Awesome Weekend

Joey and I celebrated our 7th anniversary last weekend! April and Brad were awesome (fabulous, endearing, kind-hearted, merciful) enough to take the girls for us overnight and Joe and I hit the town, baby! It was AMAZING to get away from it all and spend some time together. We were both so relaxed and pleasant...hmmmm...so THATs how it used to be...I'd forgotten ;) We stayed at the Little America, which was really beautiful. They had two humongous flower arrangements in the lobby that were simply stunning. It smelled like stargazer lillies (my very favorite flower - they remind me of Davey) each time we walked in through the doors. We drove up to Park City on Saturday and rode the chairlift up the mountain and the alpine slide down. We shopped at the outlets, ate dinner at Ruth's Chris (culinary perfection, as usual), and played in the pool and jacuzzi before bed. We felt so unburdened...LOL! Sunday morning we went over to the Grand America for their brunch buffet (culinary heaven this time), and saw some movies before we came home. All in all, FANTASTIC weekend! April and Brad were just so adamant about how fun it was watching the girlies that we've already booked our room for next weekend...HA! ;)

Gracie started gymnastics last week and it was SO cute to watch. It is just her and a set of twin girls in her class, so that is awesome, They have special equipment for the young ones and they go around the room and do sort of an "obstacle course" of things. I think Gracie's favorite is the balance beam where she gets to shuffle herself across while holding her arms out. She's been practicing that move following a line on our big carpet in the living room :)

Janie has been loving getting outside everyday now that winter is gone and it's a scorching billion degrees outside :) She loves to sit in the sandbox and throw out all the toys. She's figured out how to stand up and try to fall out of her high chair (much to my hair's dismay - it's turning prematurely gray!), and she has also found that if she just pulls open the kitchen cupboard doors, there are lound, shiny silver toys to play with hiding in there! I just know she's upset that Gracie held out on her for so long with that secret :)

Joey's started his own blog. Check it out...http://joebags.blogspot.com/

I've been digging into good books left and right these days! I just finished The Wednesday Wars, The Book Thief, and The Host in the last week or so. Wierdly enough...they were all really exceptional reads! I recommend each one of them. Don't you think that's so rare to read multiple books in a row that are just great? I feel pretty lucky! Have you read anything great lately????? I'd love some new recommendations! Come on people, show me love!!