So, I have friday, sat and sunday off. I have a few things I COULD be doing but I dont want to. They are BORING things to do!!! Like: unpacking, putting away clothes, depositing my check, food shopping etc.... Chores! I WISH there was something fun to do!! None of my friends are around because they are working. PLUS, to add to this boredom it is raining outside!! I love the rain but not when I have NOTHING to do. I could have read a book outside in the sun and get a tan but nnnnoooooooooo! I NEED to relax but I dont want to just sit around and watch TV. So I am blogging... =)
So this blog is about Utah...
The next couple of day were and still are a blur. I am sure we just hung out at his parents house and went food shopping. Bryant and I went, pretty much every night, out on a mini date. One night we went to a look out point and looked down into SLC at all the buildings, houses and lights. It was beautiful! We also had an AMAZING talk. I ALWAYS love talks when we are relaxed and there is nothing around to distract us or stress us out. I feel like that is when we are the most ourselves. Where we can say whatever we want and go deep into ideas, thoughts and feelings we have for each other. We have both felt very strongly about how much we both feel like "This is the place" for us to raise a family, as we looked out into the Salt Lake City Valley in the dead of night, holding each other.
A few days later, we took a tour of Temple Square by ourselves. Bryant has never been on the tours or in the buildings. So I thought it would be fun to do with him. Halfway threw the tour with the sister missionaries we left them! lol We went to the top of the church office building and looked at all of the church history buildings and significant places in SLC by a private tour guide at a birds eye view. We were the ONLY ones up there. It was fun!! We also took a tour of the conference building. I've been in there...bryant hasn't. So while he was listening to the guide speak I was off on my own, into la la land taking pictures of course! It was SO great to be with him. I miss spending time with him like that! =(
The next day, I suggested that we take his parents with us when we went to Park City. Bryant has been wanting to go there to see about job opportunities. There was pretty much NOTHING to do there. But we walked around, took goofy pictures and enjoyed the day. 
Then the next day, we had plans to see 2 sets of people! lol We first stopped by Highland to see our good friends the DePaula's and have lunch with them. They were senior missionaries in our home ward back in New York who recently finshed their mission. We just LOVE them!! I haven't spoken to Brother Depaula much but I just LOVE the spirit and love that RADIATES everytime I am around him! As for Sister DePaula....she is my angel! She has helped me SO much during the worst time of my life. She understood me, listened to me and gave me kind words of advice, love and assurance. Just what I needed. I just LOVE listening to her and getting wisdom and insite from her. I also, just LOVE the spirit that I feel when I am around her. They are such special people. Sister DePaula and I came up with the idea: That the flag is no good without the pole. The pole is no good without the flag. The flag needs the stability of the pole. The pole needs the beauty of the flag and gentility of it as it blows in the soft wind. Without the flag, the pole is just a big metal stick in the ground. In short...man is no good without the woman and woman is no good without the man. Yeah...we are pretty silly! lol
Oh yeah...so then after spending a few hours with them we headed off to Mapleton to see my Uncle and his WAY silly family! The GPS kept getting us lost because there was road construction that "IT" was not aware of and kept taking us BACK into it! But we FINALLY got there. We had SUCH a great dinner and we chatted the rest of the night. I was VERY happy to FINALLY see some family. I enjoyed seeing my aunt Rosie's craftiness with scrapbooking and the love that my uncle has for geneology. I also got to see how big my little cousins are. Miss Annalyse is ALMOST as tall as me and she is like 8!!!! Jared was so silly...he's 6 I think. Bryce is 4 I think. He just kept smiling at me. They are so sweet! I miss them. So we left there around midnight. Bryant and I took the long way back home. Enjoying the company of each other, the breeze, the night lights and of course the spirit that nags us and confirms to us that we need to be there.
The next day, we went to This is the place and Hogle Zoo. This is where my camera battery starts to die. So we got a few good pics in at This is the place and NONE at the zoo. For those who know me...that SUCKED!! I took about 300+ pics this trip. This day we took his parents with us since we haven't seen them in a few days! lol =) So we spent about 4-5 hours at This is the place. I have NEVER heard of this place. It is such a significant church history place. I loved it here!!! But it was HOT! The zoo was fun! I LOVE animals but it is NOTHING compared to the Bronx Zoo! ;) We met up with friends again at the Zoo. It made it more enjoyable for me to be around friends and people who speak english-I dont have to keep asking What are you saying?? That was a bit of an "issue" in Utah. It was a nice break =) 
We also met up with friends for dinner and saw a friends new baby girl. She is just SO precious!!! I got Bryant to hold her. It was SO sweet to see him hold her and speak to her in spanish. It was also funny to see him panic when she started to fuss....within a split second he said HERE take her!!! lol It was cute! 
So that was our trip. I wish I was able to take more picture of our friends and family. We had SUCH a great time!! After our almost 10 day trip we took the red eye back to New York. AGAIN we didnt sleep on the plane. So when we got home at 7am we snoozed the day away. We miss Utah...... 
So this blog is about Utah...
Most of the readers of our blog we saw while we were in Utah...so this might be boring for you since you already heard us talking about what we did there.
So...our flight got us in Salt Lake City at midnight. We get home about 12:40am. We get in our jammies and then about 15 mins later Bryant's mom tells us they are going to the emergency room. We JUMP out of bed, get dressed. To add to this chaos we didnt sleep AT ALL on the plane...it was SO uncomfortable!! So we get her in the car and drive to the emergency room. I got her calmed down by the time we got to the hospital. So...we were there for about 5-6 hours and the doc said that it was anxiety that caused her puffy eye that she couldnt even open and he unability to walk/hold her own weight and uncontrolable shaking. So they gave her medicine and a CT scan just to be sure. I had to translate the medical terminology and then explain it to Bryant, who then in turn translated it in spanish to his mom and step dad. So we got home and went "back" to bed around 6am. So that was fun! But we are glad that it wasn't something else.
