My Wedding Day

Ten years ago today Scott and I were married.  TEN YEARS!  I can't believe its been that long.  I'm sure to many, that seems like hardly any time at all, but considering all the things we've been through in these ten years, it seems like longer to us (in a good way!).

It is well documented on this blog how much I love Scott.  He is everything to me and I adore every second that we are together.  This post, however, is not about that.  I wanted to recall my memories of that hot summer day ten years ago.  I don't want to get too sappy right now.

Surprisingly, I don't remember as much as I would have expected.  It was a big day, and of course stress tends to take over sometimes, so my memory is foggy, but here's what I have.

I got up really early (for the life of me I don't know why), I don't remember doing anything super important, but I do remember going out for breakfast with some members of my family, although I don't remember exactly which ones.

My sister, Maxine did my hair for the wedding (but I don't actually remember her doing it).  I remember driving my red Mercury Tracer to Scott's house sometime in the afternoon to get my wedding dress on and finish getting ready.  Scott was asleep on the couch when I arrived. Ross and Marde were out in the backyard setting up chairs and gift tables and putting finishing touches on everything.  Ross told me that Scott had also slept in late that day.  Oh to be the groom...

After Scott awakened from his pre-marital nap, he got dressed and we took a zillion pictures in the HOT HOT sun.  I remember that it was the hottest day of the year so far (and probably remained that way), and sweat was running down my back.

Now, I know that a wedding ceremony happened (since that's what we were all there for), but I don't remember a single thing about it other than I cried (again, in a good way).  Everyone helped bring round tables out for the reception and by the time it actually started wind was blowing like crazy.  It knocked all our pictures over (even breaking a few) and we couldn't put out part of the center pieces on the tables because they were blowing away.  But I was so grateful for that wind, because man, I was HOT.

I don't remember greeting guests, or standing in "the line", however, I remember being very hungry and finally feasting on crescents and eclairs.  I also remember that for a few moments the guests slowed down and Scott and I took a break on Marde's wooden swing with our quilts draped over it.  Scott tried to sneak a peak at my cleavage and his cousin, Juliana, got the whole thing on video.  We still laugh about it to this day.

I remember cutting the cake with the wind blowing my veil in my face and then smashing cake all over each other.  Soon after that we went out to my silly decorated Mercury and drove off to Anniversary Inn.

I remember other things from that night, but those are private memories..wink, wink.

One more moment of sappiness....I am so grateful for Scott, our sweet children, and our amazing life.  I am so glad that ten years ago he made me the luckiest girl in the world and that I get to spend every day with my favorite people.  Happy Anniversary, Scott.  I love you and

I hope you don't get sick of me pretty soon....

Going too fast

This summer is flying by.  Why does it seem like winter drags on and on and summer goes by in a wink.  I hate that.  I've been a big blog slacker this summer because I feel so busy with other things, but I wanted to do a quick recap of what we've been doing.

1) Lived in our new house for over a month.  We are getting used to this house. We have learned not to use the toilet in the master bathroom, wooden floors are easy to clean, but very loud in the middle of the night, the basement is a good 10-15 degrees cooler than the upstairs, and its a lot easier to keep a small kitchen clean than a big kitchen.  We have also decided that the many plumbing issues we've had are worth it for the amount of time we've already spent with family and friends.  We are loving Sandy and this has been the best summer we've had in a long time.  I still can't believe we live here again.

2) Bear Lake.  Of course we have spent a lot of time there.  It's so close to us now.  2 1/2 hours seems like nothing compared to the 6 hour drive from Boise.  We had our annual friend reunion and Brunson family reunion already, which I plan to blog about eventually, just not now.  I hope we can make it again before school starts, which is coming up fast (Aug 19!).

3) Spending time with family and friends.  We've had a lot of people over for dinner, and just hung out too.  I took a fitness class with my friend, Lisa.  We've been swimming with Grandma Marde at Crestwood, gone hiking with friends, played board games with more family. I went to a movie with my sister, Max.  And Scott's friend, Brad (Lisa's husband) moved into Scott's office to work also.  It's awesome. We're definitely making up for lost time.

4) Crocheting, reading, playing, and school.  I spend countless hours crocheting.  My latest projects included hairnets for my sister who works in a school cafeteria.  I did bun covers and snoods, pretty fun.  We started Corbin on the Harry Potter series.  He read the first two in like a week and a half!  He loves them.  He's now on the 4th and hoping to finish before school starts.  I'm sure he will.  He's a fast reader.  Did I mention he's going into 3rd grade.  He's so smart.  The other 4 kids have spent a lot of time playing together.  They all actually manage to get along a lot of the time and are so cute when they play.  Scott started school up again after a 3 month break.  He continues to be a genius.

Anyway, I think that's all so far. Before school starts we've got school registration, annual doctor appointments for the kids, tons of yard work, our anniversary, more unpacking, and hopefully lots more fun.  Here's to making the most of Summer before its gone.

Happy Fontan-iversary!

It has now been a year since Ivy had her last open-heart surgery, The Fontan.  I can't believe an entire year has gone by.  Ivy is amazing.  She has gone through so much in her short little life that is unimaginable to me.  She is resilient and strong and incredible.  I am so proud of this 4 1/2 year old.  

This is what Ivy looked like a year ago immediately following her surgery:

And here is our little ray of sunshine now. 

 She barely even remembers going through it all.  She says, "Remember when I got poked-ed?" and that's the most she says about it.  She is one amazing little girl.  We celebrated her Fontan-iversary by eating ice cream and telling her we love her and how she (and we) have all benefited by her going through the things she has.  I feel so blessed and grateful to have Ivy in our lives.  She seriously makes even the darkest days bright.  She is everything to us and we are so happy that we get to have her around to bring us joy every. single. day.

We love you, Ivy.  Happy Fontan-iversary!