Whitney Weekend

I was so lucky to have Whitney come and visit me from Washington last weekend!  It has been soooo long since I've seen her and I needed a little Whitney time!  She now has two babies and the last time I saw her she only had one...who was just a few months old at the time.

We met first at the Idaho Falls zoo.  It's a small one, but it's perfect for an 18 month old.  I'd have to say the flamingos were my favorite this time and it's hard to explain why.  But we took our picture in front of them to remember their awesomeness.

After the zoo we went to Bambino's in Rigby for a Great Bambino!  I forgot to take any pictures there... We ended up at our little apartment and first thing's first...diaper change time!  Aren't they cute??

Me and little Whitney.

And little Wade...

For dinner we grilled out hamburgers with the Duffy's and so the girls swang while the boys grilled.  They sure tasted yummy!

Val just loved Nate...awwwweeeeee.  Isn't he the greatest??

Logan Wedding

On Saturday, Nate and I drove to Utah again for a wedding.  Nate's friend, Ben, got married in the Logan temple.  We were already running late/ right on time when I realized 30 minutes into the drive that I forgot my temple recommend.  Thankfully, Nate drives a little fast and we got there in just enough time for them to look up my recommend and I was able to attend.  I'd never been inside the Logan temple so I really wanted to go!  After the sealing, we stuck around for a bit for pictures and then went to their absolutely gorgeous luncheon.  I guess luncheon's are a thing out here.  We just went to Subway for our after wedding meal haha  Everyone else went to Chick-fil-A I think.  Nothing fancy for us Tucker's!  Instead of staying in Logan all day and waiting for the reception, we decided to go home early and attend the drive-in that night.  We watched Cinderella and Furious 7.  Well, Nate watched both, I feel asleep for the second.

Our Engagement Park

After the Sunday afternoon session of conference I asked Nate if we could go visit our "engagement park" in Downtown Salt Lake.  It's been two years since we got engaged here so I felt like it was a good time to go visit.  It was exactly as I remembered it.  So cute and perfect...and swingless.  I sure am grateful that he asked me to marry him two years ago!  I can't believe all that has happened between then and now :)

General Conference Weekend

We headed down to Utah again for General Conference.  This time, Nate's family was able to fly out from Ohio as well.  Natasha and Ivan even got to come since they were on spring break.  We drove down on Friday afternoon and met up with Nate's family at the Outlets in Lehi....since we always go to the outlets and spend too much money whenever we are in Utah.  After shopping, we went to Rodizio's for dinner.  It's a Brazilian steakhouse that Nate picked to go to for his birthday dinner.  Honestly, it wasn't as good as Texas de Brazil that we went to at the last conference.  However, the Brazilian lemonades they had were delicious!!!

Natasha, Ivan & Nate (they all have birthdays within a week or so of each other!)

We stayed at the City Creek Marriott, which is where we almost always stay in Salt Lake.  On Saturday we attended the afternoon session of conference.  Nate's parents ran into Nate's mission president at breakfast that morning so we knew he was around the hotel somewhere.  We decided to wait in the hotel lobby after the Saturday afternoon session to see if he would walk in...and he did!  It was really special for Nate to talk to him again as he's from Portugal and came to Salt Lake City just for Conference.  This time we also got a picture with him!

I also ran into my cousin who is serving a mission in Salt Lake City!

They boys had tickets to the Priesthood Session so while they were there, the girls and kids went to the hotel pool for a bit.  The kids even convinced me to get in for a bit.  After they got out we went to Bucca de Bepo's for dinner.  It's a family style Italian restaurant.  We also went with Nate's uncle Tim's family.

Funny story time... After dinner Nate and I were craving something sweet so we went and bought a slice of cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory (Oreo, of course).  When we got back to our hotel room we decided just to order some room-service milk to go with it.  I am the one who ordered and the attendant on the phone was a little hard to understand.  I had to repeat myself at least twice that I wanted two glasses of 2% milk and also a bottle of water.  She asked if I wanted a large and I said yes.  In the rooms, they have these mini water bottles so I assumed a large was just a regular size bottle...Nate got quite a surprise when he answered the door!!  He was like "what the heck did you order?!?!" hahahahaha  The large water really was a LARGE water.  I don't even want to know what we had to pay for that...

On Sunday we went to the morning session, including Music and the Spoken Word.  I ran into one of my best friends, Sarah Pratt and it was so good to catch up with her.  The Sunday afternoon session we watched from Brandon & Sheridan's house in Spanish Fork and then ate dinner at their house.  Since it was Easter, Nate and I hid about 1000 eggs around their yard (okay, maybe like 200...) for the kiddoes to find.  It was hard to leave everyone since we aren't down there too often.  We didn't leave until late that night so I made Nate drive home while I slept in the back of the car.  Even with that, I was still super tired at work the next morning...