Weekend in Utah

We were lucky enough to be able to venture out to Utah for a long weekend to visit Grandma Moore. Not too long ago she was diagnosed with stage 4 (final stages) cancer and given 6-9 months to live. So the reasoning behind the trip was not pleasant, but it was great to see her and a bunch of other relatives. I have to admit that it's pretty nice that both my grandmas live in the same town! Dad, Aliisa, Quentin and I flew out Friday night and met Kirsten and Kirk in Vegas. We got into St. George very late and stayed with Grandma Hendrickson. We spent the rest of the time hanging out with Grandma Moore and some more of the Moore clan. We also got to see Mark and Holly and the girls! Grandma Moore seemed to be feeling pretty well most of the time we were there, so we were lucky to catch her at a good time. It was a fun trip until the trip home. We're pretty sure we got food poisoning at the burger place we ate before we left so I was sick the whole way home. Let's just say that airplane bathrooms are DEFINITELY not barf-friendly. It takes a special person to bend appropriately, but it was a better alternative to the barf bag in front of everyone, which I also got to experience on the car ride home from the airport...sorry travel buddies! I guess it was well worth it to see everyone, especially Grandma Moore. Thanks for the trip, Mom and Dad!

Meet Garrett!

We were lucky enough to get to meet our newest nephew this weekend! We went to Kansas City Friday and Saturday to see this little guy...He was nameless for about a day because Michelle and Kendall waited to find out the gender of the baby and they didn't have a boy's name picked out. They decided on Garrett Wayne Walker. Wayne is Randy's (Quentin's dad) middle name and also Jeremy's (Quentin's deceased brother) middle name. He was 18 inches and weighed in at 7 lbs 7 oz, which is apparently quite small for a Walker baby! He's adorable and he likes to wrinkle up his face a lot...it's so cute! He has really long little fingers and toes. There's just nothing like snuggling up with a newborn. Michelle seems to be recovering well and she looks great! It was fun to meet him and see the rest of the family. Arlaine was there helping out so we got to celebrate Mother's Day with her a little early and we got to spend some time with Nick and Colton and the girls too. Cora could not get enough of holding Garrett...she just wanted to help whoever was holding him.And since it was Mother's Day weekend, Kendall had the nice idea of the guys being in charge of dinner Saturday so we had ribs, pasta salad, potato salad, beans, chips and dip all followed by Kendall's homemade cheesecake. It was yummy and I enjoyed taking advantage of this Mother's Day gift despite the fact that I am not one :)

Our Boring Lives...

So we haven't been up to a whole lot lately, but do have some new stuff going on. The new owner has taken over at the dealership, so Quentin has been putting in some extra hours to keep up with all the new cars coming in. He is such a hard worker! There will be a lot of change in the next few weeks at his job.
This semester is coming to a close, and Quentin can't wait to be done. I can't wait either, as that means we are that much closer to being done with school! He will be taking 3 classes at Moberly this summer. And then he will be done with all the classes he can take at Moberly that transfer to MU, so he applied to MU and we are awaiting news on that. I'm sure he will get in since he has really good grades because he works to hard. I'm so proud of all he has done and glad to have such a hard working, dedicated husband.
Not much is going on with me. I'm still working at University Hospital and am coming up on my one year anniversary there. We will be experiencing quite a few changes in the next 6 months. The new Missouri Orthopedic Institute will open in June, so we will lose some employees and patients when that happens, and then when Columbia Regional Hospital becomes a children's hospital we will lose some patient volume there. It will be interesting to see how it all unfolds. That's all for now!

Butters the Frog

Aunt Kirsten and Uncle Kirk sent their favorite puphew this little costume from "The Princess and the Frog." I haven't seen the movie, but the costume is pretty cute. Butters would probably disagree. He seems to hate it and even tried to run under the bed when I pulled the little costume out for pictures. Also his ears are so big that they will randomly just pop out of the hood. Super cute! Thanks Kirsten and Kirk!

Happy Easter!

Conference was on Easter this year, so we invited to Jacobs to come hang out at our house and watch it on TV. We got to watch Andrew get his basket. We're thinking next year he might actually show interest in it, but I still thought it was cute.
The weather was beautiful, so between sessions we went for a walk in the park and enjoyed the sunshine. After conference we went to Mom and Dad's and ate a yummy Easter dinner. If you haven't had my mom's cinnamon rolls, you are really missing out! It was the perfect way to celebrate Easter. Today we dyed eggs. Yes, a little late but still fun nonetheless. For some reason it seems like there were a lot more options and designs or something when I was younger, but I think we still got some cute ones.

Bryan Visits Columbia

This past weekend my cousin Bryan came for his first visit to Columbia! He had just come from Chicago and St. Louis, making Columbia even less exciting I think. We drove around campus and showed him where I went to high school and stuff. Then we went out to eat and saw "Bounty Hunter." We also enjoyed some Andy's Frozen Custard and then came home and watched a few episodes of Arrested Development. Hopefully he thought it was as entertaining as we did. Sunday we went to church and then just kind of lounged around the rest of the day. Quentin was nice enough to take care of dinner and he cooked cashew chicken for everyone. It was so much fun to have Bryan here and we hope we didn't bore him too much!

If You Like it then You Shoulda Put a Ring on it!

Karen and I watched this season of The Bachelor. It's a really ridiculous reality show, but highly entertaining. Quentin and Mike got to be in charge of "watching Andrew" in the other room, which really consisted of blocking him off in one area with them while they played Halo. So Karen and I got to watch baby-free in the bedroom. We started doing fancy drinks in wine glasses during the part of the show where they had the cocktail party, and then the last week Mike bought us ring pops, since in the final episode the bachelor proposes to one of the girls.