Life With The Smiff's

It seems like all I do lately is give people updates on our weekends. That's kind of boring huh? Well too bad... because you're getting another one!
Friday I enjoyed the company of get this... OTHER WOMEN! What? Really!? I know right! I had a girl's night "out" and it was quite enjoyable. Ryan and Ben kicked it at the house and I went and hung out with Ashley and Martha and some other girls from their ward. We watched a chick-flick, ate junk food and talked GIRL talk. It was nice and much needed I think for all of us. One really good perk of the evening is one of the girls I met does hair, but from home and so she charges HALF of what I've been paying the salon. SCORE! Another way to save money...
Thursday I got a surprise text message from my sister Delinda that said she was "accidentally" in Atlanta visiting for the weekend. Saturday was her birthday, so we were excited when she decided that they would come with us to our already planned Saturday activity- the Red Bull Soapbox Race. Click here to see some pictures and info on if there's an event near you! It was a lot of fun, hot... but fun. We wished we could have hung out with Delinda more but it was nice to even get to see her since she's moved far away from us! Ben was a champ, had fun playing in the park and drinking lots of Gatorade (G2- half the calories, which means less sugar and my kid stays hydrated!). They had the NASCAR Camry that drove by and made a lot of noise and Ryan and Ben LOVED that. We couldn't really see the soapbox cars too well as they were "racing", but before we got to snap some photos in the pit. It was fun, and next time they're in town- we are so there! After we got home we let Ben finish his nap and then went to the store for groceries and then ate dinner, put Ben down when it was time- and Mommy and Daddy watched a movie and ate a half a pan of Rice Krispie treats and cuddled. It was... LOVELY. :) Except for we watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and it was a little depressing. But pretty good.
We had a good Sabbath, Ben was good at Church especially after a good breakfast, nap and then snack! So we had a nice weekend and are a little bummed it's over. However, one more week of work and then we're off to the beach for Labor Day! Destin, here we come!
We decided to not go to St. John's this winter with the Terry's unfortunately. It really saddens me deeply, but like my mom said (and the Rolling Stones...) "we can't always get what we want" and well, life goes on. We get to at least go to Destin and then we're mostly likely headed to TN to go to Dollywood with my cousin Laura and her family and stay in a cabin in the Fall. So that should be lots of fun too. ALSO... good and exciting news! I helped my parents find a pretty good deal on tickets for Christmas this week and we purchased them so prayers were answered and Grandma and Grandpa are coming for Christmas!!! Wahooo! (Ash, that's for you!) It will be so nice to have them here and we will enjoy their company and I'm excited for them to spend Christmas with Benny.
Money always seems to be a stress in our lives. Maintaining a mortgage, car payment and VERY expensive daycare payments is difficult. We are currently looking for other avenues to lessen these stresses and this is one of the reasons why we can go with the Terry's to St. Johns. Hopefully things will straighten out soon, even if we have to do it ourselves. I am praying we can find cheaper but still GOOD care for Ben during the day, until I can hopefully one day do it myself. Of course this is something that presses on my mind and HEART daily... I miss him so much I try not to think about it because I get all weepy if I do. We of course would like to have more additions to our family but we can't until we can get some of the costs of life down. So I pray that this will all work out soon. I'm not getting any younger!
Other than that we are good. We are tremendously blessed and I am so grateful for our family and friends. We have so many nice and wonderful things and a roof over our heads and food to eat. And more importantly each other.

