Five Things

The last couple weeks have been fun ones. I missed this Friday post last week, but i'm going to make up for it this week with some sweet photos.

#1- Last week, David went to Phoenix for an audit he was doing. He was gone for pretty much the whole week and so Lydia and I packed it up and headed to Morgan to hang out with my family. We missed him a lot, but it was really fun to spend the week in Morgan. (We watched the whole first season of "Hart of Dixie" with my mom and thought it was so cute!) And David also managed to have some fun while he was away (even though we know he missed us a lot, too). Here are some pictures of him at the Diamondbacks game!

 Go Diamondbacks! 

#2- Before David took off for his trip, we were able to go out to eat at Taggarts Grill. Taggarts is pretty much the only "restaurant" in Morgan (and it's not really even in Morgan, it's in Taggart). But we've been wanting to go there together for a long time. In fact, at some point fairly early on in our dating - I promised David that I would take him there someday. He teases me about it occasionally because after more than four years... I still hadn't kept my end of the bargain. But we finally made it! My parents watched Lydia for us and we went and had a really nice time. (Thanks mom and dad!)We didn't get very good pictures, but after four years - my debt is finally paid!

#3- Also before David left, my dad helped us replace the CV joint in our car, Tinka. For several weeks now, I've been hearing a grinding noise whenever I turned. Having already experienced what happens when a CV joint completely breaks right in the middle of a left hand turn (and believe me - it is not pleasant) I was really worried. Luckily I have an awesome Dad and an awesome husband and after just a couple of hours our CV joint was as good as new. I failed to get any pictures of the process, but here is a picture of what a CV joint is. It is the wonderful thing that gives a car the ability to.. well... turn.

Image from here: How to tell if your CV joint is acting up.

I really am so grateful for my dad. He is always so willing to help and is so knowledgeable when it comes to cars (and building things, and fixing things, and making 3-D models of Calculus equations, and well pretty much everything!)


#4- While David was gone, Lydia and I were able to go to the Brigham City Temple Open House with my dad and brother. It was so much fun and so beautiful! I was sad that David couldn't come with us... but I am so glad that we were able to go. It was such a fun time. I can't wait to attend that temple with David. I especially loved all of the peach blossoms. I love how special and sacred the temple is, and is such a neat thing for anyone who is interested to come and see what we believe and why it is so important to us. If you are interested in learning more about temples or our church... please here - visit The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: Temples. 

Picture from Deseret News

#5- Today Lydia and I got to go to a Pirate Party. The local history museum put on this little pirate party and so we just had to go. We went with my friend Ashley. She has a rambunctious two year old boy and a sweet baby girl who is pretty close to the same age as Lydia and we love playing together. I also volunteered to take another friend's kids because she recently was put on bedrest until her third is born. Man, it was quite the adventure trying to handle that many kids - but we had a good time.

Ashley and I. 

My sweet little scallywag! Arrgggh.  

She was so good the whole time and just kept chatting up a storm.  

A cute and funny story about these friends. We went on a walk together yesterday, and then decided to go to the library. After we got there Ashley said that Carson had been saying "Hi Lyd-ja! Hi Lyd-ja!" the whole way to the library, while pointing to our car. We both thought it was so cute. (He is so good with both Lydia and his little sister Elsie.) We tried prompting him to do it again while we were at the Library but to no avail. After the library, we decided to stop off at the park. Ashley was holding Elsie, but Lydia was sleeping in her carseat so I was helping Carson climb a bendy-ladder to get up on the jungle gym. After a little bit, I walked back over to Ashley. Not too long later we heard this sweet little voice "Lyd-ja! Lyd-ja! Help! Lyd-ja!". We were confused at first, but then realized that Carson thought that my name was Lydia! It was SO funny, but totally makes sense... because anytime that Carson sees me... I am always holding Lydia and Ashley always says "Say hi to Lydia!" He just associated that name with me. It was so cute. We worked on changing my name to Lydia's Mom - and I loved that! It was the first time that i've really been known as Lydia's Mom. It was sweet.


p.s. I've had this horrible error keep popping up when I try to upload photos to blog. It says that my blog is full and I can't upload any more pictures unless I upgrade my blogger and start paying. I do NOT want to start paying for my free blog. Have any of you experienced this? What did you do? It's like like I post SO often or SO many pictures! I'm really upset. So far i've been able to work around the error by using pictures from the internet and not just the ones on my computer -but it's seriously a problem. I don't know what to do.