Happy January - Happy Anniversary

Just like everybody else I've been experiencing a bit of the January blahs. However, I was lucky enough to plan ahead for them 30 years ago. Bryan and I were married in January and so we always have something fun to look forward to in January -- we don't have to wait for Valentine's Day.

Last weekend we celebrated our anniversary with a fun day of shopping, eating and theater.

We started out with some shopping in Park City at the outlets. Our plan was to get out of the mucky muck inversion -- However last weekend was the beginning of the end for the inversion and the day was gray and overcast as the storms began rolling in and blowing out the inversion.
We didn't see much in the way of clear blue skies, but just being together was sunny enough for us. (Yes kids, I can hear you groaning. -- We're old, NOT DEAD, and we're still in love!)

Next was dinner at Chili's - our first choice was actually P.F. Chang's -- but who knew the wait would be at least an hour at 5:00 on Saturday night. We didn't have that much time to wait because we had tickets for The Importance of Being Earnest at Hale Center Theater.

We had a great time together - January has never been quite so blah for us!

30 years

January 23, 1980
Thanks sweetie, it's been a blast!
Let's do 30 more!
Love ya, Manja

THE ULTIMATE FAMILY HOME EVENING??

SHELLY, BRUCE ---
ARE YOU KIDDING,
ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER???
MAYBE THE DRIVEWAY OR EVEN THE GARAGE??

I definitely think this beats any
family home evening ever!!

This is my sister's family butchering their family's goat. Other than the shock of seeing it done in the family kitchen, I think you guys are awesome for learning this skill!!

I can only hope that somewhere there is a goat butchering merit badge for the boys and a personal progress goal for Heidi. This is right up there with the 1916 Beehive requirements of: "build a tree house sufficiently large enough for two girls to sleep in" or "clear sagebrush, etc. from half an acre of land," or "without help or advice, harness a team of horses and drive 50 miles in one season."

Now that I think about it Heidi probably could handle all those requirements by the age of 12.