Easter Weekend

We went to St. George this year for Easter. We had a fun time, but I still really don't like to be away from my family on holidays. I'm sure someday I will get used to it. There were 17 people staying at Kit's aunt's house, and two dogs. There were also other people in and out all weekend, so it was a little bit crazy. Friday we hiked to some waterfalls. Then went home and had dinner.



After dinner it was time for the big draw.

Kit has an uncle who is loaded and an alcoholic. Every year he goes to the hunting expo or sportsmans expo (I can't remember which) and buys these really expensive tags. The drunker he gets, the more he buys. So this year he bought like six different tags, one of which is the same tag he had last year. Once he sobered up a little bit, he realized there is no way he will be able to go on all of those hunts. He sold a moose tag to a friend and decided to give the Henry deer tag to one of his nephews. Kit has been putting in for this tag for 11 years. This is like his lifetime dream. Earlier that day, Kit's cousin who has never hunted and really has no desire to hunt told Kit and Chant that if he drew the tag, he would trade it to one of them for their baseball and football cards. They were all over that until their uncle told them that there was no trading. There were four people in the drawing, Kit, his two brothers, and their cousin. They drew numbers out of a hat to see who would get to go first. The cousin got to go first and Kit was the last to draw. There were four Aces on the table face down, each with a different buck and the hunter who had shot it. They were mossback cards because this is also a hunt guided by Doyle Moss. Whoever drew Kit's uncle and his buck was the winner. There was also a second place that went to whoever drew the card of another guy from Vernal. Second place gets the hunt if for some reason first place cannot go (i.e. not passing hunter's safety). Everyone picked which cards they wanted, and kept them face down on the table. They all turned them over at the same time. I couldn't tell who had one because no one got really excited. Kit yelled "Dangit", so I knew he didn't win. His mom (who had drawn for his brother who wasn't there) was just laughing, and Chant and Cole were just standing there. Cole, the cousin, ended up being the winner and Kit got the second place card. After the drawing Cole went to his room and cried. Kit and Chant were pretty upset, and still are. Colt is not upset because it was a relief to him not to have it. He is the brother who needs the kidney transplant and he doesn't handle stress very well. His wife is also pregnant and due around the time of the hunt. I think Kit is getting more okay with it because he knows that he will draw in the next five years, but he will have to do his own scouting.

Saturday we went four-wheeling/dirt biking. Kit, his brother and two cousins were on dirt bikes. I had to ride on a four-wheeler with Kit's uncle, which was a little bit uncomfortable for me... We rode to some pretty cool spots and went to a spot where we could over look a lake. Once we got there, we traded with Kit's mom and her husband (I don't like to call him Kit's step-dad, it's a touchy subject). They had been driving a razor. Let me just tell you how great that was! The ride back was so much smoother and we were able to go so much faster. I also felt more safe in it. Kit and I have been looking at them and will probably buy one someday (in the distant future). When we got back, we had dinner and then the kids dyed eggs.

Sunday morning we got up and hid the eggs for the kids. Kit helped his cousin find tons of eggs and then helped him eat all of the candy he got. After that, we loaded up and headed home. We were able to listen to the last session of conference in the car, so that was nice. Now I need a weekend to recover from all of the excitement.

New Hair Do...

Kit is a very impatient person, especially when it comes to getting his hair cut. He gets a little angry when he needs a hair cut and someone can not fit him in right then. He also thinks that the cutter of hair should come to him because his mom used to cut hair and she could do it whenever and wherever he needed it done. Well, for the last week or so he has been telling me that he really needs a hair cut. He made an appointment with Baily. She was staying late at work to do it, but then he had to stay even later at work, so he couldn't go. I was out of town working and he texted me to see if I cared if he shaved his head. At first I kinda thought he meant he was going to bic it, but he said that he was just going to buzz it. I told him this was fine since he had buzzed his hair last winter after the mohawk. Well when I got home that night, he had done his own hair. The clippers he used didn't have the guard he wanted, so he did it without a guard. It's pretty short. Here's a picture of the damage. Sorry it's the same as the one in the other post. I don't take many pictures. Oh, and here's a picture of him and his new glasses. Ha ha....

Valentine's

Since we were in California for Valentine 's Day, we didn't really do anything special for Valentine's day. We really didn't get each other gifts or anything. There is a motocross magazine that Kit loves. I got a subscription of it for him, partly because it will be cheaper that way and partly because I'm sick of him bugging me about it. He was kind of mad at me because we had decided against gifts.

