7 years down, eternity to go

Today we celebrate our 7 year anniversary and looking back I cannot believe how quickly time has gone by. I met Joe in January of 2000 and can't even tell you how many wonderful memories we have even before we ever dated or married. I always knew something was special about him and I tried to "save" him from mean girls so that when the right girl came that I thought was good enough then he wouldn't be scarred from bad relationships. To bad it took me so long to realize I wanted to be the right girl for him. Luckily, he was still there when I figured things out and I have considered myself blessed since then. The last 7 years being married to the nicest, most genuine guy has spoiled me. I truly love him more than anything. I remember this day 7 years ago people saying that after time passes I would love him more than I did that day and thinking that those people must be crazy. But now, 7 years later after children, sacrifices and hard ships together I begin to understand a little more what they meant. It makes me grateful that I have eternity to love him more each year. My life's greatest blessing is you Joseph. You are my love and my life. I am glad I get to spend the rest of eternity loving you.

30 Weeks and Counting!

Okay so I haven't ever posted a picture of my pregnant belly. There are reasons for that:) But I do have family that will never get to see me during this pregnancy so this is for all of you who are curious if I am as huge as I was with Darron. :)

A couple more pics

We had a fun visit from Joe's parents for Christmas. Here are just a couple more pictures of out Decemeber fun. We went to the OKC Bombing Memorial and had lots of fun together. Thanks for coming Mom and Dad!

Our Christmas

Halloween

The kids had so much fun for Halloween this year. They got to celebrate on and off the whole week which made it so much fun. On Halloween we went to the mall to do some trick or treating and then just went to a neighborhood we trick-or-treat at every year. It was such beautiful weather that we didn't even have to bundle them up like we usually do. Well here is pictures before we left. Our batteries died while we were out so these ended up being the only pictures we got. What do you do?:) Enjoy:)

Cinderella and the Clone Trooper.
Alyse waited a long time to wear this costume. We bought it a month early and
she was so anxious so as you can tell they are both ready to get going:)

Happy Halloween!!!

Survey Says!!!

It's a GIRL!!!

We are excited that we are having another girl!!! We really thought this was a boy so we were quite surprised but so happy. We would be happy with either one, of course, but this will be fun. Anyway, that is our exciting news. :)

And the Halloween Parties start!

I had to go to work and missed this fun Halloween party but Joe was brave enough to take the kids himself and luckily Uncle Sam and Aunt Ella and kids went also. They had a great time.

The crowd.
Joe did a great job getting them ready. Thumbs up!

These are masks that we made for our FHE activity. The kids did such a great job!

Ohhhh they are so proud.



Another First!!!

Darron lost his first tooth this month. It was quite the drama until he realized it actually didn't hurt when it actually came out. Awesome!


See mom, that's where it used to be.

A special gift for the tooth fairy:)

Better Late Then Never.

Yes, I know that it has been forever since I have updated my page. Needless to say, it has been a couple of crazy months. When we got back from our Kentucky trip in July we found out that we are expecting our 3rd child. My due date is March 25th and we are very excited. I have been more sick this time than with either of my other pregnancies so it has been a little crazier than usual. On top of company coming into town and Darron starting school, the night of Darron's first day he fell off his bed and broke his collar bone. So he missed the second day of school but is fine. (Hence, the sling in the butterfly pictures below) We had a small plumbing issue that caused an unstable pregnant woman to lose her mind for a day. Then the following week that same unstable pregnant lady rear-ended and truck taking her son to school. If you ask me we should fire that lady. But everyone was fine and that is the most important but I think the crazy pregnant lady has a bruised ego. :) Needless to say it has been anything but uneventful but we have been blessed and are grateful for that. The baby is growing and we will hopefully find out what it is toward the end of this month. Alyse and Darron could not be more excited. Thanks for you patience in seeing the same page for the last 3 months:) But now that 1st trimester is behind me, hopefully I can cope with updating more often:)

Joe's company did a family fun day at a local fun park. The kids had a lot of fun.

Alyse driving....scary thought.
Alyse with her friend Sharlee just chillin'.
Darron is excited as you can see:)
He loved the bumper cars.
Alyse trying to get Joe's attention.
Darron's ready to go. Let's get this thing moving:)
Darron and Joe doing the race cars.


JOE's 30th Birthday
That's right he is officially and old man:) Joe turned 30 on the 9th of September and we actually celebrated all weekend. We had so much fun picking out some games he can play outside with the kids because that is his favorite thing to do.

A game that took a whopping 5 seconds to throw the ball of the fence.

Luckily we have sweet neighbors:)
The kids enjoying Birthday cheesecake pie.
With Cherries!!! Joe's favorite:)

Joe's parents bought Darron a set of caterpillars that he got to watch turn into butterflies. For Family Home Evening we let them go and talked about the beautiful things Heavenly Father has created for us. The kids had the best time.

Fun times with Family:)
Darron and Alyse getting ready to let them go.
Aren't they so cute.

Darron's First Day of Kindergarten

Here in Norman they have your choice of all day or half day Kindergarten but not very many people opt for half day so at the advice of his Pre-K teacher Darron started full day school this year. It has been hard not having him home but he is having the best time. What a grown up little boy.

Sorry that the pictures are so dark. I couldn't resist this picture because the blur you see at the bottom of the picture is Alyse running through the photo last second. STINKER!!! Darron was so excited to go to school I think Alyse thought she got to go to.

So of course I took a picutre of them together. It was a big day for both of them:)