Alicyn's Special Day

On September 13th Ali was baptized to be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. She has been looking forward to this day since she turned 7 years old. As her friends and cousins have been baptized she would get more and more excited.

She met with our bishop, Bishop Brown and they had a really nice talk about baptism and what it means to follow in Jesus' footsteps. She really was ready and made the decision on her own. She is such a little joy. Always wants to make everyone happy and tries so hard to do the right thing. A couple of weeks before her baptism Zach had Thomas the Train book at church and after he was done looking at it Ali took it. Dave leaned over and said something to her...must have been something like you are getting to old to be doing that, you need to be quiet and listen to the people talking.

The following Sunday she sat by the wall with this long face, almost looked ready to cry. I called her over and asked what was wrong and she said. Dad told me that I can't be little anymore and I have to just sit here and listen to the boring talkers since I am getting baptized soon. It was hard not to laugh. I told her that she just needed to try hard not to be noisy and distract people around us.

We have so many family and friends that love us and we feel it. She had so much support and you could just see how happy she was to have everyone there just for her.

We had a lunch after at our house, it was great to visit and be together.

Zach - Back to School

Monday, September 8th

Well the morning started out great. Zach was so excited to go back to school. I don't know what it is with him and me but as soon as we get to school his mood totally changes. He turns into a stinker! ...and I mean a stinker.

He clings to me, throws a fit and just won't cooperate at all. I tried to get some cute pictures of him and his first day. Well you see how that turned out.

Hiding behind the door

I also had a little bit of a melt down myself. I think it was a mixture of things, being a working mom and wishing I could do the simple every day things that mom's do. Like picking your kid up from school...seeing how their day is first hand instead of asking hours later and getting the same response every day...I DON'T KNOW. Stressing out of how to get him to school, pick him up and to the daycare too and not being in trouble with work or working til 8:00 pm. I am sure being a little emotional about Grandma B didn't help the situation either. I cried to Miss Lisa when I was leaving.

Then cried to Megan like a boob when I went to pick Zach up that day, and even more so when she told me with a smile and cheerful grin that she was more than happy to help me out with whatever. She is my angel. She is going to pick Zach up at daycare every school day and then take him back there after school so I can go to work earlier and have a better schedule. I didn't get off work last year until 7:00 at night because I had to take Zach to school every day. Now I might be able to get dinner on the table before 9:00 and have homework and violin practice completed without pulling my hair out. Talk about flopping into bed ready to die. I owe Megan BIG TIME!

After school was a different story....I walked with Lexi to pick him up and he was all smiles and happy.

Catchin Up - A Little

Updates!

September 5th and 6th we went camping to Starvation Reservoir. It is probably the last camping trip we will do together as a family this year....pretty sad. The summer just went to fast and here we are starting to think of what Christmas presents to buy AGAIN.

Watching a movie in the boat - under the blanket so they could see - the sun kept shining on the screen

August 27th
Zach had preschool orientation at Miss Lisa's. He was excited because Riley Hicks is in his class and Riley is his pal. He was also excited to meet new friends and get to know them.


August 8th and 9th
We went camping with Dave's mom, his brothers Tim, Richard and wife Robynn. Ali and Zach had a great time playing with their cousins, Colton, Kassie & Morgan. Our camp spot was great and so pretty. I hope we can go back there again.
It rained a lot! Pretty much the whole time. We would just get dried out and it would rain again.
Still it was better to be there than in the city with the phone, tv and hussle and bussle of things.

Ali and Colton made a house for a potgut we had at camp. I Wish they could make one big enough for me. They put food and water in the house too.

The potgut eventually came out to eat, but not at the house while we were there.

Just on a rock - they left food out there too.

10 Blissful Years

Today is our 10th anniversary! Happy Anniversary Babe! Sometimes it doesn't feel that long at all, like it was just yesterday that I was in a wedding dress and being fussed over by my sisters and friends.

Dave's mom was in Young Woman's with me at church after I returned home from my mission. She asked me one day if I would go out with her son. I said yes, of course. I had people ask me that all the time, and I never got a phone call from anyone. It took a few days and I think he called a couple times and never left a message on the answering machine. My mom and dad didn't have caller ID at the time. We left to go out of town and I changed the answering machine to say, you have reached the Colby's please leave a message, and if this is Dave leave your number so I can call you back. Well sure enough, when we returned home there was a message from him with his phone number. I called him back. We talked on the phone for 2 hours. We had our first date on a Wednesday night. On Tuesday night before our date I did a candy bar story on poster board. His mom drove me to his house and I put it on his porch. It said things like..I just wanted to break the ice before our first date (ice breaker gum). I love to fish (sweedish fish) on streams down (rocky roads) but you have to touch the worms if we ever do that (gummy worms). Anyway, that was really fun. Our first date we went to Chili's for dinner, it was a pretty good date, and we had a nice time. We had a lot in common. We dated a little and then it started to be at least once a week, then even more frequent. I had went on another blind date while I was dating him, my grandma was getting her hair done at the salon and there was another lady there, she was also a grandma. She had a grandson that had just returned from his mission also. He served in Asia somewhere, I believe. My grandma gave his grandma my phone number and he called me. We went out once and it was awful. No chemistry at all and just a waste of time. Well, that date really helped me to decide about Dave too. I am thankful to my grandma for making that move cause I wasn't sure what to do.

One of our dates

We were engaged on June 14, 1998

We were married on September 12th, 1998 at 7:00am in the Salt Lake Temple.

When I arrived at the temple Dave looked like he was going to bolt on me. I was really worried because of the look on his face. I asked him what was wrong and he said I will tell you later. After our wedding ceremony we had about and hour and a half to kill before our wedding breakfast get together. We decided to go to Liberty Park and sit on a bench and talk while we passed the time. Plus we wanted to be the last one's to show up to the breakfast/luncheon. That is when he told me about his night the night before. I had left his house around midnight/1:00 because we were packing for our honeymoon cruise. After I left he had an incident with his neighbor and never went to bed. So he was up all night. So that was why he looked so awful when I arrived at the temple. Man he had me worried, I thought he had cold feet and was bailing on me.

By the end of our reception that night he was exhausted and beat and I found out that I had married a grizzly bear that snored LOUD!. It was probably even extra loud since he was passed out.

We had a great honeymoon, a 7 day Texaribbean cruise, and I wish we could do another one. We went to Calica (near Cancun), Mexico/ Cozumel, Mexico/Roatan, Honduras. We were able to visit the Mayan ruins in Tulum. That was really awesome and amazing.

We celebrated our first wedding anniversary in Heber, Utah and rode the Heber Valley Railroad. Growing up it was called the Heber Creeper.

2 years later we had a bouncing baby girl. She has him wrapped around her finger.

Dave loves to share his passions with his family.




And take a nap or two with the kids. (I love the pictures that I have like this)




He loves Zachary




And Alicyn

He loves one of my very favorite places, which I am so grateful for! DISNEYLAND

His vice is Pepsi, and he usually has an open can to sip on in the fridge...or one chilling in the freezer...yes we have had some explosions and I must admit that they are not always his fault. I did it once and forgot, then blamed him.



He loves his wife....I hope. ;) *wink wink*




Dave is a good husband and father. I am happy that he is my soul mate and that we can share our lives together. I am also happy for Ali and Zach and that they are in our family. What treasures they are and a huge joy!
Here's hoping to many, many more years of BLISS!!!
I love you!