Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Home for another visit...

This past weekend, Justin and I were able to go visit my family. My brother, Jared, is leaving for the MTC on Wednesday and the family was getting together. We drove down on Friday (I drove while Justin studied...shocker!) and I spent the afternoon shopping with my Mom while Justin studied. That night we went to visit Justin's seriously cool cousin April, her seriously cool husband David and their super adorable baby, Breea. We had some Mexican food and played Ticket to Ride. It's a really fun game!!

April, David and Justin (April won...figures!)


Justin and Jess (I beat Justin!! Take that!!)

Saturday morning we had a great breakfast: bacon, hash browns and french toast. Then we all went to go see The Dark Knight. It was really intense! Justin loved it and I liked it but thought it was kind of scary...there were some parts I couldn't even watch. I had a headache at the end of the movie from clenching my teeth. Heath Ledger is the Joker and he's really creepy. After the show, we went to Uncle Craig and Aunt Wendy's house for a BBQ. Nice grilling Uncle Craig! We had lots of tasty stuff and some really chocolatey chocolate cake. Then we had to run back home and change for family pictures. Do you know how hard it is to get shirts for three girls that they all are OK with?? It's pretty much impossible, but we did it. Anyway, this really nice lady, Lisa was our photographer. We took pictures FOREVER...but hopefully they turn out. It's also very hard to get my brothers to sit still longer than like 5 seconds. We started taking pictures about 6:30 and got home about 9:00. This is a picture of my handsome husband and I on the back deck. He is SOOO CUTE! He works so hard and I love his guts!! LOVE YOU BABE!

Jess and Justin

Sunday, we went to church and listened to Jared speak. He did a GREAT job!! It was really weird to see him so serious. Usually he is so funny! He is going to be a great missionary. Good Luck buddy!! See you in two years! Love your guts!! He leaves for the MTC tomorrow!! So weird. We had a BBQ at our neighbor's house (they had a baby blessing and we had a "farewell" and since our families have been friends forever, we combined them...it was a great idea. There was tons of food!!) So we pretty much played the rest of the day...cards, lightning and the boys wrestled. Thankfully no one is dead...the rest of us watched just to make sure.

Jordan, Jared, Justin and my Justin...I don't know where Jason was.

McCall (my bros girl), Jen, Dad and Mom...and all the dogs watching Jen eat a hot dog.

Justin and I had to come home on Monday because Justin has to study. The bar is next week...I am going to be so glad when it's over. That's all Justin does...study, study, study. He can't wait until it's over, I can't wait until it's over and Dexter can't wait until it's over!!

5 comments:

April said...

HOLY COW! Your cousin's husband is HOT! H.O.T.

It was soooo stinkin' fun to see you guys. Let's do it again soon.

P.S. Come check out the seriously AWESOME self timer photo I posted of us. It's also H.O.T.

sara said...

Did you make that necklace? It's so cute. Tell Justin good luck on the bar. It will be AWESOME when it's all over!!!

Carrie Anne said...

I'm sure your pictures turned out awesome! You better post one!:) How fun that you live close enough to visit family so often! Okay, so when the bar is over & we are moved, we MUST hang, okay? We are moving to SLC in the next few weeks, so we have to see you one of your visits!:) When is the bar? This week, right? Good luck! You'll do it!:)

Miriam said...

What a fun family you have! Have you found a job yet? Hope all goes well (or went well) with the Bar. Oh, thanks to your blog I have now experienced the joy of the Mint Cafe. Believe me I was thinking of you the whole time I was enjoying my curry! Thanks for the tip!

Ben and Laurie said...

Ticket to Ride is one of our favorites!!

Good luck on the bar--won't it be great to finish that off!

Heath Ledger was SO CREEPY! Seriously, I wasn't surprised he committed suicide after seeing him in that movie. Yeah, it was intense though. Ben LOVED it. It kind of freaked me out, but yeah it had you on the end of your seat trying to keep up with it.

Best of luck guys! It is so fun to keep up with you!