Washington D.C. Trip Dec 08

When I go on trips I don't take many pictures. Work was fine. I got to hang out with Ken & Becky Hamblin, Tony & Jenny Roane (whose due date was the day I visited them), and Jon & Noelle Black. Jon took me to play basketball at his ward. On the last play I missed the game winning shot, ran for the loose ball and sprained my ankle. It was very painful the next day through the airport that some lady pushed me around everywhere. It was a little awkward, by I got to the front of security. From Denver to Boise, I rode with the whole Colorado State basketball team and their radio people who I recognized from the Mtn TV program.

Pratt Thanksgiving 2008

Thanksgiving was fun. Joe & Liz came up from Provo for over two days. This was the first time that I helped make the turkey. Jen made me massage the turkey the night before with salt and it was hard, but somebody had to do it. Joe & I played in the turkey bowl with the ward and no fights this year. The meal was very good, especially the turkey, probably due to the great massage. We fed the ducks, watched a Jazz game while the girls made blankets, and sledded around the house. Jen & Liz braved black Friday at Joannes and ShopKo. They waited in long lines and enjoyed themselves.

We are Moving to Orlando

Our family has decided to move to Orlando, Florida. A job opening happened at my work and they asked me to fill it, and we accepted. It will be bitter-sweet, since Florida is so far away from family, but Orlando is a great vacation city. We have a lot of work ahead for these next couple months. We will try and start there early February. Life changes quick. So our baby will be a Floridian.

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Almost a Kitchen Catastrophe

This weekend I am making my first official paid for Wedding Cake. Exciting huh! Well today I've been making cakes ALL day (It's better to make them ahead of time and freeze them to retain more moisture and it makes the actual day less crazy) I also decided that I should probably make the rolls for Thanksgiving (freezing them as well). This bread recipe is DELICIOUS, so I made the bread, no problem, but I thought it looked a little different because it wasn't browning like it should. Well, AFTER the bread was already baked and I was eating a piece, I realized I'd forgotten the honey! No wonder it wasn't browning like it should (sugar does that to bread). So needless to say (pun intended:)) you have to add honey and butter to the bread to make it taste good... bummer... and I was going to try to impress my sis-in-law who's coming up for Thanksgiving... maybe next time :) Oh well.
Well then I still needed to make more cake so I made the cake batter (using 3 cake mixes) and thought, hmm.. this looks a little thicker than usual. Did I forget anything? VERY thankfully, before I baked the cake I realized I had forgotten the eggs. Oops! That's kind of a big thing to forget considering it only calls for 3 ingredients. I'm blaming it on my 3 1/2 kids... pregnancy makes me loose my mind sometimes... maybe that means we'll have a smart baby :)

City of Rocks

On the way home, Jen wanted to stop somewhere so we followed some signs to City of Rocks in Southern Idaho, about an hour south of Burley. I've always heard of the great rock climbing there, but have never gone since it's in the middle of nowhere. Well, it's a gorgeous place and it made me want to camp here for the week. It's like a miniature Zion's Park that no one has heard of. The girls and I called it a Rock Park and they loved it. I think Rachel loves rock climbing the most.

More Utah Pictures

We had a lot of fun hanging out with both of our families the rest of the weekend after Cameron and Rachelle's wedding. On Saturday (with the Smith's) we watched the BYU cougars win in football, went on a walk with Brittany and Steven(while Britt roller-bladed), ate a yummy dinner, and played some really fun games- my personal favorite was Imagineiff. I think I was just really tired, but I laughed so hard and had alot of fun.

Sunday we went to church with my family and then went and saw Jared's brother John and his wife Lisa's new house. Then we headed up to hang out with the rest of Jared's family. We had a fun time talking and relaxing. We always have fun on our trips to Utah!

Cameron and Rachelle's Wedding

My brother Cameron got married this past weekend to Rachelle in the Salt Lake City, Utah Temple. Since we don't live in Utah we didn't get to meet her until the wedding, which was kind of sad, but she seems like a nice girl and I'm excited to have her as part of our family.
The wedding was wonderful and I really enjoyed it. Jared and I were also married in the SLC Temple so it was fun reliving some of the memories from our wedding day (almost 5 years ago!!) My sisters Carly, Kaylie, and Brianna watched the girls while we went to the ceremony so a big thank you to them!
The entire day was really nice and everyone looked great. It was fun seeing all the little girls in their dresses. They loved twirling around and were good except for at the end... poor Jared. He took care of them most of the night so I could enjoy myself :) Maybe that's why he doesn't enjoy wedding receptions :)
We tried to get some good pictures of our family all dressed up (Jared was even wearing a tux), but no such luck... maybe one of my siblings got a good picture of us :)
I'm excited for Cameron and Rachelle to now join us old married people :)