6th Anniversary

Doug took me out for a night on the town for our 6th anniversary! We went into San Francisco to a place called Teatro Zinzanni. This place is so freaking cool! It's a 3 hour dinner theatre. They people who perform here have some pretty amazing resumes. Most all of them have worked for circus sole or something of that nature so it has a very festive circus type feel to it. The acts were absolutely amazing! The actors were absolutely hilarious! It was fun to sit for 3 hours and be absolutely entertained. My favorite act was the guys that did this acrobatic type fighting/tumbling. It was awesome! They stood 3 people high on each others shoulders and fell belly flop style to the floor and at the last second fell into a summer salt roll and jumped out of it. I don't know if that sounds like it makes any sense, but it was incredible! I would recommend this to anyone coming to visit San Francisco. Amazing night!Here is my boyfriend of 8 years and husband of 6. They wouldn't let us take any pictures inside the performance tent, so this is us outside the performance tent. It has been an amazing 6 years and I am lucky to have such a great guy like Doug. We have gone through so much together in the last six years and we have only gotten stronger in our love for each other and gotten closer together. I love you so much Doug I am lucky to have you! You are an amazing husband and father. I don't know what I did to get to be so lucky, but whatever it was I'm glad I did it. I would be lost with out you!
*** Special thanks to Vanessa Walker who drove out from Pleasanton (1hr away) to come watch Linkin for us so we could go out! You're the best!

Grateful

This post is kind of personal, but I would feel extremely ungrateful if I didn't talk about this. I have been so grateful for an amazing family and amazing friends this last little while. The cookie basket above my sister sent and the flowers were sent by Jenny and Krissie. This was just a small example of the service people have given me in the last little while.

Let me start by explaining a little bit. I was 8 or 9 weeks pregnant when I had a miscarriage. Doug and I went in to get an ultra sound and they couldn't find a heart beat. This was extremely hard on Doug and I. We had been trying for 6 months to get pregnant and had finally succeeded when I lost the baby. We were both really emotional and had a hard time. Doug's mom flew out the night we found out and I went into surgery the next day for a D and C. Everything went great and Doug's mom went home a few days later. The day after she left I went to the ER and they found 3 blood clots in my right leg. I also had some other infections and complications. I was a mess!

I tell this story only to say that we had some amazing people come out of the wood work to help us in our time of need. My mom and dad were in Africa at the time and all of our other family members live in Arizona. Doug and I were on our own. We had a bunch of ward members bring us dinners, send us cards, and just drop by to give us treats and talk. We had others friends who watched Linkin while I tried to rest and get my leg better. Doug's mom even flew back out a second time to get Linkin and bring him to Arizona for 5 days so I could rest and get my body healthy again. I don't think I would have healed as well if she hadn't done this. She had it all planned so each one of Linkin's aunts and uncles could spend a whole day with him and show him love. He had an absolutely wonderful time! Doug and I came down to AZ after that and spent some time with family and picked Linkin up and brought him back home.

I have to mention a few people by name for their thanks: Kayla my mother in law of course, Emily Batitta, April Standring, Haven, my sister Britany, Jenny, and of course Krissie! I love you all so much and thank you for your help and support during this time. Especially those of you who got the crazy phone calls with me crying! haha. :) Love you all!

Mother's Day!

Linkin's preschool had a Mother's Day Tea Party. It was sooo cute!!! Linkin got a little confused at first because they had all of the kids on one side and the mother's on the other and the kids were going to sing for us. Linkin didn't really understand and he started freaking out because he saw me and he thought I was there to pick him up. He thought for some reason that I would leave him or something. He started FREAKING out! So the show ended up being a bunch of kids singing to their moms and than me sitting in the middle of a bunch of little kids. I think I added a little something extra to the show, don't you?! haha. After he realized I was staying he calmed down and we had a great party.
Here is the cute little gift they made for the mother's at preschool. I love this and have it hanging up on Linkin's Wall of Fame wall clips I made at MOPS Mothers Group. (I don't think I have blogged about MOPS but it is a Mother's Christian group that meets 2 times a month to do fun stuff and has cool speakers. They even have people watch your kids for you! One of the meetings we made cool wall hanging things you can clips your kids artwork onto.)

The Mother's Day Tea Party was tons of fun! The funny thing about this present was Linkin kept trying to tell me days in advance about this art project. I asked him what he did at preschool and he kept telling me he painted his hands. I didn't really understand what he was getting at until I saw this present. The teachers did an amazing job making it all very special! I love his preschool and he really enjoys it to. He asks to go every morning! =)

My Sister's Wedding

My sister got married! We are all so excited for the happy couple. She married a great guy named Cameron. He has 2 cute little girls that are 3 and 4 years old. Their ages fit perfect with all of the other cousins and we are so lucky to have them added to our family! I am pretty bummed we didn't get a picture with my parents in it too, but this is all we have for family pictures at the wedding. I hope Jess doesn't get mad I put up a picture of her pregnant. I think she looks adorable pregnant! So cute! (I'm about 8 weeks pregnant in this picture so that explains my rounder face and sickly complexion. haha)

Here is me and my man at the dinner after the wedding.

