Date Night Exchange

It's been really nice to have a few date nights lately! We've decided to do a kind of date night co-op with some friends and it's been great. We watched the Dayton's girls on Saturday night and got to experience having girls! Rylie is 4 and Ella is 2 so they are perfect ages to play with our boys and Cole and Rylie have so much fun together. We had a picnic on the patio, played in the back yard, took a walk to the local elementary school to play on the playground, and the older two got to have a movie/popcorn night after the little ones went to bed. Can't wait for our turn to come around again!

Garden 2010 Update

My garden got a little bit of a late start this year but is doing well. I have corn, onions, sugar snap peas, green beans, lemon cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce and spinach, and some herbs. I also have a small strawberry patch and a rhubarb plant that were my first products of the year. I also had to share a picture of my beautiful peonies, one of my very favorite flowers that always bloom right around Memorial Day. Looking forward to a fresh garden salad!!!

Memorial Day Camping 2010

We always do a camping trip over Memorial Day weekend. We go rain or shine and this year, as usual, was rain. We had bits of sun here and there but mostly clouds and sprinkles. The only downpour we got fortunately was on our way home so I think we lucked out. We went with our friends Jason and Christy Huszar and their two boys, Emery (2) and Owen (8 months). We tried a new place this year which turned out to be great. We went to Lost Valley Reservoir. It was beautiful with the lake and some snow capped mountains in the back ground. The boys had a great time playing in the mud, climbing the pile of rocks by our camp site, 4-wheeling with daddy, and making smores by the camp fire. We had a great time and hope to have more camping trips this summer, hopefully with some sun:-)

Mason and Emery had so much fun together!

Emery thought the fire pit was a good place to hang out!

Our campsite.

Climber Cole!

Christy and baby Owen.
Smores, yummy but very messy... leading to the next picture

Yes, a family of 4 can fit on a 4-wheeler!
The boys loved riding the 4-wheelers.

Modern day camping:-)

8th Anniversary

I missed posting on our 8th anniversary on May 25th but wanted to give a shout out to the occasion! I'm so blessed to have such a great husband who supports me, is my best friend, is such an incredible dad, and an incredible man of God! We have had such a good marriage so far, not without it's bumps along the way, but we've learned from mistakes and grown as a couple because of them. We've had 2 beautiful boys and are learning to parent them together and work as a team. I look forward to many, many more years to come and getting to grow old together!

Check one off the bucket list...

I made a great accomplishment this weekend! I ran my first 1/2 marathon (maybe my only). I ran with a my friends Renee and Tracy and after 3 months of training, we finally did it. We ran the Idaho Potato 1/2 Marathon in Boise and it was an absolutely beautiful day for it. The run was along the greenbelt from Lucky Peak Lake to Ann Morrison park. I finished in 2 hours and 3 minutes which was faster than I ever thought I'd be able to run it. Adam and the boys were there at the finish to cheer me on which made the last little bit bearable! I've learned that I can actually enjoy running for more than 2 miles but I'm so glad that I won't be feeling the pressure to have to go run a 10 miler each weekend. I'm actually thinking of a 10K next month but don't hold me to it!

still catching up... Arizona

We went to Arizona a couple of weeks ago to visit Adam's Grandma Bucher. She had only seen Cole once when he was 1 month old and has never seen Mason. We felt that we needed to get down there to see her since she is getting older and her health is not what it once was. We went with the Bucher side of the family which included Adam's parents and Neil, Keith, Michelle, and Gage, his Aunt Bev, Uncle Todd and cousins Ross and Dylan. The rest of the family lives in Arizona: his grandma, Aunt Jackie and Uncle Carl, and cousin Amanda and her husband Tyrell.

We had a great time seeing family that we haven't seen in a couple years and enjoying the warm sun! It was really good to see his grandma and let the kids know her a little bit. We also got to meet up with Adam's cousin Lori and her husband Dustin from the Bowman side of the family. They live in Tucson and were on their way down to California for a work thing so we met then on their way and had breakfast. It was fun to see them and they are moving to Georgia soon so it might be a little while before we see them again. Overall it was a great trip.

Neil, Dustin, Adam, and Keith Me, Michelle, and Lori

Gotta get a cactus picture

The Bucher Family

Carl at the grill.

Phil and Aunt Jackie

Gage, Cole, and Mason "swimming".

Us with Grandma Bucher.

Doing some major catching up... Easter 2010

So I've totally negelected my blog for the past month and now need to do about 100 posts to catch up! The first is Easter.

I had to work, BUMMER, so Adam took the boys to church and then to his parents house for lunch. After I got off work we went over to my parents house and had a little Easter egg hunt and dinner. It was lots of fun and the boys were adorable in their Easter outfits:-)

Mason finding an Easter egg.

Grandma and Grandpa Bucher with the boys.
Sitting so nicely...

this is more realistic:-)

Easter baskets, the balls were a huge hit!

Johnson girls

Cousins: Troy, Mason, and Cole