We had a really good weekend. I took Friday off and first thing in the morning was violated by a Nurse Practitioner at my OBGYN office who told me that I was in great need of lowering my blood pressure and basically that I was fat. She didn't come out and say "you're fat"... she was nice, but it was obvious what she was getting at. AND well come on- it wasn't exactly news to me. ANYWAY, after a quick change of a poopy outfit at the daycare when I went to go get Ben after I was done, we ran to my work so that I could let someone use my computer to run a report and so that everyone could go bonkers over my cute kid. After I was done there, we drove to go see Cecilia and her little Ryan! It was so much fun! I haven't seen her in a long time and haven't seen the baby since he was itty-bitty so it was so good to see her and spend some time with her. Plus we talk very candidly and I appreciate that a lot. Ryan is a cutie little bundle of happiness and fun and I am so happy for her and Aaron.
After we spent a couple hours with them, we met up with Clint, Ashley and JENNIFER! YAY! It was SO good to see her. And then basically the whole day was spent in honor of Jiznin. We ate lunch and talked and laughed and then headed to the Terry's and talked some more and then that night we had breakfast for dinner and the Elton's, Neaner and Clint came over (and Ryan came with the Elton's after work). We got to listen to her tell us all about her mission and she showed us some really neat pictures. We are glad to have her back and are proud of her and pray for her to get back in to the swing of things soon and to find a good job to boot, hopefully close to all of us! Yesterday we went and helped move Clint in to his new apartment. Goodbye stinky, scary place and hello nice little apartment. (Even though there is already cockroaches in the new one!) After we got done with that we ate lunch and then cleaned out our back room and put up a lot of stuff in the attic. I didn't really realize how many clothes Ben has until yesterday... ones he doesn't wear anymore anyway. Hopefully we have another boy eventually! We basically really just cleaned yesterday. Did a lot of laundry... and played with Ben. Today we did the church thing and then made spaghetti and cookies for our Sunday Dinner, had our home teacher over (whom we really enjoy) and had a good night with our friends. It was such a nice night some of us decided to eat out on the deck. Other than stupid mosquitoes it was great!
John and his family are off to Argentina today, I wish them the most fun and safety and a safe return. I can't wait to hear all about it!!!! The Fall is rapidly approaching, I dare say I am already seeing some of the leaves on the trees changing and the air and light is changing. It's making me quite excited! We are excited to go to FL in a couple weeks, hopefully TN in Oct, maybe even a quick trip to Chicago to see DJ. We will see about that one, but here's to wishing! We are also hoping (and praying) that my parents can come out here to GA for Christmas. That would be so awesome. Hopefully finances with allow it.
Well, here are some photos... Ben looked super handsome and all grown up today at church I just had to take a couple of pictures of him. Also, I wanted to add video of him playing the piano over at the Terry's house Friday. He's pretty much the cutest thing ever, and I'm smitten over him!!! Also, when we were sick last Monday we decided to go on a drive to get out of the house. When I was younger my mom always sent me outside to get sunshine and fresh air when I was sick- and so I decided that's what we needed too. To get away from the germs and fill our lungs with goodness. So we drove up to Lake Lanier and Benny decided he wanted to play in the water. It was warm and he had so much fun.

I have the day off tomorrow, not because I'm sick- but because I get to visit with friends! Oh and I have to go see the girl doctor since I was supposed to Monday and was holed up in bed trying to get over my previous night's bout with the flu. I plan to visit my good friend Cecilia and her little guy and Ashley's going to pick Jiznin up to come up and see us! Yay!
We've had an okay week. The beginning of it- not so much. Tuesday we were still recovering, Wednesday we had a fun time over at the Terry's celebrating Jacob's b-day. The boys played Madden and I chased the kid around a little and he played on their cute new white piano and LOVED it. And got to see a cute new little baby Olivia. She's adorable. :)
Tonight I went visiting teaching and Ryan and Ben had a manly men bonding experience. Ryan cut Ben's hair and gave him a bath and put him down to bed. I enjoy chatting with the ladies and so that's a nice little thing to do once a month. We missed one of the girls we were supposed to visit, I guess maybe she forgot! That happens!

-does anyone else hate how long it takes just to get in to your mail on hotmail anymore?
-I STILL don't like the new U2 or Pearl Jam songs... I have cannot be convinced. I'm sorry.
-I tend to agree with Kelly and couldn't have said it better!
-we live close to the Verizon Amphitheater that's in Alpharetta... all I have to say right now is why does Judas Priest have to be so loud? Ryan just opened the back door and said "Heather, come here...I know this song". That's just how loud it is. (It's Saturday now, and it's loud AGAIN.)
-I love Kohl's. And I love that I used the $10 gift card they sent in the mail today to buy and bath rug and only paid $1.33 for it.

The Itsy-bitsy Spider...

I tell you what... me, Ryan AND especially Ben will be glad when all those toofies come in. There's a pattern; teething, growth spurt, teething, growth spurt, teething... get the picture? He just finished a happy-Benny growth spurt and everything was sunshine and lollipops and pig outs and lots of sleep, and now- the molars. Ech... poor kid has been miserable today. And to boot has a HORRRRRRRIIIIIIBBBBBBLLLLLEEEE rash on his bum and poor little boy balls. :( He snuggled a long time with me tonight and I sang "Go to Sleep My Baby" and lots of primary songs to him... he almost fell asleep. I love when he wants to snuggle with me, so I take full advantage of that! He's sleeping like a champ now.He says "nose" now-only with out the "se" on the end. He says don't, no-no, shhh, and I'm pretty sure it's "poop" he says now too. Twice when he's had a poopy diaper he's said something VERY similar to the word... so I think that's what it means! Leave it to my kid to learn to say poop! He's able to feed himself with a spoon or fork, so to get him to eat his veggies I give him a bowl of (baby food) veggies and let him go to town. We remove clothing, and he eats them, has fun and makes a mess- most importantly he gets what he needs! He's all green and goobery and cute here.Not much else happening. Oh, there's a ginormous spider out on the deck right now. Kind of cool and gross all at the same time.I'm really, really ready for Labor Day to be here. I am a little worn out with work. Our friend Jennifer got home from Mongolia today. Or she's supposed to anyway, haven't heard the latest. Ashley and I are hoping to go visit next week possibly. Love to you all.

