So on the day after the Anniversary....

So you have all had a few days to digest our Anniversary day that was tragically disruppted by a rude mini-van. I didn't want to upset you all needlessly so I waited to post these next tragic pictures. Carter has learned an important life lesson. Stay away from kids swinging metal bats. Good lesson to learn. He looked like a soldier leaving the front lines, shirt and pants covered in blood, gaping gash, hands and face smeared in blood. I threw a washrag on his head and carried him to the car all the while telling Michael, "don't look, don't look" and Michael is saying, "don't worry I won't" (He is a BIT squeamish about blood) so I took my war torn baby down to the clinic and he got........1 stitch! I told him to pout in one of the pictures. He was grinning from ear to ear--he doesn't know how to work a crowd for sympathy at all. Hopefully the eye will be unblack and stitch out and all cleaned up for Aunt Magen's wedding this Saturday.

16 years 5 days 9 hours and counting

Happy Anniversary to us,
It's 16 years of trust,
We celebrated real weeelllll,
Excepting our minivan from He**.

We went to Red Mill Burgers and even though I am no longer an Oprah fan I agree that it is a burger you must eat before you die. My cousin just celebrated her wedding anniversary and went all fancy schmancy with sushi, but Michael and I will take a Red Mill burger over Schmancy any ole' day! Oh-- the onion rings were GOOD too.

We also did a session at the Seattle Temple. In my mind I pictured taking a self-portrait of us outside the Temple and putting it next to a scanned it picture of us in front of said Temple 16 years ago, thinner, younger, and less tested by life. But that involves figuring out how to scan and it's almost a week later sooooo I gave up. Also self portraits, much harder than I imagined must remember to ask afore mentioned sushi cousin how she does that. By the way not that any of you need to know this but Marriage really does just get better with time....
It's nice to celebrate these milestones with Michael, I feel bad for the rest of you!!

For the "piece de la resistance" THE VAN, (have I mentioned that I had an epiphany from my 'partner in van hating' friend this week---turns out it's all my fault--I never bonded with this van and it ain't lookin' likely) did something weird, it got weirder, it leaked all over the Target parking lot while Michael and I pondered the weirdness. Turns out the weirdness was the transmission went out on our 2005 unloved, unappreciated, unproduced anymore, van. By the way when I took the picture of Michael with the van hood up he said something to the effect of "NO blog crap right now Becky"! But that is the best thing about the blog, even the "bumps in the road" aren't so bumpy because they give you bloggability!! I also took a picture of the Rent-a-car we had to rent in order to get home from the glorious Anniversary. By the way it's true, Enterprise really does pick you up.

Easter 2009

I love this picture--Carter REALLY wanted

a "robot" picture!

Like the original title? It took me HOURS no DAYS to come up with that one, and that is why it is taking so long to post about Easter. Actually the reason(s) it is taking so long to post are on their way back to Utah. Heather, Holly, Braxton, Dexter, Kylie, Sydney and Tyson have been here one week. So fun and so busy and so sad (really, no sarcasm) that it is over. I was thinking while they were here how much fun it would be to raise all these cousins in the SAME STATE, at least. Come on Brett and Brian Puuuhhhleeease (In case you don't know that is Sammonese for please) We went to Mardon's easter egg hunt on Saturday and loved being together for Easter. I can't remember the last time we were together for Easter(missed you Brenda). Baby Aftyn never touched a mattress the entire time they were here, hope they didn't spoil her for Courtney! I'm so glad they made the trip and hope they make it home through Salt Lake's latest snow storm. Enjoy the pictures all to commemorate Easter and the Cousins visit. I need photography lessons, put that on my birthday list. Carter has a running birthday list and I think it is a swell idea.

Let's go ride a bike....

I finally took Carter out on the bike he got for Christmas. He was hot stuff---loving it but needing lots of help. The tiniest incline was, for now, insurmountable but hey, what else are Mom's for?! When we got back home he posed on his bike for my pictures--that's when the first crash happened, but he took it well, he just said "that's gunna be two bruises now", if this kid only had two bruises on his legs at any given time THAT would be blog worthy.

New Baby Cousin....to Torture

This is baby Aftyn's first day home--I held the kids off their new cousin as long as I could (about 3 hours). The picture you see of Zoe is the only one of five where she wasn't literally in Aftyn's face---that girl is destined to be the mother of 12! She is so cute and so sweet, and I haven't brought my five baby muggers over since, I'm trying to get Aftyn back on my good side. I have snuck over a few times (ok every day) for a little "baby time". Nothing sweeter than a niece, I get to hold her, cuddle her, watch her grow and not pay for any of it!

Game afoot...

I thought this would be fun to do: (Well actually I saw it on several blogs and my trigger finger finally twitched--they do that sometimes you have to be vigilent)
The first 5 people to respond to this post will receive something made by me for you. I get to pick what I make for you, but it will be especially for you.
** But here's the deal:
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It will be done sometime this year.
4. You have no clue what it will be.
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.
** The Catch?The catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on their blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did will win a FABULOUS homemade gift by me( and if you know me you'd better pray I don't attempt to sew you anything)!! So come and play along.

Sumpun looks different or weird or sumpun...

The other day Carter and his lovely sidekick totally destroyed Carters' bedroom. I won't name the sidekick because it is not sidekick's fault, Carter could have destroyed his room just fine on his own, he often demonstrates that ability. This time I told him he had to clean his room before he could do anything else that day. Not very many minutes later he comes to me and announces, "I'm done, but sumpun looks different or weird or sumpun, but I tweened my room." Not bad for your first solo flight cleaning your room---there is hope.