4 years down...the rest of eternity to look forward to!

Well on August 4th it was mine and Chris' 4 year anniversary. That night Chris surprised me with my favorite flowers, lilly's. The picture doesn't do them justice they are absolutley beautiful. I was in charge of the anniversary activities this year. We dropped Lydia off at my parents on Friday at about 2:00 and headed down town. If you know Chris and I you know that we LOVE, LOVE, LOVE hole in the wall restaurants. Sometimes we find the best restaurants and other times we come home sick. We kept hearind about the "Red Iguana" we had both been dying to go there so our first stop was lunch. It was the BOMB, you know it's going to be good when it is packed on a Friday at 3:00. Seriously it was so so good.
Next we went to Gateway and saw G.I. Joe, now if I can save anyone some money and 2 1/2 hours that you will never get back DO NOT SEE THAT MOVIE! We were both pissed the first 3 minutes, and if we weren't in the middle of the row we would've walked out for sure. It sucked. After that horrible movie we went and checked into our hotel. I have always wanted to stay at the Hotel Monaco. It was so cute and very classy. Our room was awesome minus our view of the vallet parking. It is so weird how just staying the night away can make such a difference.
Once we got all checked in we decided to hop on tracks and ride for a bit. We got off at Gateway and walked through some of the stores, I met a bagpipper that I had to get my picture with. Then it was too the roof. We went there for our 1st anniversary and it was such an amazing experience, and I say experience because it isn't just dinner it is so much more. We had reservations for 8:30 and our table was directly in front of the temple. It is seriously a spiritual experience. The piano, the temple, I seriously got teary eyed looking down at the excited brides walking the temple grounds and thinking that was us 4 years ago. We ate to our hearts content and you will see from the picture that I PIGGED out on the desserts. We were laughing so hard because they had special dessert plates and I bypassed those and got a full on dinner plate and literally I got One of EVERYTHING. The waitress was laughing at me that's how bad it was.
After dinner we walked back to the hotel and stopped at the lounge for a hot cocoa, we were both so full it was awesome. Then the next morning I slept in for the first time in 8 months, it was awesome. Then we had to try another dive that we have heard amazing things about. So we went to the "Blue Plate Diner" for breakfast. It did not dissapoint, the omlet was absolutely delectable, and Chris' breakfast burrito looked amazing. Then we headed to my Parents to pick Liddy. We had such a fun little mini vacay. And a super huge thank you to my parents who watched Lydia. She didn't want to leave, they definitely spoil that child.

My beautiful flowers!
The Red Iguana, I wasn't kidding when I said it is a hole in the wall.
I will be the first to say never judge a book by it's cover it was amazing.

I would reccomend this hotel to anyone it was so nice, and great service. But I would take trax down instead of having to do the vallet parking.

I loved the bright colors, and seriously wanted to take the wall paper home.

Our little sitting room

The cool bag piper!

The perfect time to eat at the roof...just as the sun is setting!

4 years together and just as in Love as the day we got married.

Dessert anyone...mind you it was a buffet, so yes I did go back for more (ha ha ha!)

Nothing beats eating with a view of the temple...especially when you can make requests to the pianist like "Annie's Song" and she knew it.

So 4 years has flown by and who are we kidding I seriously Love Chris SO SO SO much. It is so amazing to think back on all the things that we have shared and been through together. I love him he is my best friend, my soul mate, and I can't wait for what the rest of eternity has in store for us!

New camera...finally!!!

Well for some of you, you may have noticed that many of my pictures were just not top notch quality. Well Chris had promised me I could get a new camera and combine it as an anniversary present and my Birthday present. Now my birthday isn't until September but my little brother Tyler won this really nice Nikon camera at work and he sold it to us for a killer deal. So FINALLY I have a camera that takes pictures and captures them the way I hoped. I was so excited so on Saturday while Chris was golfing I took Lydia to the park by our house. It was a little chilly so I didn't think we would have a lot of competition, well we were the only one's there. It was so much fun and I had a lot of fun taking pics of her!

All pooped out from playing for an hour on the playground by herself!
I had to put this one, I love that plumbers crack.

So clear you can see her messy face..ha ha ha!

She loves to put the bark on the little window seal.

Down the stairs to the...TREATS!

Well I would be lying if I said that is surprises me that my child loves candy, I mean look who she has for parents. Anyways it has become a daily occurance that Lydia will make the journey down the stairs to the studio and directly to the treats. I love it because she is so confident going up and down the stairs by herself, but I hate it that she knows how to get candy so easily. Now mind you I have to open the candy for her so I am pretty guilty. No she is not ready for the day, I got her shorts on but I think she had other plans in mind (ha ha ha!)

Mom, I love candy!
Up the stairs!
Down the stairs.

Splish Splash fun!

