Our Anniversary!!!

Monday was our 5 year anniversary... It's so incredibly amazing to look back at the past five years and reflect on how much we've experienced and grown. 5 years feels like forever but is so small in the eternal aspect of things. It's so amazing to think of how much has happened in such a short time.

Because we have had a sick baby girl we unfortunately didn't really get a chance to go out for our Anniversary :( On the Friday we did get up and make it to the temple to do sealings at 6am so that was our special treat. It was a hard day for me though - I have never struggled so hard to stay awake...

Monday felt like any other normal day. I woke up and found a very cute note and earrings from my adorable husband. I was happy and felt grateful for that simple little note, I didn't expect anything else. That evening Aaron arrived home with a BEAUTIFUL bouquet of my favorite flowers - Stargazer Lilies. He also had another lovely bouquet of roses. The roses look almost just like my favorite called Candia roses. Now my husband knows me very well, having worked in a flower shop from when I was 16 I love to arrange my own flowers in a vase so he bought me ones needing to be arranged. I had so much fun putting them together and they smell and look so marvelous.

This wasn't all though, he also gave me perfume and a huge bag of cinnamon bears --- MMmm yummy. The perfume we had both never smelt but it is gorgeous - I love it and know it wont last long ;) He is such a good husband and definitely does spoil me :)

Here's to many many more years....

Rachael's Blessing

Easter Sunday we blessed Rachael in our home. We decided to do it in our home because it was Stake Conference and we wanted Aaron's family to be apart of it as they were returning to Denver the following day. It turned out to be a beautiful day and we were surrounded by such loving family. We had a wonderful time together and Rachael looked absolutely adorable in her beautiful blessing dress.

We had a fabulous Easter dinner together followed by yummy apple pie and ice cream. Mm mm yummy... It was so nice to be surrounded again by wonderful family on such an occasion. We have decided that Rachael is our 'holiday baby'. She was born on St. Patrick's Day and Blessed on Easter. What do the following holidays bring??? Guess we'll see :)

Family Here...

Friday April 3rd we greeted Aaron's family. They flew into Denver and spent a few days there and then came to us. Josh was so excited that 'Mama, Pops, and Beth' were coming that Aaron took him up to the airport to meet them there. He was so excited. They spent just over a week with us and in that week there was a lot planned, most of it with Josh.

Conference weekend we enjoyed the company of each other while listening to conference. Aaron and his dad went to the Priesthood session of conference and them mum, dad,and Beth had tickets to the first session on Sunday. We had a lovely Sunday dinner together after they returned home and then Marcus and Nichole greeted us with games and dessert.

Monday began a week of fun events, Aaron had the day off and spent the time helping his dad build a 'cat hotel'. Yep, that's what we call it... Our cats would not stop climbing on our car so they built a nice cat home for them. So far they love it and it's working perfectly.

Tuesday Pops and Beth took Josh to the zoo while Mum did some shopping. They had so much fun at the zoo and Josh still talks about the 'scary' animals he saw there...
Wednesday Pops took Josh to see the new movie 'Monsters vs. Aliens' and Thursday took him to the Dinosaur Museum. Josh had so much fun with his pops he will surely miss him. After the dinosaur museum on Thursday we headed up to my parents house for dinner and to play the wii. It was a nice evening and I enjoyed spending it with both my parents and my in-laws. It is such a neat experience to see our parents interact and to also have them both together with Josh and Rachael. They are lucky grand kids :)



Friday afternoon we went to spend the afternoon with some friends and on our way down got stuck in a huge accident. It literally happened minutes (possibly even seconds) in front of us. We (along with quite alot of other cars) immediately had to slam our breaks on to stop. We waited for a long time as we watched numerous ambulances and fire trucks rush past us, it wasn't long before life-flight landed on the freeway. They began exiting everyone off the exit we were planning on taking anyway and as it was our turn they stopped us right in front of the horrible accident. We sat there as they hauled a dead body off in the ambulance and then watched the firefighters pull out their tools and cut the top half of this white explorer off. As we watched them peal the hood back we could see what looked like lifeless bodies crushed in this car. They then gave us the clear to exit and as we pulled away we could see two small children in the back. I lost it then and was in tears - it was seriously one of the worst things I've ever seen and it took a lot to get it out of my mind. We said a prayer for the family and headed on our way. Later we saw it again on the news. There was so much damage there and I couldn't believe the mess all over the freeway just from one car rolling 3 times after a tire blow out. Scary... We did eventually make it to our friends house and enjoyed their company.

On Saturday Aaron and I went out and did a little shopping while stopping for lunch. We had a great time. Josh went with his Mama, Pops and Beth to a horse show. We then met up briefly before they left for the Real Game.

We will miss Mum, Dad and Beth very much, especially Josh. He has already asked me "Will Pops, Beth, and Mama be coming back in 6 days?". He also said to me on Tuesday "Mommy, I don't have any friends here anymore" he was very sad that everyone left. I guess I am not as exciting...

So adorable!!!

Things have been a little crazy around here lately but all is well. A week after Rachael arrived Aaron was having horrible pains in his mouth - after visiting with the dentist it was evident that he needed to have his wisdom teeth out in order for the pain to subside. Unfortunately he had the worst case scenario but luckily was scheduled in for Friday the 27th. So needless to say our house was turned upside down for a few days with a new baby, husband recovering from wisdom teeth extraction a toddler wanting so much to be played with and then me trying to keep things in order while recovering myself.

We are very grateful for all those who have done so much to help us out. We are all doing really well now and getting our feet back on the ground. Aaron was horrible swollen after having those teeth removed but is feeling much better. I am doing great and Rachael is such a fun and adorable baby. These photos were taken a week ago, Josh had so much fun helping me take some photos of his 'little baby Rachael'.