8 years!!

Well, I know I am behind so please enjoy the two posts I just put up today to catch us all up. Wow, I can't believe we have been married for 8 years!!. Time really flies by when you are having fun. I love to look back at our wedding pictures and think of all of those memories. Here are a few of the memories that I remember from our wedding day.
The facts: we got married at 12:30 in the afternoon on Saturday August 10, 2002. It was hot but not scorching. Our reception was that night at my parents house in their backyard. We had to work extensively on the yard because Ashley and her hubby got married that summer in May so Shaun and I had to dig ponds, plant trees and plants for months. There was no way we weren't going to take advantage of that.

Our colors were deep red and pale yellow. We had a full buffet at our reception but we didn't really get to eat any of it. We stayed at the Ameritel honeymoon suite for 2 days (we got a screaming deal, $55 bucks a night!!!) and than went to Island Park for the rest of the week. We went to Yellowstone, Virginia City, other various areas. It was so fun. I was so tired from all of the planning and things that I basically slept a large majority of our honeymoon. It as very relaxing.

My Mom, sisters, and sister-in-laws made sure I looked very beautiful. Shelby did my nails and Colette did my hair. It took her 3 1/2 - 4 hours to complete it and it looked amazing!! I handed her a picture of what I wanted it to look like and it was even better. I loved it and I felt so beautiful. I wore my Mom's earrings and one of my prom necklaces. My veil was from the lip sink "going to the chapel" that me, my Mom and sisters did at a Beatles Revival concert in Richfield, Utah. (that's right I sang in public and I loved every minute of it. I'm not sure the crowd did but whatever) My mom tried and tried to let her sew me a nicer one but I didn't really want a giant veil and heck, this one worked perfectly

Our wedding day was almost perfect, there was only a couple of small hitches. In the morning before our wedding Shaun called to double check on our hotel reservations for that night. We had made them like 3 months in advance. The hotel said that we had called and canceled our reservations and that they were booked for that night. We both about died!!! After further review we found that the hotel had taken and charged our credit cards and than canceled it themselves. They kept the money. Shaun, of course not wanting the risk of not having somewhere to go on our wedding night said, well this is really fraud and let me tell you, it is my wedding night and I'm not going to just let this slide by with some generic room. Strangely enough they found that oh my goodness, they would have an opening that night in the honeymoon suite just for us.

The other small hitch had to do with the mere lack of a bottle opener and Shaun basically getting his hands torn up trying to open a bottle of Martinellis sparkling cider. What a wonderful day and the last 8 years being so wonderful as well. I couldn't ask for a better husband and father for my kiddos. I love you sweety!!

Oh the things we do...

My goodness, I always think that for some reason my life will slow down a little bit. That perhaps the craziness will just let me breath for a while but no such luck. This summer has been flying by and I simply have not had time to update my blog. So I am warning you now, this is a picture overload blog of all the various things we have been up to. We wanted Remy to go to the zoo this year. He loves animals, now to him they are all puppies and they all woof or pant but he loves them all the same. It was sooo hot at the zoo that many of the animals weren't out and about. He did love looking at the ducks and the little cats. I don't think he could see the animals unless they were moving, or he just thought they were a stuffed animal. who knows but he had fun.

Here we are looking at the cats, I can't actually remember what type of cats they are but they are small, well not as big as the lions but not as small as a house cat. They had kittens that were scampering about and it was fun to watch them.

I also had my golf league final year end banquet. I had to bring some form of dessert so I made these lovely sugar cookies. They are supposed to have a golf ball and a flag on the green. I am definately not a professional cake decorator but I figured that this would be fairly easy to figure out at a golf banquet. My team ended up coming in 3rd place out of 8 teams.

My parents have also been overhauling their backyard for all of the grandkids. They put in a special play place. It has a sandbox and wood chips. My mom also got the coolest toys to play with and this piece of playground equipment. It is an airplane. Shaun put it together. It holds up to 7 kids at a time. the wings in the front and back are teeter-totters and than 3 kids can sit in the body of the plane. The front seat has a steering wheel that turns the propellar. It seriously is so awesome and Remy loved it!!!

There he is inside of the plane twirling the propellar.

Wahoo!! the teeter totter is so fun. It makes me wish I was a kid again. My mom also got a mud-pie kitchen that has a little sink and a mixer to make mud pies. It is so cute and Remy loved it. He likes to watch me make cookies so mixing a mudpie was loads of fun.

Here are Remy and Daddy eating grilled cheese and tomato soup for dinner.

Remy is an outside boy and he and Chappy have been patrolling the yard together. They did take a break the other day. I looked outside and there they were taking a gold fish cracker break in the shade. I have to keep a close eye on him because he eats rocks and also tries to put rocks in the air conditioner. Naughty boy!!!

Here is Remy in my special boots. Why are they special you may ask? Not all of you know this about me but back in the day I was in fact a Rodeo Queen. Yes, the big poofy hair, the sparkly shirts, the whole bit!! These were my modeling boots for those contests and Remy is always playing with them so I finally put him in them. He felt like such a big boy walking around in those cool boots.

Speaking of a sweet boy, Shaun got me flowers for our anniversary and Remy loves to smell them. He will run into the kitchen and point to the flowers so that he can smell them. The other day he came into the house and came up to me so excited. I bent down and he put a leaf into my hand. He was so proud that he had picked me a flower. He was pointing to different parts of the "flower" showing me how pretty it was and he would smell it so I would know what to do. It just melted my heart, my little boy brought me a flower, well leaf but whatever, it was so sweet.