Happy Father's Day & 6 Years of Marriage

This past week we celebrated our 6 year anniversary, time is flying by. 

 

Faster for some, like my little brother Herschel who said this in response to my Facebook:

"HATES THIS [announcement 6 years married], cuz i am your brother and only realized this moment...how disconnected our family is, i thought you had only been married a little over a year..."

Apparently half a decade is only a mere year for Hersch.  Maybe being blind also affects your sense of time.

{Herschel at 13 or 14, and this is a good depiction of our relationship}

I thought it was really funny, and made me think how old Herschel was when we were dating/engaged/ married, and he was 14.

I think we were engaged, so Rhett had interacted with Herschel a hand full of times and commented how he much love cheese.

I was impressed Rhett knew that, thinking he'd been bonding with the little bro, and asked how he'd picked that up.

Well I just assume he loves cheese because every single time I've seen him he's wearing the same shirt.

Black t-shirt that says:
cheese is good.

Got to love Herschel.

Anyway, here's my brag for Rhett for the anniversary and Father's Day.

Rhett and I met my freshman year of college, I was 18 and he was 22.

We would all hang out at the house he was living in with all his roommates, who were all between 22-30 year old men, so Rhett was the baby in the house, and we were really young 18-year-olds hanging out with all these older guys.

I can't remember how they all got talking about it, but they were talking about guys who come home from their missions, get married and have kids right off.  Some saying they had friends with 8 year old kids and what not.  At that point we were playing cards and Rhett slammed a fist on the table and said how those guys had it so easy and how he wished it was him or something.

I remember being really surprised that a) a young guy really ached to get married and have kids and b) that he was so open about it.

The conversation moved on, but after we left that night, Molly and I both commented how "cute" we thought Rhett's comment was and how we hoped he could get married and have kids soon since it was so important to him. 

So after that night we all had a new nickname for him: "Daddy Rhett." 

I had no idea at that time, that it would be my own children that would be calling him Daddy.

I'm grateful to have married a man that lives his life in a way that enables me to tell my son:

 "Grow up to be just like Dad." 

If my little Rhett is just like the big Rhett, I would feel like I'd succeeded as a parent, so I'm grateful to be his wife and have the chance for my children to look up to him as their father...now to fix all the mental issues of having me as their mother.

{mother's day 2010}

Idaho...Where Everybody Knows Your Name

....or at least knows how to pronounce it correctly thanks to this dude:

Senator Mike Crapo.

You can imagine how we get a lot of crap about the mispronunciation of our last name [pun intended], so thanks to Senator Crapo's political career, the residents of Idaho are familiar with the pronunciation of

(cray-poe) and it is so refreshing.

There are a lot of things you dread when you have a major move:

-learning where everything is in your new town

-not knowing a single soul other than your spouse/ kids

-setting up utilities and all of that

-unpacking

-the awkward "get to know you" chat when you do meet people

and for us, the usual months of correcting people on how to say our name. 

The last area many people still couldn't get it.  Mainly at church when they read it over the pulpit and everyone looks around at us to see what we do...and we've been there for 2 years.

Anyway, we are really liking the spud state.  Very friendly and not too different climate from home.

And everyone says our name correctly, but then they ask if we're related to the senator--we probably are somehow distantly but have no clue where.

Rhett just started orientation for his program, so real life is starting to settle in and I'll have to get used to not having him home all day long.

We'll sure miss him not being there all day.

In the mean time we've pretty much settled in and everything is unpacked.

It has been project mayhem this whole month of June.

We closed on our house June 1 and began that night painting everything.

We painted almost every wall in the whole house except the bathrooms and hallway.  I painted the kitchen cabinets, all the doors/ stair railings, and some trim.

If you like these kind of home remodel/ projects I've been blogging them on my project blog HERE

My mom came up for a few days and while she was here got our garden started, so hopefully I won't botch it something will grow.

Anyway, we're doing well and enjoying our new home.

A fortunate discovery upon moving in was the fact we live on "kid corner" and our little street is full of kids under 5.  One house on the corner is the hang out and they all ride bikes and run around the street.

Luckily very few cars come down our little corner, I don't know if it's just not convenient or drivers avoid "kid corner" on purpose.  But great for us having a young kid with buddies to play with and cool mom's that are also chilling with no make up on the corner chatting.  I think we'll fit in here.

So if anyone's ever heading to Yellowstone or has any other reason to visit eastern Idaho, come visit, we are really close to the interstate if you want to stop in for dinner or just need to use the restroom!