September 7, 2004

Four houses, two states, 3 jobs (Ty), 3 Universities (me), 2 bachelor degrees, 6 jobs (me), a beautiful daughter, gallons of tears (happy and sad) and hours of laughter later..... Ty and I celebrate our sixth year of marriage! If I said that the last six years have been pure bliss I would be lying. But I can say I couldn't think of anyone I would rather have spent those years and the rest of my life with other than Ty! He is the most hard working, optimistic, open minded, loving person I have ever met and I am so grateful I get to call him mine.

Ty was so cute and planned a fabulous getaway for the two of us. We first went on a hike up above Sundance to Stewart Falls where Ty proposed to me six years ago. Then we went to the Stein Erickson Lodge and indulged ourselves with a couples massage, an amazing dinner, and a good night sleep with nothing to wake us up the morning!

We had the most amazing view from our room!

Then Ty is off to work and we are back to the rat race we call life.... Thank you Ty for the 24 hrs of indulgence! I love you!

Sunset Pics

On our last day we decided to go take some pictures by the ocean with the sun setting. It was really windy that night so it was a little tricky but I think we got some okay ones....

I know my hair looks retarded, but this is the only picture of the three of us!

I had to post this one.... Look at Ty's face! Ha Ha!

It only took us five million pictures to finally get one in the air!

Cute Max! I am so glad he and Will came on the trip! It wouldn't have been the same without them!

Lillsers~

Can't wait for next year!

Beloved Newport

In August we went on our annual trip to Newport Beach. There is really no place quite like it. The sand, walks, shakes, shopping, humidity, ocean, sand crabs, cousins, sisters, brothers, card games, rubys, coco's, diet cokes, I could go on and on. I must say that this was probably my favorite year which is saying alot since every year is so fun. But watching Kate so happy every minute plus Ty there almost the entire time equals pure bliss for me! I have sort of been dreading this post because the amount of pictures is overwhelming but I have decided to separate it into a few different posts. Majority of our time was spent out at the beach. Kate LOVED the sand and the ocean. She loved getting dirty and filling up her bucket with sea shells.

gotta love the diaper...

It is so fun to get dirty.

chasing the birds

Had to snap a picture of this lovely couple who celebrated their wedding anniversary with us!

Lillian and Max who mastered the boogie boards by the end of the week.

Parker building a castle with two excellent helpers.

"sissy" is so nice to Kate and always helps her find sea shells

The serious game of tag football

No fear here!

PLEASE take me back here! I could sit at the beach every day!

Newport continued.........

Here we are watching the clock waiting for Grandma to come and take us to the airport. Backpack full of snacks? check. Nails painted? check. Jacket on? check. Sucker in hand? check. We were so excited to head to the beach the time couldn't come soon enough!

Then on the plane Kate touched the lens of my camera so my first about twenty pictures were blurry.

Every morning these two couldn't believe they had another day all day together! They are a dynamic duo!

We even got lucky and had the Barrus family come visit one day! It is always fun to have Johnny around!

One night Kate woke up late from her nap so our little family decided to walk down to Newport pier to get a chocolate frozen banana.

We of course took many trips down to balboa pier to get shakes, breakfast, and bleu cheese sliderz!

P.F. Chang's celebrating Tyson's birthday!






We rode the ferry over to Balboa Island

best buds at the Balboa Market

dancing to the tunes

playing at the balboa arcade

what would a beach trip be like without the morning walk to seaside donuts?

and the best part of all was being so worn out at night her eyes would close before her head could hit the pillow!