Showing posts with label ivy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ivy. Show all posts

Friday, August 16, 2013

bear lake 2013: take 2

so i'm pretty sure if i didnt lead with this picture of arron aka iron man,
he would never allow me to do another post again.
* the fly board * 
in his words: "babe, i did something epic today" 
my reply: "oh you're growing a tiny human inside your body too?"
do i sound a little jealous that i miss out on ALL of the awesome stuff when pregnant?
maybe just a little.
but if i'm being honest, it was pretty epic!
however, i've always known he was iron man...aaaawe!

and i'm not the only one who thinks so.
 im pretty sure that gabe believed his daddy-o could walk on water even before he put on the jet pack. 
their conversations go something like this.
gabe: daddy what chu doing?
arron: (insert anything here and i mean anything.)
gabe: wait for me, i'm coming with you.

iron men in training..
some of my family are big huge show offs, and go and exercise in the morning before all of the boating and eating and relaxing begins. which just makes a pregnant woman 7 months along feel even more stellar about throwing on a swim suit!
but gabe was right there with them, getting even stronger then he already is...just ask him. 

now the little people know how to do it up right. 
they just play in the sand and let it all hang out with no cares in the world.
no insecurities about their gut hanging over their waist band. 
they own it and are proud of it.  
{ somehow this still doesn't make me want to post a swim suit picture myself }



after about 36,572 times asking to come to bear lake with us
the stars finally alined and tj, chelsey and ivy were able to come this year.
it was fun to share one of our favorite places on earth with them. 


and what vaca would be complete without sand in every last crack and crevasse?
 according to gabe...... you may as well have not come at all.


aaaaaand que bath time 
in hopes that the beach wont be smuggled home
in drug cartel fashion. 

there is games and relaxing and reading and movie watching and just enjoying being with family
removed from the normal busy routine.





and then it comes to an end and you have to go home, and go to work and do laundry and clean and cook every meal again, and you consider throwing yourself into that crystal blue lake with an anchor tied around your waist.....
 but then you couldn't come back next year, so you reconsider.... phew!

Saturday, April 7, 2012

I'm Thankful For.....

....So many things!!!
when i was little, i remember saying my prayers at night with my family and then we would go around in a circle and say our "thankful fors" where we could list all the things we were thankful for that day.
So i thought what a better time to list just a few of the things i am thankful for this easter weekend..
*** The atonement ***
and the peace and comfort it brings me, as i learn more and more every day just how
 UNPERFECTED i am. 
because trying to raise a tiny person is an eye opening experience and a daily reminder that i have NO idea what i am doing, but i'm not alone, and even when my kid licks day old crushed cheetos off of the floor, my Heavenly Father is still smiling and cheering me on. 

*** Friends ***


 *** FRIENDS ***
 
 whether they have been in your life for a few years..

 or 20!
Life would not be complete with out them!


***  Running Water! ***
do i really need to elaborate? i think the pictures say enough!

*** Daddy***

i love seeing gabe look at him like he can do anything.
he is so interested in everything his daddy does. 
whenever the phone rings, he says "dada"?
when he hears the garage door go up, he gets this look on his face like..."YES!" 
as he runs to the door to meet him.
and because gabe loves his daddy as much as i do! 

 *** Sunny days ***
when we can play with rocks and dirt and run over bridges and find bugs and pet horses
and explore the new neighborhood that we now call home.


*** Snowy days ***
 When we can stay in our PJ's all day and watch Cars and make cars out of play doh.
and play with toy cars.
(cars are sort of our thing around here)

 
*** Little Miracles ***
like getting your little dude to STAY in bed all night after a battle of whits between
a 32 year old and a 20 month old.
and the fact that most of the time it ends like this...

but being okay with it if it sometimes ends like this!!
(compromise) 

*** Big Miracles ***
like baby Ivy (my brother TJ's little girl)
 her start in the world 7 days ago was a rocky one, 
filled with uncertainty and many, many prayers.
but after a fathers blessing and an MRI
it looks like she is going to be 
perfectly perfect. 

 so no matter what you're thankful for, big or small.
 remember who it was that made it possible.