Happy 5 Year Anniversary!

It's hard to believe that Sheldon and I have been married for 5 years?! We have definitely had our ups and downs, but I can honestly say it just gets better and better. In honor of our 5 year anniversary I am going to do some top 5 lists. This post may end up being a little bit cheesy, so you may want to quit now :)

5 things I love about Sheldon

1. He is the best dad! He always loves to play with Tucker and is also willing to teach him about everything.

2. Never stops trying to improve and be better. I am usually too complacent and content to coast along, but Sheldon reminds me to keep working on being better!

3. Puts up with me :) Sometimes I may be a little crazy, ok a lot crazy! But Sheldon always loves me in spite of it and sometimes because of it.

4. Definitely my knight in shining armor, he always comes to my rescue. Today I had a major crisis, which I will blog about later, Sheldon came as soon as he could and helped me fix it.

5. He is such a spiritual leader. He always helps our family to read our scriptures and have family home evening.

5 favorite moments from the past 5 years

1. Of course the birth of Tucker and Halle, but more specifically I love how cute Sheldon is during labor. It's always hard I think for guys to see their wives in pain, but it's kind of cute to see how concerned Sheldon is for me.

2. Our Disneyland trip! So magical is all I can say about it. It's always fun to see your kids get so excited.

3. Every anniversary (technically more than just a moment). We have always been able to get away for a night on our anniversary. We are planning on doing it for this one to, but it has been delayed a little bit.

4. Because it's summer I've just been thinking about how we used to go camping before we had kids. We used to have so much fun. Tucker is not a very good camper yet, hopefully that will change this summer.

5. In our old house we lived by some pretty awesome neighborhoods, so I love the Sunday walks we would take looking at houses and dreaming about how we wanted our future house to look.

5 inside jokes Sheldon laughs at

I make jokes sometimes over and over again, and Sheldon is nice to laugh at them even though they are not really funny. Here are my favs:

1. "These mashed potatoes are so creamy!" -from While you were sleeping

2. "It does, doesn't it!" - from Muppet Christmas Carol

3. "Nopes" or copying any other funny things tucker says

4. "different" -from fantastic Mr. fox

5. "A diversion!" -from Lord of the Rings, can't remember which one

5 of Sheldon's favorite movies

just to see if I could come close to guessing right, in no particular order

1. Inception

2. Batman movies?

3. Fantastic Mr. Fox

4. Some of the harry potter movies, maybe

5. Anne of Green Gables, j/k that's one of my favorite movies :) Maybe Muppet Christmas Carol

5 things we'll be doing in 5 years

this is not serious at all, just some things that could possibly happen, maybe

1. taking care of 4 kids, yikes that sounds pretty crazy

2. Running our own gym/personal training. That way we can workout but make money and help our business by doing it.

3. Living near a beach and surfing in the mornings. Ahhh, sounds like heaven.

4. Writing a novel together. It will be as popular as twilight or harry potter

5. Planning the next 5 years of our life!

5 things I should be doing right now

1. cleaning my house, in a house with kids there are always more things you can clean

2. cooking an awesome dinner to celebrate our anniversary. Prob not going to happen, I think it's a spaghetti night

3. Reading the news so I can have interesting things to talk about at dinner tonight, instead of just "Tucker did so good at going potty today!"

4. Writing romantic love notes, this is kind of a romantic love note...

5. Taking care of my kids, I think tucker is waking up and Halle is already awake so that's my cue to go!

Thanks so much for 5 amazing years Sheldon! Love You!

Summer Days

Summer has finally arrived and we are loving it. Tucker just wants to play outside all day. He has even cleaned up and then comes to me and says, "Mama, I cleaned up, can we go outside now?" He is happy most of the time to even run around barefoot, which is a good thing since once of his sandals has gone missing. I'm sure I will find it in the weirdest place, stuffed behind food in the kitchen or something like that.

One of Tucker's favorite things to do is ride Avery's little scooter and just coast down the driveway.

