a few thiNgs...

just a few thoughts i am having and thus am gonna share...

first, i am so grateful for the relationship i have had with my grandma. she just passed away this week and i am so grateful for the incredible times we have had together, even the times we have fought like 2 teenagers... she has shaped so much of who i am today. i love so many things because she has shared her love of them with me. cooking, the 4th of july, being a wife, old jewelry (i STILL get compliments on some of her thrift store picks), the list goes on... i'm so grateful for those things and those memories. i'm so grateful i get to keep those memories even with her gone. i'm also grateful that dave got to meet her before she got so sick. she loves him and that means a lot to me. i'm sad my kids won't get to play with her here and all of the thrift shop toys she often brought home, but SO glad to know they get to know her on the other side. i sure will miss her. i'm so grateful to know she can be with grandpa forever. that amazes me.

second, i'm so grateful for the relationhip i have with my husband. we saw UP this weekend (HIGHLY reccommend it...) and i just couldn't stop crying. i am so glad to have every minute we have together. he is my best friend and makes me the best person i could be. every experience we have together reminds me that i am the luckiest girl in the world. and i love that he is mine forever. i love that our lives are now for each other come what may. and that every experience can be an adventure that teaches us something new. when we got married, i thought i loved him...but i realize now i had no idea how much i could love him. and i can't even imagine how i'll feel in 10 years and beyond.

yeah...i guess it's kinda weirdy to put those things on a blog, especially since neither of them will ever read this and its so not like me to get all emotional on here, but...too late for that now...

hAppy hAppy biRthdAy joRdy!!!

today is jordann's 11th birthday! I cannot even believe that 11 years ago today i was late for a spanish final my junior year in high school because my mom was in labor. and i missed amber's graduation and have never heard the end of it. and then that night we all got to meet our baby sister. the cutest little glow-worm i have ever seen. i can't even remember what life was like without that little booger in our family.

jordy, i'm so glad you are here. you are one of my favorite people to hang out with in all the world and i am SO glad to be your big sister. we love when you come hang out with us and we hope you have the BEST birthday ever. LOVE YOU!!!

xoxo, kimmydavid

"No moRe of this dRiviNg to utAh stuff..."

i feel like all of our posts lately have been about how busy we are! so...sorry, but we have been busy! but here's a quick photo update...

christy and i took the kids to the wild animal park for the last few days of the butterflies... one landed on sami's leg. apparently she has sweet skin. :) all the kids were enthralled.

for some reason this picture makes me laugh so hard. dad-richard found a box of "free stuff" in the dumpster. gotta give him points for creativity with this outfit. :)

little nutsy decided to put strawberries on her fingers like olives. i later knew i had found them in the bowl when i discovered my strawberries had holes in the bottom. i showed her how to dip them in sugar and eat them like we always did...but she just dipped them and licked them off. haha

I LOVE THIS FACE! isn't she so cute! she's coming to visit and i CAN'T WAIT! come play with us hattie (and please bring your mom.)!we got to make it to one of jay's arena games. so much fun to watch them play! notice anything different about this face? :)

on our drive home, dave and i both agreed that we need a break from the whole going to utah thing, but we sure are always glad to spend time with family. :)

foLLow up

we've been super busy and have a lot to post about, but for the time being, i had to post a quick follow-up post. last time i mentioned eating our cake on our one year anniversary and how we didn't know why we do it... well, i did some investigating. apparently, back in the day, around your 1 year anniversary, you were getting ready to welcome another to your family (um...no, we're not. just an FYI in advance... ) so instead of making another whole cake for that, you would just use the leftover wedding cake. since this was in the days when cakes were made differently, they preserved well and still tasted good. anyway, there's the tradition. for any of you who, like me, were wondering. :)

spRiNgtime AdveNtuRes

yet again, an update post...we have just been SO busy! dave has neverending school as we get close to the end of the semester but i'm SO excited to have him back for the summer. :) the weekend after our anniversary, i went up to see chex and the wee one. she's SO CUTE!! i got to stay with cory and we had some adventures too. then the sugus flew back down with me and we have been playing every minute we can. trying to soak up enough of all these kids...but it's just not possible. here are quite a few pictures.

in-n-out for the birthday girl

the kids found the dressup stuff and decided to make a music video...just like their mama/sister...

evening on the beach with the sugu babies

cory's gonna kill me for posting this... :)

Hattie makes the cutest faces!

Pretty Pretty Princess...

Kissy Faces playing with my new camera

The sugus just love their new cousin!

Isn't she SO cute!?!?!?!!!!