can eat to help cool off in the heat/hate all the calories and what it is doing to post baby bod.

Love watching my boys play rock band together/hate that they can waste many hours playing electronics (mostly the little boys the biggest boy in picture doesn't usually have time to play, but on the weekend when he does have some free time he has just as much fun as they do, can you tell?) They even have rocker hairdo or just bed head.

What are some things you love/hate or hate to love?????

11 years ago

Eleven years ago exactly from the time I am typing this post, someone entered our lives.

It changed my life....for the better

11 years ago someone came into our lives, with a heart of gold and amazing amounts of love
11 years ago the sweetest, kindest, and smartest boy joined our family.
11 years ago life changed from the two of us to the three of us
11 years ago I pushed and pushed and thought this boy would never make it out to take his first breath.
11 years ago the oldest brother of this family decided to be our first.
11 years ago this incredible person entered the world ready to learn and to make this earth a better place.

11 years ago a honest, good natured, and talented boy was born.

11 years ago I became a mother which I am grateful for every day.
11 years ago this silly boy began his journey into this thing we call life.
11 years ago this boy became our first born and he is the oldest to 3 younger brothers. He is constantly a good example to them. They are so lucky to have a kind older brother.
11 years ago this boy became one of the many boys I love each day.

Happy Birthday Christian!!! You have brought so many wonderful traits into our family. Thanks for choosing to be a good kid, to treat others kindly, to work hard, to be smart, to love your family,