The Seventh Day of Christmas

Secret Santa left this on the porch last night:

"On the seventh day of Christmas, Santa gave to me:  7 - UP"

It came with some cute little Christmas cups that they wanted to use right then.

On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:  7 inches square

Each of these little blocks above have a canvas wrap on them and are 3.5 x 3.5 inches.  Thus the 7 inches square.  Daniel wants to sell them and call them "Little Ones."  They are pretty darn cute.

The Sixth Day of Christmas

Our Secret Santa dropped this off last night:

"On the Sixth Day of Christmas, Santa gave to me:   Six Water colors"

It came with a pad of paper for painting on.  The kids will have fun with this one!

On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:  SIX-teen ounces of BYU ice cream

Daniel knows I like the Roasted Almond Fudge ice cream from the BYU creamery and found that you can buy little one cup servings from Deseret Book. Happy little day!

9 Things I LOVE About You!

Today is my anniversary and I'm going to copy my sister-in-law's post that she did for her anniversary yesterday.  Thanks for the idea Janelle!  :)

Here we are on our Wedding Day

  

And I will post a recent picture of us as soon as I find one.

Here are 9 things I love about you Love - one for each year we have been married!

1.  You tell me I'm beautiful just when I need to hear it most.

2.  You help me without being asked and look for ways to surprise me.

3.  You play with our children and are the most wonderful father.

4.  You are always striving to be a better person and helping me to become a better person as well.

5.  You are one of the hardest working men I know, yet you slow down and take time with us as a family.

6.  You never nit pick me for any of my annoying habits of which there are many you could easily nit pick about.

7.  You love me even when I don't.

8.  You give more of yourself each day.

9.  You make me feel like I am more than I could ever hope to be.

Thanks you for being you and for loving me!  I love you, Daniel!

The Fifth Day of Christmas

Last night our Secret Santa left us a treat!

"On the Fifth Day of Christmas, Santa gave to me:  Five Christmas Cookies"

Daniel and I were gone last night for our anniversary, but there were already some gone when we got home today so I am assuming the kids liked them.

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:  Five soft and fluffy pillows!

Okay, he didn't actually give them to me, we just rented them for a night.  Today was our anniversary, so Daniel booked a bed and breakfast in Salt Lake and we stayed there last night.  You can see the 5 fluffy pillows on the bed in this picture.

We stayed at the Castle Creek Inn in the "Excalibur Room"  It was beautiful.  We went to a movie, got dinner, walked around Temple Square looking at the beautiful lights and got Cold Stone ice cream.  Then we cuddled up and watched a movie and ate popcorn.  It was wonderful to just be able to hang out together without having to worry about hurrying home to take care of kids!  And, it made me appreciate my kids even more because I had a chance to miss them.  :)  I love my cute hubband!

The Fourth Day of Christmas

Our Secret Santa left this on our porch last night:

"On the Forth Day of Christmas, Santa gave to me:  Four Play Dough Tubs"

Matthew loves Play-Doh and wanted to sleep with it, so we put it on the window sill next to his bed.  Then he found it and carried it around till breakfast.  :)

On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:  Four 1/2 cup serving os Leatherby's caramel!  Boy does he know me well!

The Third Day of Christmas!

When we got home from looking at the Thanksgiving Point lights last night, this was on our porch:

"On the third day of Christmas, Santa gave to me:  Three Noisy Tubes"

The kids wanted to play with them right then of course, but mommy grinch said it was time for bed so they had to wait until today.  :)

Behind the steering wheel again today I found my surprise:

Yes, I am a closet Glenn Beck fan.  Okay, I guess I'm not any more since it is now public knowledge.  In case you can't tell what it is, it's two key holders in the shape of a key with the words, "We will be the key!" on it.  That is Glenn Beck's slogan.  I'm not exactly sure why there were two, but it was still a pretty funny little gift.

The Second Day of Christmas!

The kids were so excited yesterday about our Secret Santa and what they might bring.  After the doorbell rang and they excitedly clamored to the door, they were greatly excited to find these:

The tag says, "On the second day of Christmas, Santa gave to me:  Two bouncing balls."

Emma wanted to say thank you, so she opened the door and yelled it out into the darkness.  I thought that was cute. Then they played with the bouncy balls until bedtime!

 I walked into my office this morning to find this on my desk:

"2 Movie Tickets"

It is for The Chronicles of Narnia:  Voyage of the Dawn Treader.   I am so excited to see this show, we are going for our anniversary.

This is so fun!  I want to do this for someone next year!