Wow, we had quite the weekend last week. I finished up another semester, Katie’s family came to visit, and Katie graduated and turned 22! On Thursday night we headed up to SLC where we met up with Lynn, Julia, Lauren and Dan, and had a great dinner at The Roof in honor of our graduate! We got there right as the sun was setting, and had a great evening together. Dan ate a plate of olives and a huge slice of chocolate mint cake.
On Friday we all got up really early, since the School of Education holds their graduation at 8:00 AM. Elder Perry presided over Katie’s graduation, and told the graduates that they had picked the most important major there is, which was pretty cool. As a quick side note, I just need to say how proud I am of Katie for graduating. I'm not sure how many of you know this, but Katie was in school all the way up until 1 week before her due date. In addition to this, from about 7 months to 8 1/2 months she was working full time in a 5th grade classroom. When Chase was born, Katie still had 9 credits to go, so she signed up for four online classes, and finished her work from home while taking care of Chase. I'm not really sure how she did it since I can't get anything done with Chase around, but miraculously Katie was able to do it! She also got straight A’s and actually studied for all her finals. Yup, she's pretty amazing, what else can I say.
CONGRATULATIONS KATIE!!!
Friday also happened to be Katie's birthday, so after graduation, the party began! After taking naps, to catch up from the early morning, we headed up to SLC for dinner at Zinn Bistro. If you are not aware of the reputation Zinn Bistro has, you might want to check this out: http://utah.citysearch.com/review/35829139 . We stumbled upon this a few weeks ago and had been dying to try this place, not only because the food was supposed to be amazing, but because of all the funny/rude things that we heard about happening there. We were intrigued.
Here is an excerpt from our favorite review: “We tried to order soups ala carte, offering to pay full entree price it. We were told by the owner that our name had been put on a list and we could never return to the restaurant again”.
We were pretty excited to see what this place was like. The food was good, not great, but good, and we didn't have anything too exciting happen with the owners/servers, only two small incidents. First, Katie and Julia tried to share a dish to which the server coldly replied, "I have to have one order per person," so they ordered separately. After ordering, they brought out a basket of bread, which was by far the best part of the meal. As the server was leaving, Lynn asked if there was anything we should know about the bread (since there were like 7 different types), to which she responded, "They're delicious" and walked away.
After dinner we went to Build-A-Bear because Katie has been begging me to take her there forever. She built a BYU bear and I built a scuba monkey. It was a lot of fun, I wouldn't be surprised if that becomes a new family birthday tradition :) Although I have to say, Dan, Lauren, and I had most fun trying the bear accessories on Chase. I think Katie was torn over whether to laugh or come to her child’s defense, but we got some great pictures, and Chase didn’t seem to mind at all.
After dinner we returned home for an awesome ice cream cake from Cold Stone and presents. We were all exhausted and Katie and I still had to pack for Las Vegas! It was a great couple days and we all had a lot of fun together.
-Tim
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