On Tuesday, Kit texted me to see if I wanted to go to dinner or something for Valentine's day because we didn't really do anything. I had to go to Vernal for work in the afternoon and when I got home he had sent me roses. So cute! He had kind of read my mind. Earlier in the day I was thinking how cool it would be if he sent me flowers at work, and he did. That night he skipped class and I made dinner, then we went to the movie. We went to When In Rome. It was really cute and funny. It is the only movie on my list to see that I have been able to go to so far.

It wasn't a really exciting Valentine's Day, but I enjoyed it. We were able to spend a lot of time together. Thanks Kit for two good years together!

Disneyland Trip

So a few months ago my sister and I started talking about going to Disneyland and staying at the Disneyland Hotel. Kit and I didn't think we would be able to go, but it ended up working out. I spent countless hours trying to find a hotel that was close to Disneyland with a free breakfast. I even made spreadsheets. I wanted to stay at the Disneyland hotel, but didn't want to pay the price. My mom finally talked me into just staying there because that is where they were all staying.

My Rating: I probably would not stay there again. There really isn't anything "exclusive" about staying there. The rooms are just okay, actually a little dirty, and quite small. The beds aren't great. You can only see the fireworks from certain parts of the hotel and you have to walk quite a way to get to the park. Most of the stuff that is there, except the pools, you can use even if you aren't staying at the hotel. We decided it really wouldn't be that hard to use the pools there either. Food there is outrageous! I guess food anywhere in California is more than food here in Utah, but I think it is worse at Disneyland. We ate at Goofy's kitchen for breakfast. The food was good and you could get whatever you wanted, but it was so not worth the cost. The kids liked it because they got to see a lot of Disney characters. Next time, we will stay at one of the nearby hotels. They are cheaper and some are closer to the park entrance than the Disneyland hotel.

Okay, so now that you've heard my spill on that… We had a good time on our trip. At the airport, while waiting for our plane, a little guy was rolled up in a wheel chair. I looked at him several times and thought how sickly he looked. A while later, I was talking to my brother-in-law, and kind of jokingly asked, "Is that Gary Coleman?" He looked at him and said that he thought it was. I thought he was joking. Everyone else started looking and we decided that maybe it was. We started pulling up pictures of him on our phones and trying to compare. Some guys went over by him and were pretending to text, but they were totally taking pictures of him on their phones. Whoever he was boarded first and sat in first class. When we got off the plane, there was a man waiting there holding a sign that said "Coleman", so that pretty much confirmed that it was him.

We ended up getting to the hotel around midnight and just went to bed. The next morning we got up early and went to the park. We rode the monorail over there which drops you off right at Nemo, so we rode that first and then Space Mountain. Then we just made out way around Disneyland. We rode a lot of the rides that day because the park was not too busy. My dad was in a wheelchair because he just had knee surgery, so on a few rides we were able to go in the exit and get on really fast.

Friday we met up with my cousin and her family and my uncle and his family. We spent time in both parks that day. We had a lot of fun. Finally, on Saturday I was able to ride the tower of terror. Kit did not want to ride it, but we talked him in to it and he loved it! All of the little boys loved the California Screamin' roller coaster after they got over their fear of it.

Friday night we all went to Medieval Times. It was different than I remembered. The inside is kina ghetto, but the show was fun and the food was better than I remembered. All of the kids loved it. Saturday night, Kit and I took Porter to the motocross race. There were a lot of people there. Kit loved it so much. It was fun. Sunday we went to Legoland, which none of us liked. I think we were all tired and hot, and after being at Disneyland for three days it just didn't compare. We did see a guy who used to play for the Suns and now does broadcasting. That night we watched the fireworks from my parents room because we couldn't see them from ours. We also spent some time in Downtown Disney. It was packed! There were bands playing and all sorts of stuff going on for Valentine's.

Monday, we just got ready and headed for the airport. Our flight was full and I was worried Kit wouldn't get on because he didn't have a seat number, but he ended up being able to get on. At the airport in Salt Lake we saw Thurl Baily and his son just getting home from the All-Star game. We got stuck in Daniel's for two hours because of a wreck, but finally made it home.

We had a fun trip and a nice vacation from work, but it is always good to be home and sleep in your own bed!

