My wife is going to be shocked

Well, I told myself and everyone around me I would never do this. But I read the Husband tag and had to suprise my lovely lady.
I want my wife to know how special she is to me, She really is the world to me. I have never met someone who cares so much for everyone around here, including animals! I know I am aweful at describing my feelings, but I hope she knows that she is my Best Friend, my support and most importantly my eternal partner! ( I still can't believe I am posting something on a blog)
I love you honey! I always will. I hope this is a pleasant suprise for you knowing my disgust for the blogging. I could not ask for more from you! I am so lucky to have you as my wife!
And I need to set something straight. There has been alot of things on this blog and my sisters blog that call me "Sensitive". I am not sensitive, I am the exact opposite and don't you forget it!
Love you babe!

Doggy BBQ anyone?

So this was a minute ago, but we had some friends over for a BBQ in our backyard and it was SO fun. Everyone ended up bringing their dogs as well. It was pretty much a zoo. This is Kelly with her Great Dane Dozer and her Mastiff (he's hiding) Bane. These dogs are HUGE! I love it. Bane weighs in at 170 pounds. My little 11 pound Jack Russell Zeus scares the poo out of em.
Brandon and Talisia with their 2 boxers Jada and Koda. Best dogs ever.
T, me, and Kelly. Such a fun night. We sat and talked and listened to some Jack Johnson and ate some nummy food from our new favorite place Harmons. The men played frisbee with the dogs. Then I forced everyone to play Mexican Train, and they secretly loved every minute of it....

I got Hubby Tagged

So cute Calli tagged me to answer 25 ?'s about my man. So here goes...

1. What is his name? Kevin David Harper

2. Who eats more? Aw shiz, well before I would plead the 5th. Now, him. WOO WOO

3. Who said "I love you" first? Oh, he did fo sho. I actually pulled the "thanks" card and didn't say it back for like, evah. (I'm so ganster right now....)

4. Who is taller? He is 6'4", which I LOVE. I like me a tall man. And I'm 5'7".

5. Who is smarter? Hmmm, it really depends. To be honest, we're both geniuses (ha) but we're smart in different ways. So take that.

6. Who is more sensitive? He is. He's got a big heart, and sometimes I have to search for mine, so he gets his feel goods hurt more often. But I love kitties and mini things, where he does not. I don't know, maybe we're even.

7. Who does the laundry? Ya'll, he does. I KNOW. In my defense, I work 2 jobs, so most of the time he just has it done by the time I stroll in at 10 or later at night. And even when I try to do it, he's all "no, I'll do it babe, I know you're tired", and when I try to say, "no honey, it's fine, I am fully capable of helping with laundry" he just takes it out of my hands and tells me to go sit down and relax. Again, I KNOW.

8. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Who would even care to know that? But I'll answer for the sake of the post. Are you ready............me. Crazy eh?

9. Who pays the bills? My big strong man. He pays them online when he's at work. But we have seperate accounts, his account pays for the mortgage and cars, mine pays for everything else. Utilities, gas, groceries, my booth rent, tithing, you name it. It works perfectly.

10. Who cooks more? Okay, you all are gonna think I'm like, an invalid or something. I promise our marriage is equal...ish. But he totally cooks. I'm like, the least domestic person on the planet and I have no skill in the kitchen. If I cooked, we'd probably be dead by now. And some of you think I'm kidding. Well, come over for a meal I cook sometime. It'll make you a believer. HOWEVER, I am trying to learn....

11. What meals do you cook together? And....refer to previous answer. No cooky for Annie

12. Who is more stubborn? Oh, this is a good one. We are both pretty stubborn, just about different things. If I say I 'm gonna do something, you better believe I'm doin it, and at a certain point, probably just to spite you. And he can NEVER admit he's wrong.

13. Who is the first to admit they are wrong? And...refer to previous answer. I'll admit I'm wrong, I'm just not wrong very often....

14. Who has more siblings? He has 3, 2 brothers and a sis. I have 1 brother, 1 sister, 1 half brother, 1 half sister, 1 step-sister, 3 step brothers, and a partrich in a pear tree.

