Christmas Cards 2013

Hafen Reunion

This last weekend we headed up to Brian Head for a family reunion with the Hafen's.

To say the least, we had a lovely time with lovely people.

Love our Hafen family!

Father's Day 2013

Norah and I saved up for months to get this father exactly what he had been wishing for. 

He was absolutely thrilled with his first Father's Day gift. 

Truly, he deserves so much more. 

I wish I could buy him all of Europe.

I never knew just how much I loved this man until he became a daddy. 

You are loved more than you know and we are so lucky to have you.

Happy FIRST Father's Day Broc.

And to our own father's and the grandpa's to our babies, 

I cannot describe the amount of love I have for my own dad. I am me because I am part of you. If anything on this earth can hold me in total awe and admiration, 

it has to be you, Dad.

This man raised the boy I fell in love with. 

Never have I seen my husband talk so highly of someone as he has his father, Travis. 

Words don't do it justice but, we love you!

And finally, 

can I get a drum roll........

My grandma always throws a "king" party for father's day

This year it was as great as any other.

Grandpa Wade... I love you to the moon. 

Adios Ashley

I feel like I just wrote about her leaving for Nicaragua last year.

Silly Ashley girl thinks she needs an adventure every summer. 

Stay here for once and I will be your adventure Ash! 

We will go swimming, hiking, shopping, boating, crafting yadda yadda.. as fun as that all sounds,
she didn't take my offer. I think secretly I wish I could join her on all these adventures.

Today she flew to Spain.

For the summer. 

I miss her already. 

Hurry home.

Taylor, The Graduate

It has been a couple weeks and I think that it is finally starting to sink in that my sister Taylor has actually graduated from high school. Geez the years sure fly by once you are out in the real world. Seeing her in my cap and gown took me back and it seemed like just yesterday that I was there. I don't even want to think about her leaving to BYU in a couple of weeks. 

I don't think I like this whole 

"lets graduate high school 

and move on with our lives 

and live in different places 

and only see each a couple times a month... 

if we are lucky 

instead of every morning at the breakfast table" thing. 

But I could not be more excited to see what this girl does in her future. 

She will kill it. I sure do love you tay tay baby. 

I think it is even stranger to think that it has been SIX YEARS since this picture was taken.

And why didn't someone tell me that my smile was as big as Texas?

A perfect day

Broc has been working a lot lately. He has recently been promoted (which makes me a very happy, proud, and bragging wife). Seriously though, I am so lucky to have such a hard working man. The only problem is that I am a pretty demanding wife when it comes to family togetherness time so I requested in advance that we spend all day Memorial Day together. We spent the first part of the day in Springdale and then downtown at the splash pad and ended it in the pool.
I will let the pictures do the talking because this day was perfection.