five years today

The best five years of my life.

The best decision I ever made.

My best friend.

I wanted to post a picture of our wedding day.
I've posted wedding pictures of us before so I thought I'd pick one that I haven't posted in the past.
This is one of my favorites.
It's all of our brothers.
Aren't they handsome?

FOURTH

It was our fourth anniversary yesterday. It was a great day! I spent the day with my fabulous kiddos, and swam in the afternoon with some neighborhood friends. When Dave got home from work he and Lily swam for an hour, they love to swim together and do it almost every day! After that we put the kids to bed and a babysitter came over so we could go to dinner (it was actually Dave's dental assistant Cindy). We debated between going to Mango's in downtown Mesa, where we had our first date and just heading over to SanTan Village. We ended up going to SanTan since it was closer and it was a GOOD decision. We ended up getting a $60 dinner for free at a new italian restaurant there, all we had to do was fill out a comment card after dinner!


We are heading to Phoenix this weekend to stay a couple of nights at a resort and my parents are going to stay at our house and watch the kids, we're excited to get away for our anniversary. Dave also surprised me and told me that we are going to go to BYU education week in August together and his parents are going to watch the kids. I am so excited about that!!

We are so happy to be married, and feel grateful for our little family. We are excited about many more years together and about more kids . . . but not anytime soon ;o)

back from the desert

It's been too long since my last post, and a lot has happened. Dave's Grandma Call died, and we went to Mesa for the funeral last week. We had a wonderful time with family, just as Grandma Call would have wanted. Her funeral service was beautiful. She had her children, and all their families there - a total of 112 posterity! Pretty amazing, considering she was told never to have children, and advised during her first pregnancy to have an abortion. She went forward with faith during that first pregnancy, and ended up with seven wonderful children, all of whom adore her. She was a diligent writer, and left behind 21 journals, recording her life. They chose to read from those journals during her funeral, and it was perfect! We'll miss Grandma Call, but she died with a wonderful testimony, and was excited to be with her sweetheart again. Grandpa Call died over 17 years ago, and although she continued to live a positive and productive life, she missed him every day. In the funeral they talked of her desire to walk hand in hand with him again. So, while we'll miss our Grandma Call, we're happy she is with her Nolan again.

We got the chance to look at houses when we were in the valley and it made us VERY excited, to say the least, about getting back to the desert. We've enjoyed Seattle, but we're feeling ready to move on - we can't wait to own a home, and actually have a yard.

In other news, Dave is official, he passed the Western Regional Board Exam, and got his acceptance card, he applied for his dental license today, and should be able to practice in just a week or two!!

Our three year anniversary came and went last month too! It's hard to believe it's been three years, in some ways it seems like it's been forever, yet I remember our wedding day like it was yesterday. We went to the temple on our anniversary and did sealings, enjoyed dinner at a great restaurant called Salty's (right on the water in Seattle, with a spectacular view of downtown), and ended our night with cupcakes and a movie!


And finally, in Lily news - our daughter can officially say the following words: Ball, Baby, Mama, Apple, Hello, Uh-Oh, No (we love hearing that one), Bye-bye and Papa. Here is a little video of "hello", can you tell she's her mother's daughter? She already loves the cell phone.