Love month💗💕
Daddy-daughters date at the
Riverwoods!
Girls helping me get Wall E set up;)
Women’s BYU basketball game for young women’s night;)
Cat photo from my mama in Italy 😄
Thursday February 6 Tanner and Cassidy came & we met them for dinner at Rodizio 
of course we all over ate, as one does at Rodizio. Hard not to there, the pineapple, the ham! Hello. Yum. Always feels good to be with these two. They feel like family & they seem to be the happiest they’ve been. Back into partnering with Michael in managing the load of the firm as a team. Michael has been looking forward to mapping out and planning what it all will look like for a long while. On Friday morning they came over to have their all day planning sesh wherein all good things happened, honesty and vulnerability took place and they all came out feeling lighter and ready to step into new roles.
While they met me and girls went and played hard at hang time adventure park & the girls claimed it is way better than plain old get air. They have everything there, zip line, fun animal playground, trampolines, rock climbing, a ton of swinging options & ice cream, of course!
We did in n out & even Burlington & 5 below after that, the girls were surprised but I figured we should play hard while the team was discussing hard:) distracted us til dinner.
I feel torn when I am with Cassidy and Tanner & my girls. Many times we are able to discuss the deeper things in life but I feel like we need to keep it lighter around the girls.
After their meeting we did another dinner … attempted to go to Communal. SUCH an awkward situation. Tanner understood the waiter to have said “table for 7..” when we walked in & he replied “yes” and we were immediately seated. We looked at menu and got confused by it… sharing sized portions but nothing looked great. Anyway we drank our waters and chatted and then noticed a large gathering of girls at the door and I had the thought “oh I bet they did have a reservation..”
the waiter than proceeded to TOTALLY gaslight us. He said “oh I thought you said you were reserved under the name Hilary… this is their table.” Tanner says “wow well this is awkward since I’ve already drank some water” all of us had! He replied “oh of course I’ll replace them but yeah I can’t let you take their reservation, we are by reservation only, especially on weekends..” just completely unapologetic & acting like we had deceived him somehow. Ha. Crazy & has taken wind out of our sails to ever return, honestly. Anyway we headed over to riverwoods to go to shoots and the car ride was hilarious. Michael said “eh it’s ok girls we didn’t want to be down here with these peasants anyway..” and then Gwinna said “yeah..the pheasants..” don’t know what she said next because I was cracking up. She & Noelle were so miffed that it happened this way. “We should have just said we are Hilary!!” Hahaha.
Shoots happened to be AMAZING & not Hoity toity feeling at all.
We walked over to Suss cookies after and brought them home to eat in front of the fire place and watched mjs old YouTube videos, Noelle’s squish video & Cassidy’s old school rap video! So funny. I fade quickly though but do feel bad since Cassidy always reminds us she can stay up til 2 AM no problem. That’s a big problem for me! Ha.
Next day Cassidy took Gwinna on her promised and long looked forward to (on both sides) Sephora trip. Cassidy said she was smiling the whole time..they are so similar & funny. They love their skincare. Cassidy kept telling her don’t look at prices and said something I will laugh about & quote for forever “you can’t put a budget on happiness!”
I told them later I’m happy she had a balanced out day because early in the morning she and Noelle went with the young women to serve the homeless breakfast. Sweet experience for them and I believe their eyes were opened a bit in good ways. Noelle kept pointing out that so many of them were funny & happy & sweet & they seemed so grateful. One older guy she said was so nicely and carefully cleaning each table and she knew he was grateful.
While they did this Tanner and mj worked out together, did lunch at Rodizio & arcaded at Provo beach.
Meanwhile me Noey & Sia at in n out outside while the sun warmed our backs. Twas nice & then we attempted to do the rock climbing part at adventure park but were not able to join a session for another two hours so we gave up on that. I told them we could research while we walked around an antique/plant place I’ve wanted to check out for a while. Noelle searched & found a place called the quarry! So fun we just rented shoes, & harnesses, signed waivers, got a lesson & got to climbing! They took turns & got in at least 10 climbs each while I did the belaying! Crazy..haven’t done it for a long while. So fun & such a great workout for them. We met back at the house & decided to do happy sumo sushi for lunch but did not realize that it was prom night.. or something… long wait so we walked across and did La Jolla Groves instead. Fancy Shmancy and our waitresss would basically not allow us to get out of ordering each and every course
we decided why not and really went for it. Yikes! All so good though! We learned some things about Cassidy & Tanner on this trip. Ha. Tanner has no shame telling us his “poop” stories! Cassidy does jigsaw puzzles to de stress & thinks she could do very well in a competition! I was like oh yeah! You and Soph should!
They are such sweetie, good people & we adore them.
We walked off dinner in Blickenstaffs & then over to a furniture store wherein I needed to show Michael a softy couch. We all sat on it & everyone approved (including Tanner & Cassidy
) but I felt too flustered and tired and they were so close to closing that I definitely needed to come back before letting mj just make an impulse decision for us.
We hugged goodbye and talked about the profound sadness we will all be feeling when our pets die. Ugh. Why!? Weirdos. Already looking forward to seeing them again in March.
of course we all over ate, as one does at Rodizio. Hard not to there, the pineapple, the ham! Hello. Yum. Always feels good to be with these two. They feel like family & they seem to be the happiest they’ve been. Back into partnering with Michael in managing the load of the firm as a team. Michael has been looking forward to mapping out and planning what it all will look like for a long while. On Friday morning they came over to have their all day planning sesh wherein all good things happened, honesty and vulnerability took place and they all came out feeling lighter and ready to step into new roles.While they met me and girls went and played hard at hang time adventure park & the girls claimed it is way better than plain old get air. They have everything there, zip line, fun animal playground, trampolines, rock climbing, a ton of swinging options & ice cream, of course!
