Getting to know you!!

1. What time did you get up this morning? 8 O'clock

2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Made of honor

4. What is your favorite TV show? Grey's Anatomy

5. What do you usually have for breakfast? Pancakes or Cereal

6. What is your middle name? Rose

7. What food do you dislike? Cantaloupe

8. What is your favorite CD at moment? I don't think I have a favorite

9. What kind of car do you drive? Honda civic

10. Favorite sandwich? BLT or Italian

11. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Anywhere warm

12. Where would you retire to? I love being around family... so where every they are I will be also

13. What was your most recent memorable birthday? Andy proposed on my birthday, that was very memorable. The last two birthdays haven't been all that exciting

14. Favorite sport to watch? Figure skating... if I have to have a favorite

15. When is your birthday? June 15

16. Are you a morning person or a night person? Depending on how good I slept the night before, but usually a morning person

17. What is your shoe size? 7 1/2

18. Pets? Nope... I don't know if we ever will.

19. How are you today? Very tired

20. What is your favorite candy? CHOCOLATE!!!!!

21. What is your favorite flower? Roses

22. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? Christmas

23. What is your full name? Melissa Rose Gardner Boyd

24. What was the last thing you ate? A hamburger

25. Do you wish on stars? sometimes

26. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Red

27. How is the weather right now? yucky... Very cold and windy

28. The first person you spoke to on the phone today? Andy

29. Favorite soft drink? Dr. Pepper

30. Favorite restaurant? Johnny Carino's or Olive Garden.... I love Italian food

31. Real hair color? Dirty blonde

32. What was your favorite toy as a child? Trampoline

33. Summer or winter? SUMMER by far!!!

34. Hugs or kisses? Hugs

35. Chocolate or Vanilla? CHOCOLATE

36. When was the last time you cried? Friday

37. What is under your bed? Andy's Gun... Scary!!

38. What did you do last night? Watched a movie with some friends -- Broken Bridges... its a good one!!

39. What are you afraid of ? Snakes, Spiders, Mice... most bugs and rodents

40. Salty or sweet? sweet

41. How many keys on your key ring? 3

42. How many years at your current job? Kyler is now a year old. Does that count??

43. Favorite day of the week? Sunday.... It is the most relaxing... usually

44. How many towns have you lived in? 4

45. Do you make friends easily? When I decide to not be shy.

Its fun to get to know things about everybody!! You're it!!

Birthday Pictures

So Yesterday's post I said that I put a candle in Ky's pancake and how mad he was that I wouldn't let him eat it until I took a picture... Here is the thrilled look on his face.My very talented sister helped me with the cake. Thanks SueAnn!! We found the idea somewhere on the internet, I couldn't even tell you where. But it was so fun making it. And I must say that it was DELICIOUS!! I love chocolate... and this recipe had lots of it!! It was called "Too much chocolate, Cake" YUMMY!! We baked it in a roundish cake pan and frosted it orange, used a mallet to give it personality and black licorice for the stripes... Have you guessed it yet... A basketball! Kyler loves basketball! He has a little hoop and two miniature basketballs... Thanks Alex!! So that was part of my inspiration!! lol!!Kyler thought is was so funny that everyone was singing to him, he giggled through the whole "Happy Birthday" song. And wanted to touch the flame on the candle... not blow it out... thanks to his cousin, Brynly we got the job done!! She is a very good helper!After seeing Kyler dig into the cake I knew that the three hours spent on making the cake was well worth it! He loved it! At least the part of it that actually made it into his mouth! And the ice cream he liked as well... until it fell on him and was making him cold. He had to take a quick bath in the sink after finishing!! He was one dirty boy!! He even had some cake in his diaper!!He was very spoiled. Thank you to everyone!! He is a very lucky boy to have so many people who love him. Here are some pictures of Ky tearing open his presents. He loved to rip the paper and unload the presents, not really paying attention to what was inside. Overall it was a very good day. Thank you to everyone! We appreciate and love all of you!!

Love at first sight!

