Mike’s Hike With His Church Buds Through the Grand Canyon

Here are some brief details I got from Mike:

They hiked the Hermit Trail, which was 10 miles down the first day.  Then they rested the 2nd, then hiked 14 miles the 3rd day.  He said it was really difficult.  They all had huge blisters along the way.  But Mike managed to carry, in his already heavy pack, dehydrated ice cream for everyone and 150oz of Diet Coke to share with the boys.  Oh yeah, and Salt ‘n’ Vinegar Chips!  Seriously???  The guys couldn’t believe it.  He said in the middle of the hike, the guys heard the sound of a soda can being popped opened and looked over, and there was Mike sipping on some Diet Coke!  hahahaha

He said the worst part about the Grand Canyon hikes is that no fires are allowed.  Fires just make for a great time.

I kept getting group texts from Mike, sent to the the guys’ wives, so I asked Mike to send me one just to me.  This is what I got.  hee hee

Jaidyn’s First Dissection

I’m sure you can imagine the smell in the air, I was hit with, as I entered the classroom to join Jaidyn.  It was like being at Pike Place Market in Seattle.  The kids were deep in the lesson, when I walked in, being given every detail of what will be taking place in the dissection.

And then the kids were partnered up and the excitement of it all began.

The kids wanted a picture of their goggle lines.

BIEBER FEVER

Yes… we had Bieber Fever.  And his tour was coming up, but I never thought we’d be going.  Tickets were all sold out and when they WERE almost sold out, the highest seats in the nose bleeds were going for $200, so no way would that be happening.

Then the opening night of his tour, I get this picture sent to me on my phone by my good friend Heidi around 6pm.  She was there early with her son Kai (Jaidyn’s age), waiting to see if they could catch Justin before getting to their seats.  Concert was starting at 7pm.  So when the picture came in, I was coincidentally looking up pictures of Justin Bieber on Pinterest with Jaidyn, after she asked if she could have a few to put on her Ipod Touch.  Mike was next to us and I showed him the pic of Kai. 

Jaidyn and I drooled over the pic, wishing it were us there, and we continued on Pinterest.  Mike left the room and called me into another room 5 minutes later saying he called our guy we always get concert tickets from and he had 2 tickets available up close, 2 rows from floor.  I’m not gonna say how much they were, ‘cause I think you’d throw up and I’m embarrassed we got them, but man, was the concert AWESOME!!!

Mike and I went in to tell Jaidyn, that her and I were leaving for the concert and needed to leave NOW to make it.  She freaked out!  This was her birthday present. 

When we got to the concert parking lot, parking was crazy.  Sold out concert to Justin Bieber… it was expected.  We finally found a spot and ran, not kidding, ran all the way to the lines going in, just to find they wouldn’t let us take in a camera with a detachable lens.  Yeah, we had to go all the way back to the car to return the camera.  I was devastated!  We were already cutting the time close and now we wouldn’t even be able to get good pictures.  You know how I am about that!

Carly Rae Jespson opened for him along with Cody Simpson.  The concert was insane!  Kids everywhere screaming at the top of their lungs.  I just have to say, LOVED every minute of this concert! 

I couldn’t believe how close I was!  Heidi and Kai were a couple rows from us!

Paper hearts were passed around the front few rows by a group and we got one of the last ones.  On the back it said we were to hold these up as a surprise for Justin to let him know we love him while he sings his Believe song.  hahahaha  We did just that!

Bieber threw up a couple times in the middle of his concert.  He handled it well though. 

Just made the concert that much more awesome!  hahahaha

Weston’s Baptism

Weston is such a cutie. 

He asked Mike to give the talk on the Holy Ghost at his baptism.

Temple Date

I just wanna say that the temple is my happy place.  It’s a place that helps lift me up, when I’m down.  I can take questions and concerns there in prayer and feel so much better about them after leaving.  When I leave, I feel recharged again and ready to be a supermom.

Ward temple night is always a good time.  We went out to dinner afterwards and the food was to die for!

Cannot wait for our temple to be done!!!  So excited and grateful.