TEN YEARS AND STILL TICKING!

Derek and I celebrated our 10th anniversary yesterday and can you believe it, we still like each other! Just kidding! I love him more today, than the day I said "yes"! So for those of you who don't know Derek very well, or at all here is a little taste of the guy I call "babe"!

1. Derek has been blessed with 4 girls (sorry Derek no boys in your future)
2. Derek loves to get out doors and go...snowmobiling, motorcycling, boating, camping...you name it he likes doing it outside!
3. He can't stand not being busy. He needs to have something to do all the time.
4. He has a very sweet tooth! He loves chocolate when he has the munchies!
5. His favorite color is yellow.
6. Derek's dream job is to own a charter service and fly jets.
7. He likes to sleep in...a lot!
8. He loves spending time with his family...yah us!
9. Derek is 6ft 4inches

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST..

10. Derek is an awesome and loving husband and father!

I LOVE YOU BABE!

I've been inspired!

Watching Kara and Karli becoming quite the pros at the ol' camera thing has inspired me to dust off my camera and take those pictures of Shannon in her "not-cowgirl boots"!

A true "not-cowgirl" learns to sleep anywhere!


At least it's not her sleeve!

DRAMA....at the Kobe home!

The culprit.....

The victim.....


The accusers....

While I was making Erin's birthday dinner, Erin said "Mom! There is a huge spider out side!" I went to look, and, I'll admit, at first glance it looked real. So I went to get my shoes on to take care of it, when the girls started to scream bloody murder! Sam is outside and really excited to have everyone near the door so he is jumping around the "spider" and the girls are worried he is going to get hurt. Very sweet, but VERY loud! Lauren was scared and started to cry, so I hurried outside and felt very sheepish when I got closer and noticed that it didn't move. I showed the girls that it wasn't real, but Erin ran into the laundry room and shut herself in! I swept the toy aside and went in to put my shoes away. Erin wouldn't let me in! She thought I was going to throw the spider at her! What kind of mother does she think I am? I should have! Erin wouldn't even get the toy spider for me to take a picture. I had to send Morgan out to get it for me! I'm going to hang onto it for future use...because that's the kind of mother I am!

Evening Crazies

In the hospital we talk about our elderly patients sometimes getting the "evening crazies". Well, we have a younger version in our home and her name is Lauren.This was last Sunday and she was bored, so I had a pair of tights that already had a hole in them. So, naturally, they go on her head!....And she loved it! Of course, once her sight has been altered, she feels the need for speed...in any direction!

HELP KARLI BEAT MIKE!

My supper awesome cousin needs help beating her sneaky husband in a blogging contest and would appreciate all the help she can get. Click on the web site to your right and leave a comment, thus putting your name in some drawings for some cute stuff! We wish Karli the best of luck and may the best woman win!

Dead Mermaids?

Let me explain this title. We were getting ready to eat dinner and, as always, Shannon wanted to say the prayer. We relented, AGAIN, and she wanted to say it by herself which can turn out very odd! ANYHOO, Shannon is doing well and out of the blue says "and please bless us that we can see a dead mermaid"! WHAT THE HECK? Derek and I had the oddest faces on when she finished. We asked the girls what this was all about and Erin claims that one of her friends said she saw a dead mermaid. For starters, we had to explain that mermaids are mythical creatures...not real! Erin actually wanted to argue this point with us! We also had to talk about keeping our prayers reverent and it's not appropiate to ask for a dead mermaid let alone a live one! I tell you, I wonder where we went wrong sometimes! I didn't think we'd ever have to censure the girls' prayers!

Draper Temple

I'm sorry I don't have a picture of my family in front of the temple,but if you've been there yet you know the set up isn't really condusive to taking pictures of the temple. I think they are so worried about anyone having to be out in the elements you don't really have a place to stop and just look at the outside. It is beautiful though! Our girls were so excited to go and see the inside of the temple and get a little taste of what their parents see and do when we go to do temple work. You could tell the girls were feeling something while we walked through and saw all the beautiful work that had been done. They were very reverant for the most part. Shannon tried to give herself her own tour, but was redirected by some of the volunteers. It's a good thing they have someone at every turn! The girls favorite rooms were the bride's room and the sealing rooms, because "that's where families are sealed forever". I think they found a real interest in the baptismal room because they would get to do baptisms first. Erin in only 4 years! I can't believe how the time has flown! We made sure each of the girls got a pamphlet to put in their journals to remind them of the day. They really want to go to the next temple open house now, and I don't know how you can say no! And on the way to the temple I spotted a KENNINGTON COURT. I wanted to go back and get a picture of the street sign to put on my blog, but Derek took another route home. I may have to go another time.

Shannon was hungry and tired by the time we took this photo. It's in front of the church building where we parked our car and watched the video. Then a bus took us up to the temple.