On Tuesday the 8th Scott had a performance with the Consortium Ensemble at St. Paul's Episcopal Church downtown. I don't know what got into me that night but I decided that I should go even with Patrick which, if you've ever seen a 10 month old boy in action, was a questionable decision. I also invited some friends to attend that also have a baby that is 6 months old. There we were, at the back of the church, letting the babies crawl around on the floor and trying to silence them while at a performance. I think the Orem library was a better location for Patrick to attend the concert with me but, we made it work at St. Paul's anyway.
Earlier that same night I decided to try and squeeze in seeing the lights on temple square. I also decided to not bring Patrick's stroller. Good thing I at least bundled him up really snug in a Patagonia suit thingie. I met Sue and Olyvia there with their babies. We were supposed to meet up with Julia a bit later. Before long, I got a text from her that they were on their way. I used the "talk to text" function on my iPhone to tell her to meet us at the nativities. On temple square they have nativities from all over the world set up. They are beautiful and my absolute favorite part about the décor there. Anyway, so I wanted to talk to text to let them know where to meet us and Siri heard "meet us at the titties" instead of the nativities. When I read the text I fell into hysterics. I doubled over in obnoxious laughter and captured the attention of many by standers. I couldn't help myself...it was just too funny.
After the temple lights and the concert, Mark and Sue came over to taste test eggnog. I purchased every variety that is being sold at Smiths and let me tell you, conclusively, Southern Comfort is the best eggnog around.
On the 9th, we drove down to Orem to celebrate Matt Nielson's birthday at this all you can eat sushi place. The company was divine and the sushi was pretty lousy.
On the 10th I had a very full day at work. We had our region meeting, an awards lunch hosted by the SBA, and then our team got to go to Boondocks to celebrate our victory in a little mini campaign. Laser tag, go cart racing, video games, virtual rollercoaster, arcade games. It was a blast to get out and party with the team. I missed little Patrick though. I'm not used to being away from him all day. That evening, we met up with the spouses at Fuji Japanese Steakhouse and Doug (my boss's boss) treated us to dinner. I chose the location based on the fact that it's a hibachi place and who doesn't love to watch their food being cooked? So entertaining! It's also always fun to see my coworkers with their better halves. It seemed like everyone was pleased with the meal and we just had a grand time laughing all together and making plans for continued success.
On the 11th, we went to see the Salty Dinner Theater Christmas show, A Christmas Carol. It's fun to actually attend a Salty show once in a while, not having been involved in any other way.
On the 12th, Scott and I modeled for pictures for the upcoming Salty Season. He posed as Romeo and the Phantom and I posed as Christine (of Phantom). It was fun to get dressed up and get our pictures taken. I'm excited to see how they turned out.
That evening I met up with Andrea and we went to the Dicken's festival. It was loads of fun to see Katie sing and see all the fun merchants/ vendors at the event. I purchased a few things including some pastries. yummmmm.
On Sunday we had a very average day. Scott stayed home and slept all day because he wasn't feeling well. I went to just the 3rd hour of church to do singing time. We played Sing or Dare. So many of the kids chose dare but then were all bashful about completing the dare. Do kids these days not know how to properly play truth or dare?! You chose dare and you have to take it...duh!
We had our first big snow storm of the season on Monday. It was so bad that I couldn't even get up the incline to Kathie's house in the morning and Scott was running really late from all the snow shoveling. I worked from home all day and was ever so slightly less productive because of that. We couldn't even break up the day with trips to run errands or anything because the snow was coming down ALL DAY LONG. The best and brightest spot in the day was when Patrick woke up, I could see that Scott was busy shoveling and I thought I may as well get Patrick ready for the day. Suddenly, Patch noticed that Scott was just outside. He started slapping the window with his little hands and making noises at Scott. Eventually he even waived at him. So adorable. I think it's safe to say that Patch loves his daddy.
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Saturday, December 5, 2015
In Stitches
My parents are in town this week we've had lots of Christmas fun.
On Sunday night, Mom and Dad came to our house for dinner right as they arrived in Utah. I made chicken that was seasoned with left over cranberry sauce. It turned out well but I suddenly found myself wondering if my food was good enough to serve my parents. I can't recall serving them dinner very often and was a little nervous about this experimental meal.
