Happy Birthday Husband!

Rod turned 26 last Saturday. We spent the day working. Rod worked his guts out on the yard and I cleaned house (doesn't sound much like a celebration). We now have 2 mulberry trees in the front yard. I can't wait until they get big and shade our yard! To celebrate we bought a new computer. Hallelujah!

I wanted to post some random pictures that had yet to make it to the blog.

Here goes:

After Rod and I met at BYUI we both had to go do our student teaching. He was in Arizona and I was in Vegas. Rod came up with his friend Daniel with the purpose of asking my dad for permission to marry me...AWWWW. My dad was not very cooperative, he kept changing the subject. But my dad thought it would be great when Rod proposed a drawing contest between the three of us. Rod was upset that he failed miserably. I so won, but Rod proclaimed Daniel the winner...whatever.

My dad was the model. It was the only cooperation we got out of him that night.

I took this in Snow Canyon, the weekend we came up t St George and Rod proposed. My handsome man!

We got married here!

Rod has done some talented things during his 25th year. He had a group of the girls from SunHawk enter a street art competition and they won first place with Bob Dylan!

He also grew out his hair for his 25th year...Thankfully a few weeks ago he cut it off! But he still pouts about it from time to time.

The only thing we got from the 16 or so fruit trees we have in our yard. Ok, we have a few peaches too but they were not all that wonderful. I like this one because this pear is still hanging on.

Rod and I have been working on an art project together for the last few weeks. I drew most of the figures for it and Rod kept me motivated by saying he would bake me cookies.

This was his batch...they all turned out like this. Is it terrible that when Rod is anything less than perfect I have to document it, just for proof?

And here is a project on hold. We are painting the house brick by brick and repainting grout lines. Then we are glazing it to make it appear old. This might take a while.

That is how life is anyway, brick by brick, if we did it any other way it would cheapen the experience. Because look at how cool this looks in the end!

So again Rod Happy Birthday!!!