Awesome happenings this week!
This week my littlest sister (I guess I should say youngest, since she is taller than all of us) Erin turned 18! It is amazing to realize that my family is in that phase now where we are all officially adults. I am so proud of Erin and grateful she is my sister. Chandler and I had Leigh and Erin over yesterday for dinner to celebrate her birthday (a couple days belated since she was busy on her birthday). I made a yummy dinner for all of us and I put streamers up in our apartment to make it more birthday-ish. It was fun!
Also, on Wednesday Chandler and I got to be there when my sister Leigh opened her call to serve a mission for our church (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints). She is called to serve in the Salt Lake City, Utah, Temple Square mission and she will be able to teach in American Sign Language! We are so excited for her. She leaves in February and will be serving for 18 months!
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| At Tucanos! |
This week Chandler and I did a bunch of fun things together. My birthday is coming up and Chandler and I wanted to do some things with just us since we would be spending my birthday with family over the Thanksgiving holiday. So on Friday we went to the Brazilian restaurant Tucanos for lunch (I had a free meal postcard from the restaurant for my birthday. If you haven't joined the birthday club you should!). If you haven't been there the meal is an amazing and overwhelming array of perfectly grilled and seasoned meats and veggies, and my personal favorite: the grilled pineapple. They bring it to your table and cut int off the skewer right in front of you! We planned to go pretty early so we could gradually get out of our food-coma for the remainder of the day. It worked. We ate so much, enjoyed it fully, and we didn't have to eat the rest of the day. :)
Also, Chandler had a surprise for me for my birthday (a week early). He surprised me with tickets to go see Disney on Ice up in Salt Lake City. We love anything Disney! It was a magical show with fun effects and great skating! A very good show - and I know we loved it just as much as all the little kids around us! (Let's just say we were one of the few couples there without children). ;) It doesn't matter to us. We like good entertainment and we aren't stuck on proving our adulthood - a good show for a kid is a good show for us! It was seriously a bunch of fun, and I am grateful for Chandler's thoughtfulness.
One more quick story. Because of Chandler I can do more - he has changed my life. Let me give an example. On Tuesday of this week I encountered what I perceived to be a big problem with my computer. It ended up being a problem with my antivirus software, but I was able to fix it all on my own while Chandler was at school! Chandler has taught me and been an example to me of independence and self-reliance in many ways. He is always learning to do new things because he wants to be able to do them. I am more the type to sit back and ask someone who I know already knows the answer (save time right?). But chandler has taught me that I don't have to do that. I can be the solution for myself. Even in subjects I don't fully understand - I can at least try, then I know more than I did before just by trying. Anyway, I decided to do this with my computer that was doing weird things. I searched online, read comments from people with the same problem, and followed the steps to fix my computer! I felt pretty cool, but mostly grateful for Chandler (and Google ;) and his attitude towards new/hard things. What better way to learn than to simply try? We are in a world full of easy fixes and immediate knowledge at our fingertips, and because of that it is so easy to simply give up when one thing goes wrong. The real way to learn is not just to ask for an answer, but to struggle with the problem until we can find an answer or solution. Thanks to Chandler for helping me learn that just by being you!
I am so thankful for my life and the amazing people who are a part of it. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
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