Ben eating a lemon

He's so cute.

I guess it's time to update. I haven't been much in the mood to, although I've had a lot of really good thoughts I have wanted to share. But I don't remember them anymore now!
One thing that's been kind of hard of me is Ben is starting to have a little bit of an issue with kicking, biting and hitting. This not only makes me mad it makes me sad too. I know it's normal and almost every kid goes through it- that doesn't mean I have to like it. He's been sent home twice now with "Incident Reports" because he's bitten someone. Sometimes he'll snuggle his face in my legs when I'm wearing pants and bite my pants. He's started to kick at me when I change his diaper and has gotten in trouble with Daddy for that. And today I was holding him and he wanted down and I wouldn't let him because we were in front on the daycare waiting for Ryan to come and he slapped my face with both hands. I know it's kind of silly for me to be upset because he's so little... but I don't want this to become the beginning of bad habits and notions of how he treats people-especially his mommy. He's testing his limits and that's normal... I just want to be patient and stern at the same time and I'm assuming this will be my next challenge as a mommy! It's really important to me to make sure he and I get along but that he respects me and Ryan as his parents. And any adult really. I was taught and raised to respect my elders and I will expect that out of my kids as well.
Delinda made it to Chicago today. That girl... she somehow finds herself in a series of unfortunate events. She had a run in with a cop and an impound lot and then her car unfortunately met a pole but not in a good way, which dislodged the bumper that came undone while driving to stay in Louisville, KY that had to be tied up with the string from a mesh laundry bag! They had to sneak Kidder, her dog, in to the hotel room in a suitcase since pets weren't allowed! Then Louisville was experiencing major flooding and storms and I said to her, "wouldn't be appropriate if your car just floated off?" Luckily it didn't and they made it to Chicago safe and sound. She's starting a new adventure in her life and I'm so proud of her. I will miss her SO much. I know she's gone and left me for AZ and Africa before, but for some reason this feels more permanent. I'm just glad she has plenty of people to visit here in Atlanta so I know she'll be coming often. I find comfort in that. PLUS I've always wanted to visit Chicago so it'll be fun to go and see her digs. We got to hang out with her and Jen on Saturday night. She brought Kidder over and Ben is TERRIFIED of her for some reason, so we watched Kidder torment Ally and Ben be afraid of her for a little while. He started to get more and more used to her but still didn't really like her being around.We're counting down the days to 1. the arrival of our friend Jiznin (Jennifer G.) getting home from her mission to Mongolia. I can't believe it's already been that long, and it'll be cool because the last time she got to see Ben was when he was still in my tummy. And 2. going to Destin, FL for Labor day! I need something to look forward to and this is just the thing for me. We're going with The Terry's and Clint and maybe Jennifer if she's up to it and possibly another couple of friends. I'm excited to see how Ben does at the beach and to even to just GO to the beach. We'll be staying in the same condo that we stayed in a couple years ago for Memorial Day. So we're excited. Should be lots of fun.
This past Sunday after dinner, we headed over to Jacob's parents house. They have loads of land and it's all beautiful and kept beautifully but also very rugged. His dad had a burn permit so we went and made a bonfire and made S'Mores. It was a lot of fun. One thing that I LOVE about the summer time in the South is the lightning bugs (or fireflies)! I am so excited my kids get to grow up around them. It was kind of hot and humid for a fire, it had been raining all day... but it was still way fun and enjoyable. I didn't have the camera so iPhone pictures will have to do. It makes me excited to finally get to go camping this Fall. We love the Fall in our group of friends... there's SO much fun stuff to do. Camping, pumpkin patches, apple festivals, the leaves changing and nice drives, corn mazes, the Holidays... we're almost there which honestly freaks me out. It's AUGUST people! School starts in our county next week! Weird.
More photos of Ben playing in the pool. It was nice and toasty from being in the sun this time.
It's late... off to bed.

