Recap of the Weekend

This weekend has been packed with family and fun. It started Friday night when we anxiously waited for my family from Denver to arrive at our house. Josh was the most excited to see them everytime a car passed he would get excited until he realized that it wasn't them, then he would get sad. When it finally was them we told him to get the door, he responded with "ahhh dang it!!" haha, he's a funny kid :P. We sat around and talked for a while which was great, I love seeing them and it makes me realize how much I miss them :( but at least I get to see them twice this summer!


On Saturday we prepared for my Grandpa Wood's 80th birthday party by mainly making the salads and such, Aunt Kathy did quite a bit leading up to it and on Friday night we did most of the set up so that come Saturday it would only be the last minute stuff to do. On Saturday afternoon the rest of the family arrived, except for a couple of people who couldn't make it (insert sad face here). It was a great program and and all around great evening, I'm pretty sure that despite the fuss grandpa made about this being to big of a deal he enjoyed himself AND loved his present.

On Sunday those of us that stayed the night all went to church in Cardston with grandpa, and then went to waterton after lunch. It was a beautiful day and even better we all spent it together :). I'm so glad that we have chances like this to hang out, it doesn't happen very often so when it does it's extra special.

A Great Day :)

Today is a good day, do you want to know why?? Well for starters the sun is shining and the lakes we have around town are basically gone. For the past few weeks it's been raining ALL the time, just last Thursday my boss' house got flooded and she basically has to re-build the entire basement. But we haven't got rain for the past couple days (knock on wood) so it's drying out.

Another reason why today is a great day is that Rehn is starting to be such a sweetheart towards me, not to long ago whenever I so much as looked at her she'd scream her head off....it wasn't fun :P But now she loves me and no longer screams, she actually wants me to play with her all day which makes me feel pretty spectacular. I wish I could post a picture of her just to show you what a cutie she is, but since I work in a daycare I need to get special permission first so I won't post anything yet.

I got a text message a couple hours ago saying that my cousins from the states were almost in Canada!!! This weekend is my grandpa Wood's 80th birthday so the whole family is getting together to do a special party for him. I'm so excited to see everyone together again :).

So all in all it's been a great couple of days, and hopefully I'll have more to post before the weekend is up.

New Look

I'd like to direct your attention to the picture above. I thought it was time to change the blog a bit, and while I was flipping through my pictures I found the perfect one, some delectable desserts found in none other then *drum roll*.........PARIS!!! Yes I may have been hungry while I was looking through my pictures but hey anything found along the Champs Elysees is worth looking at over and over again, right? I mean look at them! Tell me that you aren't hungry right now:P The picture also may or may not make me sad that I live in Canada...but only for a second then I come back to reality :)

~Music~

This evening I attended my brother's piano recital and realized how much I love clasical music. Don't get me wrong I like pop culture and the trendy beats that you can rock out to *side note: never have I, nor do I ever intend to, sing along to songs in public...that's one line i'm not willing to cross :P* But there is something about creating your own story that makes it great, I love hearing the different movements and being able to visualize what's going on in the story and get lost in it.

That is something that pop culture has taken, the ability to hear a piece of music and have totally different idea about what the story is then the person sitting next to you. That's the beauty in music, it's intended to be different for everyone. Even though music is always evolving and changing, by simply playing a piece composed years ago you can capture the time period in which it was written. Each era has a unique sound and each piece of music is like a photograph :)

I'll admit that it can be overwelming if played all the time but in fragments it's quite enjoyable. Hopefully in the future I can learn to play better, because it is a love of mine. To bad I have to get started on the rest of my life or else I would have continued my music education :P Oh well there's always later in life :)

Conversation of the Day

At daycare today we made flower pots and flowers to go in them for mothers day, the flowers were even made from the childrens handprints so it made them extra special. Well when one child went to take it home he threw a little bit of a tantrum because he wanted me to have it. I explained that it was a mothers day present so he needed to give it to his mom. Instead of a "ok I'll give it to her" I got "I want you to be my mommy". So I guess I have a child now....

Spring??

You know how April is suppose to be the begining of Spring? Well here it definatly is not :P This week we got hit with a huge storm, we had no power for almost a full day, no internet AND there was no school/work for me!! It turned out to be a relaxing day even if we had to shovel for hours, but I could've done with some warm food...

I woke up to find the power was out :(

SoI decided to curl up with a good book

My brothers played a game that required no power

*Sigh* it just kept falling

Cousins :)

Today I was thinking about my cousins Charlotte and Emily, maybe it's just because I see how much fun they are having at BYU together and I want in on it or just because I haven't seen them in a while...what ever it is I miss them :( They have always lived pretty far so when I do get to see them it's a pretty big deal, but at least with blogging and facebook I can see what's going on in their lives and they can see what's new in mine :P They are sOo attractive and have always had great style, and guess the fact that I love hanging out and talking to them is of some importance too.

Last time they came for a visit I remember laying on the bed beside Charlotte's while we both read the 6th Harry Potter book and since she was a little ahead of me she would lean over and say such things like "Just wait till the next chapter, you're going to really hate Snape then!!" haha. Also when I was bawling like a baby she was the only one who knew why and she was there to comfort me through the loss of Dumbldore :P.

A couple years later I got to visit them over Christmas break. And had the pleasure of being snowed in with them, durring that time I watched The Office for the first time and have been watching it ever since. While I was there I got to attend the youth New Years dance with Emily, it was there where she stood in the middle of the dance floor with her hand held up durring a slow song...it worked :P. I loved every minute of that trip (well almost... the doll head photo album in my bed was not so nice) but it strengthened my relationship to them and the rest of their family.

With us all growing up and going our seperate ways it's nice to know that no matter where we are we can always facebook or text each other :)