Happy 38 years!

My mom and dad have been married for 38 years today. Happy Anniversary! And thanks for being such great examples.
















Mom and Dad outside the Manti Temple after they were married.






















Mom and Dad outside the Portland Temple just a few years ago.

Old favorite

I've decided to resurrect and old post that happens to be one of my favorite. It is a post from our old blog on Vox. A lot of you may not have seen it because we didn't link up with a lot of people on that blog. The post is from May 21st, 2008. Enjoy:

PRANKING THE NEIGHBORS

So the elections for county commissioner are coming up soon here in Rexburg and today someone came around and hung little fliers for one of the candidates on all the doors in our apartment complex. Naturally, I threw ours away. But then, a few hours later after I had some time to clear my mind, I realized that I could probably do something with it. I removed it from its plastic grave and took it over to the computer. From there I typed the words "I do not eat babies, and that's a promise", into a word document. Next, I positioned the flier into my printer and pushed print. The end result was a new and improved flier that said in bold letters across the top "I do not eat babies, and that's a promise!" I took the new flier and brought it down to our downstairs neighbors, whose original flier was still hanging on their door. I quickly replaced theirs with mine. Now we just have to wait and see if they notice it.

Wednesday Nights

A typical Wednesday night at my parents' house.
















Ok, so there was a work party with people from my dad's work and a couple of partygoers snuck in their own beverages. I don't think my parents even realized the drinks were alcoholic.

Walla Walla Trip

My sister Jandi and her husband Kenny and their little boy Myles moved to Walla Walla, WA over Memorial Day. We were lucky enough to be able to go visit for a few days while they moved in. We had so much fun unpacking, playing games, watching movies and just hanging out.


































Here they are at their new house.























Myles is a smiley little guy but sometimes it's hard to catch it in pictures. I was able to catch this little smirk just at the right time.






















Ryan and Myles got to meet for the first time this weekend. They got off to a great start. Myles just kept smiling and giggling at us. We like to think he was really excited to see us and finally meet Ryan but it might have also been the baby Tylenol he was on for his teeth.






















Yep, here I am again at 19 weeks. I'll be 20 weeks tomorrow. A great part of the Walla trip for me was getting all of Jandi's pregnant clothes, hooray clothes that won't feel tight...yet.

Growing...

Here are our growing plants... We planted a garden and are having so much fun taking care of it. This is a picture of our watermelons and jalapenos. We are also growing peas, banana peppers, cantaloupe, and flowers. Our biggest problem so far has been sneaky squirrels dumping over our containers.


Guess what else is growing... I am.






















This picture is of me at 16 weeks, I am 18 weeks now but I look almost the same as this picture. We find out if we are having a boy or a girl on June 8th!

















A couple weeks ago we had our 3 year anniversary! We went to Wingers and had a romantic evening watching The Biggest Loser Finale. It was a fun day, and has been a great 3 years.

Weekend of Fun

Our friends Jordan & Callie and their new baby Drake came to Boise over the weekend to hang out before they move back to Colorado. We had a ton of fun with them and wore ourselves out. The weather was near perfect so we went to Simplot's Hill & Hyde Park Saturday afternoon then had a barbeque and played a rousing game of lawn darts that night. Here are a few pics...
















Callie and Tess walking down Simplot's Hill. I call this our Kennedy picture because it seems like a picture the Kennedy family would be in...green grass, nice house, American flag in the background.

















This is somewhat creepy. Jordan and I were running down the hill with blankets as capes (so as to catch the wind and take flight). In this shot I look like one of the monsters from M. Night Shyamalan's movie "The Village".

















Brayden and Brooklyn liked playing with Jordan. Brooklyn ever appears to be checking him out in this shot.
















Preparing the coals for the firewalk (which we did later that night).

















Here Tess throws a lawn dart. Despite her good form and the fact that she was wearing a Nike sweatshirt, we fell to the Anderson's late in the game.






















We were red. As you can see, this round wasn't our best. We should have played Bocce Ball instead.

Not for the queasy or faint of heart

Now that we've shown how we told Tess's parents that she was pregnant, we thought it was time for the world to see how we told my parents. I must warn you, the photos you will see may be disturbing to some viewers. As the title of this post suggests, it is not for the queasy or faint of heart. So here's how we did it. I found a picture of a baby and using a page out of Conan O'Brien's book, I gave the baby features from both mine and Tess's face. I then blew the picture up to poster size and framed it. Our original plan was to wrap it up and give it to my mom on her birthday. Unfortunately, Tess had been sick for about three weeks straight. A week before her birthday, my mom asked Tess if she thought it might be morning sickness. Tess, afraid of ruining the birthday surprise, told her that she didn't think so.

After lying to my mom Tess's guilt overwhelmed her. So later that day we hung the picture up on the wall above where my mom keeps pictures of all her grandkids. My dad saw it first and asked us if it as for real. We told him it was and then he got my mom to come look at it. For those of you who know my mom, you can imagine her reaction. For those of you who don't know her, she screamed and asked repeatedly, "Are you serious?"

And now, without further adew, the picture...








































As you can see, our baby has Tess's eyes and mouth and my nose and hair. It will also be born with a tattoe on its right arm that says "Grandkid #8".