I love my sweetie!!!

I have the best husband in the world. I am just so lucky to have someone is attentive and so thoughtful. He planned a surprise date for us on Saturday night. He told me on Friday to be in church clothes and ready to leave the house at 5 pm on Saturday. Of course I was intrigued but figured out where we were going. OC Tanner was sponsering a concert with the Utah Symphony and Mormon Tabernacle Choir and guest performers. I had seen the advertisement for it and thought it sounded wonderful but didn't think of seeing if we wanted to go. Luckily my sweet husband thought of it too.

The night started out with dinner at the Lion House pantry. You may ask why this restaurant? This is where we ate right before Tony proposed to me at Temple Square so it has a lot of sentimental meaning. I love the food there, so filling and homeade. Delicious!!! The concert was themed with Americana songs and broadway styled music. They had 2 guest performers, Denyce Graves an opera singer and then there was this gentleman name Brian Stokes Mitchell. He was so incredible. Check out his website and listen to some of the songs or go to itunes and listen to his broadway songs.

All I can say is people miss out by not going these events especially when they are free! Thanks my love for such a wonderful date and for always being so thoughtful!!!

Financial Peace University

Has anyone heard of Dave Ramsey? Well, if you haven't you should check out what he is all about. Tony and I's stake is sponsoring this wonderful financial program called "Financial Peace University" which Dave Ramsey created. The LDS church is not anyway affiliated with this program but our stake felt so strongly about this program they are sponsering it through Zion's bank.

Tony and I are so excited about it. We are excited to learn more about creating wealth and getting rid of debt. The first step is creating a $1000 emergency fund. We are on our way!!!What a great peace of mind and blessing it is to be on our way to financial freedom.

If anyone wants to hear more about this wonderful class let me know!

Feed Station #7

Tony and the kids have been volunteering for the Lotoja bike race for the past 4 years. The bike race is 200 miles and starts in Logan and ends up in Jackson Hole. I was lucky enough to be able to volunteer with them this year. They are always assigned to Feedstation #7 which is the last station before the riders go into Jackson Hole. It is such a beautiful area and so exciting to see them riding up the hill, what an accomplishment. Here are a few pictures:

Our feed station

My cute husband setting up

The bikers riding up the hill

Handing out water to the first sets of bikers that don't want to stop for food

The cute kids

We had such a great time and can't wait to do it all again next year!!!!!

What we have been up to!

It's a long time coming I know but boy has it been a busy last couple of months. Here are a few things we have been up to:

1. Stake Float

Tony and I are the Activity Chairman's for our ward. Since we have that calling we were asked to participate in helping create our stake float. For anyone that has been involved in a float before it's a big job, bigger than anyone thought. With only 2 months to get it done, we put many hours into our part.

The theme was "Still putting our Shoulder to the Wheel" We had a pioneer side with a handcart, and dirt. There was a picket fence in the middle with a Book of Mormon signifying a door to the other side which was our side. Our side contained our missionaries assigned to our stake, a show on the go board with the plan of salvation on it, and the Ogden temple. We thought the Ogden temple would be an easy project, boy were we wrong. I have to say Tony is so talented and was the main brain in creating this project.

We made the Ogden temple out of wood, chicken wire, burlap, styrofoam, and lots of comparing to pictures. The best part of the whole project was Tony's mother had an Angel Moroni tree topper that we put on top of the temple. It looked awesome. Here are a few pictures:

Temple with frame and part of the styrofoam

The finished temple

The steeple with Angel Moroni and alShow on the go board for the missionaries to hold onto

We even made it on the front page of the Standard Examiner which is Ogden's paper. The got the greatest shot of our steeple matching up with the Ogden Temple's steeple, it really made us feel great. Here is the picture:

2. I had my biggest event of the year. There were about 5700 attendees. Here is a great shot of all the ladies we plan for.3. The kids started school. Boy has this been an experience, it takes a lot of time and planning to get kids ready for school. School shopping, hair cutting, school supplies- good grief is all I have to say. I appreciate all our parents did to get us ready for school. I am a bad parent because I only took a picture of Amber's hair, we cut it short. I'll take more soon.

4. Chelsie heads off to college. Chelsie headed off to Utah State 2 sundays ago. We sure are excited for her, but miss her terribly. She started school this week and is doing great. She got a job at Staples, yah for Staples.

5. Tony has surgery. Tony had hernia surgery this past week. He is recovering well but boy is it painful. I sure hope he gets feeling better soon, I hate to see him in pain.

There we go, I think that is enough for today. :)

I've been tagged!

ABC's "getting to know you" TAG. Complete the ABC's of you. Then, each player tags 3 people and posts their names, goes to their blogs and leaves a comment letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

A- Attached or single: Attached
B- Best Friend: Tony
C-Cake or Pie: Cake
D-Day: Saturday- it’s project day
E- Essential Items: Shoes
F- Favorite Color: Red
G-Gummy Bears or Worms: Gummy Bears
H-Home town: Taylorsville
I- Indulgences: Ice Cream and Diet Pepsi with a little bit of Wild Cherry Pepsi
J- January or July?: January- it’s my birthday month
K-Kids: 5 step children (love them)
L-Life is incomplete without: Tony
M- Marriage Date: April 19, 2008
N-Number of Siblings:3 (2 brothers and 1 sister-yo Squishy)
O- Oranges or Apples: Apples
P- Phobias or Fears: Being alone
Q- Quote: “I wouldn’t be more surprised if I woke up with my head sewn to the carpet”
R- Reason To Smile: Knowing I am going home in a few minutes to be with my love.
S- Season: Fall
T- Tag Three: Tricia, Steff, Lisa
U- Unknown fact about me: I got a tattoo when I was 20 on a dare and a split decision
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: Really neither, I don’t mind meat but like veggie stuff too
W- Worst Habit: Forgetting names and birthdays
X-Rays or Ultrasounds: I don’t really have a preference
Y-Your favorite food:Anything Mexican food related or licorice
Z- Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Happy Birthday my sweet Love!

Tony getting his groove on at the wedding, he was a party animal

Happy Birthday to the love of my life!

Single vs. Married Andra

Single Andra's red hot car

Andra's married with 5 kids van

What a difference a year can make. Need I say more? Miss you ol' red you did me good. I love my life as a mini van mom!