The best 18 years of my life!!

I have been married to this man for 12 years but have been in love with him for 18 years!
This picture is shortly after we got married. We dated in high school my junior year and his sophomore year. We were great friends first. We talked for hours on the phone and really had a ton of fun together!! He took me to McDonald's alot and we would always find something fun to do!! Our favorite thing was to be in the mountains and hiking!! We did this a lot while we were dating!! We went on our Honeymoon to Glacier National Park. The road to the sun was amazing and beautiful!! I have loved every minute with him and feel blessed to have been with him!!

I remember when he left on his mission like it was yesterday!! There was a pit in my stomach and I knew I was going to be lonely for two years. We were best friends and did every thing together!!! But it was the opposite! I did miss him like crazy but I had so much fun getting his letters and hearing how he was doing and all those he was teaching! It was exciting and fun! I still dated when he was gone even got engaged but it just wasn't meant to be! I decided to go on a mission also and we served for 9 months together in the mission field. He being in Hungary and I in Arizona. It was the best time of my life!! We had so much fun sharing our experiences together!! Then he returned dated and continued to write each other. When I returned 8 months later in December it was so amazing to sit down next to him and share our thoughts and feelings and all that had happened over the last three years. It was a special two days shared with each other. I then returned to my mission for a guy I had taught was getting baptized and my family was able to come with me to meet people and see where I had spent 18 months. I will never forget him coming to see me off with my family we were going to be gone for a week and I cried like a baby. I didn't realize how much I loved him and loved spending time with him! Two months later we were engaged and 6 months later we were married in the Idaho Falls temple.

I have loved every minute with him!! He has been so sweet to me and has taken such good care of me and our family!! I remember telling him that I didn't want to work that I wanted to be a mom more than anything. He promised me I would be able to stay home with our kids and that if it ever came to where it looked like I needed to work that we would change our lifestyle. He has held up to that even if it has meant two jobs, extra hours or whatever. He has made it possible for me to stay home with the kids and I have been so blessed to have him work so hard to provide for our family!! This man I love is amazing and has been such a good father and friend to us!! I can't imagine my life without him!! He has been my best friend for 18+ years and I feel honored to be married to him!!


I have to tell you what it is like to be married to this man! He is working two jobs right now and going to school. When he comes home he is still ready to help me either fix a meal or take the kids if I need it. He is ready to go to school if I need him to take care of Tucker's needs. He helps me with all of Tucker's appointments and is there whenever I can not do it!! He is really in this with me, we are raising our family together and I so appreciate that!! I appreciate all his help and his friendship means the world to me!! I have been blessed by him for 18 years and have been honored to be his wife!! Thank you sweetie for the last 12 yrs of married bliss!! :)

We had such a fun anniversary, it was simple and fun, the best! Love you!

I can not wait to buy this book!!

He is so inspiring and I love this message!! I feel so much like I need to be asking myself every day if I had one more day what would I do!!?? I want to make a difference in my kids lives and really help them reach their potential!! Oh how I love them and want their testimonies to grow stronger each day!! I wish I could protect them always!! As the Lord has it, and as it is best we have to give them wings to fly and let them take their own path!! I wish time would slow down I feel like it is flying by and I am getting glimpses of what is going on!!
I want to do better each day and ask myslef if I have one more day to live what would I do?? What would you do?

Tucker received his arrow of light Award!!

This weekend was such a good one for us!! Tucker received his Arrow of Light award. He is no longer in cub scouts but now is in Boys Scouts. Amazing how time flies!! He is getting so much older!! I am sad how time is passing so quickly!! I love seeing this incredible kid grow into this amazing young man!! BUT and a big one at that I just feel like it is going to quickly!! I want it to slow down!! I love him so much and love every minute I have with him!! How blessed I feel!!

I don't have the video yet but will post it soon. Just thought I would share these great photos of him with his leaders. They made a ramp for him to go over!! It was so sweet and I love these men who made so much effort in including him and making him feel special!! Dan also made him an arrow that he carved and made himself as a gift which Tucker loved!! How sweet that was! It makes a mothers day when your child struggles so much to have some who cares!!!!!!!! Thank you!

Summer Fun at the Rady's

Ok so I have to start off with asking for your patience with this post!! :) I took a ton of pictures and had a hard time picking a few so I decided to post half of them!! :) YEP it is going to be the longest post ever but we had SOOO much fun I couldn't resist posting about it all!! Thanks for your patience and hope you enjoy them half as much as I did!! Coledyn Mike Tucker and Navey all at the end of the slide.