Nothing like a cool popsicle on a hot summer day. Avery ate hers really fast and then was jealous that Tucker still had so much of his left, so she told him to "bite it, Tucker!"

Another favorite toy is tire swing Sheldon hung up in the front yard. All the kids in the neighborhood love it so much that the grass is starting to wear down. Tucker and Avery are great at taking turns at pushing each other.

I bet it will be hot enough soon we can break out the kiddie pool!

Garbage Bag Giggles

Of course we are just loving Halle's laugh. She has the greatest laugh just like Tucker. Here are two of our favorite laughing videos.

I don't know if I have posted this video of Tucker on the blog before, but Halle laughing reminded me of it. It's one of my favorites. The random things that make kids laugh!

Halle 4 Months!

Halle turned 4 months about 2 weeks ago. The doctor appointment went great, but Halle is definitely a smart girl. She cried as soon as she saw the doctor, she could sense the shots that were coming. She is such a happy little girl and grabbing for toys now. Mostly, she is always just interested in whatever Tucker is doing and always trying to see him.

The Stats:

Length: 24.9 in 72%

Weight: 13.4 lbs 43%

Head: 16.3 in 57%

Pretty average all around, which is great for babies. Later in life it is not so fun to just be average.

Halle and Daddy chewing grass together and watching the clouds go by.

Too much flash Mom! Don't blind me!

I'm hoping Tucker and Halle always stay good friends, or at least survive the teenage years without killing each other and then they can be good friends again when they are older and more mature.

MIsc. Cali Pictures

We were in California for about 2 weeks, so most of our time was actually not at the theme parks. These are some of my favorite pictures of just hanging out with my family.

Tucker is not very helpful at puzzles, he still like to knock down and take things apart.

There are batting cages really close to my parents house. They always make me feel very weak because I pick almost the slowest speed and it still hurts my hands/arms when I hit the ball. Sheldon is pretty good at it though.

Final Day at Disneyland!

Our last day at Disneyland my Mom watched Halle, which made it so much easier. I don't know if I will ever take an infant again to Disneyland. It is hard to spend so much time feeding Halle and she would always wake up if we tried to take her on a ride because they are so noisy. So we had a good day at Disneyland since we didn't have to worry about Halle. I think Tucker was also used to waiting in lines, so he had a lot of fun as well.

We got there as the park opened so we could hurry and go on the Finding Nemo ride before the line got long. Even though Tucker was better at waiting in line, anything longer than 20 min. was really too long. We never made it on the Peter Pan ride because the wait was always too long.

I loved the Finding Nemo ride, it was pretty cute.

Autopia, such a classic! It would be a little better if you could bump the cars around you.

The teacups were funny, because we started spinning really fast and Tucker was laughing. But then he got kind of serious and we were worried he was getting motion sickness so we stopped spinning :)

We stopped at the Petting Zoo and Tucker loved the goats. He would take turns petting every single goat. We had fun until he started playing in the sawdust that they put down to soak up the pee, then we decided it was a good time to leave.

Tucker loved Tom Sawyer's Island. At first he was little bit nervous about the caves, but then he didn't want to leave and I did. Those caves are pretty small and not very fun for adults to climb around in. Tucker is so cautious it is kind of funny, he hates wobbly bridges and usually wants you to carry him.

We found Tucker a quiet place to have him take a little nap. Right as he woke up Jack Sparrow came walking up to the fountain we were sitting by. When Jack saw Tucker he said, "Oh, a little guppy!" Then tucker said no and gave him this angry face because he was not happy after having woken up from his nap and Jack said, "or a barnacle." It was pretty funny, he actually did a really good impression of Jack Sparrow.

Tucker's my little Yoda, using his light saber as a walking stick.

We got reserved seating for Fantasmic so we didn't have to worry about finding a good seat. The treats it came with were so delicious and we loved the show. We actually stayed for the fireworks right after, but they didn't do the new fireworks for some reason so I was a little disappointed. Tucker did really well considering we stayed there until 10 at night and he only got a 20 min. nap. It was a long day, but so fun. We even got to go on the new Star Tours ride! I wish we could go back!