5 months in review

January highlights -we went to the icecastles in Midway.

Seeing Martin (Michele's sister), who was in town.

Had a cousins party.

Work trip to St George that Rich joined me on, so we went to Las Vegas for the weekend.  It was a great trip, Rich's first time to Vegas.  Enjoyed seeing Blue Man Group, Jabawockees, the coca cola store taste of soda's from around the world, and seeing the fun hotels.Our only regret was not being able to spend more time with Bob and Hiroko.  We did get to see my childhood friend Ben and his family, who just moved to Vegas 3 weeks before the trip.

In February we celebrated our 1 year anniversary with a yummy dinner at Tuscany followed by scrumptious dessert at the Bakery (Gourmandise).  We went to Colorado to visit my aunt Lynda and uncle Steve with Nicole and Casey a perfectly delightful trip, where we were spoiled by our gracious hosts.  As a bonus Grandma was there. 

March, was Michele's birthday.
Michele had a girls camp retreat with youth leaders.
Watched alot of basketball, it was fun to see BYU do well.

Went to the Real game, saw David Beckham and Jimmer Freddette-Michele almost hyperventilatted as we walked past Jimmer.  Rich said hey Jimmer and he gave a nod.  We are almost best friends;)

Got to see Deb (Rich's sister) when she came for a business meeting.

Rich got called to be the executive secretary in our ward...he has been busy-but he really enjoys getting to know ward members better.

April-Boo (Rich's car) died, so we bought our new car-Quimbi, a 2011 Nissan Sentra.

we went to Moab for a trip to see Canyonlands (a bucket list item for Michele).

Jared (Rich's brother) visited when he came to town for busines was a great joy.  It was good to have dinner with him and catch up.

Went to the Spiral Jetty-on the Salt Lake...glad we caught it before the snow melts and covers it for another 30 years. 

Cousins party

We missed all those who could not be at the cousins party. Here are the links to the youtube videos of grandma's interview and a few of the activities we did at the party. Grandma interview 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKxsIsGTY-k Brent guesstures http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF8MFWd0z0Q Martin Guesstures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq4Jqm5ThHg

More grandma interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Nsllf0wSU

junk in your trunk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EmcRUKUydw

junk in your trunk round 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Qg-Q8DmK8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hl0AwQ8ylM

Chinese takeout

What can newlyweds do for Halloween?

How to Host a Murder Mystery party. This one was called Chinese takeout, so we had to get... Thai food (our favorite) and a little chinese too. Rich was a detective and I was the newly found daughter of a rich (now dead) woman. We had a lot of fun with our old friends Jen and Chris and new friends Emily and Helaman.

Since the crowd...

Salutations, all!

It has been a couple of weeks since the Dutton crowd dispersed back to their places of origin. The first batched of leaves have been picked up off the lawn and the plants cut back for winter. The potatoes have been dug and eaten. The swamp cooler is winterized and the heater engaged. Fake pumpkins, orange lights, and yellow "Caution: Enter if you Dare" tape are strategically placed to recognize the season. A couple chats over Halloween costumes have taken place, but there are no Halloween plans (and we are not broken up over that) so why bother. Last Halloween's pic from our single days is posted...funny how priorities change. (Jackie O being Nursed by Clark Kent)

Petitions, disputes, and angry words over Pres. Packer's words at

conference are common-place in discussion and media. Probably the most reasonable words we've heard came from a friend. "He's an apostle speaking to HIS religious beliefs to those of HIS own church. If you don't like it, don't join." It was well-timed that President Monson spoke on not judging others.

We had a little miracle last weekend. A large branch died on one of our larger trees. We were worried if we did not cut it down, it would fall on the house when snow piled on it. So we borrowed a chain saw and cut it down ourselves. Yup, it fell on the house. But the miracle is that it did not break the two windows it potentially could have and did not puncture our roof:)

This weekend was crazy-full! Our friend was playing Nancy in Oliver, so we went to the Grand theatre to see her perform. The play was great and she did a great job. Saturday, Michele went up to Snowbird with her sister, Nicole, and mom. Then we both went to dinner for daddy Godfrey's birthday. Then we went to a Real soccer game. Rich has wanted to go for while...it was really fun!

Canadia, We Heart U!

Last Sunday we celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving. This is a big event at the Godfrey home, where 35 people (mostly Canadian) gather for dinner. This year we brought Oreos we had purchased in Canada. We had a blind taste challenge, American Oreos versus Canadian. The Canadian ones won...but not by a lot. 12 preferred Canadian and 10 preferred American. The Kit Kat test had a larger disparity-9 preferred Canadian to the 2 American. ... Oh ... and the food was super good!

5 Alls

Recently we went to a restaurant called the 5 Alls. It was an Old English-Style restaurant with dark wood-work, medieval-type music, low candle lighting, tapestries, stained glass, pewter goblets and dishes, and multiple meal courses (not corsets). We found it delightful and a welcome change from the up-tempo, pop music, Applebee’s-type eateries.