Happy Anniversary!

April 30, 2005

April 30, 2009

Today we celebrate 4 years of marriage! After I got done teaching, we went to The Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner and it was so good! After waiting 20 minutes for service (the tables got switched around and nobody informed the waiters), we had a great time. The food was amazing! We wanted dessert afterward, but nothing on the menu sounded appealing. We decided to go someplace else, but it was getting late. So, I thought, what would be open 24 hours that serves dessert? Denny's! So, we ordered dessert to go and took it home. So romantic!

Happy 4 years, Douglas! Here's to many more to come! I love you!

New Kitchen

Last week, the kitchen remodel was completed, so we broke it in by making the first batch of chocolate chip cookies on Sunday. It has been a tradition in my family for as long as I can remember to bake chocolate chip cookies on Sunday evenings. We weren't able to for the last couple months because there was no oven. The remodel started Feb 13 and was completed Apr 23.

Mom making the last batch of chocolate chip cookies in the old kitchen in February

The old wall

The old kitchen

The wall is gone and the appliances are unhooked

The doorway on the left side has been covered up

Drywall completed

Kitchen cabinets waiting to be assembled

Done with the assembly, now to put them in the kitchen instead of the family room

All painted

Getting there...

New lighting

Shiny tile

Almost done. Now we wait for the countertops (they rescheduled 3 times)

All done!

Breaking it in by making cookies

A fully-operational kitchen

Yum!!!

100 Days Left

There are only 100 days left until my due date!

Today I bought baby her first outfit. We have been getting so many clothes and things from other people, but I hadn't bought her anything myself. So, I broke down and bought her a cute outfit so she could have something from Mommy. She's having a purple/Winnie the Pooh theme, so this outfit is perfect! I think it's just adorable.

Relief Society Retreat

I just got back from a much-needed overnight retreat with our ward's Relief Society on Mt. Laguna. One of our members owns a cabin that is extraordinary. Instead of describing it, I'll just let you look at the pictures. I'm too lazy to look through all of them and pick and choose, so you get the pleasure of seeing them all. Sorry they are out of order; I just don't have the patience to put them in order and describe them all. We drove up last night (about a 2-hour drive) and were the last car to arrive. There were about 3 or 4 carpools and I had to go in the late car because I had to work. Once you get onto the dirt road, it's one-way and so bumpy it feels like a roller coaster (it made the baby freak out and move all over the place.) We took a wrong turn and had to stick our heads out the window and guide the SUV backwards about 1/4 mile. It really was quite adventurous. We arrived at around 8pm and ate awesome food (pasta, salad, cherry cobbler, cookies and candy), played games and stayed up late talking. I crawled into bed at 2:45 and I didn't fall asleep until at least 3am. Then I woke up at 6 because I was hungry. I ate a snack and then slept on and off until 7 when I gave up. The sun was shining and the household was slowly starting to awake. We ate an amazing breakfast of egg casserole, muffins and fruit and just hung around the cabin before we cleaned up and left around 11. I wish it could have lasted longer because it was so much fun. Maybe we'll get to do it again next year.