Saturday, April 19, 2014

Spring Break, Episode IV

So, I am actually going to combine Wednesday through Friday, because not much happened those days.

Wednesday we did things around the house.  We did some spring cleaning.  We ran some errands.  That was about it.  Kind of a boring day.

Thursday we were excited to hear that Luke joined the world.  We are so happy for Torry and Kevin.  I went to Home Depot to buy replacement bulbs for our kitchen.  Brielle mutinied Thursday.  Thursday didn't exist in her world.  However, Thursday night, we had dinner with Joe, Shauna, Hans, and one of Hans's friends.  We met them at Metro Pizza.  The pizza was wonderful, but the company was even better.  Joe had us going with some stories and Shauna had us going, purely by being herself.  She kept picking toppings off of the pizzas.  She tried cutting a piece in half and it didn't work out to well.  So what she did was held spatula on one half, and pulled the other half off with her fingers.  She then ate the piece she hadn't touched, and left the other piece she man-handled for somebody else.  It almost had us in tears we were laughing so hard.  We were so happy to see them.

Friday was my day of rebellion.  I had a really bad migraine, so we really didn't do anything.  Brielle did lesson plans.  She also made sugar cookies.  Brielle makes wonderous sugar cookies.  I cannot sing enough praises about her.  Or her sugar cookies.

That pretty much summarizes our Spring Break.  Lots of exciting things, but also lots of mundane, boring, grown-up things.

Spring Break, Part Drei

Tuesday was a fun day for us.  We went decided to go out to breakfast at a restaurant that Jacob suggested.  In fact, I think he considered it a great sin that we hadn't been there at all.  With that in mind, we went to Hash House A Go Go.  It was a great experience, as well as great food.  The atmosphere was so much fun.  The food was fresh and tasted great.  We each ordered a hash, and it was served in cast iron pans.  It made my day.

As many of you know, I have been really into family history as of late.  Brielle and I have taken some names to the temple and plan to do more.  Since we both had questions about the best way of going about doing family history, we went to the family history center.  It was an amazing experience.  We both loved it.  Neither of us wanted to leave.  Brielle learned a lot about how to add people since she is basically starting from scratch on one line.  I learned how to clean house on my line.  There are so many duplicates, that I learned to go about combining them.  It is going to take a lot of time, but I am going to work on it.  The spirit was so strong in the family history center.  It was time well spent to say the least.

Tuesday afternoon we saw Captain America: Winter Soldier.  I enjoyed it.  Brielle...not so much.  It is a guy movie.  Lots of explosions.  Plot happened between explosions.  I see no reason to not like it. (Brielle's insert: reason not to like it in one word "EWWW!") That was about all the exciting things for Tuesday.

Spring Break, Part Dos

Sami, here is another post on Spring Break.

Sunday was just a normal Sabbath day.  Go to church, feel the spirit, visit with friends, just the usual.  Sunday afternoon included talking to our parentals.  So very normal for us.

Monday had some excitement, at least on my part.  I woke up and went and had blood tests done.  Jealous, I know.  I then came home and we went to Bed, Bath & Beyond.  We purchased some hand soap, and a shower caddy.  We were very excited about this.  Being an adult is dumb sometimes.  Who gets excited over a shower caddy?  We then went to Costco.

Later that afternoon, I went to a dentist to get a temporary crown put on.  A couple of weeks ago I had a root canal.  Why?  Because I have horrid teeth.  No exaggeration.  My cavities started on the inside of my teeth.  Not outside, working in.  No--that is what happens with normal people.  "I ain't people."  They start on the inside right next to the nerve.  Nothing I could have done to prevent them.  So, one root canal done, another scheduled soon.  So a temporary crown now, a permanent one later.

That was our adventure for Monday.  I bet you all wish your days were this exciting.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Spring Break

I have done a terrible job of updating our blog.  The only reason is pure laziness.  However, since it is Spring Break, I figured it would be a good opportunity to post what we do over the course of Spring Break.  Each day would be its own entry.  I will Start with Saturday.  To sum up the day, we went to the Clark County Fair.  Now, I would just leave it at that, but I am trying to do better of expounding upon what I say, so here goes.

Brielle loves Einstein Brothers.  She loves their bagels.  We live very close to one, and Brielle has to push it out of her mind.  But it was decided, what could be a better way of starting our Spring Break than going out to breakfast.  So, we ventured across the street for bagels.  There was much rejoicing coming from my beautiful wife.