We did in n out & even Burlington & 5 below after that, the girls were surprised but I figured we should play hard while the team was discussing hard:) distracted us til dinner.
I feel torn when I am with Cassidy and Tanner & my girls. Many times we are able to discuss the deeper things in life but I feel like we need to keep it lighter around the girls.
After their meeting we did another dinner … attempted to go to Communal. SUCH an awkward situation. Tanner understood the waiter to have said “table for 7..” when we walked in & he replied “yes” and we were immediately seated. We looked at menu and got confused by it… sharing sized portions but nothing looked great. Anyway we drank our waters and chatted and then noticed a large gathering of girls at the door and I had the thought “oh I bet they did have a reservation..”
the waiter than proceeded to TOTALLY gaslight us. He said “oh I thought you said you were reserved under the name Hilary… this is their table.” Tanner says “wow well this is awkward since I’ve already drank some water” all of us had! He replied “oh of course I’ll replace them but yeah I can’t let you take their reservation, we are by reservation only, especially on weekends..” just completely unapologetic & acting like we had deceived him somehow. Ha. Crazy & has taken wind out of our sails to ever return, honestly. Anyway we headed over to riverwoods to go to shoots and the car ride was hilarious. Michael said “eh it’s ok girls we didn’t want to be down here with these peasants anyway..” and then Gwinna said “yeah..the pheasants..” don’t know what she said next because I was cracking up. She & Noelle were so miffed that it happened this way. “We should have just said we are Hilary!!” Hahaha.
Shoots happened to be AMAZING & not Hoity toity feeling at all.
We walked over to Suss cookies after and brought them home to eat in front of the fire place and watched mjs old YouTube videos, Noelle’s squish video & Cassidy’s old school rap video! So funny. I fade quickly though but do feel bad since Cassidy always reminds us she can stay up til 2 AM no problem. That’s a big problem for me! Ha.
Next day Cassidy took Gwinna on her promised and long looked forward to (on both sides) Sephora trip. Cassidy said she was smiling the whole time..they are so similar & funny. They love their skincare. Cassidy kept telling her don’t look at prices and said something I will laugh about & quote for forever “you can’t put a budget on happiness!”
I told them later I’m happy she had a balanced out day because early in the morning she and Noelle went with the young women to serve the homeless breakfast. Sweet experience for them and I believe their eyes were opened a bit in good ways. Noelle kept pointing out that so many of them were funny & happy & sweet & they seemed so grateful. One older guy she said was so nicely and carefully cleaning each table and she knew he was grateful.
While they did this Tanner and mj worked out together, did lunch at Rodizio & arcaded at Provo beach.
Meanwhile me Noey & Sia at in n out outside while the sun warmed our backs. Twas nice & then we attempted to do the rock climbing part at adventure park but were not able to join a session for another two hours so we gave up on that. I told them we could research while we walked around an antique/plant place I’ve wanted to check out for a while. Noelle searched & found a place called the quarry! So fun we just rented shoes, & harnesses, signed waivers, got a lesson & got to climbing! They took turns & got in at least 10 climbs each while I did the belaying! Crazy..haven’t done it for a long while. So fun & such a great workout for them. We met back at the house & decided to do happy sumo sushi for lunch but did not realize that it was prom night.. or something… long wait so we walked across and did La Jolla Groves instead. Fancy Shmancy and our waitresss would basically not allow us to get out of ordering each and every course
we decided why not and really went for it. Yikes! All so good though! We learned some things about Cassidy & Tanner on this trip. Ha. Tanner has no shame telling us his “poop” stories! Cassidy does jigsaw puzzles to de stress & thinks she could do very well in a competition! I was like oh yeah! You and Soph should! They are such sweetie, good people & we adore them.
We walked off dinner in Blickenstaffs & then over to a furniture store wherein I needed to show Michael a softy couch. We all sat on it & everyone approved (including Tanner & Cassidy
) but I felt too flustered and tired and they were so close to closing that I definitely needed to come back before letting mj just make an impulse decision for us. We hugged goodbye and talked about the profound sadness we will all be feeling when our pets die. Ugh. Why!? Weirdos. Already looking forward to seeing them again in March.
At dinner at La Jolla one night Tanner asked us what animal we would be if we had a choice…
Gwinnas response cracked me up & she pretty quickly said it “a cat (turning to us) owned by you guys” hahaha. Our cats do have pretty good lives
Gwinnas response cracked me up & she pretty quickly said it “a cat (turning to us) owned by you guys” hahaha. Our cats do have pretty good lives
We live here!!!!😍
Love notes from fam dam.
Noelle had an INCREDIBLE love day lunch planned for all of us! JUST amazing. She’d been planning all week for it. Mains, salads, appetizers, desserts!!!! All so good, of course:)
Sia then did an escape room she planned for her sisters and later we all did a Valentine’s Day trivia that Gwinna planned! Funsie.
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| Activity days for Sia. She loves them! |
So… this was a fun discovery. Basement flooding, ruined our whole guest room brand new carpeting and baseboard! Ugh. Michael thought it was from the outside, I thought it was coming from somewhere within…I was right! Draining down from the kitchen sink 😓
A bummer but we are getting it taken care of 💚
Starting THIS project this month!
Crazy. Michael loves his stuff and this is the beginning of getting it all out & organized in his office 😅
After my shopping trip this kitty….loves a bag to crawl into 😝
This guy. Bringing back some Thunderclap content and I am excited to get this on a sweatshirt😂😍
