27 is heaven

This past weekend was ridiculously cool!  It all started Friday.  Code had mentioned that there was a special present coming that he had to be home to sign for.  So clearly this wasn't coming from amazon or something....then he said once it got here it would be impossible to hide it/keep it a surprise- translation?  it's BIG.  BIG=EXCITING!  So friday Code stayed home from work for the first half of the day.  Translation? it must be coming today!  So when they arrived (unmarked white big truck) I hurried into our bedroom to hide.  It was so funny/crazy to hear all the thumping and grunting as two guys hauled whatever it was upstairs.  Then code said It was safe to come downstairs once it was in the guest room.  They had to assemble whatever it was so I took Jake on a walk.  We were swinging in the swings when code called and said I could come home and see what it was.

 I'm sure Jake was annoyed that I so unceremoniously cut our swing time short, but dang it I was excited!  So I power walked home (code seemed surprised at how fast we got there haha).  I ran upstairs to find this beautiful thing:

Apparently Costco had had a sweet sale that included delivery and assembly.  I have always said that it was a dream of mine to own a treadmill.  I've had bouts of consistency with running in my life, but ever since jake has come on to the scene it's been extra easy to come up with excuses etc.  Now that it's a room away there is NO excuse why I can't start my day off right, and even if I sleep in or jake wakes up early I can still run during his naps/ or while he's awake with the help of his pack-n-play.  I also like that it has an incline option too which is cool.

Saturday was a beautiful day and we started out the day with some yummy birthday breakfast burritos:

next we checked out the holy cow boutique in pleasant grove.  It was pretty cool and we found a cool display of the 13 articles of faith- though the 4th one is missing a word ;/

Then it was back home for jake to have his nap and for us to chill.  Once Jake was up and fed we headed out again.  This time we went to Park City where we went to the outlets.  Lately I've realized that I haven't gone shopping to update my wardrobe since we got married PLUS since Jake, let's just say my old clothes don't fit like I want them to (thus the desire for the treadmill).  We pulled up to the outlets-my excitement growing, and Code said we were going to play deal or no deal. 

 (for those of you who don't know this show/game: there are briefcases with different ammounts of money all the way from 1$ to a million.  you pick one and then slowly start to open all the others and the more low numbers you reveal-the better chances of you having picked a higher number.  There's a banker who offers to buy your briefcase as you go based on those odds-the more lower numbers you reveal-the higher the offer/ the more higher amounts revealed the lower the offer etc.  Thus you have to decide deal or no deal and keep going.  Finally you are left with your briefcase and one other and the banker's offer.)

Code had a bunch of different envelopes with amounts of money written in them and I had to pick one.  He had actually coded an app to be the banker/give me offers as I opened all the envelopes.  We had played this game at the nicklecade and I had won us 100+ tickets playing it, but in real life I apparently suck at this game haha.  I picked one with 8$ in it.  But luckily code was nice and gave all the $ to me in the end to go shopping/update my wardrobe!!!!  I couldn't remember the last time I had shopped like that but it was fun and exhausting (I remembered why I wasn't a big shopper haha).  Code was great though, he kept jake happy and carried all my bags etc.  

After my shopping spree we headed back to SLC and dropped jake off at uncle eric's and aunt sarah's so we could go to dinner.  We tried this really cool Middle Eastern/ Lebanese place near sugar house.  I really liked the neighborhood-lots of small shops, pretty trees-there was a cool book shop next door that I want to check out sometime, but anywho...

called mazza

I know-you got fries at a middle eastern place? lame! but this dipping sauce was AMAZING- tangy, garlicky, spicy sauce (i'm craving it right now)

I couldn't tell you what we got but I got a breaded pocket of chicken and herbs/onions etc grilled together with a tangy garlicky sauce (yeah my breathe smelt great after this meal)

and code got lamb something or other....both of which were really good.  We're def going back some day!

After dinner we went to a nearby lake/park in sugar house that was really pretty.  Lots of ducks/geese and kids running around.  There is this one serious hill on the park too that must be AWESOME for sledding in the winter!  We laid out the blanket and opened presents (I know! like there should be any more at this point).

I got a pair of toms that says toms <3 moms over and over, some byu bball shorts for working out, and two books: life of pi and a book about the psychology/science behind sherlock holmes.  

We headed back to Eric and Sarah's to find Jake having a little separation anxiety, but he perked up once we came back to some birthday cake-thanks sarah!  It was a GREAT day.

and just today I got more presents from my parents and code's:

money(which will go to another pair of toms-it's a sickness), personalized mugs, and itunes card

jake liked the cards especially

Mother's Day (my actual birthday) was great too- I woke up to swedish pancakes and choc covered strawberries.  Jake slept in which is the best gift he could ever give me.

Code gave me my final gift- all of the pictures/videos we had taken since our first anniversary-the last time I made home videos (edited and put to music on dvd).  It is so sweet and fun to see how little jake used to be!  Church was as normal tho we got dove chocolate and some pansies to plant, and I got reese's from the bishop cause the primary gives out lil cards to get a treat from the bishop-being in primary has its perks.  We headed up to Draper to Mindee's house for a lil adams' family dinner for mothers' day.  It was a BEAUTIFUL day and we all chilled in the backyard.  Lindsee's Lilly was also there and she and jake hung out.

it was cute, for a lil while some of the older boys were playing with jake trying to build his block tower before he'd knock it over.

It was quite the weekend and I still feel all warm and fuzzy thinking about it.  THanks to everyone for making it such a nice weekend-I was def pampered!  Now it's back to the daily grind I guess but we're loving our summer weather!

my baby boy on mothers' day.