Saturday, May 25, 2013

Playing With Roxy

Ziah loves playing with our dog Roxy.  He has tried to eat her feet and ears.  Roxy is so good about it.  She'll sit there patiently while Ziah hits her, pulls her ears, bites her.  We have a great dog!

Montreal, Canada Part 2

The second day in Montreal, Jake didn't have to work.  We went to a market in the morning.  We found some maple syrup to buy.   We saw some live crabs to buy to eat, and some octopus.
We tried some croissants and some other stuff there that we hadn't tried before.
 After that we went to the Art Museum that they had in the city.  We saw some cool stuff there.
This is a painting that was painted on a bunch of different pieces of cardboard and then stuck together.  They had a room with lots of different kinds of chairs that was kind of cool.
While we were driving around the city, we noticed in the middle of one of the roads, there were a bunch of swings that people could come and swing on.  We thought is was a little weird, but thought it would be cool to stop.  We were going to stop, but when we saw it we had to get somewhere and then when we came back to go on them it started raining and someone was taking them down in the rain.  We saw them at night time and the seats glowed in the dark.

This is a cool building that we saw outside of the museum
After the museum and eating, we went to the Montreal Temple.  It was a small temple and only had one session that day.  It was exactly like the Fresno Temple that I went to all the time on my mission.  Before the session started they took a vote to see who wanted the session in French and who wanted it in English.  French won out, so we got head phones to listen to the session in English.
This is the bridge that we crossed to get to the temple
We enjoyed our time in Montreal.  We didn't realize how French it was, but it is VERY French.  If you want to work in the province of Quebec you have to pass a French language proficiency test.  They have language police to make sure that French is the main language in the place of business.  We had a great time, but it was great to get home to our kids.

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Montreal, Canada

Last month, Jake and I took a trip to Montreal, Canada.  Jake had to go over there for work, so I came along.  I had never been to Canada, and Jake didn't have to work a whole lot while there, so I went along to enjoy the city.  It was our first trip we have been on since we have had kids.  I was a little nervous leaving Ziah.  We left our kids with Jake's parents.
The first day there, Jake had meetings in the morning, so I exercised at the hotel, took my time getting ready, then headed out on foot to find some lunch.  I found a mall, ate lunch in their food court, and then explored the city.  I saw a cool building so I walked toward it and took pictures.
There were lots of churches like this.  After I saw it, Jake called me and said he was done, so we met and decided to walk down to the Old Montreal Harbor.  On our way there we went through China town and tried a Chinese treat.
We also saw the Norte Dame Church and the big plaza that was in front of it.  We didn't pay to go in because I read online that if you have seen the churches in Europe, it was just like those, and since we saw a lot of those while we were on our trip to Europe, we decided to pass on this church.

As we got into Old Montreal, the roads were made of brick.
There wasn't a lot to see in the harbor, but it was pretty to walk along.
We saw this cool building, so we walked to it and saw that it was a church.  We went inside and it was beautiful inside.
There were murals painted on the ceilings

and lots of beautiful stain glass windows depicting the life of Christ.
We walked along a street in Old Montreal that had a lot of little shops.  We were looking for some maple syrup because Canada is famous for their syrup.  We found a little cafe where we tried a maple croissant that was actually delicious (I'm not a big fan of maple syrup, but I enjoyed the real stuff).  In the basement, there was a mini museum that told how maple syrup was made in the past and how it is made now.
 We enjoyed our day exploring the city.  That evening we met up with some of the people Jake came to see for dinner.  We had poutin, which is French Fries with gravy and cheese on top, ours had steak in it too.  It was actually really good.  Everyone was surprised by how much Jake could eat.  He ordered his meal, and then the people we came with said we had to try poutin, so he ordered that, and the waiter was surprised he wanted that AND his meal.  Then Jake ordered another poutin because it was so good and he was still surprised he wanted more.  Everyone tried the poutin and said it was the best they had ever had.  We enjoyed our time in the city.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Teeth!!


 The day I got home from Canada, Mosiah got his first tooth!  Jake's mom said he had a slight fever while we were gone, and then he got his tooth!  I'm so glad I was home in time for it.  His other tooth was really close to coming in and on May 2nd his second tooth came in.
He is growing up too fast!

Soup Nazi

While Jake was at the trade show in Vegas, he met the Soup Nazi from Seinfield.  He even did the "no soup for you."

Vegas


 While we were in Vegas, we went to the Shelby Car Factory and Museum.  It is where they make Shelby Cars.  I had never heard of a Shelby Car, but supposedly they are famous.  It isn't really a brand of cars, they are add-ons to put on your Mustang or other car after you buy the car.  The cars look pretty cool and supposedly they are really fast too.
Tean and Broyden loved seeing the cars.
This is the first Shelby car.  Someone offered Shelby (the guy who made it) around 32 million for it. Crazy!!
Later that day, Jake and I went to Circus Circus and walked around and watched a girl juggle pots and a table and chairs on her feet.  It was pretty cool looking.
One day while we were there, we took the kids to the park.  The weather wasn't great most of the time we were there, but there was finally a day that was sunny outside, so we took advantage of it and went.  Mosiah and Channing had fun riding in the swings.  
I love this picture of Channing.  It looks like he is loving it!
The other kids had fun climbing on the toys. 
Tean loved being down in Vegas with his cousin, Broyden.  They played and played and played with each other.

Friday, May 3, 2013

Ghost Town

On our way down to Vegas, we decided to see if there was a ghost town to stop in, and we found one between Cedar City and St. George.  It wasn't too far off the freeway, so we headed over to it.  There was a museum there, but since it was Sunday, it wasn't open.  There were a few cool things to see outside.


We saw lots of cool old buildings and some really pretty views of the country.
We also saw an old mine that looked pretty cool. 


Tean wasn't too excited about exploring a ghost town, but after we went to this one, he wanted to find more.