My Dad

is the best. Happy Birthday Dad! We had a conference weekend retreat at our house. Todd & Molly and Mom & Dad were able to stay over and watch conference with us. The whole family minus just one (missed you Melissa!) , 37 in all came tonight after the last session to celebrate Dad's birthday. We had French Dip sandwiches, grilled hot dogs, fruit salad, pasta salad, cookies, cream puff tower covered in chocolate, strawberry lemonade, veggie tray, chips/dips and salsa. We spent around 4 hours just hanging out outside, it was very nice. Dad was on the spot for just a while--we went around the group saying things that described him using the letter of the alphabet they were assigned. There were some good ones! Jake brought the traditional pitching machine and the group tried to catch whatever came out, including: tennis balls, wash-cloths, socks, cell-phones etc. Sort of a "will it blend? " activity.

Recap of the week:
* drive home from CA
* Laundry
* Sophie counts to 10 in Spanish & sings Twinkle Twinkle Little Star-in tune.
* temple/lunch with Todd
* met a nice couple and took them home to Gilbert from the temple, Bro&Sis Petersen
* lots of eating out--bad, bad, bad. I'll do better this week.
* Date-movie and Red Brick--YUM.
* Chase's team won their first game by lots
* Birthday parties
* Almost got hit by a car that just hit another car. Both of his airbags were deployed, he couldn't see and he was heading right at me. Metal, glass, smoke and liquid everywhere. I'm still a little shaken up about it.
* Girls' night + Brig, while the guys went to the priesthood session & BBQ dinner together. We ate at Rigatoni's-great salad and bread, then walked around Target and Fresh & Easy.
* Shopping with Molly for birthday presents
* Shopping with Ally for {longish}shorts
* Made a baby doll top for Sophie, pj pants for 3 little ones.
* Ate some Pocky
* had 8 Stadium of Fire tickets in my cart, section 102 seats 4, 5, 6, 7 in two rows, completed whole process with total and delivery method etc. waiting for confirmation and system reboots, asks if I would like to try again. Tried again and couldn't even get one seat. Boo BYU ticket system. It was that way for EFY too.
*Grocery shopped
* Chase's Basketball game
* met with architect
* Took YW to Matta's
* Todd & Chase ran school's 5K
*Watched conference and have a list of things to work on.
* Completely filled up my computer with photos, 40,000 {since 2003} Backed up all but April 2008. That took a while.