Projects

Around December I started to see all of these crafts that I really want to do (mostly on sisterstuff). I haven't had time to do any of them yet, but I plan to start in the next couple of weeks. Part of the reason I hadn't started some of them is because they are things for babies and I didn't know anyone who is pregnant. Well, all of the sudden, everyone I know is pregnant, so I need to get on the ball! I also need to find a cheap sewing machine and a hot glue gun.

First on my list are these cute wipe cases. The plan is to make a few in boy colors and a few in girl colors because no one knows what they are having yet and I'd like to have a few extras on hand to give as gifts for while.


I'm also going to make some car-seat covers. These might be a little more tricky, but I've heard they are easy and they are super cute.

I keep seeing these cookie sheet calendars that I love. I saw a cute idea for a Christmas one. I know that Christmas is a long way away, but it's never too early to start preparing right? Along with this, I want to do a Christmas countdown.

And last, but not least, I'm either going to recover the pillows on my couch or make some new ones. Koda loves the ones we have now cuz they are so soft, but I want to update them.

As I get one project done, I may or may not blog about it. This year one of my resolutions was to be more crafty. I usually don't make resolutions, but this year I decided that I have a lot of things to improve on, so I'm excited to see if I will really keep any of them or not. I'll let you know how I'm doing.

Movies

I love movies and there seem to be a lot either out or coming out that look really good. So I decided to dedicate a post to all of the movies I need to see in the next few months. They probably won't be coming to Roosevelt any time soon, so I might have to travel to watch all of these, which will be difficult since Kit isn't much of a movie goer.

I've decided that I really like Amy Adams, so Leap year is on the list. It comes out this weekend, so I'm going to see if I can find it some where in the basin.

I think this might be a remake of an old movie. I love old movies. If you saw my movie collection, you would see a good assortment of Sandra Dee movies. This one comes out January 29.


I just listened to this book on cd a few months ago. I had no idea they were making a movie, too. I didn't really like how it ended, but who can pass up a good Nicholas Sparks book? And, it's got Channing Tatum in it.

This one has pretty much everyone in it, including Bradley Cooper, who is kind of my celebrity crush of the moment. It's probably going to be a little complicated, but that's okay with me. This one comes out on February 12. I think I will be in California, but maybe Kit and I can sneak away from the family for a movie. We'll see.

I think that Johnny Depp is going to make one awesome Madd Hatter. This one doesn't come out until March, but it looks promising.

There are a few others out right now that I would like to see, but probably won't. Kit really doesn't love going to movies and most of these are chick flicks, so if anyone is interested in going, let me know.

Winter!i!

So, I'm not generally a fan of winter.I like to be warm, I like to wear flip flops, and I like out door sports (softball mostly), but this winter we have done some fun things. I haven't blogged in a while, so this could be kinda long and I don't have any pictures right now, but maybe later.

November

November was a little bit busy for my family because Baily decided to get married. We were busy helping them get their house ready and get moved in. On November 7th we were able to go with Baily and Del when they went through the temple for the first time.
On November 12 we had a birthday party for Camryn, who just turned 3. She got all sorts of cool stuff that I wish I would have had when I was her age.
Baily and Del got married on the 14th. Baily's wedding was gorgeous. She insisted on one thing: having a tent in the gym so it didn't look like a gym. So far, things seem to be really good for the newlyweds.
This year for Thanksgiving, we stayed with my family. Last year we went to St. George with Kit's family. My mom always makes such a good meal. She always smokes a turkey, which is the only way I really like turkey. Kit and I decided to take on the task of making homemade noodles. This is something that Kit is used to having for Thanksgiving. I didn't think Kit would really help me make them, but he did, and they turned out really good. We had a pretty big crowd for Thanksgiving. It was at my mom's house. Both sets of grandparents were there. All of my sisters were able to come for a little while and my uncle Park was there too. After dinner, the guys all went to my sisters to play basketball for a while. Later, I played the game of life with Kolby, Kade and Austin. It was a fun day.

