Happy Birthday!

On Friday it was Mike's 25th birthday. Of course everyone knows how we celebrate birthdays around here, with food! For lunch, Mike's friend Rob took us to Fudruckers where Mike and I split an Elk burger. It was very good, Mike said it tasted like Yak. Very lean and very delicious. Then for dinner we went out with Mike's family to India Palace. Yay mango lassi! They have awesome service and very good food. It helps that they know us by sight there. Mike got some happy birthday Indian mango ice cream and shared it with all of us. Yum!

Then on Saturday Mike got to go stand around at Rice Eccles Stadium (at the U of U) and listen to the Governor give a speech for Governor's day. But the exciting news is that we got to go back out to Salt Lake that evening and have then best food on the planet.

Cucina Toscana! It's a great Tuscan restaurant that we have to limit ourselves to only going twice a year because it is a little pricey. It is well worth the money though. They have the most excellent pasta, proteins, and desserts. We love their 7 chocolates hot chocolate with biscotti.

On Sunday we had monster ( like german pancakes) for dinner because it is one of Mike's favorite things in the world. It's called monster because when it is baking in the oven it expands and swells like a great edible monster, but then it shrinks back down when it is taken out. A very lovely sweet syrup is poured over the top.

So we had a fun birthday weekend for Mike. I finally got him into some stylish new jeans and we set up the crib for the baby. Two unrelated things except that I have been wanting to do both for a while. Well, now it's back to packing so we can move!

What's New

Mike started his new job teaching at Liahona. He teaches Algebra 1, Algebra 2, and Geometry now. He loves teaching so much. He says his only regret is that he has to leave the kids that he's teaching in January. We move to Arizona this January for Mike's officer training for about 5 months. I've never been to Arizona, but I sure look forward to spending much of the winter without snow! Other than Mike's new job, we are working on packing up our house and moving out by October. Mike's parents are really nice and are letting us move in with them for a couple of months until we move to Arizona. It is really going to be a great help living with Mike's parents when the Baby gets here. I'm very grateful for the wonderful family that I had a chance to marry into. They really do take good care of us. I just don't know how to show just how grateful I am for all their help.

On Saturday, we had the baby shower here in Utah. It was very fun and relax. We just had a BBQ and people stopped by between noon and 4 at their leisure. It worked out very well I think. Thanks to Cassie and Tracy for throwing it! Sorry, no pictures because I forgot to get my camera out of my purse.

In other news, it's Mike's 25th birthday this Friday! And we start our prenatal classes at the hospital tonight. Hope it isn't too complicated.

Going, going, back, back

To California! I'm off to California for 5 days to visit with family and have an awesome baby shower! I'm totally excited. Mike is still in Seattle for a couple more days but we will be back together by Monday. Mike gets to start teaching on Wednesday. We'll see what I get to do next week since I won't be joining the rest of the kids going back to BYU because I'm all graduated and stuff. :) Maybe I'll make something. Here's to successful traveling for both Mike and I!

This has got to be my favorite commercial EVER

Best Ever

I just wanted to say that Mike is the best husband ever! He saved me from the dishes that were threatening to take over the house. :)

Live Music and Frozen Hot Cocao

On Friday, Mike and I went down to Lehi to listen to his Kung Fu Nephew's band play at a local cafe. The music was pretty fun to listen too and it wasn't too hot at 8pm. The Cool Beans Cafe has really good drinks. I had something called a crazy monkey frozen (coconut and banana) hot cocoa and mike had a hazelnut type frozen hot cocoa. Very fun! Earlier on Saturday we had gone out to eat at Chinatown in south Provo with his parents. It has to be the best Chinese food in Utah County. Then we went and played Majong for a couple of hours. Mike won overall, but I at least won one round!

Getting Ready...

This week we bought a pack n' play. Carter's Bumble Comfort n' Care Playard and Changer - Summer Infant - Babies "R" Us
I think it is really awesome. But today we went out to look at car seats and came across a really great Evenflow seat that was on clearance because they were switching fabric patterns. And then the guy at the store told us that we could use our coupon in addition to the clearance price. So in the end we have this totally awesome carseat for about half price.
All in all, a very good week for baby stuff. So we have all the big things ready; a place to sleep, a place to ride in the car, and a diaper bag (a place to hold stuff to clean up poop).