A Morales Minute

We were supposed to head to my parents on Monday the 19th because there was no school being it was Martin Luther King Day. I wanted to get some laundry done before we left. I noticed the second load in the dryer had absolutely no heat. So Jaime took time along with help from Tyler to take the dryer a part.  I took this picture and loved that I got Tyler levitating the screwdriver. Based off the look of the heating element Jaime was pretty sure it had gone out. So he ordered the part and we loaded up our laundry and headed to Grandview to do laundry and have a themed dinner and a movie with mom and dad.  Because it was national popcorn day the movie theater was giving away popcorn for $5 in any container you brought, up to 5 gallons. Well, it sounded like a fun thing to jump on so I sent the boys to go get some popcorn in a 5 gallon bucket! They said they saw some other families going where each kid a their own 5 gallon bucket. hahaha. We took our bucket of popcorn to moms wher...

Bel and I bought tickets to a comedy show for us and our husbands for Christmas. I was excited to give the gift to Jaime because after I had purchased the tickets he saw an ad for the comedian and mentioned it'd be fun to go. I had to act nonchalant and as though I didn't really care otherwise he might have bought tickets! Luckily he didn't. Because the show was at the Sundome in Yakima we chose to eat dinner at Miner's since Chris had never been. I hadn't had a good burger in a bun for a long time so I went ahead and ordered one. After we made our order and got our giant Miner burgers Bel and I both said we should have split one. They're so big! Neither of us finished our burgers but what I ate I really enjoyed. Mmmmm! After dinner we headed to the Sundome. We saw a lot of couples from our ward as well as a handful of others from the stake or people I worked with in the temple. It was fun to see others we knew. We went to see Nate Bargatze. We had some great la...

December 28 We said our goodbyes to Jaime's parents and Lindsey and Isaac. They headed off to the airport shortly after we hit the road. To shorten the drive we drove to Brian's just to stay the night like we did on the way down.  Koda didn't have his travel bag to sit in so he was practically on Aidan the entire time.  December 29 We left Brian's house at 5am.  Koda stayed in his spot a little better but he almost seemed upset about it and turned away from me.  Silly dog. I don't know how comfortable he his here but I can say, he sure travels well.  He never whined in the car and whenever we stopped he went to the bathroom right away and knew to get right back in the truck. We made good time on the 13.5 hour drive. We prayed for good weather to be able to travel safely. We couldn't have been blessed with better! The roads were all bare and dry on the way down to Arizona as well as on the way back. It has been a very unseasonably warm winter for us. Generally we...

December 27 Olivia flew back to Pasco with Bel and Chris. She wasn't originally going to be coming home but staying in Rexburg with Lindsey and Isaac until school started back up. However things just weren't working out like we expected so Jaime and I just decided to fly her home so that she could have some time with us and the boys and her hometown friends. :) Since Jaime and I were driving with the boys and Koda we just flew Olivia home. She was more than happy to fly with her Aunt and Uncle and the goodbye wasn't that hard because she knows she'd be seeing us in two days and she was GOING HOME! The rest of the afternoon was kind of quiet and some even needed to take a nap to help recover from all the late nights we've been having. 😉 It also happens to be our 24th wedding anniversary! Jaime was planning to take me out to some fancy restaurant but I asked if we could instead of spending that much money on the two of us, could we go somewhere less expensive per per...

December 26 The day after Christmas is usually a day of hanging out at home and relaxing and resting and watching sports. This year we had a full agenda. For lunch we split up to go have the burger of our choice. These guys went to In N Out for lunch.  We went to Shake Shack. I will say their burgers were well seasoned and had good flavor. Not just a ground beef patty. I think we all just enjoyed having a hamburger. :)   A bit of shopping at Dick's Sporting Goods meant the boys could have some time to golf. haha Then it was finally time to go to Andretti for our go kart racing. After racing the last time we decided we needed to go on the faster cars this time. We felt ready.  Prepped and ready to get our cars! After the race we were eager to go see our score times.  Wouldn't you believe it...I got third! Aide 1st, Marcus 2nd. Everyone had a good time and we've a decided that Marcus and Aide must come and practice when we're not there. hahaha After racing the kids all...

December 25 Darin and Christy came over to go to the holiday light drive through display and then have dinner with us afterwards. We loaded in to three cars and headed out to see the lights.  We got there before dark so it wasn't opened yet, but good news we were the first ones there so we didn't have to wait in the long line moving slowly waiting to get in while other cars were driving through.  It was a space/alien theme. I thought it was actually pretty cute. The Christmas music the aliens and Christmas trees would sing was so cute.  Bel and Chris stayed behind without letting the others know. Jaime and I knew because we were all in the know that Chaz was going to the house to set up to propose! We were in Darin and Christy's car (Jaime drove though) so we let them in the know. After we were done driving through the light show Jaime raced back to the house to get there before the other cars and Olivia because Bel said she couldn't get the outside lights on. We got th...