Preschool Field Trip

On April 30th I got to go on Riley's preschool field trip. This field trip was to discovery gateway. The kids all seemed to have a great time. They are so funny to watch run around and discover all the fun things. Riley had the most fun playing in the water area, imagine that. I don't know what it is with kids and water. They sure have changed it from the one I went to when I was a kid. Thanks Miss Nora for planning another fun field trip!!!

Pinewood Derby

Logan and Brandon built their first Pinewood Derby car for cub scouts. They had a lot of fun doing it together. We all went as a family to watch Logan race it. He did great his first couple of races, however it went downhill from there. Even though he didn't win many races or place in the finals he had a great time. He even got a certificate and a candy, what more could you ask for.

Easter 2009

For Easter this year we went to Beaver Dam (it's in between St. George and Mesquite). My dad has a second home down there that we stayed at. There was a total of 21 of us, 12 adults and 9 kids, plus 3 dogs. The trip started out great, we got down there Thursday night. Friday we had a day of fun planned on the 4 wheelers. Well the fun lasted for about half of the day. Logan and I were on a 4 wheeler together and we wrecked!!! We were very lucky we had helmets on, or things could have been worse. Logan broke his arm just above the growth plate in his left elbow(he is left handed). I on the other hand couldn't move my leg. We thought for sure it was broke. When we went to the emergency room in St. George they said nothing was broke. YEAH!!! However the put me in a brace and told me to see a doctor when we got home. I ended up finding out I have a partial tear in my ACL, not fun. Anyhow the rest of the trip had to go on. We made the best of it, and Logan and I both ended up back on the 4 wheelers before the end of the trip. It was so nice to be in warm weather. We all had a great time even with the accident. I loved spending time with all my step brothers and their families. We can't wait for the next time, without injuries.

Our Anniversary

We had an amazing night away for our 10 year anniversary. It was so much fun to go to a hotel for the night and a nice dinner just the two of us. I was almost worried when we didn't get one phone call the WHOLE TIME we were gone. It was so nice, but at the same time scarey. In the last 3 years we have not had one night for just the two of us without at least 2 or 3 phone calls about Logan. We had dinner at the Bambara, where they printed out special menu's for us that said Happy 10th Anniversary on them. The dinner was sooooo good and we had a great 1oth anniversary. I am so thankful to my dad and step mom for taking the kids for us. We love you guys.

10 Years of Marriage!!!

Ten years ago today we stood before our families and close friends and said "I DO". It was one of the happiest days of our life's. I feel so lucky to have found and married my best friend and soulmate. It is so unbelieveable to think it has been 10 years. It doesn't seem like it has been that long, until I look at our amazing boys. In the 10 years of marriage we have had our ups and downs, and we have stayed strong through them all. I never thought I could love Brandon more then the day I married him, but after 10 years I can say that our love is so much deeper and more. The little things he does makes me love him that much more. He is such an amazing husband and father to our kids. I look forward to our next 10 years together. All of the songs on our blog are songs that have meaning to us. There are quite a few from our wedding too!!

This is from one of my favorite books and it really fits how I feel about Brandon so I thought I would share it:

"To all the ships at sea and to all the ports of call, and to my family, friends, and strangers.

This is a message and a prayer. The message is that my travels have taught me a great truth: I already have what everyone is searching for, and what few find -- the one person in the world I was born to LOVE forever. A person like me. A person rich in simple treasures. Self made. Self taught.

A harbor where I'm forever home. No wind or trouble or even death can knock down this house.

My prayer is that everyone in the world can know this kind of love and be healed by it."

To Brandon Happy Anniversary Baby !!!

Love Traci


Our Engagement Picture

Our Rings


Our First Dance


Us in 2007

US in 2008

Our Cute Little Family 2009

Dishwasher

So our dog Tigger has a thing for the dishwasher. Everytime I go to do dishes he comes over and climbs on up on the dishwasher door. He never really tries to lick the dishes, but he does lick up the water. He is such a silly little puppy. We totally love him though. At least he enjoys helping do chores!!!

Park City

This weekend we got invited to go to Park City to stay with our good friends at their time share. The boys were so excited, and had talked about it for weeks before. We got there Friday night and had dinner together. After dinner we all got ready to go down to the pool and hot tubs. I think the three boys were the most excited out of us all, they were on the go from the time we got there until the time we left. The hot tubs were much needed, and were absolutely amazing. It was so nice to just kick back and relax. After a late night Friday we all got up and had breakfast together, before going seperate ways for the day. Our friends hit the slopes and we hit the Utah Olympic Park and some shops. The Olympic Park was so much fun. We walked around the muesume and saw so many amazing things from the Utah Olympics. We then walked over to the bobsled track to see it up close. They were doing Skelton trials and we were able to watch them for awhile. It was so amazing to see them going down the track at such high speeds head first. I was able to snap a picture at just the right moment and get a picture of one of them going 76mph, talk about crazy!!! When we got back to the hotel we watched the skiers for awhile. We saw a little much of three imparticular skiers that were skiing in spedo underwear and thats about it. We later found out that one of them had fallen while skiing and needless to say his rearend was pretty messed up. After we decided to take the boys on the new Alpine Coaster. Our friends son was done skiing so he was able to go with us. It was a lot of fun for us all. That night we went out to dinner and of course the boys all were ready to go to the pool when we got back. Us girls stayed at the room and all the boys, husbands included, headed off for the pool. Sunday we all walked Main Street and looked in all the shops. While we were out it started to snow on us, talk about a sudden change of weather. After we went back and started to pack up and bring our relaxing getaway to an end. It was really hard to come home, NOBODY wanted to leave. It is always hard to bring a fun weekend/vacation to an end and return to reality.



The boys all playing their Nitendo DS's


Colby and Riley being cute


Colby and Logan being silly


The Marriott Mountainside where we stayed


Utah Olympic Park


Shannon Miller Gold Medal in the womens Freestyle Downhill


USA Bobsled


Usa Bobsled


Jimmy Shea's helmet from the Olympics. He took home the gold medal in the Skelton.


A close up of the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals


All the Olympic Medals


All the Olympic pins you could collect when they were here!!!


The Ski Jumps


The Family


A skelton racer


A view of the Olympic Park as we are driving down the mountain.


Apline Coaster Colby and Logan are in the red one Brandon and Riley are in the yellow