Saturday, December 31, 2011

10 year anniversary

We celebrated our 10 year anniversary on Dec 22.  Being so close to Christmas we hardly ever do anything to celebrate.  Because it was our 10th I wanted to a big trip, but getting pregnant put that on hold.  We did go out though and went to dinner and a BYU Basketball game.  I did put a lot of though into Kevin's present and wanted to post it on here, so we can remember what I did.  I bought 20 balloons and numbered 10 of them 1-10.  Then I tied those balloons to their corresponding presents.  Each present represented a year we were married and the present reminded me of something for that year.  It was fun watching him find each present and then think about what the present could be and when he opened it if he had the same thoughts I did when I bought the present.



Year 1- A San Diego tie clip with our anniversary date engraved on it.  (We were married in the San Diego Temple
2.  A Harry Potter book on CD.  In our 2nd year of marriage we did a lot of traveling and we listened to these CDS
3.  A picture cube with a picture of Kevin with each kid on the sides.  We had our first baby.
4.  An air compressor.  To represent buying our first house.
5.  The children's book, Answered Prayers.  About the BYU football win over Utah with the famous, Beck to Harline pass to win.
6.  I framed his MBA Diploma.  This was the year he graduated from the EMBA program.
7.  A flash for his camera.  His big camera was a major purchase for us.
8.  A new drill set to represent us buying our second house.
9.  A toy man and a wheelchair.  He had 2 knee surgeries this year, and we pushed him around Disneyland in a wheelchair.
10.  A pewter Florida gators key chain.  Aluminum is the 10 year anniversary gift, so pewter is representative of that and the FLorida is for the wonderful family vacation we took this summer.


Kevin was very impressed with this present and mentioned several times how cool it was.  I had fun putting it together, but if I do it for our 20, I'm only doing years 11-20!


Sunday, December 11, 2011

O Christmas Tree

We have two Christmas trees this year.  This is the small one that is downstairs that we let the kids decorate.  I love decorating the tree also, but the kids always have it done before I even get a chance, So this year I put up my own tree upstairs.  The kids had a blast and they love to wear their santa hats while decorating.









Saturday, December 3, 2011

Oh Derek

My Derek loves to put things on his head. It is not uncommon for him to come out wearing 4 of Haley's headbands. And he will wear them for a long time. Many a time I've had to take them off his head so we can go into a store. He loves to wear hats, and in this picture his hat is a chicken nugget box.



My Derek loves

Friday, November 4, 2011

Halloween

Enjoying the loot after trick or treating at Daddy's work.



I have no idea how Haley carries Derek like this. He is half her weight.
We went to the Halloween Party at Adobe. They always do such a good job. While we were waiting they had ice cream, cotton candy, popcorn, a yo-yo champion, people making balloon animals, snakes and spiders. All before we got to walk through the halloween decorated offices with trick or treating.



notice our new Japenese Maple. Nice!



I couldn't get Haley to stand still for a picture, here she is trying her batgirl moves.


Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Painting pumpkins

I started the tradition a couple years ago of letting each of the kids paint a pumpkin. They love doing it. The hard part is getting them to stop before they paint the whole pumpkin black.




Yes I gave my 20 month old black paint and paintbrush.

Isaac wearing my old apron that I used to wear when helping Grandma.

Carving Pumpkins

Our yearly tradition of carving pumpkins. Jordan came over and carved with us. Logan carved his pumpkin by himself. Derek was asleep while we were carving so it was very peaceful.



















Kevin was very impressed with his pumpkin this year.

Friday, October 28, 2011

Our new swing set

We bought the kids a playground a while back and Kevin finally got to put it together. It took awhile thanks to me being sick, lots of help from the kids, a broken finger, and a snapped ligament. It is now done and the kids LOVE it. My question is what will they enjoy more the playset or helping daddy build it.







The victory yell!