FIVE

Jeremy and I celebrated the big 5th Anniversary tonight! Our actual anniversary is on August 7th so even though we're a month and a half late I guess at least we celebrated!

Jeremy let me pick Olive Garden because I was craving their fagioli chili soup and breadsticks and their stuffed chicken marsala. We even split a piece of black tie for dessert. Yum! I was full after one bowl of soup and half a breadstick (darn this belly!) so of course, per my tradition, I brought my entire dinner home. Lunch will be especially good tomorrow. Then I spent one of my Godiva chocolate gift cards from Mother's Day and we exchanged cards-I love getting cards from Jeremy.

(This is a picture of us about a month ago I think.)

Here are a couple wedding photos. I haven't looked through our wedding albums for a long time and it was fun. That was one perfect day. I love this man and not a day goes by that I don't wonder how I lucked out to meet and marry him! Well I guess it really wasn't luck :)

22 Weeks

We had a fun week.
Here I am in all of my 22 week glory. HUGE! But if it's any consolation to me (which it really isn't) Moms carrying twins usually are showing like they are about 8 weeks further along if they were just carrying one. So I'm showing like I would be around 30 weeks. Yikes!

We had a re-visit to The Parlour-couldn't help ourselves! Plus we had to share the discovery with our fellow ice cream fans the Smyers. Brad actually finished the entire banana split and yes he felt sick after. Jeremy is holding up his hand for a size comparison to my brownie sundae.

The boys played their first arcade games

I have always been nervous to have a girl but I must admit I'm getting a bit more excited about it. It helped when my Mom sent me some dresses and shoes she had kept from when I was a baby. I am the most excited about the blessing dress (white one on the right) that my Grammy made and my Mom and I were both blessed in! Cool.

We had car races down the driveway

Hunter has become quite the dipper, if he won't eat just throw a little ranch on it or on the side and he is one happy boy. As a plus, he gets it all over his face too.

The boys enjoyed their first bouncing on a trampoline! They had a blast and laughed a lot.

Still my baby

We had a couple of fun playdates with friends, Hyrum of course went to preschool, and we had two dental parties (one at our house). There are 5 first year dental students in our ward, 1 second year and 3 of us fourth years so it's fun we have a good crowd now. We had about 15 adults and 8 kids over one night and it was a tight squeeze. I must admit when I saw the first years, my first thought was 'oh I'm so glad that's not us again!' As fun as this adventure has been, it feels so good to be almost done!!!!!

First day of Preschool

A friend in our ward started a preschool in her home this year with all kids from our ward. I never thought I would send my kids to preschool but I felt like it would be good for Hyrum to go. I wasn't ready to send him to a school building with teachers and kids I didn't know so this was a perfect fit for us! He'll go Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-11:30.

When I gave him an apple to give to his teacher he wanted to know why and then he answered his own question, 'Probably because teachers are hungry all day long'--I think I would be, trying to keep up with 3 year old's all day!

Hunter saying goodbye-he asked for Hyrum a few times today, I think he was bored with just Mom around

Home and SO excited to go back on Thursday!

We all scream for ICE CREAM

This past weekend we dined at The Parlour in Jackson, Michigan. We have heard of their generous and delicious portions of ice cream and knew this was the place for us. For $5 Jeremy was able to enjoy this tremendous banana split, with 6 giant scoops of ice cream and all the assorted trimmings-doesn't he look happy. They have a creation that is made of 21 scoops of assorted flavors and if you can eat the whole thing in an hour you get it free! Anyone up for a challenge??? Lu or Zac?

The boys were beside themselves with happiness & joy at the prospect of such 'chlocklatey' goodness and I was happy for some help

Hyrum was determined to have a 'hangaber' but Jeremy wanted him to experience the good ol' American Corndog and I'm pretty sure he is a fan for life now

As if we didn't eat enough junk at The Parlour, we had to make more at home

Quite possibly my favorite thing about living in Michigan are the abundant Cider Mills and apple orchards. Our first visit was 5 days after they opened up for the season and we plan on enjoying many more visits through November.

Turner Time

My entire family got together the second week of August for a Turner Reunion and here is a picture of the whole crew (notice everyone looks great but my children? Hmmm)

Our first stop was a few days in Ann Arbor and we loved having everyone in our home-it was so much fun and I'm hoping we can host again soon. We took Darlin' and Pa to the park...

...To a Detroit Tigers game (which has fabulous fireworks at the end regardless of who wins thankfully!)

(My Dad held Hyrum the whole time, except for when he was entertaining Hunter outside-he works miracles with my kids!)

...and to Jump City (a Shakespear favorite)

We were also able to celebrate Mums birthday a little early

The next stop was Kirtland, Ohio where we were able to take the church tour of the town. It was a wonderful experience. I was again impressed with the faith of the early members of our Church, in particular this time with Newel Whitney and his wife Elizabeth-they were amazing! Sister missionaries give the tours and being around them made me miss my mission so badly but I realized again how grateful I am that I was able to serve a mission as well. I really hope my little girl goes too! (And my boys of course)

We stayed a few nights at Brigg & Hava's house and were able to enjoy the lovely beach of Lake Erie. My parents also watched the kids so we could go see the new Star Trek movie-we are big Trekkie fans around here and the new movie was awesome. Then we stayed a night in Pittsburgh with Zac and Joy. We had a great time with the Turner family and can't wait till the next reunion!