{It must be love}

Billy and I had such a fun time celebrating Valentines Day!

I have grown up loving Valentines Day because
my mom always made us feel so special!
This is what my parents home loooks like right now...

My mom made these little hearts for each of us kids.

She wrote reasons she loved us and words that described each of us individually.

 Below are our heart pillows for show love week-
stuffed with lots of love!

I wanted to keep some of the traditions going in our future family
 so I started by making these:

For one week straight we always had "show love week"

Everyone would take a day and show love to each other.

We would write love notes, give a treat, make dinner, clean their room etc.

I loved it and wanted to start that with Billy and I.

 Since Billy was going to be gone for half of our show love week I sent him on his baseball trip with these goodies and little love notes.

I know the other players are SOOO jealous...

 or maybe Billy is a little embarrassed!

I also have had plenty of time on my hands
with Billy being gone so I made this little sign
to get our house feeling "Love"ly :)

We went out to Market Street Grill on Friday

and then made chocolate/caramel covered pretzels.

We had a blast!

 

Monday morning he came out of the shower surprised with this on the door....

I had string tied to the door knob and then all around the house which led him to this..

Brown paper packages tied up string,
these are a few of your favorite things! 


We told each other we weren't doing gifts this year and we would just do a nice dinner. 
Well, that was after I had put this together.
So he was extra lucky this year! 
and he wrote me the sweetest card-
by far the greatest gift!
 I think it was a success he seemed pretty happy :)


Billy had class on Monday night so I just made him dinner.
We had a great time being with each other
and missed all the crowds!

I made this little muffin tin with reasons why i love him!

Not the best pics..
but it shows we are happy :)

I love my Valentine!!

Happy V-Day & B-Day

First of all a shout out to my main man...

this stud muffin.

He just the greatest. I love this picture.

Happy Valentines Day!
 I sure am the luckiest girl in the world.

I love you babe!

And a very Happy Birthday to my mom.

Her birthday is on Valentines and she always spends the day
showing love to others,especially her kids.

I kinda felt like she always got cheated.

But this year she is in Hawaii with my dad.

A much deserved vaca for the both of them.

My mom is the greatest. She is the most giving person
 and would do anything for anyone especially her family.
 She is the definition of a perfect mom.
Everyday I call her on my lunch break, literally every single day,
 and no matter how busy she is she always makes time to talk.
A lot of times its for the whole hour.I know she is busy-crazy busy-
 I may be a little selfish for taking her time b
t its my favorite part of the day.

I could go on all day about all the many reasons I love her but I have noticed one particular thing a lot lately...

she always has great advice or insights about everything.

She seriously always has some inspiration thought from a BYU devotional she listened to or she remembered great counsel from conference talks, or firesides. She is constantly intune to the spirit and always uplifting us and giving us great advice and counsel.

She is the greatest example and she is constantly inspiring me to better myself.

Happy Birthday Mom!!

You are the greatest lady I will ever know.
I love you!

Today I am feeling lots of love.

I get to express my love to the people I love most-

my husband and my mom.

Happy V-day and B-day!

You two are amazing.

Nickelcade :)

Billy and I went to Nickelcade last night on a little date.

Seriously, it was a blast.

Billy made me laugh the whole entire night

I was near tears a few times.

I think I was laughing from the second we left the house

until we got into bed.

We also played battleship the night before.

We are starting to feel like children again.. and I love it.

Out with the Old.. In with the New!

We finally got rid of my Audi.

I swear every week something went wrong.

And it was not cheap to fix!

Although I had so many great memories in that car

I sure am happy for my new one!

We were definitely blessed with this beauty.

A 2010 Nissan with 15,000 miles

We got a SCREAMING deal.

Seriously- Amazing.

When we were going to buy it we just kept thinking it

was too good to be true so we couldn't get our hopes up.

But then second we drove away in our new car

I was so gitty and screaming I was thrilled!

Our first pic in our new car!

Love it!

Billy got a hair cut--finally!!

He was trying to bring back the wings :)

Yes, he is very manly.

Goodbye 2010 Hello 2011!

We had a great first year together and were able to do so many fun things!

A couple of our favorite memories were..

Watching Billy Play Baseball in St. George

 The Muse Concert

Billy's First Grand Slam of the Year!

Girls trip to Colorado to Watch Billy

Great West Champs!

California

Lake Powell

Black and White Party

New Niece Celeste

Cruise to the Bahamas!

Our First Anniversary

Christmas Festivities

New Years at the Murphys

Happy New Year!

We can't wait to see what 2011 brings.



Guess Who's Back!?!

This Handsome Fella..

ELDER LINDSLEY!!

Ari and I anxiously waiting!

 I couldn't wait to hug him!!

 So happy he is home!!

 The Three Amigos Reunited!

 The cute Lindsley Family

It has been so much fun having Stevie back home!

He was such an awesome missionary and

I know he had such an incredible influence

on the people of Guatemala.

I missed him so much.

Welcome Home!

Missionary: Someone who leaves their family for two years,

 so others can be with their families for Eternity.

I love you Stevie AKA Juice

Tis the Season

We had a blast celebrating the Christmas Season this year,

we were able to spend lots of time with eachother and our families!

We had lots of fun parties with our friends and were constantly

reminded of our blessings. starting with an ugly sweater

christmas party at courtneys. We had a hot chocolate bar,

white elephant gifts and played bunco!

Of course we went to look at the lights at temple square,

Then had fondue at our house after.

We took the tracks up- it was actually so fun!  

Absolutely freezing but we had a great time.

I think I will always love going to temple square-

it reminds me so much of our wedding and

brings back all the special memories.

Off to the next Ugly Sweater Christmas party

 at The Crossleys house. 

We had such a great time!

Exchanged White Elephant Gifts, played christmas games

and ate great food!

Family Christmas Party at my Grandma Carols :)

Our first Christmas Tree!

Not the most perfect but it has character.

and we had a blast cutting it down :)

Christmas Eve at my Grandma Squires

The little girls all got the same pajamas.

The Nativity

I always find Billy flirting with the girls.

Our New Christmas Pajamas :)

Christmas morning- 6am!

Ryker loved his new bike

Billy and I Christmas Morning

He loved his Spurs!

And his nerf gun!

We had a very eventful and wonderful christmas season!