16 years and counting

December 19, 1992

Last Friday we celebrated our 16 year wedding anniversary. Wow 16 years has gone by so fast. How can it seriously be 16 years already??

Wicked fun!

Last Saturday my mom and I went to LA and saw Wicked! We had so much fun. I got the CD and have been listening to it non-stop since then. Everytime I hear Defying Gravity I get the goosebumps. Nathan is so cute...the other day he told me that he thinks it would be fun to go to a musical. I so wish I could take him to see this - I know he'd love it.

Thanks for the fantastic time Mom!

Halloween...finally

This year for Halloween Nathan wanted to be a Biker Skeleton. Here he is getting ready for the annual ward trunk or treat...

with the bandana without makeup

with grandma snow white

Clayton, Sarah and Nathan

Nathan, Clayton and Maleah.

At mom and dad's after trick or treating.

all the loot - he made piles and wrote notes on them letting us know which piles we were allowed to take from. What a turkey - this kid never even eats his candy yet places restrictions on what we can and can not have. Check out the Disneyland pennant - 30th year??? When Nathan was looking at it he said..."wait, they've been around for longer than 50 years!" HA! 20+ year old halloween treat.

This is for Steph...me in Hannah's "hot n spicy" wig - it's a wig for adults (i tried to say that a few different ways and any way that i said "adult" sounded wrong) Hannah was Ariel and Steph found this wig that worked perfect. By the end of the night I think we had all tried it on...Brad says that we are easily amused - i certainly dont' know what he's talking about - i'll spare Kelli, Doug, Brad, Steph, Dad and Mom and only post this pic of me... :)

disneyland

We love going to Disneyland and go every chance we get.

A bunch of us met on Matt's birthday...

Nathan and his best friend Clayton
we just so happened to run into Clayton and his mom. small world

California Adventure

strange boy

apparently Nathan has joined the Casey Jr. chain gang...

sign flasher

can't get enough of casey' jr.

Brad said we looked homeless...I guess main street disneyland wouldn't be such a bad place to be homeless.

Mission Bay Triathlon - 2008

Brad did the Mission Bay Triathlon again this year. He improved on his time - I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that he actually trained this year! Here are a few pics from the day.

Brad in the transition area.

I'm happy to report that this year was nude free - Last year this guy dropped his pants 15 feet from where i was standing. what the heck man this isn't blacks
Nathan standing in the same spot I stood in last year (see above note)

Brad and Nathan before the swim - is Nathan tough or homeless?

my cutie...waiting patiently

bike to...

run - Brad said i got this same shot of him last year - HA!

after race skating

how i spent my summer vacation...

with all that life has going on i attempt to finally finish this post - i actually started this back in September - it is now October 26th...oh blah dee

seriously what vacation? I remember when I was a kid I used to think that you went to school for a year then had summer vacation for a year. What a terrible day when I realized how wrong I was - and then another terrible day when I realized that when you work there is no such thing as a 3 month break. Oh well.

So besides giving Nathan the "cheese touch" as often as possible (see Diary of a Wimpy Kid book volume 1) here are some pictures of how we spent our summer vacation...

we celebrated dad and all 60 of his years!!

we played in newport

i made my first icing roses!! watch out mom...

I witnessed this guy getting baptized in Carlsbad

and this kid having a blast!

FINALLY got to swim!

we moved maddie into her new college life...wait that's nathan sitting on a college girls bed, with a college girl, in the college girls room! isn't that bed awesome??? I put it together! i rule.

went to St. George and trespassed at Sand Hollow

drove recklessly in the church parking lot

and climbed and hiked everything we could...

fun times were had by all!

hmmm

So, tonight Nathan found a measuring tape from a sewing kit and walked in with it around his waist. I pulled him over and measured 29 1/2 inches around his waist. I looked up at him and said Nathan that's what my waist was when we got married. He looked at me and said "WOW! You wanna see how big it is now?"

yeah, not so much...

Brad laughed...he won't be laughing later on... ;)

a few of my many quirks...

Nichole this ones for you... :)

Seeing as I've been such a bad poster lately, I figured I would have a go at this tag.

Mention the rules on your blog

Tell 6 unspectacular quirks about you

Tag 6 following bloggers by linking to them

Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger's blogs letting them know they've been tagged.


1 - Walking on grass grosses me out - even with shoes on! sick man.

2 - When I put our colorful plastic cups in dishwasher or the cupboard they have to go in a pattern - orange/black/orange/black/orange/black or red/green/red/green etc etc etc. i know ocd. but my real question is WHO DOESN'T HAVE IT? yeah that's what i thought.

3 - I will not swim with fish - no ocean, no lake - pool only! The thought of fish touching me is just disgusting.

4 - I hate milk - you will never catch me drinking a plain glass of milk - add it to cereal or even add chocolate ok but plain - heck no!

5 - I don't like pedicures! I know, how can I be serious?? I don't like when people touch my feet - good thing Brad hates feet! HA!

Wow - I've been so negative - which is strange because by nature I always look on the bright side of things - hmm i suppose that could also be a "quirk"

6 - I would rather be behind the scenes than out in the center of attention - I suppose that's why I love taking pictures - I can hide behind the camera instead of worrying about being in front of it.

Ok - that's me in a nutshell. Now I tag anyone who hasn't done it yet. Surprisingly, it was hard for me to do this tag - too many "quirks" to narrow it down to just 6 - and I didn't even get into the whole Satin quirk I've got going.... ;)

pool fun

Ok so i've been a big fat slacker lately...here are a few pics of the pool...

finally filling :)


enjoying :)
nuthead - no diving board yet
Audrey chillin' on the top step

diving board!
still nutty
brown fence - makes such a huge difference