December

December wasn't quite as crazy for me as November was. With work, I usually travel quite a bit, which I don't really love. December I seemed to be able to be home more.
On December 3rd I went to my work Christmas Party. Kit wasn't able to go because he had a review for his final, so I was there all alone. There were lots of good things that he missed out on. Since I work for the State, we have to pay for our own Christmas party. At work we usually have one lunch a month for the office. Everyone either brings something or pitches in $5. The left over money goes into a fund for our Christmas party. This year, my supervisor had bought all of the food we would need with our Christmas fund. She is an amazing baker, so she was in charge of making a lot of the food. The night before the party, she had measured out all of her ingredients and got really organized before going to bed. Well, she got really sick, so some of us from the office ended up having to take over and finish what she started. I spent most of the day at the clubhouse we were having the party at helping stuff pork chops and cream puffs.
We have a few single ladies in my office. One is in her late 40s. She's never been married and really doesn't have a lot of experience with men. Someone in my office told her that they would find her a date for the party. Well, the guy that she had planned couldn't come, so last minute they were scrambling to find this lady a date. They found one, but everyone kept saying that he was really weird and would probably annoy everyone. The lady is a little strange too, so I figured they would make a perfect match. All day long I hoped that I wouldn't get stuck at the same table as them. Well the party started and my table had the only left over chairs in the room, so guess where the lovely couple sat. That's right, right next to me. It was kind of entertaining, but the whole night I was trying so hard not to burst into laughter because it was so awkward! I have never heard one conversation last so long about blood sugar levels.
Then came time for the gift exchange. The lady on her first date had told us all that she didn't like the white elephant gift exchange because she had been offended by some of the gifts that had been brought in the past. Well we played the left-right game. After all of the presents stopped at the right spot, the guy sitting next to me kept elbowing me, telling me to watch the first date lady. He had brought the gift that she was about to open and couldn't wait for her reaction. I laughed pretty hard when I saw that it was a pair of erotic dice! Another one of my coworkers, who is about 6 months pregnant, ended up with a nighty. The guy who was on the date made the biggest deal out of this. I think everyone in the room was embarrassed. He kept telling her that she had to model it and she needed to go try it on. I ended up with a toilet scrubber and some rubber gloves. It was an interesting night, to say the least. The food was really good though.
On December 11th, I was able to go out to Provo with some of my sisters, my mom, my aunt, and some cousins to do some shopping. We had a really good time. This was supposed to be our annual "Girl's Weekend", but Traci and Michelle weren't able to go. Traci was in Florida and Michelle just couldn't go. We went to "The Blindside". It is such a good show. I will probably by it when it comes out. We stayed the night out there. I love spending time with my sisters and my mom. We always have so much fun and so much to talk about.
The next week two of my sisters and their husbands had tickets to a Denver Broncos game that they had been looking forward to for months. One of my brothers-in-law is a Broncos fan and the other is a Raiders fan, so my grandpa got these tickets for them. My brother-in-law's little sister was due to have her baby on the 21st, but started having contractions. My sister and brother-in-law did not want to miss this because it is his only sibling and this will probably be the only child she has because her husband has some pretty bad health problems. They wanted to be there for her and in case anything went wrong. They didn't dare go clear to Denver when she was so close to going into labor, so they gave us there tickets. My parents have been feeling extra spendy lately, and they gave my sister some money to pay for all of our food, our hotel room, and a little extra spending money, so we got an all expense paid trip. I think we really needed it. We left home on Saturday morning. It was such a foggy, cold morning. Once we got to Colorado, the fog was gone and we slowly watched the temperature go up. By the time we got to Denver at about 2:30 pm, it was 47 degrees. We were in heaven! We stayed right down town at a pretty nice hotel. The first day, we walked to the next block over where there is a mall and a lot of places to eat and ate at the Hard Rock Cafe. Then we walked around, looking in different shops. Later, we walked down to the Cheesecake Factory and got cheesecake to take back to the hotel to eat. Dallas (Kit's team) and New Orleans (My team) were playing each other that night. We couldn't get it in the rooms, so Kit and Wes went down to the bar to watch it. Sadly, my team lost their first game of the season that night.
The next day, we walked around downtown for a while, then caught a bus to Invesco Stadium for the game. It was about 50 degrees that day. The game was fun, but there were a lot of foul mouth people sitting around us. Suprisingly, we didn't get very cold. And to the other big suprise was that the Raiders won. My brother-in-law at home was jumping up and down and my brother-in-law at the game was heart-broken. After the game, we got back on our bus, went back to downtown, ate at Chili's (yum). We went to a store to find swim suits so we could get in the hot tub, but they didn't have any men's suits, so we just went back to the rooms and went to bed. It was a fun trip. It was fun to go back to the place where Kit and I went on our honeymoon and remember some of the things that we did.
The night before Christmas Eve, we went to Kit's mom's for dinner. It was Kit's cousin's birthday party. We had a lot of fun. Kit's mom got engaged. She seems very happy and we are happy for her.

