It seems like when the house is quiet and you're not sure where the kids are or what they're doing, it usually means they're doing something naughty or destructive. I was sure this was the case one day as I was busily cleaning the house and realized that I hadn't heard from Rease for a while. I found her instead in my room, tucked into bed, reading my book.
I asked her what she was doing in my room and she looked at me and said "reading, mommy." Oh, okay.
Ever since she was little, she would flip through books even books with no pictures and act like she was reading. I guess she just needs some quiet time once in a while. Thanks Rease for not destroying the house when I wasn't paying attention.
That night we went to the Jim Gaffigan show at Kingsbury Hall. Josh didn't know I had tickets so he was way excited about it. We loved the show! It was hilarious and we were laughing our butts off the whole night. Josh told me later that he was nervous before the show that he would be disappointed with the new act. We ended up not being dissappointed at all and had a great time!
We stayed downtown that night (thanks to Gayle for getting us a room and thanks to Aunt Hayley for watching our kids) and it was very nice to have a morning to sleep in!
We ended the weekend with the BYU game which is always fun and even better because BYU won.
We had such a fun weekend together!
I remember this being a happy day with Rease and now we have arrived with Rhen: holding her own bottle. (Not that I don't love cuddling and holding her while she's eating, but now at least I have the option.) Sometimes it is so nice to just hand her the bottle and let her go to town on it. What a great thing to learn! Way to go Rhen!
She is also very easily distracted with almost anything, especially the camera and its flash.
She is also starting to sit up on her own. I don't remember at what age they should be doing this, but I feel like it has been a long time coming with her. For some reason she isn't much of a sitter - even when she's on our lap she would prefer to stand up. So I haven't pushed the sitting much until lately. She is actually getting pretty good at it when she wants to. Sometimes though she doesn't really try and just flops onto her back.
and Mexico. Thanks Josh for working so hard so that we can have so much fun!
Josh has run the Marine Corps Mud Run twice (yes he ran in a kilt!)
I've run 4 marathons...
Josh got accepted to Grad School! He will be done in April - wahoo!
We had 2 kids...
Rease in June of 2007
Rhen in March of 2009.
They are our pride and joy and we don't know what we did without them! Our life is better with our kids in it. (I asked Josh today what his favorite memory is from the past 5 years. He said that his favorite thing happens everyday - when Rease runs to him when he gets home from work and Rhen can't stop smiling at him because he's home. He really does love our girls! What a dad!)
and most of all - we've made it this far and still love each other! 
Thanks to Josh I am a happy woman! Here's to the past 5 years and to the next 100 years we have together!
A whole inch at best.
Future basketball star?
It's canning time at our house. Last week Josh was kind enough to go pick these tomatoes from his mom's neighbor's house so that we could can them. I think he thought that would be his contribution to the canning but he ended up helping me all night. It was perfect timing cause I just used my last bottle of tomatoes from last year.
Rease helped too - I found these in her big wheel basket after we were all done.
We did it all in our garage to try and keep the mess out of the house. As you can see, it took us into the night to get finished.
Rhen enjoyed the afternooon with us too.
