Marathon Day

Long, fun day with my mister.  I had to wake poor meester and dragged him to pick up our Bountiful Baskets at 7am.  Poor bug.  After the long day yesterday, he was so cute waking up.  We met Aunt Kari there and spent the morning doing errands.  Cleaning the car, grocery shopping, unloading, putting away, all exhausting.  Then, mister and I had a nap.  For two hours.  TWO hours.  It was lovely.

On and on our day went including spending time with an Albino Uncle Chris (who was painting his basement and was covered in paint).  Afterward, we went to a Black Light Mini Golf that was, honestly, lame.  

Then, I spent the better part of my night putting together our 72 hour kits.  Done.  Check.  Yay!

Best part of the day?!  Getting our disc of pictures from our family photo shoot.  See my favorites below...

Laughing is EXHAUSTING!

The night started off innocently enough.  We were going to go to the mall to get Aiden a new stuffed animal at the Animal Workshop.  Guess what?!  Out of business.  So... BOWLING it is!

We started off the night calling Smedleys and meeting up at Warrens for dinner. Then... bowling.  I think I have never laughed so hard in my whole life.  Aiden absolutely loved it - especially since we got to go with Smedleys.  They are so fun and love him so much.  They really helped make it the best day ever for Aiden.  It took a few times Granny-throwing the ball for his to understand that the ball crashing into the pins is the fun part.  None of us really bowled.  We took turns having Aiden throw the ball and we all used the bumpers.  I think Jessica won at 106.  Sad, sad bowling ability.

Well, on to the show:  (BTW - I will post Breanna's Flintsone bowling reenactment tomorrow... it is awesome!!)

Dip, dip, dip!!

He looks devastated, but he would do this and laugh hysterically when the pins would fall down.  By the end of the night, his cheeks were red... REALLY red.

Barely able to keep his eyes open to eat the ice cream.  Poor bug was totally worn out from bowling and fell asleep on the way home.  

AWESOME!!

Sunday Drive

We went on a much-needed drive today during what needed to be Aiden's naptime.  I decided we could go up to my own stomping grounds in Eden and Ogden Canyon.  So... we picked up Uncle Chris after his work and drove.  It was lovely.  

First of all, Chris has the opportunity to work in the most gorgeous building in Ogden.  

It was built in the early 1900's, I think...

The waterfall up the canyon.  I used to live in Eden and would always think of the waterfall as the point at which I could leave my work/school life behind and my peaceful part of my life would start.  Little did I know, but my brother would one day control this waterfall and how much/little water would come down.  Fascinating.

He wouldn't look at the camera.  He was enthralled.

No, as a matter of fact, I wasn't wearing any makeup.

Responsibility Stinks!

A whole week without a blog post?  Tsk, tsk to me.  We really have had a busy week and life gets in the way, but I was so happy to have a Saturday afternoon with my buddy.   It included a 2 1/2 hour nap for Mister and for me, too... he in his bed, me in mine... which is divine!  (Don't hate me...)  Then a rocking dinner of frittata made from organic eggs from my cello student (which we did in trade. I get the better deal by far.), asparagus, swiss chard and tomatoes from my Bountiful Basket from this morning and fresh Parmesan cheese.  Does life get any better?  Oh, yeah, it does.  Harry Potter Marathon on ABC Family.  It's the little things, really.

So, on to the "responsibility stinks" portion of the post.  This week has been wretched in regards to my adult responsibilities.  Last Saturday, with rollers in my hair preparing for a wedding, I called my sister at 8:00am and we ran to a case lot sale.  $150 of food storage goodness.  Good deal, but unexpected.  $380 for new tires.  It was either buy new tires or die in a fiery crash on I-15 on the way to work.   All unexpected, all necessary.  Good thing for some savings.

