Memorial Day

A few days ago Holly reminded me that Memorial Day was coming up and that I had the day off. Somehow I had forgotten all about the long weekend and in my mind was set to head off to work first thing Monday morning as though everything was fine and dandy.

Instead of that though, we enjoyed yesterday by engaging in several fun adventures. First and foremost, Jack managed to sleep through the entire night and didn't wake up once until about 6:30am, which meant we both slept quite well. Holly fed him when he woke up and he fell right back asleep in her arms (in the bed) until about 8:45, which let me wake up, take a shower, do a few small things around the house, and figure out what we were going to do for the day.

I woke the two of them up just before nine o'clock and Holly got ready so we could make it to the movie theater for the 10:00am showing of the new Night at the Museum movie. We figured if we went really early to the first show that Jack would sleep through most of it (right during nap time) and that there wouldn't be very many people present for him to bother if he got out of control. Turns out I was wrong on the number of people who would be there as the theater was pretty full, but Jack did cooperate at least for the first half of the movie by sleeping. After that he sort of got wiggly and in the end I wound up walking up and down the side aisle with him while we finished the movie. All in all it was a fun time though.

After the movie we came home and I had to go to work for Conquer Club (it wasn't a holiday in Canada where the site is based), so Holly hung out with Jack for a few hours, and then eventually packed Jack up to go over to Julie's apartment for some swimming adventures. It was Jack's first time and from what I've been told he loved every minute of it. I'll post pictures once I get them off of the camera. I guess we'll have to go again soon so that he can have fun again.

By the time Holly got home with Jack from swimming my work was almost done and then we wanted to get something fun for dinner. We were just deciding on what to go get when Shyla and Russell stopped by with Amish Friendship Bread (my favorite) and visited for a little while. Once they left we decided on a new burger joint called Chadders that is just a few blocks away and got dinner there.

Also, all my paychecks finally came in so we were able to head on over to Babies'r'us and pick up a high chair, which is something we have sorely been needing ever since we started going hard core with the rice cereal a couple times a day. Jack was a little skeptical at first about the whole not being held while eating thing, but once he figured out what was going on he did pretty well. Now we just need to learn that chewing on the high chair tray between bites is counter-productive to the whole eating process. It sure made feeding him a lot easier though, it only took one person and not both of us, so Holly should be able to get more solids in him during the day now without too much trouble.

That's about it for our Memorial Day, hopefully yours was pretty good too!

A Visitor: Dave Buck

Several of you know who Dave Buck is. I like the guy quite a bit as he's always got something interesting to say, and has that rare ability to talk for at least a little while on just about everything to a point where the conversation never has to lag or get dull.

Apparently, he's going to Air Assault school soon, which must easily rank as far cooler than anything I'll be doing in the next 6 months. I guess it is where you learn how to drop from large helicopters from incredibly heights on ropes and such.

Entertainment personified = Dave Buck

Anniversary Number Two

It's been over a week since the actual day, but life has been busy. However, now I can make mention of Holly and I's second anniversary.

First off, I surprised Holly by staying home from work because she thought I was going to be gone most of the day. She was pretty excited that I got to stay home with her because it meant we could go on all of our adventures much earlier in the day.

After sleeping in for a little bit, and taking our time getting ready in the morning we made our way down to Spanish Fork to purchase my new scooter. It wasn't really an official anniversary present from Holly, but it sort of was because I had to have her permission to buy the thing anyways.

Then, we had a quick lunch at Taco Bell (because that is what Holly was craving at the time) and off we went to see what kind of adventures we could come up with. We started at the University Mall where Holly did a little bit of maternity shopping; she found a cute dress that she really likes. Then off to Thanksgiving Point where we perused the Dinosaur Museum because we had never been before.

I liked all the dinosaur bones, and I think perhaps the next time Mom, Dad, and the girls are around we'll have to take them to see it. It's one of the better ones I've been to, lots and lots of bones, and some fun things to do with younger kids.

After the museum we thought about going to wander around the gardens, but we decided it was a bit too hot, so we settled for a quiet dinner at the Thanksgiving Point Deli, which makes some delicious cheeseburgers and fries.

Then it was on to the movie theater for a showing of Mamma Mia! because I'm a big time ABBA fan (thanks a lot Mom), and Holly loves musicals. I liked it more than I thought I would, mostly because of the music, and Holly had a good time.

Finally, we went home, turned up the air conditioning real high, and read our books until we fell asleep. It was a fun day full of adventure, just how I like it.

As far as presents are concerned, Holly got me a popcorn popper, just like the one I talked about a few weeks ago here on this very blog, and I bought her the new vampire book "Breaking Dawn" by Stephanie Meyer. She literally finished it within... 6 hours or something like that.