Happy Anniversary to us!!! Tomorrow will be our 16th (feels like yesterday) anniversary. It's crazy to think I am old enough to have been married that long!! I thought it would be fun to give ten reasons I am still madly in love with my husband, so here goes:

1. He looks great in a pair of jeans!!! (that one is for my mom)
2. He is an incredible father and Brigitte adores him.
3. He reminds me to laugh!!
4. He does all the vacuuming in our house!!!
5. He can fix a leaky toilet and a damaged ceiling!
6. He is always up for whatever crazy idea I might get
7. He never makes me feel bad when I don't clean the house! He takes me out to dinner cuz he figures I've had a day!!
8. He thinks my cooking is better than his mother's.
9. He gives the best homework help so I don't have to.
10. He always plays (and fights) fair.

So this weekend we are off to Jackson Hole to celebrate. Thank heavens John's sister Kathy and her husband are willing to add one more child for a few days. Of course after nine what's one more!?

Brigitte has her first ice skating competition of the season on the 19th and 20th in Park City. She has been training really hard and she is really looking strong! That means lots of extra time the ice rink for me and John while she has been practicing. As soon as she gets out of school we are off to the rink to practice. Hockey moms will know this too, ice is never available when it would be convenient to take kids, only at really odd times throughout the day, and especially for hockey players, the night! Her competition falls during school on friday and then late saturday night. Who the heck schedules these things. My brothers hockey games were always really late at night when he was in high school. What are people thinking? It is my guess they have the same problem I do in an ice rink. It is so cold everything freezes up, including my brain until I can go outside to warm up and defrost! Anyway, she is doing to routines, one is to music from a video game, and then her showcase number is to "It's a Hard Knock Life". She is really excited to skate at the competition and we wish her luck!!