10 years ago today....

I can't believe that we have hit our 10th anniversary already. It's really making me feel old. As I was looking through our wedding album this morning I was amazed at a few things. 1. We look so young. I really don't feel that much older, but to look at us now we are definitely older. 2. We look so much thinner. I know it happens to the best of us, but it would be nice to go back to the days where all you cared about in life was looking good to the opposite sex, so all you did was things to benefit that. There is just not as much time to do that anymore. 3. Photography has changed so much. Our photographer did not have a digital camera. All of the effects that were done were from different lenses instead of altering them on photoshop. That was probably the biggest thing that hit me. Technology has changes SO much in the last 10 years it's crazy. Here are some things that i remember from this day:

***My dad about passing out when he saw his oldest daughter kiss a boy for the first time over the alter.

***Jeremy forgot to bring his Tuxedo to the temple. He says that he wasn't told to bring it. Woops, minor detail. We could pretend that he did it on purpose to make me look that much better on our special day. :)

***The weather was crazy that day. It was really windy outside the temple. Everyone that didn't have a gallon of hairspray on their head had had issues during pictures. Because of the wind we had great clouds blowing by. I love the clouds in the pictures. It rained in between the temple and the reception. It stopped raining about an hour before our reception, so it really wasn't a big deal, as our reception was in doors.

***We had our luncheon at Hometown Buffet. I'm definitely looking back at that and thinking that was kinda tacky. Oh well. It pleased everyone with the variety of food options. During the luncheon Jeremy's Uncle Kelly stood up and told about how when Jeremy was little he had a problem saying his T's. He said them as an F. So when he would say Truck, it sounded like something else. Thanks Uncle Kelly for giving us all that lovely memory.

***During our pictures at the reception, we had some in front of a huge mirror. I grabbed Jeremy's butt forgetting that everyone could see my actions in the mirror. He he he. :)

***We stood in line for over 3 hours. People started coming early and showed up late also. The line was never ending. We had so many people show up. Don't get me wrong...I'm grateful for all of our guests, but my feet hurt BAD. We didn't end up leaving until like 11:30. What an extremely long, but enjoyable day.

***Apparently we had great food. We wouldn't know. We were in line for so long that we didn't get to eat any of it.

***I loved our cake. (I should have included pics of it, but oh well) It was one of my favorite parts of our reception. It was so pretty. Jeremy was nice to me and didn't make a mess everywhere, but I wasn't as nice. I got cake everywhere when feeding it to him. It didn't taste very good a year later. Uh duh, why do we do that anyway???

***I loved our flowers. Our good friend Becky Sohm did the flower arrangements for us. She did a great job. Thanks Becky!

***Miranda caught the boquet, and Pete caught the garder. Haven't seen those two for almost the whole 10 years. Miss you guys.

***We had a limo ride from the reception center to the Anniversary Inn that night. So our car didn't get destroyed with decorating.

***At the Anniversary Inn we stayed in the Lighthouse room. The bed was inside the lighthouse, so it was circular. We had a fish tank above us. It was pretty cool.

I feel like I could go on and on about the things I remember from that special day. It's fun thinking back on it. Thanks Jeremy for all you do for me and the kids. I love you! Here's to 10 more years!

Grant's New Bed

We had a friend tell us about a lady that had a hospital grade crib that was sitting in her garage, that she was wanting to give away to a family that could use it. So we gave her a call and arranged for us to take it off her hands. It's huge! It will be able to grow with Grant for quite a while. He has been in a toddler bed for the last year and it is just not as safe for him as this will be. We had him try it out after we had it assembled.
Mikkele got in and tried it out also. The bed can hold up to 350 lbs. so if he's having a hard night I can get in with him.
It can also incline at the head and feet. It will be really nice to have this feature in the winter time when he gets his respiratory issues going on. Now we just need to get some cute, I mean handsome bedding for it. Thanks to Jenny for giving us the heads up on this bed.

The Woopie Cushion

On Friday I was wondering around Wal-mart trying to kill time while Mikkele was at her Little Entertainers practice. I came across the Halloween costume isle and found the funniest costume. It was a giant woopie cushion. I thought to myself that this would be a perfect costume for Jeremy for Halloween. It totally fits his personality. So I sent him a picture text to show him, but he said no. Well that night we were at Shopko with some friends just walking around killing time again, and we came across the same costume. After much persuasion I got Jeremy to at least try it on and humor me. Lucky for me, but not him, I had my camera with me. So he humored me a little more and let me take a picture. I was laughing so hard, it was difficult to hold still long enough to take the picture.
Then we got the bright idea that someone needed to sit on him like a woopie cushion's intended use. So Aaron was nice enough to play along and humor me a little more. Aaron wouldn't actually sit on Jeremy, but you get the idea with the picture. I haven't laughed that hard in a while. Thanks Jeremy and Aaron for playing along with my crazy ideas.

Facebook

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I've had a lot of people ask me lately if I'm on Facebook. So I decided to sign Jeremy and myself up. I've been told that I am finally joining the 21st century. Maybe I'm a little slow. It's a pretty cool network though. You just put in your e-mail address book, the school and year you graduated from highschool, and it starts suggesting people that you may know. I was amazed how many people that I had wondered what they've been up to for the last 10+ years are on there. And on the other hand how many people I haven't given a thought to, and still probably won't, are on there. It has been good to catch up with people from the past. I have to admit I'm definitely not the best person for keeping up with people. Thanks to Facebook it will do it for me now, and e-mail me when there are updates.

