Old Town Sacramento

Being that our anniversary falls on Conference weekend, we decided to celebrate this weekend to ensure we were available to listen to the sessions. This year was my turn to plan our little get away and I decided to stay somewhat close to home. As usual, our weekend was full of unexpected funnies and just delightful memories. We got off to a bit of a rough start when I was delayed at school thus making our departure from home a little later then it should have been. In an effort to switch it up a bit, we made arrangements to take the train up to Old Town Sacramento. Being that we were running a little behind, our stress level was higher then it should have been, so we weren't exactly thinking totally clearly. To make a long story short, we flew into a parking spot we didn't think we snag, let a few obscenities slip as we tried to grab our luggage from the trunk, ran like mad across the tracks and barely made it onto the train as it was pulling out of the station. I felt a little like a hobo might have, trying to jump on the train while it was still moving. Ok - so it wasn't that bad, but it was bad. Of course there were few open seats so it took a few minutes to find an open row. Got seated and tried to calm down. Only to find out...what?-this train is going where? That's right folks. We got on the wrong train! Drat! So it took an extra 40 minutes but we did eventually make it to our destination.

We stayed in a hotel that we are pretty sure supported some kind of political campaign. But it was nice and right across the street from the capitol building. Except of course our room was not on the right side. We still think the view was something special. We did make an appearance at the State Railroad museum which compared to the one in my memory - was a ton smaller. We started with the tour, until the tour guide was a little drab, then just made our way around on our own. Then we walked around Old Town Sacramento and enjoyed a little pizzeria who boasted a lunch buffet. We were disappointed when the buffet consisted of 2 pizza's with a ton of cheese, one with a little pepperoni. Weird. We then went over to see the state capitol building which was built in 1875 or something crazy like that. The refurbishment in 1975 cost California 2 bucks a person. And it was something amazing for sure. We stood in front of the Governor's office and even set off an alarm while trying to find the exit. That was fun. After an innocent explanation and personalized directions to the exit; we felt we really made our mark on the capitol.

We ended out trip with a delightful meal at The Firehouse Restaurant which I would highly recommend. So although the weather was a little more wet then I would have requested, it was a great little celebration for just the 2 of us.

Holiday Post

It's a new year and I haven't had felt the groove in blogging. Writers block lets call it. But we did in fact have a Christmas here in our house. We spent it here at home as Mark had to work both Christmas Eve and Christmas day. But what fun traditions we started. We watched Muppet Christmas Carol and ate Cinnimon Rolls and Hot Chocolate. We woke up the next morning fairly early and I must say, its amazing how quickly the Christmas process can happen with just 2 people and a few gifts. Pretty sure we were done in 15. But then we got to play for the next several hours before Mark went off to work. And we may or may not have spent 7 hours breaking in the new Rock Band 2. Delightful.

The real holiday fun came the next week when we headed up for Trent's wedding. The whole family made it for almost the whole week so we spent the time really hanging out. The biggest memory maker was the Amazing Race! Lesley and I planned a scavenger hunt made after the TV show Amazing Race and it was a huge success.

Some of our clues were to count mailboxes, bowl a potato to get 2 strikes, golf a tomato into a cup in PAR 3, pick up a child as a speedbump, find a Blockbuster video with a clue inside, and do yard work as a service for a homeowner. What a fun race. The family said that they can now imagine what the real contestents feel and aparently...its pretty intense. What a FUN event it was.

Of course the wedding was the event of the week. The youngest of us kids was married and what a beautiful event it was. How fun that all 6 of us were together again. One a little less "here" then the others, but definatly not absent.
Congrats to my new sister and little brother. We're all just so excited for our family reunions to come. We just love you both! And cheers to my husband and his wicked photography skills.

A Myriad of Pictures

These are a few of the pictures David took at the wedding. We haven't seen the professional ones yet, but these are certainly amazing!