Palmer's 2nd Grade Party

 Palmer's wonderful teacher invited all of the kids in her class who had met their monthly reading goal 8 out of 9 months this year.  Palmer was so excited to get to go to the fun celebration.  We had to hurry him out of his baseball game in order to get him there on time.  It was a fun night with just Palmer and Josh and me.  It is great to be able to do that every once in a while.  All of these pictures are from Instagram, as I forgot my camera.

There was a fun dinner and then stations that each of the kids could go to.

 We got to go to horseback riding first which Palmer was thrilled about!

 We also got to do a little sing a long with a guitar which the kids were so cute for.  I loved watching Palmer sing all of the fun songs.

 They then went to a station that was roasting marshmallows and they could play basketball.  Josh got them all involved in a competitive game of H-O-R-S-E.

 He claimed that he liked the charcoal best :)

The last station was four wheelers.  It was such a fun night and one that neither Palmer nor his parents will forget!!

BYU Women's Conference

 I love Women's Conference at BYU.  I have gone for the last two years.  The first time I went was my mom and me and then I went with my good friend Mindy.  This year ALL of my sister and I went with my mom and can I tell you, it was so fun!!!

 We had such a good time being together, talking late, eating yummy food and being uplifted and enlightened as we went to the classes at BYU. 

 I will always remember this wonderful memory.  Especially since my sister Michelle (second from the left) just moved with her husband to California.  We are missing them already and they have only been gone a few weeks!!

 My cute mom bought us all matching bags, which was so sweet of her. 

 We ate at PF Changs and Zupas.  Two of my very favorites!!

I hope we get to do this again some day, it was so much fun!!  Love these wonderful women.

Easter (Finally)

 Finally I am posting about Easter...I really am trying!  Life is really just absolutely crazy right now.  We had a lovely and relaxing Easter this year.

 The boys woke up early on Saturday to their Easter baskets.  Later we went to the Palmer Family Easter celebration (posted below). 

 We couldn't find Hunter's Easter basket liner so Josh improvised :)

 The boys were all so excited to get Webkinz.

 Palmer was especially excited about it.

 On Sunday the boys woke up to new Easter clothes and we headed to church.

 Later that night we had this for dinner and apple pie for dessert (recipe coming soon to the cooking blog). It was a bit more simple of a year, but just perfect.

 After dinner we had our traditional "Easter egg hunt."  We actually hide healthier snacks for the boys to find.

 They don't seem to mind.  The only Easter eggs are plastic and filled with money :)

It was such a fun year! 

More Teacher Appreciation

We have been so blessed with amazing teachers this year.  I thought I would share one more thing that I did for them this past week for Teacher Appreciation Week.  I just got a narrow vase from Walmart and hot glued pencils (E6000 Glue might work better as the hot glue is weird if it gets wet.) around the vase.  I then bought a bouquet of roses and cut them at different lengths.  I really like how it turned out and I hope that our teachers felt appreciated.

10 Year Anniversary

 Today Josh and I are celebrating 10 years of being married.  I have such good memories of this wonderful day.  We were married in the Salt Lake Temple and it was such a beautiful (and cold) day. 

 I was such a scardy cat to get married.  I had heard all of these stories about people being married and KNOWING they had made the wrong decision.  As ludicrous as that sounds, I was terrified of that.  I knew I loved Josh but I was having major commitment issues.  My experience on the day I got married was such the opposite of the above scenario. I KNEW I had made the right decision and that it would be one that I was always grateful for.

10 years later I love Josh more than I did on our wedding day.  I used to hear people say that and I couldn't believe it.  How in the world could you love someone more than on the big day?  Well, it is so true.  In the past 10 years we have been through some awful and amazing things together.  We have 4 boys that make us laugh, have made us better people, have brought us closer together and have filled our hearts with love and joy nearly to bursting.  I have watch Josh go through some heartbreaking things and seen his strength and integrity which are two things I truly love about him.

Josh truly completes me.  His strengths seem to be where I have all of my weaknesses (so he has a TON of strengths).  I will be forever grateful for this amazing day.

Easter Kite Flying Part 2

 I finally got through the rest of our fun Kite flying extravaganza that we had the day before Easter with the Palmer family.  It was so much fun.  After flying kites the kids came into the gym of the church (we had the party at the park behind) and my mom had millions of balls for them to play with.

 They had so much fun running around. 

 Played some hoops:)

 Palmer and Uncle Tyler played basketball together. 

 While the kids were playing, the adults were hiding Easter eggs.

 This was McKay's first Easter egg hunt ever and he thought hunting for Easter eggs was so awesome!

 Josh was the photographer for the day and he was so good.  The kids were running all over and he managed to get pictures of all of them.

 Poor Hunter, we forgot his basket, but he made due with a grocery bag :)

 McKay was determined to do it all on his own.  He doesn't let me or Josh help him with much lately.  It always makes me sad that he is so independent, but I guess it is good too :)

 At least he let me walk with him :)

 He liked hunting for the eggs, opening them and finding candy was seriously awesome!

 It was so much fun!  I am determined to post a few more of the fun activities that we have done lately this week!  Wish me luck :)