Scott's 32nd Birthday

Scott's birthday was 3 days after I got home from Paris. I got him a lot of things while I was on my trip but I knew it would be kinda crazy to get everything ready so soon after my trip. Fortunately, I wasn't  jet lagged and I had gotten some things done before I left. 

The kids loved helping me get things ready for Scott's special day. Milo was my baking buddy. 

Olive spent time making him cute cards and posters that she hung up around the house. It was the sweetest thing to watch her think of things to put on each one and how to make them special. She has a heart of gold and definitely deeply loves that dad of her. 

I'm always so happy when we have a day to celebrate Scott because he so deserves it. He is such a kind, generous, loving, thoughtful, funny, and just all around awesome person that I'm glad when we have days to tell him how great he is and how much we love him. We tried to make it a special day and I think he really liked everything. 

See Olive's handy work? Cute right?

Happy Birthday Scott! We were all so excited to celebrate!

Scott requested one of his favorite meals, Chicken Divan with salad, bread, and mangos. 

Here are his pile of presents. 

I got him this cool mug and pin from the catacombs. 

Milo gave him new golf balls which were a hit. 

 The kids were pretty excited about the caramels I brought home from Paris. 

I also got him the Hunchback of Notre Dame from Shakespeare Books. 

And I found him this cool jacket, some new shoes, and a few other clothes while in Paris. 

 Happy 32! On his Mayonnaise Cake. 

Something else he got just in time for his birthday was a new "smart" watch that can take pictures like this one he demonstrated for me while on our date to one of our favorite places Stella's.

Yeah we are cute! After dinner we went to another Scott favorite, a new Wes Anderson movie! It was a great night and I think he had a great birthday weekend because the celebrating wasn't over!

While I Was Away

As I would assume is normal, I was really stressed about being away from my family for almost two weeks. It was a lot of logistics and tons of preparation for me to make it all work out. I knew Scott could handle it all and he was so willing and wonderful about making this whole trip happen. But I was still stressed. I couldn't have done it without the help of Becca, she watched my kids on school days and took Olive to and from school. And my wonderful friends helped me as well with watching the kids. I am so lucky to have so much support! The saving grace in my mind was that Scott wouldn't be on his own with them for 14 days straight. Since our trip was the week Spring Break he was able to take some days off and go to St George for some of the time. It gave me so much relief knowing he would be with his family having fun and having people for the kids to play with. It couldn't have been better! 

Every once in awhile Scott would send me a picture of the fun they were having and I loved getting updates. I love this picture of these cute matching cousins at breakfast. 

While in St George they went to a place Olive calls "Crystal Cave" which was a really cool place that you could collect your own crystals. 

The kids had a blast hammering their jewels out of the rock walls. Olive still talks about it!

Then they apparently spent hours afterwards cleaning and preparing all of their crystals. It looked like tons of fun. 

I also got some pictures of Milo's antics. 

And Olive and Scott had a late night movie sleepover downstairs and Olive absolutely loved it. They watched Tooth Fairy and Olive told me all about it. Special time with daddy is the best!

Poor Scott had to try and entertain both kids on his own during conference. One the bright side at least he didn't have to try and handle Sacrament meeting on his own :) Scott did such an amazing job and I'm so grateful that I have such a great husband that made this trip of a life time actually possible. I couldn't have done this without him and he never batted an eye at the kinda crazy part of it all. He's amazing and the kids had such a blast!