After Church

Ryker, you look up to your daddy. You always want to be doing what he's doing and when I tell you "don’t grow up," you reply back, “I want to be big like daddy.” You have also told daddy, “You need to stop helping mommy and play with me more.”
Watching you two unbutton each other's shirts melted my heart.  I absolutely know that your daddy  loves you more than words can say. He will do absolutely everything to make you happy, smile, or laugh.
I hope that this will never change between you.
“Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.” – Author Unknown

A 10 Year Celebration

Dave came up with the idea of having a 10 year wedding anniversary party. He thought that 10 years was a huge milestone and it should be celebrated.
 
We celebrated it with a small group of family and friends on July 17th at 6pm in my parents backyard.

I went with simple. I got the flowers from Costco and arranged them in mason jars around the yard.

On our wedding we had sparklers for our guest as we walked to the car to send us off. I wanted to have sparklers again to celebrate our love with sparklers.

For the food we ate fruit and a lemon dip, along with brie cheese topped with red pepper jelly for crackers. We drank mint and cucumber water.


At our wedding reception we had peppermint patties being passed out by our sweet flower girls. I also incorporated those in.

On our wedding day we had my friend Alayne make our amazing cake and my parent neighbor, Sister Pope, arrange our flowers.
Our dear friend Kayla made a duplicate of our wedding cake. She made a vanilla bean cake with lemon filling (the lemon was added to this cake) and vanilla bean frosting.  It was heavenly.

I am truly grateful for my talented Aunt Dede who assembled the flowers for the cake. It turned out absolutely beautiful.

Afterwards Dave and I played the wedding shoe game. We were asked a question and we answered by raising Dave’s or my shoe. It was pretty entertaining. We all had a good laugh. 




The kids had fun sending us off with another 10 years filled with love.

“A great marriage doesn’t happen because of the love you had in the beginning, but how well you continue building love until the end.” –Unknown
 
It was a very simple celebration visiting with everyone. We will be forever grateful for all of our family and friends who came to celebrate our anniversary.

A visit

Aunt Brenda was in town for a couple of days, so Nana, Aunt Brenda, you, and I drove through Provo Canyon and stopped at Sundance to have lunch and while we were waiting for our food a ladybug made friends with you and it wouldn’t leave you alone. So finally after we ate you picked it up and move it to a flower pot.

After we walked around we stopped in the candy store where you picked out a red crystal candy and we ate delicious homemade caramels.

We stopped at Bridal Veil Falls where we walked to the falls. You were in your element hopping from one rock to another and looking for bugs.

We always love it when family comes to visit. Until next time Aunt Brenda.