10 GREAT YEARS!

I know it's a terrible picture, but our scanner doesn't seem to be working all that great and it's the best I could do. We just celebrated our 10 year anniversary over the weekend. TEN years! Part of me feels like it was only yesterday we were married and the other part of me feels like we've been together forever (in a good way - ha). I have to say it was well worth the wait...not getting married until I was 30. Kirk is a wonderful husband and a fantastic father. I feel very blessed to be in a healthy marriage and have such beautiful children inside and out. I'm mostly grateful that Kirk honors his priesthood and is such a great example to our children of how that should be done. I'm thankful beyond words that he feels so strongly that I be a stay-at-home mom. I'm grateful that we are just opposite enough to balance each other out and keep it interesting. I love my husband and the life that we have built together in these past 10 years! Thank you, Kirk, for being such a wonderful husband, loving father and hard worker! I love you!

So, in celebration of our anniversary we went to Las Vegas for the weekend. Not the best get-away, but so much fun none-the-less. My wonderful friend, Allyson, came to watch the kids the entire weekend for us. What a great friend, right?! Our kids just love her and were very excited to have her come stay. I understand they had a ton of fun! So, we got there on Friday evening. I have to add that on our way we stopped in Barstow and ate at Bob's Big Boy. Come on. Who remembers Bob's? We laughed at ourselves as we pulled up to have our anniversary dinner at such a romantic diner. We both have many memories growing up and eating there. So, that night we checked into our hotel (Tahiti Village Resort) and hung out for the night. Nice place if you don't want to stay at a casino! The next day we left our room at 9:00 and only came back for 1 hour the entire time, not ending our night until after midnight. We had breakfast, went to "Outdoor World" (Justin is SO jealous!), went to Treasure Island and walked around, went to check out Circus Circus to see how it had changed since both our families used to stay there when we were kids. We then went over to the outlet mall, dinner and then to see Mystere (Cirque Du Soleil - so incredible!) and lastly to see Twilight (don't ask what number this was for me). I really wanted Kirk to see it since he knows how much I love the books. It was a fun-filled and packed day. Sunday we left pretty early and made a couple stops on the way home. It was a great little get-away and one that wouldn't have happened without Allyson's help. Thank you so much, Allyson! We had such a nice time having the whole weekend just the two of us. Great!