This is the story of my life! There were cameras and flashes going off EVERYWHERE at the wedding. People were taking pictures with everyone left and right. Doug thought it would be funny if he posed and got a picture with the Waiter. That's my Dougie for ya! I can't take him anywhere! (But that's why I love him right?!)

Easter 2011

Our ward did a really fun Easter Egg hunt this year for Easter. Linkin remembered doing all the hunts we did last year so he grabbed as many as he could and sat down and started eating them with in a few minutes. It was so funny! I had to get the eggs out of his basket and hide them for other kids because he was way to fast for the other kids. By the time the other nursery age kids had they eggs found Linkin had already found and eaten his candy. Smart boy I say! :)

The ward Easter Hunt also had fun games for all the primary kids. This game was so funny to watch. They had golden eggs the kids had to hold with their legs and run from one side of the field to the other. If the egg dropped they had to start all over again. It was so much fun to watch Linkin try to play the game. I have some pretty funny video tape to prove it!
Here are the two main men in my life! Love you Doug and Linkin! (Yes, Linkin is sticking out his tongue in this picture. To his defence he is just trying to show me the color of his tongue from all the candy....so he said anyways!) ;)
Linkin's Easter loot. The eggs have cute Thomas the Train trains in them and candy. The Easter Bunny was kinda sick this year and pretty lazy. haha. She promises to do better next year!

Linkin did love his toys though. That guitar is one of his favorites. When he's watching tv and there are shows with music, he gets his guitar and starts rocking out and singing with his favorite tv shows. That kid has always loved music! I see a big future ahead for him in the music business. jk

Disney on Ice

When I was in Arizona for my birthday Linkin and I got lucky enough to go with all of our friends to go see Disney on Ice. There was a group of 6 families that all went and there happened to be 2 extra tickets so Linkin and I got to crash the party and come along. I am so bummed I didn't get a picture of everybody, but here is me, Krissie and Jen. I think we had more fun their our kids did! We were singing and rocking out to all of our favorite childhood songs! (and yes we sounded just like them! just picture me as Ariel...aaaaa aaaaa aaaaaa! Like an angel!)

The show was actually Disney Princesses on Ice, so Linkin didn't really know a lot of the movies. He knew Aladdin and the Little Mermaid, but not much else. After the ones he knew were over he got kinda bored. Hence the light up spinney toy he is holding. He got a little bit scared during some of the songs and the dark auditorium didn't help. This was his night light for the evening. He LOVES this toy. (right now this toy is in the naughty box, but that's neither here nor their... haha)

Here are all of the princesses skating. It was a really amazing show! I enjoyed myself!

This has nothing to do with anything other than it was an awesome picture. I guess when I came to Arizona I brought the San Francisco rain with me because it actually rained a few days. This picture is taken from my parents patio after one of the rain storms. (it's an Arizona rain storm so it wasn't really that much rain compared to what we have here in San Fran but still a pretty picture, huh?!)

Birthday Trip to Arizona

I have to start out by saying my husband is absolutely amazing! For my birthday we flew down to Arizona and had a birthday extravaganza!!! It really was one of the funnest birthdays ever. It was like a week long celebration. (I know I know I am totally spoiled) ;)
Doug went a little over board this year with making it special for me. A few months back Doug got an Ipad for his work. At first we kind of 'shared' it and than I kinda took control over it. His work started developing an Ipad ap so they needed the Ipad back. It was the saddest day of my life! A few weeks after that the Ipad 2 came out and I TOTALLY wanted one soooo bad. Doug got up at 5 o'clock in the morning on my birthday and went down to the mall to stand in line for 3 hours to surprise me with an Ipad 2 for my birthday!!!! He was the first guy in line and the store only got 2 in that day and Doug got one for me. Can you believe how awesome he is? I am really lucky to be married to this guy all of eternity. Love you baby!

A few of my girlfriends in AZ all have birthdays with in a few days of each other so we always do a fun birthday celebration. This was our dinner out at Macaroni Grill followed by a movie and late night gab fest at the Desert Ridge fountains. These girls are way to fun! (pictured: me, Jen, Dani, Mindy, and Krissie)

I have said it once and I'm sure I will say it many more times but NOBODY DOES PEDICURES LIKE ARIZONA!!!! I have gotten my toes done in many other states, and Az does it best my friends. Nobody else does as cute of designs on your toes as Arizona does. I always have to get my toes down when we go down to Arizona. Here is all of the girls going to get their toes done. My nieces are even getting in on this! I love it!

How's this for a sexy pic? My mom was taking pictures of each girl in their chair. I am not one to just sit and smile.... you are proud aren't ya mom!? haha

Linkin spends a lot of time with his girl cousins when we go down to Arizona. He pics up some funny interests....such as feeding the baby in this picture. I came in the room and saw him watching a show and feeding the baby. It was the funniest thing EVER! You can tell by his eyes he has so much fun when we visit he gets crazy tired. Look at those tired eyes! He will be a great big brother! (no I'm not pregnant but some day he will be a good big bro!)