Love her!
I taught her that. Haha!
To add icing to the cake. We took Bailey to the park on Monday for FHE and she shocked us all with the confidence to do a round-off, back handspring, back tuck, completely unassisted! I love that a few months ago we were working on the back handspring. She has really come a long way in a short time! Love you Bailey!
So it's our 11th anniversary today!!! Wohoo!!! I'm pretty sure I married the best guy around. I still can't believe we actually tied the knot. I have nightmares every so often that he hasn't asked me yet, we still have four kids and all, we just "live in sin" apparently in my dreams.
I can't seem to find my absolute favorite wedding pic but here's a few to enjoy.
Arriving at the temple in Manti. My parents thought we had plenty of time to get there so my makeup isn't quite finished. In fact it isn't even rubbed in! Haha!
Little smooching...
These were delivered yesterday as we are heading to Vegas in a few hours. We're going to tear it up with Lance Burton and some roller coasters. Heehee.
Mat checks every year to see what the appropriate gift is for each anniversary. This year was steel. It took me a minute to get why on earth he would buy me "Still" by Jennifer Lopez. Included in my gift was a DVD of "Steel Magnolias", steel weights, etc. The best was the "filler". Of course he had all of my gifts arranged cute and wrapped in tin foil, but instead of plain ol' shredded paper he used steel wool! I LOVE that guy!
Bailey looked so grown-up in all her shots. :(
One of our favorites of the kids.
Another favorite
Mat and I had Bailey snap a few of us. 11 years!!!
My guy Easton.
Caleb was so good about smiling. Of course there's not many teeth to smile with. :)
Darling.
This is the best shot we got from an uncooperative Peyton. She's still cute.
Fashionable.
The boys.
:)
A young couple dating saw that we were taking pictures and turned around to offer their help. I was so happy to get a great shot of my cute family!
The best looking guys around!
So Mat is gone to Vegas working and I don't sleep well without him. I've been passing the time looking though old photos of my older 3 kids. Since Easton was 6 months old we've been a digital family. These photos are all from discs though so I don't get them out to look at very often. I am totally sad about how young they all look. It just can't be that long ago that they were like this can it? I still get a kick out of the fact that I had 2 babies in diapers and both drinking bottles at the same time. You can't necessarily wean one baby from it when there's another in the house with one. I love looking back at our old house and find myself missing it badly. Since we still live so close I drive by often. It's so fun to see how the yard looked back then and how much everything truly changes.
This is Easton's 1st birthday. He was one of my sweetest little babies.
Always being held. :)
Caleb playing in the old sandbox.
I love this kid! 
It breaks my heart to look at these pictures of my little girl. I thought she seemed so grown-up then! Can't they stay little forever???
For my birthday (which was only last month) I asked for somewhere, anywhere, to hang all of my necklaces. I get pretty frustrated untangling them in the drawer every time I go to wear them. Go figure. Anyways, he made me this awesome board for all of my bling.
This is also a birthday request. We have this little flat-screen in our bedroom. When we originally built the house we had the t.v. connections wired in a different spot. So we may have put a few (unfixed) holes in the wall when we decided we didn't like that spot. I've been wanting something to cover up the holes desperately and finally have a cute little frame for the t.v.. Now if I could just clean it. lol
This is the BIG thing that I've ached for since we built! When we talked about our house Mat asked me to cut out things in magazines that I liked and start a folder with everything I wanted to incorporate in the house. Who needs a folder when I remember EVERYTHING? One thing I really wanted was wood windows with grid. When we priced out the windows I wanted they were going to be 3 times the cost! Needless to say we opted out. Mat however, had reassured me that I could have grid on my transom windows along the back of the house and on the front door. After being in the house a year I threw a small...okay BIG fit that the windows needed to get done. Mostly because they still had the raw wood exposed. After 2 years in the house half are completed. My front door however has been a sore spot for me. There was no tint on the windows so we were quite exposed to the outside world (not good for someone who likes to hang out in their skivvies in the morning) also, the wood in the front entry has become drastically bleached. Not to mention that I love the look of grid! This week Mat finally got around to installing (at least the front part) the grid on the doors. I seriously LOVE it! I smile every time I walk by. It also works pretty good when the "doorbell ditchers" (aka the boys that are in love with Bailey) come around. Now we can stand right inside and watch them come up the walk, jump out and Bailey can chase them doused in her perfume yelling at them to stop. (She LOVES it by the way).
Bailey's first day of school look. She actually had a "friend" tell her it wasn't cute. Please!
Always need some pics of Peyton too!
Aren't you supposed to dress up the baby and take pictures while the older kids are away?
My little stud Caleb. He's such a hottie.
My boys.
Easton's first day of 1st grade. He was so excited to start back at school. So sweet.
I love my yard. I spend at least as much, (if not more) time on it than I do on the inside of the home. I love everything being lush and trimmed. I love to reap the rewards of the veggies in the garden and feel totally self-sufficient when I open one of the cans of food I've done myself. I have one problem with my yard however. I can only do so much. Well, I've been overwhelmed lately with Mat working a ton of hours and trying to get through the summer and all. The yard needless to say has suffered. Suffered from not only my neglect but from Mat's as well. He works really hard on building beautiful additions to the yard and planting our awesome garden he has a hard time with finishing up the project or ignoring problems before it's too late. He's promised that in two weeks our lawn will be lush and green again and he will have more time around the house. Of course that was a week ago and the only work on it has been done by me. I guess whatever works huh? I spent the good part of Saturday, watering, mowing, and trimming and made some progress. Yea! I mostly wanted to post this so that I can look back in a few years and see how much the yard will have changed. (Hopefully by then I'll have the mister system that I got for my birthday over a year ago in place and the broken hammock will be fixed.) :)
Peyton helping me water the lawn. :)
My Mother's Day present a few years ago. One of my favorite places ever. 
Those poor little dry spots. :(
From far away it doesn't look too bad eh?
The more "productive" of the two gardens. I love that we can grow corn!
