Happy 9th Birthday Karter!!!! We love you, dude!!! Hope you have an awesome birthday!!

*More to come later...

SueSSiCaL THe MuSicAL

For Dr. Suess week (which of course was last week) the choir had been learning Dr. Suess songs since the beginning of the year.  Last Wednesday (4th) Karter performed in his choir's Suessical the Musical.  It was a really cute cool show.  Karter did awesome and we were so proud of him.  He loves to sing and absolutely loves choir!! Way to go bud, we love you so much!!! He has a performance at Tuachan in April where they get to sing songs from the 50's, can't wait!!

*My kids, their humor and energy that keeps me going.

*For my family's health, we are blessed to be as healthy as we are.

*Peyton and his bff Grant.

*For FHE's with the whole family.

*Garden boxes.

*Work (mine and Nate's).

*Quiznos.

*For the talents of family members and their willingness to share them with us (thanks Dan!!)

*Karter's pride in accomplishing and making things in Scouts.

*The time to actually sit down and catch up on some posts :)

Valentine's Day (finally...)

Make a Smilebox photobook Okay, so here is our Valentine's Day finally.  The kids woke up to see the gifts that Cupid had left for them.   They were so excited!  They opened up there gifts including their Valentine bags that their grandparents had given them.  They scored with a ton of treats! Grandma Graff always gives them new (red) shirts for Valentine's Day to wear (and of course I don't have one single picture of them wearing them, I will just have to take a picture when I can get them to all wear them on the same day again.) Then we ate breakfast, which of course was heart-shaped pancakes, yummy thanks to Nate!  Then of course we all had to get the house ready for Brynn's birthday party.  Here's to next year :)

Time????

So I know that I am way behind on posting, heck I still have Valentines and the rest of the entire basketball season to post, let alone Karter's choir concert that was now a week ago.  All I have to say is where does all the time go?  I feel like this week (or should I say the past several weeks) have just flown past me.  I promise I will update soon, hopefully tomorrow.  

This week just flew right by!

*That it is March and that much closer to Spring!

*Can I just say warmer weather, love it!!! 

*Being outside!

*Karter's Suessical Musical for choir, so proud of that boy! (Pics to come)

*That Brynlei's new bedding came.

*Redecorating!

*For Baskin Robbin's Rainbow Sherbet, yummy! 

*That Nate and I finally had a real date for our Anniversary! (Thanks to Nate's parents for watching the kids!)

*More book orders....

*Mr. Clean magic erasers!

*That we have found homes for our little puppies!

*The sweetness and innocence of my children.  

*Magazine subscriptions (I love getting fun mail!)

*Sunshine! (Can you tell that I am so ready for the Spring?)

We MaDe It!!

TEN YEARS....

ONE DECADE......

WOW!!!

We made it 10 years!! So Friday was our 10-year anniversary!! Can I just tell you that I don't feel like I am old enough to have been married for ten years (I think I am in pure denial when it comes to my age:) Anyway I thought that I would post 10 things I have learned in the last 10 years:

*Marriages aren't at all like fairy-tales.  Although there have been moments when it has been better than a fairy-tale. I also know that in the "big" picture of it all it is much better than any fairy-tale could ever be.

*In marriage you ride many rollercoasters; emotional, physical, spiritual, etc.  So prepare yourself for the ride (and the occasional lightheadedness).

*You will watch and experience many miracles take place.  

*Once you think you have finally got it mostly figured out, something will definitely happen to test that theory.

*Kids will test you in many ways.   So you better have a dang good sense of humor!  But they will also teach you so much more than you could ever have learned with just the two of you!! And I promise they will make you a better you!

*Love is always there, although there may be moments of "not likes" :)

*You will grow to "hate" those little things that bothered you ( or should I say that you overlooked) when you were dating... But you also realize that it goes both ways and that no matter what this is still the guy that you would choose all over again.  

*That dating and then marrying your brother's best friend has its advantages and disadvantages. 

*Doing anything together (alone) after the kids have come is pure bliss.

*That the littlest things he does (without even knowing) can make your day, week, and even month.

*That 10 years is nothing compared to eternity.....

I {heart} Nate now more than I ever could have imagined 10 years ago and with each day that I am blessed to be with him, I love him even more!  I won't lie and say that it has been perfect because we all know that life just isn't that way but I will say that with every trial has come a greater and deeper love for him.  I know that without him I would not be whole.  He truly is my other half, my soul-mate, my one and only, my BEST friend.  He makes me a better person.  I still get that flutter in my body when I look at him.  He still turns my head.  I always wonder how I got to be so lucky to get him because I definitely am the luckiest girl in the world.  So to my prince who came and turned my ordinary life into one filled with things that could only be written about in fairy-tales....... I LOVE YOU!! and I am so happy that we get to experience this ride together!!! and just to quote Jerry Maguire, "You complete me."  So here's to another 10 years just as good as the last!!  Happy 10th Anniversay BABE!!!