On Monday, Mom and I tried to go to the new aquarium because it was free day but the line wrapped around the building (ridiculous) and that night we had plans to attend Scott's cousins husband's a cappella concert. So, we turned around and grabbed dinner with Scott at Cafe Rio and headed to the concert. The venue was an Episcopal church and they had a cry room where I could take Mr. P so he could just crawl around and make noise and play and yet I could still hear the concert and see what was going on. IT WAS AWESOME! Why aren't there more cry rooms...everywhere? Movie theaters especially. I'd love to go see a movie.
Wednesday, Scott had a concert at the library in Orem. His group did quite well and Patch was crawling around a bit. He also had a bit of fun testing the acoustics in the room and I had fun trying to keep him quiet. When Scott's group finished a particulary jovial and rambunctious number, Patch sat on the floor, turned to the group, and clapped for them with the audience. He just learned to clap last Wednesday so, this was rather exciting.
Thursday night was probably the highlight of the week. We attended the Christkindlmarket at This is the Place Park. It's a German style Christmas market/ fair thingie. It was SO much fun to see all the crafts and German things...and food! Not to mention that President Uchtdorf was there to award a medal to the Candy Bomber! So many local German celebs! Mr. P was bundled in a little snow suit and looked adorable! Bonbon was there with us and it was a great ladies night.
I have to share a funny story. One night, we were just sitting at home chatting. I was decorating the tree and Mom and Scott were talking on the couch. We were discussing the large amount of Christmas decor that my mom has and noticing that we're about to need additional storage for our growing supply of decorations. I mentioned that I want to go to the Container Store for one of their events. As I was reading the description we all started laughing and couldn't stop. The idea that the highlight of their event is to have "wrap stars" show people how to wrap gifts and then the grand prize would be a gift wrap organizer just got us laughing. It sounded so silly once I started saying it out loud. Scott then noticed that I had hung a Christmas banner with masking tape. I felt a little silly about that too. I just said "I just wanted to get it up" followed by a that's what she said joke. My mom then turned to me and said "who is she and what did he say". I was laughing so hard I cried.
On Sunday night, Mom and Dad came to our house for dinner right as they arrived in Utah. I made chicken that was seasoned with left over cranberry sauce. It turned out well but I suddenly found myself wondering if my food was good enough to serve my parents. I can't recall serving them dinner very often and was a little nervous about this experimental meal.
On Monday, Mom and I tried to go to the new aquarium because it was free day but the line wrapped around the building (ridiculous) and that night we had plans to attend Scott's cousins husband's a cappella concert. So, we turned around and grabbed dinner with Scott at Cafe Rio and headed to the concert. The venue was an Episcopal church and they had a cry room where I could take Mr. P so he could just crawl around and make noise and play and yet I could still hear the concert and see what was going on. IT WAS AWESOME! Why aren't there more cry rooms...everywhere? Movie theaters especially. I'd love to go see a movie.
Wednesday, Scott had a concert at the library in Orem. His group did quite well and Patch was crawling around a bit. He also had a bit of fun testing the acoustics in the room and I had fun trying to keep him quiet. When Scott's group finished a particulary jovial and rambunctious number, Patch sat on the floor, turned to the group, and clapped for them with the audience. He just learned to clap last Wednesday so, this was rather exciting.
Thursday night was probably the highlight of the week. We attended the Christkindlmarket at This is the Place Park. It's a German style Christmas market/ fair thingie. It was SO much fun to see all the crafts and German things...and food! Not to mention that President Uchtdorf was there to award a medal to the Candy Bomber! So many local German celebs! Mr. P was bundled in a little snow suit and looked adorable! Bonbon was there with us and it was a great ladies night.
I have to share a funny story. One night, we were just sitting at home chatting. I was decorating the tree and Mom and Scott were talking on the couch. We were discussing the large amount of Christmas decor that my mom has and noticing that we're about to need additional storage for our growing supply of decorations. I mentioned that I want to go to the Container Store for one of their events. As I was reading the description we all started laughing and couldn't stop. The idea that the highlight of their event is to have "wrap stars" show people how to wrap gifts and then the grand prize would be a gift wrap organizer just got us laughing. It sounded so silly once I started saying it out loud. Scott then noticed that I had hung a Christmas banner with masking tape. I felt a little silly about that too. I just said "I just wanted to get it up" followed by a that's what she said joke. My mom then turned to me and said "who is she and what did he say". I was laughing so hard I cried.
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