We drove up after I got off work on Thursday afternoon, but I didn't even get to see my apartment before we left! I gave Mike a list of things to do/pack before we left because he got off work really early to get ready and pack the car, and he finished every single one plus more! He cleaned the house, packed the car, went grocery shopping, cancelled our Netflix subscription (right before the free trial ended), finished his ward bulletin for Sunday so he wouldn't have to do it on the Fourth, and even had time for a powernap before he came to get me! Holy cow! I married Superman!
We slept in. OF COURSE. Then we ate a big breakfast of French Toast by ourselves because everyone always wakes up in stages, and at 10 am we were between the early risers and the 2-in-the-afternooners (I love my sisters. :) Then we got all dressed and pretty and went with Mom to the temple. It was beautiful! We haven't been to the Boise Temple since we got married, so it was a great experience. Mom cried because Mike is so amazing and I got so lucky. Now we just have to get him to realize that . . .
Slept in again, obviously. As soon as we were dressed and ready, Mike got sucked into playing hours and hours and
hours of Playstation baseball with various little brothers. Dad and Parker got home around 11 from Scout camp, so we all went outside to help them unpack. Holy cow, Parker looked like a Bubonic Plague victim! His entire face was covered with bumps and his arms were dotted with scars like he had the chicken pox! It was crazy! Dad told us that he was way better than he had been Monday and Tuesday when he first got his bug bites. It was GROSS.
(Scoutmaster Bill = AWESOME DAD)
After the boys were all inside getting showered, Mom and the sisters and I all went SHOPPING! (Yay! Girls!) It was so fun. We did get a little bit tired, though. Not all of us have limitless shopping energy like some of my sisters . . . *cough cough SARAH cough*! I got Mike a brown belt and socks so that he could wear his brown shoes to work, and I got me a pair of red flats! They're SO CUTE! Okay, I cave, here's a picture. Even Mike said "Cute!" when he saw them. I have him so well trained.
Then we all went back to Grandma's house, where more people swam, and Mike and my dad shot off a bunch of rockets. They shot off a few and then decided to attempt to shoot off the cherry-red THREE STAGE rocket. (Bum bum Buuuuuuuuuum!!!!) It was cool. They loaded three different engines, because it's supposed to launch, then go off again two more times, and it's designed to go as high as half a mile up in the air. Mike fully expected to never see it again if it worked. So they went out to the field, got it all ready to go, and launched the first engine . . . and it exploded on the second, maybe fifty feet up. Apparently, there was some glue in some places where there was supposed to not be any glue, and both of the last two engines went off at once, turning Mike's sleek, beautiful rocket into two halves of a very melted, not-quite-so-long rocket. It was fun though. :)
(Exploded Rocket and Mike) (I think he's really cute :P)
Well, so the boys had a bunch of fun making and exploding their rockets, and even Hannah made one. Unfortunately, all of them, even the little ones, got at least twice as high as Mike's . . .
That's okay. I got some cute pictures of the fam. 
Sarah and Emma. Sorry, forgot to tell them they had awesome goggle lines on their foreheads.
Here's the peanut gallery watching the rocket launch. Can you tell why they're called the Whitings? :P
Dad, Nonny, James, and Sammy at the designated rocket making table. Notice, they even got the laptop out to research how to make the three-stage rocket work correctly, and still it got blown up. I don't think they were too disappointed, though. ps- Nonny was making that face on purpose for the picture. Well, after all the rocket tomfoolery, we went back to my parents' house with the cousins to shoot off some very legal fireworks. (*sigh . . . *) It was fun though. Sammy was so excited at first, and every single spark that flew was "wow, that was my favorite one! Brittany, did you see that? This is awesome!" But when the screamers and loud popping ones came up, he didn't like the loud noises, and Mike had to distract him with a camera to get him to stay outside with the family. 
That night we got to bed pretty late, but we slept pretty well. :) Church was really good the next day, but guess what? I played the organ! Who does that? I visited their ward one Sunday and I played the organ in sacrament meeting and the piano in Relief Society. Did everyone decide to be out of town or something? Geez.
Well, after church was a fun time. Mom made bbq ribs. (My tummy still sighs with pleasure when I think about it. They are SOOOOOOOO Delicious!) After dinner, they all decided to make it be my birthday, since my birthday's in two weeks and I don't think we'll be in Boise. :) The sisters gave me some music books, including a classics anthology that I've wanted for a long time, and a cute blue top and HUGE blue ring that I wore yesterday, and the ring was kind of distracting . . . I'm pretty sure I played with it more than I did any work . . . also, they got me a really really cute black Audrey Hepburn style raincoat! It's SO cute! I'm pretty sure I want it to get cold again JUST so I can wear it. It's adorable. Oh! and we're still getting wedding presents. This weekend I got a Wok! I'm so happy. Ask Mike. He thinks I'm ridiculous. :)
The drive home was rather uneventful. We ALMOST made it without going through a storm. We were chasing clouds the whole time, but it only rained on us a little bit. And I stayed awake almost the whole time! I was still awake when we got to provo! It was awesome! I hope Mike appreciated it, cause we were BOTH really tired the next day.
Last night we watched our almost last free netflix trial movie: Field of Dreams. I hadn't seen it in a long time because my dad only has it on VHS. It was really good. But you know what I love most about that movie? When the guy starts hearing voices and everyone should think he's going crazy, especially because he's being a lot more crazy than, say, JM Barrie, his wife doesn't just give up and leave him. Have you noticed that's always happening in movies about crazy guys? Their wives always flake out and leave them! It's giving us wifely types a bad image! I loved that this wife was supportive and let him build his baseball field. Even if he really was a little bit crazy . . .
Anyways, back to business. What did you all do for the fourth? :)
1 comment:
i am so glad you guys had fun. Your blog makes it sound like we had a blast! (ha!) I need to get you the picture of Mike's rocket shooting off so you can post it with your story. I love you guys! Tell Mike we really do think he is awesome!
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