RaVae EricksonMuch has happened since last time:
The chili cook-of went alright…didn’t win anything and it was a LOT of work. But it was fun too.
We convinced Brittni to help us build valves for Walter Corp. Got her all trained up on Sunday afternoon and then spent the evening with her family at her Uncle and Aunt’s house. (they had a superbowl party there) Then she came back up on Monday to relearn and help us tear apart and clean ten valves…I’m not sure how many we actually did, but by the time we were done we were ALL starving and ready to be done. We get to pressure test all of them on Sunday-Happy Valentines Day, eh?
My birthday was Tuesday…I worked and went to the Nuggets game with Hubbin. We got tickets to the suite/box that Ensign owns from my Dad. The game was somewhat uneventful and kind of boring. I never really got into it. The food at the game was awful! We tried to get dinner from this Asian place right outside of the suite but the meat was SO salty it didn’t taste good and their rice was mush…I ate all of the vegetables but was still starving so Hubbin and I ended up walking around the whole Pepsi Center to find pretzels. We found them and they were pretty good! I got tons of “Happy Birthday” messages on Facebook and texts on my phone. This is one of my favorites:
How can you NOT love that toothless, contagious smile? And that outfit is the one Joel and I had made for him when we were on the way to be there when he was born!
Had Birthday Dinner with my family last night at PF Changs. I think we all concluded that my “Heart attack on a Plate” dinner was the best one ordered! Then Mom and Josh came back and shared birthday cake with Hubbin and I. That is a great picture too…
I REALLY wanted that cake…I ordered it from the lady who made our wedding cake and it was AMAZING!
Mom and Dad ordered a sweet tub for Mom for in the bathroom…has tons of jets and air bubbles. And I plan on using it at least once…hehe! Now, how long before it gets here and I can use it? (two weeks, lol)
I’m concerned that Hubbin and I are losing/have lost a dear friend of ours named Dustin…we have only seen him twice in the last two weeks and usually we see him (even if its only five minutes) five or six times a week! I’m not sure what, if anything, we can do about it…we’ve invited him to dinner twice and never got a response and I called him last night to ask him a question and he didn’t answer…breaks my heart losing friends, especially good ones like Dustin.
Glen and Linda are leaving in three weeks…I helped her with her computer for over an hour last night and I am a bit concerned that they will have no one to help them figure it out when they are in Haiti. (If you are interested their Blog site is: www.glenandlinda.blogspot.com ) She has also not figured out what she is going to do for her electronic Book devise yet…Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle? Any voters? We will miss them a ton and are trying to spend some extra time with them before they leave…having dinner with them on Monday night.