What's Under Your Bed?

So we are getting our house ready to put on the market and I've been doing a lot of sorting. Today as I was boxing up some of the kids' room decor, I remembered that when we moved here I had put some pictures underneath my bed because there just wasn't room for them on our walls! So, I pulled them out to put them into boxes as well. I came across this fun little collage of photographs that Andy and I had put together to display at our wedding reception. I just took a few minutes to remember those fun times that we had together...and to laugh at our cute little kid pictures.

I didn't have time to pull the pictures out of the frame and scan them into the computer, so I just took a picture of each of them. The quality won't be all that great, but I thought they'd be fun to post anyway.

Ahh....Here is a picture of me at about 3 months old.

And here is cute little baby Andy. Well, maybe not so little, but cute anyway!

And then we have the toddler shots...I think that I'm two in this picture.

I'm not sure how old Andy is in this one, but I'm guessing somewhere around 2 or 3.

In the summers, my brothers and I used to play in the irrigation water that would overflow into our front yard when grandpa watered our pasture. Our front yard was on a little hill, so the water was only on the bottom. Anyway, we would float around on inner tubes and run and splash for hours. It was so fun. Notice how light my hair would get in the summers! Can't you just see the mischief in his eyes? Brooklynn definitely got daddy's eyes...and that look of mischief that is always present. So cute. And his shaggy white-blond hair just cracks me up! I love the total concentration here. Most likely what you don't see in this picture is my older brother, Trever, poised and ready to blow out MY birthday candles!!! I'm 5 in this picture.I love this picture of Andy. Mostly because he still looks just like this when he blows out his candles.And here we have graduation pictures. This is me and my best friend, Kelli Sommers. Kelli, we had so much fun together!!! Kelli was also my maid of honor at my wedding.And this is Andy and his best buddy, Roger Meeks (Hey Rog! We expect a comment from you on this one!) Roger was also Andy's best man at our wedding.

This is a picture of us two goofy kids while we were dating. This was taken during my reign as Miss Idaho...about a week before I left for Miss America in Atlantic City, NJ. Andy was in school full time at ISU and didn't make it over to Boise very often. I had appearances scheduled for nearly every day of the week, and also worked part time at the capitol building, so our time together was very limited. But I sure did love it when he made it over for a visit.
This one is a picture of us at the Idaho Falls Holiday Parade, the day after Thanksgiving when they light up the temple and river Christmas lights. I was doing another Miss Idaho appearance. It was FREEZING! I had on a fur coat over my chauffon dress...brr...but I also had my engagement ring on (yippee!) and I had one hot red convertible and a hot driver to go with it. :) I didn't have very many appearances on the eastern side of the state, I stayed mainly in Boise, so it was always a real treat when I was able to travel back over to Idaho Falls and spend some time with my sweetheart. We were engaged for 8 long but extremely busy months.


So there was a little trip down memory lane for me! Life goes by so quickly. It's hard to believe that Andy and I have been married for nearly 11 years, and that we have 5 beautiful children. I think the most amazing thing, is that I still feel as young as I did when we were dating. We joke around about how we'll be 25 forever...and on our birthdays we always say that we're turning 25 again. But really, that's how it feels...we're still just in our early twenties...except that there all these little people running around our house calling us "Mom" and "Dad."