HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Our real anniversary was on Sunday. We'd had such a long night and day before that we slept in. It was Stake Conference though, so we had to hurry and get everyone ready real quickly once we finally did get up. Unfortunately, Nate had had a meeting that morning as well. Stake Conference was great! I loved the talks. I especially liked the reminder about how important the temple is. I need to go more. I looked down our row of hard chairs, caught a glimpse of Nate and was overcome with gratitude for him and for all that he has brought into my life. I'm so grateful for the family we've created together and for the love that I've felt from him and learned from our kids. It's so exciting to think about our future together and all that we still have ahead. I mean compared to the big scheme of things, 15 years is really nothing! Feels like it's been a long time, and short time at the same time, but it's really nothing compared to eternity especially. But for now, I am so pleased with how the years have gone and for all that we've experienced. I can't wait to see what's ahead. 5-15-16
NO CARNIVAL
The kids are totally bummed- the school cancelled the carnival Monday night and rescheduled it for Friday. When the boys have Fathers and Sons and the girls have Kelly's Lacrosse dinner thing. Lame. 5-16-16
AWKWARD
We had the strangest Beehive Presidency meeting. So many awkward silences and so many strange random comments. We have a little bit of work to do in this area... 5-17-16
NEW PIANO
Nate got me a piano for our anniversary!! I found a great deal on KSL, went and looked at it, it seemed perfect :), then Nate, Travis and Gary went and picked it up for me the next day and now I have a piano with a WORKING pedal!!! I couldn't be happier really. It's so crazy what a difference it makes to have a pedal. I almost never played the other one because of that. This piano is in awesome condition and works great! I am actually glad that the sound isn't as "grand" as our old piano- that one was so loud and echo-y in our open layout :). It was therapeutic to play it for hours that first day! LOVE IT!! Nate loves me :). Hopefully he knows how much I love him :). 5-17-16
TWO POOPS
So, this is just kind of funny- Kelly, stop reading now- and probably shouldn't be talked about in public, but now that my blog is "private" I can say it on here right? :). So whenever Jack goes #2 he still needs someone to help him wipe (or more like he chooses to make one of us wipe him- I think it's a power thing, but anyway). So he goes, then sits there hollering down through the house, "MOOOOOOOOM!!!!! WIPE MY BUUUUUUUUUUMB!!!" or "DAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!! COME WIPE MY BUUUUUUUUMB!!!" So one of us eventually gets up there :). Whenever I go up there as I come around the stairs to the doorway he always has this look on his face like, "you gotta see this!" And he's usually looking back down into the toilet. We have this thing where he tells me how many poops he just made :). Sorry, I know this is gross, but it's so adorable, I don't want to forget it. So here's some of the things he's said recently, "Two poops, Mom! I did two poops!" or "Not two, just one. One poop." or "THREE uhv dem!!" And this one time when he had "only one" poop I looked down into the toilet to complete our routine and there was this gigantic, long poop in the toilet!! I had to congratulate him on his poop! I told him to tell Dad he made a foot long poop! He was SO proud of himself :). It was adorable! He cracks me up! He likes to hear my reaction. 5-17-16
CHIN RUBBING
Cute little Molly is still super sensitive under her chin :). All you have to do is run your finger under her chin and she goes into a trance :). It's so sweet! She calms right down, starts breathing heavily, her eyes seem heavier... it's too cute. And the other day I rubbed her nose with her fluffy blanket (which she LOVES- don't know if I've mentioned that- all she has to do is feel it and she gets sleepy and goes into fall asleep mode :) ) and she just konked out! Like instantly!! Mad me laugh! She is SUCH a good baby! Have I mentioned that before? So sweet! 5-17-16
PHOTOGRAPHY PAGE
So thanks to Jami's motivation, I decided to start a photography page. I know i"m still amateur and I know I need more practice, but I do so love to take pictures! I feel like even looking back and all the links I posted on this newpage, that I have improved a lot over the years. So anyway. Check that out if you are interested. I really have no idea who all is still reading this, but either way :). 5-17-16
