That's What I'd Call a Successful Weekend

So, AJ and I decided to take a little vacation this past weekend. We had been talking about making a trip down to Salt Lake area to check out some of the baby stores we don't have around here, as well as Ikea.

AJ called and made reservations at Hotel Mathers (his sister's house) and we left Friday around 3ish. We hit up Ikea on our way down. They had some really decent cribs for good prices, but they weren't my dream crib, so we held off. Besides, we wanted to see what some of the other stores had. We did splurge on a lingionberry juice and a cinnamon roll though. We had to stop at Chadder's for a burger and fries for dinner too. We spent Friday night with AJ's sister Jewelia and her family. The first thing we had to do when we got there was go see their chickens. And the new chicken coop they were building; which, by the way, is finished now and looks just fabulous. We eventually made our way to American Fork and our hotel reservation. We watched an episode of Grey's Anatomy with Tavia and then went to bed.

We got up Saturday morning and went to breakfast at Chris and Jewelia's... it was delicious! They continued working on their new chicken coop while I... napped on the couch. I thought about going out and helping, and was even about to, but I started feeling kinda icky and that then led me to my little nap on the couch. I really am soo ready to not be pregnant anymore. Less than 100 days left! =]

After they finished what they could on the chicken coop (a run to Home Depot halted the progress) AJ and I went and hit the stores we had wanted to. Baby Depot inside Burlington Coat Factory had a gorgeous crib/changing table combo... but was waay out of our price range. We did find a cool portable crib that we wrote down in our memo pad for future reference. It was kinda cool and would definitely have been a space saver. We decided that we could probably get a full sized crib from Ikea for about the same price and we'd rather do that. It was still pretty neat though. We had lunch reservations at Tucano's.... oh my... soo delicious. And you just have to get some of the grilled pineapple every time it comes around. After we ate our guts to the incredibly full level, AJ and I went and found Babies R Us and we went and cashed in a raincheck we had at Shopko. We also went to Wal-Mart... the funny story here: when we walked in the store it was drizzling a little, but when we came back out it was raining fairly hard. Harder than I realized. We walked out the doors on the opposite end of the parking lot. I hadn't zipped up my jacket, just pulled it around me. By the time we got to the car, I had a big wet spot... all across my baby belly. And that was it! Apparently it stuck out more than everything else. It was kinda funny.

We went back to Chris and Jewelia's and the rain had stopped just long enough for them to finish the chicken coop. It turned out great. They moved the chickens from their box in the garage out to their new house. We hung out with them for a while and made our way back to Seth and Tavia's for the night.

We got up the next morning, and ate some scrumptious waffles for breakfast... Thanks Seth! Then we headed to church. I'd woken up with a super stiff back and Sacrament Meeting was about all I could handle. AJ took me back to Tavia and Seth's and I spent the next two hours with a hot rice bag on my back... and napping yet again. Seems like I do that a lot... We ate when Seth and Tavia got home and then hung out for a little while. Seth had to take a nap... he works nights. Tavia, AJ and I went over to Chris and Jewelia's for dinner. It was also very delicious... we ate fantasically this weekend. We played a few rounds of Rummikub (AJ and I even won one) and a couple rounds of Yahtzee (I also won one of those... not that I kept track or anything =] ). Seth came over for a while before he had to head into work. We all eventually left, Seth for work and AJ, Tavia and I for her house. AJ and I started a movie, but called it quits before we both fell asleep.

We got up Monday, finished some shopping, and AJ found a couple of Wii remotes he wanted to look at. We did that and then left and made our way back to home, sweet home.

So, what made this weekend so successful? Well, we came back with a crib, a walker, a swing, a pack 'n play (our Shopko raincheck purchase) and two more Wii remotes and nunchucks. Three of them were hand-me-downs, and the others we didn't pay full price for. We'd sure call that success. However, we did fail at one thing: we didn't take a single picture while we were down there. Sad face. Maybe I'll have to take some pictures of our fabulous finds...