What we did this weekend so far:
-ate frozen pizza and then watched Bedtime Stories last night.
-we all woke up at 9am and then gave Ben some breakfast.
-did yard work and housework.
-drove to help Delinda pack her 1 million books... seriously felt like it. She could open up her own library! (Did I mention I will miss her?)
-ate lunch (kind of late, sorry Ben!), Ben got his first balloon courtesy of Miss Ann at Chick-fil-a, mommy let it slip from her hands while getting in the car and it floated away while daddy was more upset that it was gone then Ben was!
-ran some errands; went to get me some shorts/capris- found a comfy pair, shopped for some other essentials.
-rested and let Ben nap
-filled up our new pool we got him, unfortunately the water was too cold to play in and by the time we got out there to play the sun was going down... until next time.-ate at Taco Mac
-saw a beautiful sunset with the BIG ORANGE SUN.
-put "The Dude" to bed, he was WORN out but still wanted to play and laugh with me even until we left his room.-watched Food Network, went to Facebook, and now writing this post.
I should go to bed. It's almost midnight... I'm pretty worn out from a kid who has been WHINING for like 4 days straight. Tomorrow we'll do the Church thing and then have the peeps over for dinner. PIZZA NIGHT! Then it's off to another week of work....my how the weekends pass us by so quickly.

Don't Worry, About a Thing...

Why is it okay that the summer is quickly vanishing away before our very eyes? It's already closing on the last week of July and it seems like time has just flown by!
I stayed home today with my Benny. He had a fever yesterday and ralphed on the way to daycare in the morning. He was fine though once we got there. Then after nap he had another fever, so we had to go pick him up. He had another one at 1am and I've been feeling a little like I'm getting a cold so he and I stayed home. He went down for a morning nap, and about 40 mins after he went down, so did I! And oh...my...gosh... I NEEDED THAT. It was a beautifully perfect nap. The bed was comfy and cool, I slept and didn't worry about needing to make sure I woke up if he did, it rained a little outside which made the snuggling even better.... ah man, it was just what the doctor ordered. We went for a little walk, Ben loves to go outside and took me by the hand to both the front AND back door trying to get me to take him outside. SO we walked up the street with the dog and it was kind of "sprinkling" if you could even call it that. But by the time we got back to the house and the driveway it started to rain again. So it was perfect timing. After his second nap he was pretty grumpy and I think in pain, so after the Ibuprofen kicked in he was happy again. AS you can see above- we did a little coloring too. He's still getting the hang of it, and got bored after a while. But that's okay, "every little bit counts said the old lady as she peed in to the sea" (as my mom says).
DJ came over to hang out tonight and that was great. She's leaving for Chicago soon, and it makes my heart very sad. I love my sister SO much and will miss her immensely. It has been great having her here in Georgia with me. I don't want to talk about it anymore, because I don't feel like crying right now when my nose is already stuffed up.
So what's new? Eh... not much really. Both of us are still working, day by day. Same thing, different day. What keeps us going and happy is our guy. He makes life interesting, exciting, crazy and wonderful. He's getting really good at saying things that sound like what he's really trying to say, like "thank you", "all done", "bee" for tree. His vocabulary is getting bigger but my favorite is still to hear his gibberish talk. Ryan's favorite is when he says "bye-bye!" and waves! He refuses to eat with utensils at daycare, but refuses to eat WITH OUT them here at home! I'm still having the "no eating vegetables" battle with him- but I need to try a different method out. I read in a Parenting magazine to wait until he's STARVED and give him those first. But he's pretty stubborn and I don't want to fight him too much. He'll at least eat the baby food kind- but he's almost a year and a half and getting too old for that. He's getting something though, so I guess that's good. I'm thinking part of his not feeling good today is from getting more teeth. I will be happy when all those little buggers come in- but I think we've got a long way to go. He whined a lot today, so Nichole- I think I know how you feel... a little! I think I'll head to bed, back to work again tomorrow.

Our Little Monkey

It's official... he knows how to climb. Oh boy...

Utah Pictures

These are all in St. George with my parents.

Zion's National Park with my parents and John & Clau's family.Visiting my sister Shauna and brother Greg and his family.

You can see in the above collage Greg's bleeding chin from when Brookie's tooth came out when she hit him coming down from being thrown in the air! She's got it in the top left corner!

