Jam Packed Texas Trip

I've only been to Texas once before and that was a quick trip through the panhandle to see Chris' home town of Pampa and to eat a steak at The Big Texan. We went again last week for his sister Lianne's wedding and boy was it a jam packed 5 days!!

We left Wednesday afternoon and i thought i had planned so good because i got us a non-stop from Salt Lake to Dallas. It seems fate takes great pleasure in ruining my plans. We ended up having to land in Ft. Worth because the Dallas airport was closed "due to weather" and we had been circling so long we were out of gas :( We waited 2 hours at this other airport for clearance and then flew 10 more minues to Dallas. I felt so bad because Chris' sister Jill was waiting for us that whole time.

We christened our trip with dinner at a steak house and got to spend a lot of time chatting with the fam and getting caught up on life.

We had a lot of wedding related activities to attend and it was pretty fun to get to know Lianne's in-law's at her bridal shower. We played wedding "memory" and a bridal shower bingo. Which by the way you can download cards for this game at bachelorette.com and they're free!

We also had a great groom's dinner at a yummy place called Brio. Their food is a little more italian than the Olive Garden and the portions were HUGE. The best was the dessert though. The creme brulee was soooooo yummy and came in a cute little espresso cup. After that it was time for the bachelorette party. We kept it pretty tame and went to a chick flick.

Lianne got married on Saturday the 6th at the Dallas Temple which was pretty and kind of gothic cathedral looking. It also has huge spires that make it very hard to photograph, so this was the best I could do.


Lianne and her hubby Derek are so cute and i am so happy we could go and be there for thier big day! Now everyone in Chris' family is married until it's time for the grandkids. So I guess we've got about 20 years to relax :)

And here's the happy couple. Congrats to Derek and Lianne Clements!

I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl

This has not been posted with Chris' consent and I don't want my schoolgirl silliness to reflect poorly on him but eeeek, this is so awesome. I can't wait for November to get here!!!!!

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON trailer in HD

Happy Memorial Day!

So usually i think of Memorial Day as the first BBQ day of the season. I consider myself a fairly patriotic and family oriented person, but I don't really spend a lot of time contemplating Memorial Day or what it means.

Anyway, today my dad came up to Logan as he always does for this holiday and I decided that i would go too. First we went to the Logan Cemetary to "see" Grandpa Saunders (my dad's dad) and Uncle Randy (who was killed in Vietnam at age 21). While we were there, we saw a few of my dad's Aunts and cousins and they caught up a little. My dad said in his day, Memorial Day was like a family reunion and everybody got together at the cemetary- kind of like a party, sort of. We also saw my cousins Brady and Matthew while we were in the neighborhood.

Next we went to Providence Cemetary to visit my Great Grandpa and Grandma Olsen. I don't remember them at all, they died when I was little, but they were born around the turn of the century. Cemetaries make me wonder about all the things these people must have seen - the history, the advances in science and medicine, what their families were like.

As we were leaving my dad said it was too bad that more people don't remember what Memorial Day is about. It's an impportant tradition, he said because you can't know what will be if you don't know what has been. Or in other words, you can't know who you are without knowing who you came from. I agree.

I found one!

Well my prayers have been answered, i hope. I recently got a job working as a server in a new restaurant here in Logan. The place is called Elements and it's being advertised as a fine dining place, so hopefully the tips will be good.

It's not my first choice of work, but they were the only ones who called me back for an interview, which is pretty sad. So instead of holding out for something else, i went for it. I hope i'm not sorry later :) One really good thing about working in a restaurant is it's very slimming. All that walking back and forth to the kitchen and lifitng heavy trays makes for a good work out. Hopefully I'll drop another couple of pounds in the process. YAY!

So if you're in town in the next couple of weeks ( it opens in June) stop by for some great food and you can leave me a big tip :)