15. Who wears the pants in the relationship? We both kinda have one leg in.

16. What do you like to do together? Boating and camping in the summer. He wakeboards, and I attempt. We LOVE to travel. In the winter we love snowmobiling up at Daniel's Summit. We love road trips and penny machines in Vegas. We like to try new places to eat. We love watching our shows together. Just being together in general.

17. Who eats more sweets? Hands down he does. He's a sugar whore! I like salty things, but anything sour, chewy, sweet, or gummy he's there.

18. Guilty pleasures? He loves energy drinks. The kind that have the warning on the can that tell you you shouldn't drink it unless you want to die. Loves em. Also he is a golfer now. He has like, shirts and stuff especially for golf. He also loves himself a good old triple cheesburger and fries with a biggy coke. And burping after downing it. It's super sexy.

19. How did you meet? My friend Talisia and his friend Brandon were dating (now they are married). They set us up on a blind date. So much fun. I had him from "hello" :)

20. Who asked out who first? ........

21. Who kissed who first? He kissed me. It's quite a funny story that I will never share...

22. Who proposed? Yeah, about that....He propsed the first time.....and the second...and the third. Ha, just kidding, there was no third. But the rest is true. The first was in a police station interrogation room while in handcuffs (it's a long story) A year later when I accepted was in Paris on the Eiffel Tower. I KNOW.

23. His best features? Oh, he has so many. I LOVE his crooked smile. He's got some FABULOUS arms. His tallness. His laugh (is that a feature, not really huh?) And his cute butt, it's my fav (sorry Joleen)

24. What is his greatest quality? Again, he has so many. He is always making sure I am taken care of. He is 110% a family man. He loves kids. Loves them. He's SO hardworking. He cannot just sit. There is always something feels he could be doing. He enjoys housework and mowing the lawn and washing the cars. He's just the best.

25. Tag? Uh, I tag Heather, Sheena, and Katie. And whoever else wants to do it.

Party Hardy!

So my cute friend Sara had the month of May to host our little get together. She is the one in the middle sportin the pink pants. I didn't take a whole lot of pictures this time, which I'm very sad about, and this is only a few of the girls there. It's the only picture I had of Sara though, and I wanted to post one of her. I decided I would do a little diddy on each person who hosts, so here goes...

Sara and I go WAY back. Like, 2nd grade. That's what, 17 years ago? She and I have so many memories. We used to take baths together (in our swimsuits, i-eet). We would get together on snow days and play, her dad would drop her off on their snowmobile, and we would spend hours outside doing whatever. Then we would come inside and without fail, there would always be donuts and hot chocolate waiting for us. We danced together, we borrowed each others clothes, went through having braces together, we had many a sleepover. Whenever we would go to her house her cute grandma would always be doing SOMETHING for us. Her mom would make us food, and we would watch TV on her cool projector with the red, green, and blue lights. We made up some SWEET dances down there in her basement together! We were on drill together, infact, she's the one that convinced me to try out. She is the funnest person. She is beautiful, and always pointing out good things about people. If she thinks you are lookin hot or being funny, she'll be the first one to announce it to a crowd of people. She has such a kind heart. She loves dogs, dancing, cars, and metro men, and I love that about her! I'm so glad that we became friends, and have stayed that way for so long! Can't wait for the next 17 years Sara!!

Sheena (who's 6 months pregs), Tori, and Tara.
Miss Katie with her ADORABLE son Landon. This is like, the only time he cried. He was the BEST baby ever. He loves being in a crowd and the middle of the action!
Kira and me. Dang we're good lookin. :)

So our night consisted of yummy food that Sara's mom made us (she says she can't cook, so Becky offered) We had lasagna and salad and dessert after. Then everyone was supposed to bring pictures and videos of us all over the past years. It was SO much fun! Just to see us all when we were so young (and some not so long ago) being goofballs. Luckily Katie was always filming everything so we got to see how we were back in the day on just a regular Friday night. It was pretty hilarious. We were some crazy, creative, wierd girls I tell ya. We knew how to have some good old fashioned fun. You would DIE if you knew the stupid stuff we would get oursleves into. I LOVE my friends and I can't believe I am lucky enough to have 13 other girls that I adore so much. It goes against all the laws of women to have that many of us, and no drama. We are a one of a kind group I tell ya, and I love it.

