Snow Day

2-27

So what do you do when church is canceled due to major snow storm? Get your snow gear on and go out for an adventure in the park right by our house!!! Everything is so beautiful right after the snow storm. Check out the pics.

We had a good time playing in the snow and acting like we were kids again!

So there is a river in the park. It was completely covered with snow and ice and I had a bright idea of seeing if I could stand on it? You can see the results.

We had to go home after that because my feet were soaked and freezing!

Hopefully we can have more of these snow days. We always like things that take us back to our childhood.

Maternity Pics

 We took a couple fun maternity pics by ourselves in Hawaii :)   

Then my bestest friend Chels took these ones for me! She did an incredible job!

 *Taken at approx. 34 wks

Happy Valentines Day Shauna

  As I thought about how I could best tell Shauna how much I love her and how much she means to me this Valentines day, I thought about what means the most to her. I know Shauna doesn't like flowers, i.e. the flowers I bought for her 24th birthday and 1st one in New Hampshire. Could have been the $50 I spent on them or the fact they died after a week, probably a combination of the two. Either way I now know that she isn't the flower type of girl. Over the past 4 years and 3 months I have come to learn a lot about Shauna, for instance I know Shauna married me for my money and muscles. I knew this early in our relationship and even though I had neither when we met I promised her both of them. Unfortunately my gym time has been lacking so I won't be able to give her muscles this valentines day and even though our financial status is better I still won't be able to fulfill the money aspect of my 4 year old promise, I wanted to give her something that I know will mean more to her than flowers, money, and muscles.....something from my heart! :)

 

This picture was taken a day or two before we decided we were going to get married. I love this picture for a couple of reasons. One, it shows how young we were when we got married :), it shows your natural hair color, and lastly, because of how the people in the background are a little blurred. I love that because at that time in my life everything BUT you was blurry! I fell so hard and so fast for you that I couldn't beleive I had found the girl of my dreams, the girl I was going to spend the rest of my life with.

A lot of people said that only knowing each other for 4 months before we got married was too quick and that there is no way we had time to fall in love with each other. We had plenty of time to fall in love, like when my soul felt something it had never felt before on July 12, 2006. When I looked up and saw this beautiful girl standing in the park. My soul knew yours. It was the most incredible feeling that has ever come over me.  

There was also our first date when you hung out my sun roof and yelled, "Putt, golfer putt" at all the miniature golfers. You're everything I've ever wanted!

There was also every night before we said goodbye. We would just hold each other and talk about anything. I remember it was in front of my house by your car that I looked you in the eyes and told you that I was falling in love! Your response was just what I needed, "Not any faster than I am!" I think that after that night we both knew that this just wasn't another person we would break up with in a couple months. We knew it was the start of our Fairy Tale life!

Here are some of the pictures that show little parts of our fairy tale lives thus far....

 

These are just a few of the times that make our lives a Fairy Tale. I never thought I would travel the places that we have or done some of the things we have. You truly make this life to live for!!! The best part about being married to you isn't traveling to Europe or Central America. It's waking up next to you every morning. It's kissing your soft lips. It's coming home every day for lunch just to see you during my hectic day. It's your amazing out look on life. It's your ability to make such wise decisions! It's your eyes that see me for what I can be and your will to help me get there! Above all, it's the fact that I get to spend every day of the rest of my life with my best friend.

Lastly I know how much music means to you so I wanted to have a song that I feel tells how best I feel about you.....Just the way you are

I LOVE YOU SHAUNA with all my heart! I am so grateful that you are in my life. Our little girl is so lucky to have you as her mommy :) You will provide for her a life of happiness, adventure, learning, and love!

Lets let Valentines Day mean "I love us" not "I love you"!!!!

Love you much!

           -Matt

San Francisco

February 5-8, 2011

We decided to make a family visit on our way home from Hawaii, cause we've never been to see my bro Ryan and his wife Shannon in the bay area. They are our closest pals, and now the only time we get to see each other is over Skype :( So we stopped  for a couple days :) It was a lovely trip! We spent the first day in downtown San Fran. And hit all the major spots, -Full House town, Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman's wharf, saw Alcatraz, although we had no time for the grand tour, and walked the strip :)

Alcatraz

Fisherman's Wharf, San Fran

Then we visited the Google campus, Intuit campus, and then had lunch at Stanford University. It's a lovely place :)

Google, Intuit, and Stanford

Paddle Boating with Shan :)

It was nice to visit and catch up with Ryan and Shannon! I can't believe it had been like 7 months since we'd seen them last! Hopefully they will come visit us next :) Thanks Ryan and Shannon for letting us drop in for a quick visit. We love ya!

Hawaii Vacation

Jan. 29th - Feb. 5th, 2011 

A while ago I had a chat with Matt and said we should go on a "baby moon" before we have our lil girl. I asked him "If you could choose to go anywhere, where would you want to go?" He said..."HAWAII" So, that was that... and a couple months later, there we were! :) We also enjoyed the company of the family members that were able to join us! Bre, Chase and Alaina came with us from start to finish, but my Mom, Aunt Debbie, Jess and Josh also came for a couple days too! It's so fun that my fam has flight benefits so that we can share these experiences together! 

 

WAKIKI ~ 1st Day at the Beach 

We found a hotel right by the pier on Wakiki, it was perfect! We loved walking the strip and seeing all the street performers, shopping, and getting some exercise in a beautiful city!

Hanauma Bay 

Matt and I got to try out our new snorkel gear :) We saw tons of colorful fish!!! The most random thing were the chickens roaming all over the beach :)  

Pearl Harbor  

Arizona Memorial 

So incredible to learn about Pearl Harbor in more depth and pay tribute to those who died on Dec. 7th, 1941. It's crazy that as you stand on the memorial, you can still see the boat below you!

Dole Pineapple Plantation

Something you just gatta do when your in Hawaii! Plus pineapple is my favorite fruit, at the moment! :)

Polenesian Cultural Center
Also something you have to do! We got to learn about Samoa, New Zealand, Hawaii, Marquesas, Tahiti, Tonga, and Fiji. Then we had a nice canoe ride, dinner and a luau. :) The night show was awesome too! We couldn't take pictures but they did everything from singing and dancing to the crazy magic fire dance show thing :) It was the coolest thing there by far!

Turtle Beach :)

We went twice to Turtle Beach, the first day there were no turtles, but the next day there were 2 on the shore and a couple more swimming right at shore break! I LOVE SEA TURTLES!!!!

North Shore - Day at the Beach 

My favorite day in Hawaii, for sure!!!! Just a nice relaxing day playin in the sand and in the ocean. We were having so much fun! Chase brought his boogie board, and we all swam out and played with that thing for hours! Jess, Bre and I had a blast body surfing, boogie boarding and just chillen in the ocean and goofin around :) When we got back to the beach Matt told us we had been out there for 1 & 1/2 hours! You know what they say... time flies when you're having fun!  

 LDS Hawaii Temple

One of the most beautiful buildings ever!

Cutest pictures of Alaina, don't you think? I just had to throw these in somewhere :)

We love vacations and love Hawaii! We're so happy that we got to go! It was also nice to skip out on some winter in exchange for some sunshine! :) Gotta love that!