So the other day (Sunday) Tyler, Rachel, and I all woke up at 4 in the morning to drive up to Idaho for my cousins baby blessing (who by the way is such a cute little guy!).  Rachel had to be the funniest person to wake up.  I walked in her room and this is how our conversation went…

Me: Rach… are you coming to Idaho with us?   Rach: Huh, ya.   Me: Alright, you gotta get up.    Rach: Huh, where are we going? 

It was such a funny conversation.  Don’t worry, when we got in the car Rachel slept the majority of the way up and the way back home.  Anyhow… That was our first drive.  8 hours in the car on monday! 

Tuesday night we decided it would be fun to drive up to Park City to meet up with my parents who are staying the week up there.  Rachel, Joseph, Tyler and I all jumped in my car and left.  It was raining pretty bad!  We almost hydro planned four times.  It was the scariest drive up there ever… until we started driving home.  You know in star trek when they go into hyperspeed or whatever and the stars look like they are streaming towards you… well it was snowing and that is what it looked like.  We could barely see the road.  It was the scariest drive ever!  I was on the edge of my seat almost the whole drive! 

Well I wish I could say that was the last of our driving for a while, but we have one more drive (which I think will be fun, but maybe a little too long).  Thursday night we are driving out to Missouri.  It will be about 16 hours maybe more, who knows.  But we are going to see Tyler’s brother Joel who just had a baby.  St. Louis here we come!

On Saturday March 28th, I decided it would be fun to throw Tyler a surprise party (because his birthday wasn’t until the 31st).  I had things all worked out.  I was going to make Cafe Rio stuff and the night before I put the pork in so it would be extra tasty!  The next day we ran some errands and then Tyler was off to softball practice (yes, tyler is on a softball team with some of his buddies).  While he was at practice I hurried and tried to make everything and Jenni came over and helped.  Finally 4:30 came around and Tyler called saying he was on his way home.  I had told him earlier in the week that we were going to hang out with our friends Nat and Matt, so I asked Tyler to stop at the store and get stuff for spinach articoke dip, and he did because he is awesome like that.  Anyhow, after we stalled forever while we waited for people to show up, I finally told him to just come home.  He walked in and we yelled surprise, and all he had to say was… I saw your cars.  Geez!  Oh well, it was still fun.  I guess it was mostly my fault because I acted “fishy” the whole day!  Whatever.

The rest of the day we ate our “Cafe Rio Salads” and just hung out with friends.  It was such a great day, even if i didn’t do the greatest job of surprising him.  We all had a blast.