Lets cross our fingers we make it to 11.....

10 years ago I went to bed the night before excited and not feeling nervous at all. I remember sleeping great and feeling calm all morning getting ready. 10 years ago I wasn't really into makeup and had my 15 year old sis. apply my makeup while my sis in law did my hair.(wasn't really into hair either) 10 years ago I got to marry my best friend . I have always felt so lucky to be able to find him so early in life. I don't usually write anything about "us" but i figured 10 years deserves a post of its own. He is the one I know I can call for anything and he will always come through (aside from when I need him home early), I love that he know me soo well and knows how I will react to situations or crazy people, and he loves me for it. We work well together and although his laid back personality can sometimes drive me crazy I appreciate it daily. I always knew he would be a great Dad and Hunter and Emma both prefer him to me. My fav. thing he does with our kids is read to them at night. This weekend we spent time at the bookstore so he could pick up the call of the wild and my side of the mountain which were his fav. as a kid. We celebrated by having the greatest weekend together at home with out any kids. Friday we dropped the kids off and picked them up late Monday night and I enjoyed every second. Dusty of course missed the kids much more than I did and by the end he was noticing every baby and little girl wherever we were pointing them out to me. I apparently spend a lot more time with my kids and was completely fine knowing they were having a great time playing with cousins and spending time with their grandparents. We saw movies went to our fav. restaurants, got up early and hiked, went to the temple, shopped, played tennis, almost finished painting our house and just enjoyed being together without interruptions. Plus it was nice just being in our own house. I'm ready to do it again.

Sometimes Emma throws huge fits

and sometimes they are in the car on the way home.

so sometimes I just tell her to come inside the house when shes done throwing a fit.

and this time Ben felt bad and went outside to try to get her to come inside and to see if he could help her.

This time he got kicked in the face by her and he came in the house crying.

He is way too nice to her.

and i love the way his eyes turn turquoise when he cries so i had to snap a quick pic.

Hunter headed out this morning on his bike to go do some yard work for someone to earn some money for his cub scout day camp. He worked for an hour and a half and then decided to go inside and watch a football game with them. He also is just finishing up his season of Flag football and had a great game last night on defense. He and Christian and Chase had a huge cheering section and i think they all loved it. At the end of the game Hunter was dancing after he made a good play and looked over at out section of friends to make sure we were all watching and then continued his dance for a while.

Like I said, Hunter was struggling a bit during these pics..............

So if you had to decide

a b

c d

which of these pics to put up on your wall which would you choose???? My kiddos are uncharacteristically terrible for me when I take pics of them, so I took advantage of a mini session another photographer was having just minutes from my house and love the different look she was able to capture. Hunter and Emma struggle a bit in the taking pic department but Ben always looks cute for pics. Which is funny since he is my one who is out of control most the time.

We are on Day 4

of having a fever and feeling miserable. Well not really we but when shes miserable, so am I. I do okay until the fourth day of no exercise or getting out of the house, or playing tennis or doing anything social. The upside is I have been forced to be home and get a ton of much needed work done and I have been able to just sit and hold Emma a lot. She is even sick of being home and just wanted to get out and sit in the stroller while i grocery shopped. All she wants to eat is a little bag of red chips ( Doritos) and drink juice and water. I'm pretty sure i would be sick if thats all i ate as well. I'm praying for a recovery by tomorrow.

We have also been

•enjoying the last of spring before summer gets here

•painting the tree house until the novelty of painting had worn off leaving it 3/4 done

•finding Emma's hair in a pile on the bathroom floor. (i think this brings it to a total of 6 times that she has cut her own hair)

•enjoying Hunters football games every Friday night. His team is getting better each time. that first game was a little hard to watch.

•playing tennis whenever I can.

•we also were able to go on two dates this past weekend which is always great and always needed. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE having a kid that can babysit. well it pretty much has changed my life.

ITS SOOOO NICE

We celebrated Easter by

heading to grandparents house and playing with ALL the cousins that had come into town and having a big Easter egg hunt. Emma also enjoyed flying kites while Hunter pretended he was too big for his cousins and talked sports with his uncles.