Wake Board, Water skiis and cannonballs

We took the boat out for venture #2. My brother, Blake came with us this time to join in on the good times. For Ryan's birthday I gave him a new wakeboard. Yes, I am THAT cool. Both Ryan and Blake did a great job. Ryan had permagrin on the whole time. We all jumped in the water for a little swim too. The water was SO warm. We stopped for a bit and ate some dinner and did a little fishing. We had such a great time. We were a lot more successful this time getting the boat out of the water. Probably because Blake was driving the boat and not me. What a fun night!

Happy 30th Birthday Ryan!

Ryan is 30 years old today! Now I feel really old because we are now both in our 30's. He was keeping me young but now we are a hopeless old couple. Sure love you, Ryan. Here's a taste of little Ryan.

A First and A Last

In this last week Aidan finished his last day of preschool. For their last day they had a school play. They were all barnyard animals. Aidan was a bull. He did his part great but wasn't too smiley while he was up there. They also sang some songs and showed us somethings they had learned, like the Pledge of Allegiance. Aidan has loved going to preschool mostly because his best buds are in his class. I was a little sad that he was done but I know he is so ready for kindergarten. I guess the real sad part is that next year in school he won't be with his little buddies from church. I have all those mom jitters of their first kid going to school. Aidan knows school starts August 13 and he asks everyday how long until August. Oh hold on Aidan, please just give me these last moments.

On Monday Aidan started his first day of tee ball practice. He has a cute little team and the coach is really patient and great. Aidan did real well. He is great at throwing the ball. We need to practice with hitting the ball off the tee because he isn't use to hitting the ball that way. We are excited for him and he loves it. He was so cute when he would run over to me to say he was thirsty. He used his deep adult sounding voice. Lacey was a great cheerleader. When the kids were running the bases she yelled, "My brother is the bestest." Then she kept saying, "I want my brother to win." It was funny. Lacey ended up playing catch with one of the dads and a sister of one of Aidan's teammates. She looked cute in her dress, baseball hat, and pink glove. Classic.

We met today

Our 7th wedding anniversary was on May 4th but I didn't get to posting about it. But today is our anniversary of the day we met so I am posting about us today! We met 8 years ago today. I had moved into a new ward in Provo and a couple of Sundays after I moved in, Ryan and his roommate stopped me and my sister after church. They thought we were hotties. They asked if we were going to the Break the Fast after church and we were. Well, they showed up to Break the fast for their FIRST TIME. Hmm, I wonder why.? We hung out with them there and then at their house after. Our first date was two days later. We went to Leatherbys in Provo and then watched a movie. He drove a white lifted jeep when I met him and it was probably 75% of the reason he caught my attention.

Okay not really but it didn't hurt.

We dated for 6 months and then were engaged for 5. Ryan came at a time when I really wasn't expecting it. I knew though that he was my guy. I love his desire for adventure, his crazy sense of humor, his ambitious work ethic, his dashing good looks, and his strength in the gospel. He is a strength to me that I have always needed. He keeps me grounded and calms me when I am freakin' out. I love that he wakes up early and is ready to do something. He works hard in his job and also at home. He is a terrific daddy to our kids. I just love being with him and mostly that he loves me despite all my wacky traits. I love my life because he is in it.

Teaching from the scriptures

The other night we were reading in Jacob 2 from the Book of Mormon. It is when Jacob is telling his people that they are prideful and that they are committing grievous sins because they have more than one wife and have concubines. Well in this chapter he says abominable about 600 times. So I was trying to explain to the kids what this all meant. I told them that they were only suppose to have one husband or one wife and if they were married they were to have no girlfriends or boyfriends. Then I said, if you do then it is ABOMINABLE! So we all took turns saying "That's ABOMINABLE!" in our loudest, sternest voices.



So here is Lacey recounting what she learned.

You know when you have those experiences with your kids that you think, "I'm so glad this just happened because I will laugh about this for days"? Well, this is what happened to me. It was time for bed and Lacey got out of the fridge a yogurt. I told her "No, we aren't having yogurt now" and I put the yogurt back in the fridge. She started to cry and throw a fit and then she said to me, screaming mind you, "You're ABOMINABLE!" I couldn't help but bust up laughing. I seriously was so happy she said that because it will make me laugh and laugh for days to come. So that is what I get for teaching my kids from the scriptures. At least I know they are picking up that I am teaching them.

Photoshop Class

For my birthday last year Ryan gathered donations from family members to purchase for me Photo Shop CS3 to further my love for digital scrapbooking. I was more than ecstatic but it is HARD! It is hard to just figure out on your own. I was using Digital Image Pro by Microsoft. It was so easy to figure out on my own. The sad thing is that Microsoft is no longer going to make this software so I knew the transition to Photoshop was inevitable. So for Mother's Day, I received the gift of a Photoshop class online that is geared specifically toward digital scrapbooking. I have loved it. I have learned so much. It would have taken me years to figure out some of this stuff. The instructor has videos to follow which has made learning so easy. http://www.jessicasprague.com/ if you are wondering.

Here are the layouts that I created in the class. I am hoping I might be granted permission to take the next class too. It has just been too much fun.

Car Crash!

Saturday night we went to the Demolition Derby. As we were getting ready Aidan said, "We are getting ready to go to the car crash." He had no clue what we were about to see. It was held at our County Fair Grounds which isn't that big. It really wasn't what I was expecting. There were only a few bleachers to sit on and most people had pulled their trucks in backwards to watch it. I felt like I was in a real small town. They had two rounds, one with smaller cars and one with bigger cars. It was pretty crazy. As you can see in our pics, we were quite close to the action. For a little bit we let Aidan and Lacey go down by the fence. That lasted two seconds because a car got high centered on the mud pile at the edge and that was just too close for my comfort. Even on the bleachers though we had mud hitting us. It was fun times.

After the derby I drove us home and I really had to contain myself because I had urges to smash into the cars around me.