Wednesday, November 11, 2009

My First Bar Experience


Its about dang time!! JK. For Whitney’s birthday, she had a little get together at The Keys on Main. I went with Remi and Jasi and had a great time!

Crew

It has always been a joke that Jeff hates dogs. For some reason, the little ones always seem to yap at him and take his stuff. Scout for instance has personally eaten three of Jeff’s phones over the years. At the same time that Jeff says he hates dogs, he also has always said how badly he wants a dog. When he was little, his mom would make him walk a stuffed pound puppy around their street, in an effort to make Jeff not want one. It never worked and he has wanted one all his life. So, after a lot of discussion, he decided to buy me a dog for my Graduation present. We did a lot of Dog hunting, looking for the perfect Lab. Jeff was adamant about getting a Black, Male lab and I was adamant about getting a Yellow female. So, we met half way and got a Yellow male.

We got our pup in the beginning of May and it has been so fun. He is so dang cute and he absolutely LOVES Jeff. When he comes in I will ask him where Jeff is and he will Immediately start searching the house until he finds him. Then he will follow him everywhere he goes. The two have quite the bond!

Adam’s Birthday in Logan (April 2009)

We have always had a tradition to go up to Logan for birthdays. So for Adam’s we went up and had CafĂ© Rio, followed by a fun night of bowling. We ended the night at Adam, Christian and Josh’s house for Cake and the Jazz.



Jazz Game



Boy do we love and appreciate Meridian Title! Go Jazz!!!

My birthday dinner with the folks (2009)




Of course I chose my favorite restaurant: Cheesecake Factory

Taking in a Child! (Jan. 2009)

In November, we received a call from Mitch Spence about a Brazilian he had met down town at Temple Square. He said he seemed like a great guy and that he thought it would be great it we could call him up and spend some time with him since Jeff is part Brazilian. We quickly agreed and started hanging out with him immediately. He spent Christmas Eve with our family and was a joy to hang around. In January 2009, he wanted to find a better place to stay, because of the amount he was paying at the hotel. So, because of all of our extra space in our large house we decided to take him in. JK!!! The poor thing slept in our 4 ft. tall shelf basement!!!!! He stayed there from January to March and it was such a great thing for all of us.
In Portuguese, his nick name was “Ninho”. To me that sounded so odd, because in Spanish that means Child. So, I began calling him Child and he started calling me Mom. He and Jeff had a lot of fun together speaking Portuguese and playing soccer. They joined a killer indoor team, and had an amazing season winning no games!! Pretty funny! It worked out great, because “Child” loved watching chick flicks and eating sweets, so Jeff would go out and play basketball late at night, and we would stay home and do what we both enjoyed: watching chick flicks and eating sweets! It was great!
He was so kind while staying with us, the three of us really grew close, and it was sad to say good bye. Jeff and I look forward to our trip to Brazil when we will be put up by our Child!

Here are some pics of what we did while we had Marcelino with us.







Christmas 2008



On Christmas Eve, this year, we went with the Beck’s to see the Joseph Smith Movie and had lunch at the Joseph Smith Memorial. That night we went and slept at my parents. We went to the Midnight mass with Marcelino, Brett and Kylie. It was my first experience at a midnight mass and was quite enjoyable. The next morning we went out to the Becks to spend the rest of the day with them and to talk to Ryan and Brandon on their missions.