my big 25

Brandon and Me in archibalds resturant

my favorite kind of gorgious flowers from brandon!

my cute pedicure ( you want flower?)

just one of the piggies at gardner village petting zoo

Gami helping the kids walk across the street at gardner village

lexi and payton helping me blow out the candles

Lexi, Me, Mom, and Megan

megan, aiden, liam, and tyson

the five of us briggs, payton, lexi, brandon, and me

aiden and liam eating their dinner

me just finished fan-tab-u-lous dinner

my yummy fudge chocolate cake made by mom

for my birthday most of my family was out of town so we were able to celebrate it on thursday, friday, saturday and sunday. we had pizza with chris, cassie, and conner thursday, friday we went to iggy's sports grill with brandon's parents and Madi, and saturday my mom came to my step class with me, then took me to get a nice relaxing pedicure, later we went to a delicous place called archibalds for dinner at gardner village! we shopped and looked at giant pigs and cute little animals. my mom, sister-in-law (megan), brother (tyson) and 2 nephews came with us. we had so much fun (thanks guys for coming) then on sunday my mom made me a super fabulous dinner and delightful birthday cake. it was just me, mom, payton, lexi, and briggs.(dad in hawaii and brandon in detroit). my two kids sang all by themselves for me! it was so sweet. and then today (monday (my actual birthday))my BFF Sigrid came over with yummy lunch and I went and got a 2 hour massage and went swimming with lexi and patyon and my other BFF Beth, her 3 kids and her husband ken. Brandon sent me my favorite flowers for my birthday morning suprise. they are so beautiful!!! thanks babe. i can't thank everyone enough for a fabulous birthday! thanks guys my big 25 couldn't be any better! love ya'll.

gReEn with EnVy...

Beth, Maren, Siggy, and Briggs

playing skipbo siggy, beth, mikey, and elliecousin Jakey

Maren and Ellie

Sadie

Brandon and Briggs (poor sport, the only one not in green brandon!)

Maren and Briggs

Siggy and Briggs

Siggy, Beth, Sadie, Mikey, and Ellie

Beth and Sadie

Ken resting up for his late night shift at work

Ken, Beth, and Sadie

Lexi, Maeli, Kenny, and Payton

yes a bit late but here are some pics of our fun GREEN day! Yes my favorite holiday is st. patty's day so we really take it to the extreme. Green food all day long, and if it's not green we put food coloring in it. so green poopies for the next few days. ((TMI)too much information?) we really have had fun keeping up the green tradition sense we've been married. I know it was a weird adjustment for Brandon, but seriously who doesn't love the 17th of March!? We had our best friends over for dinner and then we had siggy come over too!& you can't come over to our house without playing games!!! we later had 2 of our nephews and one niece come over to play. thanks guys for eating green just for me!

my soap box...

JUST WANTED ADD SOME BEAUTY TO MY STRUGGLE

okay so not to be totally depressing right now, i just needed to vent for a sec on bodies. well this last week i really worked hard at exercising and did great totally lost 1\2 inch on each of my arms, and almost a whole inch on my thighs. so ya that is totally rockin' dope, but then it comes down to the eating. blah!!! really that stinks i have such a bad strength when it comes to making good eating choices. oh man why does food have to be so fabulously delicous?! oh stink, it is super hard for me. i just wish that everything was bland and yucky, but NO it has to be scrumpcious and sugary. okay so really like i have said before "in my world everyone will eat rainbows and poop butterflies" then we won't stuggle with the food dilema. super!!! really i'm super in love with my step class and I LOVE TO EXERCISE but man it doesn't pay off when i eat like an elephant who loves food. so that comes back to body image. who's the one to decide what we should look like? i mean i'm all for being healthy. well darn it all, i'm stumped with my struggle. any ideas? now i'll step off my soap box and go back to being good ole happy me! holla ya'll!!!

super girls to the rescue

super chick and wonder flower
wonder flower hiding her true identity

super chick trying on wonder flowers mask

super chick in her true setting

auntie sigrid gave the kids some dorky but cute hats from IKEA for valentines, well my little flower girl was so upset that I didn't have a hat and mask on, so to please her I put on the chick hat and she loved it. We decided to be super girls. we were cracking up and had fun taking pictures. brandon came home from work and i greeted him with a big smile in my secret identity
da ta ta da! off to save the world!!!

for my vALeNtInE

I am thinking it's a sign that the frecklesIn our eyes are mirror images and when We kiss they're perfectly aligned And I have to speculate that God himself Did make us into corresponding shapes likePuzzle pieces from the clay (a few lines from one of our songs "such great heights")

We Are Man And Wife:

All the things you are to me Darling you have set me free I'll always give you what you need and what you deserve All the joy and all this love I know that it is from above and now together there is enough to fill this world Cause you are the love of my life you are the love of my life and we are man and wife Of all the things that you will do Yet now I'm standing next to you Darling I will see you through the rest of our lives With you beside me I am one I'm glad I've waited for so long there is no doubt that you are the one for me Cause you are the love of my life you are the love of my life There'll be times and there'll be things but everything is going to be fine now your in my life So I give you my heart and soul It's yours to take where ever you go and through the years you'll always know it's yours to keep God has blessed this sacred vow and angels high above look down they see the two of us have found the perfect love Cause you are the love of my life Yeah you are the love of my life and we are man and wife

(our song by Michelle Featherstone)

i have been thinking and thinking of something sweet to give my sweet honey and i have been stumped so here is a tribute to him, and reasons I love him...

-Brandon I love you so much it's retarted.

-you are my night in shining armor and my one true love.

-I was born to tell you "I love you".

-You are my best friend and my hero.

-You have been the best thing to ever happen to me.

-I know how lucky I am to have you in my life and am so grateful we can spend eternity together.

-Wow my kids are so lucky to have the coolest and best daddy in the whole world.

-You are an angel from heaven.

- I don't know where I would be today without your love and support and I have to thank you a million times for that.

-I love you to the moon and back a million-trillion times.

-Your smile and eyes light up my life (cheesey, maybe, but totally true)

-I love your sense of humor. (u have to have one to be with me,right?!)

-I love that you can be goofy and silly with me and the kids.

-I love how forgiving you are.

-You're so unselfish and thoughtful

-I love that you have a sensitive side but your still such a man.

-I love how you love the gospel and have a testimony of christ

-I love that you sacrifice your time each day to work and provide for our family.

-I love that you'll play games with me

-I love that you'll watch sappy movies

-I love that you love me for me even though i'm NOT perfect.

-I love that you are our kids hero.

-I love that you take the kids to give me a break (most men don't do that for their wives)

-I love that my parents love you! ;0)

-I love how you make me giggle and laugh.

-I love that you're just you.

-Babe to put it simple I LOVE YOU!!!

Happy Valentines day.

just some pics...

mommy and baby briggs

my cute BIG boy

darling girl in a fabulous hat made by gegma!

you leave a 2 1\2 yr old and a 3 1\2 yr. old alone for 2 mins and look what happens

after first real bath at home

i'm super happy he's here, by the look of his face i don't know how he feels...

he looks chubby from this angle but he is still super tiny skinny!

grandma kathy metcalfe holding new born briggs

here are some random pics of my kids and family and stuff.

latest craze...

okay so i know i'm not caught up w\ the latest thing, but i've just added myself to facebook. (well my mom did for me) crazy how many people you find on it! like my whole senior class is on it. kinda fun. so if you love blogging and like me are behind on the craze join facebook. i'll be your friend, maren andersen metcalfe! check it out.