Bob's is Cool

We've always thought so. Salt Lake Magazine thinks so, too.



Bob's Brainfreeze
Combine a small scoop of ice cream, shaved ice, and syrup of your choice, top it off with a swirl of cream, and you have yourself a brain freeze. Kid-triguing flavors range from Hawaiian coconut and pineapple to the Spiderman: raspberry and blueberry. That should keep ’em quiet for awhile. 3119 E. 3300 South, SLC, no phone, but you can find Bob on facebook.

For Father's Day

Guest Entry Again--This is my husband/kids' father. The video below shows him playing the "Don't Laugh" game. The object is pretty simple: no matter what the laugh inducer does, you try to remain stone-faced. Scott is so easy going, good natured, fun loving that, basically, he really, really, really sucks at this game. He couldn't even control the laughter long enough to let the guy "trying" to make him laugh do anything.

Just one of the many reasons I love him.

A Christmas Story

I decided to make a guest blog entry since Scott has apparently thrown in the towel on keeping up the family blog. He was all gung-ho for a while, but I knew it wouldn't last. :-)

Okay then. Let's do a Christmas recap.
Highlights of the Most Wonderful Time of the Year:
- Always entertaining, fun-filled and amusing White Elephant party with friendlies at Peteys cabin.
- Doing several nights of "true spirit of Christmas" activities, such as going to a live Nativity put on by a stake in the Sugarhouse area (complete with a live camel and sheep, Roman guards and, of course, Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus).
- Cheesy Christmas Sweater Hen Party (or GNO).
- Cooper's sheer excitement for Christmas (and us being able to threaten calling Santa to keep him in line when needed).
- Madre renting a cabin outside of McCall, Idaho, for whole family to celebrate Christmas together.
- Spending Christmas Eve making homemade ornaments, complete with popcorn & cranberry garland, and decorating the freshly cut, scrawny tree.
- Spending a truly snow-filled Christmas holiday at a cabin.
- Snow tubing outing at lift-served tubing park in McCall.
- Playing several hours of Bananagrams (New game we gave Scott for Christmas--think speed scrabble. Do not think of banana hammocks.)

Lowlights of the holiday madness:
- Staying up until 12:30 am Dec. 22 to pack and wrap all presents so we could be all set to wake up, load the car and head out for Christmas-ing on Dec. 23.
- Waking up Dec. 23 with the flu.
- Deciding at 5:00 pm to suck up being sick at still drive to Twin Falls so we wouldn't have to make the whole drive to McCall on Christmas Eve.
- Packing up all of Christmas.
- Having to drive to Twin Falls on the old highway because the freeway is closed from snow storms and it adding another 1.5 hours to our trip.
- Waking up Christmas morning to my first (full-force) monthly friend (i.e., period) since having Brody (luckily my sis-in-law was prepared for such an occasion).
- Cabin having major plumbing issues.
- Brody's uncooperative sleep patterns. (Typically, I'm not into kitchy kid wear with little sayings and all, but Brody's Christmas pj outfit was too fitting to not get: All Mom Wants for Christmas is a Silent Night!)
- Slicing my thumb on a can lid while making dinner after getting home from tubing and having to go back into McCall to the ER to get stitches. 7 stitches. Broke a 31-year streak of never having to go to the ER.

Peace out to 2008 and Ah Ya to 2009!
Kisses!