So I am back to work now after a really great weekend in Utah. We left on Friday around 1pm, picked up some China Fun and were on our way! It was the first time for Matthew and Michelle going to Utah but we have gone to Vegas many times so that part of the trip was very familiar. We got caught in a little bit of traffic as is expected on Friday afternoon going to Vegas. But we got to Vegas fine. Michelle's mom had a cash voucher from her last trip to Vegas that she had forgotten to turn in so we stopped at the Venetian so Michelle could pick up the cash. Nice little extra. Then we ventured into the unknown (at least for Matthew and Michelle). We found a "Black Rock" road. Pretty spooky! (Lost reference) And we just had a fun ride up overall and rolled into Provo at about 3am Provo time. We stayed at Anne and Peter's apartment (thanks again) and woke up early to explore Provo. We took some great pics up in Provo Canyon at Bridal Veil falls (i will post when I get home) and saw BYU and went to Cafe Rio (Yum!). Then we headed up to Salt Lake in the torrential rain! I could barely see anything but that may be due to the fact that I need new windshield wipers. We went to the reception which was beautiful and met up with Nicole and the Cannon's. They are a really great family and were so nice about everything. We went down to Temple Square after the wedding and got hot chocolate and snuck onto the roof of the new SLC library..very fun and funny. Not too illegal, i promise. ;)
On Sunday we woke up to a broken car window! The back passenger "vent" window was completely shattered but not broken out. So we pushed out the glass as best we could. A little annoying but I couldn't really do anything about it. I don't think anyone was trying to break into the car I think maybe it was hit by a rock or beebee. Maybe they just don't like people from California...that or Nicole did it because she was trying to get us to stay! So we drove on up to Park City with an open window. We ate lunch up there then ventured back to Temple Square for day pictures then to dinner with the Cannons. Mom, Dad, Annie and Peter came. It was really good to see everyone and have the fams meet. We played a couple rousing games of MadGabs and Catch Phrase. We even got Mom to sing for one of the clues! We took it easy the rest of the night and woke up the next morning to breakfast and a long ride home. I got home at about 1:30am last night/this morning. It was a fun, long birthday on the road. Matthew and Michelle are some really great friends. I am really lucky to have them.
SO I am now back to work and back to life. Tomorrow is Lost! Woohoo! and this weekend I think I am going out to celebrate my birthday with some friends and on Saturday Michelle's sister Marisa rented out the "movie theater" room in their apartment complex and we are going to watch movies in our pjs! Should be a fun week. I am looking forward to it.
Sounds like life is good for you all! I love to read the posts! And thanks for the pictures. Sorry for no pics of the day this weekend; i was busy. I will try to find a worthy one for today...
Oh yeah Tracey I am most likely going to be at Mom and Dad's for Christmas. I will let you know if that is not the case.
Love you all!
We hope you had a wonderful day! We wish you were here so we could play with you.
love, Mike, Brooke, and girls
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARNIE!
Wow- so many exciting things going on with this family! Italy sounds wonderful! As do your trips to Utah (I know I am the only one in this family that actually loves Utah and misses it all the time so I am very jealous of your fun!) Thanks for the pictures of the day Marnie, what great idea, its fun to have something to look forward to, especially in the blogg droughts. I’m glad everyone is keeping so busy.
We’ve been nice and busy ourselves. We thoroughly enjoyed watching the last BYU game and finally seeing a win! Tom got the “I need to buy something bug” last week (I’m sure some of you can relate to that disease) so after convincing him we weren’t getting a plasma TV, I gave into the idea of getting new couches. Of course I would love new couches but I had resigned myself to not getting them until after dental school. Well anyway, Tom started to feel like he couldn’t wait that long. So we spent Saturday shopping for a leather sofa and recliner. It was some fun shopping but fortunately we have decided to take some time to think about things before making such a large purchase. But, the whole shopping trip did lead to something else fun. We really don’t like our wood floors and have wanted carpet ever since we moved here. Well, we stopped by a carpet store to look at the price of a carpet remnant to replace the area rug in the living room because it wouldn’t match the new couches and we found an awesome piece exactly the right size for a great price. We also got a piece for our sunroom so now it looks like our house is carpeted in nice beige/cream carpet. It really makes the house feel bigger and brighter. It’s fabulous and it will be great for the winter when we are stuck in here all the time (although we’ll make people take their shoes off now!)
