Birthday Celebration and Fathers Day

Well everyone, its that time of week again to post about our week. It was a pretty typical week. Derek went to work, I went about my activities getting the things done that I needed to, summer school, teaching piano, etc. Thursday night we were able to go to the Utah Summer Games Opening Ceremonies with Jeanne, Dave, and Alan. It was kinda crazy there. They encourage everyone to come support the opening ceramony in the community by purchasing a ticket, but then they don't have enough seats for the number of tickets sold. It was crowded and crazy, but we enjoyed ourselves. We saw some crazy stunts done on motorcycles and bikes, got to listen to Vocal Point (or remixed), and watch the fireworks.

The next day was Friday and Derek and I decided to celebrate his birthday. You see, his real birthday is this Wednesday the 20th, but we will be spending his birthday this year dropping Alan off at the MTC and then heading up to a family vacation to Yellowstone. We are really excited for our trip, we've been hashing  out all the details and it should be fun. So anyway, back to the birthday celebration. My parents took us out to eat for Derek's birthday at the Garden House (yum...their soup is thee best). When we were done, Derek and I came home to our apartment and we played a game, I gave him his present, and we just spent the evening together. We ended the night by going to get  a snow cone from the shack up by family doller. It was not a snow cone like I had ever had, Ice cream in the bottom, orange dreamsicle flavoring in the ice, and then whip cream on top. It was really good, but back in my day you just got the shaved ice and the flavoring. Derek was pretty happy about the present I got him. Here he is holding it.

He has been wanting one to help him out with all the things he does on his computer. Its a Bamboo tablet with pen. You can check it out if you are more interested here. We also got Derek some new slacks that he could wear to school for presentations or to work. He hasn't had any, and he really needed a pair, so we got him some with new shoes to match. I made him model his outfit on Sunday so we could show everyone.

Isn't he cute? I didn't however to ask him to pose like that. He just did that because he apparently is a "cool guy".

Saturday morning my Dad, Justin, Joe, and Derek all went out to breakfast at the Market Grill. It is their manly little tradition that they do each year on fathers day weekend. They all had fun and ate good food. Derek left straight from Market Grill and we headed down to a doctors appointment in St. George and then headed over to do sealings at the Temple. We came back just in time for a little birthday party for my nephew Logan at the park and then used the rest of the day cleaning our apartment and getting our life organized a bit before we leave on our big trip.

Sunday was Fathers Day. These are the gifts we gave to each of our Dads and they both really enjoyed them. They were fun to make too. It was Derek's job to drink all the soda so I could clean out the bottle and fill it with other goodies.

 We are so lucky to have both Derek's dad and my dad in our lives. They are both such a huge support to us and we look up to each of them both very much. Tune in next week for Yellowstone trip adventures. :)