Kiss the Baby

Macey loves babies. She loves to kiss the babies. (Well, before she throws them.)

Here are some cute videos of her:

She also loves to read stories. Too bad she reads in this alien language that we can't figure out.

Happy 10th Anniversary!!!

10 years ago on March 5th, 1999, Troy and I were married.

This weekend we celebrated our anniversary by going away for 3 days without the kids. This was the first time we had ever taken a trip just the two of us since our honeymoon. We had lots of fun!

On day 1, we went to the coast:

I love lighthouses, and Troy loves the beach.

Later at night we dressed up all fancy and Troy took me out to a fancy restaurant overlooking the beautiful city lights. It is here that Troy gave me a new ring! Around 5 years ago my engagement ring broke and I haven't had anything but my wedding band to wear. Until now!!! Now I have a new sparkly ring with a special engraving. I also gave Troy back his wedding ring, in which I engraved.

Day 2, we wanted to go somewhere different. So, we decided to go to an Italian gondola.

We liked to ride in the boats, see the sights, and later we toasted each other with some flasks of chocolatey chocolate milk (my favorite!).

This day we mostly relaxed and had a day on the town shopping, eating, and we even went to a movie.

Day 3, we took it closer to home and back to the beginning. We visited the Salt Lake Temple and did some proxy sealings. It took us back to when we were married.

We had fun being together,

but we did miss our 4 wonderful children and wanted to save my mom before she went insane, so we traveled back Saturday night to relieve her. She was glad to see us, and hopefully the children were too!

We had such a wonderful time. Everything was so much fun and I'm so lucky to have married such a wonderful man. For us, who go on a real date about once a year, this was worth everything! Thanks mom for coming to watch the kids!

Caleb Goes To College

Today Caleb had his first day at college.
He had all his books packed and rode the train like a big boy even switching trains along the way.

Here he is at Gardner Hall at the University of Utah's Department of Music:

He was so small in such a big big building! No, he isn't really going to college, but he is now taking piano lessons from one of the directors. So he gets to go practice on the big pianos inside the University. He even gets to play on one all for him while his teacher plays on one next to him.

Caleb's first lesson went well. He had a very good time and loved every minute of it! Watch out Mozart, here comes Spjute!