Should Have...

Made a post about this, I did on FB and I can't believe I didn't do it on here, but Joe and I celebrated (well, not actually "celebrated"...) our 7 year anniversary on Sunday- May 2nd. Crazy how fast time goes, I can't believe it has been 7 years, that seems so long, but yet, it doesn't seem like it could have been that long. Anyway, it is the best thing being married to your best friend. Joe is such a wonderful husband and father. I couldn't wish for anyone better!

Yep, that's right- Joe and I had the same type of shoes (just in different colors- they're actually boys shoes, but they were so comfy!!)

Joe's Birthday

So, I know that this is a little late (And yet I STILL haven't posted pictures from Parker's birthday- still need to get those from my sis) but we had Joe's big 3-2 birthday on Saturday and here are some pictures from then. It is crazy the difference a year makes when it comes to Parker and opening presents. He LOVES to open presents, so he was Joe's little...helper

Parker hovering over Joe looking at the present :)

Daddy needs help, so Parker is up for the job.

Oh, apparently Daddy is too busy, so Parker will help with another one.

Oh, I guess that present ISN'T for Joe, or at least that is what Parker thinks

He is SMILING! Granted, not looking at the camera, but it works!

Sorry a little dark, but here he is by his cake. It was delicious! Thank you Sam's Club!

Let's see- 32 reasons why I love Joe. No! I am not going to do that. He knows I do and I tell him enough (probably too much if you ask him :) Funniest part of the party, Joe/ Parker opened a card with money in it, Parker took the money and gave it to my mom. HILarious! You had to be there :) Anyway, Happy Birthday Hon, I am very glad you were born!

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Remember this shirt?How about now?

Yep, that's right- the shirt Parker wore on Sunday was worn about 30 years ago by Joe. Also- notice what a cute little blondie Joe was : ) I tried to get more pictures of Parker in his shirt, but most of them were blurry- that seems to be what most of the pictures that I have been taken of him lately look like. Why can't he sit still?! : )

To Joe~

So this is just a post with some pics of Joe when he was little- I think that Joe was SO adorable that I knew that we would have cute kids : ) Anyway, I am so appreciative of all that Joe does. He is truly an amazing husband, father and man. We went to Target and Cabella's last night to get some Easter stuff (Target) and he is building a roof rack for his Jeep so we went to Cabella's and Parker was quite amazed by all the animals and it was just a really fun, simple experience that we had as a family and as we drove back home I was just overwhelmed by the feeling of love & gratitude that I have for my little family. As we approach our 6 year anniversary (YES 6 YEARS!!) I am grateful for the decisions we both made for us to meet and get married. Just so you know- he is in the little green shirt- we have that shirt for Parker to wear too : )

PaRkEr & JoE

Here is an adorable picture of Joe and Parker from his sister Janet's wedding. It is SO adorable!

One of the reasons...

Parker is such a cutie! Look at his adorable daddy~ Now, I think it is quite OBVIOUS which one is Joe, but just in case~ In the both pictures he is in the cream color.

3 days- 3 MORE days to go~

So, only 3 more days before Joe gets home, I am really looking forward to him coming home. It is not the same without him here, and I am sure that Parker misses him too. It has been fairly uneventful while he has been gone, so hopefully it can stay that way- unless it is eventful in a good way : )

Good-Bye Daddy...

We just dropped Joe off at the airport today. He is going to be gone to Mexico until Friday. We are not very excited about this, but it has to be done, so at least now we won't have to keep waiting for him to leave, now we just have to wait for him to come home. We will definitely miss him, and wish he was home the whole time he is gone. I am just glad that we installed Skype so we can chat : )

On another note- Parker's other tooth came through as I figured it would so now he has 8 teeth- So cute!

Good Bye Car...

So we decided to sell Joe's car. It is a really fun car, but we ended up spending over 4K last year on maintenance and unforseen repairs. Too much!!! Anyway, Joe has been wanting to get a Jeep Cherokee, and so we decided to list his car on KSL, figuring that we would probably end up trading it in to a dealer. We figured that it didn't cost anything to list it, so we weren't losing anything. So we listed it on the 30th, had someone call on the 31st, they came and looked, tested it on the 1st, and on the 2nd, we went to the bank, and the car was theirs. So, currently we now have one car and we are very surprised that all of that happened, we weren't expecting it at all. So now Joe is actively looking for a new car.

6 Years~

This is just a quick little post. It was exactly 6 years ago that Joe proposed to me. I had been wanting him to propose for a while, and it just wasn't happening. He had gone to Mexico the week before and had only been back for 2 days. I remember telling my mom before he left that he was being "so slow!" and she just said that what ever would happen would (I later found out that before she and I had this conversation, Joe and my parents went to breakfast where he asked their "permission" to ask me to marry him) So here I was stressing out, and she already knew! Anyway, we went out to dinner at Thanksgiving Point- It was called Huckleberry's (it isn't there anymore), we then went with Joe's family on the Provo River Cruise, it was...interesting... but even more interesting is that "Santa" came up the river on his canoe and was chatting with the passengers and came up to Joe and I and asked about being proposed to, so I was totally confused, but nothing happened. We then drove up to the Mt. Timpanogos temple where we walked around outside (and it was FREEZING cold) we ended up at the front of the temple where Joe pulled a container out of his coat and said that there was another part for my car that came (for my birthday, he had gotten some really cool parts for my car) anyway, I looked at it thinking "what part of my car does this go to?" when I opened the box and realized that it wasn't a part for my car and he proposed. So cute~~~ Anyway, I am so grateful that Joe proposed and that we have been together and I love him more everyday!

Present Wrapping

The other night Joe and Parker were wrapping a present for me and Joe was having Parker help. I got a few shots, and it was so cute. Parker drew on my present with a orange sharpie marker. He was getting pretty into it.

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