Also on a completely different subject...Mikkele has been asking and asking and driving me CRAZY asking, if she can have a blog. So we have added a blog for her. The address is princesskellybelly.blogspot.com. It is going to be a private blog, so if you would like to hear what Mikkele has going on in her little head leave me a comment and I will add you to her list of readers.

Little Entertainers

I don't know how many times this summer Mikkele has put on little backyard concerts for us, there have been TONS! She sets up chairs, isles, and rows; makes and hands out tickets; and of course then she performs for us. Here is one of the ones that I recorded.

Since she enjoys performing for us so much, I have decided to put her in a singing and dancing group. It is called the Little Entertainers. She had her first practice on Friday. They will perform 3 times a year. The first time will be in December. So of course she is learning Christmas songs, which means she is now singing Christmas songs in September. It may be a long holiday season. We are excited for this group though. She has a good little voice already, and with some training she may some day be the next American Idol.

The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round...

Grant is back in school!!!I keep reading all these posts that the mom's are sad and crying that their kids are going to school. I'm not one of those mom's. I'm happy to get my kids back in school. Don't get me wrong...I love my kids, but we all do so much better when there's an actual schedule to follow. As you can see Grant wasn't too happy about getting on the bus and leaving mom. I'm convinced that it's really all an act to make me feel bad. He really does enjoy school but is always happy to come home. He has a new 1 on 1 aid this year. Her name is Brittany. I haven't met her yet, but he gets a big smile on his face when you ask him about her.



You can see and hear from this video what we get to listen to every morning. Notice how he stops to evaluate and kind of look around to see if we are watching and feeling bad.

Labor Day Weekend

For Labor Day weekend we went down to Page, AZ for Jeremy's Grandpa Decker's 80th birthday/family reunion. We spent most of the weekend just visiting with family member's that we have not seen in quite a while, some of them 8 years.

Mikkele had a good time getting to know cousins that she didn't know she had. One of Jeremy's aunt's has 9 kids ranging from 18 years old-18 months old. So they had a kid for just about everyone to play with. They had a great time and it was fun to see the kids interact so well. Lots of creative minds in that bunch, so there was never a dull moment.

We went down to the Glen Canyon Dam. This is the dam that holds up Lake Powell and drains in to the Colorado River. We've been there a million times, but it's tradition to go down there when we are in Page. The waterfall in the picture with Mikkele is actually rain runoff. It rained all night Saturday night and most of the day Sunday. It kind of dampened any plans for swimming. The picture with Jeremy is kinda funny. We're still wondering what his Dam IQ is.

On the way home from Page we stopped at Moqui Cave. It is a naturally made cave a few miles outside of Kanab, UT. Jan, Dave, and Connor ended up stopping there also so we got some pictures with Mikkele and Connor.


Inside this teepe was the biggest cave area. It had a bunch of glow in the dark rocks. Kinda hard to get a picture in the dark, but you get the picture.

Mikkele has been OBCESSED with rocks for as long as I can remember. I am constantly finding rocks in the washing machine, around the house, in her back pack, in the car, etc. While we were in Page she found lots of rocks that were "cool, pretty, or awesome" that she thought she needed to bring home with us. I was nice enough to let her bring home one cup full. She also picked out some at the Moqui cave that she thought were cool. Connor and Dillon got in on the fun also. You can see Connor scaveging for some outside our hotel room in the picture below.

Overall we had a good trip. We wish the weather would have been better, but I guess it's a Gallier trait to bring bad weather with you on trips.

The End of Summer

The summer is too quickly coming to a close. We have really only had nice hot weather for 2 1/2 months. And while some say this is enough, I am NOT ready for winter to return. I'm kinda ok with the fall like weather we have been having, but that just means winter is right around the corner, and I'm not ok with that. But whether I like it or not summer is ending. So here are some random pictures, that I haven't included in previous posts, of what we have been doing over the summer. Of course they all involve water.

Rietta, Mikkele, and Tienna swimming at Veteran Memorial. This has become somewhat of a tradition to get together with all the friends and go to the pool. Unfortunately mother nature didn't cooperate much this day and our swimming day got cut short.

Playing in the sprinklers at Grandma Dorene's house with Dillon, and at our house with Luke and Carter. Sprinklers were almost an every day occurance.


Tina's mom and dad have a swimming pool in their backyard. So we spent a lot of time over there cooling off. A big thank you to her parents for letting us come swim.

"My Brother Grant"

This last week at school, Mikkele was asked to write something about a member of her family and draw a picture of them. Of course she chose Grant. Once again she continues to amaze me with the love that she has for that kid. Last year they had a book that each of them had to fill out why they were lucky. Most of the kids put they were lucky because they had a certain toy, or a pet or something. But Mikkele put that she was lucky that she had her brother Grant. In that picture she drew him in his wheelchair. Since it was a compilation of all the students in the class she didn't get to bring it home. I really wish I had a copy of that one. If you can't really tell what the picture is let me explain. It is Grant laying in his bed. It's a toddler bed so it had rails part of the way down on the sides so he won't fall out. The red and white thing in front is a baseball bean bag that we put in front of the bed so he won't fall off where the rails stop. And if you can't read the writing it says: "My brother Grant has disabilities. He can't do very many things. He is three years old be he still can't walk or crawl. He can say some words but not sentences. It is hard for my parents, but he is a cute brother in the family." By: Mikkele Gallier. I love these kids!!!