One of THOSE Days

Do you ever have one of those days? When, no matter how hard you try, everything just seems to go wrong? Yesterday was one of those days for me. But luckily, I ran into this beautiful girl:

And then this beautiful girl:

And Richard took me out for some ice cream:

And suddenly the world was a better place! Thanks guys, you're the best :)

Saturday in the Park

Since Julie was in AZ helping Holly this past week (you can check out this post if you want more info on her visit!), Richard and I decided that we would go help my brother-in-law for a few hours and take the kids to the park and give him a break! We had SO much fun- I can't remember the last time I had that much fun with my nieces and nephews. We played kick ball, climbed a tree, raced down a humongous hill, played on the playground, and let them wear out their favorite aunt and uncle :) Thanks for letting us take the kids for a couple of hours Todd!

All the little monkeys up in the tree

All the kids minus Kimberly, who was back home sleeping!

Color Me Mine

Last Saturday Richard took me to what was supposed to be the activity for my birthday (one of those things that didn't work out)- Color Me Mine. This place has all different kinds of pottery and you can paint them and then they'll fire them up and make it look pretty! Ok, so I don't know the technical terms, but you get the idea. The plan was for us to both make our own thing and then make an anniversary plate together. I had the ENTIRE plate done and had just finished drying the paint. I turned around to take it up to the front and OOPS- it slipped out of my hands and SHATTERED. I was SOOOO sad and the only thing I thought was, don't cry, please don't cry in front of all of these people! Of course I didn't drop the other two meaningless projects we were working on, I had to drop the plate that was going to mean more and that we would use every year on our anniversary. ~sigh~ I'm going to have to let someone teach me how to not be so clumsy because I do stuff like that all the time! Other than that it was SO much fun and we will probably be back soon. Here are our fun creations that I DIDN'T drop:

Painting my vase

Intensely working on his big fat frog bank

The finished products!

Catching Up

It hasn't been that long since I've written but a LOT has been going on. But here are the highlights of the two best things that happened in the last week:

Cinco de Mayo Birthday

Birthday celebrations actually started the week before with my old roommates surprising me by taking me out to lunch and then to the mall to force me to buy some new clothes, since it takes a lot to get me to the mall. Then on my birthday, Richard tried so hard to make it good day but I guess fate was against him because nothing worked out the way it should have! He did surprise me at work with a bouquet of flowers but that was really the only thing that went right. I felt really bad for him but it was still a good birthday. He got me what I have been wanting for a while now- a brand new bike!!! I was so excited. And the best part of the present is that he got two bikes so now he has to go with me when I want to go :)

Putting together our bikes!

1ST ANNIVERSARY

Yesterday was officially our one year anniversary!!! It's hard to believe that it's only been a year but at the same time it feel like it's been way longer than a year! Last week we stayed at a little bed and breakfast and got to relax and enjoy our time away from Provo. Never mind that the place was pretty ghetto...it was nice to get away anyway :) Then we went to the park where we had our first date and where Richard proposed. On our anniversary Richard made me a delicious breakfast in the morning and then that night we looked at our wedding pictures, watched our wedding video, tried some of our wedding cake (notice I didn't say EAT, it was pretty gross so we just took a picture and then threw it away!), and danced to our song. It was a fantastic anniversary and I'm so lucky to have spent the last year with the most amazing man I know. He's even better of a man now that he's had to put up with me for a whole year!

I LOVE YOU!!