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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Mom's Visit


A few weeks ago, my mom came and visited us.  It was awesome.  She spent like 5 full days with just me (and Ben too, but mostly me).  If you know my mom at all, you know it’s rare to get time alone with her, so I felt pretty dang spoiled while she was here.  We went shopping, ate yummy food and just had fun.  Luckily, I got a few pictures while she was here, so here’s a brief overview of our week. 

The first day she was here, we went to Tucanos (after she came in for a cleaning at my school).  Tucanos is DELICIOUS.  Ben had a free birthday meal, since his birthday is this month, so we took advantage of that and ate an awesome meal there.  Afterwards, we walked around the Riverwoods and looked at some of the shops there.  Here’s Ben & I at the toy store with really cute hats on.  Thanks for the cute pic mom!  Haha


Afterwards, we went back to elementary school and spent the rest of the night at the arcade - the nickelcade to be specific.  We played video games, skee ball, and lots of other dorky games.  Here’s Ben & mom playing some space game.  I scored the jackpot the first two times I played this that night – yeah, be impressed.



On Wednesday, mom came to school to finish her cleaning and she brought lunch to me after.  Once I was finished with classes, she took me to work and met most of my coworkers.  Since I was stuck there the rest of the night, she went out with Ben. 

On Thursday, I had a little break from school, so we decided to go to lunch.  We went to this crepe place in Provo, and it was delicious.  We had to take pictures of our food because they looked so good, and tasted just as good!  We had a southwest chicken crepe as well as two dessert ones, one that was called the Break Up.  That one was so good, I think it would make a break up feel better!

 The southwest one and the Break Up



 Mom with the owl in front of the crepe place

Friday, I had the whole day off, so it was great.  We ran errands, went shopping and spend the day together.  We finished it off with Texas Roadhouse for dinner and some Modern Family episodes when we got home.  It was a nice, relaxing day spent out and about in Provo.  Haha.  Oh Provo…

Saturday, mom had her flight back home, so we spend part of the day in Salt Lake.  We went to City Creek and looked around, ate Kneaders for lunch (which was pretty dang good) and topped it all off with some fudge from the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. We took lots of pictures this day, so here are some of the cuter ones!


 Mom & me by the creek

 Ben in the really expensive chair he wants one day..

 Me & mom by the fountains

 The weird lady who stood 2 feet away from the bathroom door while Ben was in there....awkward.

At the mall with the temple in the background

It was a really fun week.   I’m so glad that I got to spend so much time with my mom, since I don’t get to see her as much as everyone else does.  I can’t wait for another visit – maybe next time dad will come too! =]]

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Holiday


Last week was pretty eventful – at least for us!  Haha.  Wednesday was the 4th of July, and after I worked all day, we tried to enjoy the holiday.  Ben & I went and walked around the carnival-ish thing in downtown Provo, where it was very hot.  We went to CafĂ© Rio for dinner (I know – how American of us) then watched fireworks at BYU.  Here’s a picture of us waiting for the show to start.


 On Friday, we also had a fun, busy day.  Chris & Emily are moving to Arizona like tomorrow, so we spent the day with them.  (What’s with all of our friends going to Arizona??  Stupid state.)  Anyway, we went hiking to Stewart Falls up Provo Canyon, and it was pretty fun.  It was a really pretty waterfall, and I haven’t hiked since I hiked the “Y” freshman year, so it was fun to do that again.  Here are some pictures.




After we were done hiking, we cleaned up and went mini golfing – this time with Spencer & Christina as well.  Each couple was a team and we lost – but Ben & I didn’t get mad at each other, so I call that a win!

Following mini golf, we went to Happy Sumo for dinner.  Emily worked there so we got a sweet deal.  Sushi isn’t really my thing, but I was a sport and tried it…and it wasn’t horrible.  I don’t think I’d ever choose to eat it again, but it was a good experience for me, and it was fun to eat with everyone.  Here we all are outside the restaurant.  Nick & Erica joined us for dinner – our party just kept getting bigger and bigger as the day went on! 


After dinner, we went to Menchie’s to get frozen yogurt.  As always, the frozen yogurt was delicious.  But the best part about Menchie’s was the body builder bug we saw.  This gigantic fly landed on Nick’s back and it was super gross.  When it landed on the ground, we put a yogurt cup over it so it wouldn’t fly around us anymore, and it stated moving the cup!  It was super creepy, yet hilarious.  Someone commented how it reminded them of Toy Story when the toys are crossing the street under the cones, and it was TOTALLY like that.  I wish I got a picture of it!  It was honestly the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while, and it was the best way to end the day!