April Catch-Up - MY Time

After our fun filled and very exhausting birthday weekend, the kids went back to school & the next weekend, I took off with my BFF from college. I think I have some of the best friends around. I have good friends that I can count on to help me, listen to me moan and groan, and friends that invite us over for dinner and to hang out. I have friends that sympathize and try to understand. I have friends that I can end up talking to on the phone for a while when all they called to do was ask a question. I also have friends that love my kids more than I do on some days and are willing to watch them for days when I head out of town. I am so blessed in the friend area.

Stacy. She has been a good friend since we met in the Branbury Apartments in Provo in the fall of 1995. She took my old room that fall and I had to move into one of the back smaller rooms since I didn't pay for my spot by the deadline. Who knew this valley girl from Thousand Oaks, CA and I would still be making memories to this day? Stacy has recently moved back to Vegas and we decided that we needed a little weekend to ourselves, which revloved around getting our hair done.

You see, I have another good friend, who has done my hair for over 10 years, but the problem is she lives in SLC. At one point during the last decade she lived in NYC and I would make sure when she was home in SLC to visit, so was I, and we would meet up and get my hair done. So when It was that time again, there was no obvious break from school or any other reason to go to SLC. So I had to get Stacy involved to make a reason to go.

We left on a Thursday night and didn't arrive till the wee hours of the morning to my parents home. We were welcomed with a quiet home and large beds for each of us. We didn't have to carry any other luggage other than our own and we didn't have to settle anyone else into bed before we could fall into bed ourselves. And the best part, we didn't have to wake up until we wanted to the next morning!

Most of the day was spent getting our hair done. Then we briefly went our own ways to spend time with each of our families. That night, Friday night, we drove up to Park City to stay at her parents condo at the Canyons. We skiied for free the next day and it was wonderful! The conditions were great and it was so warm. All I had on was a vest and a long sleeve shirt. By mid-afternoon, my legs were beat. We walked our tired bodies back and went to sit in the spa. Aahhhh! I'm not one for a massage, but the thought of one did enter my mind then. I would have settled for a pedicure, but we were trying to keep our little trip on the less expensive side.

We ate at Kneaders that night. YUM! If you haven't been blessed with the opportunity to eat at Kneaders in Utah, next time you are up that way, find one and eat! We had to go to breakfast the next morning there because it was that good!!! Kneaders beats Panera Bread any day of the week and twice on Sunday!

I was exahusted by the time we rolled back into Vegas and to be honest, ready to be a mom and wife again. Being a single lady is tiring!!! I don't know how I did it all those years :0

(and I only got this one photo of our entire weekend! The camera thing is really bumming me out!)