All By Myself!

I interrupt the usual "grateful" posts, to post just a little about my recent trip to Utah. I got to go all by myself! That's right no kids, just me. This has NEVER happened. It was dreamy. I went down to do the spinning certification class. I am now a certified instructor and I am excited, and a little nervous, to start teaching. The certification class was really fun and I learned so much. I am really glad that I did it.

I then spent the next few days seeing family and hanging out with friends and yes, shopping. I am not a huge shopper, but we really have nothing in my hometown, so when I get the chance to go to IKEA, I am there.

Some highlights; Driving 7 hours alone listening to what I wanted to. For the drive down it was "Austenland" by Shannon Hale, on the drive home I scanned through my ipod listening for good spinning music. Seeing old friends and family. Ikea and REI. Going to "High School Musical 3" with my fellow forever 'tween, Holly. And stopping at the Idaho Falls temple on the drive home. And my other most favorite thing about the trip; how happy and excited my boys were to see me when I came home. Jackson even said "Mommy, I missed you so much my heart almost broke into half."

I don't have many pictures because it was just me, but here are a few:

Rivers, just after she lost the second of her two front teeth!

Yeah, it's silly but considering we took it with the automatic timer, I think it's kind of cool, okay it's mostly funny. Holly and I had the theater all to ourselves, it was a lot of fun.

No, I didn't take this picture, but it was one of my favorite parts of the trip.