Happy 7th Anniversary

Wow, so it's really hard to believe we've been married 7 years already! We really have had so much fun over the years and I can't imagine my life with anyone else! SO since we've been married 7 years, I thought I'd put the top 7 reasons(in no particular order) I love him and am grateful to be married to him.

1. He has an amazing sense of adventure and drive to be active. Every year he gets involved with as many sports and activities that he can whether it be racquetball, paintball, basketball, softball, snowboarding, jet skiing, rugby, football, surfing, he's going to be adding 5ks to this list soon!

2. He is amazingly talented and handy. Since we've been married he's remodeled both of our bathrooms, gutted and remodeled our kitchen, leveled out a dirt driveway and poured and stamped concrete, put in ceiling fans and recessed lights in several rooms, helped me paint and repaint every room in our house at least 2xs, re roofed the house, etc, with very little outside help!

3. His faith in me never waivers. He has supported me in my many different adventures 150%. He has watched the kids while I have gone back to work and back to school and always encourages me to keep going when I want to quit, which is often!

4. He is a terrific father. He has helped with the kids since day 1, changing diapers, making bottles, watching them so I could have "me" time, helping them learn to read and write, learn manners, teaching them Tongan customs, and about the gospel and our Savior.

5. He loves the gospel. He is always striving to be a better man, to honor his priesthood and to serve in any capacity he can. He has a strong testimony and I love that he shares that with us.

6. He works so hard. He works easily 50-60+ hrs/week to support our family and allow us to do all of the many fun things we do. He's very good at his job, and I personally can attest to this, because I've witnessed this, it's how we met, at Stouffers, I worked part time in his dept (he was the supervisor) so I married him so I could be the boss- lol!

7. He loves me. I haven't always made the wisest choices in whom I dated, I had a lot of self doubt, but he saw past that, and loves me unconditionally! He tells me I'm beautiful and sexy the way I am (even though I know my face is breaking out, my hair needs to be recolored cause I can see some grays and I really need to lose another 40+ lbs), but more than just telling me, he makes me feel that way and I love him, and can't wait to get a stupid address so we can FINALLY get sealed together for time & eternity!

Ballet Class

Kennedy has been longing to take dance classes for the longest time, but since she's related to me, I have been worried that we would sign her up for something, and then she would change her mind, and I'd be stuck with fighting her every week to go, well so far this is not the case. I signed her up for this insanely fun, fairy tale ballet. It's a eight week class with 4 weeks dedicated to a story, this first story was The Wizard of Oz, and next week they start The Little Mermaid. They spend the first 10 min of the hour long class reading out of the most amazing pop-up book I've ever seen,





then they get dressed, she's been a munchkin, a witch, and last week Dorothy. They had so much fun and she loves to practice all week, and she can't wait to go to Oakdale so her Aunt Kelly can teach her more ballet!

playhouse disney live!

SO the day after Mason's birthday I got tickets for us to go see playhouse Disney live, at the energy solutions arena (formerly the delta center) i was really excited to go and thought it was going to be tons of fun, however the day wasn't as good as I'd hoped... there was a really bad accident on the way so it took us well over an hour to get from point of the mountain to slc, so we were late, and then, as many of you know, my family knows Disney, years and years of Disney, so I have come to expect a certain level of quality from them that was severely lacking! My kids however don't know any better and loved seeing their "friends" on stage, and we all enjoyed a day spent together as a family!