90

My Grandpa is 90 years old! All the family was in town for the occasion. By far my favorite memory with him was my wedding day. We were so lucky to have him perform our marriage ceremony. It was very memorable in both sweet and funny ways. Thank you Grandpa!

We had so much fun with the family all together... and slowly learning to hold babies. 

Some people aren't as good...

And some just like gatorade better then babies.

Of course my Dad had to go to Cafe Rio, both days he was here :) It's a family staple.

And ended the weekend queen of the scum world! 

SLC>Denver>SLC

Recap of yesterday-

4:15 am: wake up, get ready for the day.

5:00 am: get in the car and drive to the airport.

5:40: board the plane for Denver with Jason and Will.

7:50 am: arrive in Denver, drive to downtown.

8:30 am: quick stop to Starbucks for a strawberry frap and scone.

8:45 am: back to the rental car with a ticket on the windshield... welcome to Denver.

9:00 am: meeting set up.

10:00 am: meetings.

11:00 am: meetings.

12:00 pm: meetings.

1:00 pm: meetings.

2:00 pm: lunch at Mexican restaurant with yummy chips and guac and drinks the size of your head.

3:30 pm: drive back to the car rental.

4:00 pm: panic mode realizing our flight leaves at 4:40 pm.

4:10 pm: panic mode in security and on the terminal train.

4:30 pm: mad dash through the airport running all the way from gate B1 to B80. May or may not have knocked someone over on the escalator.

4:35 pm: arrive on plane.

4:40 pm: cough attack on plane, prompting the guy in front of me to have the flight attendant get me a drink of water #embarr.

6:00 pm: land in SLC.

6:30 pm: home sweet home.

7:00 pm: Shark Tank.

9:30 pm: bed.

Heart Day

Heart Day weekend summed up:

That beam of light makes those flowers look like they cam straight from heaven... or aliens. 

Cafe Rio for dinner and then a surprise fire trip up Millcreek Canyon with Jake and Mary.

 Valentines breakfast.

Trip to Swig aka Aaron's worst nightmare.

This week

So far I have eaten a donut, valentine candy and heart sugar cookies... and oh yeah a diet Dr. Pep. Good thing Valentine's Day only comes once a year! 

This week has been full of lunches, working, running outside for the first time this year, warm temperatures and late night meetings.

I met Spence at Blue Lemon, poor kid still can't eat solid foods yet since he hurt his jaw. We talked about how I would be the worst boss ever since I would just fire people I didn't like regardless of their skills, and I drank and drank from the coke machine there. 

Charlotte and I scheduled lunch at Chipotle and she brought along little Eden. 

She was pretty good for most of the time, but started crying at the end. I tried to maneuver her to different positions, give her a pacifier, you know the usual, but no luck. Between all our friends babies, and my inexperience in them, Aar and I think we'll just enjoy other people's children for now. Charlotte and I could have talked until midnight, but dang it I had to get back to work. I'm bummed they will be moving far far away for medical school really really soon.

Aar was a sweetheart and took me to the temple last night, he said he was giving me "spiritual flowers" for Valentine's day. We finished the night off with Hot N' Spicy's and McFlurry's cause we're classy like that. 

Oh and Aar sent me this picture of him in high school from his football playing dayzz. All the time I wish so bad we knew each other in high school! 

Future plans

We have had such a crazy week. Aaron's darling niece got major brain surgery this week, so his parents came up to visit and stayed at our place. We hung out with them over the weekend, went to see Big Hero 6, ate lotsa popcorn, went to dinner and played Farkle. 

We also had a small Super Bowl get together at our house, with a bunch of our good friends and ate wayyy way wayyy too much food. 

About a year ago we signed our lease for our apartment, which we assumed was a one year lease. So we have been frantically looking for a new apartment, as well as looking at buying a home. For the past 3 days we have been spending our nights driving back and forth to look at showings, and browsing Utah real estate. After all that our current landlords wanted to talk to us to go over everything, since they are moving soon. Well turns out our lease isn't up until June 1! Hallelujah! 

It so good to hear, no moving for a few more months, and now we can save up more money and really find a house we want! Here's to finding and buying a house, and hoping Aaron and I don't get into too many fights agreeing on a house! Haha exciting stuff happening around here!

Bad luck week

Sooo no winnings in Wendover... we all came home losers. Spence had fun though, and Aaron and Taylor stuffed themselves with crab legs. Apparently I am bad luck for Aaron, because before I ever started coming to Wendover with him, he would come back with $200+ dollars, each of the last three times I've been with him he/we have come home negative. Haha he literally shooed me away from the table.

 Just hanging out at the Montego Bay.

 Aaron and Taylor glued to the tables.

 Attempting to make cookies for Uno/Sushi night. I got a quick "easy" mix of chocolate chip cookies, all I had to do was add butter and water. Well apparently the butter I used was freezer burnt. So the cookies were no bueno. Trying a new recipe this week with fresh butter! [fingers crossed]

Got stuck taking care of two sick boys last night. I got a text from Spence saying he is in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Poor kid was dehydrated and passed out at Cafe Rio.>>> Flash back to Denver 2 weeks ago when the same thing happened to my boss at the Denver airport. Needless to say this is my second time in the ER this month. The worst of it for Spence is that when he passed out he hit his chin and gashed it open, and chipped some bits of his molars out. 

When we got back from the hospital we headed to my house and poor Aar was lying on the couch miserable with the lights out. He's getting a little bug too. So I've been making lotsa hot chocolate, gatorade, EmergenC and proscribing Ibuprofin and Nyquil. The bad luck from Wendover just carried on into this week. 

Eating//Drinking//Working//Going//Watching//Planning//Frustrated//Saving//Loving

Lately....

Eating.... a WHOLE bag of Doritos for dinner with Aaron, not one but two nights in a row [okay so one bag over two nights, but stillllll]

Drinking.... Swig, SwIg, SWIG! Diet Dr. Pepper Raspberry Dream, easy ice, with a side of cookie. I think I may be getting a little Swigged out.

Working out.... Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred & a little P90x.

Going.... to Wendover tonight, introducing my newly turned 21 year old lil bro Spence to the ghetto gambling scene.

Watching.... Aaron play basketball. He's played his whole life in high school, college, open gyms, pretty much any chance he gets, and it took me a year and a half to finally see his skillz. Now he's playing church ball, which he has a love/hate relationship with. Go #33!

Planning.... in the early talks of planning a European vacation with Aaron! Wahoo! It will be in 2016 so we can save lots and lots of money to do Europe right! It's something I've always wanted to do, it all seems unreal partly due to the fact that it's still forever away. Maybe in the meantime we can go to San Fran or somewhere warmmmmm

Frustrated.... with co-workers.... ugh. And work. I have turned into a complete stress ball. I am constantly thinking about work, morning and night and even dream about it. It has turned my caffeine addiction from bad to worse. The other night as Aaron and I were laying in bed, I started to cry just thinking about work. He tried to give me advice just to let it go, do the best you can, and don't worry. Easier said than done bud, sorry. But I will work on it. 

Saving.... for retirement. I am so glad that Aaron knows his stuff. I am finally coming around and understanding all of Aaron's financial jargon. We only live off one of our paychecks and the other person's paycheck goes straight to tithing and savings. I am so glad we are starting our IRA's young so we will have even more moola the older we get. I am definitely becoming an advocate and recommend saving even a little now because it will be soooo much more later on, with my whole heart I wish everyone would understand that!!!

Loving.... this quote, such a good reminder.

That's all I have for now. Here's to hoping my next report will be on all our Wendover winnings :)