Wide Awake

It is officially tomorrow so i guess I'll blog. It's 12:35 AM and I am wide awake....I think I am so tired that I can't sleep. I have so many things running through my mind.

Tonight was Young Womens. We tied to baby quilts. The girls did awsome! I think all of the girls in my ward are fabulous. I always am in such a great mood when I get home. These girls are great examples to me. They are growing up during such harsh times, but also exciting times. They all strive to let their light shine, amazing girls, who all have a very strong faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I am so grateful to be able to serve them!

Sophie has dicovered her hands! oops I slipped, Lollie, ya know I think I will forgo the nick names, I can't keep real names straight, the nick names are killing me! Anyways...back to sophies hands. She pulls her binkie out the second it goes in! Then she can't put it back in her mouth, it makes her so mad!

Because I have 1/2 hour left before I need to go check on Hayden, I have time to add a pic of me and wes. To go along with it I think I will write about our very first date, here goes...

Feb 4th 1995

We were set up by all of our friends. We both happened to be 3rd wheels while all our best friends were dating each other. So what the heck we might as well go out on a date so we don't have to feel left out. I knew I was going on this date for 5 days before he actually got the nerve to ask me out, the night before, I was like yeah, I'll go, I was going anyway even if you don't ask me. So I woke up the day of with the worst cold ever. I was so sick. I remember thinking I just didn't want to go at all, but because he did call, I couldn't cancel. So I took some nyquil and hoped I would at least stay awake. The plan was that all of us friends, about 4 or 5 couples would all pile in vans and head to SLC, Go to dinner, then to a laser light show (Pink Floyd). When Wes arrived to pick me up my mom had just arrived home from work so she looks him up and down and says "Who the heck are you, and what do you want" I was like oh great, and Wes was like hmmm her mom is nuts. So we get in the van with 2 other couples. Wes and I take the back bench, the longest bench. We sat very far away from each other. I was nice, but I felt like crap. He thought I was stuck up I am sure! We get to SLC, and go to the Olive garden. We sat by each other and didn't say a word most of dinner. I ordered fettuccine he got spinach fettuccine (Florentine). Toward the end of dinner, he told a really dry joke ( he is famous for his jokes, he always is the first one to laugh at his jokes too!) So he starts laughing at this joke that really wasn't that funny (sorry babe, love me?) then there was a delayed laugh from everyone around us. I people sitting directly across from us were crying they were laughing so hard. This made Wes laugh harder at himself. I finally for the first time all night looked straight at him while he was laughing, on his big front tooth was a massive piece of spinach. He was not aware of this, he just thought he told a fabulous joke. I seriously started laughing so hard, his friends were trying to get the words out to him that he had food in his teeth all they could do was point. When he finally figured it out he was mortified. I was a little embarrassed for him, poor kid. This isn't the end of the date though there's more...

We head to the laser show, and can I tell you, I was so glad that I got to wear 3d glasses. It meant I could sleep and he would have no idea! So I tried to sleep but I kept thinking he would figure it out, so i would rest one eye at a time, remember I took NyQuil before I left. On our way home we made a stop at a gas station to fuel up, Wes goes inside and buys like 3 candy bars...and eats them all in front of me...didn't even offer me one....I wouldn't have excepted because heaven forbid he see me eat candy....but I was so mad he didn't offer. The rest of the ride I fell asleep and didn;t even care if he saw, I don't think he did, cause he was enjoying his TREATS. So I am the first to be dropped off, when we pulled up to my house it was about 2 am, I looked right at him and said "You don't need to walk me to the door"....he gave me this stunned look, like he was scared of me...and I went in, shut the door and thought to myself thank goodness that is over!

And here we are 12 yrs 3 kids later....happily ever after ...a weird 1st date;) So this picture I am posting is actually on our 1 year anniversary, we were sealed in the Logan Temple this day. We don't look much older than we did the day we got married.....time for h's meds ~night E