Funny kids

I am not sure what I am going to do with little Aynslee Lyn. She has turned into quite the funny little girl. She is so witty and comes up with the most amazing conversations just on the fly. I thought I would share one conversation she had with a lady I don't even know. We have a car pool group for pre-school, and the friend driving to pre-school told me story as she was dropping Aynslee off at home. My friend had to run to base to pick up one of her friends and they all stopped to get the adults something to eat for lunch...... the conversation is between my friends friend and Aynslee. I don't remember the girls name so we will call her Mary...

Aynslee: Can we have some of those apples?

Mary: Sure, but make sure you share them with everyone.

(The kids finished eating the apples)

Aynslee: Can we have some more?

Mary: I don't think so honey, I am sure your mommy will have some lunch for you when you get home.

Aynslee: Nope, my mommy and daddy are dead, you are all I got lady.

Where does she come up with something like that?

Ok, this next one still cracks me up. I grew up with two older brothers, so I feel SO sorry for Ayns. I totally understand how she wants to be like them, and play with them so bad, and when they finally ask her to play it is like the best prize in the world. Well, this shows how awful brothers can be and what a let down it is in the end for a little girl. Still funny though.

Jax: Hey Ayns, want to play something with me?

Ayns: YES!!!!

Jax: ok, repeat after me. I Ayns

Ayns: I Ayns

Jax: am dumb

Ayns: am dumb

Jax: and stupid

Ayns: and stupid

Jax: Ha haha ha haha

Ayns: Ha ha ha, hey wait! That's mean!

Jax: HA HA HA HA!!!!

Me: he he he

I LOVE my kids!!!

The grand ole opry!!

For our anniversary celebration, we decided to go to Nashville Tennessee. I have always wanted to go there and it is only 5 hours away, so we finally did it. Zach's parents were in town, so they graciously watched our kids for us for a night. We had such a great time. We got to our hotel and decided to walk around a little and wanted to find the Grand Ole Opry so we got a shuttle from our hotel to the Opry Hotel and walked around in there for a while. It is beautiful with flowers and plants throughout the whole thing and a path to follow and even a river you can boat down that goes through the middle of the hotel. We walked about 1 mile inside and then took a wrong turn and ended walking about 3 miles to the Opry when it was really one 1/4 mile. It was ok, because while on the walk we actually got to talk to each other and hold hands and not push a stroller, carry someone or listen to whining. It was a nice walk. We ended up getting tickets to the Opry that night and we got to see so many great people but the best were Rodney Atkins, Blake Shelton and Carrie Underwood. The Opry is an AMAZING place. I would LOVE to go back again. The concerts were so good and everyone sounded perfect. It was so good that I had no idea that 2 hours had passed. I was so sad it was over. Then, we decided that since we didn't have to rush home for the babysitter, we went out to eat at 9:30 at night!! I know, we are crazy. We each promised each other we would order something out of the norm. We went to a VERY expensive VERY fancy Italian restaurant. It was SO worth it. Zach ordered Sea Scallops with sweet potato ravioli, and I have Gnocci with wild mushroom ragu with pork tips. SO worth the money! It was called Ravellos if any of you go to Nashville soon. The next day it was raining SO hard so we decided to just call it a day and go home early since we couldn't really do anything in the rain. It was just fun to be in he car together and only take potty breaks when we needed them and buy any candy I wanted and eat it all. That right there almost made the trip. It was my first time leaving all my kids overnight so it was a little hard, but it was also the best thing ever just being able to be with my husband alone. Here are some really bad pictures I took with my phone. I took over 50 pictures, but only a few worked, but good enough.
BEST TRIP EVER! Thanks Zach for the amazing 2 days.

Us after the Opry

Carrie Underwood

Blake Shelton

Rodney Atkins

The Grand Ole Opry. It is an amazing place. It is cool to know that so many great singers have been here. We also had great seats so it made it even better.

We took a million pictures of us together and decided that they were not good at all so we took individual pictures and are calling that good.

Zach in front of the great Opry doors

Inside the Opry hotel. So pretty!

Looking like a tourist.

The big 10

This is us 10 years later. We have changed just a little.

Don't forget to turn off my music on the side bar. The video has music.

On March 2 Zach and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary!!! I honestly cannot believe that it has been 10 years. It has gone by SO fast. We really didn't do a lot on the actual day because we had a trip planned for the weekend. A post to come on that.
My wonderful husband was SO great to me and picked out 10 gerber daisys (my favorite), each flower color represented something in our 10 years together. How sweet it that? Then, he got me a beautiful diamond anniversary ring. I am such a lucky girl. All he got was a stinking gun that he had been talking about. I know, not as romantic as he is. Guys are hard to shop for!
These past 10 years have been the best years of my life. Zachary is my best friend and I feel so blessed to be able to spend my eternities with him. I can't wait to spend my 20, 30, 40 and more anniversaries with him. I love you ZRoy!!

ps the video is a video that I made for Zach while he was deployed. I don't have any pictures of us before 2008 on this computer so I just used this video. The first half is us dating and our wedding, then it goes into our kids. The 2 we had when he was gone. Feel free to watch it and enjoy how much we both have changed.