This might scare you. This might excite you. This might make you cry. We have finally moved to Utah. I first want to say that I have always said I would never live in Utah again, but here I am. I should have known because just about everything I have ever said I would never do has come true. This is how I know God exists. I will make a short list of a few of these things..
1. Said three times that the last place I would want to go on a mission is to Rome, Italy. Result: Mission call to Rome, Italy
2. Said I did not want to boy first or two girls really close together. Result: Boy, Girl, Girl
3. Said I would never ever, ever live in Utah again. Result: Just moved here and will probably say until I die(I kind of have a feeling)
I learned my lesson and have stopped saying and thinking about anything I want.
BTW, if you hadn't heard, I'm pregnant again and it's another girl! Yay for me! Henry will be so sad. Sorry sweet boy. Maybe the zillions of boys on our new street will make it easier to hear you're getting another sister. I love you!
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Road Trip #2 Revisited:Boston
The last road trip we took was to Boston to see Teri, my step mom, run the Boston Marathon. We took it with my friend Gulzat and her son Daniel. We had done this trip last year and this time it was a lot more difficult with my three kids even though last year I was 9 months pregnant with Clemmie. It took us 9 hours to get to CT and we spent some fun time with The Hohl Grandparents and then we headed up to Boston and spent a lot of time with my dad and Teri, going out to eat, playing at the Science Center, taking a Duck Tour and going to church with Courtney(who is dating some fabulous guy and we're all thrilled about it but that's another blog post). We found the best spot to watch the marathon from the windows from Lord and Taylor department store and they were kind enough to let our whole entourage stay there. While we were waiting for Teri to run by LUCY CALLED FROM CALIFORNIA JUST BEFORE SHE WENT TO JAPAN ON HER MISSION!!! It was so thrilling to have two really great things happen at the same time. The kids sang to Lucy and told her how much they loved her. I miss her so much. Just today I called the guest bed, Clemmie's bed and Bea yelled, "No! Lucy's bed!"
Anyway, Teri did great and we did get to see her run by. Henry cried because he said he couldn't see her. I was busy taking photos and so I couldn't point her out even though I was yelling, "She's the one with the orange hat!!!" a million times and he was crying, "I can't see her mommy, where is she!?!!!?". We also took Gulzat to Harvard Square and ate some pretty good Thai food. The biggest trial of the trip was that we had Bea and Clemmie who both woke up once per night and woke each other up the first night for a couple hours which almost killed me the next day. Gulzat let Bea stay in her room so I could get some sleep and so I survived....but that's about it.
On the way home we stopped off in NYC for some delicious treats, Saigon Grill, Dinosaur BBQ, and Grom and then made the long drive home. I was driving that day for almost 12 hours. Needless to say I spent the entire next day on the couch.
Anyway, Teri did great and we did get to see her run by. Henry cried because he said he couldn't see her. I was busy taking photos and so I couldn't point her out even though I was yelling, "She's the one with the orange hat!!!" a million times and he was crying, "I can't see her mommy, where is she!?!!!?". We also took Gulzat to Harvard Square and ate some pretty good Thai food. The biggest trial of the trip was that we had Bea and Clemmie who both woke up once per night and woke each other up the first night for a couple hours which almost killed me the next day. Gulzat let Bea stay in her room so I could get some sleep and so I survived....but that's about it.
On the way home we stopped off in NYC for some delicious treats, Saigon Grill, Dinosaur BBQ, and Grom and then made the long drive home. I was driving that day for almost 12 hours. Needless to say I spent the entire next day on the couch.
Road Trip #1 Revisited:DC
For some reason I have a hard time blogging about road trips but I have to blog about the trips we've been on these past few months. We took a trip to the Washington DC temple March 26th and we hung out with our great friends the Romneys (woot woot!) and spend all day Saturday amongst the beautiful cherry blossoms. It was the first day of the Cherry Blossom Festival so the blossoms were absolutely perfect and we got some really fun photos of the kids playing by the trees. Henry actually got in trouble from security a couple of times because he was venturing in the flower beds and tried to climb up some trees. I felt bad because we have really never found a tree that he could climb around here. Our neighborhood and the parks around here do not have climbing friendly trees and I can see the desire to climb coming out in him. I was a super tree climber back in the day, climbing up really tall trees to watch baseball games and dreaming up really cool tree houses in the huge horse chestnut trees in Lindsey Gardens. I am actually kind of excited to go back to SLC and go to the old trees I used to climb and let Henry climb up.
Anyway, Justin and I got to go to the temple to pray and meditate about a job opportunity while the Romneys watched our kids and they had a blast playing in the mud. Luckily they have a plethora of clothes of all sizes and we got all the kids dressed in clean clothes for the festival. On Sunday we attended their Spanish ward which was fun trying to understand what was being said. I understood maybe 60% of everything and got the gist of all the talks. We drove home with no problems. We love that place and visiting our friends!
Anyway, Justin and I got to go to the temple to pray and meditate about a job opportunity while the Romneys watched our kids and they had a blast playing in the mud. Luckily they have a plethora of clothes of all sizes and we got all the kids dressed in clean clothes for the festival. On Sunday we attended their Spanish ward which was fun trying to understand what was being said. I understood maybe 60% of everything and got the gist of all the talks. We drove home with no problems. We love that place and visiting our friends!
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