The last 10 days

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.