Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Random Fun

This post is so random, but filled with lots of fun memories we enjoyed over one weekend.

After we returned home from grocery shopping at Harmons, Jonny got carried away with the Bob and Randy stickers. He's such a character! I still don't know if he put them on himself, or if his big sister helped a little. What do you think?
On Friday and Saturday, I planned a Scrapbook Retreat at our house with some of my favorite girls-Kim, Becky, Christine, Alix, Jenica, and Kristal. Since it was Kristal's birthday, I made her a princess cake, and when she arrived, we all jumped out and yelled, "Surprise!" It was awesome! While we were partying away and working on our projects, Wade and the kids went to Tooele for the night. He was so happy to have that one-on-one time with his dad.
Saturday afternoon was the Zions Bank Bowl-A-Thon. So Wade and the kids bowled their little hearts out to raise money for youth programs. (more pictures coming soon!) I joined them for the last ten minutes after my Scrapbook Retreat was over. It was fun to see Emily so confident at bowling. With help from the bumpers, she scored over 100! :) Go Ems!

That night, Wade and I picked up my great uncle and aunt and took them to dinner to Cowboy Grub. I can't believe we have lived here for 4 years and have never been there before. It's got to be Salt Lake's best kept secret! The food was really good, but the best part was being there with my Uncle Roy and Aunt Arba. After almost 70 years of marriage, they're still so in love and show it. You can't help but want to be more loving to each other after watching their example.

Sunday afternoon, I drove Uncle Roy and Aunt Arba to Orem to visit my Grandpa Callister in his assisted living center. They were so happy to see each other! If anyone knows my grandpa, you can believe he was in tears throughout the entire visit. But so was Roy. It was neat to feel the love that exists between the three of them. They shared story after story with me about my grandma. Arba said that when she lived with my grandma and grandpa when they were newly married, that she NEVER once heard them speak unkindly to each other and that they showed greater love to one another than any other couple she knew. What a tribute!

6 comments:

*Aliese* said...

I love the Harmon's stickers; that's so great! What an awesome experience to be able to spend quality time like that with your older family members. I, too, LOVE the stories; I find them fascinating!

Grandma Grace said...

Thanks for what you did for the older generation. It meant a lot to them all.
GG

Anonymous said...

Let me know next time you want to visit Grandpa. I want to go too!

Megan said...

I always like hearing Grandpa's stories too. You are so sweet for visiting with them!

Kelly said...

I'm so glad your scrapbook retreat went well. Sorry I couldn't make it. So this weekend is bad, but let's plan a pizza hut date. We're not in a home yet, but we could still eat pizza! :-)

Recovery Guru said...

Wow you are one busy lady! I look at your blog and wonder how in the world you have so much energy to do all the fun stuff that you do? I guess it helps not to be 8 months pregnant huh!