Life As We Know It

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Pond-front property

Apparently we purchased pond-front property and didn't even know it! We've had so much rain this spring. The last storm that made its way through dumped on us and the field behind our house looked like this when I woke up Friday morning.

By the end of the day the sun made its appearance and this little pond was full of people having a good time. It appeared to me as if it might be about 3 feet deep based on where it was hitting the adults who stood in the middle of the pond. Apparently there used to be a pond there several years ago and it was decided for safety reasons to drain it and fill it in. We've been here for almost five years and not once have I seen water in that corner of the field. This definitely explains the big rocks that I've never understood the placement of.

A guy was busy pumping out the water last night and today we have a much smaller pond. We still have tons of people gathering to play in it though. I know I'm weird, but that doesn't at all sound appealing or sanitary!

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

It's finished

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Our helper

Last week I was getting the house ready for the babysitter (thanks again Alice for watching Miles!!!) to come over on our anniversary. I'm one of those people who hates to have a dirty house when visitors come over and will go crazy cleaning in preparation. I knew that Miles probably wouldn't be content just watching me dust, vacuum, etc. and I was right. While I was dusting he got a little grumpy so I decided to get him his own dust rag so he could help. He LOVED it! He followed me around the house dusting everything I had just dusted. He is such a cutie pie!

Dusting the picture

Making sure it is clean

Friday, May 13, 2011

How we celebrated it

I've been wanting a nice cake stand for a while. I was hoping to find one that would become a family heirloom and one that we used for everyone's birthday cakes now that I'm obsessed with making cakes from scratch! After looking around at different cake stands I realized that I didn't want to spend the money for most of them because I couldn't personalize them. After hearing about a local pottery studio (Color Me Mine) from a couple of friends, I thought it might be nice to check it out and see if they had a cake stand that we could paint ourselves. So, after a very nice anniversary dinner at Olive Garden Dave kindly agreed to take me to Color Me Mine to check it out. I know it was probably the last thing on his list of fun things to do to celebrate our anniversary, but he is a great guy and went along...and even helped me paint! He didn't have much say in the matter though...LOL!

We decided to paint a fairly basic design on the cake stand. We decided to paint it using our wedding colors; periwinkle and yellow. The base or main paint color is the periwinkle and the accent swirls are yellow. After we decorated it they then dipped it in a clear glaze and fired it which in turn makes the paint a more vibrant color. Because of this process, we can't pick it up until Monday though. I'm so excited to see the final product and can hardly wait for Monday to come!

Here are a few pictures of our masterpiece!

Painting the first of three coats

Dave's hands are steadier than mine so he got to do most of the 2nd and 3rd coats of paint on the swirls

Stamping the swirl design

The finished product (well, sort of)

I'll have to add a picture of the officially finished product when we go pick it up on Monday!

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

11 years together!

It is hard to believe that we've been married for 11 years!

We had only known each other for a short six months before we were married. You could say that we didn't completely know each other on our wedding day and were both taking a huge leap of faith, but we were madly in love and knew that we were meant to be together.

We've had some really fantastic times together during the past 11 years that I'll never forget. We've also had some really tough times together, but we loved and supported each other through it all and I think came out the other side stronger together as well.

It might sound cheesy to some of you, but I know that Dave is my soul mate! He is the perfect other half to this relationship. He balances me out in ways others are not able to do. He lets me have my "crazy" moments and doesn't hold them against me. He is so understanding, loving, and forgiving. I sure am one lucky girl!

Thanks babe for sharing the past 11 years with me. I love you with all of my heart and am continually thankful to the Wedels for setting us up! I look forward to many many more years together!

I did a post back in 2008 about our fun love story. If you care to read it, click here.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Spontaneous

After the snow we woke up to Saturday morning, I was beyond ready for a change of scenery. We decided mid-morning to pack up and head to St. George for the weekend! I always have these grand spontaneous ideas, but normally talk myself out of them. This time I decided not to. We reserved a hotel room and loaded up. We were on the road in time for Miles to take a nap in the car and arrived in St. George at dinnertime.

I texted my good friend, Erin, who lives down there to tell her we were coming. She unfortunately had to work Saturday evening, but it worked out because we were able to eat dinner at the restaurant she works at. Saturday night was a very rough night. Miles came down with a cold or has allergies or is teething or something. He had (and still does) a horrible runny nose and was so congested it made breathing hard. He absolutely did NOT want to sleep in his pack-n-play. We finally got him to sleep in our bed somewhere around 11:30 p.m. We tried everything, even driving around St. George, but nothing seemed to work until he just finally gave up and crashed. He is a crazy sleeper and covers every inch of the bed he is sleeping in. He even would throw himself on top of myself or Dave and still be sound asleep. Needless to say we didn't get hardly any sleep. He then woke up at 6:00 a.m. and was ready to start the day. UGH!

Because he had such a short amount of sleep overnight, we decided we'd offer him a morning nap in the car while we drove down to Mesquite. I think the drive between St. George and Mesquite is pretty so it was a nice excuse to make the drive. We ate breakfast at the hotel and then loaded everything up. When we got back to St. George we went for a little hike. Apparently Miles is scared of big rocks! It was funny watching him. He didn't want to get too close. After our hike we grabbed some lunch and then met Erin and her family at a park. The kiddos played at this really neat park while Erin and I got to catch up. When Miles started to look sleepy again we said our goodbyes and then headed home. Although we got almost no sleep, it was still nice to get away and to soak up some vitamin D and warmer temps that St. George almost always has to offer.