24

I guess 24 isn't a very momentous age to turn, but I still had a great birthday. Saturday I had to work so when I came home Dustin had some beautiful roses waiting for me. And then we went out to ice cream with some friends, and headed to the movies after that. Sunday consisted of eating way to much treats starting with Dustin making pancakes with strawberries and whipped cream. Sunday was my actual birthday and I was busy with church and 2 girls camp meetings. (yes I am camp director for the ward, yikes! It's going to be really fun though). But after all the craziness of the day I got to end it just as I had wanted, by talking with the fam, so it was all good.

Turquoise and Caicos

I have been wearing Essies new Turquoise and Caicos nail polish for 6 days straight and just barely got my first chip. Not only is the color cute and bright and fun for summer, but I can't believe it has stayed put on my nails this long without chipping, and with my profession that's just unheard of! My hands are constantly wet and scrubbing heads all day and nail polish NEVER stays on longer than 2 days before chipping. I'm impressed!

Happy Mother's Day!!

Thank you for...

hundreds of meals prepared

all the time spent worrying or thinking about us

countless rides from here to there

showing us right from wrong

being at almost every play, sporting event, and school activity

being our biggest cheerleader

being patient with us during the times we truly tested your patience

sewing our clothes

painting, cooking, or gluing school projects

giving us siblings who we love and miss daily

for being an example of a good wife, and a happy marriage

for making a house a home

praying for us

hours and hours spent on laundry

hours and hours spent on picking up after us

sacrificing your time and your hobbies to take care of us

the countless gifts and goodies throughout the years

loving us even throughout all of our mistakes

But hey we ended up just fine, thanks to you!

We love you and miss you on this special day.

Happy Mother's Day to our wonderful mothers!

4 Years

So our four year anniversary has come and gone without me posting a word about it. We had our anniversary last Thursday on the 29th. We celebrated by going out to dinner yesterday and I brought my camera but forgot to take a picture, oops. Sometimes I don't feel worthy of all the blessings the Lord has given me like my wonderful family, stable jobs during this unstable time, a roof over our heads, and of coarse the blessing of marriage, but not just marriage, a HAPPY marriage. There is nothing better! Through a "happy marriage" you mature very quickly and truly come to realize the important things in life, which are your relationships with those you love. I hope to be able to build the same wonderful family with Dustin that my parents, and their parents, and their parents, and so on, have made for me. I love being married to Dustin and I couldn't imagine my life any different. We love each other, we balance each other, we annoy each other at times, but hey that's marriage for you! You hurry through the bad times, so that you have more time to enjoy the good ones.

I found this old picture and I believe it's the very first picture that was ever taken of us. We look so young! (if you can even tell through the graininess of the photo) I think this is in our kind-of-going-on-dates/"hanging out"-but-not-official-pre-the-fight-which-we-do-not-speak-of-stage. You still with me? Long story. Happy Anniversary to my husband. I am so blessed.

UTAH

My sister Erin is getting married in a month and I was able to go to Salt Lake this last weekend to go to one of her bridal showers. It was so fun to be there and see family and friends that I haven't seen in years. I am so excited for Erin and Jake (especially because they are moving to Hawaii after they get married to go to school and play basketball for BYUH! We definitely might need to take a trip out there to visit them!)

The wonderful food spread. It was delish. The amazing hostesses and party planners! Old friends Grandma and Erin

Some of the girls

I have to add that my brother Chase just got engaged also! Chase and his fiance Ali came down to Utah this last weekend as well and I was finally able to meet Ali. They are getting married later this summer and we are excited to welcome the first sister in law into the family. It was fun spending time with them over the weekend. They are a great couple and we are very excited for them. Love is in the air!!

When In Rome

This past weekend Dustin and I went to Rome! Rome has been high on our list of places to see and we didn't want to pass up the opportunity, even though it was Easter weekend and we knew it was going to be pretty crazy. There were a ton of people in the city for the Easter festivities but it added to the excitement and fun. The city was beautiful and we are so glad we decided to brave the crowds and go for the weekend.

Here we are in the plane patiently waiting to take off. The flight was about nine and half hours, the longest flight we have both ever been on. But first class always makes it go by much faster!!

Our first picture in Rome!

These are few pictures of us on our walk over to the Vatican for our tour. It was such a beautiful day, sunny and 60's. The Vatican was our first activity while in Rome.

On the Vatican tour.

The floor in the Vatican was so beautiful. It was made up teeny tiny mosaic tiles. We also saw the Sistine chapel on our tour but we weren't allowed to take pictures. Our tour guide gave a ton of info about the Sistine chapel and the pain and suffering Michelangelo went through to get it completed. The chapel was absolutely amazing, I wish we could have taken a picture.

Spanish Steps. Not quite sure of the significance of the Spanish steps, but this picture gives you an idea of how many people there were around the city.

Oh the food! Our Rome diet consisted of Pizza, gelato, nutella crepes, more pizza and more gelato. It was wonderful but boy are we paying for it now.

Day 2 we first headed over to the Colosseum. It was huge. I loved that all these old ruins were just right in the middle of the city surrounded by modern day buildings.

Then we walked over to the Pantheon and Trevi fountain.

The fountain was so big and we were amazed that someone actually sculpted the whole thing. It was enormous!

We had an amazing time in Rome. Dustin and I both said that you could spend a week in Rome and not see all there is to see. We loved it and feel completely blessed to have this opportunity to travel the world and see so many beautiful things. We are trying not to take it for granted!

New post finally.... Trip to Seattle

Two weekends ago I flew to Seattle to see my family. I could not stand being away from my new niece any longer and had to meet her. The weekend was spent holding Lucy, laughing at Hayden and his performances that he puts on for us, doing hair and a lot of wedding talk. It's always fun to be home!