What a weekend!!

We were supposed to go up north for the weekend. It was my 10 year high school reunion. And I had been looking forward to going for a long time! I wanted to get together with old friends and catch up. (even though most of us have blogs, it isn't quite the same!) Josh's company is in the middle of a tricky buyout of another company right now. He is the only one down here that runs things and everyone else up North is swamped with work. Everyone's summer family vacations were being cancelled. So of course, so did my chance to go up to my reunion. Josh is on call for work 24/7 so if something goes wrong, he has to be here to fix it. But I am grateful that he has a job so I can't complain. Anyway, I was bummed. Really bummed. But Friday night at midnight was the release of Breaking Dawn so I was able to get together with Brandi and Jodi. Brandi even made smoothies and my favorite caramel apple salad (good friend huh!) and we scrapbooked until 11:45 and headed over to Deseret Book. Brandi's sister-in-law works there and had ours in a nice little stack and handed them to us when we walked in the door. We didn't have to even wait in line...Sweet!!! We talked about what we thought would happen and what should happen. And of course, you know I had to read the last few lines of the book. Some habits will never die! Thanks Brandi and Jodi...I had a great time!

And yes, Brandi's little girl was at the party too! She was so good about waking up and going with us. Jodi and I told Brandi that we would get them for her and she didn't want to miss the party...who would!?!

Josh felt bad that his work had ruined the chance to get away. (And Mom and Dad, we owe you a visit...we are coming...as soon as we can!!) But he had some free vouchers for hotels a half an hour away and we decided to "run away" over night to let the kids swim and have a "mini" vacation. Close enough that if something happened, Josh could be back to work, but we hoped nothing would happen. We loaded up and headed out on our "LONG DRIVE"!! When Josh went to check in he found that they had messed up our reservation. But how do you complain when you are already getting it for free?! But they made it up to us anyway by giving us a suite instead. Sure it was like walking into a flashback from the 80's but the space was the best part! We swam and went to dinner at a local chinese restaurant. The food was okay...not worth the money but the waiter was the best one we have EVER had. He was so good with the kids. He brought Hayden "chicken nuggets" (translation, the chicken they use for orange chicken, without the sauce) and wrote his name in chinese on the plate with ketchup. He brought treats for the kids and even played peek a boo with the kids by running out of the restaurant and peeking in the window. The kids loved it. And of course I took my new book. So any chance I got, I was reading. I finished last night. Wow, it was good! I think Josh is excited to get my attention back now that I won't have my nose buried in my book for hours on end!

Getting ready to swim!!

And yes, that is as much of a picture of me in a swimming suit that will be posted online. It was 113 degrees...even I get desperate enough to cool off! And no, those people's eyes will never be the same. Never. :)

The kids could have swam all day and all night!

Maddie was convinced that after her last 2 week swimming lesson that she was now an expert swimmer. Josh and I had to keep an eye on her! She did great though!

Even Grace had a great time in the pool. She loved floating around and playing with her floatie! She wasn't crushed like the other two when she got out, there were still towels to try to shove in her mouth!