WONDERFUL WEEKEND!!!

My amazing hubby planned a surprise party for me in Mesquite.

I had NO idea!!!

He told me we were going to Mesquite for a little get away. (Mesquite is a small town just on the border of Nevada about an hour and a half South of us) He scheduled a massage for me (woo-hoo) and I thought it was just going to be us relaxing by the pool.

So I have my Deep tissue massage, which was WONDERFUL by the way. Dewey met me at the Spa door when I was done. I thought we were going to go grab our swimsuits. We are walking past the pool and he says "lets swing by this side first" I look up and there are my friends and family.

SHOCKED!!!

My sister Liz and her husband Gary drove 5 hours from Salt Lake to be there. Kim and Sam both came down. And Todd and Robin drove down. Dewey planned it so they would all arrive while I has having my massage.

Again that many people knew and I had no idea anything was going on.

Amazing!!

Everybody!!
We had dinner at the Wolf Creek golf course. It was BEAUTIFUL!!! (thanks Liz and Gary)

It was such a fun night, bowling, dancing, laughing good drinks and Pizza at 2am!!

And it ended with Liz winning $500 on the Wheel of fortune machine.

Big thanks to Grandma and Grandpa for watching the boys.

Thank you everyone for making this Birthday such a fun one, I had a BLAST!!

And Dewey your amazing, I can't believe you planned that whole thing without me knowing. It was wonderful!!!

THANK YOU!!!

FFF= Red White and Blue

So here is our "Red, White and Blue" story..
I bought the boys cute Red and Blue shirts with little flags on them. Since we had a full day in Salt Lake planned I saved them for the very last minute. Our boys go through at least two outfits a day. (yea don't ask it varies in reasons) So we get to the BBQ and I grab the boys to put on their "special" 4th of July shirts. I'm not exaggerating when I say it was a matter of minutes before they were soaking wet and needed to be changed again. Before I even had time to grab a camera Luke found a hose and squirted Kolby, who started screaming because he was now dripping wet. While I changed Kolby into yet another outfit (lucky I packed 5 each for a 24 hour trip) Luke found a kiddy pool and dove in.
So....... no pics of the boys in Red, White or Blue this year.
Earlier in the week I posted our 4th of July pics. But I thought I would add these. This is the boys midway though the day.
Think they had fun?

Bir-anni???

Its Birthday Anniversary time!!


Dewey and I met the summer after I graduated high school. It was Love at first sight, we dated and soon moved to Salt Lake into our first little studio apartment. Two years later one month before I turned 20 we were married. We look back now and laugh, it was supposed to be a garden wedding in my Aunt and Uncles beautiful backyard. We had it decorated with Pink and black (shut up it looked good in the early 90's). The rain hit about med morning and never let up. We ended up having the ceremony in their game room. Yep everyone walked around the pool table.
But we were beyond happy with the day, and thrilled to be married.

So pop quiz how many years have we been married? ...................

Answer............. 3 years, this is our third Anniversary

Our love story has taken a long time to unfold. It has taken MANY twists and turns and had MANY ups and downs.

Two years after our "Garden" wedding we were divorced. I would have loved for us both to have been emotionally mature enough to handle all that we had too in those first two years. But the truth is we weren't.

But here's the crazy part we never stopped loving each other. We staying very close after the divorce. We saw each other through good times and bad. We talked about our various relationships and offered advice here and there. Dewey is the one person in my life who I knew would always be there.

Skip forward a few (many) years

We were both going through some big changes in our lives and we turned to each other for support and comfort. It didn't take long for us to come to decide that NOW was the time for us. We had both been through a lot and it helped shape the people we are. We were now ready to live our lives together as a married couple...again.

We had just bought our house and were planning Luke's adoption. We knew we wanted to get married but we knew we didn't want to have a big wedding. We went back and forth as to what we should do.

