Tuesday was Valentine's Day and we kept busy. I took my sugar cookies to work and shared them. After work, dad made a big hunk of smoked meat and we had a nice romantic dinner together
Wednesday I spent 3 hours up in the court training the new girl (Yes, Morgan, the assistant has already quit). Since I was working late I didn't go to lunch with B&L and Gpa and Dad. They went to Paula's without me.
We found a Hawaiian restaurant called Lolo's just down the street from the Aquarium. We bought the family special and shared it. It was really good. And there was so much food that both Dallas and Bryce got a large container full of leftovers to take home with katsu chicken and kalua pork, rice, and mac salad.
(We did priceline for our hotel...you just say what area you want and they randomly give you a hotel. Kind of a fun game if you don't care. That's how we ended up in Spanish Fork. It was $62 night compared to $100-$200 night everywhere else.). In fact, the Hampton Inn just a block from where we stayed was $162 a night. It is president's day and the all star game was going on up in SLC so the hotels up there were EVEN MORE!!! So We felt pretty lucky to find something that didn't completely kill the budget.
Thursday they started recarpeting my office at work and I got kicked out of my office. So I stayed as long as I could and then went up to the court and helped out for an hour or so before going home. Friday I just stayed home completely -- because I just couldn't be bothered to be out of the office again! haha.
Thursday evening we went to dinner with Judy and Bob Bolivar. I guess Bob was a magician in Hollywood (he's on youtube!!!) so maybe a little famous?! We went to Pork Belly restaurant and had dinner and then we went over to their place where he did a magic show for us and they gave us some fancy cake. It was a fun evening and they want to go out with us some more.
Friday dad decided to take off a night of basketball and we got a hotel in Spanish Fork (the only affordable place we could find) and headed up to see the new baby girl! Holly decided to come with us after some back and forth. She stayed overnight at B&M's house and really enjoyed holding the baby and wee-hour feedings. (This is actually very surprising because she has been pretty anti-baby for a while now!). In fact, she says she can see herself having a baby in 4 or 5 years...which is good progress from NEVER! haha.
On Saturday we went to the Aquarium with D&M and the twins and Holly. It was really fun. DJ was more warm and fuzzy than Ellie but they both were pretty happy to be playing together at the aquarium. We walked through for about 2 hours. At the end, dad bought them penguins and got a little penguin book for Imogene (mo-mo is what they call her!).
We went to The Liquidators and Trader Joe's on our way back to Provo and found some junk to buy. We were going to go to Winco but nobody had a debit card or cash so that was a bust!
We spent the evening just hanging out -- Mama Thatcher was there too and then we had pizza together before we headed back to our hotel.
Came home to Becca and Aj who are here for the weekend. Aj had some real estate stuff and just likes to hang down here.
After we got home, we went to E&Ds house and had dinner with Marcus and family and AJ and Becca and GPA and us. Marcus made ribs and they were super delicious. We visited for an hour or so after dinner.
We didn't do any church today so you might need to send ME a spiritual message this week!!!!
I know you had a rough day earlier this week. I hope you are feeling better now and able to soldier on. I've been worried about you all week! Look forward to talking to you!!! You'll have to let me know what time so i can make sure and have some time to chat with you. (Tomorrow is a holiday for me but not for dad).
Love you lots!
Mom
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