Life as of late.... and a tad further out.

This month we were privileged enough to watch my 5 cousins out in Heber while my aunt and uncle took a trip. We had a blast with these kids. They crack me up.... It was a tad tricky however to balance coloring, entertaining, activities, dinner, bed-times, baths, etc with homework but we did it and had lots of fun! We even got to go see Brian Regan in Salt Lake with the oldest two boys and had a BLAST. That man is HILARIOUS! We laughed until we cried and have been quoting him every since!

Ty and Logan are (almost) 4 year old twins and they thought our camera was so much fun to play with. So here is a small sampling of life through two 4yr old's eyes. (I have about a hundred more pictures just like these. They just crack me up!)

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Ok who knows when this actually happened but I'm going to blog about it now.

My little brother Kadin is quite a soccer player. We are lucky enough to watch him play almost every time we head to St. George since he plays year round. These pictures very well may be from back in November or so but oh well.

We're pretty big fans.

This is before we started to freeze and were nearly blown away.

Let the freezing begin!

My dad was prepared. We may have made fun of him but he was warm.

They even won the tournament so that made it just that much more enjoyable!

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So speaking of November, we had our family pictures done then. Tif did an awesome job. We loved her fun personality and got some fantastic pictures. You can check out more of her stuff HERE

Brad likes Jesse. He just doesn't want to admit it.

The memory of this picture cracks me up. We decided to throw all of us kids in here and as they were looking for places to be around me and Brad, Kadin said "I'll just sit here on this knee." (Meaning of course the knee that I'm already sitting on!)

Brad has some LONG legs so me and Kadin got to sit on Brad's knee together.

My sweet husband.

Jesse is such a sweetheart. He's currently off doing our laundry right now while I rip out my hair trying to study for a test.

Love him!

Maybe one day I'll do the laundry and he won't have to.....

I can't believe.....

I'm still awake! That may sound strange to some but I have been awake since 4:30am (for clinical) and I slept horribly (I was up about every hour) and miraculously I didn't take a nap and I'm still awake.... at 10:45pm (not sure why our computer says 9:45. I'll have to have my amazing, talented, gorgeous, generous, intelligent, charismatic, and altogether cool husband fix that). I'm not entirely sure how that's even possible but here I am. Just thought I'd share.

The End.

STOMP! and Valentine's Day

For Christmas I got us tickets to STOMP! I knew Jesse was going to love it since he did percussion through high school so I was super excited to give these to him. It was torturous to keep that secret in until Christmas.

And it was AMAZING! If you ever get a chance to see these guys in action you will love it. The show was hilarious, loud, incredible, fun, lively, and there was talent just dripping off these guys. I was blown away at what sounds they could make out of regular items you see every day.

Truly one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Check them out here.

Valentine's Day was also a treat.

Unfortunately my other half had to work Saturday night so it was a bit on the lonely side but we had a delightful Sunday together.

It was a tad humorous though because neither of us got the other romantic things!
Jesse surprised me with Roller Coaster Tycoon (which was my favorite game as a kid), a 1 hour massage (ok that is the romantic part), and cute little homemade flowers.

I got my sweetheart a transformers lunchbox and a dvd of the pixar shorts.
He was elated.

(I told my mom over Christmas that he like's pretty much anything a 10 yr old would like and this is living proof.)
We are so in love.

Each day I find more and more things I love about my sweet husband and feel so blessed that he chose to spend eternity with ME. I couldn't ask for a more loving, caring, doting, sweet, funny person to enjoy this journey with.

I am so lucky.

Jesse laughed at me.....

When I took off my boots after church and stepped straight into my slippers.

Can't imagine why!

Let's just say I'm not the most fashion-conscious person you've ever met.

Despite popular belief....

I am extremely not domestic. Pretty much in any way, shape, or form.

I cook way less than my hubby, barely do dishes, hardly ever do laundry, and the one thing I actually do is clean and that doesn't even get done most days of the week.

Exhibit A:
This is what our kitchen looks like most days of the week.

Exhibit B:
This is our Christmas tree that is still up in our messy house.

But alas, hubby taught me how to sew on a button!
Exhibit C:
I was born to an amazing sewer yet never had the desire, patience, or need to learn, so I didn't. But now that I've sewn my button back on I'm ready to conquer the world one button at a time!

I'm also getting pretty antsy to start making things, even though I'm not super crafty and still don't know how to sew... I will learn, hopefully soon. And it will be amazing.

Catch up much?

It'll probably take several posts to entirely catch up, but Jesse put the Christmas pictures on the laptop so I figured I could at least share those! We went to St. George Christmas Eve and spend a wonderful few days with the Dorius family.

We played lots of scum!

Took lots of naps.

And played with these amazing nerf guns. It was incredibly fun. Highly recommend nerf guns to people of all ages if you want a good time.

Then for New Years we went up to Salt Lake for the traditional extended Dorius family get-together. We had a gift exchange where Jesse and I scored! Me with my hug mugs.....

And Jesse with his Hickory Farm fancy-schmancy cheese, sausage, and cracker set.
We also partied New Years Day with Jesse's family at Noah's. Had a blast but didn't take any pictures! Oops.

This was also the weekend the car broke down. UGH. SO GLAD that's back up and running now.

Well now I'm being summoned.... I shall continue hopefully soon!