Me and Mine: April 2008

Hey, it's Ben. Katie the Cheater tagged me, so prepare for a treat:

Four jobs I've had...
1. Taco Bell (and I still love the food)
2. Roaring Rapids Pizza Company, boyee!
3. Wedding DJ
4. Apartment Manager

Four movies I could watch over and over...

1. Signs
2. Daredevil
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. The second part of any trilogy (Star Wars, Back to the Future, Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones, Terminator, Spider-Man, X-Men, Lord of the Rings, the Matrix, etc.)

Four places I've lived...

1. Springfield, OR
2. Orem, UT
3. Guayaquil, Ecuador
4. Pasaje, Ecuador

Four T.V. shows I love...

1. Seinfeld
2. The Office
3. Law & Order (and all spin-offs)
4. Lost

Four of my favorite foods...

1. Amy's Jumbalaya
2. Pancakes
3. Taco Bell (just put nacho cheese on it, and BOOYAH!)
4. KFC Mashed Potatoes and Gravy

Watch out, I'm gaining weight. The bad kind.

Four sites I visit daily... (almost)
1. Nintendo8.com
2. homestarrunner.com
3. wikipedia.org
4. marvel.com

Four places I have vacationed...

1. Vegas
2. Hawaii
3. Washington
4. California (Disneyland)

Four places I'd rather be right now...

1. Ecuador
2. California
3. Texas (what can I say, I love Republicans)
4. Hawaii

And I'm adding on my own touch here, not for me, but for you! A random TV quote from off the top of my head, the first thing I could think of:

"Check out this cool tattoo Err gave me. It's tough, isn't it. It's a clown, and it represents gang warfare. I'm part of the Clowns now, you dig?" -Meatwad

I'll let Amy do the tagging. I don't have the strength.

Okay, this post has an insane amount of pictures and it's going to be super long! So good luck to all. First Kallie drove down with Julie before everyone else. Julie dropped her off and then was off to Colorado to see her mom. Kallie's moving here so she needed a little time to settle in before the craziness began. A few days later Hayley, Karlee, and Whitney flew in. The first day everyone just relaxed and got to know Dutch. And played a whole lot of Blokus! Jackson followed Whitney around all day long! All of the kids love her!

(Karlee, Hayley, Me, Whitney, and Kallie)
Ben had the day off on Thursday and we all drove up to Salt Lake and went to the Gateway Mall. It was freezing cold but we had a good time. Hayley treated us all to lunch at the Thaifoon restaurant. It was amazing! That night my sister Jenny and her husband Mike along with their kids Phoebe and Adam came to join the fun. Everyone else was suppose to show up on Friday at around noon but were about 3 to 4 hours late. So at around 3:30 My Mom, Dad, brother Reese, niece Hanna, sister Erin, nephew Zack, sister Katie, and niece Ava rolled in. It was so amazing to finally have my family at my house! I've lived here for a year and this was the first time that my side of the family have been able to come and visit. And they were all finally meeting my little baby girl. We only had a few hours to settle in and then we met Ben's side of the family at the Mayan. Ben's Dad, Mom, brothers Aaron and Chris, sister-in-law Mona, and their kids (Hunter, Jada, Cole, and Brooke). The Mayan was soooooo much fun! For those of you who don't know the Mayan is a restaurant with a jungle-like atmosphere and a giant waterfall in the middle. About every 20 minutes they have a show where people dressed like Mayans dive off of the waterfall. The kids loved it! And I am pretty sure the adults all had a great time too! Having both of the families together was really fun!!! Ben and I are very blessed to have such wonderful families!

( Whitney, Jada, and Jack with one of the divers)

(Zack, Jack, and Phoebe)

On Saturday, my family had a big lunch at my great-aunt Jenny and uncle Bills house. All that day Ben's parents were sending warnings to me that the weather was supposed to be bad. I was planning a BBQ at the park that night and didn't really have room to host it anywhere else. A couple people offered to let me host it at there house but I didn't want to impose if I didn't have to. All day Saturday it was pretty nice so I decided that we were on for the park. Right as everyone was showing up the wind kicked in and the temperature dropped! IT WAS FREEZING! Even though the weather was miserable everyone was a good sport. We pushed through and had a memorable time! The next morning we woke up to at least 4 inches of snow. CRAZY! We had even more family and friends show up to the blessing. Ben's grandma and grandpa Fullmer came from Colorado, and Uncle Steve and Aunt CC (Julie's brother and sister). Stacy and her little guy Sammy came from Pleasant Grove, too. The blessing was beautiful. Afterward the families were invited to our house for soup and sandwiches.