February 27th is our wedding anniversary! I am so lucky to have such a wonderful man for my husband and my best friend. We have gone through a lot of hard things together, and done a few crazy things too, I am glad they were all with Mike. We have both changed over the past ten years and even though we are different people now, our love is still strong and our relationship is solid and continually evolving into something that true love stories are made of. Mike is more than everything I need, I love him more every day. I love you Mikey!

Last night we had Family Home Evening and we talked about Love. We each made hearts out of pipe cleaners and I think they kind of show off each of our personalities.

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Lilly likes to pretend that she is a puppy, but mostly she likes me to be the puppy and she will give me treats for sitting, jumping and rolling over. My back was starting to hurt because Lilly kept telling me to rollover so I decided to switch the roll and Lilly became the puppy, and of course Bryn will do anything for a treat too :) Here are my girls balancing cheerios on their noses, what good puppies.
(The couch cushions were on the floor for gymnastics in the living room )

Last weekend was my four day weekend and Mike and I decided to start Lilly's room remodel. Mike did ALL of the work and I got to spend lots of fun time with Lilly. Lilly and I tried to help paint, but a 3-year-old with a paintbrush and an ok to paint the walls is a little wild, we lasted about 20 minutes until I called breaktime and put Lilly in the bath.
We also bought a new storage rack for all of Lilly's toys. It fits almost all of them and now Lilly can see what toys she has and remembers to play with them. Before we had things stashed in the cupboards and in her toy box and toys were forgotten. This is so nice, I love it and it was on sale too. Lilly's teepee is now where her bed used to be.

Now I need to find some cute curtains to match and also that block out the light, so Lilly wont wake up in the morning when the sun rises (6:00 AM) Lilly is really enjoying her new pink palace and I am so happy that it is done and it turned out so cute. Mike did an awesome job! I've said it before, but I am so lucky to have such a handy husband. Not only can he fix things, but he was able to create such a beautiful space for Lilly. - I am so lucky, to have a great husband and a cute little princess.

The February Ensign published a wonderful article on adoption. It has four stories, Birth Mother, Birth Father, Grandparents and Child, all wonderful! Here is the link if anyone is interested in reading it. "The Gift of Adoption"

I really enjoyed the Child's story, I am so glad that Mike and I both tell Lilly her story and I hope that someday she will know how blessed our lives are because of her.

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