Happy Anniversary to us!!

Tuesday, November 4, 1994 Derek and I were married in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. The weather this year has been just the same. Warm fall, warm Halloween, and then on November 4th SNOW!!

So now 14 years later I can't believe we're already here.

This has been a charmed life so far.

Being married to Derek is the easiest thing I have ever done. Life is so happy and parenthood couldn't be any better!! I had great neighbors growing up, the Hansen family. Well, I always knew that I wanted to have a life with feelings and experiences I observed in their home. We didn't have seven kids, only four, but I think we are giving our children the childhood I enjoyed thanks largely to the Hansen's.

We have such a FUN life. If you can't laugh at yourself (and everybody else) this probably isn't the place for you. We do so much laughing around here. Derek is so funny and he makes us all laugh all the time! We also love watching other people and we have a great time laughing at them (maybe I shouldn't admit that!)

Derek has always loved me 100%! I don't look the same as when we met and his feelings haven't diminished one tiny bit!!! He, however, is as handsome as ever and just keeps getting better looking with every year!!! What a blessing to have such a wonderful, loving, handsome, selfless, humble, spiritual, generous, and AMAZING man to call mine!

I love you babe!!!

Halloween

We had a great day. We carved pumpkns and then went to chili dinner at my folks place. Then we came home and Der took the three youngest out to trick-or-treat. Nat stayed home to pass out candy with me. She had three friends over and they went downstars to play games. It was a great night.

Brady is a greaser. His jacket even say's Thunderbirds on the back. Danny is a ghost (duh!), and Lolly is a gypsie. Natty decided to wear last years costume and be a jail-bird! Here's a great shot of our jack-o-lanterns glowing!

Off Track

I love year-round school. The middle kids (Lolly and Bones) head back to school Monday after a two-week off track break.

We try and do some fun things while they are off track and we kicked this break off with a bang.

The first day my folks took us to see WallE. Uh...okay I get it, don't litter! Gosh!

The next day I took the kids to the Zoo. This is one of my favorite places. My mom came along and that was so nice. In case you're wondering where the blondie came from, that's Lainee. She's on loan to us Mon-Fri when her Mom, Demaree, is at work.

We worked on the PTA Reflections contest entries for the kids. They both wrote poems and also took pictures.

Brady took a picture at sunset from the marina at the Great Salt Lake. Lolly caught a great shot of Antelope Island.

We went to Thanksgiving Point and Gardner Village. We had a fun photo shoot there.

I also started my job a few weeks ago. That has been interesting.