Later that night we met up with friends from New York that live nearby his parents house in SLC. We went bowling and out to eat. It was fun! I REALLY miss hanging out with friends out here in New York!!
The next couple of day were and still are a blur. I am sure we just hung out at his parents house and went food shopping. Bryant and I went, pretty much every night, out on a mini date. One night we went to a look out point and looked down into SLC at all the buildings, houses and lights. It was beautiful! We also had an AMAZING talk. I ALWAYS love talks when we are relaxed and there is nothing around to distract us or stress us out. I feel like that is when we are the most ourselves. Where we can say whatever we want and go deep into ideas, thoughts and feelings we have for each other. We have both felt very strongly about how much we both feel like "This is the place" for us to raise a family, as we looked out into the Salt Lake City Valley in the dead of night, holding each other.
A few days later, we took a tour of Temple Square by ourselves. Bryant has never been on the tours or in the buildings. So I thought it would be fun to do with him. Halfway threw the tour with the sister missionaries we left them! lol We went to the top of the church office building and looked at all of the church history buildings and significant places in SLC by a private tour guide at a birds eye view. We were the ONLY ones up there. It was fun!! We also took a tour of the conference building. I've been in there...bryant hasn't. So while he was listening to the guide speak I was off on my own, into la la land taking pictures of course! It was SO great to be with him. I miss spending time with him like that! =(
The next day, I suggested that we take his parents with us when we went to Park City. Bryant has been wanting to go there to see about job opportunities. There was pretty much NOTHING to do there. But we walked around, took goofy pictures and enjoyed the day.
The day after that, we went to visit one of my friends from California that lives in Orem with her little family. We left SLC early not knowing how long it would take us to get there and I found an arcade place with indoor glow in the dark mini golf, go karts and arcade games. So Bryant and I spent about 2-3 hours there. Then we went out to eat with my friends and then we spent about 30 mins trying to decide what to do. So we ended up on going to the mall and playing at the arcade. =) I was ADDICTED to Deal or No Deal!! I WON 200 tokens...the equivelent of $750,000 if you watch the game show. I would MUCH rather have the money....
Then the next day, we had plans to see 2 sets of people! lol We first stopped by Highland to see our good friends the DePaula's and have lunch with them. They were senior missionaries in our home ward back in New York who recently finshed their mission. We just LOVE them!! I haven't spoken to Brother Depaula much but I just LOVE the spirit and love that RADIATES everytime I am around him! As for Sister DePaula....she is my angel! She has helped me SO much during the worst time of my life. She understood me, listened to me and gave me kind words of advice, love and assurance. Just what I needed. I just LOVE listening to her and getting wisdom and insite from her. I also, just LOVE the spirit that I feel when I am around her. They are such special people. Sister DePaula and I came up with the idea: That the flag is no good without the pole. The pole is no good without the flag. The flag needs the stability of the pole. The pole needs the beauty of the flag and gentility of it as it blows in the soft wind. Without the flag, the pole is just a big metal stick in the ground. In short...man is no good without the woman and woman is no good without the man. Yeah...we are pretty silly! lol
Oh yeah...so then after spending a few hours with them we headed off to Mapleton to see my Uncle and his WAY silly family! The GPS kept getting us lost because there was road construction that "IT" was not aware of and kept taking us BACK into it! But we FINALLY got there. We had SUCH a great dinner and we chatted the rest of the night. I was VERY happy to FINALLY see some family. I enjoyed seeing my aunt Rosie's craftiness with scrapbooking and the love that my uncle has for geneology. I also got to see how big my little cousins are. Miss Annalyse is ALMOST as tall as me and she is like 8!!!! Jared was so silly...he's 6 I think. Bryce is 4 I think. He just kept smiling at me. They are so sweet! I miss them. So we left there around midnight. Bryant and I took the long way back home. Enjoying the company of each other, the breeze, the night lights and of course the spirit that nags us and confirms to us that we need to be there.
The next day, we went to This is the place and Hogle Zoo. This is where my camera battery starts to die. So we got a few good pics in at This is the place and NONE at the zoo. For those who know me...that SUCKED!! I took about 300+ pics this trip. This day we took his parents with us since we haven't seen them in a few days! lol =) So we spent about 4-5 hours at This is the place. I have NEVER heard of this place. It is such a significant church history place. I loved it here!!! But it was HOT! The zoo was fun! I LOVE animals but it is NOTHING compared to the Bronx Zoo! ;) We met up with friends again at the Zoo. It made it more enjoyable for me to be around friends and people who speak english-I dont have to keep asking What are you saying?? That was a bit of an "issue" in Utah. It was a nice break =)
We also met up with friends for dinner and saw a friends new baby girl. She is just SO precious!!! I got Bryant to hold her. It was SO sweet to see him hold her and speak to her in spanish. It was also funny to see him panic when she started to fuss....within a split second he said HERE take her!!! lol It was cute!
So that was our trip. I wish I was able to take more picture of our friends and family. We had SUCH a great time!! After our almost 10 day trip we took the red eye back to New York. AGAIN we didnt sleep on the plane. So when we got home at 7am we snoozed the day away. We miss Utah...... 
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you never told me you were thinking of moving there. we'd miss you!
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