Get-a-way Today

Brylinn and I were going a little stir crazy here in Utah. It had been too cold to do anything outside for longer than 10 minutes or so and we were stuck in our dungeon like basement apartment. Then one day we woke up to a few inches of snow outside, and that was it for me. So first we had to convince Cody to let us go to Arizona and about and hour later we were packed and on our way. Brylinn was a trooper in the car up to the last hour or so.

The weather was so nice there, we tried to spend as much time outside as we could. When we were staying at Grandma Taylor's house there are parks everywhere in her neighborhood , so each  day we just went to a  different one.

Someone in my Mom's ward also had goats that just had babies.  Brylinn loves animals so we went to go feed them.  The little goats were small enough they could fit through the fence and would come right up to Brylinn and eat out of her hand.  I thought she would be more scared, but she loved it.

Then we went to Grandma Rainy's house for a few days.  Everytime we go there she always runs in and finds her few favorite things right away and starts playing.

She loves the freedom she has here to just go back and forth from the house to the backyard.  We have always lived in apartments with her so she has never really had that.  And she was out there being a little too quiet and this is how I found her.

Just chilling out in Nixon's (the dog) water dish.  She is such a silly girl.

 We got to go to the Phoenix Zoo with Grandma and Uncle Max. 

The coolest part was the monkey cage. You could go inside the actually cage and there were tons of little monkeys that would just jump around from tree to tree all around you.

Then when we left they had a little stand to sucker parents into buying a monkey. I couldn't resist, she loved that thing so much. how could I take it away from her.

 She also loved the free roaming peacock.

Then at the end of the day Uncle Max took her to the petting zoo (which I would probably never have done).

 
The whole trip was so much fun. I love when Brylinn gets to interact with our families.  We can't wait to move there!

Valentines Day

Cody and I have a problem, we look for any excuse to buy Brylinn more stuff and Valentines day was no exception.  Both Cody and I bought her different things without communicating to each other that her Valentines was taken care of.  So from me she got a polly pocket, a stuff dog, books and plenty of candy.  Then when Cody got home he sent her and I on a treasure hunt to the backyard, where we found 2 treasure chests, one for each of us.  Cody got Brylinn all of her favorite candy and a package of squinkies, her favorite thing she got for sure. And of course she got a Valentines outfit.

Grandma Rainy also sent her an apron and a treat she will not soon forget about, a ring pop.

 That night for dinner we just had Valentine pizza!

Cody and I decided the first year we were married that we would celebrate Valentines day on the 15th instead of the 14th for a couple reasons.  First we hate crowds but still want to go out for Valentines and secondly because we were engaged on February 15th.  So we got a gift card from his boss to go to our favorite place to eat, Ruth's Chris.  And of course Brylinn got to come with us.  So we drove up to Park City and spent the night together.  We all had a really good time and practically had the restaurant to ourselves.