2002 Winter Olympics

I LOVED THE 2002 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES!!!

As we have been celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the games in SLC, I've realized that I have ABOSULETLY NOTHING to show for this amazing time of my life.  I didn't blog back then, or have a smart phone, and FB didn't exist, so all my pictures and videos were just on film and old fashioned video camera tape.  Sadly, all these pictures and videos are somewhere I am not able to access, and probably never will have access to again.  :(    I was longing to look through them last night, but will just have to steal pictures from the internet instead. 

All I have are the memories in my head.  So I want to capture these memories before I forget them.  I LOVED everything about the Olympics.  I LOVED the people from all around the world and the parties that were going on everywhere all the time.  I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED the hockey.  I got the chance to go to the semifinal game and watched Team Canada (along with Yzerman, Shanahan, Lindros, Kariya, Joseph, and so many other awesome hockey players) kick some butt.  I got interviewed by a Canadian news channel.  That same team won the Gold Medal that year (beat poor team USA). 

We went to some medal ceremonies and got to hear the Goo Goo Dolls live.  (AWESOME) Downtown was amazing and I loved just being there.  My Grandparents were here from Idaho and they got to participate in the events and being the small town farmers they were, it was quite the experience for them.  (My grandpa died unexpectedly that August.) I got to experience all this with one of my MOST favorite people in the whole world.  It was a great time of my life.  I felt like that future was so full of hope and that the world was just an amazing, awesome place and I wish I could go back to that feeling all the time. 

Many memories I will always cherish and a time of my life I will always long for again.  I feel so blessed I got to be a part of something so amazing. 

Love Day

Holidays are so much fun with young kids - any holiday - even the ones invented by commercial industries forcing you to tell people you love them.  :)  Even if I didn't have a "valentine" or any presents waiting for me, or any secret admirers or anything like that, I had two adorable kiddos super excited to see me when I got home that night from work.  So we celebrated the best way I know how, by MAKING COOKIES!!!

The kids LOVE to decorate sugar cookies.

Not only were they cute, but super delicious.   

Then for dinner I decided we would make a homemade heart shaped pizza.  It turned out super cute and delicious as well and a huge hit with the kiddos.   

I love my two little valentines and am so thankful for their love in my life.  

California Girls

Jet Blue was recently having a kick butt deal on flights to Long Beach.  Em and I both have been having some struggles and since her birthday was coming up I decided it would be the best present I could give her.  So I booked us a weekend get-a-way to the closest beach possible.  It was seriously the best trip.

We flew out Friday right after work and we pretty much followed the sunset the whole way there.  It was gorgeous. 

When we went to pick up our rental car the guy at the counter asked me why I was there.  I told him it was a girls get-a-way and he said "you can't have a girl get-a-way trip in a Toyota Camry" (which was the cheapest car and the one I had reserved).  He then offered me an incredible deal for an upgrade.  We ended up with a BRAND NEW 2012 Mustang Convertible and I must say it totally made our trip.   

We had some delicious fresh sea food

enjoyed the awesome view from our hotel

and played on the beach until we could play no more

The rest of the time we pretty much just cruised around topless (the car was topless, not us) and had the most amazing time. 

We ate yummy, yummy food and enjoyed warmth, sunshine, palm trees, and free drink offers pretty much every where we went.  It was quite the ego boost.   

We met plenty of weirdos and got creeped out at the wax museum. 

We laughed and laughed and laughed

And even cried a couple times. 

We enjoyed beautiful sunsets and had fun just being together. 

As we were getting ready to leave it started to rain.  We decided California was crying because it didn't want us to leave.  We didn't want to leave either.  It was the most perfect way to spend the weekend.  We both really do wish we could be California Girls.  We are at heart.  :)

(Way more pictures on FB if you want to check them out.)