Well lucky for us a brand new splash pad opened up right by our house. It is only like a 5 minute walk. It has been a summer weekly if not daily past time. Lydia will go brave the splash pad, run scream with the other kids. She is usually very cautious not to get her face wet, but loves to turn the wheels on the tractor and stomp in the puddles. But it is all over once she see's the playground. She loves this playground, and I love it because she can go on it all by herself. She runs back and forth across the bridge and climbs up and down the stairs and she even goes down the slide all by herself. It is so nice to live in an area where there are things like this so close.

Climbing up the stairs all by herself.
Running across the bridge!
Playing by the tractor, she loves to turn the wheels.

This little water feature is probably her favorite because she can get her hands and feet wet without it splashing her in the face. I like to swing her legs in it, she giggles so hard too when I do it.

Pushing the tractor wheel, maybe she likes the tractor so much because she rode on one quite often when she was in my tummy (ha ha ha!)

Looking for a new OB...any suggestions?

Ok so I know that this is a really weird post but I recently found out that my amazing OB/GYN was recently promoted to be an administrator and will no longer be practicing. Needless to say I am absolutely devistated, and am now looking for a new doctor. I have been looking at lists of names but it is pretty scary to see a name and wonder what kind of doctor they are. So if any of you have a great doctor shoot their name across that way I have some reccomendations from people I know!

Our home away from home!

Us being silly...this is after we got home from our trip and we were a little tired and loopy thus this wonderful picture. Notice what is in Chris' hand, can't put that down (ha ha ha!)
Before we left of powell we walked to Wal-Mart and I bought Liddy some M&M's for the ride home. When we got home this is what I found! MMMmmmm GOOD!

Lydia playing in her cool pool on top of the house boat. By the end of the day the water was too hot for her to get in...we joked we could've used it as our own hot tub!

Playing in the pool!

She is such a silly little girl so happy. She had so much fun and is very comfortable on the water and in the boat. Besides the fact that she was concieved in Powell she is definitely my lake powell baby!

eating toast with Grandpa!

Chris taking a break from the heat!

Justin and Linds were such good sports they came down Friday or should I say Saturday at about 3:00 am. We tried to pack as much in as we could and they were huge helps despite the fact that I'm sure they were very tired.

Ok so I know that you are all probably so sick of hearing about Lake Powell but who are we kidding we love the place. We went down for a short weekend this time and it was a lot of fun. It was HOT it got up to 113 and the water was 88...needless to say we spent the majority of our spare time in the water. Lydia had fun as always in the pool that my parents bought for her to use at their house and at Powell. We did a lot of water skiing, wake boarding and surfing. Layed out a ton. Went to see the indian ruins up forgotten canyon and got tricked into hiking to some man made fire pit that looked like Indian ruins. Ate way more than I should but hey "everything is better at powell" and watched some good movies. It was so much fun and a nice break for us all. Thanks again mom and dad for yet another amazing trip!

Like father like daughter!

We went shopping the other day and I told Chris to watch Lydia for a minute and I came back to see this...what can I say Like father like daughter!

Pierce family Reunion!

My grandma Pierce she is 85 and still totally with it.
The family...we weren't all there but it was still fun to see everyone who did come!

We had the Pierce family reunion over at our clubhouse this year. It was a blast my cousin Sally brought her kids over early and all the kids just played at the pool. Then that evening everyone came over for dinner, games and movies in the theater. It was so fun catching up and it was a special treat to meet my mom's cousin Larry from my Grandpa Pierce's side.

Happy Independance day!

We had such a fun time this weekend. We went to Chris' parents cabin up in Kamas. We did so many fun things while we were there. We went to the Oakley rodeo friday night. We went to the parade, shopping at the outlets. We even went down the river in a raft a few times. It was so much fun. And will definitely be a 4th of July we won't soon forget.
As soon as we got there Lydia had to get right on the tramp with Bode and Raini

She likes being on the tramp, but her footing isn't as good as i'm sure she would like it to be.

Liddy-Lou hanging out on the hammock with Dad while we were all getting ready to go to the rodeo.

Lydia watching the rodeo in her new boots!

Just getting settled...we had the best seats. The sun was at our backs and we were actually really close. Lydia loved watching the clown but got a little restless between each rider because there is a little down time.

Lindsey, Justin, Chris, Lydia and me
Watching the fireworks after the rodeo, It was Lydia's first experience and I'm not sure how much she liked it.

Clint, Patrice, Raini and Bode all watching the fireworks...I love the look on Bode's face.

I don't know if the kids really understood the whole concept of the parade but I sure as heck excited for it.

Lydia and Raini with Grandma at the Oakley Parade.

Lydia wanted to run around and socialize with all the people at the parade...she is definitely giving us a run for our money!

The colorguard

The high school band

While we were at the parade the boys took Wayne golfing as his father's day present. After the parade we went to the outlet's in Park City and then we met up with the boys at the "Rhode Island diner" in Oakley. It was a pretty good little place minus a hairy incedent with Lindsey's lunch (ha ha ha!)

Justin and Lindsey

The kids playing before we went to church

We had so much fun this weekend. A big Thank-you to Wayne and Robin for making this weekend such a fun and memorable one!