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Sunday, February 27, 2011
"That's How we Party on President's Day"
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Over president's day weekend we made a trip with some of our friends to California for some fun in the sun. We needed a break from the freezing cold weather here in Utah so we decided to hit the road.
We stayed at a resort in Anaheim, just a couple blocks from Disneyland. The night we got in, we decided to hang out in downtown LA. We met up with Garrett's sister Gabes, (such a cute girl) and she took us to a restaurant called Urth for lunch. The food was pretttty delicious. Then we went shopping in Santa Monica where the boys spent WAY too much time in Nike Town. From their we got some more food and then had dessert-my favorite! We went to a place similar to smart cookie, but even better. And it cost 3 bucks total for our dessert. That's my kind of place.
(Sadly we didn't document this day very well)
The next day we went to DISNEYLAND!
Thanks to Cory and his knee surgery, we had handicap parking privileges. It was amazing.
The boys were excited to say the least.
Branson's eyes are closed^. Surprise, surprise. They are in every other picture.
I need to superglue them open.
The Gee's having fun on the gigantic jungle gym
My first time at California Adventure. And sad to say it almost tops Disneyland. If I wasn't so attached to the memories from my childhood , I'd have to say CA adventure comes in first.
By far our favorite ride...Toy Story. We went on this over 5 times. It was WAY too addicting. We kept wanting to beat our scores, plus it was so fun. Garrett topped us all with a score of 191,000.
A bug's Life ride. Pretty amazing what people can do with technology these days.
SO HAPPY to be there! Even though we experienced a down pour...it wasn't as sunny as we had planned, but it definitely made for some funny moments.
Disneyland churros are THEE best.
Nice Branson...
Haha! This is Cory in a nut shell. Such a goof.
Gar Bum and his huge turkey leg. We all agreed that it tasted like ham?
Our last full day in CA we decided to take it easy and relax. B and I and Jess and Garrett went to a ward close to the hotel and Lynds and Cor went to a ward with a family member in LA. After church, we decided to walk to the beach (since we didn't have a car) but it was super close. We joked along the way that the boys looked like two missionaries that had picked up some blonds and decided to ditch out on church. haha. We probably looked pretty ridiculous. When we got to Huntington it ended up being pretty cold. But we shopped a bit and then had lunch at BJ's. We had to introduce the Gee's to one of our favorite desserts-The Pazookie. From there, B and I met up with one of my best friend's Sierra and her boyfriend Tyler for dinner. They were so nice to come up to Huntington to visit for a while. We had a good time as always. While we were visiting with them, the rest of the group went to Balboa. They took some great pictures and it made me miss it big time. It's beautiful there.
The blonds and the "missionaries"
Gar and B playing some football on the beach
The Huntington Pier
Balboa
Some good-looking people right here :)
Then before we knew it, the trip came to an end and we had to head back to Utah. Cali, you will be missed.
P.S. I literally cut and pasted this from Shelly's blog. Hope you don't mind the Plagiarism!
We had too much fun riding Tower of Terror time after time.. Here is our photoshoot from throughout the day.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Haven’t blogged in a while. No excuse really.
Garrett and I are staying busy. I’m staying busy at work at ONO. My company is growing so quickly. It’s been interesting seeing the company grow and hire so many people. There’s good and bad things about that. Good: Lots of new fun people to work with. More benefits- Free lunches every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Bad: More processes. We’re becoming very formal in the way we go about things. It’s hard to get things done. Growing pains I guess. I spend a large portion of my time doing more managerial things like building processes and trying to justify every decision. (Picture to the left is of all the IT nerds playing Street Fighter II...classic)
We still have fun. Last Friday, my boss Andrew sent out an email to everyone announcing a wheelchair race at the end of the day. There are two guys in my office that broke their foot, so we have 2 wheelchairs. And of course that warrants the need for a wheelchair race. I volunteered to enter the race, but I was mad when they put me against my friend, Troy. Troy in a 6’ 6’’ basketball player with crazy long arms and is super athletic. But somehow I BEAT HIM. It was AWESOME! I lost in future rounds, but I was proud to be one of the big upsets of the bracket.
Garrett is busy with soccer. He gets up every morning for practice at 6:30. Tryouts are next week. There are about 40ish guys competing for 24 spots. It is a long shot to make the team since he’s been injured since October with a sports hernia. But he just recently started getting back into it. The team lifts twice a week. Two weeks ago they had their tests for agility, speed, vertical and then a body competition test. Garrett was the only play on the team who ranked in the top 3 for each of them. J He got 1st on the agility test and tested at 4% body fat… I know… that’s not really healthy. The coach wanted an average of 7% of the team, and I think he was pretty disappointed when the average was 12%. What do you expect when you’re working with some RMs right out of the field.
Anyway, Gar is really dedicated and a very hard worker. He’s working on getting his touch back and game where it was a few months ago. The good news is, Garrett is probably the most naturally athletic person on the team. I think it says a lot that he is coming off an injury and is still one of the, if not THE most fit and athletic people on the team. So, keep Garrett in your prayers next week with tryouts.
In other news, I went to get my body composition tested as well and left depressed. But I’m working on it. I’ve had some knee problems that have kept me from running as much as I like to, so I’m stuck on an elliptical.
Garrett is taking 12 credits right now. He only has to go to 2 classes and usually only has one class one Mon., Wed., Thurs. and no classes Tuesday and Friday. He spends a lot of his time working on his website garrettgee.me and his new venture QRCodeCity.com. Garrett entered his business into the BYU Business Plan Competition and he is now a semi-finalist. There were 8 companies selected. He was SO excited when he found out. (Picture on right is when he found out he was a semi-finalist) Mainly becuase he stayed up all night on Valentines Day trying to put together a business plan by himself. He was so stoked when he found out he was a semi-finalist. The winner gets $50,000, 2nd and 3rd place get $30k and $20k. His business is really taking off right now (over 70k downloads on his app) and I think he has a great shot of winning it. He has no shortage of new clients and projects for Capital G Design. He’s currently working on Business Premier League which will be a business soccer league sponsored by Lifetime Fitness this summer.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Along with the song, I got Garrett a massage to Massage Envy. I asked him if he wanted the "amazing present or the best present first." This was the amazing present. I know he will use this quickly with his buds Cory and Branson.
Garrett got me some new Nike's with some new KB socks... my fav! He put them in this cute little sock dispenser.
After I played my songs for Gar.
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