10 years of falling in love:)

 (pics taken Jan 18, 2013)

Every man who truly loves a woman and every woman who truly loves a man hopes and dreams that their companionship will last forever. But marriage is a covenant sealed by authority. If that authority is of the state alone, it will endure only while the state has jurisdiction, and that jurisdiction ends with death. But add to the authority of the state the power of the endowment given by Him who overcame death, and that companionship will endure beyond life if the parties to the marriage live worthy of the promise....

But this gift, precious beyond all others, comes only with a price—with self-discipline, with virtue, with obedience to the commandments of God. These may be difficult, but they are possible under the motivation that comes of an understanding of truth

-President Gordon B. Hinckley

 My dear husband has taught me so much and I value ALL that he has taught me.

One of the first things I started learning from my husband, boyfriend at the time, was how to love and how to be loved. He is selfless, humble, sweet and kind. He still amazes me to this day! I love you, Good Man!

Matthew wanted proof that his foot "popped"

It's been 10 very good years!

Wicked!

The weekend before Thanksgiving, we went on a HOT date! We went to Wicked with our friends. It was a good company and a good time! The Wizard of Oz is so much better now! I love when we get to do things like that! If you get a chance, you gotta see it!

The Tooth Fairy

Wednesday was a big day for us. Aleah started preschool. Nani had special Mommy Nani Time, Matthew pulled out some wisdom teeth, and me......I got my wisdom teeth pulled. It was awesome guys! Matthew is the best dentist ever. He pulled my teeth and did a stinkin' good job! Yet again, I was impressed. They were a little on the easier side because they were erupted, but still, he didn't leave any root tips in and he didn't have to cut any gum or bone! And all of that translates to "great recovery"! I also had a really good nurse who didn't have me do anything at home except rest}) Then the next day, even a friend brought me some popsicles and dinner for that evening. And the tooth fairy brought me ice cream pie and some roses. Can you say spoiled?!

I really could just milk this for all it's worth.

(I thought about putting a pic of the teeth, but ehh, I don't know, I guess not.)

Temple trip.

Last Friday, Matthew and I drove down to Oklahoma City to go to the temple. We were planning to take the girls and we were going to make it little weekend family trip. During that week Grandma and Grandpa called and were making a trip up to see the dentist, so they offered to watch the girls for us. So we let them.

The Oklahoma City temple is beautiful, as all are. It was probably the smallest one we have been to, but just a special. It was our wards, along with another ward's, turn to clean the temple. So after the last session we got to clean it! I've never done that before. It was pretty cool.

Matthew and I had a fun date night walking around Bricktown and taking the water taxi down in the city. OK city has a river walk modeled after the river walk in San Antonio, TX. We had fun. I mean, we had a date weekend, what isn't fun about that?!

Oh, that last pic. is some friends in the ward who had a little car trouble on the way home. Since we know so much about cars, we stopped to see if someone needed Matthew to pull a tooth.

MARCH MADDNESS!

It's a superficial dream come true! We went to the first round of the NCAA Men's bball tournament. The first part of the West conference was out here in Philly. We went and watch BYU play Texas A&M. It was a somewhat frustrating game, but still a fun experience to get to be there.

You know when I was a kid, I remember my dad yelling at the TV when he watched basketball. In our house, our children are more likely to remember their mom yelling at the TV.

You can see here, the next game wasn't too much of a game either.

Thanks Blandon's for watching the girls and thanks to Mr. Renn for the ride to the Wachovia.

Good Times!