a year wiser

It is so much fun for Trav and I have to have our birthdays so close together. We get to take each other out and celebrate another year for each of us. We get to open a gifts together...so really it's like a small Christmas all over again. I love it! This year we went to Olive Garden and finally got to see Taken, a movie we've both been wanting to see since it came out. We highly recommend it too!
We realized half way into our pie that we didn't sing Happy Birthday or blow out candles! Mom jumped out and got a candle for both of us and since we were eating pie, we stuck it in our ice cream. Too funny. Happy Birthday my love!

When ribbon comes in handy

So what do you do when you have to wrap a birthday gift and have no birthday paper? I had a couple of plain brown bags but they looked super boring. But I had white, shiny wedding paper and thought, why not? Then I wrapped it I realized it was probably worse than the plain brown bag. I was just about to unwrap it myself and then I looked over and saw all of my ribbon. Perfect. So I covered the whole thing in curly ribbon and ta-da!
This is Travis' birthday present! Festive, isn't it? I think it's fun. This weekend we will be celebrating our birthdays and I am very excited about it! I can't wait to see him and I can't wait to go out and have some fun. I have no idea what we'll be doing but either way it will be fun to be out with Travis. I can't wait till this five week of "separation", we'll call it, is over! Just a couple weeks left and then I can live with the man I married. Yay! :)

on our own

Last weekend I drove behind Travis to Salt Lake City to spend one last weekend with him before our five week parting (minus weekends). It's true. Travis has moved up to Salt Lake to do one last and final rotation at Salt Lake Regional. I have decided to stay in Cedar so that I can continue working and to stay busy. This is not the first time that Travis and I have been apart but that certainly doesn't make it any easier. I still cried myself to sleep that first night but experience has taught me that each night gets a little easier-which is comforting.
For those of you that don't know for three months of our engagment I was living in Salt Lake and he was living in Cedar. For the whole summer he came up every weekend to be with me. Three years later-Travis is living in Salt Lake, I am in Cedar, and I will be going up to Salt Lake every weekend to be with Travis and I'm totally okay with that. Travis is working hard and I am more than happy to repay him for always coming up to see me. I love you babe! Go get 'em in the big city! You're gonna do great!

2 kids and 60 pictures later

Our niece, Avary, has loved playing with our digital camera since we got it. I've never really had a problem with her taking pictures with it because I can just delete them when the weekend is over. Well now Atkin has joined in Avary's love for taking pictures. It is always fun to go back through the pictures to see what they took and to see if any actually came out clear. In this case, not so much. Well because there are sixty pictures, I won't share them all with you but I will show you enough to give you a good idea what kids find important enough to take a picture of. Enjoy!

Baby brother, Easton

Being creative by taking the picture at a different angle.

TV, of course.

Avary takes a picture of herself-by herself

Baby Easton the next dayBoogie, family cat

Beautiful picture drawn by Avary herself!Cuddly, loveable blanket that is found everywhere they go.Favorite Uncle!Atkin's toes, taken by Atkin. Don't you miss wearing pj's that have the feet?? I know I do.

Family picturesRemotes-naturally they are important.Best Mommy and Daddy in the world!Best Aunt and Uncle around.
I absolutely love Avary and Atkin, they are so much fun to play with and I am so grateful to be apart of their family. Love you guys!!

What would you do??

So if I did my hair like this would you still be my friend??