P.S. I Love You

This movie broke my heart again and again. I haven't cried that much in a movie since...I don't even remember when, and if I had been watching it alone I probably would have been full on sobbing. It just felt so much more REAL than most movies are about losing a loved one. It shows the pain and awkwardness of every day life, and not wanting to move forward but just wanting life to stop for just a minute so that you can try and piece your life back together. This was also one of the very rare chick-flick type movies (that doesn't involve lots of slapstick humor) that Zander told me he wanted to buy. Those of you who know him know that it's a big deal for him to want to buy a movie that doesn't have any explosions or gun shots.

P.S. Zander, I love you.

Family Photos

My good friend Triana took some family photos of us over the weekend. Here are a few of the highlights.

Knowing

Interesting movie. Not really what I was expecting, but still pretty good.

FOOD BLOG

In case you didn't know, I have a food blog. I post my favorite recipes etc on there. You should check it out, and comment. There's nothing more fun than having comments on a blog.

Chef Em

Happy List

Little things that make me happy

- Having a made bed
- Noah coming up and giving me a hug
- Ikea having EXACTLY what I've been wanting, and couldn't find elsewhere
- Redwood road being done
- Snow on the mountains
- Fall decorations
- Feeling confident in my abilities
- Watching a movie wrapped up in a blanket

Granite Flats

I've been wanting to go camping for a LONG time now. We're talking like since I was pregnant with Noah. And granted we went in August for the Statham reunion, but we all got sick and Noah didn't sleep well and it just wasn't what I needed to get rid of this camping craving. So I told the Wardle's that they were going camping with us, assigned Craig to find us a campsite, and away we went!

We ended up going to the Granite Flats campground up American Fork Canyon. For those of you familiar with the canyon, it's up right by Tibble Fork. Fantastic little (ok, huge and sprawling) campground. Wardle's went up early on Saturday morning to get us a spot because it was a free, no reservations weekend. Us Indo people got up there around 2 because we had to drop Noah off in Orem. We decided it would be a more fun trip for everyone if he got to sleep in a house instead of a tent. After setting up camp and wasting a bit of time playing Craig's new Operation game, we went exploring down the "trails" leading away from our tents.









The trails lead down to a little ravine with 2 streams coming together in it. It was so pretty down there, the leaves had changed colors and were just starting to fall off the trees, the sound of gurgling water was all around, and it was just awesome. On our way back it was decided instead of following the trails we should make our own trail and just follow the streams back up, and then climb out of the gorge. It was actually a lot of fun. Zander was nice enough to create a log bridge for me and Steph (who were wearing flip flops) to cross the stream, and he also did some crazy Superman dive across the steep mountain face to save me cuz the tree I was holding onto decided to break. twice. Kind of a crazy adventure, but really a lot of fun.

We got back, cleaned up a bit, made dinner and dessert, talked to the neighbors, played Killer Bunnies (I won cuz I had ALL of the carrots), sat around the campfire trying to stay warm, then decided around 11:30 to head to bed. Wardle's heard an owl at some point in the night, but Zander and I didn't hear anything except the occasional clicking of Steph's propane tent heater.

In the morning we got up (Steph dragged herself out of her scalding hot tent around 10:30), played games, read books, layed around, ate breakfast, layed around some more, got packed up, and headed out. Wardle's headed further up the canyon up to Silver Lake to try and find a moose, and then came home the long way via the Alpine Loop. Us Indo's headed down to Orem, got Noah, dropped off the camping stuff, and headed home. All in all, a perfect way to end the summer.

Galoon 2009!!!

Every year in the fall the Indo family gets together and we all go to Lagoon. This started the fall that Zander and I were dating, and has continued each year since. Ok...we missed last year. Whatever. So we all went to Lagoon about a week ago and had a blast. Since we had kids with us people kind of got separated into different groups and doing their own thing, but it was still lots of fun. And of course we still got to eat out picnic lunch together, which in Indo tradition, included corn on the cob.


We took Noah with us this year, and I have mixed feelings about doing it. He was too small and young to ride a lot of the kid rides, but the few that he could ride he seemed to like quite a bit. With how much fun Eva was having, I bet Noah has a blast at Galoon day next year. If nothing else it was good to go and see what he can and can't handle as far as amusement parks go. And it was really nice for all 3 of us to be out and doing something different, and in the fresh air.