My birthday day

I had a GREAT birthday today! When I woke up this morning, I had this email from Chris, I mean Ryan Reynolds, wishing me happy birthday: 

Then I found out that I got an A- on my Geography midterm, which I thought I completely flunked since I didn't even know we were having the test on that day & didn't study (big sigh of relief there).

Then I picked up my $10 refund from a stupid SLCC parking ticket. I appealed it & it got approved!

I got a lot of birthday wishes via text, picture message, voicemail, email & facebook. Chris held a bunch of donuts from his work for me & the kids & even my boss!

When I got to work, Davi made homemade cupcakes with homemade icing (the best!) and everyone sang to me. After work, I picked up Chris and headed to Margie's to pick up the kids and there was a happy birthday message and an Urban Outfitters gift card waiting for me from Amber & Matich. I went to Urban on Saturday and was able to get a sweater that I have literally been wanting for months! and it made me so happy. Chris & the kids, Margie, Wade, Ma, my mom, Rob, Casey and their baby Keagan all joined me for my bday dinner at Tepanyaki. Then we went to Albertson's and picked out a pint of ice cream for myself and 2 pints of sorbet for Chris and the kids to share. It was a late night for the kids, but it was a lot of fun to do that.

The next day was our 5-year wedding anniversary, that will be a seperate post later! But after celebrating our anniversary over the weekend, Margie made me a birthday dinner on Sunday night that consisted of steak, shrimp, baked potatoes and veggies, and then a HUGE cake from Costco that not only fed all of us, but all of my work too, and there were still leftovers!

Thanks to everyone for such a fun birthday!

4th of July weekend

Happy 4th!! We had a busy weekend but it was a lot of fun. Chris had Friday off but I had to work, so he stayed home with the kids. Before that, though, I didn't have school so we went to IHOP for breakfast with the kids. That night I took the kids to the movie in the park but had a hard time finding a place to park, so we only caught about the last half hour of the movie! We had fun though, and there was a really cool lightning storm in the distance behind the movie screen.

Saturday was the busiest day. I didn't have school again, so we walked down the street to watch the parade. We got a ton of candy and Bostyn got a bead necklace. It was way too hot and the parade was way too long, so we left early and when we got home, Chris made 4th of July pancakes. He tried to dye the batter red but it came out pink (red is hard!) and some had blueberries, some had bananas, some had both. We wanted to go swimming but the pools weren't open, so we packed up our stuff and went to The Gateway to run in the fountains. Bostyn didn't go in much but Noah ran right in and we had to pry him away when it came time to leave.

We came home after that to eat lunch and take naps while Chris went on his bike ride. When we woke up, we headed to Rob's for a bbq and fireworks. There were a ton of kids there, including Bostyn's new favorite friend and Noah actually had a good time watching the fireworks. He usually gets a little freaked out by them but he told me they were the coolest fireworks ever! It was getting dark and we had a TON of fireworks to light at Margie's, so we headed over there. We started lighting them before it was fully dark and we didn't leave until almost midnight. The kids were so worn out but I was determined to use up all of the fireworks! I wasn't going to have a bag of leftovers sitting in my car for a year, like what happened from last year! So of course, the next day I found a small bag of fireworks that we had forgotten about, sitting in the back of the car. Grrr We will pop them!

Yesterday, we all slept in and then stayed in for the morning to be lazy and spent the rest of day running errands and going grocery shopping. Noah wanted more smoke bombs so we bought some of those. Just adding to the pile! We will get rid of them on the 24th.

Speaking of, Bostyn's birthday is coming up and we are planning on just doing a small get-together in a park somewhere. Once we finalize everything, I will let you know!

Summer 09 update

Now that the weather has cleared up, we can finally do some fun summer activities!!! Here's our last couple of weeks in review:

I had last Friday off of work (the 19th, see how long it takes me to update this blog?!) thanks to my boss's anniversary, so after school I took the kids to Liberty Park with Aunt Arn to run in the fountain & playground. Later that evening Chris had a work soccer game that went into major overtime but it was a lot of fun to watch. Then afterwards we took off to see Kung Fu Panda for movie in the park night. There are a few different parks that participate in this & if the nights are nice, I hope to go to quite a few of these.

Saturday was our FREE Dominos pizza party thanks to houseparty.com. That day was rainy but we stayed in.

For Fathers Day Sunday we had a fun dinner at Margie's. It was nice so a few of us ate outside & played in the backyard.

Monday started free kids lunches at the park for us. Its been going on since the beginning of June but I misunderstood where these free lunches were being passed out at, so once I got the correct info, we started going to the right park for lunch for the kids. Its a government program where they just pass out free lunches to any children under the age of 18. Pretty cool. Only catch is that the meals must be eaten on site, which is a good excuse to get outside & go play anyway! This is an ongoing thing until the beginning weeks of August.

Last Tuesday Aunt Arn took both of the kids to Oma & Opa's where they got to play with cousin Connor & go swimming! Wednesday I had the day off as well so I took the kids swimming at Kearns pool. Aunt Arn met us over there and we had a lot of fun! I got a sweet little sunburn on my back, which didn't feel very good while Chris & I were in the theater later that day for our free special screening of Away We Go. Noah stayed the night at Oma's with cousin Teagan, who was visiting from St. George. Away We Go was a great movie, I highly recommend everyone go see it!

Thursday after work, we went to Dr. Boyack's house for a work bbq because he will only be working at our office on Fridays from now on :( we ate charred hamburgers (if only he read this blog, he would be laughing!) and played volleyball. My wrist is still recovering to this day.

Friday we missed Taylorsville Dayz fireworks thanks to the rain, grr!

Saturday was the busiest day yet! I had my first test of the semester in my Psychology class. I was up until almost 3 studying and I feel really good about it (I haven't gotten the results back yet). As soon as Chris got home from work, we went to Luca's 2nd year bday party. They had a small pool, a slip and slide & waterguns! Both kids had a fun time & didn't want to leave, but we had a movie to catch! We dropped Bostyn off with Oma and took Noah for his special surprise: TRANSFORMERS!!! We stopped at the store on the way and let Noah pick out special treats to take with us. Noah loved the movie, but by the end of it, he was worn out from his busy day. After the movie, we dropped Noah off at Oma's and we took off to Rob's for Casey's surprise birthday party. We had a lot of fun, got to spend time with our friend David and ate hamburgers again for the third time in one week! We left that birthday party to go to our friend Ben's bday party at Classic Fun Center (yes, the 3rd party that day). We jumped on the huge blow-up toys you see at parties & carnivals & played laser tag. The kids were OUT by the time we got home & we CRASHED too!

Sunday was a nice hot day & the day before, Noah told us he wanted to go to the park. We went to the park but it was so hot that we couldn't stay for long. We did get to throw rocks in the almost-flooded Jordan River and the kids thought that was cool. Bostyn has a good arm! We stayed home & relaxed the rest of the day and were able to finally get our air conditioners put in! Woo hoo! Its amazing how hot & humid it can get in our basement condo.

Its looking like a pretty slow/average week, although Noah already got to go swimming today with Aunt Arn & Unci Matti. We promised Noah that we would go buy fireworks tomorrow & then get "chinese panda" (panda express) for dinner, and I'm sure that this weekend will be pretty busy too with the Fourth of July weekend. We do have a bbq to go to on Saturday at Rob & Casey's. I plan on going to see fireworks at least on Saturday, but I haven't decided if we will try to find fireworks again for Friday or do movie in the park.

I will try to post pictures later, I really don't have many but even a few can't hurt!