Staci's Blog

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Celebrating 10 Years

(May 1, 1999)

Tomorrow, Eric and I will be celebrating our 10 Year Anniversary- Wow 10 years! I feel very lucky and blessed to be married to such a wonderful man who happens to be my very best friend. I look forward to growing very old with him.

(White water rafting in Colorado)

I feel very fortunate to have such a happy marriage and I would say one of the reasons of our success is because we really work as a great team and communicate often. Eric is the CFO (chief financial officer) of the house. He takes care of anything and everything that has to do with money- bills, retirement, insurance, etc. I am the CEO (chief executor officer) of the house taking care of day to day business- appts, keeping up the house, making plans etc. Our partnership works in away that if one of us is having an off day or busy at work, the other can pick up the slack. I know I am lucky in the fact, that Eric really helps me whenever I need it and he is really a hands on dad and I think he thinks he is lucky because I am a relatively low maintenance women.

(Snorkeling in the Gulf of Mexico)

Another reason for our success, is our personal relationship with God. We both are always trying to become better people and ask God daily for help in our own lives as well as each others.

(this was our first picture taken together- (I think) August 1997)

One of my favorite things about being married to Eric is that when I am with him, I know I am going to have a great time, no matter what! We really just enjoy being together. It's been more challenging to do that since we have become parents (which we wouldn't trade for anything). But thanks to the help of our parents by watching our boys, we do make it a priority to find couple time and value that time very much.

(great memories camping, but we have upgraded from that little red tent to a pop up camper)

We will be celebrating all month- tomorrow night my parents are watching the boys and we plan to go out for supper, next weekend Eric's parents are watching the boys and Memorial Weekend- Las Vegas- here we come!

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

My neice Sara and prom pictures

Sara and her date Clint

These girls are absolutely beautiful. I am sure glad I grew up in the 90's- I would have had to stay home instead of being around these pretty things.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Ouch!

Poor Eric, he's just not as young as he used to be. Oh, but he tries- he plays volleyball, flag football and basketball. Last night, a basketball injury, I think he is slowly starting to admit he is getting a little older; however, I am fairly confident he won't give any of it up until. . . . I guess I don't know until what, but I am sure it will be awhile. And for me, I will just smile, take as good of care of him as I can and bite my tongue off so I don't tell him, "I told you to be careful"