Do you watch Parks and Recreation? Please tell me you do. If you don't, watch it now!! We almost love it as much as the office (and re-watch the episodes on netflix every night).
This is what you're missing if you don't. (shame on you).
Richard and I work a lot. Especially Richard. He works about 50 hours a week. I work 40 and it feels like 100. Because of this, we decided that on Labor Day, since we had a rare, long weekend where Richard didn't have to work, we would treat ourselves! So we did. We suuure did.
City Creek! (treat yo' self)
Fountains! (treat yo' self)
Massive cookie ice cream creation (treat yo'self- you get the idea)
The very first step to our treat yourself weekend was to find a hotel that had both a pool and a continental breakfast with waffles. Check!
Richard found this contraption in the pool, and naturally had to find out what it did. I told him not to, for the record.
There he goes!
Next stop in our weekend was... camping! I know what you're thinking because I thought it too. How is camping treating yourself? Well, surprisingly, even though I don't like to get dirty or use the facilities outside, I actually like camping! And this was better than your usual camping, because we went to the place where Richard proposed! We were even within a few days of the 2 year anniversary of the proposal!
This is the place
In case you didn't see it with the giant finger.
About 1000 of these helped us set up our tent. Thanks guys! (I hate bugs). By the way, they fly.
We went pretty minimal here... basically this was a hiatus from the treating ourselves. Hot dogs do not equal treating yourself. But they're a must for camping when you don't want to have to do a lot of prep work!
Look at that! We went on a hike in the morning and I collected leaves from the place where Richard proposed. I modge podged them and now they will never shrivel up and turn brown! Cool trick I learned from the amazing Pinterest.
Final phase of the treat yourself weekend. We arrived home from camping, went to the gym, and got ready for the day. When you are exhausted, it is not a good time to answer your husband's inquiries about expensive purchases. Well my sweet husband came up to me and asked if I would like to spend some money today (like go out to dinner?). no. Richard wanted to buy a TV! So in the spirit of the weekend...
Guess what I said? Yep. and then we went to Best Buy and wound up with this thing.
(He admitted to using sales tactics on me that he's learned from Enterprise. Shame on him.)
All in all I'm happy with it, he's been dying to watch football and now he can! Our other TV was from 1980 and was too old to be compatible with normal TV or something like that.
This summer we were lucky enough to take part in a little family reunion for Richard's family at Snowbird!
I'm not much of a skier or snowboarder, so I had really never been there. Richard's family grew up skiing together and spent lots of time over the years at snowbird (his dad even has a lifetime pass there!-awesome).
I was surprised by how much stuff there was to do there in the summer. We had a blast!
Here we are a few days before our trip to Snowbird at Richard's sister's house meeting up with his parents, who came into town a little early.
This pic (below) was taken at our Monday night family home evening, which was probably the most exciting one I've ever been to! We had not one, but TWO pregnancies announced in the family (not us). Richard's younger sister and older sister both announced that they were pregnant, which took us all by surprise so it was really fun. Then we watched everyone do a talent show. We have no talent so we did that cup thing that was all the rage a few months ago and stole the show (ha).
#1 most popular spot- the pool! Not sure who enjoyed it more, the kids or the men. Here's Richard with his older brother, his dad, and our newest brother in law, Kevin.
This picture kills me! Poor kid. He kept pulling up his pants because they were a little too big, so if his pants fell below his bellybutton, they would tell him his pants were falling down. They kept telling him to pull his pants up higher and higher, and as you can see, he didn't hesitate to follow orders. This was the result. Lookin' good.
The twins! and the wives.
Alpine slide! You know you're going too slow when all the little kids are telling that you are going really slow and/or almost running into you on the way down.
This jumpy thing was awesome!
Our room complete with a fireplace and bed that came out of the wall
One night Richard's parents took us all to the Steak Pit restaurant at Snowbird where we got some delicious foods.
The people at the restaurant were kind enough to reserve an entire room just for his family :) We got to share the table with these cuties
Twins! again
Representing BSU, of course.
My favorite part of the trip was rock climbing! I love it.
Here is Richard Samuel Clover IV and Richard Samuel Clover III, his uncle! Had to take the photo op to show Richard Samuel Clover V one day ;)
That was our trip! We had such a good time we're already talking about going back!
