8 IS Grrr8!

So Eric just asked what I was doing. I told him I was posting a blog on our 8th anniversary. Classic Eric responds: A. Too late to write on our 8th anniversary, it was almost a month ago. (meaning...I should have said, "about our 8th") and B. can you think of 8 reasons you married me? (to which I replied...the hard part is only thinking of 8.) Okay, so there you have our classic conversations - sappy - silly- and just us. At any rate - I am going to post a slew of pics for my benefit. I love to remember how great the last 8 years haved been. For our 8th anniversary -we celebrated by the gifting....Eric gave me a great yellow chair for the office and I gave Eric a gift card to the home depot, a rock, and some socks. Oh...and Cade picked out a Card for Eric that plays Star Wars every time you open it....a birthday card no less :) I wish I could say we had some great romantic date together - but no such luck. I'm afeared we haven't found any great babysitters in our new dig yet. So, we went out to dinner all four of us. We went to Garcia's which was great, and then we looked at old pics together as a family. The next day, I found Cade going through our albums taking pics of our wedding pics. He wanted the because they were "soooo sooo beautiful"....so now I have a lot of pics of pics of us. I won't complain. I thought it was actually not a bad idea because most of my older pics are not digital so not on the computer. I tried to take a few myself....if you look you can see that Cade was actually way better than me at it, find the hidden Debby in the reflection in one of them :) So....Happy Anniversary to me and Eric. Oh, and 8 Reasons why I love being married to Eric:

1. SomeONE super smart and super sweet is always there for me. Always.

2. TOO many zany jokes and puns are told every day...and I love it.

3. THREE turned out to not be a crowd...we made an awesome kid (Cade)..so ...

4. FOUR we became. We made another awesome kid (David.)

5. FIVE - ALIVE. I feel alive because I have a perma friend/spousal unit. He can't escape, poor guy!

6. SIX - We are having so much fun picking up Sticks in our yard together - yardwork will cement us together, I'm convinced.

7. SEVEN Eleven, slurpy runs are so much fun!
8. EIGHT is sure GREAT!!!! Too bad...we didn't get a date.

Okay.....enough cheddar for one night. I probably shouldn't write in my sappy moods. Hopefully I splattered enough nonsense no one even made it this far! :)

Connect

(this is a bonus pic...it is some garden my parents went to....yes that is Joseph Smith as a Sphynx...okay......????!!!!)

We had a fun visit from my parents and the Newlyweds - Zech and Liz. Salt Lake has a connect pass special where you buy one day get one free. So we went to the Aquarium in Sandy (pretty boring, but then again having annual passes to Sea World for 2 years kind of spoiled me. I used to get bored at Sea World - of course this little place with the most exciting thing being a Leopard Shark was sure to disappoint.) We also went to lunch at the Lion House, yummy! Then we went to the Planetarium. I loved that and so did the boys. Here are some more pics of our adventures. This post is for you grandma! Thanks for taking such fun pics Zech!

Fair Enuf

This will be a post of little words and lots of pics. We have had our fair fill this last two weeks. We went to both the Weber County and Davis County Fairs and had a blast. We really enjoyed it! David went hog-wild over the pigs, and Cade loved milking the cow and spinning the prize wheels. Here are some pics from that adventure. I didn't have my camera at the Weber fair, so we lucked out with a free photo booth opportunity. We went a little crazy with it.