10 years….part V….the final chapter

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5. He gets excited over bugs
4. He is a sucker for our little girls
3. He would give me anything I asked for
2. He is very tender under all that gruffness (gruffness, is that a word?)
1. He loves me! He picked me!

Ok so I couldn’t stop there!

-He builds me things
-He lets me pick the radio station in the car
-He won’t let me carry heavy things
-He likes to order for me in restaurants (after I have told him what I want)
-He loves my cheese cake, and swears it is the best he has ever had
-He makes me go to church
-He is the father of my children
-He lets me sleep in and take naps
-He looks darn good in a suit and tie
-He understands how important it is to me to have books, lots and lots of books
-He doesn’t care if my hair is long or short as long as I like it he is happy
-He does dishes if asked
-He takes out the garbage without being asked
-He likes power tools
-He likes really stupid sci-fi movies
-He gets queezy around blood and needles
-He slept all night with Baby Boy Punk on his chest, on the couch so I could get some sleep the first night he was home.
-He likes to cuddle and watch TV with me
-He bathes the kids every night
-He hung a clothes line up for me
-He like to take pictures of the sunrises, and he does a darn good job too
-He is a thinker, he really thinks things through before he makes a decision
-He understands gospel concepts, and teaches them well
-HE likes toys
-His eyes crinkle at the corners when he is teasing
-He likes my laugh
-He can’t sing really well
-He seriously thinks that he gets greyer every time I cut his hair
-He has a kind heart
-I love watching him change from the boy I married into a man,
-His grey hair

-I love the way my hand fits into his, how my head fits into the curve of his shoulder.

When I combine every wonderful thing about him I get the man I married. The perfect, wonderful, kind, amazing man that our Heavenly Father sent to me. We were made for each other, cut out of the same cloth. I am so thankful that we found each other, that we were guided towards each other, especially on this special day!

Happy Anniversary my Dear Mike!!!!

10 years…part IV

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10. He vacuums, and does toilets, but his favorite is washing the showers with scrubbing bubbles.
9. He loves little babies
8. He will make phone calls for me
7. He rubs my feet
6. He helps me feed my rabbits every night

Oh the Joys

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There is something about the breath of fresh spring air that whispers to me “clean your house”. Isn’t that funny, I think most people do some type of spring cleaning. For me it varies from year to year on how much and what I do. Last year I did no spring cleaning, I had a very small baby and just getting the daily dishes done was chore enough for me! I had also just done a major cleaning in January (with the help of my wonderful husband and two brothers) right before the baby came.
There is just something about finally opening the windows after being hunkered down all winter that makes me want to knock down the cob webs and scrub the base boards.
So this week I started my project of spring cleaning my house! I have decided that I am not going to rush myself, I don’t want to try to do it all in one or two exhausting days, I am going to do it slowly in the next few weeks. That way I won’t skimp trying to get it done. I have first started on the kitchen, it gets a lot of traffic, so I felt it needed it the most. So far I have scrubbed all the base boards with a small scrub brush, to get the yuckies out of the tiny corners. It is amazing to me how just the act of cleaning base boards makes the whole room look better. I washed the wall in the dining area, a one year old in a high chair surely does a number on walls. Four active little girls, makes for a lot of dirty finger prints. I washed my table really, really well with wood soap. I got all the cracks and little hidden places. I really need to oil and wax it, a lot of the wood doesn’t have a finish on it, but I will save that for another day. I washed the back patio door and dusted the walls and ceiling. I did the base boards in the kitchen too, washing the cabinet doors as I went a long, I got the corners with a tooth brush, I didn’t realise how dirty they get until my eyes were right there! I also did under the stove. That was my first days work, and the kitchen already looks so much nicer and cleaner. I swear it is starting to sparkle.

Yesterday I worked on my kitchen cabinets, the top ones anyway. I took everything out a cabinet at a time and wiped the shelves out and rearranged things a bit. I packed away all my baby bottles (cry) to give to the next person in my family that has their first baby. I threw away or gave away a lot of dishes that I haven’t’ used and got rid of a lot of little odds and ends. I wiped off the fronts of the cabinets, they weren’t too dirty, mainly dusty, the wood soap gave them all a nice sheen.

Today I took a break from the kitchen, the rest of the house was feeling neglected! On Monday I will be back working on the kitchen. I will be cleaning out the lower cabinets.
I love the feeling of a clean house.

Wish me luck in the next month as I plow through this house one job at a time!!!

10 years…part III

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The years have flown past. We have had 5 kids, lived in two apartments, bought a house, driven 5 cars, fought too many time to count and made up just as many times. We have laughed, cried wondered how we were going to make it and planned for the future. We have traveled to Savannah GA and California, and spent a few nights alone in Salt Lake City. We have been to weddings, funerals, baby blessings, baptisms (two of our own children) and countless family get togethers. The life we have lived together, built together for the last 10 years has been wonderful and I am excited to see what the next 10, 20, 3o years will bring to us, together.

Here are more reasons why I love you Mike, and why I think you are wonderful!!!!!!

15. He pretty much let me name all our kids
14. He thinks I am a great cook
13. He will stop at Sonic on the way home from work to buy me a Diet Coke with vanilla
12. He takes time off work to be at the kid’s school functions
11. He stays home with the kids while I go to Park City with the ladies of my family

(Mike scanned a bunch of the old pictures for these posts, our scanner isn’t the best that is why the picture quality isn’t so great.)

Flowers

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My crocuses finally bloomed! I had to take pictures and share it with everybody. They are just too beautiful to not share.


I just love these first blooms.
I planted these the first fall we lived here, so they have been blooming now for 6 springs.

When I was pregnant with #3 Punk, I was on bed rest for 4 weeks. Everyday I would look to see if my spring flowers had bloomed. My other two babies were away with their grandma (they were 2 and 3 years old) my heart was heavy, and these beautiful little gems made me feel a little better.


Here is a close up of a honey bee. My neighbors and good friends keep honey bees in their back yard. I have been watching for them, waiting for those little bees to get busy. We don’t have enough honey bees in this world, and I like watching them work on my flowers.

That picture is for you Matt and Casey!