Interesting Find

So over the weekend Guy and I went down to his parents house. His dad is getting a wheel chair and we helped to clean so that he can get from one end of the house to the other. My in-laws are packrats to put it nicely. They throw nothing away. I love them to death, but their house is a mess. So as we were cleaning we came across this picture. It is from a photo-booth, it's Guy and his dad when Guy was about 9 I believe.

I can't believe how much Caden looks like his dad. This is a picture of Caden from Guy's family reunion in August. You can definitely see the resemblance.

10 Years

On Wednesday Guy & I celebrated our 10 year anniversary. Sometimes it's really hard to believe that we have been married for 10 years, others it seems like it has been much longer. I asked Guy what he would say our first date was, he looked at me and said did we even go on dates? I said I can only think of a couple. We started out as friends, I thought of Guy as the big brother I never had, then one day his sister said wouldn't it be funny if you two dated. So one thing led to another and a year and a half later we were married. The last 10 years have been crazy, I can't imagine spending my life with anyone else. Even though we sometimes argue and drive each other nuts, there is no one else I'd rather be with. Last Monday Guy asked me about iPod's, I let Jake take mine on his mission because it doesn't play video so I have Jake's, mine was a cute little blue nano, Jake's is a huge black 30GB monster that has absolutely no battery life. So anyway Guy asked me after using Jake's for the past 4 months which one I liked better? Did I like the little nano or the big one. I told him that I liked the nano the best, and then I told him about the cool new nano's and how they had a purple one (I'm somewhat obsessed with purple), and all the things they did. So on Wednesday after we had dinner, I said "Hey we could go over to Best Buy and get me an ipod", He says "They don't have one", I said "well Kari said she saw a purple one at Wal-Mart", he says "nope they don't either", I said "How do you know?" He says "I drove all over trying to find you a new 16GB purple ipod and couldn't find one anywhere." I turned and said "Ah you really do love me."

I feel so lucky to have Guy in my life and to have the 5 kids that we have. I couldn't ask for better kids. Jake, Megan, and Ashley are the best step-kids in the whole world and I love them so much.This is Guy and I on our first anniversary. We were sealed in the Manti Temple.

New Blog

So I've added another blog. Wow this stuff really is fun. :) I wanted a way to update family and friends on how Jake is doing on his mission. So I created a blog where I will be posting his emails and pictures. :) Feel free to take a look if you would like to do so.

Tag your it! - Angie & Ashley!

3 Names you go by - Melita, Skeeter, MeliKa Adairm
3 Things you are wearing right now -brown striped pants, blue striped shirt and brown sandals
3 Restaurants I love - The Old Spaghetti Factory, Texas Roadhouse, TGI Friday's
3 Favorite things to do - read, play with the kids, read
3 Trips to plan on this year - trips? What are trips?
3 Things you want badly - more money, a bigger house, I really want another baby but that's not going to happen
3 People who will do this - Ashley, maybe Angie?
3 Pets you have/had - Carmel, Smokey, Tigger
3 Things you did yesterday - worked, tried to potty train Zach, watched the Wipeout season finale
3 Things you ate today - pizza, peanut butter granola bites, and some chocolate milk
3 goals -finish school, eventually get a bigger house, send my kids to school
3 Fears - the only one I have is of someone close to me dying.
3 Things you plan on doing today - work, make dinner, straighten my house
3 Things you plan on doing tomorrow - work, make dinner, go visiting teaching
3 Favorite Holidays - Any day I get out of working
3 Favorite beverages - water, Dr Pepper, hot chocolate

Tricky little 3 year old!

So as I was sitting here and typing out the previous message "Tag your it" and Caden came in and said "Mom you have got to come here and see what Zach did to your sink in the bathroom." So I'm thinking Ok he squirted toothpaste all over, but no I get in the bathroom and he has taken out the drain in my sink, then taken one of my pill bottles and taken off the "child-proof" cap. He then decided that he should turn the bottle upside down and stick in down the drain. See picture below. I just don't know what I'm going to do with that kid. I'm going to have to start putting my pills up where he can't reach them. I didn't think he could get them open. Guy had to come upstairs and take apart the drain under the sink to get the bottle out. Now I have to go to the store and get my perscription filled.


On a funnier note, he tried to dress himself this morning while Guy was in the back watering. Guy walked back to the house and found this.

He is wearing a swimsuit with the flotation stuff at the top, and those are my tennis shoes on his feet.

Zoo Day

Caden, Zach and Nelia on the elephant trunk

Aunt Jen on the Carosel with the boys.

