Weekend in UT.

A girl can only handle so many days of -15 degree weather. I started feeling really CONFINED to the house and decided that I needed to leave this ICEBERG and go to Utah this weekend. It was actually colder here than in ALASKA last week! Whaaaaat? (Summers are nice here....summers are nice here....I have to keep repeating that over and over to myself!)  There were lots of good reasons to go anyway.

Reason #1:
I've wanted to go and visit my Grandma Rufener in the rehab center. She is getting better day by day. Seeing her face when we walked into her room unannounced was PRICELESS. The boys had made her some little homemade get well cards and even though our visit was only about 30 minutes, I think it really lifted her spirits.

Reason #2:
I wanted to take Ash out for her birthday! We went to the Spaghetti Factory with NO kids and had a great time. I gave her her birthday gift which was a photo book filled with pictures of us through the years. It's fun to go back and look at some of those crazy 80's hair do's!

Reason #3:
Ashley's sweet baby was blessed on Sunday! Isn't she just YUMMY?? I'm so happy we were able to be there for her blessing.

 Reason #4: I wanted to take the boys to the dinosaur museum AND spend some good quality time with my Grandma EE. We had a wonderful afternoon watching the boys go CRAZY over all of the exhibits.

That is one major thing I miss about being up in such a small town. I miss having things like the Discovery Center and even the ZOO (since ours is closed in the winter!)

Loved the 40 degree temps and sunshine! Hated the SMOG and the traffic!