Happy Birthday Grandpa

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear graandpaaaaaaaaa
Happy Birthday to you

Thank you for all your love and support and we wish you the best birthday ever.

Love.
Elizabeth, Patrick and Audrey :)

Carrie and Nate Gross Wedding

Last saturday was Carrie and Nates wedding (Finally!)

I've got lots and lots of thoughts running through my head about this union it's crazy! I'm just so excited about it for a number of reasons.

1. Carrie is married
2. Carrie is married to an awesome guy (Really really awesome)
3. she moved into my ward
4. she is like 5 doors down
5. Carrie is married.

Okay so it wasn't a whole bunch of thoughts but mainly the fact is she is married and in my ward. Yeah! I get see her!

Anyway yeah for the rejoicing part!

I now can see why people have their wedding reception the night before the actually temple wedding. The whole day was so full of drama it was intense. I do not wish to go into major detail about the whole thing but i do not think that someones special day has ever had so much drama.

1. Sisters trying to steal thunder: julie and ray (mean girl in orange shirt is what i call her.)
1. Julie got married 2 weeks before carrie and was engaged 2 months after her. (Not cool)
2. Photographer shows up an hour and a half late to the temple. (thank goodness Michelle brought her camera)
1. People were not listening to the directions michelle and i were trying to give and people started b*%#@ back. Like we have ever done a wedding before and it was on the spot mind you!
3. finally guy shows up and tells carrie and nate that he will not be at the reception
4. Nate and carrie ask michelle to take them at the reception
5. family is not set up in time for the reception and miss the time allotted for good family portraits at the reception. carrie did not get the one picture she really wanted. one with all her sisters. and none of them really didn't seem to care.
   
6. limo shows up 35 minutes late after everyone has left the reception. in other words they did not get to have that big fun send off.
   
7. limo dude barley speaks a word of english and has a chick in the front seat of the limo.
   

Now re reading the list it doesn't seem that bad but remember it was a wedding day and it was insane that so much happened. i just don't think i can describe how bad i felt for carrie and nate. but you know what.l.. that just means they need to be together that much more.

The two of them are perfect for one another and deserve all the happiness in the world.

Love,
Elizabeth, Patrick and Audrey

New Friend and Family Site

A few days ago an old friend from school posted on my facebook wall about their blog site. So i just wanted to announce their blog addition.

Love,
Elizabeth, Patrick and Audrey

Long time

Wow

It's been a while since i last posted

A couple of things have happened in the last little while. (and i have pictures to prove it!)

A few weeks ago we decided to take a trip to the dinosaur museum at thanks giving point. It was a really cool place. very kid friendly. I think audrey was a little too young for the museum but she had fun looking at everything. We really didn't spend anytime reading anything about the different periods audrey wasn't going to sit still long enough but we at least got to look and point things out to her.


At the museum they had several workstations for kids to play with things. Audrey really only appreciated one of the workstations. At this particular station she was able to dress up like a dinosaur and then she was able to play with a big cut out puzzle game where she needed to find the right hole to fit the dinosaur through. She wasn't actually finding the right hole but i was surprised with how many dinosaurs she was able to fit into the one hole she was focused on. It was really interesting to watch. She had to twist the different dinosaurs to fit into her hole and she was able to get everyone of them through the one hole. leave it to my kid to be the one to cheat at a puzzle game. I think that was one of her favorite places. Actually i think she threw a tantrum when we decided to leave. Yes, the terrible two's hit early. (yesterday at church she threw 5 tantrums in 5 minutes. one of them was because i wouldn't let her run into the street. We went home. We were at church for 60 minutes or so and i have no idea what was being said at the pulpit because she was so crazy. at least we got the sacrament.)

anyway back to the story.

There was a sand and water workstation where you build damns and then build your valley and then destroy the damn and watch the water destroy your valley. I thought it was cool. Audrey on the other hand didn't like all the sand and how it got her dirty. She's fine getting spaghetti sauce all over her but heaven forbid she gets sand on her hands.

We had fun and suggest the trip to the museum if anyone is looking for something to do this summer.

We really have not done too much the last few weeks because of playoffs. The pistons and the red wings.

Stupid Pistons!

Yeah Red Wings! Last week they won their 11th Stanley cup! Patrick was really excited and wanted to fly out to Detroit to participate in the celebration. like we have the money for that! Really!

Patrick says that he has come to terms with the pistons loss because he wants to see some change. since they lost they have fired their coach and are looking at other players. I just don't want to see Hamilton and Prince go. Everyone else can. ( I shouldn't even know names like that! I blame Patrick and for being such a sports nut. he is the only person i know who's moods are based only on sports teams. yes, it's true if his team loses he is in a fowl mood for the remainder of the day and maybe the next two. heaven forbid that there be a better team out there. I've decided not to be with him during this years upcoming BYU Utah game. I think i might just have to kick him out for a week if they lose. I call his condition sports-polar)

let me think what else has happened?

Carrie and Nate's wedding. But I'll talk about that later.

Elizabeth :)