Eleven years!

Eleven years ago, today, Nate and I were married for time and all eternity in the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

I can't believe eleven years have gone by since our wedding day!

I remember that it had been raining, and raining, and raining that whole week. I really didn't want it to rain on my wedding day. Thankfully, the sun was shining and it was beautiful all day. We were married at 9:40 in the morning. There were a lot of weddings there that day. I think, even that early, we were the 39th couple to be married (or something like that). When we came out for pictures and such, there were brides and grooms every where on the temple grounds. I think our videographer had a hay-day with that! It was hard to tell which people were with what party. We even had to have them re-edit a few scenes from the final video (because we didn't know the people). :)

Our reception was a the Joseph Smith Memorial building (where we were in the picture). It was beautiful! The food was yummy and we all had a delightful time. Nate's favorite question was, "Is it time to go now?"

Nate, I love you and I'm so glad to be married to you. It's so hard to fathom how I can love you more and more each day, but I do. You are such an incredible man!

I knew I was head-over-heels in love with you on that day...

And, early on, when we met, our Freshman year at the University of Utah, I knew you were a special guy, who I was so glad to "hang out" with, build awesome snowmen with, and listen to you when you played the guitar. I thought, even then, that you were the type of man I could see myself marrying some day (even if you did "dump" me after three months). :)

But, I tell you, nothing makes me love you more, than seeing you with our children. They love you, look up to you, and want to be like you. And, frankly, I don't blame them one bit! Thank you for being everything I can ever want in a husband (and more). Thank you for being a hero to our children. And thank you for marrying me!

I love you to bits!

Visiting family

Wow! I started this post back in May. See people? I have the best of intentions! :) I'll try to do it justice now. A lot of time has past now, so this will be old news. But, I have to warn you...y'all have a lot of that coming!

Back when my mom and brother were able to come for a visit, we had the opportunity to expand our visiting with close-by family...namely, my Aunt Laura and my great-Aunt Myrtle. It was delightful, as usual.

Andrew, Mom, Lili, Simon and I got a chance to visit with Laura for a while.

Sisters.

While visiting Aunt Myrtle, we HAD to get burgers from "Myrtle's Burgers!" She once owned and ran it, but it now belongs to one of her daughters & sons-in-law. All I can say is YUMMY!

We also spent several hours just chatting it up at Aunt Myrtle's house. I even left to get Julia from school and returned with her. She was thrilled because she had really wanted to go and was sad that she'd be at school! The children had the best time playing in the big back yard! And Julia and Simon found a riding mower in the car port. That definitely made Simon's day!
During their visit, Nate celebrated his birthday. We, of course, all went out to eat. Nate chose (with quite a bit of influence from the girls) Macaroni Grill. It was fun!

Happy birthday Nate (way back in April)!

I'm so thankful Andrew and Mom were able to come for a visit! It was so great to have them here!

What's even better? Kara came for a visit the very next week. What's even better than that? They overlapped by a day. So, what did we do? Went shopping, of course! And, our traditional sushi dinner. Yum! It was great getting to go (all three of us together)!

Mom and Andrew left early on Easter morning. It was wonderful to have everyone with us when the kids woke up that morning! We all left for church and they hit the road.

We had such a fantastic time with "KK" while she was here too! We got to go to the aquarium - which was crazy busy with school field trips there at the same time, but we had a blast! The kids enjoyed wrestling with Aunt KK too! It was a great week and we're so glad she could spend such quality time with us. Lili cried when she had to go.


I am so blessed by my amazing family. I love them dearly! Thank you again for coming!

Tired of the same ol' post?

Yeah, me too. I really need to be better about blogging. I don't know what happened to me. I think, at this point, it's become a bit of a daunting task. Because, now I have to catch up! I sense a theme here, over the years in my life. When it came to journal writing, for example. Or thank you notes. I guess I'm a bit of a procrastinator. Okay, I'm a lot of a procrastinator. But, hey, that's what makes me me. Even though I don't like that about me. Weird, huh? So, anyway, suffice it to say, I do have LOTS of pictures and cute stories and such to blog about. I just need to do it...

eventually, I will.