Sunny St. George

This past weekend my family went down to the beautiful and sunny St. George! We went for the dedication of Robert Gardner's statue. That was my great great grandfather who played a huge role in settling St. George. We drove with Becca and Jesse and kids Friday morning and met up with my parents at the hotel. That night we went swimming, shopping at the outlets, and went to dinner.

On Saturday we started the morning by attending the dedication ceremony. It was wonderful- and it turns out that we are related to Elder Holland. Robert Gardner was his great grandfather (so the same as my dad). Although he was through a different wife then my dad's family it is still neat to think that we are related- even distantly. Therefore, Elder Holland addressed the group and gave the dedicatory prayer. After the ceremony there was a big luncheon after which all of my dad's family met up and had a mini family reunion.

We came home on Sunday afternoon to freezing snow after leaving beautiful 75 degree weather! That was a bit depressing!!

I realized that I love St. George! It it wasn't so hot in the summer I could definitley live there!

Our New Addition...

Well.................

I know what you thought! No, we are not having a baby. But yesterday I did get a new car. I am so excited because for the first time I got brand new car! It's a 2009 Toyota Corolla Sport- I was sad to see my little Civic go but much more excited to have this little beauty. I don't have any pictures of my actual car because I left our camera in Colorado last week but mine looks just like the one below. And of course its black... since according to my sister we are in the mafia with our black cars :)

Lightening Speed

As Steve and I sit and watch Smallville and Grey's Anatomy I thought I would catch the blogging world up on the events of our house! We have had a crazy busy week, so where do I begin...

Last Friday Hillary, Becca, Jesse, kids and I surprised my parents in Colorado! My dad just got called as a new bishop in their ward- it was a really big deal because the whole stake was being reorganized and my parents new ward has taken people from 5 other wards. So it is going to be a big challenge for my dad, but he will completely live up to it!

Everyone else left at about 1:00 on Friday afternoon. I couldn't leave school early because I have a BYU cohort in my classroom. So Steve and I decided that I would fly- my plane left at 9:15 and arrived in Denver at 10:30. It just happened perfectly that Becca and Jesse had great timing to pick my up. When we got down the the Springs we stayed at Ashton's house for the night. We woke up really early on Saturday and drove to my parents house to surprise them! It was such a great weekend- fast and very tiresome but totally worth it.

Isn't little Foxx just the cutest little thing!!??

We left at about 2:00 on Sunday after the stake meeting and I arrived home at about 11. Steve was alone for the first time over the weekend (he couldn't go because of lots of work and school stuff). It was so good home to be with him again even though it has only been two days. And he surprised me by painting our spare bathroom upstairs- what a great husband!!

After having absolutely no break from school and being stressed with my BYU cohort, I started another long week. Ok, so Wednesday and Thursday I made many visits to the toilet being sick with the 24 hour stomach flu (and no it is not pregnancy :)). On top of that we had parent teacher conferences last night until 9:30... so I missed school yesterday but sucked it up last night to meet with all my parents. Today I felt much better and was able to go to school for teacher development day and get so much done!!

After a whirlwind of the last 8 days, here's to a relaxing weekend!!

And the winner is...

In December our good friends Tim and Tori moved to Arizona. Although we were sad to see our hang out buddies we were excited because we planned to meet up this summer on some extremely fun vacation! We also invited our other friends Cami and Nate- Tori and I know Cami from school and now Cami and I teach together at Riverview.

So we decided that we would all come up with 2 places that we wanted to go and find airplane tickets, hotels, and activities. After everyone had their places with prices we voted where we wanted to go. Here were our choices:

New York City

Disney World

Caribbean Cruise

Seattle & Canada

Washington D.C.

The votes were tallied and the winner was...

Caribbean Cruise!!!

So this July the six of will be spending 5 days on a relaxing cruise and 2 days in Miami (where I have always wanted to go because of CSI Miami, minus all the murders of course). I can't wait!!!

Miami

Bahamas