happy birthday dad

Today is my dad's birthday...well technically it's not his birthday for 2 more hours but since he's in Italy...it is his birthday :)

Happy Birthday Dad, I love you so much. Thank you for being an example, a mentor, a wonderful father & a true friend. Thanks for always believing in me and encouraging me to always be better.

I hope you have a fabulous Italian birthday :)

so excited to see you in a week and a half!!

we're so excited!

And it's still a month away, but I wanted to share :)

 

Logan and I had been planning on going to visit my parents in Italy ever since we heard they were going on a mission there. We had always thought we'd go in September to celebrate our anniversary and my birthday all in one. But as we searched for plane tickets, watching prices every week, we found out that Easter is actually the cheapest time to go. Luckily we've been saving for awhile now so we were able to jump on the deal and buy our tickets. We leave April 3 and come back April 18.  We are seriously so excited! Logan has never been out of the country so this will be a whole new adventure for him and I'm excited for him.

We have a 20 hour layover in Paris, by choice, so we'll do a whirlwind tour of that on our way to Italy. I've already been there so we won't have to do all the art museums for me, so we think 20 hours will be just the right amount of time to see the main attractions, though I'd love to stay in Paris for weeks!

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After Paris we'll have a short 2 hour ride to Rome where my parents will be picking us up from the airport!! We plan to stay in Rome most of the time but venture out to Florence to see where I lived when I studied abroad and hopefully to Venice...cause it's beautiful!

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I'm sure you'll have a picture overload when we get back...

but we can't wait to share our adventure with everyone!

the past month

Here's what we've been up to the past month.

On February 5th our nephew, Ridge, was blessed in St. George so we went down for the weekend.

I didn't take any pictures so here are a few I stole from my sister-in-laws blog.

On Saturday we spent some time at Logan's grandparent's. The guys did a little swing practice by hitting golf balls into the river. It was pretty fun to watch.

A couple weeks later my cousin and dear friend Clarice came to visit for the weekend. She came down from Idaho on Thursday before President's day and stayed through Monday. We had so much fun, it's been awhile since we just spend time together. We got manicures, did some shopping, did some fun crafts & ate lots of Birthday Cake Oreos :)

a bunch of us girls got together one night for some delicious dessert

julie, kara, lola, natalie, me, clarice, carmen, lani, maddox, christiana & beck 

3 cousins...just missing Meghan to complete the 4 

(we're all within 1 year of each other and have been good friends our entire lives)

other than that I've been busy with work, Logan is still job hunting...the most exciting thing in the world ;)

I was called as Primary Secretary in our ward last week and already love it. It's a fun change from being  Relief Society teacher for 2.5 years. I'm excited to work with the little kids.

there ya have it...a quick little update on our lives :)