7th Anniversary Week

Here are some highlights from our fun week:

A week ago Thursday, Travis came home from work for a long lunch while I went to get my hair cut. I love him! Then he kept working from home for the afternoon and watched the kids while I went to the church for Activity Day. I love him more! I am one of the Activity Day leaders for the 8-11 year-old girls in our primary organization at church. We usually have 12-14 girls at the activities every other Thursday afternoon. For this activity we decorated pumpkins. I brought out all sorts of craft supplies for the girls to use. They had a fun time with their creations. On Friday, we had dinner from Chiles to celebrate our anniversary (afterall, it is an anniversary weekend!). Then put the kids to bed and enjoyed a movie night.

Saturday Justin and I went to a primary program practice at the church all afternoon. I teach the Valiant 9 class with the other Activity Day leader. We have 11 kids in our class. Justin did a great job with his line for the Sunday sacrament meeting program: "My family can follow Jesus Christ in faith." Saturday night was our ward's Halloween Party.



The kids had a great time at the "Trunk or Treat" in the pouring rain. After dinner, the Young Men and Young Women put on carnival games and a Spook Alley. Justin really wanted to go through the spook alley with Travis. I wasn't sure he'd make it through. He didn't. He came out after the first little section and he was almost in tears. I felt bad that he was so scared, but now he reminds me when he sees Halloween ghosts, etc., that they are just pretend. Tyler was scared of all the kids in different costumes. Maybe we'd better just stick with decorating pumpkins this Halloween. :)

Our 7th anniversary was on Sunday. We were married on October 21, 2000 in American Fork, Utah, at the Mt. Timpanogas LDS Temple. We watched our wedding video and it was fun to feel all those emotions again. What a good day! The last 7 years with Travis have been wonderful! He is an amazing father and husband. I am so blessed to have him in my life. We are so happy to be together and look forward to many more years of memories.

I added music playlists to our blog. You can listen to them anytime. The boys like to dance to the Kids Mix, but I didn't realize they would get so exicted about it. They both beg to listen to "their" music on the computer and then run at full speed around the circle of the kitchen, down the hall, through the living room and play room and back through the kitchen. They run even faster for the songs they love the most. On several days, Justin has done this for 1 1/2 hours or longer. So, it turns out that it makes great workout music, too!

Well, the other day, Justin had been running and dancing to the music when Tyler woke up from his nap. He joined in, too, and they started chasing each other around our circle. After a while, they stopped for a rest next to me in the kitchen while I was cleaning up after dinner. Tyler's favorite song started and he did this little hop and skip to start off running fast. Well, his foot caught my foot and he tripped and fell right on his face. He got up screaming and blood was dripping from his mouth. He bit his lower lip pretty badly. He started yelling for a bandaid. Justin raced upstairs and brought all our first-aid supplies downstairs.

As I was trying to stop the bleeding, Justin got out a Curious George bandaid and put medicine on it. I was trying to explain to him that he couldn't put a bandaid in his mouth, but Tyler kept screaming like I was nuts to not let him have a bandaid if he was bleeding. So, I put a bandaid on his chin and the crying immediately stopped. Thank goodness for magic bandaids! I thought Ty might need stitches. Luckily, Travis was on a conference call for work upstairs. He was a good sport about being interrupted. After a call to the doctor, we decided he would probably be fine. So far, his lip looks like it really hurts, but I think it is healing up nicely. Luckily, neither of the boys have had a broken bone or stitches. (Knock on wood...I'm hoping to avoid the emergency room thing...forever!)

Two cute things:

Yesterday, I gave Tyler a drink of milk. He took one sip and said, "Mmmm...needs salt!" Where does he get this?

Today I was talking on the phone in the other room. When I walked into the bathroom, Justin and Tyler were covered from head to toe with bubbles. Justin had made a mountain of soap bubbles in the sink and Tyler was helping him to spread them EVERYWHERE! I laughed and grabbed the camera.



Then plopped them both into the bathtub for a play bath. It felt like one of those church commercials when the kids get covered with flour and the mom takes a picture and then joins in with all the fun. Well, my boys didn't get into trouble. I guess you could say they were rewarded with their favorite thing...more bubbles.

Tonight we are going to Justin's school for a family sing-a-long concert with Tom Hunter. Justin is counting down the minutes until we go....