In Love

When I was engaged and a newly wed I used to spend a lot of time wondering how I had managed to get such a husband. I felt inadequate and giddy at the same time that I had somehow tricked this guy into marrying me. Lately, I have had a resurgence of many of those feelings. I've been trying to figure out why those emotions have come rushing forward again. Perhaps it is because he is now a doctor. Really and truly I am married to Dr. Brown. I'm so proud of Aaron and know that this has meant a lot of sacrifice for everyone, but him especially. Congratulations!!! But really that couldn't be why I'm feeling so in love. That would be so shallow.

Perhaps it is this awesome graduation gift that he gave me.

Yes Aaron gave this gift to ME when he graduated. And yes... I did cry a lot over a Bosch mixer. This has been so much fun over the last month. But that would be even more shallow than the doctor thing.

Maybe I'm so in love because of all the dishes that he has done these past two months. I just swoon when he does the dishes. But most of all, I think it's been all of the time we have had these last few months to just enjoy each other again. Baseball games, camping trips, playing together and laughing together. It has been a great couple of months. And I am most certainly a LUCKY girl.

Life Happens

Sometimes life just happens and I don't take the time I should to document it. Obviously that has been my experience the last month and now that things are slowing down... I'm ready to start documenting again. Forgive me for all of this catch-up blogging bug I've got to do it sometime.

Oh What Do You Do in the Spring Time??

Aaron has had a lot of time off lately and so we have been keeping ourselves busy. I feel like we have to be outside enjoying every single second of good weather before Aaron starts work again and it gets too hot to enjoy it anyway. Here are a few pictures from our outdoor adventures.

We always have time for a tea party.

Yes!!

Learning to ride a 2-wheeler.

Cleaning out leaves and searching for snails. By the way I just love how Aaron has been taking the kids and getting them to work outside lately. They are so much more willing to work outside than inside. Why would that be?!?

Happy Birthday Mom

I swear I'll be caught up someday. We love you Mom. Happy birthday 3 weeks ago.

Trying out Careers

Anyone need a haircut? Lizzy is now accepting new clients. Please respond if interested.

Cuddlin' Up

It's a little bit unsettling to go in at night to check on the kids and find this empty bed. But it was all good when I found that Lizzy had just been looking for someone to cuddle with. I sure am glad they have each other.

Zions

Riverside trail

Aaron thinks that I had a deprived childhood because I have lived in Utah my entire life and never visited Zion National Park. I'm beginning to agree. (Just kidding Mom and Dad). It was really an amazing trip and I have to say, it was much more beautiful than I imagined. I've been to Red Rocks and San Rafael and Snow Canyon and I imagined that Zions was a lot more of the same. (Don't get me wrong, I love rocks.... but you can only take so much... you know what I mean.) But Zions is much more lush and green and beautiful. We spent 2 nights camped in Zions and then 1 night in a hotel in St. George cleaning up, swimming and meeting up with Justin, Megan and Brett. Saturday morning, the boys rode bikes through Snow Canyon while Megan and the kids and I visited the St. George temple. Here are a few highlights.Andrew and Lizzy loved bridges on this trip. We looked for them everywhere.

At the top of the Emerald Pools. We seriously had some tough kids who made this hike on their own.




We stayed pretty busy with hikes, but in our spare time the kids collected caterpillars. The morning that we left, they had collected 35 and were very disappointed that Mom and Dad didn't let them bring them home with us.

Canyon overlook. We are flexing our muscles if you can't tell.

We held hands very tightly while hiking this part of Canyon Overlook.

Weeping Rock. In several places in Zions there are rocks that are always wet. The rocks are very pourous and absorb water from rainfall and then it slowly seeps out. This water seeping out is thousands of years old. So amazing.

We had those kids tired out by the end.