To my Best Friend..

I am so glad that I have a best friend. Someone who accepts me for who I truly am, will never walk out on my life. Loves me unconditionally, through thick and thin. Values our friendship. He is the best friend I have always wanted. I have always known that Mick and I are more to each other than just a husband or a wife, a mom or a dad. We are each other's best friend. I can tell Mick absolutely anything, and I rely on him like no other!
We love being together, we do most things together, and talk on the phone about 20 times a day. I can't wait for him to get home from work and I love knowing that he wouldn't be anywhere else but at home with his family!

This Sat will mark our Marriage of 11 years to eachother. There is no secret that Mick and I have had our troubles, but those troubles have made our relationship 100 times better today! It's hard "growing up" with the person you are married to. We got married when we were "kids," 18 years old, you are almost bound to have issues at that young age..

I have always been told that Mick loves me like no one else has seen. I am very proud for people to be able to recognize that. I hope that they see just how much I love him too! I know how special our relationship is. We have been together for half of our lives. Half of our lives, can you believe that!!

Sometimes I am defined by the songs I hear on the radio. Brad Paisley sings a song named "Then." It's about not knowing how much you love someone, not believing how much you could love someone. About someone being their whole life and world. This song is soo true. Mick is my WHOLE life, and my WHOLE world. I thought I loved him back then, but didn't truly know how much I love him until the past 5 years. (It's the first song on my playlist if you want to listen to it!)

I can't wait to be married to him for 5o years! I can't wait to have grey hair together, to retire and live each day side by side.

He is the most generous person, is always there to help family and friends. Works so hard for his family. Proud of who he is, and how he gets the things that we have, by hard work and determination! He is such an awesome father! Those two kids of ours are spoiled rotten by him, good thing they have me to bring them back to level ground. :) Mick takes Clay everywhere with him, and I mean everywhere! Sometimes I think they act like brother's more than father/son. Michayla is the light of Mick's eye! There is no relationship like that of a Daddy and his little girl!

In just a month we will both turn 30 years old, I can't believe that we are going to be 30. I think back to us just being 18. Mick asking me to marry him in his parents barn in Oct 1997. Finding out a few months later that Clay was on his way, getting married in May 1998 and only being just 19 when we became parents! WOW a lot has happened in what feels like a short time. Can't wait to see what lies ahead in our future!

Thank you God for bringing Mick and I into each other's lives when we were 16. Thank you for all of the trials and tribulations that we have over come in the last 14 years, and thank you for our two beautiful children! I am truly blessed in all aspects of life.

We may not have it all together, but TOGETHER we have it all!!!

Easter and how kids sleep..

This is going to be two posts in one..

Easter & Abigail's present.

This year we didn't do any egg hunts and we didn't go to church. I think our whole family is wore out with Baseball so we just decided to meet at mom's for an afternoon lunch..
Mick and Clay got up early and went to Horseshoe Bend for the Youth Turkey Hunt. It was open to only youth hunters for 4 days. They did find some, but weren't able to get close enough to shoot at them. I guess they are going to try again this Sunday and Mick will be able to hunt this time.
My Grandma was suppose to come up from Homedale but fell sick the day before, so they weren't able to come.
We had a good time, it's different the older the kids get, they aren't as easily excited about things like they use to be and they pretty much have the "Easter Bunny," "Santa Claus" and the "Toothfairy" figured out. I try but it's harder the older they get.
Michayla and I got ready and headed over to my folk's house. We had a great lunch and then hid some eggs. My mom does a great job of spoiling all the kids. They got airplanes to fly, jacks, princess fairies and a couple other things. They each got a gold/silver egg with $1 in it..Michayla smiling like her mother, with her eyes closed, Clay was a little hidden but it's the best I got..











Abigail's B-day was the day before Easter and Mick and I just happened upon a gift for her that she has always wanted. Everytime she would come out to our house the kids would be off riding their 4 wheelers and she has always wanted one of her own. Well we found one and got it for her!! It was so exciting to see how suprised and excited she and her father were when we showed it to them..

I know that she just loves it. Mick had to do some tuning to make it run right, and they came and picked it up. They way Amanda tells it, is that she didn't want to get off of it when she got home. Now she can come out and run around our place with the kids and their 4 wheelers!!






How kids sleep..

Every night before I go to bed, I always go back into the kids' rooms to make sure that they are covered up and usually turn off Sis' fan. She is the warmest person I have ever known. She hates to be hot and therefore she has to go to sleep with her fan on.
Anyhow, the other night I went in there and saw this thing around her head and couldn't figure out what it was.. I turned the bathroom light on that shines in her room and this is what I found:



It is funny that at 8 yrs old Michayla still goes to sleep with her baby blanket. It is very thin, and has holes in it. She rubs it in her fingers when she is sleeping.. I still have my blanket, I wonder how long she'll have hers??


This weekend is again Baseball, baseball. We have a game for Clay Friday night, Sat morning and Monday night. Sis on Tuesday and then I am sure more to come.

I talked to my mom and sister about driving down to the Shoshone Waterfalls on Sat after Clay's game so I think we will take a little road trip and do that. I think Mick has a side job to do and it sounds like my dad is feeling a little bit under the weather.. I will be back to post more pictures then..

Catcher X's two and the #6

Oh how busy it's been with both of the kids in the same sport this year. Now that we have started games, it's not quite as hectic, but we are still on the go every night.

