Happy Birthday to my Man (and Happy Anniversary too)

Engagement Pictures (2002)

It's my Hubby's birthday today. He turns 33! He never likes his birthdays, he hates getting old, but we always try to make it special for him. Of course today he had to take a one day road trip for work and won't get back until late so that kinda stinks on your birthday. But we will have surprises waiting for him when he gets home. Also we are celebrating our 8 year anniversary tomorrow! (what were we thinking making our wedding day the day after his birthday?!) I have to buy so many cards and gifts at this time of the year because of Father's day too.  So with the boys cards too he gets a total of 5 cards this week, maybe 7 if they each want to give him their own card for his birthday and father's day.  Crazy!  I try to make each day special for him.  I can't believe it has been 8 years already. We have been through a lot of hard times and good times. I am soooo thankful I could go through all of it with him by my side!
Here are a few reasons why I love the guy:
he always wants me to be happy
he's a hard worker
he fixes things
he's an amazing father
he always puts others' needs before his own
he's a righteous priesthood holder
he spoils the kids
he puts up with my crap
he'll watch "Twilight" with me any day
he's got a nice butt

Happy Birthday my sweet man!

This is a pic from our Honeymoon. We were so YOUNG!

April 2009

Memorial Day

Here are some pictures from Memorial Day. My family was here and it was really nice to have everyone together again. I finally got to meet my youngest niece Amaya and she is already 7 months old! The kids had a lot of fun together and got along great which was nice too. :)

Riding in the truck

They all wanted to dress up.  Thank goodness we had a Hannah Montana Costume for Kate to wear. :)

Little Amaya with the Hannah Montana wig on

Great Grandma Hanson with all of the great grandchildren

I just LOVE this picture!

Random Pics

Busy, busy over here. School will be out next week. And someday maybe it will get warm here and be summertime. The kids (and I) are going a little crazy not being able to get outside and get some energy out.
Keith put hardwood floors in, took out our tree in the front yard, works way too hard, and fixes all of the way too many things that break in our house way too often.
I clean, pick up, feed children, wipe bums, wipe snot, wipe tears, yell, (i'm working on that one), settle fights, wash piles and piles of clothes, do the dishes....(I could think of many many more but it is late and my brain doesn't work anymore)
kids had tee-ball (glad that's over with), had the whole fam was here for Memorial day (pics of that coming soon)
Anyway, here are some random pictures of our recent life happenings. Enjoy!

First Lost Tooth!

It's been a while since I posted last.  It's been pretty crazy here and I hardly have time to clean my house let alone post something new on our blog.  But since I am addicted to "Lost" and will be staying up until 11:30 to watch the finale this evening I thought I might as well update our blog. :)
Trysten lost his first tooth last month.  It came as a surprise.  We didn't even know it was loose until I was brushing his teeth and noticed it looked a little gray.  It was really loose, already dead, and I figured he must have fallen and hit it or something since we hadn't noticed it being loose before.  So anyway we spent the evening trying to make him brave enough to pull it out.  I was afraid he would swallow it during the night so he finally gave in and let us pull it out.

We caught the Tooth Fairy sitting on his shoulder while he was sleeping and took a picture for him. :)  He thought that was pretty cool.  I got this done at www.icaughtthetoothfairy.com.  It's normally $9.99 but if you use the code fairy-proof at checkout it's free!  I wish I would have got a better picture of him (i just used my camera phone)  but oh well.

My middle child

If you know Gavin then you know that when he gets mad he gets REALLY MAD.  He yells and has a nasty mean face and tells you how it is.  I don't like it at all and I wish that he didn't have such an angry side to him. (he got that trait from his dad's side :) But sometimes when he gets so mad about funny things and you see his cute face all wrinkled up with fury you have to laugh a little.  Here is just one of many little outbursts that happened today:
Very mad Gavin: "Hey! Where's my diarrhea?"
Me: "What?"
Gavin: "WHERE'S MY DIARRHEA!!"
Me:  "What are you talking about??  Diarrhea??"
Gavin:  "Yeah, my blue diarrhea!  I wanted to eat it!!"
Me:  "Oh, your Daiquiri Ice?"
Gavin:  "Yeah!"
I tell him where his blue diarrhea went and then he's back to being goofy ol' Gavin again. 

bUttErFliEs

We were putting the kids to bed the other night and I don't remember what we were talking about but Keith asked "What turns into butterflies?" Right away Trysten said "Raccoons!" He was actually thinking cocoon of course, but I didn't correct him. Sometimes I like to let adorable things like that happen just so I can hear him say it again and get a little giggle. Don't worry, I will tell him someday that Butterflies come from Caterpillars but for now Raccoons turn into Butterflies.

He sure makes me smile. 

Wear your seatbelt!

You gotta watch this video. It is way cool. Makes you want to wear your seatbelt.  Although I already wear mine out of habit, but for those of you who don't maybe this will change your mind. ;)