Friday, April 23, 2010
One Year
We celebrated yesterday. Minimally, because we had a really busy schedule yesterday. But there was lunch out, and flowers, and cards, and good conversations.
A whole year later and it's almost like it never happened. Glenn is hard at work on his thesis, has a job offer, and is in fantastic health. Last year at this time we weren't sure if life would ever be normal again but it is, surprisingly so. There is just a little something that sticks with you when you have an experience like that. Something that changed forever when I had to think about the real possibility of my honey being really sick or worse. Something in the back of my mind that makes me appreciate what I have more and helps me try to focus on the positive more than I used to do. Because, at the end of the day, we're all together and healthy and so happy and what more do we really need? Happy one year honey. I love you.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
In the Heights
After the show Glenn and I waited at the stage door and got autographs and pictures. Yep, just like a little kid. I'm glad we did. It was fun to see them in person. I felt like a giant next to the tiny actresses. They looked small on stage but wow were they ever tiny in person.
Thanks for a fabulous date night honey! And thanks to the Jenkins who watched Tate-o so we could have a fun date night!
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Craft Fair and Chili Cook-Off
I was signed up for the women's competition. No, I did not sign myself up. And no, I did not want to do it and I think I made that pretty clear. Glenn tried to give me tips and I just kept telling him that I had no intention of participating. But how do you say no with the entire ward there and, let's be honest, very few of the other women actually wanted to participate themselves. My first match was with a girl much smaller than I and would have been a bit embarrassing to lose. It was a hard match but I won and moved on to the next round. The women's matches took SO long. I guess we're all pretty evenly matched. It was hard and long. This is me arm wrestling my relief society president and sweet friend. How many times can you say that arm wrestled with your relief society president? I kept winning. The final match was against my dear friend Janelle. We were shaking and sweating (did I mention the air conditioning was broken the whole night?) from our last matches and so we decided to wrestle left handed. I think that way neither of us would be embarrassed if we lost. We got the Elder's Quorum president to be the competition announcer and he declared our match, "The contest for the most afraid husband in the ward." Nice. I won. Yes, I am the women's arm wrestling champion of my ward. Not the title I'm most proud of, but there you have it.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Joete's Playground
Thanks for your help!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Spring Break Take Two!
Easter Sunday was a blast with them here. Tate's first Easter basket had a wind-up chick that hopped, books, bubbles, and some eggs that he discovered had stuff inside. Then he carried around a laffy taffy he got out of an egg for about a half hour until Grandpa finally opened it for him. This is the result:
We went on a walk to the duck pond in between sessions of conference. It was such a beautiful day. Kenzie spent most of the time chasing after the ducks with Rosie. It was probably fun for her to be the one doing the teasing for once.
There were also some amazing roller coasters there. This one is our favorite. Kenzie and I rode it 5 times. It was a perfect day. Tons of sunshine and absolutely no lines for anything, oh and we stopped at Olive Garden on the way home. You see? Truly a perfect day.
We thought these cozy reptiles were funny. There are three turtles piled up on this alligator's back just snuggling together.
The next day we went swimming at Barton Springs pool. Kenzie wanted to swim so badly and the weather had been cooperating so we decided to try it. The water was FREEZING! It was a nice enough day but not all of us were warm enough to get into that cold water. Wow. It will feel nice to go swimming there this summer when it's 100 degrees, but it was too cold for me last week! We got in anyway though. I kept telling Kenzie she should take this as a sign of how much I love her.Tate had fun chilling in the clover with Nana and Grampa. He was sweet and just wandered around in his bare feet. He was a happy boy.
Until he stepped in the home of some unfriendly fire ants who decided he was not welcome and proceeded to nibble on his bare foot. He had 18 little red bumps all over his foot and inbetween his tiny toes that turned into little pustules. So sad. He didn't like it when they were biting him and then he REALLY didn't like it when we rushed his foot into the cold water, but after we took him out of the water his foot didn't seem to bother him again. It sure looked bad though and that made me sad.
The next day we visited Glenn at school and took him to lunch at Whole Foods. Always delicious. Then we did some shopping at the outlet malls. We stayed really busy and played hard. I think we were a little too busy for mom, and probably not busy enough for Kenzie who gets bored easily.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Savior of the World
Here's the cast getting into makeup.
Our makeup lady was a little over zealous. We had to stipple our feet with brown to make them look dirty. Really, we just looked hairy. I called them my "Frodo feet". Gross.Here I am with some of my favorite ladies. (Mckenna, Mandy, Sommer, Me, and Samara)And here's me again with James, Peter, and John. (Ken, Me, Houston, and Scott)
It was such a great experience to be in a play again, and to be able to sing too. I loved it and miss it already. My parents and Kenzie flew into town to see the play and to spend the week with us because it was Kenzie's spring break. It was SO nice to see them and we had tons of fun! More on our adventures in the next post!