Michayla had her 1st game Thurs and then another on Sat. She is just the cutest little gal! Very excited to be playing, always hussles and helps the coach and other team mates. I honestly didn't think she would like Softball as much as she clearly does. Nick (the coach) thought that Michayla would be perfect in the catcher's position. I was a little hesitant. Anyone who knows her knows that she can be a little dramatic when it comes to getting hurt, and I thought for sure the first time she gets hit by the ball - let the drama begin.. Well she practiced in that spot, did get hit by the ball on top of her leg and did not want to play that position again.. :) After some convincing from her coach and me telling her that she doesn't have to play that position, and watching another girl try to catch the ball, she decided that she was the best person for the job!














When she wants a break from that position she usually plays 1st base. It was too cute on Thursday the bases were loaded and Mick told her if the ball is in front of you to get it and then come back and touch home base and the runner would be out, she was soo excited that she got the ball and then got on her knees touched the home base plate with her knees her hand the ball and mit, it was adorable!!!





We did not plan that these two would get the same numbers, it just happened that they did. I think it's adorable. They could care less, but I love it!! Amanda was at Clay's game yesterday and Abigail is playing T-Ball and she wants to get the same # too. How fun would that be!!

It's interesting to go from one age level to another at the games. Sis' is so laid back, you are very encouraging to the little gals playing, then you come to Clay's and it's up on your feet, encouraging as well, but is' just a whole other type of sport! I love to watch them both!

Finally my sister and family returned from Disney Land, I know that they had a great time. Abigail's 6th B-day was yesterday and we have the perfect gift for her! I can't wait to give it to her this afternoon after Mick and Clay get back from hunting. Yesterday was opening of the Youth Hunt for Turkey hunting and Mick took Clay this morning. I hope that they get one, if not they will be able to go next weekend and both of them can try!
I better get off of here and get ready for the day at my parents house! Happy Easter to all who read this!!

The Sports have begun.*edited w/ pictures*

It seems like all we have done lately is run these kids back and forth to practices for Baseball & Softball. Now the games have begun and hopefully the 2 times on Mondays and every night the rest of the week of practices will stop. I get off work at 2 on Monday's try to get over to the kids' school before they get out at 2:30p to pick them up then go to practice for Michayla at 3:30, **they would ride the bus home but it takes them an hour to get home, so they wouldn't get off the bus until 3:30 and we would be late to Sis practice** then it gets over around 5-5:30 then over to Clay's at 5:30 until 8.. Let me tell you what, that is one long and exhausting day.
Tuesday & Wednesday are Clay's practice nights, then Michayla again on Thursday then Clay on Friday.. We are pretty burnt out on the practices..

Last Sat was Clay's first game. I think that the team did extremely well. Although they didn't win, the boys played awesome. Clay is the catcher again, and did an outstaning job. Mick was the Umpire. We could have forefeited the game due to the other team was the "Home" team and the home team is suppose to have the umpire but being as it was the first game we really wanted to play. Mick likes being involved doing the umpire job, but he really would like to be able to sit and watch a game or two. Last year I think he was the umpire every single game.. It gets kind of tiring..




The rest of the weekend was nice. We did some running around on Sat afternoon. Laura needed a fence put up in her back yard for her little doggies, so we had some extra chain link lying around. Mick went over and put that up for her, while Laura and I headed off to Wal-Mart to do our weekly grocery shopping.
Mick is putting in a HUGE and I mean HUGE garden out back. It is so big he has to put the Corn in a whole nother area.. Anyhow, we are going to have green peppers, onions, beets, icky tomatoes, potatoes, and probably more stuff that I am not aware of, and then of course the Corn, oh I can taste it now!!

Sunday, Mick and Clay ran over to Emmett to pick up some stuff for Mick's work and on the way back got a flat tire. So his little trip ended up taking him over 3 hours. He dropped Clay off at my folk's house so that my dad and Clay could go to Kuna to do some more practicing. Clay has to be able to throw that ball consistantly to 2nd base, so he needs some work on getting it to the player each time.
It was like De-Ja-Vu, last year Clay got nailed in the nose at the opening game and ended up with a really bad fat nose. My dad called kind of paniced, Clay had gotten hit in the nose again while they were practicing.. Oh My Gosh... My dad was throwing back to home from 2nd and I am not sure if the sun was in Clay's eyes or what but it nailed him right in the nose.. I am almost sure it is broken, but too swollen to really tell. He's got two black eys underneath.. But one thing about my little man, he is tough!! He cried a little, got home, cleaned it up, took some tylenol then was outside on his 4 wheeler with in the hour.. My dad called about an hour and half after he dropped him off to check on him and Clay said to my dad, "my mom didn't raise me to be a baby grandpa." It was too cute. Although I wanted to baby him and keep him in the house quiet, he wasn't having that at all.
What's funny to me is that I guess I don't see Clay as being a "big boy." But he so is. He's almost as tall as me, can and does everything on his own and will be 11 years old in 4 months!! WOW, it's hard to believe that..
Anyhow, I raked the back yard and then mowed the front and back. It's so nice having a riding mower, I think that is why I always volunteer to mow unless one of the kids beat me to it. We have a well so we were able to turn the water on, and it has made a big difference in the way the grass has greened up.

Well this week we have 4 games, one Wed night, Thurs and 2 on Sat. My horse finally got her feet trimmed and so she's ready to be riden again. I am going to teach Sis how to ride this summer. She wants to try out for some of the mini-princess titles at some of the Rodeo's, so that should be fun!!

Off to get my hair done..