(We also stopped at the temple too.)This was Ryan's birthday. We went with the Webb's and Andrea and Travis up to the mountains and saw a moose and had a pizza pic-nic and enjoyed each other's company! I really miss those guys and having them around. AND I miss just taking a drive up to the mountains so easily too.

This is when we went back to Las Vegas and met up with the Christensen's. I am so glad we got to see them and meet Nichole. I hope we are friends with them for years to come. They are great people, and Chris in particular changed our life as a family FOREVER! Score for you Chris!

How Lovely to be a Woman...

Ashley and I had a lunch date today, we went and got pedicures. I was afraid the little ladies there were going to reject me because my feet are so nasty and just messed up. BUT they didn't! I got in! They allowed me to sit in the comfy massaging chair and pedicured away on my itty-bitty nasty feet. While we were there, we enjoyed the names of the nail polish to choose from; Copper Mountain Copper, Berry Berry Broadway, To Eros is Human... what in the world? Who names those things anyway? One was a silvery purple kind, and it was called Russian Sage. Why?
Anyway, we also enjoyed the music if you could even call it that. It was nothing less than amusing!!! It seriously sounded like what Ashley said, a "Nokia ring tone circa 1999"! It was so annoying! But funny. We giggled a lot, and it was lots of fun. At one point, before the lady painted my toes she put the paper towels in to seperate them and it made it look like I only had 4 toes. It made us laugh too! I had to capture the moment.

The point is, I am pretty much a big fan of Ashley and having fun moments like that with her and just being silly girls, because WE CAN. :) She makes me laugh and I am so grateful for her! I would be a very sad girl with out her... a girl's gotta have friends too.

Count Your Blessings, name them one by one...

Ryan and I have SO many things to be grateful for. We have a wonderful house, good vehicles, food, clothes, beds, running water, air conditioning, etc. I think of lots of people in the world who have MUCH less than we do- and realize just how luck we are to be young and have the things we do. We are blessed beyond belief. It's good for me to have reminders of this occasionally, and last night I had a few of them. First, we had wonderful home teachers come by with a watermelon and to share a quick scripture with us. We had our usual "Sunday Dinner" with our friends which is always a wonderful thing for us. I'm grateful to have wonderful in-laws that we get to see often, but I miss my family SO much. And although no one can replace my family- it's good to have friends around me who understand me and my humor, etc. They have also become my family here in GA (especially since Delinda is leaving me for Chicago soon...) and I love each one of them for their differences and individuality. I feel very lucky to have such good friends that take such good care of us. And not only us, but our Benny. They are good "aunts & uncles" to him. (To Ally too, they're nicer to her than I am!) I just really enjoy knowing that we have a little family of friends to have Sunday dinner with every week at someones house... with good food.

Another reminder I had was watching a movie about bad things that happen in other countries (that I didn't finish watching because it was too much for me) and realized how lucky we are to live where we do and to feel a lot safer than a lot of people around the world do even just walking down the street. I am grateful for A LOT of things today. My sister in-law Clau has a quote on the end of her email, "Life is Good!" and it couldn't be more true.

We had a good weekend. We did something Friday night, but I don't remember what. HA! Saturday we spent cleaning the bathrooms and running errands, then we hung out with the Terry's and Clint and his friend Will. We went to this restaurant called Chicago Pizza and well... it left much to be desired. It also put Ryan in the bathroom at 4:30am puking.We also had a not-so-fun encounter with the Wii Fit. Okay, it was fun- but it told us we were fat and we had just met. I'm still getting over it. But decided, it's time for a change. I'm just having a hard time letting go of the sweets... I WILL CONQUER THIS. :) What a good definition of what we need to do: to gain mastery over or win by overcoming obstacles or opposition.
Delinda (my sister) was able to go to Chicago this weekend and find her a place to live. I am grateful Jen went with her so she didn't have to do that all alone! She found a place thank goodness, seeing as though she's moving at the end of the month! And, again... HOLY CRAP it's the middle of JULY! Sheesh! Where is the Summer going? Anyway, I am so happy for her and am excited to go visit someday!
We along with our friends the Terry's and the Elton's have so far had 2 FHE nights and hope to do this together once a month. It's been good for us- because lets be honest, we're not good at doing it on our own! I am grateful for the Spirit it brings to our friendships too, we can talk about spiritual things and it uplifts us. I like making and keeping traditions that we can hopefully carry on for a long time to come!Ben's getting two more teeth in, but they sure are taking their time. It's like one day on and one day off. I think they're just about through though, so hopefully some relief for us all is soon coming our way. He's also taking a liking to using a spoon for when he eats. And if he sees us with one- it's over, he HAS to have it and wont let us feed him with it. He MUST do it himself. Even though he usually ends up picking the food up with his left hand while holding the spoon in his right! I've also pretty much stopped going to visit him at daycare which is becoming harder and harder on me. I MISS HIM! A lot... but they're on a tighter schedule now in his new class and they have nap time about the same time I go to lunch. So even if he's asleep, if I have time I'll pop my head in. It was nice to walk in the other day when I was picking him up to see he and the other kids in his class sitting around their table "reading". I thought it was SO cute. I'm pretty sure he's starting to sing "A, B, C, D" in his own little way. We're working on where our teeth are and he got a new pair of shoes he loves, OH and sunglasses too! I'll take some pictures soon.
I promise I'll get around to getting the UT pictures up. Life has been busy.
I am grateful for all that I have. I am a lucky and blessed woman.