WACKY WEDNESDAY
We had another wacky Wednesday. Well, pretty much every Wednesday is, but I just hate it! This week I raced off to a Rendezvous meeting, then home to get kids to go to Farmington Jr for Kelly's last lacrosse game, then left that early for Luke and Noah's pack meeting, then left that early to get people home so that the girls and I could go to Young Women's! Sheesh!! But it all happened and it all went well. The meeting felt somewhat pointless, I don't like those meetings. Kelly lost :(. Noah and Luke both got awards and Luke got to do the flag. And the S'mores night with the youth was a lot of fun. I am still shocked at how many marshmallows and graham crackers they went through! 5-18-16
NEW BIKE
While Nate and I were pulling weeds on Thursday, my bike arrived! I was surprised to see that it was all in pieces and wondered if Nate would be able to put it together (I didn't even know there were no instructions), but I had to leave for Centers in Erika's class, so I just ditched him with the two littles and my box of bike and when I got home it was all put together!! Well, mostly, just a few things left, but I was SO IMPRESSED!!! He is so awesome! And way more handy than I give him credit :). So we went on our bike ride we'd been planning all day! Nate, Erika and I on our bikes, Jack and Molly in the trailer. Nate pulled the trailer and we went on our old bike ride, slurpees at 7-11 and pizza at Gailey Park :). So much fun! It was fun to show the new playground to Nate and really fun to be on a bike again! It's been at least a year. And my hips have been miraculously healed from the bike riding (I've decided). I couldn't hardly lift my leg up over my bike to get on it when I started and after only a few times of trying, I was able to do it! It still hurts a little with that direct side movement, but everything else is pretty much pain-free! I am so happy!! I had a feeling that that movement might help a little but I had no idea how much of a difference it would make!! I went a few days without riding and could feel it, so I just need to keep riding everyday. Which happens to be a really great thing to me :). And Erika :). 5-19-16
AWARDS NIGHT
Kelly's boy/girl scrimmage got cancelled because of rain so we headed over to the Farmington community center for dinner and awards. It was so much fun! I am so impressed with how great our coach and parents are! It's like a big family. I loved hearing all that coach had to say. I loved that Kelly got the "MVP Defense Rookie" award. Not only that, but the coach had a LOT of nice things to say about her and her willingness to play hard and how she would get off the field and then two seconds later be ready to go back in. It was fun to hear. I have LOVED Lacrosse for her. It's been so great. The dinner was fun, it was fun to watch all the girls interact. At the end the girls presented each teammate with a fun award. These were fun to hear about. Kelly got the "Small but Fiesty Award- the ability to be tiny and still aggressive". Well said :). She loved it. It was a good evening. 5-20-16
CARNIVAL
We finally got to have the carnival. The kids were SO relieved that they didn't cancel it again even though there were lots of threatening gray clouds and they actually even had a few down pours. We all went to the carnival Friday evening, but Kelly, Charity, Molly and I only got to be there for a couple minutes before having to head out for Kelly's scrimmage and dinner. The boys and Erika all bought their own wristbands and had unlimited access to everything. I bet they had a blast! I did hear a bout a few of the games and all the "awesome" prizes have been all over my house ever since :). I wish I could have been in both places at once. 5-20-16
STAKE 5K
We got up early Saturday morning to go run in the Stake 5K and not knowing if they were going to cater to the hard core runners or the families with little kids and cancel because of the rain, we went anyway. Unfortunately they cancelled it! It was sad to hear Luke and Bradley in the back seat totally disappointed that they weren't having it. There have been a lot of cancel-ings lately. Darn rain. 5-21-16
PROBABLY THE LAST TIME
We had Bro. McColley over to home teach for probably the last time :(. He's been such a fun home teacher and so faithful. He got ordained a High Priest so we're not sure how much longer he'll be ours. He brought his recently returned missionary son with him and it was a nice time. I am so grateful for the home teaching program. We got lucky with Bro. McColley. 5-21-16
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