A Quarter of a Century...

Well, it's official. I am 25 years old! I am excited for this new year and for all that the Lord has planned. As most people know, birthdays arent exactly my favorite thing. I had a really bad birthday a couple years ago, and ever since then... I just get nervous about them. All of my birthdays since then have been wonderful, but I still get a little twitch when July 18th comes around. So weird, right?
This year I was so blessed. It was a very special birthday. I got to spend the morning with my handsome husband and my adorable baby. Scott got me breakfast burritos from my favorite little local Mexican place, and we played on the floor with Ady. We were dog-sitting over the weekend, so I also got to spend the weekend with Charlie and his best friend Sammy. Izzy even dressed up for me; he wore a lovely pink bow-tie. So precious! Later that morning, I was upstairs getting ready, when Scott told me that my "birthday suprise" was here. My parents drove all the way down to our house to see me! They bought me a gorgeous apple tree and a lilac bush for my birthday, and my dad even helped plant them. Mom made me a huge carrot cake (seriously- tripple layers with about 20 lbs of frosting). Delicious! We had such a nice visit! It was such a blessing for them to come down. Thanks, Mom and Dad! What a suprise!

Here are some pictures from this fun day:

Scottie and Daddy Bear hard at work


Izzy and his bow-tie/Sammy and Charlie-BFF

Mom with Ady


Lilac bush /Red Delicious apple tree

Scott took me and Ady out to dinner that night at our favorite restaurant called Salsa Brava. It was delicious! Maybe birthdays arent so bad afterall... :)

Also, click on the link below to see a video about my feelings toward my apple tree.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_IrdS-zu48
The Lord is good to me, and so I thank the Lord for giving me the things I need...

Adyson is getting more and more mobile as the days go by. She has just started doing an "Army Crawl" to go forward, and it is so cute! I want to give her a little toy rifle and fatigues. She also started sitting up by herself in her crib or on the floor. She is such a big girl!
Here is a video of her crawling. She can crawl for a longer distance normally, but she was being camera shy.
Have a great weekend!

Four Years and Counting

Scott and I just celebrated our FOUR YEAR Anniversary! It is hard to believe that it has already been four years. We were so blessed to get married at such a young age because we are getting to finish "growing up" together. Each year we are married, we find that although marriage isnt always easy, it is still such a blessing. We love being married to eachother.

This last year has been filled with many changes for us: new house, new puppy, new baby, new car, and new church. We have definately had our up's and down's as we have adjusted to each of these new changes. We have gotten to share the joy and challenge of parenthood together, and the responsibility that comes with owning a home. We have been learning more and more about our strengths and weaknesses as each day passes, and we are learning to be a better team in the way we handle our daily adventures. Each new hurdle has offered a glimpse of God's grace and of God's mercy as we interact with eachother. Our prayer is that despite our lack of perfection in our marriage that God is glorified. It is by His grace that we are together and that we can continue to learn and grow together.

For our anniversary, Tricia volunteered to watch Adyson for us so we could stay the night up in Denver. Scott found a sweet deal on hotwire.com and we were able to get into a 4star hotel for the price of a not-so 4 star hotel. She came down on Thursday morning (6/11- our real anniversary date!) and we headed up to Denver. On our way up, we encountered some major flooding on the interstate from all of the rain. In the picture below you can see how flooded it was. Only trucks and SUV's could get acoss!

We got up to Denver early that afternoon, and we checked into our hotel, the Brown Palace. We stayed at TBP on our wedding night, but because we got there so late that evening and we were so tired from our wedding we didnt really get to see much of the hotel. It was exciting to go back and actually get to see the hotel with more attentive eyes. As we were checking in, I started making small talk with the consierge. I told him, "Wow! The last time we were here I was in a wedding gown and he was in a tux." The guy asked us when, and I said, "Four years ago, today!" He then upgraded our room to the TOP floor with a suite! Scott and I were floored. Our room was increddible! It was so generous of them to do that for us. What a blessing!

One of our favorite things to do now that we have Ady is to go on a movie date. We had heard so much about the new Star Trek movie that we decided to go see it that afternoon. It was so much fun! We walked around the 16th Street Mall for a while, and then we got ready for a lovely dinner at the hotel. The service was the best I've ever had, and the food was even better. They even gave me a rose since it was our anniversary. So sweet!

After getting to sleep in- no baby monitor for the first time in over 9 months!- we got breakfast and took our time packing up to get back home. It was absolutely wonderful.

Thanks to Tricia for taking the time to give us a nice break from reality and a wonderful 4th anniversary! Adyson had such a good time with Nana, too!

Here is our "official" 4th Anniversary picture.

Below is my favorite picture from our trip. We had such a lovely time!