A Year of Bliss

Hello one and all!

The first weekend of this month, Todd and I celebrated one year of being together!!! This past year with Todd has been the happiest year of my life, and it has also gone by the quickest. It really has made me think about how blessed we are to have the opportunity to be sealed for time and all eternity. You know how they say, that in the spectrum of eternity, a few months or a year will be merely an instant? I feel like I have had a glimpse of the immensity of eternity because this past year has truly felt like merely an instant. Not only am I so blessed that Heavenly Father thought me worthy enough of such a great man in my life, but I am so lucky that Todd thinks so too. He makes me feel like I am so special, each and every day. He puts up with me when I am ridiculous, he goofs off with me when I'm being silly, he'll hold me when I am sad, he'll do whatever it takes to make me happy. He truly makes me feel like I am the luckiest girl on earth. 

Anyway, in celebration of our year of bliss, first and foremost we slept in! I say this because we've been getting up early every day for sooo long it seems, and sleeping in was heavenly. Once we were up and ready, we met Stacy and Michael at Boondocks and had lunch with them. Then we went up to Red Rock and went rock climbing. It's a pretty sweet place, and I think it's where Todd and I both gained our appreciation for outdoor rock climbing. 

Professional

After rock climbing, we went home and got all cleaned up. Then we played outside with the kiddos for quite a bit. They all are so stinkin' adorable, and so so fun! We also got news that Ciara's pregnant! We're so happy for her and Brandon... and maybe also super jealous :-p

Trying to get lil Annie to smile with me for a picture :)

Annie chasing Todders on the tramp

Todd was launching Alexa and Noah. He got Alexa up super high!

I love this one!

After playing with the chillens, we headed out to get some grub! Cafe Rio was super packed, so we went over to Chile's since I had never been there. It was delicious! Then we went over to the Haunted Forrest! It was really sweet, and super well done, especially the first part!

A lot more has happened since I last posted, but I think I explained our crazy schedules in the last post, and it has indeed been crazy. However, I recently put in my two weeks at Little Caesars and my last day was Monday! There were a few reasons behind me quitting, but the main one was that I never got to spend time with Todd. There would be days that we'd get maybe half an hour of quality time together the whole day, and it was no fun at all. Even this last week alone was amazing without having to go to work. We're still pretty busy, but we managed to go on 2 dates and I got to cook dinner! I was starting to worry that Todd and I would quickly become obese because we were eating Little Caesar's for dinner every night. Not healthy. It did save money on groceries though, that's for sure. 

Life won't be slowing down too much, however, because Todd just got hired at the fire department as an EMT! It is such a great opportunity for him, and he really loves the work. I'm so happy that he's loving the field that he's going into so much. It's great to see him light up telling me about the people he gets to help. 

Last night, I also finally set up the sewing machine my momma gave us. It's been almost two months, but I did it! I also have a project I need to start soon... maybe even today. One of my really good friends is having her baby shower in about a week, and I want to make her gift. I won't reveal what I'm making for two reasons. One, if it fails, I wil be embarrassed. And two, I don't want her to read this and find out what it is. Anyway, I'm excited to be a little crafty now that I have the time. 

So, this Sunday was apparently our Stake conference, and we had no idea! We showed up to church at our normal meeting time, and Stake conference was just drawing to a close. I'm afraid our bishopric might start to think that we're inactive! Oops! Haha. So we got home and decided to take a drive out to Mesa Falls. We had tried going there twice when we were dating, but were never able to make it. We made it this time though! We had a great time at the falls, and also stopped to feed the fishes on the way back. Did you know that they'll eat Little Caesar's pizza? They ate about half of the pizza! It was hilarious!

Ring Pops!

Todd was so excited that we finally made it!

Lower falls

Also, last night we had the COOLEST date ever! We laid out plastic on the dining room floor, and made a twister board out of paint. We had an automatic twister spinner going on the computer, and we played twister! It was super slippery, and we didn't last long. So then we just wrestled in the paint, haha. SO fun! I highly recommend it!

Well, I believe that is all for now folks! Love you all!

-Most Triumphant Brooks-