Anniversary

I didn't post anything about my anniversary this year. Scott puked 5 times on the morning of and that put a damper on our plans to go to the temple and dinner and try to catch the fireworks at the Braves game :(
The one upside to Scott's sickness is that he and Bobby slept at the same time for the first time in probably six months so I has some time to myself which was a nice reprieve from the vomit.
Matt did send me flowers in a box and they were beautiful and it helped with the disappointment of not going out. And we got take out from PF Changs so I didn't have to cook so that was a major plus.
The next weekend we went to Cinebistro. They have complimentary valet, amazing food, and comfy chairs, so we felt pampered while we ate salmon and steak and "cineful" chocolate cake. We saw Batman, which I had been wanting to see. Matt had seen it already, but he humored me. It did feel so much more like a celebration and our neighbor was so awesome to watch our boys! We always feel so at ease when she comes to babysit.
I love Matt and I am so glad we found each other and will be together forever. We still have a lot to learn, but I do feel loved and protected and provided for. I am a lucky woman. I also am so happy to be raising my boys with him. I love to see him with them. So often when he is playing with them, throwing them around or tickling them, chasing them or wrestling with them, I think, THIS is why kids need 2 parents and I am so grateful they do. We are truly blessed. Happy 6th anniversary. And many mooooore...

Pictures lately

I feel bad I haven't been posting, but I just discovered the Blogger app so I can blog from my phone! So here are some pictures I got of the boys in the past week or so. Scott's new thing is being "suppy-down" on the couch. I don't have the heart to correct that speech issue... He will get it eventually.

 

 

 

 

 

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Bobby's First Birthday

Two of my brothers and their kids came to visit the weekend before Bobby's birthday, so we celebrated a little early and his cousins got to help blow out candles.

 Bobby was super tired, but we got the obligatory photo with frosting on his face.

 Scott had been waiting for a cupcake for many hours, so he dug right in.

 The tiredness is starting to show...

 The next day we had him open some presents.

 Trucks from Uncle Brian and Aunt Hailey, mostly Aunt Hailey ;)

 The adults reading the books Bobby got for his birthday...

 A present came on his birthday from Aunt Amanda so he got to open something on his actually birthday, which is nice.

And we got him two more taggie blankets so he'll never be without one.  We had a close call a few weeks before, so I thought it would be a good time to get some back-ups.

Happy Birthday Bobby!  We love you so much and we're so glad you're part of our family.  We can't wait to get to know you better and help you learn and grow into an awesome person.  Keep smiling!

Vacation!!!

Every year Matt's work has their Annual General Meeting at some resort for all of their employees and their families.  This year it was in Hawaii at the Disney Resort, Au Lani.  This year we decided to pay for Matt's mom to come to help take care of the kids.  There's a dinner just for adults, for example, so we needed a babysitter.  Plus, she's just awesome, so it was great to have her there.  Before we went to Hawaii, we went to Idaho for a week, so we could see my grandpa, my sister, and spend some time with Matt's parents so the kids could get used to Nana.  We had a great time!

 Bobby is unloading the dishwasher at Emily's house in Idaho Falls.

 Scotty in his new Buzz Lightyear hat, blowing bubbles at Nana and Papa's.  And occasionally eating them...

 Hugging the big teddy bear.

 Peek-a-boo

 Scotty on the bus in Hawaii.

 Traffic on our way to the hotel from the airport.

 Bobby and Nana on the bus.

 Splash pool at Au Lani

 Scotty thinking about going down the kids waterslide... he never made it.

 The beach.

 One of the two towers at Au Lani

 Part of the resort from above.  There's a koi pond by the restaurant, a lazy river shown here.

 Koi

 Map of the resort

 Scott with his new toy he got on the airplane, Percy.

 Feeding the koi.

 Nana and Bobby.

 Me and Scotty.

 Fountain by the restaurant where we ate lunch.

 Bobby just giggled when we put him in the pool for the first time.  It was so cute!

 Scott had gone in a little too deep in this picture...

 Nana hangin by the pool

 We spent the bulk of our time in the first 12 inches of water in the zero entry part of the pool.

 View from our friend's room.

 Matt and I dressed up for the dinner.

 Chip n Dale came to breakfast.

 Donald came too.

 Minnie

 Scotty being shy with Mickey.

 Stitch

 Goofy

 Gavin DeGraw was invited to perform at the Family Event on the beach.  Amazing!

 Oh, and then Lifehouse came out to perform, too.

 Here we are!

 Bobby woke up at 5am or earlier while we were in Hawaii so one morning Matt took him on an early morning stroll.

 Bobby liked the New Zealand presentation at the Polynesian Cultural Center.  I wonder if he's really supposed to be Maori, because he greets me like they greet each other--forehead to forehead.  He also started slapping his legs while they performed the Hake dance.

 Canoe parade.  This is New Zealand.

 This is the Hawaiian dancers.  They also had a float (literally) for Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, and Tonga.

 Some hula dancers peformed at the Luau.

 We took a tram from the PCC to see the Laie Temple and the BYU-Hawaii Campus.

 We went to Pearl Harbor and Scott loved this Submarine control room.  He insisted that it was a train.

 He had a hard time looking up at the rockets, so I lent him my sunglasses.

 Here's a group picture at the USS Arizona Memorial.

 Possibly the highlight of Scott's trip.  He rode on the Pineapple Express at the Dole Plantation.  Bobby fell asleep on the way there, so he and I napped in the car.

 We were told we had to get Matsumoto's Shaved Ice, and we're glad we did.  It was awesome.

 Here are our best shots from Turtle Beach.

 I couldn't believe how close the ocean was to the road.  Absolutely beautiful.

 And there were mountains on the other side of the street.  Also beautiful.

Aloha!
I have about 600 more pictures, so I'm sorry if it's obvious that there are gaps in our vacation... I just didn't know how to get it all in.