Happy 7th Anniversary!

Happy 7 years for Brian and me today. 8 years ago we met on a blind date and went 4 wheeling. It was a great date and we were together ever since. Since 6/29/2002 landed on a Saturday, we figured it was right to get married exactly 1 year after we had our first date. The day was hot and pretty. We were married up at Sherwood Hills under a gazebo in the bright sun. The day was perfect. It was so nice to have all our friends and family their with us.

During our wonderful 7 years of marriage we bought a house, produced 2 beautiful children, were sealed for all eternity in the Logan Temple, and got a new dog. We have had 7 great years with many more to come.

Pictures from Temple Open House

Our latest creation

Here is what we were up to:

Brian built the kids a sandbox. It is a nice size for the kids to play in. I helped load some sand but not a lot. I was away to a meeting when he did all this so I came home in time to do a couple loads. The kids were loving it.

Aren't they sweet? They were sure cheesing it up so I had to snap a closeup.

They don't care if they get dirty... can you tell!

My silly kids. They were making silly faces.

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all the great dads of the world. I wanted to wish my wonderful husband a happy father's day. Brian is an amazing dad. He is a hands on dad and loves to help in every way. One of my favorite things that he helps with is the kids bath time. He takes the kids in and gets their baths done while I get my own time. It is a great help. Plus the kids love to splash daddy. But no seriously, I am so lucky to have Brian and the kids have him as a daddy. He is a great dad and a kid at heart. You can truely see that both kids love their dad. I love him too!

I also want to wish my dad a happy father's day. We couldn't be together on the big day but we did visit with him the day before and had a lot of fun. Dad, you are a great father and a fun Grampie. I know growing up we had our moments but I sure do enjoy and appreciate everything you have done being my dad. My children love Grampie and I am glad you are around to enjoy them.

Not to be left out, happy father's day to my father-in-law. Verl, you are a great dad. You have raise a wonderful group of children and now are spoiling the many grandchildren. Just think, at the end of the year you get to call yourself Great Grandpa. haha. No really you are a great father-in-law. Thank you for all your spiritual guidance and support. Just don't stress too hard Bishop... :-)

Happy Father's Day to all the men in my life that are dads. It is fun to see all my cousins become dads. How we have grown.

Blessings to all until next post.

The start of summer

Well it is the middle of June and it doesn't even feel like summer. We have had 12 days out of 13 that were rain. And we aren't talking a little drizzle. We are talking downpour rain. I think we haven't had to turn our sprinklers on at all this month. Granted we like free water for our lawn and garden but we haven't got to play outside and enjoy the warm summer months. So needless to say, we are ready for summer. We had a day without rain yesterday and boy we were outside most of the day just enjoying the sun.

In the meantime, we have got to do a couple fun things. With our older kids (no babies right now), we are able to go play in the mountains and 4 wheel and just enjoy. So that is what we did one day. We have tried since but the weather hasn't cooperated. I am just not into cleaning mud off two kids. Here are some pictures:

Isn't my hubby so handsome!

Matthew had fun being a monkey and climbing the ramps.

My hubby's favorite activity.

These sweeties are just too cute.

Kimberly and her battery powered 4 wheeler. She is such a daredevil on it. Funny because when she got it on her 3rd birthday, she hated it. It scared her. She would not ride it for 1 year. Finally on her 4th birthday, she dared to ride and found she loved it. Now that she is 5, she isn't scared of it at all.

I just loved this picture. Matthew smiling and Kimmy zooming around on her 4 wheeler. Matthew did get on it with his sissy and had fun.

This picture makes me laugh. I was trying to get a cute new picture of Duke and here I caught him licking his lips. But the picture caught him with what looks like his tongue in his nose.

Brian was starting a little fire for us to cook some hotdogs. This picture looks like Matthew is telling daddy how to do it.

This picture is so sweet. Shows you how much Matthew loves his daddy. He was so tired.

Kimmy and I were off for a ride. Just a little one up and down the road. The only problem we had was Duke followed us wherever we went.

I love this picture. Now before anyone start spouting off about not wearing helmets, we do wear our helmets when we ride. This was just a little ride around where we were parked. We are very big on wearing our helmets, especially the kids.

Hopefully we will get more days like this one. We are trying to plan one with the Peterson clan before some of them head off to California. All I know is we need more sun and warm weather. The kids are ready for some fun in the sun.

Blessings to all until next post. :-)

Matthew's 2nd Birthday

On May 30th, we celebrated Matthew's 2nd birthday. I can't believe two years has already past. Where does the time go? Matthew was born on May 30, 2007 at 9:09 a.m. He was a hard baby to carry. I carried him all in front and that was rough on my body. I was having contractions pretty much the entire month of May and my dr told me to stay close the home the entire month. He was sure I was going to come early with him. But nope... Matthew stayed in my tummy until the day we decided he should be born. He wasn't due until June 6th but I really wanted him to come in May. Since I was having to schedule a c-section, I asked my dr about May 31st. He said that wouldn't work for him but May 30th would. Fine by me. I wanted him in May because we have a lot of June birthdays in the family. So we went into the hospital around 7:30 and had Matthew at 9:09. The nurses and drs said he was so huge and he was. He weighed in at 8 lbs 14 oz. He was such a little chunk. So cute though. He gave us some struggles at first with choking and jaundice but he has turned out to be a healthy boy. So proud to have a little Brian running around the house.

This is Matthew's official number 2 birthday picture.

This was his way of showing 2 fingers. Not as easy as one finger.

Matthew wasn't sure of us singing to him. So he was making really weird faces to us.

Matthew loves blowing out fire (candles on the table, etc) so we gave him more than just his number 2 candle to blow out. He had a ball (see below):

We had a fun day celebrating his birthday. Grammie and Grampie made it home for it and the kids loved having them visit. Grandma and Grandpa came to visit and they are sweet as ever. Our sweet neighbors Clare and Marian came over with a present and Aunt Barbara and family dropped off a gift. Matthew got spoiled as did Kimberly. For some reason people seem to think that if one gets a present, the other needs one too.

Oh the joys of our little ones. They truely do put smiles on our faces.

Blessings to all until next post.