9 down, eternity ahead

Married couples who love each other
tell each other a thousand things without talking.
- Chinese Proverb 

For our ninth wedding anniversary we wanted to take a trip somewhere that we'd never been before. the hubs wanted snow... so we decided to try out the Mormon Mecca, Salt Lake City, Utah. We looked forward to getting to attend a session at the Salt Lake Temple, check out Downtown, see Temple square in the winter, get lost exploring, and meet up to visit with our amazing friends that moved out here a year ago the Frosties

 The Hotel was a definite success, a short walk from the temple, which we found out was closed after flying in at 7am so that we could attend before checking in to our hotel... fail. There was an outdoor retailer convention going on downtown and the Sundance Film Festival in nearby Park City, so needless to say it was packed. They managed to find a free room and let us check in early at no additional cost! Woot Hotel Monaco!

 We walked around Temple Square which was beautiful and for the first time, I got snowed on! I'm always either asleep or inside when it's actually snowing little snowflakes from the sky so this was pretty magical... for all of 10 minutes. After which, I was just cold. Props to those who can do it but I was not made for the cold.

 We drove up to Park City and had fun at Olympic Park checking out the museum, the grounds and the souvenirs. I was a complete peach as long as I was warm. Mr B will smile and nod politely at that statement. We ate at some amazing diners and restaurants. Thanks to Yelp! and our discovery friendly attitude toward trying new things!

 Our last dinner we spent catching up with our wonderful friends the Frost Family! SO happy to see them and get to spend time chatting and laughing over what was most definitely the least spectacular meal of the trip (don't eat at the Market Street Grill, it's eh) but the BEST company. I'll sit in an over heated, grumpy waitress, over priced, claustrophobic booth with uncomfortable chairs any day of the week if these are the peeps we're doing it with. Love you guys!

An afternoon with the 82s

JT got to spend some quality time with Unk on a Sunday in January. They took a trip to Fire Station 82 in Hollywood, CA where Unk's cousin, Fireman Ian, is an engineer. At first a little shy, it didn't take too long for JT to break out of his shell and enjoy climbing all over the engines, dressing up in a uniform, putting on the headset and spraying the hose! He hung out at the Fire House with the fellas for a bit until they got a call and had to go off in a blaze of sirens. After a morning of "training" he was a little bugged that he couldn't go out on the call with them.

Thanks Unk for an awesome experience and Fireman Ian and the 82s for being such cool hosts! Lilloman has new plans for what he wants to be when he gets a little taller.

First Tooth Faeries!

JT had his first loose tooth last month. We were all so excited since it's been a while since any baby teeth have popped out over here. After a whole lot of wiggling this last week it was finally  "ready". I refused to let Mr. B just pull it out, let alone do the whole floss on the door knob thing... (everyone says they did that but I think they might be full of it). Mama put her foot down that we would wait until it was absolutely ready and JT was absolutely comfortable before that first baby tooth went anywhere! (I have serious dental fear issues that I don't want to force them to let us pull out their tooth!) We wrapped some floss around that little sucker and let JT wiggle it around. Side to side, front to back. When he decided he wanted Mr. B to take the floss off, yopp! Just like that, out it popped. We were all very anxious and excited. Mr. B told JT, in hopes of urging it out, that the Tooth Fairy has a weekend scale so apparently, there would be some sort of bonus... Tooth in labeled bag, in hand, under pillow, JT drifted off. Ms. Tooth Fairy herself replaced that bottom left baby tooth with a pink envelope that contained a very nice note and pixie dust covered dollar bills! She was so silly she drew a mustache on Washington! Her notes explained that her general rate for a first tooth is $4 but because it was the weekend, JT got an EXTRA dollar! Since Daddy said he'd double what the tooth fairy brought, JT came up on a smooth ten bills! The five from Daddy went into the regular piggy bank but the five fairy dollars, he put in the bag, with the note and any dust he could scrape up and that's just so special, it had to go in a safe. Fairy dollars don't come around that often you know...