Christmas!

Christmas is always a good time of the year for me. My birthday is always bad, pretty much, but Christmas makes up for it. My dad's family always has a Christmas Eve party. The last couple of years it has been at my mom's house. It gets earlier and earlier every year as my grandma gets sicker and sicker. She has been getting a lot worse lately and having more and more bad days, but on Christmas she was having a really good day. My dad has a cousin with Down's syndrome who is in her fifties. Her family had kind of abandoned her, so my aunt Kelly takes pretty good care of her. Every year, someone tries to pon Virginia off on someone else. Luckily, this year, she really like Baily and Del. I think she was trying to steal Del from Baily! Whenever Virginia is around, we have to watch the bacon wrapped water chesnuts. On my ex-brother-in-laws first Christmas with our family, my dad kept trying to get him to try these tasty delights. He refused, while watching my dad eat them, but didn't tell him why until later. He had been sitting there watching Virginia take one out, suck all the juice off of it, and stick it back in all night. He was about to vomit, I think.
It was good to have Joe and Thyrena and their girls back this year. Last year, they were in St. Louis all alone. We had them on the laptop on Skype, but I think that just made everyone more sad that they weren't there and what they were going through. This year, their therapist encouraged them to talk about Corbin and encorporate his memory into their celebrations. One of Thyrena's friends contacted Greg Olsen and got permission to make a special gift for Joe and Thyrena. It is a picture of Christ with little kids all around him. I'm sure most of you have seen it. It is the version that looks like it is sketched. They were able to put Corbin's face on one of the children. We talked about Corbin for a while, and all of his struggles and a few people shared their testimonies of the plan of salvation. We also took time to remember Chip, Lily, Mardel, and my great-grandma Reidhead, who died four years ago on Christmas Eve. It was a special moment.
This year, we didn't do the oyster eating and the pagent like we usually do, but we did get to hear Andrea play the violin. She is very talented and likes to show off at the Christmas party. We sang some Christmas songs like normal. We also had some new additions this year. Brooklyn and Jayden were able to be there this year, and Del was a new addition. Next year, we are planning for at least one more addition, but possible three more.... and I guess if Heston would get off his duff and find a girl, we could have four newbies at the party.
After the party was over and everyone left, Kade opened a Christmas present from Kolby. It was a game for the wii where you hunt dinosaurs. Kade, Kolby, and Kit played it for a while. My parents finally made Kade get in bed, so Kolby, Kit and I could go get his Santa gift and put it together. It was an electric scooter. Kit and Kolby had fun riding it around my kitchen before we took it over. Kit's family is big on wrapping stuff up weird, so he made me put a bad of dog food in the box and wrap it. The next morning, Kade opened it and saw a scooter on the box. He was so excited. We told him that he better make sure that was what was inside the box, so he opened it and found the dog food. He was so confused. We told him that maybe Santa had brought him a puppy. He started looking all over the house for a puppy. We told him that it was probably in the garage where Chloe's puppies had been. He went to the garage and found the scooter. He was so excited.
Kit and I stayed at my parents on Christmas Eve because I get too excited to watch all of the kids open their gifts and don't want to miss out. This year we got up at about 5 to start the festivities. Kit and I were spoiled this year. His mom got us a BBQ, his dad gave us money, my parents got us my uncle's old pool table and a tv. Kit gave me a shelf and a table for our entry way. I gave him some video games and a hunting pack.
We stayed for breakfast at my mom's, then went to Vernal to visit Kit's dad. We then went to Kit's grandma's for dinner with his mom's family. Poor Koda was locked up most of the day.
The day after Christmas, we ran a few errands, got a few Christmas presents put together, then went back to Vernal to visit Kit's aunt who came into town from St. George. That was a fun night too.

Now we are just getting ready to start the new year. I hope it is a good one full of lots of happiness. My sister is pregnant with her first child. We are praying that things go well for her. Burdick Paving sold out, which will mean a lot less stress on my dad and his brother. They have been waiting for a long time for the right people to come along and offer them what they felt the company was worth. They owned every piece of equipment and made more profit each year. Finally, a good company came along. There will be some changes in the company, but they will all be for the best. My family will still run this division for the next few years. It is a little bitter-sweet. Burdick Paving has been a huge part of my life and it is sad to say that it is no longer my families, but it will be so much better for my family to have more freedom and not have to be there all the time.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and have a happy New Year!