I can't even begin to believe that my little baby is already a year old. I've been thinking about it all night, how amazing September 19, 2007 was. At 2 am my water broke (the weirdest feeling ever!) We got to the hospital and checked in about 3. They tried to get me going by walking around, I only got half way down the hall when I had to find a garbage can. They loaded me back up in a wheelchair and took me back to my room to lie down. The contractions were right on top of each other and I had a hard time remembering to breathe through them. We barely caught the anesthesiologist before the left... at 5 he came in to give me the AMAZING drugs! (I was dialated to a 4) About 20 minutes later I was asleep. Miracle drug! The nurse told me that at 8 they would come back to check me. Shortly after 8 they came to check me, panicked the nurse asked me if I had the urge to push... which I didn't. She said that I was fully dialated and told me not to push until the doctor came. Within 5 minutes there were so many nurses in the room preparing it for baby Kyler to grace the world. About 8:25 the doctor came in and I started to push. I couldn't feel a thing it was nice. I think I pushed for about 15 minutes. The cord was wrapped around Ky's neck so after he unraveled it I saw him. My beautiful baby boy, weighing 8 lbs 14 oz, measuring 22 inches long. I remember the first time I saw him I was so amazed at the love you can instantly have for someone. It was most certainly love at first sight . Being a mother is the most amazing, difficult, frusterating, and rewarding calling. I have loved every minute of it. I feel so grateful & blessed to be his mommy.

I am so excited for today, his first Birthday, even though he won't remember it. I am very excited. Already today we put candles in his pancakes. He was angry at me that I wouldn't let him eat his pancake until after I took a picture.... you can definatly tell in the picture... but I'll post all the pictures later!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!!

New Family Picture

My uncle does an amazing job taking pictures, he did all of my wedding pictures and every family picture we've had taken have been ones he took. I absolutely love this picture! Thanks Randy!

What do you think?

SueAnn showed me a new website called Picnik... you can edit any picture! Isn't it cool what you can do with the internet these days?? Does it look ok?

Valley of the very very HOT SUN!

This past weekend my parents, my sisters & I went to Phoenix to see my brother & his cute family. It is so beautiful down there! But VERY hot! When we left On Tuesday it was 106... in Salt Lake it was around 75. It was so fun being down there, I hadn't been there since my brother got married 6 years ago! Very sad!Little Anna Elise was blessed on Sunday. I'm so glad that I got to finally meet my new little niece. She is so cute!! McKenna's mom made Anna's Beautiful blessing dress, and Jared picked out her shoes. She is such a good baby!We Flew down on Saturday and stayed until Tuesday. Kyler did so good on the plane. He was so curious about the plane and what we were doing. He loved to look out the window!! The best part was that he fell asleep as soon as the plane left the ground both times & slept the whole way! That was nice! While in Phoenix we did a little shopping, the coolest store was IKEA, I'd never been there before, Kyler found his new favorite friend.... but he was too big to bring home, so we had to leave him at the store. We also went swimming... Anna was adorable in her bathing suit! She loved the hot tub, but the cooler pool was too cold for her. Kyler started to jump off the side of the pool... if you can call it jumping! He loves the water! As long as the water doesn't get too close to his face. I also found that kyler loves to watch cartoons! He sat on the couch and watched Tom & Jerry in spanish for quite a while! He does get easily distracted though!

Two years, gone!

Today is our 2nd Anniversary! I can't believe how fast time is flying. Our first year of marriage we lived in Great Falls, MT in a very tiny basement apartment below Andy's brother's house. We worked at Tony Roma's restaurant, together (which means we were ALWAYS together). Most days we didn't have to be to work until 11 O'clock, we slept in everyday! We didn't really have many bills to pay, and nothing much to fight about, except the dishes! After only 4 months we found out that we were going to have a baby & we were so excited, I was nervous!! Just before our 1st Anniversary Andy was offered a Management job with Chili's back at home and we were SO excited to come home. We had a two weeks notice of our move. Within those two weeks we had to pack, find a place to live and move, while I was 7 1/2 months pregnant, it was a challenge. We moved to Twin Falls where Andy did his Management training & I prepared to have a baby. Three weeks after Ky was born we moved into my parents house in Idaho Falls until we found a house, or a place to live. We searched, prayed, searched and prayed some more until we were so blessed to find our beautiful home, which we love. And even AWESOME neighbors, which we also love!! This past year has been Crazy and Amazing at the same time. We have grown so much and luckily we still love each other!! I couldn't imagine being married to a better man! He is everything to me and I love him so much. Neither one of us are perfect, but we make it work together. I am very lucky to have found the man of my dreams & to have eternity to spend with him! I love you Babe!! Happy Anniversary!