Daryle is 34!

My MAN is 34! Yea! He & I are the same age again for 6 months! We celebrated with a nice steak dinner for him, lots of fun gifts from the $1 store and I surprised him with season tickets to the RAIDERS! He got very spoiled is all I can say! We had a small crowd over to help us celebrate the big day for him....I love you BABE! Here's to many more birthday's together. It's amazing to think we celebrated his 17th birthday together and now, here we are 17 years later celebrating his 34th! Gosh, we are getting OLD!
I wonder what he is wishing for?!?!?! Better make it a good one babe!!! hehe............... LOVE YOU!

Mother's Day 2007

I love to be a Mother, Mom, Mama, Mommy-seems like I get called all of them! We had a nice Mother's day-we started off with Brunch with my Mom. It was yummy as always and the kids always have fun playing in the Golf carts afterwards. Later in the afternoon, we went to Chris & Lisa's house for a nice BBQ. We had all the MOMS there and my kids got to go swimming in the pool. They were in hog heaven.

As my kids are getting older, I love being a mom even more....I love to be with them and to make memories with my family. I wish I could slow them down from growing up-its just happening way to FAST! I'm just trying to enjoy everything, I can with them and not miss a thing!

New pics!

Just some random pictures from the month. Tyler's first scout Court of Honor. When your Boy moves up in rank-the Mom gets a pin. It is very special. I have a ribbon with all my pins on it. It is getting quite heavy! And there is still a lot more room to go! We are so proud of our boy!
My 3 baseball stars! Getting ready for the games of the day-this only lasted about another 15 mins before it started pouring rain on us! The rest of the games got cancelled for the day so, we went, got donuts and did nothing for the rest of the day!
RAIDER-he's a growing! At his last check-up he weighed 26lbs. He had an allergic reaction to his shots-so, we had to rush him back up to the vet so, he could get another shot to stop the reaction! This dog! Now, he has to have a shot before his shot so, he doesn't have another reaction. We sure do adore him though! Except when he chews holes in things-(like my screen door.) I think he thought I was going to kill him that day-he ran from me everytime I walked near the door.
The kids bulit a fort. Can you see 3 heads in there? They are all in there....I was surprised they were in there, it was hot that day! They come up with some creative things! I love it when they play together so well.
Natalie with her "newborn". Our Brownie troop went to Bulid a Bear with the money they earned from cookie sales. We figured this was Natalie's 7th trip there~ Pretty lucky girl I'd say! Every time we have gone though, it is like the first time again for her. She loves it! It is so cute to help them pick out things and Natalie had such a hard time picking her animal, she actually broke into tears! The stress of a 9 year old!

Daryle & Melanie~How we met!

It was my Junior year in high school-1990, I had just been dumped and Daryle had himself a girlfriend. I knew he was interested in me because I had everyone telling me so, but, he had a girlfriend!!! FINALLY, he dumped her and asked me out. I was really not interested, at that point in getting into another relationship. He asked me to the Junior Prom and I said Yes!! He must of asked me about 5 times before the Prom to be his Girlfriend and I kept saying NO! After 2 months of dating, I commited to being his girlfriend! I had plans on dumping him after the prom-he drove me crazy! He was too nice to me, he always wanted to be with me, hold my hand and buy me flowers....I was not used to this!! Prom came and went so, I thought I will dump him at the end of the school year~then I won't have to see him all summer before our Senior year-well, we went to Utah for 2 weeks in the summer and I missed him-I really missed him......I knew I didn't want to break-up with him anymore after that! I only told him this story probably less than a year ago. He took it pretty well! :o) We dated for 3 years before getting engaged in April of 1993.....We were married, June 4, 1994 in Oakland, California. This June will be our 13 year wedding anniversary and we have been together now for 17 years. We did break up one time for about 5 days right before we got engaged. I wasn't sure what I wanted and I don't know if he really knew either...... Even though we were young, it was one of those things where we needed to take the next step....Marry me or let's move on~ apart..... We have 3 great kids together and I think we love each other more than we ever knew we could. I think about everything we have done in our almost 13 years of marriage and it just amazes me~still! Even though he drives me crazy-I love him with all my heart!



P.S. I had to take pictures of my pictures since my husband hasn't hooked my scanner up for me yet! They turned out pretty good considering but, that is why the quality isn't great!