10 years ago...

We've had a great 10 years of marriage!! It really doesn't feel that long. We are so happy and blessed.

 

Here are some highlights from the last 10 years
2001
May 30, 2001: Our Wedding Day
Salt Lake City Temple
Honeymoon: Anniversary Inn in Salt Lake and Springdale/Zions National Park
Moved into 2 bedroom apartment in Roosevelt, then moved into a 5 bedroom home, where we 'house sat' for 8 months for a family living in China.
Wayne worked for Schwans, then Neilsens furninture, Stacy worked at Law office, Inspirations and continued school at USU branch campus.
2002
Moved into our house
Wayne began working for Pinnacle
Stacy began internship Teaching at Todd Elm. school
2003
Stacy Graduated with Teaching degree
Working on our house and yard, still working at Pinnacle and Elementary school
Christmas Trip to Washington
2004
Anna is born, our lives change forever!
We buy our first car together: Kia Sedona minivan
2005
Trip to Logan for Anniversary
2006
Megan is born, another sweet little girl.
2007
Cruise to Western Carribean
2008
David is born, we are loving having a little boy!
2009
Trip to Kentucky
2010
Cruise to Bahamas
Trip to Illinois

 

This year we went on a trip to Yellowstone National Park to celebrate our 10th anniversary. It was a little snowy and cold, but we saw lots of animals, had some adventure on a river rafting trip and really enjoyed ourselves.

 

Mine Forever

I am so blessed to have these sweet children in my life. They are wonderful spirits from our Father in Heaven, and continually remind me just how precious they are. We were able to stop by Temple Square on our way home from visiting family in Layton last weekend. I have been wanting to take some pictures there for a while. The flowers were gorgeous, and the spirit was sweet.

May

David made this cute pot in Nursery for MOther's day, so fun!

 

We pulled out the Barbie Jeep. Megan and David had so much fun riding around together. Megan is quite the little driver. She said, "Mom I can drive anywhere even to town."..."NO way!", I said "Yeah cuz I'd get lost" she agreed thankfully!

 

Our new (to us) Expedition. It is really nice!

 

So happy that we got the curbing done around the playground and some nice gravel!

 

Easter

We had a fun little Easter egg hunt with some of our cousins in Strawberry. It was a little rainy, but it didn't stop us from having fun.
Aunt Annette always decorates her cougar for the holidays!

 

Megan loved finding Easter eggs. She hid them at home and found them several times, then she'd sort her candy.

 

David was more into the sandbox and the dog than the eggs, but he found a few.

 

Tyler hid the eggs for us all to find. Guess he's too old for finding, but he did get a few small eggs that his mom hid some money in. Anna and Baylee and Megan had fun sorting out and eating all the candy. We are so blessed to have so many fun cousins!

 

Goodbye Van

Last month I said goodbye to my little minivan. It was a good little van... I really liked it, so I was pretty sad. Here's what happened:
Thursday morning, my 30th birthday, we had breakfast, got Anna off to school and David and Megan got ready. I was scheduled to voulunteer in Anna's class at 9:30, and a friend in the ward was watching David. Megan had an Easter party for preschool at the park at 9:30 also. So as always we were rushing out the door. I backed out of my driveway and asked Megan to buckle up. She tried to get buckled, but her booster seat slid out from under her. I was about half of a football feild down my road and I turned to help push the booster seat back up. The van kept going apperantly in the direction of off the road into the fence. It is a pretty steep side off the road, and my Dad has a metal pipe fence around his water trough. I had just enough time to turn back around realize what was happening and feel my heart jump out of my chest. A neighbor actually heard the crash and came running out of her house to check on us. We were all ok. Megan was in the seat next to the side door and window, and she got some cuts from the glass. I didn't even see them at first, she was to panicked to let me look at her much. She jumped out of the van and screamed "I'm going home." She ran off down the road and I got David unbuckled and followed her home. By the time I caught up she came running out of the house with blood all over her shirt yelling "I don't wanna go to the hospital!" She was so cute.. and upset. She said "I want Heavenly Father to make it all better RIGHT now!" and "I'm sorry I'll be a good girl and wear my seatbelt." Poor thing. It was traumatic for us both. I was pretty shaky, but tried to stay calm and not cry in front of her. We got in Wayne's car and headed for preschool, I called Wayne and my Dad to let them know what was going on (thats when I broke down). Meanwhile some oilfeild workers stopped at my van so I talked to them and assured them I was alright. I guess they called the police because by the time I cleaned and bandaged Megan up and got her calmed down and to her party I got a call from a Sherriff and had to go back to fill out an accident report. Silly me I thought it was only my van that was wrecked and my Dad's fence but... I guess if there is more than $1500 in damage then a report has to get filled out. I didn't realize how bad it really was until Wayne pulled it out and drove it home.... he was sure it was totaled, and guess what he was right. :(

 

It's all working out and I am really grateful that we were watched over and protected. I can't help thinking about how much worse it could have been... We bought a Ford Expedition from our friends, it was good timing and a good price. I'm getting used to it. But I do really wish I could just go back in time and take a couple extra seconds to buckle up!