Anyway, back to the trip up North. So we go, and visit Paul's family and say bye to his brother, then Paul gets on an airplane to fly to Texas for the week. He got to go with SUU's PBL (professional business leaders) club to a national competition in San Antonio. They had to present a project and get judged on it. While Paul was in Texas I didn't want to be alone at home in Cedar so I stayed with my parents in Riverton and we had a few little adventures of our own.
Monday: Paul arrived in Texas at 12:00 AM Monday morning, then had to wake up at 6 AM to get ready for his presentation. He practiced with Randi and Johanna at 7:30 and presented at 10. After getting that huge load off of his chest, he walked the river walk and visited the shops in San Antonio. That evening he had a lovely dinner at the Rain Forest Cafe, and goofed off at the pool.
I woke up early to work out with my mom and get stuff done around the house. We loaded all the girlies in the car and went to Joann's in search of a sewing project to work on that week. We found swimming suit material and decided that all the girlies were going to make our own swimming suit top. When my dad got home he made all of us do bench pressing and curls, but it was great to have a hard workout.
Tuesday: Since Paul had done so well with his presentation his team made finals. They practiced early in the morning and presented for finals at 9:30 AM. After finals they all took a little river cruise down the San Antonio River walk as well as a trip to the Alamo. Since everyone was so tired they basically all took a nap then had dinner at a delectable BBQ restaurant.
I had decided that Tuesday was the decided sewing project day. We pieced our suits together and worked on them for most of the day. No big adventures here.
Wednesday: Paul had a lovely meeting to go to, but thats ok, because after the meeting he got to go shopping around town. And of course, he had to watch the soccer game for the Euro Cup. Wednesday was the closing ceremonies for Nationals, so that evening, thats were Paul was. They announced that Paul's group had gotten 1st place in his competition.
Today my mom declared that we needed to chop down an apple three in our backyard. I enlisted my youngest brother Tallus to do all the sawing of the large branches, then Kalena, Kessla and I all chopped off small branches and stripped them of their leaves. Surprisingly we got the whole tree chopped and stripped of leaves in less than 2 hours. Because we felt we had labored SO hard in the back yard, the kids decided we deserved a water fight. We picked up some squirt guns and water balloons and filled up our little kiddie pool in the yard. Kalena and I had the water balloons so we decided to join forces. Together we dominated Tallus and Kess in the water fight. They were totally soaked by the end. In their defense they got us real good too, but we got them better. While we dried off, all the girls decided to draw with chalk on the sidewalk. It was so joyous. Wednesday night my family introduced me to the movie Thor. I had never seen it before and it is fabulous! Right after we finished it we just HAD to rent Captain America from Redbox and watch that one (because I hadn't seen that one either). They are both fantastic movies. Now all I gotta do is watch the Avengers.
Thursday: Paul got on a plane at 6 AM to fly back to Utah. He had to catch a plane from SLC to Cedar but not until 5 in the evening so we planned to spend most of the day together before he had to go. He landed and came and got me from my parents. We visited his parents for a little bit then went to play ultimate frisbee with my dad's coworkers. It was really fun, and real nice to see Paul after 4 days. Once we finished frisbee, we picked my dad up from work and went to Paul's house. The plan was to play some FROLF (frisbee golf) but the course was kind of taken over so I said my goodbyes to Paul and left with my dad. Paul had to go to work the next day and take a test in Cedar so he couldn't stay up North with me.
After Paul left I got to go and do some horse therapy with an autistic boy in my mom's ward. We took the horses up to Dimple Dell and rode for almost two hours. It was a really humbling experience to hold that cute boy in my arms and kind of see the world through his eyes for those 2 hours. I decided that one day when I am not teaching anymore, I would love to do horse therapy for cute kids that need it.
Friday: Paul had to work and to take his motorcycle test (which he passed WOOT WOOT)! Then he went to the ward picnic and started a water fight with the youth in the ward. After his appearance at the picnic, he taught our really awesome neighbors Shay Martel, and Taylor and Aaron Remer how to make one of his favorite sandwiches, the samoan.
Some how I convinced my family to float the Provo river on Friday. We recruited a few rafts from neighbors and fixed the holes in our rafts. When we got to the river the sun was shining, it was super hot and we were all so excited to float the river. Kalena and I decided to take a two man raft and try to survive together. We figured that together we were either smart enough, or dumb enough to survive the trip down the river. As we started floating the river, the sun just kind of disappeared! It got a little cold outside too. We kept going though. Kalena and I hit a few
patches of white water rapids and some how survived. About 1/4 of the way down the river we got high centered on a rock and put a hole in our raft! We immediately started freaking out and waving our hands in front of our face like little girls tend to do. Just a little ways up Kess was in a four man raft with our neighbor Rachel. We begged them to let us join their boat and thankfully they let us. The rest of the trip was relatively uneventful until my dad started a water fight. It was SOOO cold. But we got him pretty good, so we all felt good about it. By the time we got to the end of our river run, the sun had come out again, we only had one hole in all of the rafts and no one got seriously hurt. Needless to say, it was a success! So, as most of you know, Utah has been burning to the ground the past week, and when we were driving home from our river trip, we could see that ANOTHER fire had started in Herriman. Crazy!
Saturday: Paul had the luxury of helping another family move out. After that he basically just loafed around the house to wait for his wonderful wifey to come home to him.
After a whole long week of being apart, it was so lovely to be back with the hubby. We both had so many wonderful adventures apart, but I definitely think that they are even better when we are together!
Until next time!!!
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