Magnus

At 5:39am Easter morning, Justin and I got a new nephew. Magnus Crane Parkinson.
Magnus is 7lbs 15oz, and 18.5 inches long. After many detours and freeway closers we finally made it to Salt Lake Regional to see him this morning, and to pick up Bridgett (the big sister puppy).

Such A Good Helper

Justin and I bought a new computer chair, and Helo was more than happy to help assemble it.

Christmas + Family + Fun = Swine Flu

Yes, the title is correct. Me and Justin caught the Swine Flu. The cute little kids caught it on the plane coming from China, and 4 days with them and we have it too. On the lighter side hear are lots of pics of the fun times we had before the flu caught us....

Anna with her new table and blocks Christmas morning at Grandma and Grandpas.

Anna opening her present from Me and Justin. She got a new Mickey and Minnie DVD and a cute Minnie Mouse sweater.Hattie working on her new Discovery Kids laptop.Hyde with the new cash register. "Clank Clank, money in the bank" Thats what it constantly sang!!Hattie sucking the juices from an orangeGrandpa Wayne bought cute little tablets that disolved in water and cute littlle foam trains appeared ...And to end it all we caught the swine flu from this cute little girl.

Traffic, Castles and Pirates! Oh, My!!

One year! That's right, last week was the one year mark of our marriage. We started planning a trip months ago, cause that is just the way we are. Friday afternoon we set off for St. George. However, we should of left in the morning. We were one of the lucky ones that got stuck in traffic because of an terrible accident on 90th south. TWO HOURS! Yes, two hours of just sitting there, barely moving. Sadly we only made it barely past Ikea before our first potty break. But then it was smooth sailing all the way to St George. We didn't get to do much the first day since we got there at 8 o'clock, but oh well.
So the second day was fun. We had lunch with Justin's cousin Becca who is going to Dixie. We ate at this crazy themed pirate restaurant. And then we headed to Vegas!! We stayed at the Excalibur, and walked the strip at night with all the lights. It was fun. We also tried to find the Real game, but seriously not one casino had the game. 10 screens for horse racing, but not a one for soccer. We were kind of upset. (He's making up for it this weekend, he drove to Seattle to see the finals.) We also ate an awesome dinner at a little restaurant in the Treasure Island Casino.
Third day we walked the strip a little and had breakfast at Starbucks. My feet hurt so band from the day before we didn't do much. We were going to stay another night in Mesquite, but we decided to just come all the way home stopping at one of my family's favorite places in Filmore, the Garden of Eaten. But now were home and back to reality. One year down, eternity to go!!

The Biggest Loser - Puupy Edition

Because our world revolves around our puppy, I'm blogging about him again. If you don't already know, our puppy is insane and hyper! I thought you would all like to here that he has gone on a strict exercise regime. He gets a morning walk every day when Justin gets home from work at 8:30. And thankfully it has done wonders! We now love our puppy even more:) Also, I would like to publicly say Happy Birthday Helo, and I'm sorry I forgot your birthday this past week. I feel like my Grandmother who always forgets my dad's birthday.

Smidgett

This week, Justin and I (and Helo) have a house guest. Bridgett gets to stay with us while Jake and Ann Marie are in China. Smidgett is a King Charles Cavalier and is the complete opposite of Helo puppy. Its kind of funny to have both of them in the house. Smidgett is so mellow, and at this moment is laying by my feet by the computer, while Helo is in the living room being crazy hyper Helo. Helo attempts to play with her, but she just lays down and takes his tromping all over her head. They also enjoy eating each others food which was pretty hilarious trying to feed both of them this morning. Smidgett also likes to steal Helo's rawhide bones. So needless to say its been pretty entertaining with two puppys in our little Condo.

A Stoney Experience

The Great Stone Face

Petroglyphs next to the porta-potty

The sign we were so excited to see

Fort Deseret

Justin and I recently took a trip to Delta to see his parents. And since Justin and I are terrible people, we did not stay for the full three hours of Church. We had decided a few days before to go see the Great Stone Face for our third hour of church. (Justin had heard Cary, Bill and Gena talk about it on the Radio from Hell show a few days earlier) Apparently, it looks like Joseph Smith, we figured it could qualify as a religious outing.

The Great Stone Face is in Deseret, the town just past Delta. Justin had been there once before, and thought he might be able to find it again. (side note: I later asked Justin who he went with before to see this thing, and he didn't answer me. He told me don't ask questions I don't want answers to....) So we were driving along, listening to Kansas, and we thought we missed the turn, to our great surprise there was sign! So after a very long dirt road, and seeing only one other person, we came to The Great Stone Face!! I then started to think, who was the genius that was out smoking the weeds, and looked up to see Joseph Smith in a rock? After staring at the rock for a while and a few pictures, we got bored and drove away. There were also some cool petroglyphs as well, along side the porta-potty. We also went to see Fort Deseret, since it was right there.

On the way back to Justin's parents house, we decided to take a different way. We kept looking for the Delta Water Tour to figure out where we were, and we figured it would be easy to get back. We were kind of wrong. You have to realize Justin's parents live kind of outside of Delta, in the middle of a bunch of farms. And me and Justin then realized we had actually never explored past where they live. So yes, we were lost. We did eventually find our way back though. Fortunately there are not may roads in Delta.