the BLACK family goes mini-golfing

yep…the BLACK family…Bob, Linda, Alex, Cori & Kelly Family ventured out together today to go mini-golfing at a course near Grandma’s house.  It was a cute, quaint course, but could use some upkeep it was a bit ghetto…but we still had fun!

 
L) Kelly after her Hole-In-One

  
The Girls & Our Mommy

This afternoon, Kelly, Alex & I went with Grandma to the Ronald McDonald House to donate the pop can tops that she had been collecting.  We then went shopping at The Gateway Mall where we wandered around.

Tomorrow is LAGOON, I’m so excited to go :)

Happy Birthday To ME!!

It’s my favorite day of the year…the day of my birth!  Not only is it my birthday it’s my special (or golden) birthday, I’m 24 on the 24th!  I’ve waited 24 years for this day!!

Kelly, Alex, Dad, Grandma & I went up to Park City today.  We shopped and had lunch up there.  It was a beautiful day but freezing!  The girls & I found adorable (but matching oh well!) zip-up sweatshirts at Quiksilver.  We also ate lunch at The Eating Establishment, an original name isn’t it!  The food wasn’t fantastic, but good!

This afternoon Grandma took Alex & I to get pedicures, I also got a fill.  Thank you, Grandma!!

                                             Thanks Grandma!

This evening we had my birthday dinner back at Grandma’s.  Dad made us tacos, my favorite!  We also had birthday pie (thanks Aunt Penny & Uncle Gary for buying them) for dessert.  Since my mom is still up at her Aunt Beverly’s, that left my dad in charge of the party planning…and *SHOCKER* he forgot to buy candles!  But Aunt Penny came to the rescue and found toothpicks!  Kinda ghetto, but very funny!!  She said Kelly can Photoshop flames on the top of them!

My Birthday Pie with the “candles”


Aunt Penny modeling my pie


I felt kind of silly blowing out toothpicks!

  
Kelly feeding her beautiful baby!!

  
“Say Cheese” Kelly!

   
I don’t know who looks goofier…Kelly or David? 

I had a great birthday today, and I’m excited that it will continue on Wednesday when we go to Lagoon!  Not to mention the three I have when I get home!!  Yay for my birthday!!

Aunt Penny is flying down to Dallas tomorrow to help Emily drive back to Utah with her girls.  They are supposed to be back on Friday…I’m hoping EARLY Friday, since I fly home Friday evening!  EMILY…think early Friday, or even better Thursday night!!

Temple Square

Due today to the dedication of the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple there was no church, so Grandma wanted to take us all down to Temple Square to see the new Joseph Smith movie.  My mom, Aunt Penny & Aunt Cindy all went up to Idaho to help their Aunt Beverly, so they were gone for the day leaving my dad, sisters, Uncle Gary & David to go with Grandma. 

We only had one car, so we took 2 shifts and went to the closest UTA Trax station and road the train down to temple square.  Here are a couple of pictures that we took on the train!

 
                 Kelly & Alex                           David…and according to
                                                                     Brittany he never smiles,  
                                                                  so I was able to surprise him!

 

 

Dad & Grandma

 

 

 

 

Myself & Uncle Gary

 

 

 

 

Kelly, Alex & Dad

 

 

We made it to Temple Square and wandered around the grounds… and of course took some pictures!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 My short self with my tall         Kel, Me, Al & Our Daddy
                 sisters

 
         David & Uncle Gary                             David & Grandma

  
               My sissy Alex & I                                   Group Shot

Anyway….like I said….the whole reason we went down to Temple Square was to see the Joseph Smith The Prophet of the Restoration movie.  Well, we went to the theater and we had just missed the movie, so we went to lunch and came back to see the 3pm showing.  The missionaries at the front told us it was playing in the downstairs theater, so down we went.  We made it to the theater 15 minutes early (and in Flemmer Family time that’s amazing!) and just waited in the theater for the movie to start. 

The sister missionaries came in to do their introduction and welcome to the movie the Testament.  Grandma immediately puts her hands on her cheeks and says loudly “WHAT” jumps up (as the lights are going down) and storms out of the theater. 

We hear a lot of “blah blah blah blah blah JOSEPH SMITH MOVIE”  loudly!  The whole theater hears (we all cringe) then she comes back in the theater and tells us all loudly “GET UP we’re leaving”.  The rest of us just sit their looking at each other like “maybe if we just sit here she’ll disappear”.  Guess we forgot who we were with….next thing we know she yells “GRAB MY PURSE LETS GO”.  The rest of us hang our heads and start walking out of the theater in shame. 

The poor missionaries were so confused and we heard them say to each other “we lost them already and the movie hasn’t even started yet”.  Poor them!  We did run upstairs and were able to catch the Joseph Smith The Prophet of the Restoration Movie.  It was good, but turns out that most of us had seen it already…oh well.

After the movie ended we headed back to the Trax and home.  Since we only had David’s car to shuttle us between the Trax station and home we once again had to take two trips.  Uncle Gary and Grandma stayed behind and the rest of us went in the first car load.  David drove and we were off…only problem none of really knew how to get back to Grandma’s house.  We all agreed that there was only 2 turns (2.5 miles – Uncle Gary measured it) and figured we could find out way home…umm…yeah…we ended up in Midvale about 7 miles from Grandma’s house. 

