11 Years!

Today is August 23, 11 years ago today I married my best friend. It still amazes me that after 11 years he is still my best friend. We have managed to have a really good life since that day. We have two healthy children, a home that we love, all of our family is only a phone call away. It isn't easy, but then if it was, it would be boring. Everyday I fall in love with him even more and I can't imagine my life without him. I hope that we have many more years together. I also want to thank everyone that has made it possible through all of your support and love. We hope that everyone out there is as happy as we are! Love to all!

A day at the beach!

"The sun and the sand and a drink in my hand" is the line from one of my favorite songs. That is the thought that ran through my head yesterday as the Gebben family sat on the beach. Okay, so my drink was water but I got to look through my shades and see everyone that I love. Breyanna was bobbing up and down with the waves and Tyler was trying not to get knocked down by them on his skim board. Ryan was reading his book. It was so nice to sit and do nothing all day. We watched the people walk by, talked to a few people that we hadn't seen in a while, and got some nice color from the sun! Then we moved the party up to the channel and grilled up some burgers with Nick and Kay and the kids. The kids played and the adults chatted. It was nice to sit there and catch up with them about their trip and talk about how the summer was almost done and everyone was going to have to get back into their school routines. As our time at the beach came to a close and Nick started giving Tyler a hard time about not having a girlfriend, I was thinking that I hope when our kids are grown up that we will still be getting together at the beach and that Nick will still be giving Tyler a hard time about his girlfriend!

Quite Friday Mornings!

This morning, the third to last Friday of summer break, I was sitting in bed watching this weeks episode of Project Runway, with my third cup of coffee, thinking how nice it was to have a quite morning. I was watching the sun come through the trees out my window and thinking that I would never wear what the designers on TV thought was "cutting edge fashion" when it started! Through the wall came the pop star herself, Breyanna. She was singing as loud as she could to the other pop star Hannah Montana. Then not 30 seconds later came the sounds of the Jonas Brothers and the electric guitar that Tyler plays along with every song. My first thought was "that is what I get for thinking how quite it was!" My second thought was that Breyanna really can't sing! But overall my thought was how lucky I was to have lots of noise. To have kids that want to make noise and enjoy doing it and without them I think that I would go crazy from no noise! So the next time your kids or your grand kids are making lots of noise think about how luck you are! As I finish this up the Jonas Brothers are playing again and there goes the guitar!

My first blog!!

Okay, here we go! I am not really sure what to write about. I think that I just created this so that all of the people that we love can see what we are up to. So I will try to keep it updated with pictures and stuff so that you all know and can see my kids getting bigger and bigger! So let me know what you think!