Greetings Babushka’s
Not sure what that means, but I think it sounds cool! Wel,l this past week started with Coop and myself headed over to my mom and dad’s to watch the NCAA Championship football game. We had the Hislop family there along with Rob and my mom and dad. When we got there the Satellite was not working so I was going to head back home, but Lance, Grace, Teresa and my dad were problem solvers and after a few Mcgyver moves the dish was up and running. It is fun to watch a game with no rooting interest. I switched teams like 12 times. All in all, it was fun. My Ohio State Buckeyes ended up winning J
The weeks really do end up being one big blur as times goes by so incredibly fast, at least it feels that way. The biggest highlight of the week was the fact I celebrated 16 years with my beautiful wife Sal. We were gonna keep it low key, but then I decided to throw away the key and make it a little more fun.
So, we got a nice hotel in SLC, but we headed to the Radisson, we made a few stops along the way. First stop: Kohls. Sal bought a coat at Kohls that she got as a Christmas present. As we were planning our little staycation, we wanted to do things we normally don’t do, so we got couples massages...okay, so it wasn't a "real" massage. (There was a health fair at the Clearfield Aquatic Center and there was a chiropractor giving free massages, so we called it a couples massage J) Then we window shopped at Farmington Station and then went to the movie, Taken 3. Sal won free movie tickets in a trivia contest so we took advantage of that. We then checked into the Radisson downtown. We found it on Priceline... love Captain Kirk and Penny from Big Bang Theory advertising for that one.
Anyway, we got a KSL deal for a fancy shamncy steak house called Christopher’s in down town SL. Sal had steak and I had shrimp it was pretty tasty. We got a carrot cake for dessert, on the house, which we both liked-- the cake and it being free.
We then hung out in the pool and the hot tub at the hotel. As I was sitting in the sauna, there was a 29 year old "kid" who brought me back through memory lane. As he entered the sauna, he had on four layers of sweats including a plastic sweat suit. He has to drop 30 pounds for a MMA fight he has in three weeks. Oh I am glad I am not a MMA fighter.
The next day we headed to the Leonardo museum and saw Body World Exhibit where you see real bodies on display that have ben plastasised. That was very interesting. Heavenly Father is definitely the Master Architect. It is way incredible how the human body is all put together and works together.
After our trip to Salt Lake, we then grabbed some lunch at Buffalo Wild wings with a gift card I got for Chritmas. There are 50 TVs in that place and all were on different sports channels. I was in heaven! We then headed home and got our kids--Maggie, Allie, and Duke stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Hislolp and Cooper stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Davidson with Tyson his cousin.
It was a fun little excursion with my lady, and we are both deal searchers so we landed some good deals as well.
As we were at the Hislops, Sallie talked Grandpa Chick into getting a futon for his TV room. He only had 2 recliners in there, so seating was limited. She convinced them to get a futon in the TV room. Sal worked her magic and we ended up getting the couch later that night. Did you know you can fit a full-size couch in the back of our van? Sal has used our van many times as a truck.
We were also lucky enough to go to our nephew Brandon’s Eagle court of honor Saturday night. It was really good. He and our other nephews have set a good example for our son and the younger boys to get their Eagles.
We had a good day at church. The missionaries spoke: one from Spain and the other one from Italy. They issued a 21 day challenge to everyone, which we will start this week on reading the Book of Mormon. Later that evening, we had a good family home evening at the Davidson’s with most of Sal's family.
I hope everyone has a great week!
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