Three years ago today, Dewey surprised me with a trip to Las Vegas for my birthday. Woo hoo shopping and Margaritaville. We were just going for the day so I put on a skirt and pulled my hair back in a ponytail, nothing special. We had a wonderful morning then hit Margaritaville for lunch and of course Margaritas. After some time there (read many margarita's) it just came to us that we were in Las Vegas. Home of the quick/nothing to it weddings. So we wandered across the street to a mall grabbed two gold bands and hailed a taxi cab. Our cab driver (his name was Constantine, how cool is that?) took us to the courthouse, where we waited in line to get our marriage licence. He then took us to Cupids Wedding Chapel (Located right on the strip baby) and acted as our witness and photographer.

And......Ms. Stacey Warner was married to Mr. Dewey Warner. We were husband and wife....again. I love looking at the pictures we have, you can see how happy both of us are. We are literally glowing.

I believe that things happen for a reason, everything is done in perfect timing. Our boys were born when they needed to be when we needed them in our lives.
I don't have words to describe how happy I am with my life now. We are blessed beyond measure. I wake up thankful everyday to have Dewey and our boys in my life.
I have known Dewey for 19 years and I still smile just looking at him.

So enough of the mushy stuff. Here are the never before seen (unless you have been in our house) wedding pics.............

I could not ask for a more perfect wedding day.

Grandma Pics!!

These are some of the pictures from Grandma's visit. Its so funny I have lived in this town for three years. We went exploring and went to a Museum (I have driven past it countless times) I had never been too. And we found a park in a small neighboring town that I didn't even know was there.

These are pictures from the park.

These are from the Museum, Luke was THRILLED to be able to sit in a stage coach. The only problem was that they only had one to SIT in and about 10 to LOOK at. Three year olds have a hard time understanding that concept :) So we pretty much had to drag him out of the place.

Not to far from us are these amazing Petroglyghs. The boys not to impressed with these but Grandma loved it.




I'm so thankful that she was able to spend so much time with us. I have such wonderful memories of my grandparents growing up. I really want our boys to have the same.
We received a package from Luke and Kolby's Nana in Texas. It was full of books and bath toys. The boys LOVE them. Thank you Mrs. Arnold (Nana's friend) for the "big truck" books. Luke LOVES to sit and look through them. We read stories every night. I'm hoping the boys take after us in our love of reading.

4th of July weekend!!

We had an amazing weekend!! We drove to Salt Lake City to take Grandma back to my Aunt and Uncles. We got to stay at Liz's (my sister) and Gary's beautiful new house. On the Fourth we drove to Snowbird to meet Steve (my brother) and Mikki (his girlfriend). They were staying at a condo at the resort. I LOVE LOVE the Wasatch mountains, They are truly breathtaking. I don't miss living in the city but I do miss those mountains. It made it a perfect day being able to go up and enjoy them. We got to meet Mikki's darling daughters too. We all took the tram to the top of the mountain. It was wonderful to get out of the heat and see snow. The views were spectacular.

This is Steve, Mikki and her girls.... pretty cute!

Since we can never get the boys to look and or smile at the camera we tried this shot instead, kinda cool. And we are not hanging our feet over a straight drop its a lot more gradual then it looks.
Steve and Mikki fixed us lunch. The boys loved it!!
My Aunt Becca and Uncle Dell had a huge BBQ at their house for everyone. It was so nice to see family and friends. Plus you can't go wrong with delicious food.

Check out the boys serious faces watching the fireworks, they were mesmerized.

G.G is in town!!!

My Grandma, Luke and Kolby's Great grandma has been with us all week. She is here visiting from Texas. The boys have been thrilled to have her here.

We have all had so much fun showing G.G around our town. We went to a museum, we went for a drive just exploring. I have tons of pics I'll post later. But its still near impossible to get both boys in a picture, looking at the camera with out one or more crying. This is as close as we got.
We are headed up to Salt Lake to have a big family BBQ for the fourth of July tomorrow.
I hope everyone has a wonderful day!!

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You Are Pocahantas!

Free-spirited and wise. You have a strong passionate spirit that touches and changes all who know you. The wisdom and common sense that you have is really what guides you through life. Even so, you also have a very playful side that loves adventure and excitement.

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