Tribute..

My tribute to my honey.

Dan was on his way home from work and he called to say that due to a winter storm, he will not be coming home. So, I decided I would send him a "little tribute". Dan is not just any man. 

Yesterday I conked my head something fierce. He made me stay in bed, although I insisted on at least making dinner so he and our son could  have some time together  he said, "absolutely not or you will take away my chance to serve you".  

He made a great dinner. He cleaned the dishes, he cleaned up after dinner, got our son ready for bed..... AND he got up with our son all night long ( he kept trying to cuddle in our bed instead of staying in his room) , then went to work this morning. The thing is... Dan is like this all the time.

AND THIS IS WHY I CALL HIM

                                                                    MR. FANTASTIC

OUR PROPOSAL STORIES????

Dan used to joke with his friends that we would get married when I proposed. All the while he was scheming to propose to me. I had no idea.

 Easter weekend (2003) I planted a basket full of over 500 plastic eggs. I snuck into his apartment while he was asleep and I put it in his front room.  I called him and stayed on the phone while he was going on a treasure hunt to find certain things in his basket.


 Meanwhile, I was outside his apartment door. I knocked on his door, he was surprised to see me, and we hung up our phones….

 I knelt down and pulled out the coveted dark ring box that every girl guy dreams to see.  Dan…. Will YOU MARRY ME? 

He of course said YESSSSS! Look how happy he is!!!

ONE MONTH LATER.....

Dan created this story of how we were going to go day hiking in Moab, Utah with some of our friends. We made a "plan" of  what we were going to do when we arrived in Moab. 


Dan had other plans for us...




 We drove Moab to go hiking, just as we had planned.  I should have realized something was going on but I didn't,  Dan and I met in MOAB!


 He said we had arrived too late to meet up with our friends so we would do a hike by ourselves and then get together with everyone for lunch.  

We hiked to this beautiful spot and Dan pulled out THE RING!

 I was more than surprised I couldn't believe it. The entire hike down I was shocked and kept going over and over out loud how excited I was. I asked him where we were going to meet up with everyone for lunch and he said, "who"? No one is here but us. I didn't believe him at first. We had all planned this together where was everyone?

Our friends were in Salt Lake!

He took me to lunch where we went the first time we had just met.

  We drove back home that same day. As we approached Salt Lake, we watched the sunset. I couldn't believe all that took place. It was, as you can imagine one of the most memorable days we cherish together.

This is the picture we took going home, to mark our first day soon to be...

  CrAzY people  man and wife!!!

As our son would say "to infinity and beyond"!

Santa Claus 3

Have you ever watched this show?  We have about a million times. Dawson and I watched it today. If you haven't watched it yet, rent it. In the movie Santa tries to balance everything but Jack Frost play naughty and a lot of things come crashing down. That is how it has been for us lately. I don't know why but it seems as though every time we try to do something good something else crashes down. Nothing horrible just little things, like constant car repairs.

Today was really great just to sit and relax and hang out all day with our little joy (he's almost 4 eeeek). It was kind of nice, just to do NOTHING. Well not nothing we had a great time cuddling and watching our movie it was great and I think just what we needed!