Ry, Meg, & Cooper: December Week 2

Sunday was Dad's birthday; so we went to Gma Miller's for advent, story, and birthday cake for Dad. We also made our gingerbread houses that Gma baked for us while we were up there, Coop LOVED it! We had three basketball games that week which kept us very busy. Lauren and I made a craft together (Nic made it, we painted it) they turned out super cute, it's a Christmas card holder. Thursday was ugly sweater bunco and Friday we left for Salt Lake for Ry's work party, which was SO fun! We met for lunch at the Grand America where Tim gave all the wives a card, in mine thanked me for all the time Ry spends away and for being understanding of his crazy schedule and he mentioned what a great guy Ry is, it was so sweet to hear so many nice things about Ry, in addition to the nice card he gave us all $500 to shop with while the boys had a meeting that afternoon. Angie (Tim's wife) drove us girls (Angela, Kenny's fiancé and Yolanda, Layne's wife,) to City Creek where we spent close to five hours shopping, we had a great time together and ended our shopping spree with Ruby Snap cookies, which are always to die for. When we got back to the hotel the guys were wrapping up there meeting and we hung out in the lounge for a while and then went back to our rooms to get ready for the evening. We all met down in the lobby to head over to Ruth's Chris for dinner, Kenny and Angela rode over with Ry and I. Our dinner was delicious, and I'm pretty sure we had every course we could, Ry kept stressing about the prices (A, because he does the company finance stuff and B, because the prices really are outrageous) but we were so satisfied by the end, it was totally worth it. We headed back to the hotel that night and just relaxed in the room. The next morning I met Angela at the hotel gym and we worked out together and saw this older guy and kid that looked super familiar but couldn't figure out why. After we showered and got ready we met the other couple minus Tim and Angie who had to get back to their house for a party, for a late breakfast where we saw the old guy from the gym and his nephew, he ended up being the guy off Indiana Jones, John Rhys-Davies, I guess he had a concert that night. After breakfast Ry and I went to the new Hobbit movie over at Gateway.
Coop stayed with my Gma and parents while we were gone, he ended up getting sick with a runny tummy and felt bad that whole day. Ry's parents were coming down for the Christmas concert that Saturday so they brought Coop to us. Ry had a game that night in Bear River, so after Coop's nap, which ended up being a late one I took Coop downstairs where they had a Christmas window walk where they had each window decorated with different little elves, it was SO cute and so magical. At the end they had a giant gingerbread house. After we did that I decided to walk to temple square with Coop since Ry took the truck to his game. I didn't realize how far away we were, I think it ended up being about eight blocks away which ended up being cold and long by the end. But Coop and I had a fun time together. Since Ry wasn't back when we got back and I didn't want to walk anywhere else I ordered room service and Coop and I watched a Christmas movie and had our smorgasbord of a dinner.

Dad opening gifts and reading the Christmas story for that Sunday.

Happy Birthday Boppa~

Making gingerbread houses...

tasting the candy...

Oh so focused.

One of my favorite Young Women leaders, Cheryl Christensen, sent me these beautiful flowers and a very sweet note to check on me, I love her and her husband, they are the sweetest people.