A Very Happy Anniversary!

Yesterday Nate and I celebrated our sixth anniversary!  This year was especially awesome because it fell on a Saturday – that way we were able to spend the whole day just being together.  In the morning we took the girls to Lone Pine Farms and had a great time.  Then we came home & our sweet neighbor came over to watch the girls just before nap time.  We put them down and were able to head out early for a long date with shopping, eating and going to see X-Men First Class (which we both really liked!).  When we got home the girls were just about ready for bed again and then we had the whole evening to spend together.  What a perfect day!

Anniversaries are always a perfect time for me to reflect back on what our years of married life have brought and the adventures we have been through together.  Overall I can say we have had it pretty dang good!!  We have been blessed in so many ways and Nate has made my life so much more fulfilling.  He is the most wonderful husband and father I could have hoped for and I am so thankful for him.  He makes me smile like no one else can, is supportive of all I do and works so hard for our family.  He loves his girls and makes us his number one priority, which means the world to me.  I am so grateful to be married to my very best friend.  I love you Nate!

Feeding the goats at the farm - the girls love it!

 Our farm fresh produce haul

Pictures!!

While we were in Utah, I took advantage of being close to my friend and amazing photographer, Jennifer, and had the girls’ pictures taken.  My mother-in-law, Susan offered to come with me to help out so we decided to make a date out of it!  We invited my sister-in-law Nicole & decided to get ‘Wolfley women’ pictures taken, too!  The night before, Nicole ran with me to a couple stores to find a cute headband for Sage to wear.  One of our stops was Kohl’s where we didn’t find a headband, but we did make an unplanned purchase of matching shirts for the 3 of us adults! :)  We were running out of the store when Nicole stopped & said, “Ooh, these shirts are cute…and look, they have them in 3 colors!”  We ended up trying them on right there over our shirts & then bought them.  Susan was a little surprised when we came home & said ‘here’s what you’re wearing tomorrow’!  Overall, the photo shoot was not especially successful.  Jennifer is a very talented photographer, but there is only so much you can do with goofy little girls!  Kenna was constantly doing cheesy smiles, putting her hands in her mouth, lifting up her skirt or shirt, looking around and basically doing anything but smiling nicely for the camera.  What a turkey!  Sage was pretty good, but just distracted and no amount of treats or bribery seemed to help.  It was an adventure.  Thank goodness we had 4 adults there to help out…and it was still rough!  I can only hope this phase passes quickly!  The pictures ended up turning out pretty cute despite of the lack of cooperation.  She definitely captured some of the goofiness, but luckily a couple turned out great.  Here they are!

Sage 21 months

 Makenna 3 years

 My girls!

 The Wolfley Women :)

Summer Craziness!

Am I allowed to blame my serious lack of blogging to a seriously busy summer?!  Holy Cow, where did the summer go?  Nate starts school again a week from today and it is a very sad realization.  (Although I can't be too bummed because we have an awesome trip planned for Labor Day weekend!  Gotta always have something to look forward to!)  Anyway, because it is probably going to take me weeks to get caught up, I thought I'd just start with the pictures.  My thoughts will be soon to follow (hopefully!).  In my defense, I have to say I haven't been totally slacking on the blogging - I finally finished and printed my 2010 family blog book (which I LOVE!).  However, I started my blog in May 2010, and so that I would have the entire year in our book, I back blogged January-May.  See, I've been working hard! :)  Anyway, for those few of you that actually read our humble little blog (our Moms & Dads!), here are pictures from the past 2 months.  Enjoy...there are A LOT of them!

Softball Goodness

This summer Nate has been playing on a City Rec softball team made up of a bunch of guys from our ward.  He has had a great time and they ended up doing really well. They played just about every Monday and it was a perfect opportunity for Nate to release his pent-up energy from the “Monday work grind”.  The girls and I tried to go to as many games as possible to watch Nate, but unfortunately a lot of them were played after bedtime.  At the few games we were able to go to, the kids had a fantastic time watching their dads & playing together, and I enjoyed hanging out with the other wives (and of course watch my studly husband)!  All around good family fun!

The big 2-8!

Happy 28th Birthday to this handsome guy

We LOVE you! 

-your girls :)

Camping at the Coast

This weekend we went on our first real camping trip as a family!  We went with our great friends the Stockdale's to a campground in Florence, just off the coast.  It was a little bit chilly, but we had a great time exploring the campground and playing on the beach.  The girls did great sleeping in the tent (I was a little nervous!) and had a really fun time roasting marshmallows over the fire (I think that was their favorite part!).  We stayed two nights & had a great time.  It was a perfect camping trial – now we’re definitely ready to do it again!!