FINALLY!!!

This has been my son Zeuz for the last, are you ready, 8 months! Sadness huh? I'll tell the story for those who don't know it. My dog broke his leg when he was outside "mowing the lawn" with my husband. Spoiler alert: he did not get his leg caught in the mower, take a deep breath. However, the mower is no innocent bystander. Oh yes, he was involved. You see, when Kevin goes outside at ANY time, Zeus must then follow. He cannot STAND IT if Kevin goes out there without him. So like any responsible parent we put him on his leash in the backyard while the mower is going, JUST IN CASE. I mean, he's bitty, he would not win if the two took each other on. Zeus won't go near the thing anyway, so we never worried. Well.....his leash is long. He was on the opposite side that Kevin was mowing on, but saw something across the way apparently and took off to go and get it. All the while dragging his leash behind him. It happened so fast that Kevin didn't have time to shut off the engine before his leash was dragged under into the blades. Zeus was not even near the mower, so it could have turned out to be okay, but oh no, his leash just HAD to be wrapped around his leg. The pull of the blades on his leash snapped his poor leg in half. Probably, embarrassingly enough, the most scary day of my life. Most people would have just been sad and scared and taken him to the vet to get it fixed. I, on the other hand, exposed a crazy person to my husband that I don't think he will ever forget. I was on the verge of hysteria. Keep in mind that I cried in Hidalgo. The movie where the horse lives and wins the race, but got injured on the way. Tears were flowing. Anyways, I was just sure they were going to have to amputate his leg, or put him down, or some other procedure that Satan himself invented. I was shaking and bawling and snotting everywhere, and my husband was trying to calm me down, hold Broken Leg Zeus (who by the way was sweating, panting, crying, shaking, and cursing our names), call the vet, and get us there all at the same time. When we got there Kevin ran in with him while I had to take a minute in the car to become a somewhat sane human being. I go in there crying and I swear it should have been in a movie. You would have thought I was waiting for my child to come out of open heart surgery at Primary Childrens rather than waiting for a splint at the vet. I go up to the counter and ask where they took my dog and the lady asked which dog was mine. I looked at her like she had three heads. I was obviously appalled that she didn't know of this crisis happening in her clinic. MY DOG HAS BROKEN HIS LEG PEOPLE. So anyways, I finally find them and I'm willing to pay millions if that is what the vet would have asked for. I would have flown specialist in from different countries if that is what it would take. Hello. So to try to sum it up here, he was fine, it was a clean brake, it should have only taken 6-8 weeks to heal. But I have a stubborn A dog I guess. Because 8 months and $1600 later, he is finally healed............yeah.

RACE FOR THE CURE!!!

On May 10th me, my mom, my sister, and Kyler all "ran"the Race for the Cure. It was the first year that we participated and it was SO much fun!! The picture above is of the papers that they have you put on your back to honor whoever you are running the race for. We did it for my Grandma, my mom's mom. She passed away of breast cancer, and I miss her so much! She was an amazing woman. I was so proud to be a part of this event, and to just let my grandma know we haven't forgotten her. There were over 18,000 people that walked/ran for the cure! It was a really emotional thing for me, which surprised me. The whole time I was choking back tears, the good kind and the sad. There were mom's there with their families wearing scarves over their bald helds while their tiny children walked holding their hands wearing papers on their backs saying "for my mom" and husbands "for my wife". There were people who had "in memory of my great grandma, my grandma, my mom, my sister and my other sister who's still fighting". This particular person was wearing a pink shirt that meant she was a survivor or fighting breast cancer currently. There were too many pink shirts. Then there were people who joined as a team. If you do that you can design a shirt for your own team. So many people had a good sense of humor about it! (I would think you would have to for your own sanity) These were some of my favorite team names:

*Team Ta Ta's...saving one Ta at a time
*Walkers for April's Knockers
*Christy's Rack Pack
*Save the Boobies (and had a cartoon picture of the bird called the Blue Footed Booby, it's endangered)
*something about needing to get to second base, I couldn't read all of it, but I imagine it was funny

This is something that will be a tradition in our family now. If you can give money to a good cause AND have fun...why not?

