Happy anniversary to us!

Kristin and I were married on April 23rd 2006. The diner we ate on our honey moon is still there by the off ramp in Nephi, UT.

What did she get me for my anniversary present this year? something cooler than what I got her.

I got her sandals.

She told me I am going to be a dad. Wow. I am still on shock. I always knew this day was going to happen, it was just one of those things that no matter how much you imagine it, you still don’t get it right until it happens. Wow.

I hope that there will be a day when my kid(s) can look back and say “My dad is great.” I have found more and more as I have grown up that I act like my dad and sometimes think how I think my dad would and often times when I don’t know what to do, I call my dad and see what he thinks. I love my dad. I don’t think that I could have had a better example in my life of how to be awesome. My dad has taught me about patience, fun, devotion, peace, dedication, thrift, gratitude, independence, spirituality, and authority just to name a few. I have often joked about naming my kid Repete instead of Pete Junior for many reasons, kind of to bug my wife, kind of to have a fishing/fence-sitting-on buddy, like because he is going be like me just later, but I only want him to be a lot like me if I can manage to be more like my dad.

Wow I am so excited. One of the funnest things about being at my house right now is that I can take my excitement level and times it by at least a million, and that’s a good ball park for how excited my wife is. Yep, the excitement at our house is so big that I have to keep the windows open so they don’t get broke out.