Happy Anniversary!

This Saturday Mike and I will be celebrating our 5^th wedding anniversary; I can truly say each year is better than the last.  I feel so lucky to have married not only to the man of my dreams, but also my best friend!  It is because of our love and understanding for one another that I really do believe in “soulmates”!  Funny enough, our last three anniversaries we’ve been at friends’ weddings and not always together … and this June 23^rd finds us at my cousin’s wedding, but at least we’ll be together!  

We celebrated our anniversary early this past Saturday, and we had an AMAZING night out in Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth.  We planned it at the last minute, since my trip to Utah got moved up and realized that we wouldn’t be able to celebrate for a few weeks unless we did it that night.  When we drove to Fort Worth, we didn’t even know where we were going to eat.  However, the stars aligned and we saw this restaurant on a rooftop, about six floors up … I doubted we would get in since it was eight o’clock on Saturday night – but 25 minutes later, we were on the roof at a table overlooking the sun setting on the square.  The meal and atmosphere were wonderful, and I don’t think we could have planned a better evening!

Noah LOVED dance camp this past week.  He came home every day very eager to tell me all about what they did.  I was eagerly looking forward to Friday, when Amelia and I got to attend the “Red Carpet Premier” of his music video.  Amelia was quite ecstatic when she saw “Oah” and ran up to him on the red carpet and didn’t let go of him until the video finished playing on the screen.  I loved seeing the video and can only imagine the kind of hold it will have over him when he’s in high school . . . or I can imagine watching it be shown at his wedding reception!  I could only figure out how to post the video as a separate blog post, so the video is the previous post.

Going from one extreme to the other, Noah started Boy Scout camp yesterday and came home saying he might like it even more than dance camp!  He got to shoot BB guns and a bow and arrow.  His “buddy” at camp is his good friend Jonathan (who was also on his baseball team), which makes camp even more fun.

We took Amelia to her first movie, "Mirror, Mirror" at the dollar theater.  She sat perfectly still for about two-thirds of the movie; the last third was a different story.  Luckily, the theater was basically empty except for us and an older couple.  At one point, Amelia crawled to the aisle . . . the next thing I knew, she was running down the aisle and quickly turned into another row, went to the older couple and hugged the lady’s knee!  I think she thought it was us, because she had quite a look of shock on her face when she realized they were strangers.

"Boyfriend" - Noah Thompson Starring as Justin Bieber

Summer and the livin's easy.

I can’t believe summer is here!  Noah finished 1^st grade, and we’re so proud of how hard he worked all year (he got straight A’s on all six report cards).  His favorite subjects are math and science;  it’s been great to see how he’s thrived since moving to Texas.  

After school ended, for the first week we just relaxed, went to the pool almost every day, went to concerts in the park, watched fireworks at the lake, stayed up late watching movies, had family dance parties and ate a lot of popsicles!  It’s pretty hot here… around 95°F most every day, so I will definitely be ready to head to Utah soon.

Mike and I had a fun Saturday – his work rented a Catamaran, and we got to sail around Lake Lewisville for about 4-1/2 hours.  There was roughly 40 people from his work there, and I truly enjoy being around his work friends… we all had such a great time on the boat.  I will definitely look forward to going again next year.

Noah started dance camp this week, and he came home today pumped about it!  They are making a music video and will have a “red carpet premier” this Friday.  I explained before I signed him up that he might be the only boy, and his response was, “Oh yeah, me and all the ladies!”  It turns out he is the ONLY boy along with 25 girls, so he’ll being starring as Justin Bieber in the music video and have back-up dancers … ay ay ay.  

 Noah has gotten into building Lego "movie" sets and then making mini movies, the one above is his latest.