My sister and her baby Kyler getting ready to start! He was so good the whole time. He literally stayed like that the entire race. Just watching people and chillin with his cool shades
There were so many dogs! And almost all of them dressed up. It was HILARIOUS. There was a little min pin dressed in a mini skirt and tank top! Shirts, sweatshirts, bunny ears, pink collars, you name it, the dogs were dressed in it. All in pink of course....
You can't tell in this picture, but you see that little grey triangle thingy at the very top of the crowd of people? Yeah, that's more people. It was amazing to see in person, I'm actually quite upset that you can't tell what it really looked like in the pictures I took. But it was incredible the amount of people that went on and on. It looked like that in front of us and in back. It gave me chills to think that all those people were there because they have been affected by breast cancer.
This was at the fountain at Gateway. The survivors wore pink and they walked around the whole upper level after the sign of how many years they had survived or been cancer free. It started from 30 years and went all the way to 1 year. Sad to say the 30 year group, even the 10 years had hardly any, and the years 1-5 went on forever. This is them starting to fill the stairs so they could play a song and let dove's go. It was pretty amazing. Especially afterward to see the women crying and hugging their loved ones.

What an amazing experience, I'm so glad we did it. There was so much going on, radio stations were there, the girls from Good Things Utah, people giving "tattoo's", and news crews. And apparently we were on TV afterwards for the news....a bunch of people said they saw us. But I had no idea I was ever being filmed, so hopefully I wasn't picking a wedgy? Yikes.

Hawaii ! ! !

(I couldn't figure out how to have the writing above this picture, so sorry for random dolphin opening to this post)


Yep, be jealous, cuz it was THAT awesome. I love Hawaii so much and I owe my third time there to my cute in-laws for planning the Harper family vacation there. This was my first time to Kauai though, and I loved it!! It's so beautiful and quiet there. We had so much fun doing all sorts of adventures: kayaking, cliff jumping, rope swinging off into a waterfall, snorkeling, and my favorite the boat tour of the Na Pali coast. So our boat was more like a raft on steroids. We literally sat on the sides and held onto ropes to stay put. We saw dolphins and turltes and humpback whales. Which it wasn't like, oh sweet, there's a whale way out there at sea, grab your binoculars....they were RIGHT THERE. Like, 10 yards from us. It really puts things into perspective when the whale is bigger than your "boat". Yikes! And just to give you a better idea of our watercraft, the captain told us that he had a cool experience where a baby whale came and put his fun IN the boat. Yeah, in it. Crazy eh? I was literally shaking I was so excited to have that experience. They also took us in sea caves and served us lunch on a beach. There we got to walk through an ancient fishing village and and a burial ground for their royalty. Very cool. We ate lots of good food, layed out on the beach, did a little shopping. We spent our last 2 days on Oahu where we went to the Dole Plantation, Matsumoto's Shaved Ice (yum), and Pearl Harbor. Kevin is trying to brainstorm on ways that we could move to Kauai. So far he has come up with taking my dad's and his dad's retirement money and rebuilding a burnt down hotel. So pretty sure we won't be moving anytime soon :(

inside the a sea cave
I didn't mean to put this picture in here, but can't figure out how to get it off. So there you go....
Picture of the Na Pali coast from our raft
Our raft

Us laying at the pool at our hotel
This is us on the hike down to Secret beach. Except that it's not so secret, we found it on a brochure, along with everyone else. Maybe they should call it, "Waves Will Kill You and Take You Out To Sea Beach" because I got my #% handed to me in the water. It was still fun though. It's crazy the power the ocean has.
Us getting shaved ice at Jo Jo's. Here we are kayaking down the river. It was SO pretty, this picture does not do it justice. After this we all cried from the pain of rowing for 4 hours.
My husband looking hard core jumping off the rope swing