Today is our anniversary. We have now been married four years. This massive arrangement of flowers was delivered to me at work on Monday. I was supposed to leave them at work, so Gary sent them to me early so I could look at them all week. I haven't counted, but there's supposed to be a dozen roses for each year we've been married (12 times 4 = 48 roses). That is a lot of roses. They are sitting on my kitchen table and I can smell them when I am sitting in the front room. My house smells wonderful right now. It isn't often I get such an enormous arrangement, so I had to post pictures.
In case the first picture doesn't give a good enough perspective on how big of an arrangement this is, I put Josh up next to it. It is as tall as he is, and much wider. I couldn't get him to look at the camera because he kept smelling them and saying, "It's good!" There's kind of a funny story behind these flowers. Just before Christmas Gary sent my sisters an email saying he wanted to do this for me for our anniversary and he asked for their help. Since Gary doesn't have internet access on a regular basis, I've been checking his email for him and getting him messages from it like he asked me to. Thus when my sisters replied to his e-mail, I got their replies. Just about every time Gary tries to surprise me, I always end up finding out or figuring it out before he has the chance. He was so excited to surprise me, and I felt really bad that I had ruined it again. I didn't have the heart to tell him I found out, and decided I'd go along with it and wait to tell him when he gets home that I knew about it.
When he logged into his email and saw that my sisters had replied to his e-mails, he knew he'd been caught. But he didn't tell me that he knew that I knew. So we both pretended for a month. He called me on Monday while I was at work and we had a whole conversation about how I always find out about his surprises. This left no doubt in my mind that he knew that I found out about the flowers. I didn't admit to him that I knew he knew that I knew. He didn't admit to me that he knew I knew, so it was a funny conversation. After the flowers were delivered I sent him a motomail telling him I knew that he knew that I knew. At the same time (before he got my message) he e-mailed me and told me that he knew that I knew. We've decided that it is a fun game we play with me figuring out his surprises, and now a new element has been added with me trying to figure out when he's figured out I know, and for him trying to figure out when I've got it figured out.
While I was on the phone with him the flowers were delivered to the main receptionist on the first floor of the building I work in. She couldn't call me since I was on the phone, so I didn't find out they had been delivered until I was off the phone with Gary. I work on the 8th floor, so I had to carry this massive arrangement through the whole building to get them to my desk. By the time I got to my desk my arms were tired because they are so heavy. When it was time to go home, I had to carry them through the whole building again to get them to my car. I didn't have enough room at my desk to keep them at work, and I wanted them at home anyway. The only way I could get them home was to put the driver's seat as far forward it would go (it's a good thing I'm so short), then put them on the floor behind me. Josh's car seat is on the other side. I didn't want them to tip over, so I took my coat off and packed it around the vase. Then I got our spare jackets out of the trunk and packed them around the vase. I nearly froze to death scraping my car windows without a coat, but at least my roses were safe!
Monday we got hit with a really bad storm. It was extremely windy, and roads were really bad. There was a bad pile up on the freeway in Payson. One news station said there were 60 vehicles involved, 20 of them were semi's. I didn't get close enough to see it, but Melissa did and she said she couldn't even count how many semi's there were. They were jack knifed all over the place in different directions and other vehicles slammed into them. On the south bound lane an oil tanker had tipped over and spilled oil on the road, so both sides were closed. I got off the freeway a couple exits before I usually get off and took back roads home. From where I got on the freeway in Provo to where I got off before Payson, I saw six vehicles had slid off the road (one of them was a semi) and I passed an accident. This isn't even including the mess that closed both sides of the freeway in Payson. Through all this I managed to get home safely, and only damaged one rose in the process!!
Josh got a dancing Elmo from Grammy Debbie. He sat in a box and played with Elmo.
Grandma Karen gave Josh a new 
This is me taking advantage of one of the greatest gifts I got for Christmas. Nu Skin gave me this portable DVD player, and Josh has decided he likes watching movies on it. It is more fun to watch a movie on the portable DVD player than the TV. He got this little table and chairs for Christmas, and will sit in his room and watch a movie. It keeps his attention for about 30 min at a time, which gives me a chance to get things done around the house. I can do stuff on the computer while he sits next to me and watches something and I can manage to accomplish something without him re-booting the computer several times. It has been a huge help.
I thought I was being smart to buy blocks that are soft so that when he throws them at me it won't hurt. He's been banned from playing with some wooden blocks after throwing them at me close range and giving me a visible lump on my forehead and a split lip. Now I realize it may not have been the greatest idea because there are over 100 pieces and his favorite thing to do with them is dump them out of their container, spread them all over every where, and then put the container on his head. I find blocks all over the house.