Saturday September 13th was my work party at the Hogle Zoo. Guy and I went and took the boys, Ashley didn't want to go (she is too cool for the zoo). Jenica came and met us there, Along with Rainbow and Garet with Nelia and Joshua. The boys had a great time seeing all the animals and playing in the new discovery zone. It was fun to watch then look at the animals. I didn't stay for the whole time because Jenica and I had already made plans to go to the State Fair and see Lady Antebellum in concert. Unfortunetly I did not take any pictures at the concert.

On the train ride. The cute girl in my neice Nelia. She and Caden were best buddies at the zoo.

Caden and Zach in the egg

Weird Family weekend

After an exhausting Friday at work I made Guy take me to the Texas Roadhouse for dinner. So yummy, I would highly suggest trying them if you haven't already done so. That was actually a nice start to the weekend. The boys were even good at the restaurant, which almost never happens. So then we get up Saturday morning and get ready to leave for Central Utah to my brother-in-laws wedding. My in-laws live in Mayfield, it's a tiny little town in the middle of nowhere. :) The wedding was outside at the park there in town, which happens to be across the street from a dairy, the ceremony was short and sweet. The bride looked pretty, they had a kind of western themed wedding. The groomsmen were in their black wranglers with green button up shirts. The bridesmaids and flower girls were in beautiful purple dresses. The reception was very laid back. There were sandwiches, chips, and of course cake. The cake was delicious. After the reception we went back to the in-laws and visited until about 10 pm. We for some strange reason (we were too lazy), didn't pack any over night bags for us. We were just planning on coming back that night. But we were having so much fun catching up with some of the family. I do miss them at times, and us Adair step-moms have go to stick together. :)

After we were done visiting we drove up to my moms house in Woodland Hills, by Spanish Fork, and decided we were too tired to drive home. We spent the night there and hung out the next day to have birthday dinner for my sister Serena. She turned 13 on Friday. So we had taco's for dinner and homemade pies for dessert. My dad makes the best pies ever. Or so I'm told since I don't really like fruit pies.

Did I mention that Ashley was a little ornery?
Caden holding his little cousin Jason
Mommy helping Zach hold Jason

Then we got home and someone had decided to be tremendously nice to us and had brought over some food from Smith's caselot sale. I will probably never know who did that for us. But it was so amazingly generous and self-less. If I ever find out who it was I'm sure I'll be too overcome with emotion to even say anything. It is one of the nicest things that has happened to our family. It's great to know that we are being looked after even if I don't know who is looking after us.

Ashley's 16th Birthday

So this is going to kind of be in backwards order because I put the pictures in wrong. But oh well. So Ashley's birthday was a couple of weeks ago. She is now 16, I'm having a hard time believing that, I think that Guy is having an even harder time. For her birthday her BFF Jackie and I threw her a surprise party. She had no idea until the day before, then through a series of unrelated events she kind of figured it out. But that's ok it was still fun. Then on her birthday her friends Jackie and Chandler came and destroyed, I mean decorated her room, while I took her out to get her license, to get some lunch and to the mall to have some girl bonding time.

Ashley is such a beautiful and sweet young woman. I feel very blessed that I am lucky enough to be a part of her life. She is such a great help around the house. She loves her horse even after he fell on her. She is such a great friend, and someone I love to talk to. It's crazy to me that she is a junior in high school. When I first met her she was such a cute little toddler. It's been so much fun to watch her grow into the the wonderful person she is today.

Ashley's Room after decorating!

Chandler one of the culprits.

Jackie the other culprit

Chandler, Glen, Johnny, Jackie, Ashley, and Chelcee
The kids from the surprise party

Ashley in her birthday tiara!

First Day of Kindergarten

So today was Caden's first day of kindergarten. He was so excited, he couldn't hardly wait to go. In fact since back to school night a couple weeks ago, Caden has been asking me when he get's to go to school. So today I go and pick him up from the sitter's to take him to school. He wanted both Guy and I to drop him off so that's what we did. I think that he is going to be fine. He didn't even care when we left. He just was so happy to be at school. I hope that continues though-out his years in school. Here are a couple of pictures from the day. This was outside before we walked in. The other one, I swear he is not sticking his pencil up his nose, he is just thinking.

So when I picked him up from the daycare. I asked Caden how his day went. He said that he had lots of fun in school and the only name he remembered is his teacher Mrs. Cragun. I guess that' a good name to remember. ;) He's my little trooper I'm so proud of him.