Husband Tag

Trish tagged me. Here some info about Mark and I. (Angie and Stacy if you read this, now it's your turn to blog about your husbands)

What is his name: Mark James Capell

How long have we been together: We have been married 20 months and dated for two years before that.

How old is he: 46

Who eats more: Mark

Who said I love you first: I hate to admit it but I am pretty sure it was me!

Who is taller: Mark- he likes to remind me I am short

What is his favorite sport: He used to love playing football, now he watches football and basketball. But probably his favorite sport now is any sport he plays with the boys when they are in town

Who is smarter: Mark

Who does the laundry: Mark- aren't I lucky!

Who does the dishes: Mostly me but from time to time he helps out

Who pays the bills: Me

Who cooks dinner: Me. When we were dating he actually cooked more than I did but that has changed since being married-which is fine with me, I was glad to give up doing laundry.

Who drives: Mark. My driving scares him because I turn to look at him too much when we are talking--he says it's a woman thing!

Who wears the pants: When I asked this to Mark he laughed and said that I know who does--so apparently that is me. Mark is pretty laid back and I am the planner in the family.

Who kissed who first: Mark kissed me but I was definitly ready!

Who proposed to whom? There was never a proposal. We starting talking more about marriage and house hunting. After we put an offer on our house I asked him if we were going to live there together and he said yes and that he thought we would get married on the anniversary of our first date--pretty romantic I think. The kids give him a hard time for not proposing but it obviously all worked out.

One thing people don't know about him: Mark likes to make up his own lyrics to songs that are really funny-especially when he is tired. I think some of the times I have laughed the hardest in my life are to his lyrics.

Life at the Capell House

Thought it was about time to update what we have been up to! Last week was my birthday so Mark and I went to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point with his Dad, Lance, and Lorraine. It was a lot of fun and actually warm weather that day. It was really pretty though there were still a lot of tulips that weren't quite ready to bloom yet. We are hoping to go back this weekend again and see more of the flowers.

We are hoping to have an addition to our family soon. We took our little Sasha to breed with Dante- a 3.5 pound Yorkie. It took some work but things finally worked out between them. Hopefully next week we can find out if she is expecting or not. All the kids are really hoping that she is pregnant- though I think it is going to be a battle to convince the kids to let us sell the puppies as planned. The good thing is if she is expecting she will be due right when Mitch and Sam get here for the summer, so the puppies will get lot of love and attention while Mark and I are working.

Last weekend was the Child Abuse Awareness Month 5k that I was in charge of. It was a huge success and a lot of fun! My family is awesome to help out at the race each year-Mark started helping out at the races when we had been dating only a few weeks and now this was his 5th race to be involved with. Mark's Dad also came and helped again. And Katie and her boyfriend came and Katie was able to get Einsteins to donate bagels for the race!

Mark and I got released from teaching the 11 year old boys at Church- we weren't exactly upset by this release. Now we are in Nursery and loving it. It's a lot of fun and the kids are really cute! Sunday after church we had the girls and Jack to dinner. It was a reallly fun night. It's great to have the girls over and to see the growth that they are making in their personal lives! Mark and I are now living alone- besides the dog and hamsters-- for the first time since we got married really. Luckily Mitch and Sam will be back for the summer on June 4th and we see Becca and Katie as much as we can! I've been up in Ogden for the last two days for work so Mark has been on his own. Being away even for two days makes me appreciate what a great husband he is even more- last night when I was talking to him he was doing the laundry so I would come home to a clean house! Talk about a great husband!

Next thing on our agenda is finishing the back yard(yes we know we have lived in the house for a year and a half) and getting the garden planted!

Last weekend

Here's a little more from last weekend when Mitchell and Sam were here. Saturday night Mark was so excited to be able to go to Priesthood session with Mitchell! They went with Lance and Phil and then out to dinner. Meanwhile, Sam and I went to SouthTowne Mall with Jenny, Carlee, Bodie, Sydney, and Lorraine. We had a great time and Sam discovered Converse sneakers and had fun hanging out with Syndey


while Bodie had a great time on the Carousel.



Sunday we headed over to Lance and Lorraine's in between conference sessions for dinner. Cassi and Josh were in town and it was great to see them. Check out Mitchell helping Josh learn how to play the guitar.

We also celebrated the April birthdays- Jenny (5th), Cassi (11th) and Me (14th). We celebrated my birthday early so that the boys could be there. Mitchell and Sam gave me these great cards and Beckman perfume- it smells great. Mark gave me beautiful black onyx earrings to match the necklace I got for Valentine's Day. He is such a great husband.

This is the card from Sam (if you click on it you can read it)


This is the card from Mitchell- he told me he will love me no matter how much I nag him!

While the boys were here Mitchell also made me this beautful Mother's Day Card with a message that was so sweet and funny that it made me cry! I am so lucky to have such wonderful kids!

The new toy!

In January we discovered Jump On It in Lindon-- an indoor trampoline playground. The kids had a great time there. They had these bounce boards that the boys loved- kind of like a snowboard for the tramp. We went online and found them and got one for the kids for Easter. The cousins loved it also! Mitchell spent a lot of time working on tricks on the board.
Mitchell catches some serious air- I was slightly concerned he was going to kill himself on the board at times. Luckily no injuries.


Sam had a great time out on the board.

Sam getting his workout.

Syd came over to bounce. Sam and Syd had a great visit and are so cute together!

Tanner loved jumping on the bounce board and getting some air!

A quiet night. . . .

Sam and Mitchell flew back to Florida today. It was hard as always to say goodbye to them. The house always has this weird feeling after they leave-- way to quiet and like something is missing. It's hard to even clean up the little things they left out because they are sweet reminders of the time we had. We had a really good visit and did lots of fun things besides just being together as a family. This week I will finish blogging the pictures from the trip! Luckily they will be back in less than two months!

The Capells hit the slopes

We thought it would be fun to take the kids skiing and snow boarding. Katie and Becca had been snowboarding before but Mitch and Sam hadn't. Mitchell took a snowboarding class and Sam took a skiing class- he thought it was safer :). We had a few camera difficulties so we don't have any pictures of Becca and Katie on their snowboards-- but they had a great time.

Becca relaxes after snowboarding!

Mark and I hanging out!

Sam loves the skis! Mitchell was a speed demon on the snowboard and was sore for days.




Mitchell getting ready to get back on the lift.




Sam and his teacher Connie had a good time together. She said it was a pleasure to ski with Sam.

Mitchell feeling good after a good run down the mountain!

Stadium of Fire

We decided it would be fun to get tickets for Stadium of Fire this year. The boys weren't too excited about seeing Miley( in fact they said they would bring ipods to listen to while she sings) but were excited to see BlueMan Group, Glen Beck, and the fireworks show. Not having young girls, we didn't really know how crazy the ticket purchasing would go. The plan was Lance would buy 8 tickets at work and I would buy 8 tickets from our house. Luckily I got on the computer about 10 minutes early and got into the virtual waiting room. I ended up being able to get 13 tickets- in the different areas, but Lance was never able to get any tickets. Now we just need to figure out who is going. Mark has said he would be willing to "sacrifice" and stay home. It should be a fun night. Sydney of course is VERY excited to see Miley!

Haircuts

Jenny came over tonight to give Mark and the boys haircuts.

Sam before his hair cut.

Sam's Joe Dirt Mullet Cut! We don't know why
he didn't like this cut. It looks awesome!



Sammie's new haircut! Looking good!



Mitchell got his hair trimmed but then things
got a little out of hand.



Jenny shows Mitchell who is boss!



Check out the new haircuts! We love Jenny- she
is so much fun and does a great job of cutting hair!