Then and Now

This was 9 years ago! We look so young!

We celebrated our 9 year anniversary yesterday! I can not believe how quickly 9 years has flown by!! So many good memories, crazy moments, births of children, ups and downs and I have loved every minute of it!! I love being married to Derek! I am so grateful for so many thing about him. I could go on for hours!

He is such a great husband and father, he is kind and gentle with me. Not to mention that he is so stinkin' cute, I just can't stand it!
I love how he laughs when he thinks something is funny, it is so contagious! I can's help but laugh too!!
He is adventurous, smart, motivated, spiritual, athletic, thoughtful, creative, ....the list goes on to sum it all up, he is exactly who I want to be with for the rest of eternity!!
I LOVE YOU DEREK!!!!

Did I mention he is not afraid to do anything??? We took this picture in front of the waterfall right in front MOVIE THEATER last night! People were around and I didn't want to set up all our equipment and light to take a picture in front of everyone. But he had a vision and persuaded me to do it! I think it turned out great! Despite me being embarrassed to do it!

Cousins on MARS!!!

We had Family in from out of town, so we packed everyone up and went to the Planetarium and the Church history museum! They had so much fun together!! Here are some of the highlights!

They got to control the balls being released...they loved that thing!

Of course a stop by the toy shop....cool stuff

Cruisin in the double stroller...we had 3 of them between us all! It was a little parade of sorts!!

Exploring the Moon!

Hopped over to check out Mars!

I even found myself a martian!!

All on the moon together! I knew we weren't from this planet!!! ha ha

Like this girl is camera shy......RIIIIGHT!! Sill girl!

These two were buddies from the start! How they got Nana to pick them both up at the same time is beyond me! Tricky kids!

Here are the big kids! There are the 3 younger ones missing from this picture.
We had 9 kids age 7 and under!
We are pretty much crazy or super Women!!
We soooo we totally wore them out!!
We got in the car and just minutes later, they were all out!

Ha ha, it was cracking me up!! I could practically hear snoring all the way home!

Fun Family picture Photo shoot!!

They are too cute!! I just can't stand it!!

Such a HAM!!

Tea anyone??

Cutie Patootie!

This on was her own pose

She just wanted to play in the dirt!

I AM SMILING!!!

Silly girl

Already almost 4!!!

Fancy pink Pettiskirt!!

Such a little doll!!

I really like this one!!

But this is more like reality!! ;P

Me and my girls!

Family picture number 1

My ladies being so good! Especially when we took picture for almost 2 hours!!!

Family picture number 2....I think I like this on the best!

Little lady, 18 month old!!!

Sweet little face!!

She is getting so big!! I still think of her as my little baby!!

Such a sweet girl!!

I love this one of her!!

There you have it!! Done with pictures for the year!!! YEA!!!!
Not that I won't get the bug later :P But for now, what a relief that we got it done!
Couldn't have asked for anything better! We had perfect weather and cute new Pettiskirts that the girls LOVED modeling!
To get one head on over to here..
http://www.etsy.com/shop/shannonmakesstuff
they are even on sale right now!!

ALL STAR NUMBER 2!!!

K has her first T-ball game last Saturday!!

She looked so little sitting there with her team!

She got to play on first base and was pretty good at it!

And of course posing for the camera!!

S Chillin' in the chair getting sunburned!!

Baby and her squishy face!!!

M took advantage of the shade my chair made and was nice and cool!!

Waiting in line for her turn to bat!

She was the last better so she got to run all the bases and in her mind...That was a home run!!

In T-ball no one keeps score, everyone bats, everyone runs the bases even if you are out. It is pretty low key, but it is fun for them!!! She loved it and she thought she was pretty rockin' cool!!

Way to go!!!!

Take me out to the ball game!!!

We are now in the throws of the sports arena!!

They couldn't let the camera be present without getting in on the action!

Derek is one of the coaches, She couldn't be more thrilled!

Waiting on first base

Almost her turn up to bat

Kaliah sitting with her buddy during the game!

Her first at bat and she even hit it on her 3rd try!! Needless to say, Derek is totally excited that she is into baseball now!!!