Bitter-Sweet

Well, I am sure everyone has heard the news about President Hinckley. When I heard about his passing I just thought about the reunion between he and his sweet wife who passed a few years ago. What an amazing man he was, and I am sure he will keep up with his work on the other side. Just in case any of my Swedish friends are reading this, President Hinckley was the Prophet and President of  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (mormons). I know some of my Swedish scrapbooking, and other scrapbooking friends have asked some questions about my beliefs but just in case you want to learn more here is the link to the website that can answer a lot of questions, www.lds.org. (of course you can always ask me too!)

President Hinckley was a great example, my favorite thing about him was his sense of humor. He was very genuine and hard working, and such a spiritual giant. I will miss him, but I know his successor will be amazing as well. My #1 (Bean) cried for a while, and I have to say I say I shed a few tears as well. 

On another note (a week in review)...

This week has been pretty uneventful, other than D & I went to the Brad Paisley concert on Thursday.  I gave D the tickets for Christmas, I guess that means I gave myself a gift too! The concert was amazing and loads of fun, I had no idea Brad Paisley was such a good musician. We went to dinner at the Blue Iguana uptown (yummy-highly recommended). 

I am still keeping up with my little training regimen for the marathon on April 19th. It was kind of a rest week for me (as far as running training goes), so I only  ran a total of 15 miles. Next week however a different story...my Saturday run in going to be 15-16 miles (yikes). I also had 3 photo shoots that I will post on my photography blog as soon as I can.

#2 (Bug) is off track and driving me crazy asking "who can I play with?" every second. He certainly has been enjoying the Wii Santa brought but I can not believe how competitive he is. He told me "you don't have any skills Mom!" Needless to say he is right but who likes to be told that over and over again? I karate chopped him and he did not like that very much. #1 (Bean) has been practicing piano and is almost done reading Little Women, she also started Melody practice again. #3 (peanut/groceries) well she actually expanded her vocabulary a bit. She says "upple" when she wants you to pick her up. I think it is a form of "up please," and of course she spent plenty of time grazing on whatever she could find that was edible and/or sweet. I also weaned her from a bottle this week...I do not know why I waited so long. D (my man) worked lots and started studying to take the Securities exam. FYI-he is a civil engineer but works part-time doing financial planning (insurance, mortgages, retirement, etc.)

Enough about us...we are happy and healthy so far! Best Wishes to anyone who reads about our day to day stuff.  

I'm really not lazy

You know I thought I would be able to find more time to write a little bit more about our family. I spend alot of my time on the computer working but usually it is 1:00 in the morning before I am done and can post something on our family site, but most of the time I would rather sleep. Well I won't include any pictures this time, but I will write a bit about us.

ME & D: What can I say about us. We are madly in love and he is the best man in the world (right?).  Well most of the time that is how it is. We were friends for over 10 years before we ever "hooked up". His Mom was the director of a dancing school that I took lessons at, then we ended up at the same Jr. High but different High Schools. To make a long story short...I dated his brother and some of his friends, he dated ALL of my friends including my best friend and eventually he and I became best friends, due to all of the phone conversations about each others relationship woes. I wrote to him often on his mission but I was waiting for another missionary and never thought of  him (D) in a very romantic light. The first time we kissed I told my Mom it was good but felt kind of like I was kissing my brother. A year after he came home, we went on a 6 week dance tour to Europe.  One night while we were crossing the English channel on a ferry, we got to talking about the future and that is when the weird feeling and questions started. Once we decided we were going to date I knew we were bound for marriage. That was July, we were engaged at Christmas and married in March. It has been the best 10 years of my life. What a roller coaster ride, I would not trade any of it and feel so lucky to have a true soul mate.

#1 (our daughter's-nickname is BEAN)

It was a good thing we (me & D) had such a good relationship because we were blessed with a Honeymoon baby. Bean was born a few weeks before our first anniversary. She will be 9 this year and is such a good girl. She is very spirited and sassy but has such a sweet way about her too!

#2 (our son's-nickname is BUG)

I remember telling D before he was born that I always wanted a brown eye-curly hair kid. Well, for those of you who know him you know I was granted my wish. He is one CRAZY kid, very adventurous and a great story teller. He had his pre-school teacher believing that we had a live cheetah living in our basement.

#3 (our daughter's -nickname is PEANUT)

This little butter ball is a very unique individual. I have really enjoyed having her around and the poor thing inherited my gene pool. She looks a lot like me, and I look a lot like my Mom so it has to be in the DNA somewhere (Sometimes I call her mini-me). She is  growing so fast and never passes an opportunity to eat, she has to keep those chubby cheeks filled... D has nicknamed her Groceries!