woman of iron

my sister-in-law did an ironman last weekend.  it was her first one and she finished in only 6 and a half hours.  i have no idea how she dose it but she is in such great shape.

she is also one of the best moms i have ever met.  she has cute little 4 year old twins that are some of the most loved kids in the entire world.

thanks for being such a great example, linds.

i've got a crush on you

every year the gilbert high school choir puts on a western bbq.  the choir kids sign up/audition to perform.  this is the third year that blake and i have gone together.  my youngest brother, whom i call "kid" performed a song.  my whole family was there which i love because we don't get everyone in the same place too often.  i have the best siblings and the cutest nieces and nephews.

that night we also gave my sister-in-law a necklace that we had made for her to remember her son, brycen.  the little guy is still inside of her but his prognosis is not great.  i have been so impressed by the faith of my sister-in-law and my brother as they go through this experience.  i'm excited to meet little brycen someday, whether in this life or the next.  i'm grateful for the restored gospel of Jesus Christ that allows for our families to be eternal.  what a blessing.

18 monthiversary

i know its been a few weeks since oct 9, which is our "18 monthiversary" but i just have been too busy to upload any photos.  blake and i decided that we were going to do all of our favorite things that day.  the day started out with going to get donuts- with maple frosting of course.  after devouring those blake i'm guessing had a food coma so took a 2 hour nap after already sleeping 10 hours the night before.

we then went to see some of our favorite people.  our little "godchild" was having her 1st birthday party. she wasn't quite sure what to do with the cake at first but she soon figured it out and loved it.

we then went to look at houses--blake's favorite activity of all.  its a thing we do whenever we have extra time we drive around and find things we like so when we are ready to buy a house, we'll know exactly what we want.  i fell in love with a house that is about 4.3 million outside of our price range unfortunately.  haha.

the day ended with playing cards with my family and a trip to ikea where i didn't buy anything except beautiful grey ribbon that we be adorning our christmas gifts this year.

i love my sweet husband.  best decision i ever made was to marry him.