Family Fun

Last weekend we were able to spend the last weekend in Parowan with my family - and all of us were there. It's still a little weird to me that we are all grown up and it takes concerted effort to get us all home at the same time. One thing on the top of the agenda was to take family pictures - now that Andre is a permanent addition. We drove up through Brian Head and over to Cedar Breaks to do so, making various stops along the way. It was surprisingly warm and everything was blanketed in a foot or two of snow. 

Ameya learned very quickly that she is not too fond of snow as deep as she is tall, although she did seem to enjoy it in the beginning.

I honestly don't know if I had ever seen a snowy Cedar Breaks before - it's quite striking.

Much to Brittani's dismay, all of the boys walked out to the very edge causing her a little newlywed panic. As a side note, Hunter slipped in the mud when he first started (making a mess of his belt, pants, jacket, and gloves) which caused me to panic a little as well.

More snowy baby dog...

She was definitely over it by this point.

Of course Kenny had to take advantage of this awesome tree chair.

Then for the individual(ish) pictures...

Our 4th Festivities

Happy 4th of July! Almost two weeks ago. haha.

About mid June Hunter had me mysteriously sign a paper without letting me see what it was I was signing with the only disclaimer of "trust him". 

Trust him I did and it was the 4th that I learned what it was I had agreed to. It was papers for a 5k! Hunter had registered us for the Murray Fun Days 5k. Ironically enough, it was the first 5k that I had ever run and the first one Hunter had run in 10 years (the last one: high school cross country).

We ran it with a couple friends that are running the Ragnar with us as well (or maybe we are running it with them - same thing either way I suppose). I am the slow one of the bunch, but I'm cool with it because at least I can run the whole way and finish! Hunter is a rock star and placed 5th in his division running the whole thing in about 22 minutes. Insane? I think so. He was pretty excited about that and of course I was as well!

It was really interesting hearing all the awards read through afterwards. There were a lot of people in their 70s and 80s who ran. Also, people in their 50s and 60s can still run surprisingly fast. We were seriously impressed. Rewards were followed by the longest raffle I have ever seen or participated in. They had some surprisingly good prizes. 

We finished our holiday off with watching the new Men in Black and, of course, fireworks. We were in a good location that enabled us to see the Sandy City fireworks as well as the post Real Game fireworks. While we really enjoyed it, needless to say, Ameya did not. She behaved very well though and didn't even bark or growl once at the whole crowd of people surrounding us. 

All in all: another good day. Life is good. 

top 5 features

I promise not every post from here on out will be about the iphone, but you will have to suffer through at least this one more. As someone converting from a pretty basic phone to my first smartphone ever, I feel I have reason to be wowed.

I would like to share my top 5 favorite things about my new phone:

1.  Facetime. This cool gadget makes talking on the phone with my husband so much better. Not only do I get to hear his voice, I get to see his face too. Double awesome.

2.  It's like I have a computer in my pocket. Need a recipe for dinner? Check. Need to know directions? Check. You get the picture.

3.  Words with friends. I have never been a big scrabble player, but I was pretty much instantly addicted to this app.

4.  The camera. No more taking pictures of myself and having to guess if I got everything. Don't worry, it's got a camera lense on both sides so I can take it from whatever side of the phone I want.

5.  No fake calling people because there is no way to unlock it without actually using my finger. Hunter will appreciate this one more than anyone else I think.

Well, that's it for now. Needless to say, we are very happy with our early Christmas presents.

i am thankful

For Thanksgiving this year, Hunter and I were able to go spend the whole weekend with my family. We went to Parowan Wednesday night after I got off work and drove home on snowy roads last night. It was so much fun!

Thursday, obviously, was Thanksgiving and we mostly ate a lot of food. It was fun to have Hunter with my family and experiencing Thanksgiving Heidenreich style for the first time. We ate some amazing turkey, and don't forget about the pies. True Heidenreich style is to eat a lot of pie. In fact, I think my mom had to make 3 extra pies throughout the weekend because we kept eating so much.

Friday I experience my first black friday shopping. We went to St. George, went to the temple, and then the shopping commenced. It was somewhat difficult considering the fact that Hunter and I were shopping for each other and didn't want the other to see what we were buying. Basically we would drive to a store then split up and not see each other until we were back in the car ready for the next store. My mom came with us so she was able to mediate and take the keys to each of us when we were ready to stash our goods in the car.

Saturday was a lazy day, but we definitely enjoyed the relaxation. We played a lot of Mario Party and bowling on the Wii, as well as Sequence and Phase 10.

Sunday was church, dinner and the drive home. We had so much fun and are so grateful for great family that we were able to spend our first Thanksgiving with.