Bath tub colors!

Stu is a VERY observant boy! Everywhere we go he will yell out when he sees anything with Mickey Mouse, Elmo, an elephant, horse, truck, train, {even things that just look like trains or train tracks, which are the lights in the ceilings of the grocery store..} basically everything... Usually the things that he sees I have to search around for before I can even find them. He has a pretty good eye! The other day I was getting some mascara at walmart and he kept yelling, Elmo! Elmo!! It took me FOREVER on the make-up isle to find out what had elmo on it, but finally I saw a little package of Elmo bath fizzies. And, they were only 99 cents, so we had to get them! 

I am sure glad we did!!

 Saying HORRAY!!

St. George Trip: Mike's Version

On our trip to St. George, we met up with Clarissa's good friend from cosmetology school, Erin Russell. As they chatted, the topic of husbands posting on a family's blog came up, and I was challenged to do so. I have been planning to put something on here, but Clarissa beat me to the punch. But here goes my version of the trip...

The highlight of the trip, for me, was when I upheld my wife's honor by winning her a stuffed bunny from the claw. I might as well have been that guy carrying the giant stuffed bear that he won for his girlfriend at the fair, showing it off to everyone. That's how I felt at least. Lifetime record against the claw: 2 - (too many to admit to).

Clarissa is going to be irritated with me about this next one, but someone has to document it:  the rock at Zion National Park is certainly red, and Clarissa is getting a bump.



She's a cute little mom. Her back hurts, she has allergies, and that little guy loves to wiggle even when she'd like to be sleeping, but despite all of this, she still is the happy, fun Gus that everyone loves, especially me. She still looks dang cute--look at her hiking outfit. 

Another thing I like about Clarissa is when she enjoys something, it's easy to tell. She lights right up and has the cutest smile. I found a cool restaurant, Anasazi Steakhouse, that I knew she would love, and she did. She's always wanted to go to a fondue place, and this place had a great fondue appetizer and dessert. The appetizer was Swiss cheese fondue, which was great. Very delicious, with bread, carrots, broccoli, whatever. But the main course was most interesting. I had a steak, and Clarissa had Mahi Mahi. They serve it on a "hot rock," which is a flattened brick-looking stone. They heat it to 700 degrees, and you can feel the heat. They season the meat, and it comes out somewhat cooked on one side, but the side facing up has never touched a cooking surface. It's raw. So the trick is, you cut bite-sized portions and flip them over to finish the cooking. They sizzle, and after about 15 seconds or so they're ready to go. No worry about your steak getting cold--in fact, you had to wait after forking a piece before putting it in your mouth. It was a fun way to eat, very interesting.


Anyway, I had a great time with my cutie, I'm really grateful for her, and I'm grateful we were able to go on a little trip before Hubert comes (Clarissa hates the name, but I'm hoping to wear her down by persistent repetition). She's a nifty lady, but that is no news to those that will read this.

Yep...

Sometimes I am too tired to fight Stu into getting dressed... (0:

Don't worry this didn't last very long!   

St. George

For my birthday Mike surprised me with a trip to St. george for the weekend in the end of march! 

 We went to Zions National park and did a hike up to some really beautiful Water falls up in the rocks. The whole place was beautiful and I loved how everything is so red! 

 We were kind of beside ourselves being able to do just whatever we wanted with no Stu to chase after!! We definitely enjoyed our weekend away by going to the pool every night, Mike spoiled me with a maternity massage {AMAZING}, we did some shopping and went to a really fun resturant called Anasazi where we had fondue and our meat was served on a 700* rock so we cooked it ourselves!! it was really fun! if you are ever in St. George you NEED to go there!

So glad that I am married to this guy!!

And, that I had this guy to come back to. He had SO much fun playing with his cousins! He ate things with them that I can't get him to eat.. (:

April already??!!

I can't believe it is already April!! I guess we have just had plenty to keep us busy, time flys when your having fun right?? Here are some of the fun things that we have been up to...

SNOW

Stu got to play in the snow a grand total of 4 times this year. Everytime it snowed we stopped everything to go play since I knew it wouldn't last long!

 

This was when we were in Idaho. Stu got the honor of wearing the Raiders snow suit!!

 

EATING!!!

Stu has finally decided that it is ok to eat what we have for dinner.

Bouncing of the Walls!

We went with some friends to this fun place. Stu loved it!! I thought there was NO way he would even think about going up the big slide and sliding down, but I before he realized what he was doing he climbed up and went down! ...It was really fast, he wouldn't do it again! (:

Jazz Game

Mike's work has season tickets to the jazz games and we have been lucky enough to go to a bunch of them!