7 Years

Ok, so I think I mentioned Marc and I celebrated our 7th anniversary.

Well Marc, Cortnee and I celebrated our 7th anniversary.

Ashlee went to a region dance with her friends. We went to McGraths.

It is amazing to think that 7 years have passed already...... even though some days it seems soooooo much longer.

I wish I had electronic pictures of the girls on our wedding day. They were so little and they had so much fun dressing up and having their hair all curled. Hmmmmm......... how would it be to have them want their hair curled now?

They look back fondly to playing with all of the kids, but I know Davids name comes up. I believe there was a little cat torture. And who could forget the rattle snake? And thowing the superball over the edge of the lawn down to the parking lot.

Anyway, 7 years and I am grateful each and every day for the opportunity that I was given to be a mom to Ashlee and Cortnee. (Even though they have a mom) . I don't have any other children and I know they love me and I love them just like they are my own. Ewwwweeee I bet I'm going to get some gagging from them when they read this blog. Marc has been just wonderful at allowing me to be a part of all of their lives. Once again, love ya, honey.

So these are the wonderful pictures that I had to take on our anniversary.

Shilo

Just in case I haven't mentioned this spoiled dog makes me smile (or scream) depending on how much she wants to bark that day. I mentioned the blankets so I thought I would give you an idea of the process.

This is how the blankets start out. Not the neatest pile but certainly better than when she is done.This is how she starts. Digs right in at the bottom. Of course she makes the cutest little noises we all like to laugh at. And who can get mad at this cute little face?

Happy Birthday Marc!!!!!

Today is Marc's birthday. He is 45!!!! In case I haven't mentioned (or you haven't spent more than a couple of minutes with him) his new passion is mountain biking . So after the craziness of our day. About 9:00 p.m he gets to open his presents. For his birthday he received a new helmet, new gloves and a couple of lightweight polyester shirts. He was happy.

But the start of his day goes something like this. Well I should start by telling you that the last couple of weeks he has been riding his bike home from work once a week. He takes the bike into work the day before he plans to ride it home. Leaves it and then rides it home the next day. So I take him to the bus stop and he has a route all planned out. Well he calls me and tells me that he got on the wrong bus ( I hope this isn't old age setting in) He ends up at the University Hospital and the last bus going to his work is over. So he walks to work by the zoo from the University Hospital. He said it only took him about 40 minutes. He said he was very tempted to take trax home. But he rode home and had a good tail wind and had green lights all the way. Happy Birthday Honey, we love you.

Life just gets crazy

Ashlee is in blue

Cortnee is in orange

Ashlee and Cortnee said our blog is boring (and I'm sure they meant with a capital B). I kind of suspected that would be the case when I started. Our lives have been very busy with soccer. I have also been trying to workout with my friend Shauna ( that is kind of a time consuming process). I think that with all of the running around I do for the girls I should be losing weight or be in shape. Not happening. Marc and I celebrated our 7th anniversary. I had a very uncooperative picture family. But I am going to post the pictures anyway. We also have had some sickness. Ashlee, Cortnee and I all had colds. Marc is just getting it now. Ashlee ended up getting the worst of it. She woke up one morning to a very swollen Uvula ( the thing that hangs down in the back of your throat). So we made a trip to the emergency room. Turned out to be a bacteria. They gave her a boatload of medication and I think after a week she is doing better. We (the girls and I) joined mom and dad at the Desert Star theatre for Spamlet. We got season passes for christmas last year as did mom and dad. Marc was camping with the Aaronic priesthood so he couldn't make it. I mentioned to Marc that I don't know if season passes to desert star are all that good. They are funny but almost overkill if you go every couple of months. It seems to me that I have enjoyed it more when it has been awhile since the last time I went. Marc disagreed and has really enjoyed going. In the meantime I have been trying to finish some baby quilts and Lora said I need to post pictures of them so she can see them, so when I am done I probably will. So is that a lot for you all to look forward to?????? This picture of Shilo was so cute I had to post it. She is so funny when she is tired (which is frequently )she loves to dig under covers. I have a pile of blankets down in the computer room and she digs herself a little hole. Especially if we are taking too long to go to bed. Marc went downstairs and she poked her head up out of the blankets and it was too cute.

Labor day weekend

I thought I would actually document our lives since the reunion. We went as a family to the Salt Lake Temple friday night to do some baptisms for the dead. Cortnee is now 12 and this was her first time. Marc was able to baptize both of them and I watched. It is always fun to watch your kids doing new and different things. We then had a nice family dinner at Biaggis (I think that is how you spell it.) at the Gateway.

Saturday we hung out at home and then headed out to the IKEA store that is fairly new to our area. I had been before with Noreen but none of the rest of the family had. Ashlee and Cortnee fell in love with the cool beds that have desks underneath. If they could have those for Christmas they wouldn't ask for anything else. Hmmmmmmm. IKEA does have some good space saving ideas. We then headed to Lagoon. We got there around 5:00 and left at closing. It was really not very busy. Kind of surprised me. I didn't take my camera but did get one picture on my phone.

Sunday went to church and then took engagement pictures for Jordan and Amanda. I sure do wish I could post some of them because they turned out very nice. I don't think they would like all of the thousands of visitors to my blog (I am quite popular reading) ha, ha, to see their pictures before they do.

So tomorrow will be a toss up between spending time with friends or going to Tooele to visit family. We shall see what tomorrow brings.

Marc is going riding with some of his friends.

The picture to the right was taken a month or so ago up American Fork canyon. Marc is really enjoying the rides they go on. Tomorrow they are heading up to Deer Valley riding the tram up and then riding their bikes down. I told him it sounds crazy but since he married me he must qualify. I'm glad he is enjoying it.

Just relaxing

After all of the team building stuff we hung out at the pavilion. There was some phase 10 being played and lots and lots of eating.

this is harder than it looks

Everyone enjoyed walking on the wire tight rope. We then headed off to a couple of different areas. One of them was a big see saw. Everyone started on one end and you walked until the see saw was exactly balanced. The sister missionary was our neighbor way, way, way back when we lived in Granger( a city that is now called west valley) She and her husband are serving a mission here at Heber valley girls camp. It was great to see her.

more wire team work

Marc has always loved abstract photography. So when pictures like this one show up I'm not even that surprised any more. Of course everyone else tells me they like it. However, the one time we went to take pictures of our friends big white lab named Murphy, I don't think anyone really liked that there was not a whole picture of the dog. So thanks Marc for throwing in the whole people in many of the pictures.

Fun times on the obstacle course

The yellow shoes are Jeri's. Quite cute we all thought. We found out that you had to have shoes for this course and a trip to Heber City didn't give her a lot of options. So this is what she got. She said they gripped the wire nicely.

and even more.....

I guess you have figured out that this is a zip line.

more family time

I love spending time with our family. We went saturday morning and did a cope course? It is kind of an obstacle course but more of a team building experience. I have so many pictures and I don't want to take a year to get them all loaded. So here we go again.