Beating Up.

Recently Tyler asked Ryan "What is your favorite thing to do?" Ryan responded by saying, "Beating up," and proceeded to beat up his big brother. Ryan can be pretty agressive, especially when he is tired. He will grab anything he can see to throw it at us. His favorite thing to find is books. Today, Tyler was innocently watching T.V. when Ryan found some of the school books that hadn't been put away. He took them into the other room and threw them at Tyler, which really hurt. Tyler was crying and upset and shouted "This is why I hate school!" Later, Ryan was wrestling with Anna. I grabbed him and was holding him and then continued doing something else. He kept saying something to me, but I wasn't really registering what he was saying. (Side-note--Ryan likes to tell us what to say, like: "Is this mine? Mom say 'Nope.'") All I heard was Ryan telling me "Mom, say 'okay.'" Then I registered what I was saying okay to -- "Mom, let go of me so I can beat up Anna. Mom, say 'okay.'" I did not let go. He apparently was not kidding around when he told Tyler that his favorite thing to do was "beating up."

We've got self-confidence!

We often change the words to songs to fit the situation we are in. One of our favorites is "If you're happy and you know it." There are just so many possibilities with that one. Ryan found some great words for it this morning. After he had finished coming his hair, he came in dancing and singing, "I am handsome and I know it!" I laughed and he got embarrassed before he could continue.

More Josh.

It has been several weeks since I blogged about Josh. I was going to keep you updated about our life 10 years ago. Life got away from me and now it is October all of a sudden. Even as I sit here I don't know exactly what I'm going to write about. Should I tell you about more of our dates? Should I recount our engagement? Well, I think I just came up with something.

Our first date was on July 20, 1999. Our second date was not until August 5. We had a lovely time hiking at Silver Lake. He took forever holding my hand that night, but I thought it was cute how nervous he was. We then went out to dinner at Macaroni Grill and then to Leatherby's. I didn't even tell him how much I loved ice cream or Leatherby's! And then he revealed to me that he makes his own milkshakes just like my dad! I knew he was the one for me. (That's just a little bit of a joke. I didn't base our entire future on whether or not he could make a good milkshake. There were many other things I liked about him.) By our 4th date, we pretty much knew that we were going to be together. (He even kissed me that night!) On August 16 I started teaching school in Provo. It was my first year teaching and I was nervous, busy, excited, busy, tired, busy, etc. Josh was worried that I would be too busy for him. He expressed to me how much he wanted to continue dating me and how he hoped that my teaching wouldn't take away from that. I was a little overwhelmed with school and now the thought of having a boyfriend was more than I could handle at the time. I got over it, though. I survived the first day of school, which made it much more plausible that I could survive school and a boyfriend. On Thursday August 19, I took the day off because of Megan's wedding. After the ceremony I was driving back to the luncheon with my mom and dad. My dad asked me what I thought of the ceremony and I told him how wonderful I thought it was. Then he asked, "Do you want one of those?" And I replied, simply, "yes." So Mom asked, "Is Josh coming to the luncheon?" I had not invited him. We were serious, but inviting him to a family wedding when we had only been dating a couple of weeks seemed a little fast. But my mom's question made me think that it's really not that fast and I didn't care anyway. I wanted him with me. So I called him up and he met me at the church for the luncheon. He stayed with us the rest of the day and all through the reception. I knew I was going to marry him by that point. The next day most of my family headed out to California for my sister's reception there. Josh and I were supposed to go to his work party, but it was raining so we stayed home to watch a movie. That was the night that we decided to get married. Not wanting to waste any time, I immediately got out the calendar and we set a date. Since my family was in California it was hard for me to get in touch with them. I finally contacted my mom while they were setting up for the reception. I told her to get used to it because there was another one on the way. They were not at all surprised, but maybe a little tired after having just finished a wedding. Josh and I got married 4 1/2 months later. We had a total of 9 dates before getting engaged. We were "official" the beginning of September when he gave me a ring at Silver Lake. I love you, Josh!