After breakfast, we went to Bambi's and picked her and her sister-in-law in up for the fair.  There was much excitement about going to the fair.  Brielle has almost always gone to the fair.  I am not big on fairs.  But we go and always have a good time.  When we got to the fair we began our adventure by looking at the little booth/shops that they have set up.  While we were doing that we met up with Kenzie.  Our little group had fun.  We looked at booths and displays.  We went to the building where they display the cakes that have been entered for competitions.  Kenzie's cake got "Best in Class."  She made a fun tiered cake.  Each tier had a scene from the movie Frozen.  Obviously it turned out well since she won first place in her category.  After that we had lunch while at an A Capella doo wop concert.  It was fun to listen to these guys sing some favorites from the '50s and '60s. We then went and played a couple of carnival games, including the goldfish game.  In case you were wondering, I am not so much for good at this game.  The person running it felt sorry for me and gave me a fish.  So I got a very expensive goldfish.  I named him Mr. Gold.  I have no idea how long he will live.  So far, so good.

The rest of the Saturday was pretty boring and uneventful.  We did the usual errand running, shopping, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Monday, December 16, 2013

Anniversary Date

We celebrated our anniversary early this year.  Brielle took the day off and got to sleep in as late as she wanted.  We had no time constraints, so she slept in.  On a Friday.  This is a really big deal since she usually has to get up before the butt crack of dawn.  We went down to Town Square.  We had a nice leisurely lunch at Kabuki, our favorite Japanese sushi bar.  We then wandered and did some shopping.  After that we went and saw Frozen.  It was a cute movie.  It was tough decision.  There were three movies we wanted to see, but Frozen was the one that suited the relaxed mood we wanted for the day.  After the movie we went and got some Godiva chocolates.  Then we faced the madness of going to the Christmas cactus garden.  It is a cactus garden that they decorate with Christmas lights for December.  They use over half a million lights.  It was spectacular.  There were SO many people.  Everybody was so excited about the lights.  I think everybody felt like a little kid again.  There really is no way to describe the lights.  They should be experienced.  After that we just enjoyed a nice quiet rest of the evening at home.

I must say that I appreciate Brielle very much.  We have been married for two years now.  I thank God every single day for Brielle.  She is the best thing that has happened to me.  Deciding to marry Brielle has been the best decision I have ever made.  I love her very much.  She has made me very happy.  I am so very grateful to have been sealed to her for all of eternity.


We went to St. George for Thanksgiving.  It was so much fun to see family and enjoy over eating.  We got there Wednesday afternoon.  I was greeted by Hunter with a "It's time to play transformers."  Hunter had been waiting for DAYS to play with the transformers and was told he couldn't until Uncle Louis got there.  We had a good trip.  There was an emergency trip the grocery store to get pudding for pies Wednesday night.  Then another trip to Walgreens to get aloe vera since I burned the back of my hand pulling a pizza out of the oven.

Thursday consisted of eating food, more food, and for good measure some more food.  Brielle had made stuffed mushrooms that were a hit.  I found Jackson sitting on the table, holding a spoon, and enjoying the filling for the mushrooms.  Can't say that I blamed him.  Thursday morning also confirmed to me that golf is not my game.  Kevin took me out to the range to hit a few golf balls, and it was fun.  I just can't hit a golf ball to save my life.  Hunter was much better at it than me.  Showed up by a three year old.  Jenny, Brielle, and I took the kids to the park to get them out of the way before dinner.  Apparently it was a common idea because the park was busy.  Thursday night Torry, Jenny, and Brielle went and faced the madness of early Black Friday shopping.  It was a great success from the sounds of it.  While they were facing the cold and crowds, Mom, Phil and I played games.  When the girls got back from shopping we played a cut-throat game of Skip-Bo.

Friday was a relaxed day, at least for me.  I wasn't trying to get packed to leave that day.  We said our good-byes to Kevin, Torry, Phil, Jenny and their fams.  It was sad to see them go.  That night we went to the St. George temple lighting ceremony.  It was a good experience that was enjoyed by all.  Even if Dad did make me carry the blanket home.

Saturday Brielle and I headed down to Bunkerville.  Brielle worked on Christmas crafts/decorations.  She decorated some block letters that spelled out BELIEVE.  She did a fantastic job.  I am so lucky that I have such a craft-y wife.  She has done such a good job of decorating our home for the holidays.  Even if her husband was grumpy about where we were going to put the tree.  She figured it out and I happily helped put it up and decorate it.

Wonder Woman

Our beloved Wonder Woman, our female betta, died.  We had her for two years.  We bought her just before we got married.  She got the name of Wonder Woman because she survived a trip from Bunkerville to Las Vegas.  It was sad to her go.  We do miss her.  We have gotten a new betta, but will always have a special place in our hearts for Wonder Woman.  She was our first pet after all.