Stuck on you

"Concrescent lives the kind that stick together

Someone to make you feel not alone."

the dating years...2000-2002

"We've been told that nothing lasts forever

to follow what I feel is all I know"

Steven leaving for his mission

(I wasnt as happy as I look)

"And you know I'm stuck on you

I know what I'm feeling nows for real"

Engagement "Connected minds cerebral syncopation

I don't have to say it you already know."

(our wedding day..taking a break from the madness)

July 19 2003

Honeymoon

San Diego

our first child.

our first human child. (cheesy! just so you know we didnt pose for this)

2005

"Headed down a road of unknown destination

As our favorite song comes from the stereo."

TWINS!

(as cute as daddy)

I cant believe we've been together 8 years!

"And you know I'm stuck on you

I know what I'm feeling nows for real"

Happy 6th Anniversary Steven!

I guess you could say this is our song (Stuck on You by Pivit)

..it brings back alot of memories from when we were dating

Crazy kids!

Embry's such a good little teacher, he taught Jasper all about climbing on the table.

They also love to take all the clean laundry off the couch and disperse it throughout the house. I guess the solution is to actually fold it.

Here's one that Jasper taught Embry. The old take off your diaper trick. Good thing Embry didnt really do it after that one time. I cant put Jasper to bed in 2 piece pajamas anymore or this happens. Luckily no poopy ones yet.

Apparently..this is the price you pay when you're ONE minute younger than your brother. Poor Jasper, and look at Embry's little smile while Steven's telling him to stop. Embry better watch his back..Jasper wont take it forever!

Fourth and the corner

July 4th is my mom's bday and also the anniversary of the day my nephew recieved a heart transplant (12 years ago!) so we always have a mixture of celebrations each year. We did a potluck and I made the apple snicker salad again.. the right way with vanilla pudding and more snickers..since Nicole kindly pointed out how I did it wrong last time, thanks!:) It was alot yummier. Also I made a crockpot cake but I ended up burning it..so yeah maybe next time. I didnt really get a good picture of all 3 but at least they each have a cute picture.

This first one I thought was cute of Embry and here's Bastien's weird picture smile again..

Bastien's cute picture.. He's getting a haircut tommorrow..I'm so nervous!

Jasper looks like his sneaky little self here..

Steven put Embry in the corner after he did something naughty..just to be funny and Embry took it seriously and he wouldnt leave it..he was sad at first but after a while he'd start smiling but then when we'd talk to him and tell him he could come out, he'd pretend to be soo sad. This kid cracks me up.

I tried it again today when he kept opening the fridge-I told him to go to the corner just to see if he would..and he did! He's so funny cause he wont move a muscle in the corner. I'm sure this will get old to him soon...just like it did with Bastien.

I'm SO done with Highchairs!

This is my life with highchairs: At meal times when they act hungry,I put them in with their food. They eat a bite then throw the rest on the ground. They scream to get out. They are in the high chairs a total of 5 minutes and then I have 2 trays to clean 3 times a day. Yep, I'm done. So far they have been eating so much better at the table...and we are all happier.

..except now they steal eachothers food.

I wanted to show Cassy, Vuna and Jenny how much Bastien loves the train set that you let him use! ! Thanks, this kid is in choo choo heaven.

just cuz

How their 'fights' usually play out.

1. Jasper minding his own bizness in a cabinet.

2. Embry asseses the situation and swiftly takes care of it.

( i.e. pulls or yanks Jasper out of the cabinet and down to the ground..and takes the sippy cup while he's at it!)

3. Sad little tears from Jasper and an innocent "who me?" look from Embry.

Oh well. At least they're CUTE right?

I love it when I catch them sitting together on the couch. They're buddies most of the time.

I love how the curls are finally reaching the top of his head and arent just in the back.

Bastien loves his bike! Too bad AZ finally realized its supposed to be hot! :(

I went to the zoo with some friends last THursday and got a few good pics.. Bastien and his new friend Gunnar

Fathers Day..

Too bad I had to go and ruin the picture below..but Jasper and Steven are so cute in it!

Bastien and his cousin Lana

BASTIEN is FOUR!

6 months

OnE

TWO

ThReE

(almost) FouR

It was so weird looking at pictures of him as a baby just now..he's so big now! I told him I needed to give him birthday spankings and asked how many I should give him. I said.."How old are you?" He's all "2?" (We've been over this MANY times) After asking him a few more times, and him answering every number but 4, I said "Bastien, you're four!"

And then he said "Okay, Okay...spank me!"

Mary made his bday cake. He was very particular about who he wanted on his cake. A few nights before his bday he gave Steven his Lightning, Doc and Mater and said "Tell mommy to put these on my cake"

He just recently became a fan of 'Cars' again..

Bastien's BIG present

The only video I got from his bday (that Ana took:)

(Gunnar and Bastien have the same taste in bikes..)

Payson Sprint Triathalon

We did this with a few couples in our ward...it was SO much fun! Friday we spent the night at my parents so that we could leave at 4am to get to Payson to check in by 6am. It was so hard to fall asleep cause I was so worried I would sleep through the 3 alarms I set, since I usually just turn it off in my sleep. But I ended up waking up at 2:45 wIDE awake. We drove up with the Berkey's and they're so much fun! I was laughing the whole car ride up! I wasnt really nervous before it started, but when I started on my 2nd lap in the pool I started to feel some major anxiety! Okay so every time I'd talk to everyone about training for it..they'd ask if I was training for the bike part. And I thought how hard can biking be right? I've done spin classes..I'm good. I freaking hated my life during the first lap of the biking. It was never ending HILLS! Love the show, hate real Hills. It was Payson though..shouldve expected it I guess. Steven and I got lost a bit by like 10-15 minutes! They had some confusing arrow signs. Then on my 2nd lap I took a wrong turn and got lost for about 5 minutes! Of course, I was probably the only one too, who got lost this much...or at all. On the first really nasty hill I told Steven to go ahead..so I was on my own to face a million more hills. Hate Damn hills. When I finally saw the end I had to break it to myself that I had to do this AGAIN! The guy was like "First lap go straight, last lap turn right..oh #142..you should be last lap right" and I was like "umm no" (embarrasing!) I kept seeing people pass me and I kept wondering if that was the last person to pass me and if I would be the last person to finish, even though I was only in the 2nd heat! Anyways..me talking about the biking part is almost as long as it took to ride it so I'll move on. Once I got to the running I felt pretty happy. I passed the 1 mile mark and thought..i'm good. Then the 2nd mile sign seemed to never come..finally when I was finished I saw everyone in my group already done and I hated all of them..jk. As I was finishing, Steven started singing really ugly.. "Its your life..what you gonna do?" (remember from Biggest Loser when they ran the marathon?) My results were

500 m swim: 13 m 45 s, 15 mile bike: 1 hr 52 mins (no one got near as bad as that..haha!) and the 5k run: 43 m 6 sec

http://www.cepmtnbike.com/results_misc.cfm?year=2009&raceNum=225

I was thinking about the biking today and I thought..I wanna do that again! I'm just weird and crazy. No but.. It was so much fun..and I've never done anything like this before. And it was even more fun doing it with a group of people! Steven did awesome ..considering he would never run with me and he didnt train even a little bit for it! Everyone else in our group had like amazing times..and Clarissa got 4th out of our age division..which is like most of the people there!

The group: Us, Tyler and Nicole Berkey, Kai and Clarissa Nelson, Charlie and Chelsea Hansen