Monday, February 12, 2007

A Quick Trip to Charlotte!



This weekend our family headed up to Charlotte, North Carolina to see our cousins. We are so excited to have Rob and Flori living so close to us! It has been a long while since we've seen them. They are about 4 1/2 hours from us which is a hop, skip and a jump when you consider that our families live soooo far away in Utah! We got to their home Friday evening and left Sunday afternoon. Not nearly enough time!


We had a house full of six gaggling geese! Each of our girls is only about a year in age difference and within 15 min. they were glued at the hip and having a fantastic time. Flori is also pregnant and due the month after me with, of course, another little girl. I'd say we worked that out just perfect!


On Saturday we went to this fun place called Imagine On (if I remember correctly) and the kids had such a blast. They had a section where the kids can dress up in animal or princess costumes and play in this huge area where they had a palace with a dinner table set up with play food and plates, etc. The girls are sitting in the reading center in this next picture. They also had a shoemakers place where the kids could make shoes and a Jack-in-the-bean-stock area with a slide.

Of course the most exciting place of all for six little princesses was the Cinderella coach! There was quite the wait and anticipation to get in there. They didn't get to sit in there for very long, but there was so much to do that they had other things to occupy their time.



After the girls played we went to the most delicious pizza place and ate lunch. Flori and Rob had these coupons that had us buy 4 - 14inch pizzas. As they all came out we were a little embarrassed and thought surely we would have another meal out of them. Even more embarrassing however was the fact that we went home with only 4 pieces of pizza. It was so delicious and we devoured them very quickly! You'd have thought we hadn't eaten in a week. To mine and Flori's defense - we are eating for two!!!

There was much weeping, whaling, and gnashing of teeth when it was time to go - mostly on Emree's part! The girls are so excited to have new found cousins so close and Brackon and I are excited to have Flori and Rob back again. We had such a great time and look forward to getting together soon.

Monday, February 05, 2007

They closed the schools for this?

The other day, we were hit with some brutal weather, they even closed the schools for the day. As you can see from the picture below, we didn't dare leave the house because we were "frosted" in! -Brackon


Atlanta Thrashers Hockey Game


While waiting at the Atlanta airport for a business trip to Dallas, TX, I was seated next to Marion Hossa. He is a leading scorer in the NHL and was on his way out to Dallas to particpate in the NHL All-Star game. His publicist asked me if I would change seats with his mother. She is Russian and does not speak English. He wanted to be able to sit next to his mother. I gladly acquiesced to his request. He in turn promised some tickets to a hockey game.


They were great seats in the club section. We had a blast! The girls love hockey! I suppose its the Canadian in them. Here are some pics we snapped while at the game.



The beautiful Maple Leaf was high above the ice as flames poured out of the Thrasher's mouth. -Brackon