12/18-19/2010

On the 18th, Guy and I dropped Briggs off with Jeck and Mom and headed up to Tucson to celebrate our 2 year anniversary(a day early)!!  That's right folks, its already been 2 wonderful years!  We started out the day by going to the mall and doing a little Christmas shopping.  And then hit up the theater.  I finally watched the Harry Potter movie, I've been wanting to see....rates about as good as any of the other HP movies- not as good as the books.  Anyway, then we went off to drop our stuff off at the hotel room which had a dozen roses and a bottle of sparkling cider- two of my most favorite things.  Go ahead and say it with me, Ahhhhh.  So then we went out to do our activity for the night- a surprise to me.  We stopped at a SUPER busy gas station where everybody was getting the same thing we were...hot chocolate.  I was stumped.  Guy finally told me what we were doing- a wagon ride to see Winterhaven's Christmas lights.  Its a community where its a requirement to put Christmas lights up and some people get really into it. Not wanting to pay $5 to park, we drove a couple blocks away and parked in a random parking lot.  As we got out, a woman approached us and said, "We're asking for $5 or donation to park here" and held up her hand.  Hmm..."What's the donation for, if you don't mind me asking".  "We're raising money for a girl in my daughters school.  ...  She just doesn't have much.  ..."  In my mind I'm thinking, uh, that didn't sound like you've ever said it before, more like you made it up.  But what could I say?  As Guy started to get the money out of his wallet, a cop approached us and asked, "Has anybody asked you for money to park here?"  "Why yes officer.  This woman here just asked us for $5 or a donation."   He proceeded to tell her in a not so kind and gentle manner to pack up her things and go home and that if he saw her or her friends again tonight, he would arrest them for trespassing.  You go cop!  And thank you for coming just in the nick of time!
 The wagon ride was squished and it was evident that I enjoyed it much more than Guy.  haha, thanks hun for enduring.  I definitely want to go back sometime!

hmm..got to give them credit for being creative right?

Look closely and yes, that is a snow machine! 

I love this idea.  It says "Santa"  with an arrow pointing to the chimney.

That's got to be a huge electric bill, but I love it!

Way cute!

This was definitely the most popular and most extravagant house.  I didn't get a very good shot of it, but the lights match the music and they have water fountains that go with it all.  It was amazing!

On the 19th, we went to Colton's baby blessing.  He's Matt and Mary's boy and the newest grandkid on the Smith side.  The blessing took place in Tucson so we met up with Brigham there.  I couldn't believe how much I missed him!  I was super excited to see him even though it had only be a little over 24 hrs since we dropped him off and it wasn't our first time to leave him overnight.  He wasn't quite as excited to see us as we were him, but who can blame him, Grandma and Grandpa's house is FUN!

On the way home, we decided to stay the night in Willcox since Guy had taken that Monday off to use his paid vacation.  Brigham had a pretty rough night.  A sign we don't go there near enough- something I intend to improve on!   I was in my pjs all day since I didn't have any clean clothes for our spur of the moment stay, but it was fun hanging out with Mother while Guy worked with his dad.  We made TONS of bread, like 16 loaves! and she taught me how to make french bread.

Before going to bed Gram showed Briggs how to play the piano- we really need to get one!

I have the cutest video of Gram and Briggs playing the piano but after numerous attempts of failed uploads, I gave up.


Thank you to everyone who helped make this the perfect weekend!