Back-blog alert…June was a great month. Mark and I celebrated 12 years of marriage. Yes, 12! Can you believe it’s been that long? I remember this day like it was yesterday…
The best day of my life happened on June 22, 2001. I’ll spare you all the mushy, lovey-dovey feelings and all but I have to mention that there were never any doubts on that day. No questions about who I was marrying and where we were being married. I’ve never felt so at peace with a decision in my life. Except for maybe the birth of each of our kids. Those all come in at a close second. Being married to my best friend in the whole world has made the last dozen years fly by. So, Mark, thanks for putting up with me and all my OCD tendencies and moods. I love you.
Darron is quickly making a habit of taking a trip to Mesquite every June. We are loving it! This year we missed having VaLynn and Grant visit, though. Maybe next year? Darron flew out with his three oldest kiddos and the cousins had some great cousin-bonding time. Can you guess what we did every day?
Yup, lots of pool time.
After two days Calista showed tons of improvement with her swimming. She finally felt comfortable swimming back and forth across the deep end without any floatation device.
Mark and Téa started some chicken fights.
Here’s our attempt at a family picture. That one is definitely not making it on the Christmas card.
Alex and Calista. They had so much fun together.
Téa and Isaac playing dead.
I was able to catch Piper in the act of terrorizing Papa. She would sneak up behind him and try to strangle him with a noodle. Can you see the look of pure joy on her face?
She sure dished out the abuse on my dad. But, Papa doesn’t play fair so she got it right back. Mark did way more swimming than I did. The kids wore him out every single day.
All smiles in the pool, all the time. The best way to get the kids to behave at my parents is to threaten them with no pool time. Works like a charm.
My parents took us all to the Tuacahn Theater in St. George to see Mary Poppins. Tuacahn is an awesome outdoor theater with the beautiful red cliffs of Southern Utah right behind the stage. It was amazing. The kids loved it and it even kept Piper’s attention for most of the play. They were even able to use cables and such to have Mary Poppins fly in and out.
Anna and Piper killed some time while waiting to be seated.
This is what happens when my dad asks Darron to hold his jacket for him.
The whole gang a few minutes before curtain time.
Seriously, I want to make this a yearly tradition. We had a great time! We had all the kiddos in one row and then the adults behind. Piper may or may not have gone back and forth between her seat and my lap during the whole production.
My husband. So photogenic, right?
The day after seeing the play at the Tuacahn it was our anniversary. Darron and my parents offered to watch the kids so we could go out and celebrate. We headed to St. George for some Red Lobster so I could eat all kinds of shrimp. So tasty.
After dinner we headed to a movie. Shortly after the movie started I was cursed with the worst case of heartburn I have ever had in my entire life! I thought I was going to die. Thankfully the movie was good and it helped distract me but as soon as the credits hit I told Mark to get me to a store stat. After pumping my body full of Tums and liquid antacid I was happy.
Unfortunately all good things come to an end and the next day was Sunday and Darron and the kids had to go home. We had a great time. Can’t wait to do it again.
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