Memorial Weekend

Memorial Weekend was long, even it has involved work....

Confusing.  Let me explain.

On Thursday, I worked late and went straight to my parent's condo (inherited from Great Gma Oral) at Snowbird.  We had our good friends, Ali and Dylan Dastrup and Stucki and Josh Harmison, up.  We had dinner, and hung out, and swam.  It was a good time.  Then Stucki and Josh slept over with us.  Also fun, even though I had to get up early and go to work the next morning.

But even though I had work, it felt like a mini vacation just because I slept somewhere that wasn't at home.

Left work early Friday to celebrate my sister, Lisa's, 30th birthday.  It got a bit of a rocky start due to the lateness of my other sister.  But we got over that.  So my mom, two sisters, and I went and got pedicures.  I am not sure if my pedicure man was more appaled at my feet or my hands and the fact that I had no interest in getting my nails worked on.   (Rock climbing + manicure doesn't work out well in my mind).

Finding a place to eat was horrid.  My sister can't eat anything spicy because she is breast feeding and she is also allergic to half of the edible world and my other sister and I are super healthy eaters.

So we went to some restaurant in the Nordstroms at City Creek because "It has tons of vegetarian stuff" according to my breast feeding/allergic sister.  Not true.  She felt really bad.  But we made it work.

City Creek is really pretty.  The architecture and different fountains are awesome.  Shopping with my sister is not.  Well it can be, except when she spends an hour and a half picking out shoes in Nordstroms.  Wow.  Oh well.  I got Toms out of the ordeal.

After shoes, City Creek was closing because it was nearly 10 by the time she got done.  So we headed up to Park City.  (Just mom, lisa, and I.  Beth wasn't feeling well, so she and the baby stayed home).

But we stayed in a killer room right on Main St.  Lisa and I ran in the morning and planned out the day while we let mom sleep in.  Neither of us are shoppers.  (Which is why I claimed I don't have to go for 2 years after this weekend).  But we went to the outlets and made out like bandits.  Outlets + memorial day sales.  Everything in Old Navy was 40% off AND I found 4 different colors of khakis that fit Derek.  32x34 is NOT an easy size to find.  So I bought all 4 of them and 3 new polos for him.  He needs them (that is what he wears to school/work).  I figured out that an XL in childrens = S in women's but children's are cheaper, so I bought yoga pants and a shirt from the kids section.  Bought really nice khakis at Banana for 7.99 a piece (I bought 2).  And got 3 pairs of shoes from Bass for the price of 1.  Yes, they were expensive.  But they are Bass.  And two of them are for work and I am on my feel ALL day walking constantly, so I think the investment is a good thing.

Beth didn't make it to the outlets.  And we did all that in the time it took her to pick out shoes the night before.

We had delicious lunch at Nature's Wraps.  Walked Main St.  Dad and Derek came up and hung out.  We went and played in the Activities Center at our hotel.  I womped Lisa and Derek in shuffleboard 2x.  Oh yeah.  They say I harnessed the power of the old people I work with.  I think they are just jealous.  had dinner.  Oh we couldnt' alpine slide because it was raining and eventually snowed.  Hot tub/swam (Beth and he hubby and kids joined us at dinner).

Slept over.  Hung out.  Church.  Home.  Dinner at Derek's mom's for his little bro and sister's bday celebrations (5 days and a few years apart).

And I still have 1 more day of break.  Even though I am working today.....

It is Hot

So last year, summer came late.
This year, winter never really came.
But something that has happened this year...the sun has come to stay.
On Monday night at 5:30ish when I got home from work, it was still 86 degrees outside.  Yes, 86.  That is not a typo (yesterday's high was 90.  It is May).
The air conditioning in my car doesn't work too well.  No AC + rush hour traffic = death.
By the time I got home I was dying.  So what did I do?
Yes, I put on a bathing suit and set up the lawn sprinkler and ran around to cool myself off.
It was wonderful.

Mom Day

Derek and I have really amazing mothers.  Want to know the best part about that?  It is like have two awesome moms.  Because each of them has accepted us as their own children (my mom for derek and jan (derek's mom) for me).

They really are the most amazing women.  They are really fun and funny and I consider them really good friends.  Either of us can sit and talk with either of them.  Neither of us feel the need to have their actual child with us in order to feel comfortable around them.  I can just hang out with Jan and Derek just hangs out with my mom.  And we of course can hang out with our own moms.  They would both bend over backwards to do anything they could to help us, or anyone for that matter. (Jan literally would.  She can still do walk overs).  They are good friends.  They listen, offer advice, comfort, or just diversion from the way we are feeling.  They are strong.  They good examples.  They are always up for adventure and fun.  They are strong in the gospel and taught both of us the foundations to help us grow our own testimony of Christ.  They put everyone else's needs (no matter how small) before their own.  They encourage us.  We can handle living with one of them for 2 years now...and she hasn't started to take a toll yet.  We may just take her with us if and when we ever move out of my parent's basement.

We love our moms.  And I just want everyone to know that.

City of Rocks

We went to City of Rocks with one of my best friends from high school, Marni, and her hubby, Paul.  It was so fun.

We drove up Thursday night and climbed all day Friday.
While we were climbing, the most beautiful and joyous thought entered my brain.

I am getting paid for this.

Gotta love paid vacation.

Anyway.  We climbed a lot (regular and bouldering).  And man is granite sharp.  Oooooooo-we.  It started to get windy at around 5:30 or 6:00, but that is okay because we had be hard at it since about 8:30.

 Climbing trip includes trees right?  And yes, I am still in my harness.

 Daddy Long Leg?  Nope.  That would be a hunk of Derek's skin attached to the rock via his leg hair.  Gross?  This rock was sharp.

 Really cool shaped boulders though.

 Mid grunt.  (Grunting helps)

Saturday was windy.  Which was okay.  We hiked/explored/bouldered.  But it was so windy.  And we were thrashed.  So we came home early and ate dinner and slack lined and saw the Avengers.  So good.

 A cool arch we found and hiked up to (me, marni, and paul)

Me bouldering

It was an awesome weekend.