Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point

A friend of mine invited me to Thanksgiving Point last week. I in turn invited April who invited my mom. We had so much fun and took a LOT of pictures. See for yourself...

Tagged Again...

I guess it's a good thing I'm such an interesting person. lol
Thanks to my good friend Lisa you all get to learn a little bit more about me.

How long have you been together? It will be 7 years this September. Yeah-Lucky number 7!
How long did you date? Before we were engaged or married? We dated 1 1/2 months, got engaged then got married 1 1/2 months after that. It was 3 months total-to the day! June 8th to Sept. 8th
How old is he? 28 although I wish he were older so my kids would stop making fun of me. "You're older than dad!" they keep reminding me.
Who said ‘I love you’ first? Aaron did. I think I said "thanks". My "I love you" wasn't far behind though.
Who is taller? Aaron, by a foot.
Who is smarter? I'd have to say he is because he married me! :) He probably really is smarter than me, he graduated from college and I didn't. Not yet anyway. He's very smart at figuring things out like sudoku. He likes math and I like english.
Who does the laundry? Me, although once in a blue moon (every 4 years or so) Aaron will throw a load in. Especially if I haven't done whites for a while!
Who does the dishes? Me again but occasionally he'll load the dishwasher. He does rinse his cereal bowl out every morning though.
Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Depends, if you're at the foot of the bed looking at it then it's Aaron. However if you're actually in the bed then it's me.
Who pays the bills? I used to until we bought a ton of houses, now he does it all. Ever since our second year of marriage I think he's done it.
Who mows the lawn? Well, when we happen to live in a house that actually has a lawn then Aaron does. I think I mowed it twice in Ogden. As a side note- Don't mow in cream colored pants!!
Who cooks dinner? Me most of the time. However he's been cooking this amazing lemon/garlic chicken on the grill lately and I'd love to let him just have that job.
Who is more stubborn? Neither one of us really. It just depends on what. We pretty much agree on just about everything so it's easy.
Who kissed who first? Aaron FINALLY kissed me. Just kidding babe. I don't remember the day but I do remember I was right in the middle of a sentence. I was talking about cavemen dragging their women around by their hair. (Don't ask me why) It was a sunday and we were watching 'A Walk in the Clouds' obviously we weren't paying attention to it though.
Who asked who out? Aaron asked me out (he didn't know my name or number and put in a lot of effort to find me. That's a whole other story.)
Who proposed? He did at Bear Lake in front of his whole family. It wasn't a planned thing. He didn't have the ring or anything. He just felt like he should do it and Ryan helped with encouragement. (Thanks again Ry- I still think I should've name a kid after you!) The ring came a couple of weeks later when we went to the temple together. I think that's when I finally SAID yes too. The first time he only got two thumbs up- I was too emotional to talk.
Who is more sensitive? Actually I'm gonna have to say Aaron is. He's real sentimental and romantic and I'm not, usually. If he forgot my birthday or our anniversary I don't think it'd even phase me. I don't get bent out of shape over things like that.

So now I tag Gabrielle, Alyson, Jessica, Staci, Heather and Jane Ellen. Have fun!

Let's go fly a kite...

Last night my family came over for a 'family home evening'. It was a blast. We ate yummy food and flew pretty kites on the golf course and then went swimming down at the pool here. Aaron's 'canon-ball' was similar to a tsunami and my mom's backflip off the diving board can't go unmentioned either. I took the camera to the pool but left it in the van. Oops. I only got a few pictures of the kites and a few kids. I was too busy having fun with my family to take pictures. It seems like when I spend the whole time taking pictures I miss out on all the fun family togetherness so I let it go this time-but now I regret not having pictures of the whole thing. Aaron spent almost the entire night in the garage trying to fix our waverunner with the help of my dad. It still won't work and now he wants to "sink it to the bottom of Lake Powell!" The girls and I had a blast flying kites off the green. Macey loved just crawling around on the soft grass. It was so warm yesterday, it was just perfect. Today the weather has turned cold again so I'm really glad we got out yesterday and enjoyed the first really warm day of the year. I can't wait for more!

Here are a few of Dianne's kids flying their kites. Adam, Brigham and Mariah.

This is Olivia's kite. Super pink and girly of course. I actually flew it later on and it went so high I ran out of string. She took a nose dive and got caught on the neighbor's roof. We had to cut it down.

Olivia fighting against the wind.

Brigham helping Jocelyn down from the green.

My parents got these kites when they went to China years ago. We've been trying to get together to fly them for a long time and tonight we finally did. Too bad my dad and Aaron were stuck in the garage and didn't get to see them in flight. These eagles were the coolest, especially how my mom took the picture just as they crossed paths and were next to the moon. Great picture mom! Let's do it again sometime!

Serenity

This is kind of a random post. It had just started raining on the other side of the lake. I loved how the water turned this beautiful green color and then just blended into the rain. It was one of those still, quiet moments that you get to enjoy every once in a while and look at the beautiful world we have. It looked like a water color painting of the lake. It was much better in person, but you get the idea.

Utah Lake in March pictures.

Here are some pictures of our first boat trip of the year that I wrote about in my last post. Notice the snow on the mountains behind Aaron. He's crazy!

More boat pictures.

It was cold enough that we needed blankets, but that doesn't stop Aaron.

Here he is getting ready to get in. Brrrrrrrrrrrr!

Kell sitting on the back of the boat.

Macey has to sit in a jumper attached to the wakeboard tower or she'd crawl right out or fall over when we stop or go. It works so well. Aaron thinks it makes our boat look "ghetto". But it works so....
I love the in-your-face look on her face it's like she's saying, "Bring It!"

Nice 'rooster tail' Aaron. See the snow? The water was freezing. He was red everywhere the wet suit didn't cover.
Have you noticed that I am the photographer, driver, and babysitter-all at the same time? It's a good thing we were the only ones on the lake. But seriously who else would even contemplate going out to ski yet? The lake only thawed a few weeks ago!

Aaron has this funny habit. When he gets ready to do a big jump or cuts really hard he unconsciously holds his breath and puffs his cheeks out. If you click on this picture to make it bigger you can see his cheeks. It cracks me up.