Happy Birthday Terry!

Terry turned a year older! Yes, that's right, he is now 34. Poor old man... he's gonna need a cane soon. Just kidding honey. We celebrated his birthday on Wednesday by going out to dinner at Garcia's and then coming back home to open presents and have cake with his parents.

Here he is posing with his "stash"
He got a hunting game for the Wii, a Dallas Cowboys nerf football, a dart board, and some clothes.
He doesn't seem too happy about how many candles are on that cake!!






Damon's favorite present was the bow!

Happy 34th Birthday Terry!

34

reasons why I love you (in no particular order)...

1. You are a good Dad

2. A good husband

3. You like to watch scary movies

4. You take me to more chick flicks than you do action movies

5. You have cute dimples when you smile

6. You rub the kids legs in the middle of the night when they have a leg ache

7. You give really good massages

8. You watch Bachelorette and Desperate Housewives with me (though sometimes I wonder if you are watching it for me or if you actually enjoy watching it!)

9. You like to play games

10. You play "Wrestle Mania" with the kids

11. You've never been afraid to change a poopy diaper (of your own kids)

12. You have cute little creases on the sides of your eyes

13. You dance like a chicken

14. You are a hard worker

15. You tell me I'm sexy even when I know I look ugly

16. You danced with Ashlyn in her ballet recital

17. You kill spiders for me

18. You take Blake golfing with you

19. You change out the garbage bag in Damon's diaper pail. (if anyone has ever had to do this job, you know why I love Terry for doing this!!)

20. You vacuum for me

21. You are sweet to your parents

22. You encourage me to go out with my friends

23. You work so hard to make our house look nice

24. You are understanding when you come home and dinner isn't cooked

25. You tell me the house looks clean even when I know I've been a slacker all day

26. You come home from work when I am feeling sick

27. You are funny even when you aren't trying to be

28. You act like a dork just to make me laugh

29. You dance just to make me laugh

30. You would just DIE if anyone ever cut Ashlyn's hair

31. You favorite thing to do is spend time with your family

32. You think of fun little "adventures" to take the kids on

33. You are sexy

34. You make me smile

Love You!

4th of July, 2010

We had a really fun and busy 4th of July this year. We started the festivities on Friday night. We invited some of our neighbors over last minute (I think I actually woke some of them up... oops!) to roast marshmellows in our outside fireplace and make smores. Afterwards we lighted off some of our fireworks.

The kids are anxiously awaiting the fireworks to begin. I love this picture on the right where I caught Max jumping in the air for joy.

Here I wanted a picture of the girls but Ashton couldn't resist getting in on the action. What a ladies' man!!

Saturday started off early. Terry and Blake woke up and drove down to Rigby to meet his brother Robb and his boys (who were visiting from Utah) for a game of golf. While the boys had fun, Ashlyn and I had some fun of our own at the mall (with Damon in tow of course), where Ashlyn scored big time. We found her all kinds of 4th of July accessories 75% off which matched her outfit perfectly. Lets just say I have never seen a prettier "American Girl" in my life!

Here is Ashlyn with all of the gear we scored. She got pom poms, flip flops, a necklace, and bracelet all for under 8 bucks. Doesn't she look cute!

Once the boys got home we decided to light off the rest of our fireworks that didn't get used the night before.

The boys thought they looked pretty cool!








That night were Idaho Falls' big fireworks. So we packed up, picked up some food on our way out, and parked in our regular spot and ate dinner. While waiting for the show to start, we walked over to a sidewalk where everyone was walking to get closer to the fireworks, and played with some snap and pops. Blake and Ashlyn thought it was pretty funny to set up "booby traps" for the people walking. When they saw a group approaching they would run out and put a whole bunch of snap and pops on the ground then move and wait to see if anyone stepped on them. There were some pretty good sports who could tell what the kids were up to who would purposely step on them then jump up and scream, just so the kids would get a kick out of it. It was alot of fun.

Below are the kids with their snap and pops...

Where I come from, you sweat to death while waiting for the fireworks. But I live in Idaho now... here is how Damon looked for the fireworks...

Nice and warm.

Speaking of Damon, he LOVED the fireworks. When they first started he just kicked and kicked his feet while laughing. It was so cute. I'm glad they didn't scare him.

Terry with the kids. We just set up chairs in the back of Terry's truck and watched the show from there. Perfect seats!

I couldn't resist getting in a picture with the gorgeous Miss Ashlyn.

Then on Sunday (actually the 4th), we went over to Terry's mom and dad's house for a yummy b.b.q. It was really good but I didn't get any pictures while we were there.

Last but not least, on Monday Terry, Blake and I went with Robb's family (minus Bentley) up to Heise for another round of golf. It was alot of fun. I actually played pretty good. (No I won't be joining the LPGA, but I played good for me!) After golf, Terry's parents brought the rest of the kids up and joined us all for pizza. (I LOVE Heise's pizza!)

Blake had sooo much fun playing with Taylor and Donovan. He was really sad they had to leave. If you look at the picture with the sign, it reads... "Please, no children playing on the practice green." So of course the boys thought it would be pretty funny to take a picture by the sign.

And here I thought, oh good, we can get a family picture. Afterwards I realized we already put Damon in the car. Poor guy, I forgot to get him for the picture. Maybe next time.

Well that concluded our exciting 4th of July.

Hope you had good one!

The pictures are in...

So, I got the kids pictures taken recently. Not too impressed. I wasn't disappointed in the photographer, or the quality of the pictures, just disappointed in my kids "performances." They usually do such a good job smiling for the camera. Usually I think they are cuter in pictures than in real life. (Don't tell them I said that!) If you've seen any of their previous pictures I'm sure you would agree. But for this photo shoot, I had a hard time even getting them to smile, and when they did smile it looked really fake. Damon did great but Blake and Ashlyn not so much. So I only have a handful of pictures to choose from. Below are my favorites of each kid and my favorites of them together. I'm having a really hard time deciding which ones to have printed out for their 8x10 to hang on the wall. I usually get one for each kid and then one of them together. So I want your opinion on which is your favorite for me to hang on my wall. Thanks!!

Blake

1.

2.

Ashlyn
1.

2.


Damon
1.
2.

Kids

1.

2.

3.

Also, their is one other shot of the kids together on the post below, so you can vote for that one too. (I was just too lazy to upload it again.)

So don't get me wrong, these pictures did turn out cute, but in the past I usually have so many more to choose from.