Kenasyn was a bit cold sitting in the pool. We didn't have much sun until the end of the day. Made it a bit chilly. I mean it was still warm outside but the sun was behind the clouds most of the day.

Nick and Tan sitting on the deck. Nick was smoking some GOOD ribs and boy were they good!

Brook's son Jet was able to come and be with us also and it was fun to have them!

Grey is also Brook's little boy and he had fun throwing balls and eating hot dogs!

Coledyn and Tucker having some battle fun! These two also slept out in the tent every night and had loads of fun!

Mike sitting in the kiddie pool. Just couldn't resist!! :) Love you sweetie!! Not sure who was able to talk him into this!

Austin gave rides on the jeep. He thought that was the greatest thing ever!! Kreid and Austin were inseperable and had a lot of fun together!

Bryson riding his bike and looking cute as ever!! :)

Here's the line for the jeep rides!! :) So funny but Austin loved every minute of it!!

Coledyn getting ready to run and his little brother got in his way.

Coledyn LOVED this and gave me like 5 hugs and told me every time how much fun he was having and thank you for inviting him!! :) He was so cute and sweet and I am glad he had so much fun!! We were glad they could come!! Their parents stayed home to work on their new home and so grandma brought them!! So glad she did!!

Mike took Tuck nearly ever time he went and I am so glad he did !! He had so much fun!! Usually mike would throw him over his shoulder and he would go sailing down the slide!! :) He had so much fun and you can tell by the pictures he was having a blast!

This boy kept going even when others fizzled out for a bit he was still sliding!! :)

Can you tell he had fun!! He loved every minute of being thrown and slamming into the end of the slide! :)

He is such a great kid and I love his tenderness and sense of adventure and enthusiasum for life even inspite of his challenges!! How blessed I am by him!!

Archer Loved the jeep and wanted to ride it all day long!!!

K I have to tell you this surprised all of us!! My mom is not one to do such things and I was shocked to see her enjoy herself so much!! She was right there ready to go all the time and even take grandkids down with her!! SO glad she had fun!!

Now the two pictures I got of them were great!! It was fun to see these!

Nick and Tanys in action!! So fun!

Brooklyn spilled her bubbles on her ball and so she was getting soap! Her dad wasn't able to come either and we sure missed him also but was really glad grandma brought her also!! We don't see her often and so it was fun to have her and see her!

She wasn't really excited about the slide but decided to go after awhile and ended up enjoying it after all!!

This one had a rough day but I think he had fun after everything was said and done. I think he missed his parents but not sure. He looks so much like Cody it cracks me up!!

Coledyn and Austin exiting the slide not sure about the pile of mud at the bottom where all the water had drained!

Like I said lots of photos and I loved them all . . . but I did spare you I promise!

Even our dog LeRoy had a great time!!

This one had so much fun he didn't want it to end! He is so such a good kid always trying to do what is right or make it fair and he is such a good little helper also!! I love my boys so much they make life worth living that is for sure!!

Can you tell he had fun by that smile??

Doesn't he look older and older every day!? I can't believe he is going to be 11 in a few weeks and will be in 5th grade!! Whatever am I going to do!!?? My how time flies!!

This one is always causing waves some where, full of life and adventure!! Love his personality!!

Little Archer had a ton of fun playing everywhere even though he fell down the stairs a few times and got pushed out of the jeep he still had a smile!

Miss Navey is all girl!! She loves to pose! She is a cutie pie!

Brooklyn had a lot of fun and we were glad she came she also likes to have her picture of taken!

12 kids at your house at one time was Crazy I must admit!! I would do it again!! It was a lot of fun and we loved having everyone!! We have decided to do this every year for sure!! Loads of fun!

We did this because Tucker has always wanted to get into those bouncy things at the fair or parks or whatever. I could never let him get in there were always tooo many children and I was so afraid of him getting stepped on. He can't feel his legs and so that would be a bad thing. We always said we would rent one and let him jump all he wanted to. Well sad that we finally get around to it now that he is almost 11. We wanted to invite the family and have a fun time and school is getting closer and his birthday is the end of August so we decided to get it done! We are so glad we could do this and want to do it again next year!! So thank you family for joining us! We also had Tanys' sister here with her two kids and that was fun to have them join us also!! Great fun family time with BBQ and lots of kids!