...and they call it puppy love!

Koda and Alyza have a thing for one-another. Alyza just adores the puppy, and Koda is very gentle and sweet with her, It's quite the relationship.


They do this little almost kiss where they are face to face with noses just inches apart.

But,



I'll have to put a stop to that if it should one day get any closer,

and I don't care what people say about dogs mouths being cleaner than humans, Alyza has never once drank from the toilet or eaten her own poo.



For now, I'll let the air kisses continue.

Casual Conversation

I was getting my girls ready to go down for the night. Changing Alyza into her pajamas, my back was to Isabella. She and I were having a chat about the day. When I finished with Alyza I turned to see Isabella in mid-sentence perched on a ledge atop her bedroom moldings. My eyebrows furled. I was a bit perplexed at her choice of seating! Not seeing anything wrong, she continued on her thought as if this was a regular occurrence.
Just then I smiled and raised my eyebrows at her. She must have clued into my thoughts of her odd placement on the wall, because after that the laughs got the best of both of us.

Breakfast with a side of Boogie!

Jake bump'n his music throughout the house +
open floor room =
girls leaving the breakfast table to cut-a-rug.

The apples do not fall far from the tree...

Seems as if even the wee ones enjoy a rousing game of X-box, even if their controller cords aren't connected. Love that Dad!

It's Been Years!

This past weekend Jake and I celebrated our fifth year anniversary. It's so interesting because five years sounds like a big marriage milestone but, it feels like I've been with him longer. I can't hardly remember a time without my best friend around. We had some wonderful family members take our children over the weekend giving us two days and a night mono e mono. I missed my ladies, but it was nice being free from mommydom to focus on my man. We chose to spend our time Thursday getting projects around the house done ( I know what your thinking...LAME! But it was quite enjoyable. I guess you know you've been a mom/wife of a couple years when you spend special occasions kid-free working on the house... by choice.) Saturday morning we slept in (a distant memory of the past), then left to spend the day out.
First I stopped by Calli's ever stylish home for Emily's Baby Shower. I was able to spend some enjoyable female time.



Our newest Mommy friend Emily was all lit up and looked more beautiful than ever. Her newly adopted Milo baby is as about as cute as the come, full of features and all. He is the most content little thing, which was wonderful for the women's cause we all took a turn, or two, or three, holding him.



After all that fun, my hub and I thought it most appropriate to start our days celebration back to the place where it all began...



...OK, OK so we where actually married in the Salt Lake Temple, but we figured this was close enough. We chose to do sealings that day. It was especially neat to sit through it again on this special day and hear the covenants and promises we had made to one-another and our Heavenly Father five years ago. Kneeling across from Jake on our wedding day was definitely exciting and spiritual, but this time it was moving to be looking into the eyes of my Sweetheart with years, depth and hard work behind us. Jake truly is my everything.

We ended our day and weekend off with dinner and a movie. It was so fun to have him to myself for a bit, a much needed couple of days.

Easter

The Coloring of the Eggs...







...Or should i say ker-plunking of the Easter Eggs. I think it took all of 10 minutes to have each egg colored, and four very stained little hands, With a few egg casualties lost along the way to cracking. Without fail, it's always a successful time if a mess is involved.








Sunday morning after their milk jump start they were ready to search for their eggs and Easter Baskets.






All in all we had a blast making memories, messes, and eating sugar. Most importantly the girls enjoyed talking about why we celebrate Easter, Our Savior and His Resurrection, and attending an extra special day at church.

Man's Night

Jake had an exciting night last weekend. He plays on our ward basketball team. He never misses Tuesday night basketball at the stake center. Starting in January each ward in the stake put together their own teams to compete in some good ol' church ball. It's funny to see Jake with his team, he's got to be the only one under Six feet tall. The should call themselves "Jake and the Giants." However, being shorter has it's perks, My friend Amanda brought to my attention the "speed" on my man, He's got zip! Friday night the 1st ward ballers made it to playoffs and won themselves title of "Champions!"

And if that's not enough to make a man want to turn in early for the night in contentment...

My man did just the opposite, he pulled an all nighter with his friends in the (read in headgear lisp voice) semi-annual x-box extravaganza experience.

That's right folks, X-box.


Here are the x-boxians themselves.

I don't quit understand it myself, but it's amazing how unifying this gaming system is. Whatever stage of life men are in: married, single, fathers, and bums, it's like when they gather around this piece of technology nothing else matters. And believe you me, I mean nothing. Sometimes I think my husband forgets my very existence as his wife while in the gamers mode. Or maybe it's just he forgets how to listen to the sound of my voice when i speak at him. Whatever it is, the guys had a blast! Lucky for him I love his friends so I'm down with them X-boxing it up on occasion. It was the night of all nights for him.