Week in Review

Payton has been sick all week and hasn't been sleeping very well. The other night he came into our room a couple of times telling us that he was hot. We finally put him back to bed and when Ben woke up in the morning he almost walked on Payton who was sleeping on the floor in the hallway. Here is how their conversation went:

Ben: "Payton, what are you doing sleeping in the hallway?"
Payton: "I'm so hot-I had to lay on the floor"
Ben: "How long have you been laying here?"
Payton: "Oh, I don't know, I guess a couple of weeks"

He says the funniest things sometimes!



He put some of his underwear on his head the other day and thought he was so funny-he wanted me to take a picture of him.











Parker is kindof a little stinker lately. He loves to torment Payton all day and they both constantly fight over the same toy all day-it doesn't really matter what it is-if one of the them has something, the other one wants it too (Parker especially loves his Lighting McQueen car and has to even take it with him to sleep at night). I've been asking him lately after he has been mean or hit Payton if he was naugty. This is our conversation:

Me: "Parker, are you being naugty/mean to Payton?"
Parker (in a very sassy voice): "Yes"
Me: "Why are you being naugty?"
Parker (still in a very sassy voice): "Cause"
Me: "Parker, you need to be nice"
Parker: "No!"
Me (more stern): "Parker, you need to say sorry to Payton"
Parker (finally giving up): "Ok, and give kisses and hugs too"

I'm not sure what to do with him-he will be such a stinker one minute and then such a sweetie the next!

New Haircut

After having the same haircut for the last several years, I decided to cut layers, put brown in it and......cut bangs! Crazy! I haven't had bangs since the 8th grade, but I have been really wanting to cut some for the past 2 years and just haven't dared to do it. I finally figured that it really won't matter if I don't like it-my hair grows really fast. Anyways, I am still trying to decide if I like it and as soon as I take a picture of the new do, maybe I will post it.

Update: Okay, here is a not so good picture of my new haircut, so if you don't like it, don't tell me-I can't take the criticism. :)

Good Things Utah

Wow! I have really been a slacker lately with blogging! A bunch of us girls went to Good Things Utah for Sommer's Birthday a couple of weeks ago! It was so much fun! Nicea, Angie and Reagan were so nice! We went to the Cheesecake Factory after it was over-it was really yummy and definitely worth the wait!

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10 Year Anniversary!!!

Wow! I cannot believe that it has been 10 years already! (I am a little bit late in posting this...our anniversary was December 31st!) Ben bought me a beautiful necklace-thanks babe! I am so happy that you decided to marry me! It has been the best 10 years of my life! I love you!


Look at these pictures of us! We look so young...well at least Ben does! I remember people coming to our reception saying that they were glad that he looked a bit older in real life-they said that it looked like I was marrying a 14 year old! The day we got married was SO cold! It was 18 degrees outside and I insisted that I wear a dress with short sleeves! I had gotten a really bad haircut about a couple of months before our engagement pictures were taken, and it still hadn't grown out very much by the time this was taken. Speaking of hair...doesn't Ben have great hair in these pictures? I just wish that he would stop shaving it every few weeks...only balding men need to do that! He keeps saying that it is just "so much easier". Try being a girl for a week! We are the ones that really have the hard work!



Funny engagement story: Ben hadn't told his parents how seriously we were dating, so when we went up to his parents house to tell them that we had decided to get married, I was really nervous! He decided to go and talk to them while I waited downstairs talking with his sisters (they had no idea either). After a while, Ben came downstairs looking pretty concerned and I asked him how it went and he said, "Well, they are pretty upset-they want to talk to you!" WHAT!?!?!? I was kindof freaking out. He tells this to me as he is dragging me up the stairs into their room. He basically pushes me in their room and closes the door behind me leaving me in their by myself with his parents!!! I look over at his mom and she had her back to the wall and was crying and wouldn't even look at me, and his dad was sitting on his bed looking very stern. I was about to die! I should have run out of the room at this point. Anyways, his dad tells me to come over and sit next to him on his bed. He says, "Ben tells me that you both want to get married...I say yes very sheepishly...at this point, I am kindof re-thinking it! JK! Anyways, he says, "Do you love him, etc, etc?" I reply yes again...He then proceeds to ask me several questions such as, "How do you feel about food storage/canning?" and, "Are your ancestors pioneers?" to this I finally feel like I have a good answer and I say YES! and he proceeds to say, "In what year did they come to the Salt Lake Valley?" I had no idea! I was trying to tell them that I could find out, etc, etc and I was about to cry and was shaking so hard when Ben bursts through the door into their room totally laughing his guts out! I was so confused! His dad starts laughing so hard and his mom finally turns around from crying to the wall and wasn't really crying! She was shaking so hard because she was laughing the whole time! WHAT! It took me a few minutes to realize that it was all a joke and that Ben made them do it! What a tease! I should have realized then that this was a prelude to the rest of my life with him!

Happy Birthday Payton!!!

Happy Birthday Payton!!! I am so glad that you were born-you were such a little guy at 5 pds 1 ounce! I decided to list some of my favorite things that I love about you!

- I love how absolutely sweet you are. You are the sweetest child that I know!!!

- I love that you always come up to me and tell me that I forgot to get a big hug and kiss from you at least once a day-sometimes more!

- I love that you love to learn and love to go to school.

- I love that you are so proud of yourself when you learn new things and that you try so hard in everything that you do.

- I love that you are such a great big brother to Parker and always include him and that you love playing together.

- I love that you love for me to play Mario with you.

- I love that you are a good friend to everyone.

Here are some pictures of Payton since he was born.

Since Payton's birthday is the 27th of December, I wanted to try to make it special and set it apart from Christmas. Ben's sister told me that they decorate their kids room after they go to bed for their birthday. I thought it was a great idea and decided to do it. Payton was SO excited when he woke up. He kept saying "thank you so, so, so, much mom! You made me SO happy!" He also told everyone that he talked to on the phone that day about it! I guess it went over well! :)

Payton had a birthday party during the day with a bunch of his little friends mostly from the neighborhood. He has been wanting to have a friend birthday party for at least a year and I felt bad that we only had a family party last year. So we first had "donuts" and icecream and opened presents and then we went to Kangaroo Zoo for a couple of hours. The kids LOVED playing there! It is a great place to have a party! Even Parker did better there this time and wasn't as scared to go on stuff. They had a blast!

Our family birthday party was later that night with all of his cousins. We had pizza and cake and icecream. Payton loves Lighting McQueen and so that is the kind of cake that we got him. (Parker also got 1 present so that he wouldn't feel bad. He also really likes Lighting McQueen and had been wanting this big Lighting car.) Payton has been really excited about going to Kindergarten for the last 1 1/2 years. I have been telling him that he can go as soon as he is 5 years old. So now that he is 5, he keeps saying, "Now I get to go to kindergarten!! Yea!" I am still trying to figure out a good way to explain that one...oops! Happy Birthday Payton! We love you!