ENGAGED!

Read carefully friends and family because I'm about to tell you something VERY exciting......
I'M ENGAGED!!!!!! And I must add that I'm getting married to the most wonderful, most caring, most loving man. Tyler and I are so lucky to have Deke.
OK so here's how he did it.....Deke and I love to read, we try to spend a little bit of time each night reading together. I was just finishing up on a very inspiring book called The Wednesday Letters, its a book about a father who wrote letters to his wife every Wednesday throughout their entire marriage (short and sweet version). In the back of the book there is a glued letter titled epilogue (this all ties in to the proposal, I swear). So I finish the last page of my book and announced that I finally get to read that glued letter in the back. I open it up and pull out not one but two letters. Needless to say I was a little confused...I pick up the letter I didn't recognize and opened it up to find "KIMBERLY HYDE WILL YOU MARRY ME". At first I thought it was a joke but when I looked up Deke was on one knee with my BEAUTIFUL ring. (BIG sigh)... I of course said YES and haven't stopped smiling since :D Life is good.

Tyler's Tball 2009

Tyler's team this year is the Yankee's and he's FINALLY enjoying it. Last year he hated tball, he constantly tried to walk off the field to go to the playground. This year he's excited to be on the field and tries really hard to get involved in the game. YAY!

This was funny, Tyler accidentally took his mitt up to bat so he stuck it between his legs and tried to bat like that. It was a cute solution.

Every time Tyler reaches home plate he stands there anticipating some sort of recognition. He doesn't walk back until someone cheers for him or gives him a high five.

Deke's Graduation From The Fire Academy!

FINALLY!!!!

So cute in his turn-outs I ♥ MY FIREMAN
I'm not sure what Deke's doing here but I'm going to pretend he's serenading me. Awww how romantical ;)

Getting his sweet badge

He's so much taller than everyone else, I love it.

They did several demonstrations after the ceremony, it was pretty cool.

Memorial Day Weekend!

This past Memorial Day we spent the afternoon kayaking, I was more than happy to finally get my boat out in the water after sitting in the garage for so long. Brian came with us and I rented him his own kayak as a birthday present. The weather was nice but the water was too cold to swim in, this however didn't stop Tyler from hopping in (go figure). After that adventure we came home and swam in the nice CLEAN pool and barbecued. Fun Times! :D

Tyler making Brian do all the work.

Trying to get off some rocks...

Muscle mania!

Two cutest boys EVER! ;)

Our Gardens Progress

This is our little pea plant. We planted at least 20 seeds and only about 5 grew. We're kinda amateur with this whole gardening thing.

The first row are carrots, the second row are broccoli, and that little lonesome plant to the far left is a string bean plant that Tyler gave me for mother's day.
Our lemon tree has flowers! Good sign!!!
We planted this lemon tree last summer and its already grown several feet.

My Brother Brian is Married!

April 25, 2009, Brian and Katie were married in the Salt Lake City Temple!!! The weather was cloudy, wet, and FREEZING! I really don't have a lot to say except that the wedding was beautiful, the new couple was impassioned with joy, and it was wonderful seeing all the extended family.

The fam

Tyler is always the random kid in all the pictures.
Me, Alan, and Amy

We're cool and we know it ;D

2nd floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Beautiful spot.

The girls!

The couple!

Tyler with his second cousin Ivan

Easter Art Project

So being the absentminded person that I am, I totally forgot to take pictures on Easter. No pictures of his Easter basket, no pictures before church, no pictures of his egg hunt, nothing. But I did remember to take pictures of him painting his bird feeder :D He was really excited about the project and I think he did a great job! Check it out!

This is Tyler proving to the world that tough guys paint too!

6 Flags Discovery Kingdom!

Friday afternoon we had a raffle at work and I won a High School Musical Easter basket. The gal that won the six flags tickets ended up not wanting them and asked me to trade with her. I explained to her that it wasn't a fair trade but she didn't care because she wouldn't use the tickets. SO I got two tickets to 6 flags AND $20 of food vouchers! We of course went the very next day because Deke actually had the day off from the fire academy. The weather was beautiful and it was nice spending some much needed time with Deke. He's been so busy with work, school, and the fire academy that we haven't spend a whole lot of time together. It ended up being a really fun day!

♥ We got some snuggling in while waiting in the long lines ♥

This cute little penguin followed Deke's finger along the glass.
Petting the Sting Ray's

In line for one of the water ride....all smiles.

After the water ride...all wet, I'm not smiling. :(

I like to think that he was blowing kisses at us.

We got blue tongues from a snow cone we had while waiting for the whale show to start.

One of the many sweet tricks.