Happy 12th Anniversary!

Here we are--12 years together!!
Today we celebrated our 12th year wedding anniversary.

I think we look pretty good considering. Don't we? Here's a picture from our wedding day:

We have both been so sick over the past week. It was hard to say if we were even going to celebrate our anniversary today or not.

But we made it out. We went out to dinner using a gift card we had so it was all free, and then we grabbed some ice cream using another gift card. Love the freeness! Woohoo!!

Troy ate so much food, he had to come home and relax. Ahhhh!

It's so funny though, we were hardly gone from the kids at all and all I can think of is them! I was good, really. I didn't bring up the kids at dinner and I only called to check on them twice. But still, I thought, gee, what can we get for the kids!?

So, as we stopped by to grab our ice cream, we just happened to see some really cute hats for the boys that we picked up, and oh how cute are they?!

I refrained from buying all the cute poofy skirts that the girls would have looked so cute in, but I had to focus really hard.

Anyway, back to us---we've had a great 12 years and here's to many many more!

Micah Receives Cub Scouts Highest Honors...and Becomes a Boy Scout!

This past Tuesday, Micah got awarded a whole bunch of cub scout awards. Well, he earned these several months ago, but then they canceled 2 pack meetings and didn't have any in December or January, so he had to wait almost 4 months to finally get his awards.

He earned a whole bunch of pins for his Webelos shoulder thing (yeah, I'm pretty smart about the official names and all), some Pinnacle of Scouting thing with an arrow notch thingy, his religious knot, his Webelos badge, and then the highest award in cub scouts---the Arrow of Light.

Here he is waiting to get awarded his religious knot. Why are my kids so short?

And, yes, they make the parents get up there and get pinned and all, so of course they get to take fun pictures of you when you are looking all dorky and your kid is trying to make you bleed. I have a snazzy necklace thingy though.

Anyway, although I really HATE scouts and we have had a really rough time with it over the past years, I'm glad Micah got to earn all these things and see him so proud and happy. Now he is officially a boy scout! Oh, more joys await, I'm sure.

Micah's 11 Year Old Pictures

Look at my cute Micah boy! Here are the shots from his 11 year old picture shoot.
Isn't he so handsome?

I look at Micah and think, gee, this is a pretty good looking kid. How's that happen?
Ha haa! No, just kidding, but am pretty impressed with his cuteness.

Troy always gets all sad every time I put up the new pictures on the wall. He always says, "Oh! He/she looks soooo old!!!!"

The photographer was all into these letters and number blocks. I don't know what the deal was. She wanted Micah to hold up the number 11 or something, and I was thinking that was pretty babyish, so anyway, while she was answering a phone call I dug through her box of blocks and threw these ones to Micah just for fun.

They humored me. :)