Eight is Great

So it was eight years ago that this kid and I decided to tie the knot. I know I have posted this picture before but can you believe how young we looked!? Mere kids I tell ya. I still had baby fat on my face for crying out loud.
Here we are wiser, older and let's just say it, a little bit fatter. The years have been good to us. I feel so fortunate to be so happy in my marriage. I think after eight years you truly can't ask for more than that. Well maybe I could ask for a better picture than this poor-lighted shiny-faced one. I must say the five year old photographer did the best she could. She kept telling me that the lighting was atrocious.

So the two year old took over. Her pictures are taken so quickly that you literally have to stare directly in the camera to make sure you get in the shot. She's so artistic like that.

We did a major splurge this year for the annivesary. We had a gift card to a very nice restaurant for fifty big ones but were told that would only cover one meal. So being the cheapos we are we have had this gift card for over a year. We decided this year was the year to splurge. You're only married for eight years once right?

Bryan had to get a BIG steak. No other steak would do. Not only big but covered in butter. I went for the surf and turf. Scallops the size of my fist, mmmmmmmmmm yummy.

This may make me sound like I was raised in Wyoming and have no food credentials whatsoever but I have never had Creme Brullee (if I spelled it wrong, I will not be judged and I'm not looking it up so there you go). My meal came with a dessert and I decided to give it a whirl. It did not disappoint I'll tell you what. They even gave us an additional free dessert and put a candle in it. AND they put rose petals on our table. Talk about romantic.

Happy eight Bryan! Love you and am so glad that I married you.


After the anniversary it was officially Spring Break. I decided that for this Spring Break I was going to see how late we could progressively sleep in each day. We have reached a personal best today. We started out around 8:20AM at the beginning of the week and have now reached 9:05AM. I am so proud of my girls. We set goals and we acheive them.

Now after my confession of laziness for this Spring Break we have done a few things. I only took pictures of the zoo though. I promise we did more than that...

The gorillas were awesome this time. They were hitting the glass and running around. There was even a little tiny baby that was so cute. We spent the majority of our time with them this zoo trip.

Julia had to take a picture of the baby gorilla with his mom. It really was so cute.

And before I forget a few weeks ago we had the chance to go up and visit Bryan's brother, wife and these two adorble kids. Of course I forgot my camera so I had to steal a few photos. Bryan's mom was in town and we had such a great weekend with them. Can you believe the hair on this baby!? I thought my babies had a lot of hair but little Sarah puts them to shame.

We did my girls very favorite things; swimming and a movie. Grandma fortunately knows them very very well.

Three cute cousins.

James, Bryan and Natalie all have March/early April birthdays so we did a big celebration for the three of them with the biggest chocolate cake you have ever seen. This picture does it no justice. Bryan and James were in a chocolate coma after this one. You should have seen the size of their pieces!

We just love this Scotty.

The pool crew. Thanks again Grandma for the visit and James and Natalie for having us. We truly love having you live closer.

I am becoming a pretty weak blogger these days. I have no reason other than the fact that so little has been going on around here. We are getting a little bit warmer weather which is nice. Venturing outside is something that has always done our family good. Brings a little sanity back into our lives.

It was warm-ish this last Saturday so we went jogging and had lunch at the park.
The girls and their matching hair-do's. Sometimes it just hurts my brain too much to think of two different hair-do's every single day so more often or not they are the same, because then I only have to think of one. I don't think they care.

Julia is so proud of her newly improved "pumping" skills.

She's also a pro at hanging upside down...

I wonder where she gets it from?

sidenote: If it appears that Bryan is in pain that assumption would be correct. For some reason this is so much easier when you are five.