My birthday and "Twilight"

My birthday is in July and my hubby made it extra special this year. It was going to be the first time we went out on a date and left our baby girl since she was born. Needless to say, we were very excited. Joe made little hints like "I paid to have someone sing to you" and "We're going to be lifted in the air." It all sounded so glorious and...expensive. So, knowing that we are not big spenders and that my hubby is quite the creative type, my mind flurried with wonder and expectation. As we drove up Provo canyon, I realized that we were likely headed toward Sundance. My perpetual guesses were comfirmed when I hit the right one. We were going on the ski lift! Yea! This was exciting. So what about the singing part? Was there a local yodeller at the top ready to serenade me? Well, the ride itself was romantic (it had been a while since we had this much alone time in the day). When we got to the top, we went on a little hike. My honey stopped a little ways down the trail and recited a beautiful poem in the middle of nature which he had composed earlier. Here is the poem.


18 months married and sealed,
Time has flown since I had you reeled.
A beautiful baby and more to go,
Life full of blessings reaped and to sow
I love you like crazy and its growing more,
We've still much to do we've just opened the door.
I love celebrating you, my jewel,
Your birthday rocks, and you rule!


So cute. I know. He then pulled out a card that had and little handle that you spin to make music play. I received my birthday serenade from some rockin' little critters on a card. The part in the poem that says "your birthday rocks, and you rule," was preliminary to the message in the card. THEN, he gave me my gift. "Twilight". Hmmm, most husbands wish their wives would never have set eyes on this popular novel that has taken the female species to obsessive measures. But... my honey is one of a kind. I of course have read the entire series now and had a perfectly good deflection to any opposition my husband gave me about my inability to stop reading it. He started it. I love him so much. We finished off the night with greasy cheese burgers and fries that we snuck into the movie "Iron Man". Awe, the romance. I couldn't have asked for a better and sweeter birthday. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that he started by coming home with a beautiful vase of flowers. Perfect.

On the blog saddle!

Thanks to the constant pressure and growing need to keep up with technology...we've decided to join the blog world. Yea! I'm not sure where to begin. We have been happily married for about eighteen months. We had plans to wait for about a year before we would start our family, but as most of us know, God has plans that often contradict our own most of the time. So about six months after we made together...forever, we discovered the beautiful news of our new little forever that was coming to us. We decided on the name early on and my hubby knew it was a girl almost from the very beginning. So there wasn't much debate about names. Our baby girl was born on March 6, 2008. It was 26 hours of labor and an eternity of love that got her here and welcomed her. Ever since she was born she has shown amazing alertness. She loves books, listening to mommy and daddy sing, rolling over (she's been attempting to roll over since two month old), being held by her cousins and just about everything else. We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful, bright, and cheerful baby. She is a constant source of joy and entertainment for Joe and I. At about three and a half months she won 2nd place in the freedom festival baby contest.

It was so much fun. Of course as her mother, I have to say that she was robbed out of first. She gets more active and more fun every day. It's amazing how I've spent every day with her since she's been born, and she has just grown and developed right before my eyes. She is definitely the apple of her daddy's eye. We love to kis her on both sides of her cheeks and call it a baby sandwich. The fact that she is as chubba as she is adorable makes this activity extra fun. It's a funny world we live in where cottage cheese legs, bumb dimples, and double chins turn from being a completely adorable when you're a baby to being less than desirable as an adult. The skinny is that we love being parents, we love eachother even more now that we are parents, and the love just keeps on growing! Next I'll write about the romantic birthday my hubby took me on...stay tuned.