Thursday, December 31, 2009

Grandma Whiting

Our sweet little Grandma Whiting passed away on December 13th. Grandma was such an amazing, sweet and loving woman. Her funeral was such a loving tribute to her and a great celebration of her life. Grandma LOVED the color pink, so we all wore pink in her honor. She collected dolls and was so excited to show them to us and tell us where each one came from. She also loved the Utah Jazz, and often preferred to watch the games alone because she would get quite upset and yell at Jerry or the players on TV! She also loved her sweet little Shih Tzu Bandi, and corrected me on more than one occasion on the pronunciation... Sheet Su ;)
She went on 6 missions! Teag loved to tease her that he never needed to go on one because she went on enough to cover him. I loved watching she and Teag together...she was tiny, not even 5 feet tall. She didn't hesitiate to put Teag in his place and speak her mind about what he should be doing - I always loved that about her:)
We were so sad about her passing, but couldn't imagine the amazing reunion she had with her sweetheart Lutie after being without him for 33 years. She had an amazing life and we will never forget her example and love.

Saturday, December 05, 2009

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Thanksgiving


We were so excited to spend the week of Thanksgiving in Park City. My mom was so sweet and took Dallas for the first 3 days so Teag and I could get to know each other again after football season :) We came down for dinner with Teag's family on Thanksgiving, then took Dallie back up with us to hang out for a few more days.

We stayed at the Marriott Mountainside next to the Park City Ski Resort. Even though we didn't ski, it was so much fun being right there!


The first night we had dinner at Baja Cantina then watched our (my) shows and got in the dreamy hot tubs


It was so strange for Teag and I to be able to go out to eat and not worry about what kind of mess Dallie was going to make!




Teag humored me and walked up and down Main Street to check out the cute shops.



Then he humored me again by posing with this bear.



My favorite! They do the best hand treatments and have the dreamiest bath bombs, mountain balm, skin food body cream and fresh homemade face and hair masks.
Mountain Body is similar to one of my FAVORITE places in London...LUSH!



Sushi is our favorite so Flying Sumo was a great choice for dinner the second night!
I don't remember the names of our favorite rolls, but this is my pick for sushi in PC.


We met up with Jared, Adam and Barb for dinner and live music at 'Downstairs' on Main Street

We were missing our little boy so much and were so excited to see him again!
He was so excited for our little getaway and told everyone we saw that we were in Park City.

Thanksgiving night Chad and Meg came up for a sleepover and some fun, then breakfast at Flippin' Flapjacks the next morning.
Dallas LOVES his Uncle Chad and Aunt Meg and always loves hanging out with them.

Cute Dallas...he was so proud of his little beanie and didn't want to take it off all day


We had to hit Rocky Mountain for a white chocolate-oreo caramel apple for mom and chocolate covered marshmallows for Dal.
Teag doesn't eat sweets much, so he missed out!
Dallie and daddy


mister showing off his treat

Our little fam on the ski hill
Dallas was so bummed we weren't going skiing. I think we will take him at some point this winter, but we'll hold out for some better snow.


best buddies

I think Dallas' favorite thing to do was people watch out the windows

still working on that marshmallow...

fun times riding on the luggage cart


We were excited to get back down to SLC to hang with the Reynolds!
Jay & Steph and Kim, Steve & the boys came over to my parents for pizza benders from Italian Village (a Reynolds Favorite - are you dying Lisa and Jake?!) and to watch the BYU-Utah game.

My parents are die-hard Utah fans... Crimson Club, season ticket holders for 40+ years.
Luckily I had Steph rooting for the Mighty Cougars too. We were SO EXCITED the 'Cougarettes' (as my dad likes to call them) pulled out the win! I LOVE this game every year, but mostly when BYU wins :)