Weekends of FUN

A lot has happened since the last post. Wow!!! We went to Utah for Luke's blessing. We were so excited to finally beable to go and see the new baby. We arrived in Utah on Saturday around 7pm. We stayed with Shad and Jenny which was a lot of fun for the boys. The drive to Utah was pretty uneventful. (side note: before we left Kennen had to work so the boys and I went to Safeway cause they were having killer deals on T.P. and papertowels. I bought 5 eight roll paper towels and 4 twenty four roll T.P. 3 dollars a piece. AWESOME!!!) Anyway, we got to Utah and went to NPS first thing cause we knew we wouldn't have time anyother day. Gotta love that store. We got to Shad and Jenny's and the boys had a blast playing.
On Sunday, Shad and Jenny went to church and we just hung out at there house while the were gone. Everyone started arriving around 130pm for the blessing. It was great to see Grandma and Grandpa Hansen, Mom and Jack, Jane, Sara, Ivan and kids. The blessing was nice and little which is always a good thing in my book. That night after all left, we broke out the rock band. Can I just say that was so much fun. It was good to have Kennen playing with us and so much fun to hear my brother sing songs. I so wish I had a video camera to capture the moment.
On Monday we left early, we had set up doctor appointments and a tax appointment while we were there. After all of the appointments we went to Macey's (another favorite) and bought a ton of case lot items. We are trying to re-stock our food storage since that is what we have been living on since we moved. We loved going to Macey's and the first thing the boys wanted as soon as we pulled into the parking lot was an ice cream cone. Gotta love 'em. When we got back to Shad and Jenny's it was around 330pm and it was snowing. We got our stuff together and headed home. We made it to Salt Lake without any real problems in the snowstorm, but when we started heading up Parley's we decided we had a problem it took us over 2 hours to go from Salt Lake to Park City. When we got to Park City we pulled over for a bite to eat and an update on I-80. Two of my friends in Wyoming had been checking the weather and road conditions all day for us and texting me with the info. Well, we couldn't come home I-80 shut down. We ended up having to find a motel room and spend a night there. Kennen had to call his boss and tell him we were stuck for the night and we would be arriving a little later than planned. Steve was cool about Kennen not coming in on Tuesday.
Tuesday morning we awoke and got breakfast and started on our journey again. After traveling awhile, Kennen said he was thankful we stopped cause the roads were still not friendly that morning. We drove and drove mind you very slowly. We passed wreck after wreck. Some of them required us to stop for long amounts of time. By the time we got home we were all tired, sick (literally) and we had been trying to get home for 28hours.
Wednesday, we spent the day in bed cause the boys and I were sick. We had such bad colds it was miserable. Thursday, I wasn't as achy as I had been so I got up but then Robbie started throwing up. So we spent that day catching throw up. Friday we all felt human again, and the boys were ready for a break outside so off to the castle park we go. Saturday, Kennen's uncle Mark and Aunt Verna come to our house and hung out for a couple of hours which was nice to see and talk with them. Kemmerer High School boys basketball team was in the championship game that night here in Casper. Their son Phil is the Ast. Coach so they came to support, which inturn had us going to help chear on the boys team as well. Robbie had a great time at the game and Sid did well until about the 3rd quarter and wanted to go home.

That is our week in a nut shell. sorry, it is so long. We love ya all. Melinda, thanks for doing the survey on why everyone leaves comments on a blog. I enjoyed reading the answers you received and then your answer.

Take care and have a good week.