Ode to Wholesale Flooring

Today is the last day I will answer the phone with, "thank you for calling wholesale flooring." Today is the last day I will be stuck in geneva road traffic on my way to work. Today is the last day I will have to secretly do my homework because I'm using the work computer. (and wait til the owners leave to print my assignments.) Today is the last day I will have to wait to go to the bathroom until Laura gets back from lunch, as to not miss a single phone call. After all the phone calls are our "LIFELINE," and missing one would surely put the company under. Right Joe? Today is the last day Joe will call me from his office to pick up his papers off the printer. This is the last day Guy will throw garbage at me as he walks in the door, so I can throw it away. This is the last day I will see all the people I really love so much at this office, and this is the last day I will get to see Dan at work:( Leaving will be bitter-sweet, but mostly just sweet.

(the lovely view from my desk.)

(Danny boy hard at work. I'll miss working with him.)

(Laura and Rudy work in accounting. They are awesome.)

(This is Kurt the warehouse boy who is never here. But we love him anyway.)

Ward Shin-Dig

Our ward has an annual bbq party at the end of the summer. It's a pretty big deal we found out. They have tons of food, bounce houses, homemade pie and ice cream, Pie eating contests, and the best corn on the cob I've ever had. It was bathing in a tub of melted butter. A-mazing. Dan and Joey were asked to do a shave ice booth so we didn't get to see much of the party but it was still fun. We still had a line at the shave ice table an hour after the party was supposed to be over. And yes, It really is that good. They had a cute little musical program too. A lot of the kids in the ward had a part and sang or danced. A lot of unsuspected talent. There was some sweet little tap dancers too. They were crazy, coulda watched them all day. At the end of the party my keys got lost in the clean-up. I HATE losing stuff. I can't stop thinking about where they could be. I always wish I was more responsible at times like these.

(Our shave ice friend Justin with Joey and the Z-man.)

(We gave the boys a break for all their hard work.)

(Dan entered the pie eating contest)

Marky Mark

(Surprise!)

Mark turned 22 on September 11th. His always amazing wife threw him a pretty kick-a (for lack of a better word) birthday party. There was DDR, pool, movies, and TONS of food. Definitely my kinda party. It was fun to see everyone again. It seems like we never have time to play with our friends anymore. (refer to last post.) Happy Birthday Mark. I'd start planning Lauren's party right now. It's only 5 months away and she set the bar pretty high.



(It seemed like Lauren got more presents then Mark. Wierd.)

(Quite the pool shark)

(They could be twins.)

Dan is the Bomb

We have a lot going on. Dan is always working so hard at work, the gym, and doing the shave ice shack. I have been so busy with school, work, young women's, gym, family, everything. I have been doing a terrible job at keeping our house clean, getting laundry done, and who even knows when the last time I cooked dinner was. Poor Dan. The other day at work Dan could tell I was slightly stressed out about not getting everything done. So he left work early, cleaned up the house, and made dinner. He always knows what I need, even though I'm super crazy. Shout out to Dan for everything he does! Love him.(I forgot to take a picture before we ate. dang it.)

No-Labor Day

Maybe I'm stupid but I don't really know what Labor Day is for. All I know is it means no school and no work. I think it should be called No-Labor Day. Dan and I went with our friends Joey and Rachel to the Park City outlets. It was insanely busy. It seems everyone else had our great idea. I did get some awesome work-out clothes at the Nike outlet and Dan came away with some Sunday shirts which he has been needing for a long time. So all in all, pretty successful. After shopping, we went to my ex-favorite Mexican restaurant. Ex-favorite as of yesterday. Baja Cantina is located at the bottom of the alpine slide, right across from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. They used to offer great service, delicious food, and an inviting atmosphere. They now seem to only hire inadequate high school kids who don't know how to shower or wait tables. Their food is approximately half as good as it used to be and the restaurant is dirty and old. Dan asked for more chips and the waitress imformed us they would be $1.99 extra. I asked if they charged to refill water as well, but luckily that was free. We waited forever to place our order, forever to get it and FOREVER to get our check. I'm so disappointed because it used to be SO GOOD. I definitely filled out the customer survey on the way out.
Question #4 Did anyone go out of their way to make your experience positive.
Answer #4 Absolutely Not!(Note: This picture was taken before we were seated and dissatisfied)
When we got home we realized the blink 182 concert was that same night so of course, we HAD to go even though we already missed Taking Back Sunday and all the openers. I've never seen the Mckay Events Center so packed. It was crazy. The thing about Blink 182 is they were really awesome like 10 years ago so most of the people who love them are way too old and way too big to be acting that way at a concert anymore. Mosh pits are for highschoolers. This picture doesn't even do it justice. It probably exceeded the legal capacity.

Our Favorite 3-Year-Old

Our niece finally turned three. I say finally because she seems so much older than three. She's definitely smarter than any three-year-old you know. And cuter. She's the best. We took her to McDonald's for dinner, but mostly for the play place. She gave us directions the whole way there. "Are you sure you're going the right way?" "I think you should turn left." "STOP! I see a play place." Thank goodness she was with us or we never would have made it. She is going through a 'I hate pictures phase' but I really wanted to get her picture at Mcdonald's so Dan told her we had to go home unless she looked at the camera. He's kinda mean but I got my picture. Natalie wanted me to climb through the play place with her and being the cool aunt that I am, I gave her her way. Grossly underestimated the disgustingness of giant play toys. Lesson learned.

Her birthday party was on Friday. She got more presents than I've gotten in my whole life. Dan and I got her a pink mitt and ball with a t-ball set. We got it out the other day and she lasted all of about 5 minutes. I don't know if she'll be an athlete but we're trying really hard. Especially Dan.Natalie hiding from another picture

Natalie kept getting confused when people would call it "my little pony" because it was HER little pony!

We had to sing after she blew out the candles because she got so excited and blew them out as soon as they were lit.
Happy birthday Natalie!