Memorial Weekend / Wilson Family Reunion

Last weekend Jeph and I went to Idaho to hang out with my family for the weekend. It was tons of fun and crazy as always. Some of the highlights include the drive through the City of Rocks, well known as a great place to rock climb, however, only Jeph and Joel were brave enough to climb to the top of Bathtub Rock. It was quite rainy that day and made the rocks slippery, so the rest of us used that excuse.

We celebrated my brother Spencer's graduation from college. After 10 years of marraige, four kids, working full time all 8 years he went to school, Spencer finally graduated. We're all very proud of how hard he worked and all the other things he accomplished a long the way.

The family threw a birthday party for everyone who had birthdays within the last few months and Jeph because we missed the last birthday party so we had to wait til this one. Happy Birthday Jeph, two and a half months later!!!

I think the biggest shocker of the weekend was that Jeph and I actually helped milk the cows. (Growing up, I was always the one who wasn't tough enough to be a farm girl and the family agreed with me when I said 'I am really a city girl born in the wrong place,' so I married a city boy!) But they actually left us there without supervision to run the facility for awhile. We were pretty successful, I must admit, all those years of pretending I didn't know what I was doing to get out of the work seemed to catch up with me and I found I knew more than I let anyone think. Unfortunatly I didn't take my camera out with me so I didn't get any pictures of that event and my family probably still don't believe it really happened because there is no physical proof. I figured it was better that way. (This is a picture at our farm, just not Jeph and I milking)

Besides our wedding, this was Jeph's largest exposure to the Wilson family, which could seem a little overwhelming with almost 40 of us there, but he seemed to handle it very well. It is always fun to get to be with my family since some only get to come home once or twice a year. We love 'em all!!! (Sadly not everyone made it for this picture but, what could Kami do, she is in the Philippines, and Laurie's family of 8 showed up a few mintues too late for pictures. But we still love and claim all of them!!!)

The dream is over

Tonight, the Jazz faced the LA Lakers and even with the completely embarrassing first half, managed to take the game down to the very last seconds. In a rare home loss, the Jazz were eliminated from this season's Playoff competition. It was a good run and the Jazz should be proud of what they accomplished this year. Although it was a heartbreaking end, it was well faught and there is no shame being eliminated by the MVP and future 2008 NBA champions.
Anyway, now to the real post. We were able to get some fairly cheap tickets to game 3 of this series and had a blast. It was initially Venita's idea to go (I think to see David Archuletta sing the national anthem) but I couldn't turn down such an opportunity. The game was great, we got free shirts and Venita caught some weird paper clapper thing. After the game we decided to go down to the lower bowl to listen to the post-game interviews and we were allowed to have our picture taken at center court. I was very excited and as we were leaving we ran into former player Mark Eaton. I couldn't pass up the opportunity for a picture.
Anyway, the season is over and now I must look back at the fond memories of the season. Watch out though, next year is ours!!!

Venita is Pregnant - Part 2

So as you may have read in the previous post, Jeph thought he was very clever making everyone else think I was pregnant. Well, last weekend Jeph got a taste of his own medicine. After all this joking around about me being pregnant, I just so happened to wake up sick Saturday morning with what we assumed was just the stomach flu. I basically lived in the bathroom all day Saturday and Sunday. Monday rolls around and I am still not feeling too well so I took the day off and again spent the majority of the day being very sick. When I called in to work, my supervisor jokingly said, "You know what it means when someone from this office gets sick with the stomach flu for more than two days: it generally isn't the flu." We laughed, I assured him it WAS just the flu and that I would be in tomorrow. I told Jeph this funny joke but he didn't think it was funny. As the day went on and I failed to get better, Jeph became increasingly worried because the flu does not generally last that long. Jeph wasn't concerned as much for my health, because he knew I would get better, as he was that the rumor he had spread wasn't as funny when the joke is on him. Finally around 11:30 pm, as I was reassuring Jeph there is no physical way I could be pregnant, I jokingly suggested going to Walmart right then to get a pregnancy test to help him feel confident that we have nothing to worry about. The next thing I know we are both staring at a stick, waiting for the results. Jeph finally took a breath as the minus sign became prevelant. I think out of everyone that might have thought even for a second that I might be pregnant, Jeph had the best reaction. Little did he know the joke would come back to get him.

Another little side note about Jeph, I think he is pretty great for finishing his first year of school! We still have a long way to go but I can't help but be proud of how well Jeph has done in school this year. Jeph flew through his classes ending two semesters with only one B and the rest A's. Way to go Jeph!

VENITA IS PREGNANT!!!

Well, not really. Every once in awhile, I will send random texts to an old friend (we'll call him Nick Dall) but to my disappointment, he never writes back. A few days ago I decided that he needed to stop ignoring me and that something needed to be done. I came up with this genius idea to text him and tell him that Venita was pregnant and that we had decided to name it after him. I thought he would definitely respond to this one! For a few days I never heard back from him and got a little worried that maybe he had a new number that I didn't know about. Fearing that maybe such a rumor might spread around to other friends, I eventually decided to write him again saying that she really wasn't pregnant and that it was just a joke. Well, he finally replied to that one feeling a little foolish because he had told his whole family that Venita was pregnant. They were all so excited for us, especially his grandma! He now gets to explain to his family what had happened we just get to laugh about the whole story.
Venita really liked this story and wanted me to post about it with a title that might trick a few of you as well. Sorry, Karla if we got your hopes up, it was her idea!