Time Out!

A few weeks ago I got the opportunity to attend Time Out For Women with several friends from my ward. It was such a great experience and so much fun to get to go listen to amazing speakers, laugh, cry, learn, and be uplifted and feel of the Spirit.

I was surrounded by really fun and amazing women that were there with me...

It was a good time and I hope we can all go again next time!

A "Wicked" Good Time

For my birthday this year, Patrick surprised me with tickets to...

I was SO EXCITED!!! I have wanted to see Wicked for yeaaaaarrrrrsssss! 

We got tickets for the balcony. We had never been to the Smith's Center before, so we had no idea about our seats. Patrick had requested handicap accessible seats. When we got there, we got up to the balcony and found our seat were not so accessible for Patrick, like at all. They were up lots and lots of very big steep stairs. When we told the usher about the problem and that we were suppose to have handicap seats she got her supervisor on her radio thing and within 5 minutes we were re-seated in A.MAZ.ING box seats just 5 rows from the stage. It was so awesome! Sometimes this "trial" of his has it's perks!

The show was just amazing! We both loved it. It was one of the best musicals we have seen. I loved the music and the set and everything. We had never seen it or heard the music before so we had no idea what to expect, but it was so good.... like gives you chills all over multiple times good! My favorite songs were "Defying Gravity" and "For Good".... I may or may not have had tears in my eyes during these songs.
Seriously. Loved. It.
Thanks Patrick for yet another wonderful birthday! It's gonna be hard to top this.... just sayin!

Once We Got To Jackson....

We had a good time just relaxing and catching up with family once we got to Jackson. It had been 4 1/2 years since we were last up there. Too long!

We stayed at Patrick's Aunt Jenny's house and the boys were in 7th heaven getting to run around and play outside up there is the cool 70 degree weather while it was 118 degrees back here in Vegas. Patrick and I also loved the weather up there, we would wake up cold in the mornings and enjoy the perfect weather in the evenings as we sat out on the porch visiting with our family and laughing till bedtime. We could definitely use a vacation home up there one day! 

While we were up there, we visited and helped Patrick's dad and step mom as best we could. We also got to celebrate our cousin's little girls birthday. She is just a month older then Landon, so they had fun playing together too. The boys had a blast running through the sprinklers, even though the water was SUPER cold. Even in the summer, the water in Jackson is freezing because it's all snow run off from the mountains. The shivering, goosebumps, and blue lips didn't stop the boys from playing for as long as they could in the water. Sad to say, but this was their very first time running though sprinklers in a nice big green lawn. That doesn't happen too much in this kind of desert we live in! It was so fun watching them play. No one else at the party was crazy enough to play in that freezing cold water. 

More party fun.... there was face painting too. They boys thought that was awesome!

I also go to help make the Princess Carriage Cake. I had fun helping to make it, it's probably the only girly cake I'll ever get to make!

While we didn't go around and do a lot of the usual touristy things while in Jackson this time, that was ok, we have done it all before. But we are hoping to go back next year and and take the boys through the parks up there. I think they would love it. But we DID go to Bubba's to eat. We love that place! It's a really great BBQ place, but they also have some amazing biscuits and gravy for breakfast. When we were there getting ready to order breakfast, Brayden was so bummed he couldn't get ribs for breakfast, so we just had to go back to get some ribs and other BBQ the next day! We also stopped by the town square with the well known Elk Antler Arches for a few photo ops. 

So after a week of lots of fun, visiting our wonderful family, stopping to see some of our best-est friends in Utah, and about 2500 miles we made it back home. It was such a nice little trip under not so great circumstances, but it was so good to see Patrick's dad recovering and doing well, and doing as many fun things as we could along the way.