About Me

I'm a mother of four girls and one boy and I've got the greatest husband in the world-and I'd bet the farm on that one. We're a great team although he says he's moving out of the house as soon as all our girls are teenagers. We're very strong in our religion which is in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I draw strength from my religion and my family. I love life and am grateful to be surrounded by such great family and friends. I am gently reminded daily of the love and blessings that our Heavenly Father has for us. I live the life I always dreamed of having. I don't know how I was so blessed. Sometimes I feel undeserving to have the perfect life I always wanted. But I'm not complaining! I'm the luckiest girl in the world. Life goes up and life goes down, but even during the lowest so far, I'm still happy. Still know that I will have my family forever. Still know that my husband adores me and I him. Life is so good.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Aaron's 10 year high school reunion.

This past weekend was spent in Pendleton, Oregon. Aaron had his 10 year reunion so we left the girls with Grandma and Papa Sharp in Idaho and made the drive without them. It was so nice to spend 7 1/2 hours straight with him with no interruptions! His cell phone even died at the beginning of the trip so there we were just the two of us. It was one of the best road-trips of my life! We talked and laughed and sang and reminisced and dreamed together. Every once in a while Wanda (that's what Aaron named the GPS) would tell us where to go but that was it. The drive was over before we knew it and we were in Pendleton. The view from the top of the pass was breathtaking. You're so high you can see the checkerboard quilt of all the fields! After the descent into the valley (and popping our ears a thousand times) Aaron showed me around his town. It was so fun to relive old memories with him and talk with old friends. One family in particular were the Megehee's. We stopped and talked with Allyson and her family for a bit. They were so nice and other than my own in-laws I've never seen more doting grandparents. They love that little Jack! The picture is with Allyson and unfortunately the only one we took the entire time. We had the camera in the car the whole time but just never got it back out again darn it.



The reunion was held in the Let 'er Buck room which apparently is infamous for alcohol and wild parties...we'll it didn't disappoint. Of course we only drank water or pepsi (which frankly is the "hard stuff" in our book). We had a great time catching up with old classmates and friends. Aaron was in his element as he went around saying hi and talking to everyone. At one point he came back laughing. Apparently some classmates were joking with him asking him when he was going to work at the 'Chip and Dales' (is that even how you spell that? How would I know?) Anyway, we had a good laugh over that one. I always thought he was one hot babe but apparently he should be getting paid for it!!! Bring on those one dollar bills-no wait, make that 100 dollar bills! Ha, ha. For a reference as to what he was wearing to merit such a comment see the picture on this post. He just makes everything look good! Anyway, we had a blast there and at the picnic the next day. It was good for him to be back and fun for me to see where he grew up. We'll be back in 10 more years!!

American Fork Days






We went over to American Fork to their Steele Days. We started out watching the children's play "Beauty and the Beast". Then we went swimming (oops no camera) and then went to the carnival. Joci didn't come to the carnival because it was late and she was going to sleep. They loved the rides!

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Macey's 1st Birthday





So I'm posting these a little late but better late than never. I can't believe my baby is 1. It seems like she was born just a few weeks ago. Time has flown by. Is that why I'm getting wrinkles?
This was my attempt at a ladybug. Of course everything has to be pink. That's what happens when you've got 4 girls!

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Fun in the Sun at Grandma's and Papa's

This honestly has to be my all time favorite trip to my in-laws. We went to Shelley Idaho and stayed with them for a week. My wonderful mother-in-law (who I dearly adore!!!) watched the girls and I got to go work with Aaron. Not that I don't love my kids but it sure is nice to get away from them once in a while and just be with Aaron. Actually Olivia was helping too (more than me at times) and we thought it was fun spending some alone time with her. She worked very hard. We made a playhouse, Abby's (the dog) shelter and 3 shelters for the cows up at the ranch. I can't believe I forgot to take pictures of 'The Ranch', it's gorgeous there. 48 acres of beauty. 3 horses (but our favorite is Roxy) and lots of cows. The view is spectacular, the weather was great and the thought of that hot tub on the deck doesn't hurt either.
Thanks mom and dad Sharp for having us. It was so fun, you probably couldn't tell by all the bruises I got from working but I had a great time.
We all got to be in the 4th of July ad for CAL Ranch. Here the girls are running through the sprinklers for the commercial/paper.
Makell has the cutest buns in the world!
Thanks again for the 'swimoot' Aunt Chewey!
Sweet cheeks cheeser.
Aaron on one of the many of Papa's toys.
Olivia and Macey on G&P's front porch. Macey got to watch as the other girls ran through the sprinklers. It's so hard being little!
Olivia and Gizzy. I love this picture.
Aunt Mandi got matching pink overalls for all the girls. They are so cute, thanks Mandi.
We took the new boat out for a spin. The girls all got in and swam around until they had blue lips. It was COLD. Aaron entertained us with a few backflips off the back of the boat. We kept wishing we had brought our wakeboards with us!! Darn it.

Saratoga Splash

This day started out with a bike ride down to the park to watch the wakeboarding competition. I'm sure it would've been good but they started 2 hours late so we left just as it began. Sleepy little girls don't care about wakeboarding apparently. After that we went to the carnival (which wasn't so much a carnival but just a bunch of bouncy toys). Then we went home and Aaron made us all his famous lemon chicken.
Yum! I ate too much of it as usual but worked some of it off walking down to the parade. I thought it was smart that a dentist's float was first and they threw out toothbrushes. Of course we had bags of candy after that. The day finished up with a concert and fireworks. It was so nice spending the entire day with Aaron and most of my side of the family.Here's Aaron, Jocelyn and Macey at the concert that night. Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band played who I LOVE. They are hilarious in concert! I actually have one of their songs on my playlist for this blog called 'Dream Big'. Click on it and you can hear them. They played that song and it's even better in person.
This is one of my favorite pics of Macey. I love that big two-toothed grin!
There were a bunch of bouncy toys there that the girls had a blast on. Makell is thoroughly enjoying it here.
As is Olivia here. I got some of Joci too but they didn't turn out too well.
Macey fell asleep in Aaron's arms. There wasn't anything for her to do so I can't blame her.
I love this picture! You can see the adoration in my dad's eyes for his granddaughter. He would tickle her with his whiskers and she'd laugh. It was very cute.
Olivia and Mariah (Dianne's 2nd to oldest) at the concert.

Movie Night at the Park


It's time to play catch-up. We went to see The Waterhorse at the park about 3 weeks ago. Aaron was gone to Youth Conference so I ventured out on my own with the girls. It was a blast. It got pretty cold so we left around 11pm.