Anniversary: Celebrating 8 Years

We celebrated 8 years of marriage in style! With crazy socks and matching t-shirts, we went to PE's first work party (at his new job) that was on the night of our anniversary. We figured we ought to go, and meet all the families of PE's new coworkers. 

The party was a fundraiser for well-loved man in the office that was diagnosed with cancer. It was a "Sock It to Cancer" fundraiser, hence the crazy socks. The event was at TopGolf, a brand new golfing experience in Utah. This was a soft opening, and it officially opens May 20. It was a lot of fun, and family friendly. It's like bowling, but with golf.

It was fun night, not to mention free! We really like the people at PE's new work, and I love that they do family friendly work parties.

PE also brought me beautiful flowers! 

We have been very blessed in our marriage. I am so grateful to have a wonderful husband by my side!

Wedding

We went to my cousin's wedding on Saturday. We are very happy for him and his new wife! It was great to see extended family. P1 and P2 really enjoyed the water features, blowing bubbles, and eating treats.

 

Mother's Day

P1 has been learning Mother's Day songs in primary. During the week, he would tell me to sit down in the chair and he was ask P2 to come play the piano. And then he would sing his own Mother's Day songs. It was pretty adorable. The only words I could ever catch were "Mother's Day", "12 apostles", and "Team Rocket".

P1 made me the cutest card in primary. I guess he thinks I paint a lot. And we have never eaten chicken and eggs together, so go figure...

The back of the card were circles of colors, so I could paint with my card. (Similar to his book "Mix It Up!")

I love being a mother. It's challenging, but oh so rewarding!

Home Ownership

We love our new house. Here are some pictures that were on the listing.

Before moving in, we did some work on the house. PE is quite the handyman. We had a fun adventure of installing canned lights in our living room. Replacing the light fixtures in the dining room and master bedroom. Installing a medicine cabinet in the bathroom. We also installed extra cable ports so we don't have internet cables all over the house.

This was our first meal at our new house:

Installing canned lights:

They work, yay!

They put in brand new park equipment just for us! We have a park right by our house, and they finished installing the new equipment the day before we officially moved in. 

We also scored a new dishwasher. Home warranty plans are great!

The kids love the park, and we go there once or twice a day.

We are very happy with our house and the neighborhood. We love it here! Our ward even helped us clean up our backyard on our ward service day. We filled a trailer or two with tree branches, bushes, and weeds. We are so grateful for their help!

Japanese Festival

 We went to the Nihon Matsuri Japanese Festival, for the 5th year in a row. P2 loved hiding under our Japanese hats. We ate yummy food and enjoyed watching the drummers. They also had a magician this year, and that was P1's favorite part. He turned a bird into a bunny, and then made it disappear.

Friends

We were blessed with such great friends in our last ward. We will miss being neighbors, but fortunately we didn't move too far away!

Kite Festival

On Saturday, we went to the kite festival! We had a lot of fun! The little kites they give out fly super well! P1 accidentally let go of his, and it tried to fly away. Fortunately, PE had just gotten P2's kite up in the air, and P1's kite wrapped around it, and we were able to pull it back down.

They also had a big blow-up slide. P1 really wanted to go on it, but I knew he would be scared to do it by himself. So we talked it over with him, and he finally got the courage to do it all by himself! He stalled a little bit, halfway up the ladder with a whole bunch of kids behind him. But eventually he made it up, and loved sliding down!