A Quick Trip

 

 

Conrad's good friend and old roommate got married over the weekend.

 We made the 12 hour drive up to Utah on Friday.

We spent all day in Salt Lake at the wedding festivities on Saturday.

I got to go into the Salt Lake Temple for the first time.

We shopped at City Creek, I was a happy girl :)

We watched the Crazy BYU vs Utah game later that night.

On Sunday, we made the loooooooong treck back to Phoenix.

I'm pretty sure that trip gets longer and painfully longer each time we drive it.

Congratulations Steve and Laura! What a cuuuute couple! Thanks for letting us share in your special day.

Conrad Making Dinner?

Conrad and I recently got Costco memberships, and we are pretty excited about it. I asked Conrad if he felt like a real family man now that he was officially in the Costco club,  because you know its such a big deal to have a membership, its not like everyone and their dog has one ;-). We were like two kids in a candy store walking around wanting to buy everything, and when I say everything I mean Conrad wanted all the electronic stuff and I wanted all the sweets. We both agreed that now that we were shopping at Costco that we would eat out less and eat healthier (emphasis on the ER part)... baby steps. Conrad insisted on buying salmon becasuse its healthier than red meat, well if you know me, I dont like any sort of seafood but we made a compromise that if he cooked it I would eat it. As soon as we got home he went straight to work on preparing dinner for us. I was shocked! I didn't actually think he would go through with cooking it. This guy won't even make himself a sandwich or put a piece of bread in the toaster because it is "too much effort" and yet he is more than willing to cook the turkey every Thanksgiving (which he is really good at) and now apparently salmon... hmmm I can't really figure that one out but i'm not complaining one bit.

 

 So of course I had to document this very rare occasion of Conrad cooking.

 

 

He did a great job, and I ate it and liked it. He always does a great job when he cooks. I think he should cook more often ;-).

Our Trip to Utah

We got to spend two weeks in Utah and it was so much fun, as always it went by way too fast.

We spent the first week with my family. I went shopping with my mom and sisters almost everyday while Conrad and my dad golfed. I'm pretty sure we went to every boutique in Utah County. We ate delicious food, played games went bike riding through the provo canyon and watched the olympics. My dad bought us tickets to the Journey, Pat Benetar and Loverboy concert, it was AWESOME, so much fun. Thanks Dad!

I also got to see some of my long time friends from Junior High and High School. We ate out and went back to my friends house for a little bachelorette party for my friend, Ashlee who recently got married! I love that we still keep in touch, it is always so fun to see all of them when I visit Utah.

We spent our second week at a cabin in Park City with the Mickelsen family. We finally got to meet our newest little niece Ruby who is just the sweetest little thing. We had a fun couple of days, eating yummy food, shopping at the outlets with the girls, watching the Olympics and watching the first season of Downton Abbey with the girls while the men golfed.

It was such a fun two weeks and now I am counting down the days til we go back for Christmas.

Saying Goodbye

My friends Charbel and Collette moved out of the ward recently. It was sad saying goodbye but we made sure we had some fun before they moved.

 On Sunday, Conrad and I had their families over for dessert.

Tuesday night, the relief society president had a little girls night at her house.

Then on Friday some of us girls in the ward thought it would be fun to get a hotel room and have a little girls retreat.

Friday night we ate out at PF Changs, went swimming at the hotel, stayed up late laughing, talking and eating too much junk food. We slept in the next morning,went to brunch and then went shopping! It was so much fun and a great way to say goodbye to our friends.

Good luck Barker and Webster Family, we will miss you guys!

Nursery

Being in the Nursery is kind of a love/hate thing for me.

I love seeing these little cuties every Sunday, they seriously are so cute and so fun.

The two little boys have recently moved out of the ward so we have a nursery of all girls now. We will miss you Carson and Benji!

I don't love the smelly poopy diapers so much, just the smell alone makes me dry heave. You know a kid has pooped when you see me wildly swinging the door back and forth to air out the room.

Kids are like dominoes, when one kid cries they all cry, when one kid screams they all scream, when one kid wants a certain toy, they all want that certain toy and then the pushing, hitting and pinching start which causes more crying, more screaming and a slightly exasperated Sister Mickelsen.

There are some Sundays when I come out of church in a daze and completely exhausted.

Then there is SNACK TIME!

Who doesn't love snack time? It makes up for all the other not so lovely stuff :)

These kids LOVE Bugles. Conrad taught them to play with them like actual bugles by making the doo doo doo! sound. That is now their official name- Doo doo doo's.

More doo doo doo's pwease!!!

I really have loved getting to know these sweet little kiddos, I have always loved this age. There is never a dull moment with them.

Croc-A-Dach

Chloe has one tooth that always pokes out of her mouth it looks so funny. It usually happens when she is sleeping. When we first noticed it Conrad gave her the nick name croc-a-dach (Crocodile teeth and a dachshund face) shortened to crocky.

You Won't Know Until You Try It

I am some what of a picky eater, I have gotten less picky as I've gotten older. I am not usually thrilled about trying new food, especially if it looks weird or gross. Conrad on the other hand loves trying new food, and the more different the food the more he likes it. Lets just say since I have married Conrad, I have tried a lot of different foods that I normally wouldn't consider trying.

Some of Conrads co workers are Persian and they took him to one of their favorite persian restaraunts. Conrad really liked it and decided to take me. He kept telling me how good it was and that it was a lot different the any other food he has eaten. So of course I was excited to try it.

He didn't tell me that it looked disgusting until after we ordered the food.

It looks better mixed in with the rice.

The brown goopy looking stuff is pomegranate and it was actually really good, although I couldn't quite get over the look of the food. It looked too much like poop to me, yep im sure you all were thinking it ;) I just had to tell myself it looked like black beans and black beans don't gross me out.

Conrad definitely liked it

Then conrad told me I needed to try persian ice cream or saffron ice cream. Once again he got me excited to try it... then I put it in my mouth, it tasted like potpourri. Is saffron in potpourri? I didn't like it one bit. Conrad loved it though.

Would I eat there again? Yes I liked the pomegranate chicken but I have no desire to eat the safron ice cream again. I will stick with regular ice cream.