Blessed

Ava was blessed on the 11th of this month. She writhed, screamed and arched her back through the entire blessing. I heard someone who participated in the circle (I can't remember who) say that he grabbed her foot at one point to keep her from falling out of everyone's hands. The second the blessing was over and she was upright, she stopped screaming and was perfectly fine. The entire congregation cracked up. That kinda sums up this girl-she knows what she wants, and she's got us wrapped around her stubborn little finger. We're so thankful for her and for the love she brings to our family.

Thank you, GrandPar, for taking pictures on her special day!

It's Our Anniversary, ho ho ho

Hey, guess what? Today is our TENTH wedding anniversary! Go us! I will allow myself to list 0ne or two major events from each year that we have been married. I don't want to get carried away or all "get a room"ish, you know.

2000: We got married. It was fun.

2001: I graduated from college, the company I worked for closed, so we moved to CT.

2002: Moved back from CT due to lots of crying on my part. So many trees, so little horizon.

2003: Anders was born!

2004: Bought our first home, our lovely little townhouse in Springville.

2005: Addie was born!

2006: Went to the Grand Canyon. Nils got a new job in SLC. Sold beloved little townhouse.

2007: Moved to Saratoga Springs. Aani was born!

2008: Went to Disneyland. Nils graduated! Ya-hoo!

2009: Nils began a new business venture. Ava was born!

2010: Holy crap, has it really been ten years?

I shall now reminisce a little: When Nils and I were engaged, I remember driving somewhere with my mom and she asked me what it was that I loved about him. Of course a bunch of things came to mind, but I realized that I love the way I feel when I'm with him. We're like PB & J. He makes me whole and everything is better when we're together.

Thanks for marrying me, Nils. I love you lots, and I shall forever more.

Now to further the narcissism, here are a few pics for our trip down memory lane.

Attractive.

Also attractive.

Good thing we were attractive to each other. Am I right or am I right?

Whass up ma peeps?

Hi. How are ya?

Our van has been giving us some problems lately. One of the problems has been this weird scraping noise on the drivers side in the wheel area. We drove it around for a couple of weeks with it making that noise, and we just figured it was some piece of plastic scraping the wheel. It was very obnoxious. With this week being spring break, I took it to a mechanic in Orem so the kids could go to my mom's house while I was there. The Orem mechanic told me the wheel bearing was bad, and that I would probably be okay to drive it home, but not much more. We drove it to our regular mechanic in American Fork. He called me today and said, "Hi Katrina. Do you believe in God watching out for people?" I said indeed I do, and he told me that the wheel bearing was completely gone and the wheel was barely hanging on an axle. Apparently the technician was able to just pull the wheel off without doing anything at all. He said, "Heavenly Father has been watching over you." (Yes, a true "only in Utah County" moment.) I'm thankful.

I've seen/heard "The Princess and the Frog" 1.4 million times this week.

While in time out today, Aani was sobbing, "Grandma! Grandma! Help me!"

Aani and Addie really like watching the show "Caillou". Caillou's parents make me feel like a terrible mother. "Oh, Caillou, you wrote all over the wall! How about instead of writing on the wall we go to the library?" Yes, how about that? Totally how I react, too.

We're thinking about changing Ava's name to Chunka. She's the chunkiest baby we've ever had. Man alive, those thighs are a thing of beauty. She's learning to sleep on her own. Chunka needs to learn so Mommy can get some quality shuteye.

Anders lost his top front tooth, at last. The tooth fairy is SO. NICE. Not only did she leave him a dollar (in dimes and nickels), but she let him keep his tooth! Our tooth fairy rocks. The neighbor kid's tooth fairy leaves her $10 (probably leaves a bill- but who wants a stupid bill when you could have dimes and nickles?), but takes the tooth. Ours is way better.

Okey doke. Have a nice day!