Please Excuse Our Dust...

Last week Ryan and I got to go to the temple before it closed on July 1st. They are doing renovations and it will be closed for 15-18 months. It's kind of a good reality check, because we take advantage of how close we are to it and now will have to drive 2-3 hours either to the Birmingham, AL temple or Columbia, SC. Ben and I literally drive past our temple everyday. It's also a little sobering because they are downsizing the space of the temple too. It will operate as a "mini" temple. No more clothing rental, we'll most likely have to make appointments... etc. We're all very curious to see what they do inside, and probably secretly wish they'd do something outside. It'll be cool to (hopefully) go to our first temple dedication too when they finish.
Anyway, I am glad we got to go last week though, it was a neat experience for us and I also enjoy being in the temple with my man. The temple worker we were with said that when he came in at 4pm that day there were 450 endowments done, which is probably a record for that temple in a day. It truly is a special place, and brings a smile to our faces while we are there. I realize that it's so important to be there because it brings us closer to each other and reminds us of our covenants.

Nice Long Weekend

We have had a very fun and relaxing weekend, although we've kept ourselves pretty busy. We had Friday off, which was nice. Since we were in UT for Ryan's birthday and didn't get the chance to celebrate it with our friends here, we decided it would be fun and go to Chucky Cheese's Thursday night! Thanks to everyone who came, Ryan had lots of fun. And so did Ben! He was so mesmerized by everything that was going on. And he LOVED the merry-go-round. (He wanted to go like 3 times!)

Friday we woke up and did some yard work and then in the afternoon went swimming with a bunch of our friends. It was a nice day, the pool wasn't too busy and we had a lot of fun! Ben LOVES the pool! That night we hung out at our house and ate nachos and watched Better Off Dead. Good stuff! Yesterday, the 4th, we headed over to the Terry's early afternoon and started cooking while some played golfing on the Wii. We had a AWESOME plethora of food and gobbled it up! After hanging out and letting all the food we cooked/ate settle, we headed near Marietta Square fireworks and got a good spot and watched the works. Ben was intrigued and I think almost fell asleep! We had an encounter with a mangy stray dog jumping in the car and me and Ben scouted out fireflies. And, oh yeah- remember that one time Clint made homemade ice cream and it had raw egg in it? Yeah, me too! It was pretty tasty though I have to say...Now it's Sunday... we hung out with Delinda today and had fun. I personally am bummed the nice long weekend is basically over. This week is going to be pretty crazy with work and I'm not excited about that. AND, no more long weekends until like September! BOOOOO! Well everyone else is napping... why not me?

Blue Eyes

A lady, Rene, I work with has a son and when she heard I had one, she suggested (and reminds me on a daily basis) that I should take pictures of him all in white. SO... I thought I'd do it. She said I'd regret it if I didn't and even threatened to take him herself somewhere and buy him an outfit. I thought I'd save her the trouble, and while we were outside this morning playing I changed his clothes and took some. I am glad she suggested it! (Oh and my big boy is 16 months already! Where does the time go!?)

1 Year Eternal-versary

While we were in UT we were hoping to get to go to the temple, but time didn't allow us to. June 17th marked our 1 year anniversary of being sealed! I can't believe it's already been that long. So to remember that special day, we drove to the Mt. Timpanogos Temple where we were sealed and took some pictures... Ben wasn't having it, so we only got ONE of all of us. It'll do though- we marked it down in history at least.
I am so grateful for this little (for now) Eternal family we have. I am so excited to know that even though it's hard at times, that I get to spend FOREVER with these guys. And can't wait to meet who else will be apart of our family! (No, not pregnant.)

June 17th, 20081 Year Later