It is barely starting to feel like fall here. It was still shorts and T-shirts last week and you barely needed a jacket today. It’s great. I had a doctor’s appointment a week or two ago and he discovered that my baby is lying horizontally across my stomach instead of up and down like most babies do. He said it’s not really a problem and that as she gets bigger in the next few weeks she will just be forced to shift down because she won’t fit sideways anymore. Needless to say I am starting to feel what he meant about “not fitting” and I suddenly feel like I am nine months pregnant and that my skin on the sides is just going to pop, hopefully she turn the right way soon! I have some ultrasounds scheduled to check the location of the placenta (it’s not where it should be either) at the end of October so I’ll know more then. What a crazy baby, hopefully we’ll get everything sorted out okay. I’m nearly 30 weeks now which puts me in the home stretch and I can start counting down! Only 10 weeks to go!!!
Hayden continues to be very excited about his baby sister. He is getting to be so big. For Family Home Evening we played a game about how doing different things makes us feel either happy or sad and he caught on so quickly and answered all of the questions right. He never ceases to amaze me. Now if only he would actually remember the right things do instead of just saying the answers… Another funny thing he likes to do is offer to help me all the time. For instance, I will say I can’t do something for him because I’m tired, or my back hurts or whatever and he will simply say “Don’t worry, I will help you!” and he will hold my hand to help me do whatever it is he has asked for. Funny kid.
Well, this is getting too long but I just wanted to send out an update. A few more quick questions: Brooke and Adina, do your little girls like My Little Pony’s? Marnie and Peter- where will you be spending Christmas? Okay, we hope all is going well.
Tracey
Just wanted to be the first to make a quick shout out to marnie on this birthday. One year older, how exciting is that? Well, I hope that you have a great birthday with much happiness. Love, Tom
I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the underline but I did change the font color to white so you can't notice the underline since it is close to the same color as the background! Loved the pictures, Brooke!....and the messages from both you and Mike!
We're having fun in Utah..going up this afternoon to join Marnie at Nicole's home for dinner and to give her her birthday presents.
Love to all,
Mom
Okay for some reason this is underlining everything I write, and frankly, I can't figure out how to stop it. I was just excited because I finally learned how to download photos from my camera and then I used the handy "Blogger " system to post them. Now my enthusiasm is somewhat dampened by the fact that the underline is out of control. So Mike has been asking me to post pictures of the girls and now you all get to look at about 600 pictures between mine and Kenn's. The cabin idea is very exciting by the way. Who wouldn't love that idea? Sorry, some of the pictures are blurry. It's hard to tell sometimes until you see them in full size. I need to figure out how if I can make my camera a bit less sensative to motion since I am almost always holding a child and trying to take a pic. one handed. So the pictures include a picnic at Battle Ground lake, a Mariners game, Mt. St. Helens, a walk at the park, a trip out to the pumpkin festival, after Jane's soccer game, etc...I'm leaving it to you to figure out which is which. You are a pretty bright group, I'm sure you'll get it right.
Dave and Adina, okay now this has changed color and no longer underlines. Fine by me. My brother Adam, and his family are in town until the 18th, so I haven't ditched you. Okay, techinally, yes, but for a good cause. We haven't done one inside activity besides sitting and eating, so I still don't have any suggestions for you. I'll keep working on it. Well Sadie just woke Ellyn up from her nap and they are both sitting on the bed crying (Jane yelled at Sadie) so I had better go. Love to all. Brooke
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