Game Time!

Wednesday night then Parker called up Kevin to see if we wanted his two tickets in the Suite at the Jazz game because he wasn't able to go. Um.. Heck yes! So thankful for friends who work or the Jazz :) They played Portland and even won! It was such a fun game and we were able to sit next to our great friends Koy and Courtney since Koy also works for the Jazz.

Yesterday, we had tickets to the U Blackout game. We went with Kevin's cousin Andrew and my older brother Lyman. Utah won their game which made it that much more fun and a great end to our game week! Now, since it had snowed a few days before and I can't handle being cold, at all, ever. Then Kevin and I went shopping earlier that day for some Utah gear and a few more warm clothing items for me. It was a gorgeous day of 57 degrees and at night it's not bad, unless your outside for almost 5 hours. Since I don't handle the cold at all, and Kevin was not going to leave the game early and I really did want to go then I went prepared. I had my regular G's, thermal G's, an undershirt (too lazy to take off when I was changing) a long sleeve thin thermal, my Ute shirt and a jacket, two pairs of socks and my casual boots. (We just bought me 3 different pairs of boots this week too-Happy early birthday to me!) Oh, and of course pants.  In my bag that I took I had 2 pairs of gloves, my ear warmers, a beanie, a scarf, another jacket that was super soft, and we brought a blanket. I wore the first 7 layers for the first half then added the 2nd jacket, my gloves, scarf and ear warmers. It wasn't super cold, especially since it wasn't windy, but since I was getting chilly with all of those layers half way through the game I'm sure I would've have been a lot colder without the layers. It also doesn't help that I have some disease where I have poor circulation so my feet and hands get colder faster and go completely numb, with added charlie horses sometimes too. I'd rather be sweating to death then shivering convulsively anyway :)

First Snow...What in the #@!%&*%$#@!%&

The title is a reference to all of the swear words going through my head Thursday. I was getting ready for work and snow was in the forecast but it was only raining at our apartment. I get a text from Kevin saying "Bundle up, drive safe and please don't hate me today." Well, that's not a good text haha.When I go outside the mountains are blinding white. My drive to work wasn't bad at all, just a little wet, and I needed new windshield wipers. Halfway though then that's where the snow was sticking to the valley. I work on the benches of Cottonwood Heights so this is my view from outside our office.

Thankfully, it did melt by the next day. It was still colder than I wanted and I was happy when I came home. I will just need to go to the gym after work on snowy looking days so that I'm extra happy... Ugh, this is just the beginning...

St. George Trip

It is so weird to "visit" St. George, can I just tell you that? Well, last weekend we went down for one of my best friends wedding. We were blessed enough to be invited to their sealing. Can I just say Wow! Besides our sealing of course, I don't know if I have felt the spirit so much, or felt the love of the couple so much. Their sealing was absolutely amazing, pretty much everyone was crying with so much joy. I want to say so much more about it and the feelings that I felt and what I could see that Tiffany was feeling but that's personal. I will say I'm so happy for them and they are perfect for each other. Beyond perfect actually. Tiffany has been such a great friend to me all these years, especially when I didn't deserve such a great friend like her. We love Tiffany and Joey very much and are very excited for the adventures we will go on and the Jazz games we will attend :)

Now, about St. George. I NEEDED this trip home. It was perfect timing, the weather was perfect we got to see so many friends. A ton of mine that I went to high school with and some of our best friends that were in our ward. (TJ & Dora so sorry we weren't able to see you two, we love you guys!) But seriously, I know I complain about being in Salt Lake a lot and I really don't hate it. It's just hard and it's different. It's change. Being back in St. George just put the biggest smile on my face the whole weekend. I was so just so happy. I wasn't worried about anything, except having to go back up to Salt Lake. After running an errand by myself I drove up on the Red Hill and stopped and just took it all in. It really was the perfect weekend and I definitely needed that sunshine before the first snow hit us here. Many of you may think that St. George is boring, or that Salt Lake is way prettier and a lot better. But not me, I'm from Dixie and if there is any chance in the world for us to go back and raise our family there I will take it, that's where my roots are. St. George is perfect in my eyes just the way it is.

Sunday before we left then we went to go see my grandparents. I've missed them so much! Anyway, my grandpa used to be an avid fisher and has a ton of stuff. So when Kevin was mentioning that he has started the hobby grandpa went and brought out one of his tackle boxes and said here ya go. Just think of me when you catch a fish :) There was more to the conversations and everything but I totally started tearing up. I absolutely love my grandparents and they are the best people I know and they are doing great for being over 90. So having my grandpa give away some of his stuff and him talking about getting rid of a lot of things lately just got to me. That they won't be around forever and that kind of makes it bite that much more to be away from them. But I love them and this blog probably doesn't make any sense because I'm already crying my eyes out. I'm very sorry about the randomness, but oh well. Guess all I needed to say in this was I miss St. George and everything and just about everyone in it. Don't take for granted the time you have with your loved ones because you never know when things will change.