flashback friday-room of balloons

about 6 months after tom and i started dating, i asked him to go to a girl's choice dance with me. and you know how asking someone to high scool dances goes...you always have to do it in some crazy way, which looking back on it, is pretty dumb. anyway, i can't even remember how i had asked him, but he answered back by putting "yes" in one of the balloons seen here in my room! this picture doesn't do justice to how many balloons were actually in there. apparently he and my mom sat there all day blowing them up! the things you do for love!

sidenotes: yes, i have a shirtless man calendar hanging on my wall...i think my friend gave it to me as a joke. seriously.

also, the little boy that tom's holding...that would be my cute nephew chayden. to give you an idea of how long tom and i have been together, that "little boy" will be turning TWELVE in a couple of months! CRAZY!!

lunch with tom

we don't get to see tom as much as we'd like since he started working evenings, so i decided to take him some cafe rio for lunch today. he's the fedex man for the l.d.s. church distribution center, so he's in a big warehouse, and miss loves to watch the boxes as they go past on the conveyer belt!





i tried getting a picture of the girls together, but this is what i got instead...

the sound of silence

as a mother, i should know by now that once i start thinking, "hmmm...the kids sure are being good...it's so QUIET" it usually means that they're NOT being good, and that i'm too late to do anything about it!

and true to form, this is what i found yesterday after having that exact thought...

we're "officially" on the market

after a couple of months of trying our hand at selling our house ourselves, we've decided to leave that job to the experts! we hired an awesome agent and are hoping to be out soon! wish us luck!

"pri-married" activity

according to miss, she goes to "pri-married" NOT primary. but yesterday was her first primary activity and she had tons of fun. first, she "swatted away temptation" (temptation was a balloon)...



then she learned the "chicken dance" to remind her not to be chicken about bearing her testimony.



and she also decorated cupcakes and made a kite!





i still can't believe i have a daughter old enough to be in primary!

and on a side note: this is what happens if you try to take a nap on the floor with the kids around! only tom could sleep this soundly with the kids climbing all over him. he was seriously out like a light!