We also had family pictures taken at the Union Station by the sweetest photographer in the world.  Check her out at http://cheriegaileyphotos.blogspot.com.  She suggested that we find a place that really means something to us as a family.  Since Aiden is obsessed with trains, it was a no-brainer.  I promise I will post them when I get them back.

Jessica  "helped" do Aiden's hair for the photos.  With his bomber jacket, this hairstyle looked like The Great Gatsby.  We modernized it for the pictures.  It was fun, though.  Thanks, Jess, for helping with the smiling portion.

Waiting for out tires to be done.  Found the Walmart $4 sunglasses.  It was heaven.

This week also brought a very intense work project that kept me in the office all this week including a small stint on Saturday.  Sad, but true.  Necessary once in a while, I know, but hard to leave my little man for that long.  He was able to see a baseball game with Aunt Kari and play with Na Na Na (Breanna) and watch Thomas in the car.  It was awesome for him.  Torture for me.

But this is when in life I realize that being an adult has a lot of crazy responsibilities, but it also has some great rewards.  I have the great fortune to have the cutest little man on the planet.  And that responsibility is something I wouldn't trade for the entire world.

The Wedding Date

This past weekend, my nephew was married.  How glorious it was to be in the temple!  What a beautiful ceremony!  What a beautiful reception!  And a beautiful bride!

But I was lucky enough to have the hottest wedding date ever.  It was a strained wedding because of family dynamics of both the bride and the groom, but the vows are just as important during a hectic wedding as a calm one.  And the officiator said something wonderful that I will never forget.  He said that the wedding rings not only symbolize the eternity of the marriage, but the man's ring is heavier traditionally and that symbolizes the new heavier responsibility of the man as the priesthood holder.  I thought that was magnificent!

Honestly, I was sad to not be around my best buddy on a weekend day, but I was able to participate in eternal matters which is fantastic.

Walking and Laundry

I am falling desperately in love with walking on my treadmill.  It is a love/hate relationship, really.  I hate that walking is boring.  So very boring.  Walking 2 1/2 miles and getting nowhere.  But I love, love, love the way I feel when I am done.  Okay, not the sweaty and gross part, but the endorphines.  So, I decided to spice things up lately with watching movies while I walk.

Prince of Persia.  First of all, who is the idiot that let Jake Gyllennhaaaaaal keep spelling his name this way?  They made John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe change their names, why not Jilenhall.  Or Gilenhal.  Or Smith.  (pronounced... Gyllenhaal...).   And who forgot to tell me that Jake Jyllenhawl had yummy abs in this movie?  Yummy, yummy abs.  Like cheesecake...  cheesecake abs...

But the last two scenes... he gets done fighting the war and his hair is greasy and gross, then walks in to see the princess and it is clean, brushed and trimmed.  Blah.  Good thing he has cheesecake abs.

And now... the main man in my life.  He has found the laundry baskets.  Dear future wife of my son... I will do my best to expand his interest in laundry baskets to include washing, drying and folding.  I may even try to expand it to putting clothes away and rubbing your feet.  But don't hold your breath.

check out these eyelashes.  They are awesome!!

A grand day out

Aiden and I had a grand adventure with all-boy things.  Well, except the bridal shower in the morning.  Welcome to the family, Danika.  Yeah, you don't know us yet, but think of it this way... "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" without the Greek.

Then, Aiden and I went for lunch and then to the HAFB Museum.  He wore his bomber jacket and was ready!!

Aiden loved, loved, loved the big planes outside.

Really tender picture.  Unless you had the audio.  Aiden is saying, "ABC... ABC..."

He was SO tired.  

There was a cool grandpa there who had made 4 or 5 little jet planes for the kids to ride in.  

Then we came home and played pirates.  Okay, Aiden lined up the cannons, (below) while I tried to show him how to sword fight and smuggle the booty from the scurvy brigands.  Meh, he caught on eventually, but I think it was more to humor Mom.

But, he does know how to leave a path of pirate destruction.  

Fun day, fun boy!!