A Great Weekend

A lot has happened since my post last Thursday afternoon. That night my parents came inot town and stayed with us. Friday morning it rained so I did my long run on the treadmill (it was supposed to be a 10 miler, but it's so boring on the treadmill I've only ever been able to go as far as 7 miles). I'd been running for what seemed forever but was actually only 4 miles, when my mom came down. We started talking, then my dad came down and the talking continued, next thing I know I've hit the 7 mile mark and I was done. It made me really miss when Trevor and I would do our long runs together-now those were some of the best dates we've ever had. Too bad for me he's gotten too fast for me to run with.

Trevor had Friday off of work and our kids get out of school at noon every Friday. So after lunch my parents took all 4 kids to Kangaroo Zoo (a kids place full of those gigantic blow up slides and bouncers) so Trevor and I could go to the car dealership.

Our lease on our Toyota Tacoma is up this year. We've been thinking it'd be nice to have a truck that all 6 of us could fit in so we could go on more camping trips and trips to the Smith family cabin which requires 4 wheel drive. We were thinking we'd go in and get a Tundra, but as we were walking through Toyota's front door Trevor suddenly said "We don't have to get a truck." So instead of asking for a test drive of a Tundra, we just asked "What vehicles do you have that will seat 6 and are 4WD?" We test drove a Tundra and a Highlander.

With the Tundra we determined that (1) sitting in the middle of a truck's bench seat where your legs are scrunched up to your chest is not comfortable (2) it's a huge truck and will be a tight fit in even our extra wide and long garage (3) we never tow anything so why do we need a gas guzzling V8.

So obviously we got the Highlander which seats 7, has a backup camera, gets pretty good gas mileage, is 4WD, and is only $20 more a month than what we were paying for our truck.

After over 3 hours at the dealership we were finally able to drive home our new car. We grabbed some Little Caesars $5 pizzas and headed home. We gobbled down some pizza then took my parents out for their Christmas present.

We took them to see a show by the BYU Ambassadors (singing and dancing group). They were doing a show that was supposed to have music from the 50's through today's music. My mom really enjoyed the show, and my dad did up until they moved onto the music of today. My original plan was to have Trevor take my dad to a BYU basketball game and I'd take my mom to this show, but BYU never played a home game on the weekends that my parents were planning to be here.

On Saturday Trevor went on his 12 mile run and my parents went with my siblings to the Draper Temple open house. After Trevor returned and rested for bit, we went to show our new car to his parents. Trevor took his dad on a ride to his brother's house to show him the car and say thanks. His brother is the one who knew a guy at the dealership so we got a pretty sweet deal which was vital since neither Trevor or I are hagglers and usually get ripped off when dealing with car salesmen. While I was waiting at this folks house his mom showed me the photos from their 3 week trip around Australia, Tazmania, New Zealand and Tahiti.

On Sunday my dad made his famous french toast. My mom also shared her coveted "hagel slag" (dutch chocolate sprinkles you eat on buttered bread-don't scoff until you've tasted it).

After watching me braid Michelle and Megan's hair, Gabriella plopped down in my lap and said "hair". Because she was sitting in my lap I couldn't get my hands in the normal position to french braid so I adapted. And to my wonderful surprise I learned how to do the other kind of french braid, the kind I can do on my own hair but in 20 years have never figured out how to do on someone else.

We had both sets of parents attend church with us. They were huge helpers with the kids since Trevor was up on the stand during all of sacrament meeting. His men's choir sang and he gave talk. After Trevor spent 2 1/2 hours at the clerk's office after church, he came home and baked chocolate chip cookies (probably to sweeten my disposition) then put the kids to bed so I could work on my calling as a family history indexer. Since I was uninterrupted I was able to arbitrate 5 batches - that's 250 names!

Oh, also my parents found on the front porch the CD of a slideshow of all the pictures from the Ragnar Relay I ran with 11 others last June. It was a great motivator to keep on running. This is me running my first of 3 legs. This was a wicked downhill section in 80+ degree heat.

It was a great weekend (sorry yours wasn't, Mignonne).