Birthday Trip

For my birthday my parents and Evan paid for me to go on a trip to Utah. My mom and I met in Utah and got to see lots of family! I also got to eat at JDAWGS with some freshman ward friends, eat Costa Vida with the fam and babysit my adorable nephew.

Heather (looking a little pregnant now) found a great deal on "City Deals"- manicure and hot rock pedicure for $18, not too shabby. Notice Heather and Hannah's new shirts they got shopping the day before at the Park City outlets.

Hannah was not too happy sitting three across in the front seat!

We went to the Masonic Temple in down town Salt Lake City. To earn money for their organization they rent out the Temple for different TV shows, including Judging Amy.

My aunt and uncle were in town for spring break so we had a family dinner with the Roberts family. We had a typical spring "cook out." (We also had "family dinner" the night before with the Robins, but I didn't get any pictures)

Kendra and our friend's adorable daughter Jetta

I went to dinner with some high school girl friends Kristi, Daphni, and Kendra.

and of course my cute nephew Rex!

"If it's free...it's for me"

"If it's free...it's for me!" has become the Norby family motto. For those of you out of the loop "National Cheese Fondue Day" is April 11. To commemorate this event The Melting Pot (a fancy "special event" type restaurant) was giving away FREE cheese fondue. So of course we took advantage...we did leave a tip so it wasn't entirely free, but totally worth the tip money.

Evan got out of work later than expected, so he didn't change his clothes. The restaurant is not that fancy.

Hard at Work

I asked Evan last week, "what's that box you brought home?" His response, "oh, it is to help me practice giving a rectal exam." You just turn the cube and you have four different "prostates" to exam, one "normal" and three with irregularities. Cool huh?

April Fool's!

I'm not big on April Fool's Day pranks. I'm all for a good laugh or joke, but sometimes they are just mean. What bugs me the most is when someone plays a "joke" on me by saying something like, "I'm pregnant," "I got in a car accident," "I"m engaged," and then when I respond with an appropriate response they say, "I can't believe you fell for that." Well, you're my friend so of course I believed you. Do you not want me to trust anything you say? With that being said I found a clever "prank" in the Family Fun magazine I decided to play on Evan.

I made a "Sponge" cake. I frosted a car wash sponge with yummy frosting and sprinkled it with nuts. After dinner I offered Evan some cake, by saying "I'll scoop up the ice cream if you cut the cake." If you know Evan, you know he is very meticulous. He spent a good minute or so cutting the sponge trying to get the pieces even and trying to cut through the thick sponge. When he saw that it was orange, he said, "hey is this foam?" I said, "It's sponge cake." Then he said, "Oh, so it is cake?" And kept cutting. Then I quickly said again "It's SPONGE cake." I'm not sure Evan thought it was very funny. I think he was a little disappointed I used yummy nuts on a fake cake, but we made some AWESOME walnut brownies to make up for the disappointment.

Caverns

While on our "camping" adventure we went to the Kartchner Caverns. They were way more impressive than I was expecting, well worth the money. The caverns are newly discovered and have only had tours in the caves for about 10 years. They are highly preserved so you get the full effect of the cave and creatures.

This is the outside of the cavern

They found sloths in the cave

tight fit...

The Norby's did what?

Evan had a few days off of school so we went on a little adventure to a stake park, about 65 minutes south of where we live, and went camping. Neither one of us are very "out-doorsy," but we had a good time on our first camping trip together.

Setting up the tent...

Almost finished...I did help, but I also had to take the pictures

Playing games as the sun set

We couldn't have a fire...so this is our version of the "smore"

Number 24

Eating "Rex's Revenge" for lunch in honor of my birthday buddy Rex

Then off to the skating rink. One of my favorite things to do with Evan. Only took us 40 minutes to get there. How can there be 1/2 million people in Tucson and only one skate rink...and no ice rink?

There were a ton of kids there...lots of 9 year old birthday parties going on

After watching the basketball game after to our favorite restaurant....My Big Fat Greek Restaurant

Then Baskin Robbins for dessert. Flavor of the month ice cream Lucky O'mint Chocolate Ice cream...SO yum!