What A Mess!

Well we are now 2/2, that is 2 spigots to the hoses and their pipes have broken. The first one was in the laundry room and Michael was able to fix that. Yesterday I had a babysitter who called and said water was in the basement. I assumed it was the pipe that Michael already fixed. Wrong! It was the one from the front of the house. We ended up with several inches of water in our basement. So anyway we are in the process of having a restoration company come in and fix everything. At the moment they have taken out the pad under the carpet, sucked the water out of the carpet, and there are 8 very large and noisy fans going downstairs 24 hours a day for the next 3 days. Next, comes a plumber to fix the pipe and removal of the baseboards. We spent most of last night moving everything out of the kids' bedrooms and most of the family room downstairs. We were lucky that everything was spared major damage and should be just fine, including all of the furniture.

Do Your Ears Hang Low?

This video is from Evan's preschool graduation. You get a lot of his personality from this video. He knew the actions for his program songs and rhymes really well.

I am so blessed!

This is Mother's Day. I can't believe I am putting this online. I had just woken up. It made me so happy to get breakfast in bed from my sweetheart and my beautiful children. They are the very best. My kids are so sweet and loving. They keep me on my toes and push me to improve myself each and every day. After waiting awhile to become a mother, Mother's Day brings me so much joy and reminds me just how blessed I really am!

Preschool Graduation

Evan finished his first year of preschool. He is such a loving, sweet boy. He did a wonderful job singing lots of songs, repeating nursery rhymes and poems. He knew a lot of actions and words and kept a smile on his face the whole time. It is hard to belive that it was just over 4 years ago that he was a tiny baby that could fit in the palm of Michael' hand. I am truly blessed to be his mother.

10 Wonderful Years

Michael and I just celebrated our 10th Wedding Anniversary on April 25th. It has been an amazing 10 years filled with lots of fun, love, hard times, crazy times, but overall just plain wonderful. I do not say it often enough but I have a terrific husband. He works so hard for our family. He is kind, loving, and a great father. I look forward to the rest of eternity to spend with him. This last weekend Michael's sister Catherine and her husband Richard were angels and came to watch the kids while we went away to SLC for 2 nights. It was wonderful. We relaxed, went to the SLC temple, went out to eat, and overall just enjoyed being able to talk without any interruptions.

Fun Spring Break Trip

We just got back from California where the kids and I had a great trip. We did lots of swimming in Grams and Grampa's pool. The kids are quite the fish and loved being in the water any chance they get. For my birthday last week we went to Disneyland. It was so much fun. We started with breakfast with some of the Disney characters. My mom bought a pin that said Happy Birthday with my name written on it. Everywhere we went in the park the employees wished me a "Happy Birthday." It was fun. The kids were like Energizer bunnies, they just kept going that day. I think the grown-ups were done even before the kids. I loved seeing the kids full of excitement and joy as we went on some of the old favorites at Disneyland and explored some new things as well. They are beautiful, loving children and I am so grateful to get to be their mom! We are so grateful for Grams, Grampa, Auntie Lindsay, Uncle Brandon, and Aunt Chelsea for all of there wonderful help. We are so grateful for all of our family members and wish we lived closer to all of them. I love to say that the best thing about heaven will be getting to all be together in one place someday, although that can wait! For now we will have to enjoy the times we get to be together.