Shawna and Annie, is that not a cute picture and its perfect because Shawna is always helping with the kids, she is so great with them and we are lucky to have her!!
Tomass doing a little surfing...
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Canyon and Owen at Rainbow bridge they had so much fun together when they weren't fighting!! Best buddies.
Here is Madz she was one of the last performances before we had to stop... It was pretty cool, she just kept dancing even though the wind and rain were blowing onto the stage... It was like in Step up 2....
Here is Olivia in her costume..
Here we are getting everything ready to go...
My poor boys, this is the world they have to live in!! Doesn't he look like he is having a great time!!
Here are some of the dancers back stage... they were playing Hey let me see you bust a move.. they were great sports a lot of the dancers just took off, but these girl were waiting it out.. and their great parents were sitting out in a monsoon. For real it was the worst storm ever!! I was beyond stressed and was in tears as I looked up and saw a huge circle of girls holding hands praying together that everything would be ok... I still get teary eyed now thinking what strong great youth we have!! We rescheduled for the following week where it rained throughout the recital, we had a way smaller crowd but we had to just finish. Lets just say it is a recital none of us will ever forget!! I just don't know if I should chance it again!! We also had an end of the year swimming party scheduled that also got rained out!! June was not my month for anything outdoors!! We were able to reschedule our swim party for August though and had a blast!!
looking ever so cool, Just happy your not in school? Is that what you do? So do I...
Is that what you do? So do I....
.Do you fish when its light with Great Grandpa White
or have sleepovers with cousins at night??? Is that what you do? So do I...
Do you go to the Lake and watch yourself bake...
in the sun while your having fun? Is that what you do..... so do I
Anyway today is our anniversary.... Here is Tom and I on August 26th 1993......we were set up by my Young Women's leader/neighbor and good Friend in August of 1992 (our first date is a pretty funny story I should share sometime!!
This is the night we got engaged (March 31st), those are some sweet outfits don't you think?
Check out the baby fat in my cheeks... we look like babies anyway compared to now!
Don't you love the puffy sleeves and the head band veil.... I think you can tell exactly who got married within a 2 year time span as me we all had the ridiculously puffy sleeves....maybe we could all pull out our dresses and see who has the biggest sleeves!!
Doesn't Tom look so cute in his little waiter attire??
Anyway Happy Anniversary Tom, I love you, you really our my best friend, I am so lucky to have spent my life with you. My only wish is that we could go back and do it all again!!
Check out the wedding party....everyone is so little/young from left to right; Autumn, Amber, Rebecca, Audrey, my friend Jules, me, Tom, Brian, Josh, Troy and then in the front David, Andrew and Corbin... Andrew and Corbin took all the gifts for me... and they asked me "how much are we getting paid for this? They were all so cute!
After 4 miscarriages and over 500 shots to my belly little Canyon was born on a Sunday August 14th 2005. He weighed 7lbs 4oz..... and he was our miracle!!! Below is the hospital picture aren't they always the best??
I was such a nervous wreck the entire pregnancy I just knew someone was missing from our family and I just really wanted a baby I love babies so much... I thought once I got past the scary stage for me (about 18 weeks) that I would relax... oh no I even rented a machine to find his heartbeat that I checked 2 to 5 times everyday... and then at 20 weeks I went in for my ultrasound, they could not find his stomach or bladder we were there for hours and no one could find it, they sent us on our way with a weird name for what our baby had and said come back Monday...we fasted that weekend and prayed he would be ok and when we went in on Monday the second they put the wand on my stomach they could see his stomach and his bladder...we knew our prayers had been answered and we had been given a miracle!! We wanted to be surprised and not know what he was, but it was too obvious during all the ultrasounds ( I had them weekly after 30weeks) so we just told Hayden he wanted a brother so bad!! We told everyone else we didn't know ya we lied.... It was really the best way to do it. We got to announce the surprise when he came, but I got to secretly buy boy stuff...
This is my favorite thing in the world snuggly little babies...
Canyons first Halloween of course his dad bought his costume!!
He like his brother was born with so much hair! and Grandpa Tom was the first to see him also! Commenting on how they had more hair then he did... It is funny to see my two boys with their bald dad as well. Is he not so cute...
Hayden and his brother..
He had the cutest curly hair, we kept it long for a long time because I knew if we cut it the curls would go away... people always said he looked like a little surfer.. Canyon and Olivia
Canyon's first trip to Lake Powell... He loves to dig in the sand!!
He hated this costume so much!! He picked it but did not want to have anything to do with it after..
He loves to swim and could swim everyday... he is pretty brave too, we went to Cowabunga bay the other day and he went down every slide even the big dark ones..
Driving/sleeping on the boat...
Check out our hair!!! (in case you were curious where the boys got their hair) Is this not the greatest picture, all of our faces are so weird.. he likes to ride on the tube as long as I am with him... I love sharing this kind of stuff with my kids!
So cool, didn't mean to post 2 of these...
Canyon and his best buddy Owen...my mom always said your friends will come and go but your brothers and sisters will always be there and will be your friends when you grow up... she didn't say their kids would be my kids best friends too.... we are so lucky to have such close family and that my kids get to be with their cousins so much!! Happy Birthday Canyon I love you more then I could ever say... I always tell him we waited so long for him, or that we wanted him so much..... I hope he knows how much we all love him.... He is the funny man at our house too, always the entertainment, what would church be like without him their to keep us laughing anyway....
