My New Favorite Treat

A small spoonful of this:Topped with a few of these:

equals complete satisfaction to my taste buds!
(careful, it's easy to over-indulge)

24 hours of Paradise

What can I say? There are no words to describe how FABULOUS our surprise 10 yr. anniversary was!
Although we were just in our "back yard" , so to speak, I felt worlds away from cares, responsibilities and chores. Our hectic life was put on hold.
All I have to say is a huge THANK YOU to my wonderful husband. The time has gone by so quickly. We are more busy now than ever before, and loving life. But to pause and have this time together was priceless (well, it did have a slight cost$$$).

Thank you for the surprises, and for treating better than I deserve to be treated.

Also, fellow bloggers, thank you for having a part in making the video presentation that much more exciting. It was like I was sharing our happy moments with all of you. Thanks for your fun comments on our anniversary!


Ryan , you are the greatest!
I love you.

Our 10 Year Anniversary

Shhh! As this post goes live I am driving Kelly away to a nice hotel as a surprise.
So here's the deal... We'll go and check in, hang out at the pool, dress up for a nice dinner, then head back to the room for another surprise (easy ladies). This is 10 years we're talking about here, and it is so ironic that half of my business comes in from wedding videography and we don't even have a video ourselves....

... until now.

MIRACULOUSLY, I have two VHS tapes to pull from that have reserved a good portion of our wedding memories. You know "that guy" who walks around at weddings with the camera non-stop getting in everyone's face? Well, that guy is my hero! Without him, I couldn't remember all these memories, nor would I have had the opportunity to discover a NEW editing style that I am starting to like. It's edgy, non-congruent... it's raw. And it's all I had to work with. Those heroes are Jay Sessions and my Dad.

So tonight I will surprise her as we watch this (full version) for the first time on our hotel room LCD and then hopefully check back here to see if our family and friends have had a chance to reflect, especially those who were there (or not). To Kelly, thanks for not running away when the first thing I could ever think of to say to you for the first time was "Will you marry me?" Thanks for being an awesome wife and mom to our 4 kids. Thanks for being so beautiful (lucky me), even more than the day we were married. I love you... so much.

(special thanks to: my videographers Jay Sessions & Bill Southwell, Apple, motion stabilizers, color correction, Photoshop, Cold Play, Van Morrison, our photographer Massey Studio from Provo [if you know where I can contact anyone since he died let me know], consultants/providers/friends Judd Rackham and John Stephens, and most of all my Hot Wife.)

Happy Birthday Ezra!

We didn't really have a party this year, just cake and presents. But here's our 2 year old. He loves all his toys and his new John Deere, he's just afraid to drive it, so he'd rather ride in the trailer.

Watch video in the archive (but shrink it down).