Alex remembered that we had a GPS in the car, but we didn’t know Grandma’s address.  Kelly then had the idea to just search the Sandy Library…and wah-lah we made it back.  About the time we got home Grandma was calling to see where we were, she and Gary thought it was hilarious we couldn’t make it 2 turns and 2.5 miles without getting lost.  We thought it was funny that Uncle Gary was stuck with Grandma for more than a half an hour in the blazing sun!!  In typical Cori fashion, a few pictures!

 
David & Kelly trying to figure out the GPS


”Are you sure we’re going the right way?”


Allie & Dad

What a fun day we had!  We definitely made a lot of memories and have plenty of funny stories to share!!

Oh….one last thing…don’t forget it’s a special day tomorrow for somebody…now who could that be???

Airplane

Here are a couple of pictures from our flight today. 

Kelly was up all night throwing up , but my mom made her come!  Here she is in the train at Sea-Tac heading to our gate!  Oh and yes, that’s her in a wheelchair, she was so happy I took this picture!!

Once we landed in Salt Lake we sat on the tarmac for quite awhile waiting for our gate to be available, so Alex & I were messing around with the camera on my phone.

 

I love the last picture of Alex….she looks so….so….so… something, not sure what LOL!  Having a blast already and its only day 1…tired and ready for bed though.  We’re going for a walk then off to bed!

technology

Wow, I'm blogging from 10,000ft in the air on the airplane to visit Grandma in Salt Lake City. I cannot believe they have WIFI now on airplanes!! The technology now available is absolutely amazing! Now if only my battery would last through the whole flight...we shall see.

I'm not sure if I'll have internet access at my Grandma's. From what I hear they have super slow dial-up. Hoping someone around them has an unsecured network I can log onto...not sure how I'll survive without internet!!

See ya in Salt Lake!

Packing

I absolutely hate packing, it doesn't matter where I'm going or why I still loathe it. Like usual I waited until tonight to pack. I didn't think it would be that big of a deal, Alex & Brandi took my clothes to the laundry mat while I went to Spokane and I did a couple loads of laundry today while I was at Kim's. So all my laundry was clean, I just had to pick clothes and pack...no biggie. Well except the fact that all my clothes were in black plastic bags from the laundry mat. I spent 2 hours folding and putting away my clothes. Then I figured I might as well clean my room, since after the clothes were put away there wasn't much left to do. I did get clean sheets on my bed so that's exciting.

Okay enough blabbering, I need to go to bed we have to leave for the airport at 5am...yuck!

Marysville Days – Day 2 *Picture Overload*

Today I completed my two days with Camryn & Jordyn. Erin arrived at Amy’s around 10:30am today to relieve me. It was fun, but I am tired, I don’t know how mom’s do it day in and day out! I can’t wait for my nice quiet empty bed tonight!

The last couple of days I have taken a lot of pictures…I took so many so that Amy & Jaime could see what their girls were up to the last couple of days I had them! We had a lot of fun…but did I mention I’m tired!!

Jungle Playland
*If you missed my post last night about Jungle Playland make sure you check it out!

The ball pit was one of the favorite spots!

We road some rides…
Don’t think Jordyn enjoyed it as much as the big girls!

Okay…take 2


They played on the slides


Jordyn took a nap in all the chaos!


Left: Madison on the zip line rings
Right: Camryn hanging out in the giant monkey

Then my favorite part (and Madison’s too) was the “Windy Room” as the girls called it. But basically this darkened blow up thing that is set up in a maze that we ran around chasing and scaring each other ! Yes, I am evil…I enjoyed scaring the little girls!

In each of the following pictures, I hid behind a corner and waited until the girls ran by. I then jumped out and shot the picture! Now don’t get all angry at me … Camryn & Madison thought it was hilarious! They would then turn and run the other direction!

Today…Hanging at Kim’s House
I invited Erin and the girls over to hangout at Kim’s. It was a beautiful day so we filled up the kiddy pool in the front yard and hung out outside all afternoon!

Jordyn enjoying her beverage of choice!

Camryn after she went down the waterslide


Maddie being a weirdo – don’t worry Amy we washed them!

One random cute picture of Nate…I love his smile!

Madison LOVES Sophia’s Corvette, and she has finally mastered how to drive it. So this afternoon she took it out for a little spin around the cul-de-sac. Camryn claimed she was frightened by the noise the car made…I think it was more of Maddie’s driving!

I just love this picture, with the wind whipping through her hair!

Madison trying to take Nate for a spin…but Jack wasn’t going to let them go without him. Gotta love Madison wagging her finger at him to get down!

Tonight I went to Ixtapa with Kim, Patty, the trio, Jaime her girls and Alex. Emma really got into (literally) my rice and beans, she was covered! Oh and then felt like she was a big girl and needed to drink water out of a glass!

Wow….that was a lot of pictures!! I work tomorrow, then will come home pack and early Saturday morning we’re leaving for Grandma’s House in Salt Lake City for a week! Lots to do and very little time to do so!