Easters!

My mother is convinced that holidays would be a lot more fun if she had grandkids. Clark and I, on the other hand, are not convinced and we spent most of this weekend proving otherwise. First we dug up our old easter baskets that were made for us when we were little kids. Then we had to make a few repairs because Clark's bunny was losing it's nose and my bunny had a deformed leg (which you can still see). Then we dyed easter eggs and watched Nacho Libre (an easter appropriate movie).

On Sunday, after more lamenting about having no grandkids, we had our traditional easter basket hunt. Every year my dad would hide our easter baskets and we would spend hours looking for them. My dad is the master of hiding easter baskets and he prides himself on his creativity. (His best being taping John's basket above the door frame.) Even though we are in our later twenties and dad was limited to one level of the house it still took about an hour and a half and several hints to find our baskets. Overall, pretty good Easters...who needs grandkids when you have immature children! That's what I say!

SUCKERS!!

We are at the movies...and yes it is 1:15 pm on a Tuesday afternoon.
The best part about going to the movies on a Tuesday... 50 cent Popcorn!!
BTW- Last week we saw Vantage Point which was a much better movie... but as Mike says, "watching a crappy movie is better than working!"

Off-Track, Hangin' wit... Mom

Well it has been exactly one week that I have been off-track (translation: no work). Since I am in the process of building up the old bank account, after the India extravaganza, I have been keeping it low key which means I have been spending a lot of time with my mom.

Here we are after an intense 15 mile bike ride.
The intense part was the cold bitter wind.

She even talked me into purchasing some killer boots with her.
Twin Stuff!!!!

Extreme Merriment!

Last weekend our ward went on a Winter Retreat up Milcreek Canyon at Camp Tracy, which is in fact a scout camp. This camp offered little log cabins for our sleeping pleasure, a rather large and fancy lodge for hanging out and a killer hill for tubing. Mandy, Lesli, Larissa and I drove up together. Apparently we were a little "early" (it was 6:30 and they said to be there by 6:00, you know how it is!) so a few of us went to check out this killer hill. It didn't look too bad but there were swarms of 8-10 year old boys (scout camp remember). We didn't (at this time) have our own tubes so I asked one of the boys if we could ride on one of theirs and he said he didn't know while all the others started screaming, "Noo, they are girls!" So needless to say we had to wait for Matt, keeper of the tubes, to accompany us. It was extreme merriment in every sense of the word. Even if it gave me heart palpitations every time!

Larissa and I found out that if we rode together, going face first, we were a lot faster. YIKES!

Here we are roasting peeps over an open fire!

Shout out: This is a shout out to Matt and his killer Team Building activities. Even though harsh words were said (from both sides) I still think your games were the best. I loved every minute of them!

Nice day for a white wedding!

Last Saturday one of my bestest friends Celeste decided to take the plunge and strap on a ball and chain, I mean she got married. It was a fantastic wedding. I loved every minute of it. While we were waiting in the sealing room, for the happy couple to enter, one of the temple ladies came in and suggested that we start passing around the tissue box because "this promises to be a great sealing". And let me tell you, they didn't disappoint. It was one of the best weddings I have been to in a long time.

"Awhh" (in the words of Cele)

Tara came up for the festivies. Always a good time!

My favorite part of any wedding is always the money dance. Personally, I've always wanted to have a money dance assuming that it would even be a possibility. My mother refuses to let me. I don't know why. What's not to love... you're getting paid to dance... on your special day!

What the Folk!

I would like to take a moment to put in a shameless plug for one of the funniest things I have seen this week, in my house, on a dvd. Recently my bro, Clark, introduced me to Flight of the Conchords. They used to be "New Zealand's 4th most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo". Now they are "the almost award-winning fourth-most-popular folk duo in New Zealand." I became an instant fan. But really, what is not to love. Basically it is a show about two guys from NZ, Bret (pronounced "Brit") and Jermaine, who come to New York and are trying to make it big with their band F of the C (that is street slang for Flight of the Conchords). Each episode takes you through a week of their lives with them occasionally breaking out into song. You can see for yourself in this clip from a F of the C episode. It is definitely in my top three!

So did his dance moves "seal the deal" for you?

Ding Dong John is Gone!

After much anticipation the day finally arrived and my brother John entered the MTC to prepare for his missionary service in Japan. While many (mostly my mother) have been greatly anticipating this day I, on the other hand, have not. Though I did my best to suppress my emotions through the use of lame jokes and laughter, inside I was crying my heart out. John is one of my favs. I know he is doing a good thing and I am proud of him but the selfish part of me is sad that I won't get to see my bro no mo' (at least for 2 years).This is John eating his last bean burrito at Betos. No more beans for 2 years. Poor John he'll probably starve.