Happy Valentine's Day!

We had a wonderful day! Brian had these sent for me:

They showed up on Friday afternoon and it was such a surprise. I love them! They are such beautiful colors and look fabulous. Brian also had a fun day planned in Park City, but we got so much snow on Saturday that we stayed in Bountiful. We also had our babysitter jump ship on us too, so we also had a romantic dinner out with the little boys. They kept me laughing the entire meal. They were dancing and singing to the songs at Applebee's. Then we picked out some movies to watch. We had a ton of fun.

Brian did such a good job it was hard for me to find something that was as good for him. I also didn't know when I'd go get it because we spend all day together most days. I wanted to do something special, so I wrote a note on the mirror. He wasn't expecting it at all which made it so much better.

Hope you had a fun day too.

Again?

Yesterday, Brianna had another basketball game. I was swamped with work meetings, so Brian took the little boys and went over to the school. I was going to finish up my last meeting and head over later.
I was just finishing my meeting, when I got a call from Brian. "Guess what happened?" he says. I knew what was coming next. "Brianna sprained her ankle." "Oh, good," I say. (This is 4 times since August, for those of you keeping track.) It was a good thing that Brian had the crutches in the van from the last time. We were just getting around to returning them to the store, but hadn't gotten to it yet. It was lucky that we hadn't--maybe we were following a prompting. (Either that or being lazy.)
So needless to say, Brianna might be taking the next season to rehab, rather than playing. Brian thinks that he has her Grandma Charlet's ankles.

Our New Car!

Since moving to Utah we've been a one car family. We really thought it would work out, but we have really had times that we needed a second car (my work/church meetings and Brian's job.) We were able to get a GREAT steal on this VW Passat. It's 2002 and has low miles and it is loaded with all the options.

Here's an inside view with my favorite option...seat heaters. My buns warm up fast with these!

I also love the leather interior.

We took it to get detailed today and three (actually longer) hours later we have a beautiful car. I really think that we are going to LOVE this purchase.

A Ball Game and A Headache

Yesterday we all went to Brianna's basketball game. I've noticed that I still have to remind myself that we aren't in Ohio anymore. I still see Utah license plates and think "Wow, they're from Utah!" or see someone in a BYU sweatshirt and think, "I went there maybe I should talk to them." Maybe that'll pass.
The game went really well until the end of the third quarter when the West Point Warriors led the game for the first time. Brianna had picked up a couple of fouls really fast so her coach decided to sit her with four. That was really hard, because the team really needs to have her height as an advantage. Brianna's team ended up loosing just by three, but they shouldn't have.
I felt really bad for Brianna and her team mates, but I felt worse for Tom who had a headache the whole game and was in tears by the time it was over. (I can sympathize with a headache.) On our way home we stopped and got him some medicine to help him feel better and we thought he'd be okay.
Since he'd had some medicine, I thought that on our way we could go pick up a picture from my friend who had a contest on her blog right before Christmas. I was one of the random winners and my prize was one of her beautiful landscapes that she's photographed. I was really excited, because I haven't seen her since moving back to Utah. We didn't make it very far before Tom was complaining about feeling sick. He's really good about letting me know and if he doesn't vocalize it--I can look at his face and see in his sheet-like appearance that he's close to loosing it. We tried to make it to the McDonald's parking lot, but were too late.
Needless to say I didn't get to pick up my new picture, but stayed home and cleaned up the car, gave a bath, and did a load of laundry.