Two Quick Road Trips

It has almost been a month since I have updated... that's got to be a record. :) Things have been a little crazy around here and so I have left this to the last thing.

I finished the summer semester last Thursday. YAY!! It feels great to be done with that semester. Since we got home from Wyoming, it has been ALL I had time to do. Everything has been put off until now because my class was so time consuming. But, I guess it paid off because I got an A. :) My parents asked about seeing pictures of my final project and so I will probably be posting about that later. So now that I'm done with that, I have until August 31st to relax, soak up the sun by the pool, scrapbook, and finish other projects I have put off. :) Nick and I both start the Fall semester on the 31st, so our summer is also coming to an end... but I'm going to fully enjoy the rest. :)

I'm also just barley getting to this because once I was done with school, Nick and I took a couple QUICK road trips to help some friends and family. Last Friday we headed to Long Beach, California with some real close friends of ours. We met this couple almost as soon as Nick started working for the valet company he works for now. We became such great friends with them that we decided to move to "their" side of town when we were done house sitting. We were in the same ward, condo complex, and worked for the same company. lol! Unfortuneatly, they decided that their was nothing left for them in Vegas, and headed back home to Hawaii. :( They had to have their car shipped back to Hawaii and the port it was shipped from was in Long Beach, Cali. After dropping off their car, they needed a way to get back to Vegas... and so thats why we decided to go along. PLUS, it was the last time we would see them (well, until we get invited to visit them in Hawaii!!) That's probably the ONLY reason we were okay with them leaving Vegas in the first place... we now have a good reason to go to Hawaii. ;)
I have only been to Cali twice now, and it was such a short trip that we weren't able to stop and enjoy the beaches, but we did choose to eat at a restarunt that was located along the docs. So, we at least got to see it. :) And I have decided (only making this judgement on two trips to Cali), that that state is crazy because of ALL of the confusing, intersecting interstates and traffic ALWAYS ALWAYS making things miserable. I don't know how those people do it. I will now try not to complain about Vegas traffic. ;) We had a good time and were glad we got invited to go along. We will MISS YOU Jesse and Ty and your ADORABLE kids!! Thanks for all the fun times. :) :)

As if we hadn't had enough fun driving there and back in one day, we decided to drive to Logan, UT on Sunday. As most of you know, Bob and Dani are moving to Torrington, Wyoming where Bob has got a teaching job. They are leaving Utah for good TOMORROW and we knew they had a lot of packing to do in order to be ready for the move. SO, with Dani being 6.5 months pregnant, and being able to do a lot, we decided to drive down and help them pack up their apartment. We got to Utah on late Sunday night and spent ALL day Monday packing up. We had a blast even though we were their to work and not to play. :) And we even lucked out because Richard and Katie were in Prestion, Idaho (1 hour away from Logan), where Richard had a construction job for the week. So Katie came down to help pack all day and then Richard came down later that night to go to dinner with us and play games afterwards.
We had dinner at The Coppermill, it was GREAT food. :) And even though we had quite the annoying run-in with our waitor, we still managed to enjoy it. :) After wards we played cards at Bob and Danis... right smack in the middle of all the boxes. I'm pretty sure that I will now have to buy Tripoley for Nick. It's his new favorite game. :) We played until Katie and Richard had to get back to Idaho. :) It was so nice of them to come down, it was great to see them and we had a blast. :)
Tuesday morning we woke up early and headed to the Logan Temple. Nick and I have never been in this one and it was very pretty. We had a great time and are glad we were able to go with Bob and Dani. We then headed home to finish packing as much as we could before Nick and I had to head BACK to Vegas. Yes, I know a VERY QUICK trip, but Nick had to work at 1 am. :) For as short as it was, we were VERY glad we went. Helping Bob and Dani was a blast and it was SOO good to see them. Dani makes the cutest pregnant girl EVER!! It was great to see the changes from the last night I saw her. Thanks for letting us come!! We had a BLAST and hope that everything goes well with the move. And we REALLY hope everything fit into that trailer. :)
We love you very much and good luck in Torrington with teaching, settling in, and getting ready for your sweet baby girl!! :)

p.s. We had SUCH better luck on BOTH of these trips then when we went to Wyoming. :) The car we didn't take WAS THERE when we got home. :) And we didn't have any flights to miss, so we were safe there! :)