Happy Happenings

So there's a bit of good things to report on this post:

1-The Six Flags we're going to on our trip just announced their newest roller coaster opened last weekend. That should give it plenty of rides to be good and tested by the time we get there and can take advantage. I bought tickets for two days and on one of them I got us a flash pass. This will be our first time using one of those so it should make it more exciting as we hate waiting in lines in the heat if we can avoid it (I think it'll be worth the extra $$ as well).

2-We tried a new place to eat for our date night this month: Outback Steakhouse. I always see things for this restaurant, so I've been wanting to try it for a while now. It definitely held up to what I expected. Although I kind of feel like all these places (Outback, Chili's, Applebees, etc.) are all the same except for their prices. I think I like Texas Roadhouse or Chili's the best (at least with Chili's you can pay once you're done and don't have to wait for the waitress).

3-Just to add to the post, here's some fun heard in the home quotes:

• One Sunday at 7:45 PM -
• Me: I don't know what to do with myself now. I don't want to just watch TV because I only have a few hours of my weekend left. But if I try and do anything exciting I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight.
• Larry: Your first world problems are so crazy! (said with so much sarcasm)

• One day while grocery shopping (side note: Larry is currently taking an environmental class) -
• Me: Oh let's get some water, we need them.
• Larry: Are you going to refill them once you're done?
• Me: Uh..no.
• Larry: So you're just going to destroy our environment one bottle at a time then?
• Me: (rolls eyes) Okay Green Peace!
• Larry: Okay Hitler!
• Me: Hahahahah I'm going to post that on Facebook now!

• One day after running (there was someone else in the room so we got stuck watching baseball):
• Me: There was a really good looking player on the TV at one point. I realized I really liked his nose a lot, it made him more attractive. Then I looked over at you and realized you had the same nose!
• Larry: (laughs) you dork. (He then goes to kiss me)
• Me: Yeah, you come here you sexy nose! (at this point I was laughing so hard the kissing had to stop haha)

This is a lot of our "at home" humor, we're so funny!


That's all my happy happenings, hopefully you enjoyed them as much as I did...but I'd understand if you didn't :)

Happy Mother's Day

Oh boy am I happy I finally get to post about this! I had been planning what I feel was the best Mother's Day surprise for my mom. You see, last time we visited her I realized she had some really old photos of the family up. I know you want to have the memories, but I figured she could do with some updated ones (plus I got a few family members some frames so I thought it would be good to get new photos for that). Around Christmas time last year I talked all my siblings into getting some pictures done (it was actually easier than I thought, all were on board with it from the start). Oh and the other part, I wanted to keep it a secret so we could surprise them, this had to be kept under lock and key for a while! So we made a plan that I would book the photographer and get everything set up and they'd just have to show up and smile haha.

That was the easy part. Larry and I spent many weekends driving all up and down Provo Canyon and around the Provo and Orem areas trying to find the perfect location. Unfortunately, even though we didn't have much snow for Winter, we still had dead everything from the cold so a lot of the locations were useless (I was okay with greenery in the background, but not death). After I had it narrowed down to a few places we then had to get a good date and time for everyone with all the different schedules. After a few back and forth messages we were finally able to meet up the weekend after Easter and headed down to The Shops At Riverwoods in Provo (it was the perfect in between place and had a ton of different styles for photos).

I will say it was really hard to keep this from my mom. One weekend I kind of slipped up and told her we had been driving around Orem (we're NEVER in that area). When she asked why we were there I had to make up some story about Larry's shopping spree he gifted me with. In the end it was worth it, because she loved her gift!

I ended up ordering the above collage on a plasterboard like material frame for them from Shutterfly (BEST photo gift site ever!). We also printed off some photos and sent her a disc with the images. She said she loved that we all got together and did this for them. And it worked double because I'm pretty sure my step-dad was happy with the gift as well (bonus points for the kids!). Thanks to our photographer Aubrie (check out her blog here) for making this an awesome gift for my parents!

Here are some of my favorite shots:

Nickel City Birthday

I know last year I posted about how we took Andy to Nickel Cade for his birthday and then went out for ice cream. Well this year we decided to replicate that, but better. We (Andy, Larry, and I) used to all love going to Nickel Cade, even though they are pretty run down.  There were just positive memories from those days. A few months ago Larry and I had a coupon to try this Nickel City down in Orem and boy was that so much nicer than Nickel Cade! I decided we had to take Andy for his birthday since he loved these places.

You can tell Larry's more used to me taking pictures all the time than Andy haha. He had a good time though

 

Not as big as last time,  but a good haul still

It was pretty crowded so we weren't able to do as much as last time, but we got to play some fun new games. I love ones that we can play together (like basketball, ski ball, and the one where you throw balls at clowns to get more time). Larry loved the bouncy ball jackpot game, it's where he ends up winning most of his tickets...but also spends most of his nickels as well.

The best part is (in my opinion) there wasn't a Baskin Robbins near by (not the best part, obviously), so we decided to take him to Coldstone and it turns out he had never been before. He only ended up getting a shake (we all got really full at Chili's for dinner), but he said it was the best shake he'd ever had. It was a win-win! I wish we could've done more for his day, but I'm sure he's happy he got to celebrate at all.

Happy Birthday Andy! I hope we helped make it a special day!

Happy (work) Anniversary

Guess what guys? I got to celebrate my work anniversary today! It's the longest I've ever worked at a company before, and they were sweet enough to remember:

103 years sure do fly by haha! Obviously they have a setting wrong in the system, so it's really only been 3. However, it's true what I said above, this is the longest I've worked for one company. And it has flown by. Normally by now I'd be looking at other options (well I guess really by now I'd be in another job), but mostly I've just been looking at how to stay as long as possible.

Hopefully, here's to many many more years in a job I love at a company that is amazing. Cheers!

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

So a few weeks back Larry and I went out to Denny's for dinner (it was a lot of me begging to go so I didn't have to cook, but those details aren't as important). While we were there I saw that they had something saying if you bought an entrée you get some sort of deal on Bees tickets. Well I love baseball games and I always want to go to more sporting events so I decided to ask about it. Apparently it's a voucher for a buy one, get one free that you can take up to the stadium. We used our first one last night and it was awesome! I sure miss going out to these games.

We played the Tacoma Raniers that night and it was a close game! We did end up losing by 1 point, but it was up until the end of the 9th inning that we did. We got so close to getting one more point and going into overtime, but they got the guy at 2nd base out so that was that. It was funny because I forgot my jacket and it was windy and chilly from the start (and Larry isn't as much of a fan watching sports as he is of playing them) so I told him we'd only need to stay until it got dark and then we could go. Well once it got dark we got so into it we decided to stay the whole time.

The food wasn't as good as I remember, but it was edible enough. There were some funny "shows" they did in the breaks and the people watching always makes for a good time. The only bummer is we didn't catch a fly ball. There was a guy behind us in the suites that caught the only one that came in our direction though.

The good news is we have another voucher to use later this month (they were only good for April and May games unfortunately). I sure do look forward to that one. We're going to aim for a Colorado game just for the fun of it :) Even though we aren't any big team, I definitely recommend going to the games if you like the sport (even a little).

Baseball...the good ol' American past time!