January Birthdays

January was filled with a lot of important birthdays. First, we started off the month by celebrating the great state of Utah's birthday. Kristen and I created this excellent cake.

On the 12th it was my mom's birthday. We made soup that night and had it in bread bowls. We played Bananasgrams after we ate, and then we had brownies and home made hot fudge.

The 20th was Rusty's 28th birthday! It also was Claire's 3 month birthday. We now like to say that she is a fourth. The day before Rusty birthday the two of us went and saw the Hobbit. After church on Sunday (his actual birthday) we went down to Rusty's parents' house and had a fun dinner with all of his family. Then we had cake and ice cream. His sister Jenn's birthday is on the 22nd, so we got to celebrate both birthdays.

Jenn and Rusty

 We went out to lunch at Salsa Ledos with my family the day after Rusty's birthday. We all ate a lot of delicious food.

Chris and Claire matched.

 For Rusty's birthday we played his favorite game Risk. It lasted for many hours.

 My mom and Claire were spectators for the game.

  We had Turtle brownies, requested by Rusty for his special day.

On a side note, Claire has discovered that she likes to suck on her fingers. I found her like this one night. She's just like her mother. 

An Adventure to Ogden

On Friday December 28th my dad, Cara, Kristen, Claire, and I rode FrontRunner up to Ogden. We left from the station in South Jordan. The ride each way took 1 hour and 10 minutes. We rode on the second level the whole time. I was worried Claire might be a little grouchy since we would be out on our adventure for several hours, but she did quite well.

Claire looks kind of like a boy in this picture.

When we got to Ogden we walked to a nearby museum in the old train station. There was a train museum, a Browning gun museum, and an old car museum. 

Kristen in the caboose

Here is my dad with all of the many guns at the Browning museum.

Claire slept like this through all of the museums .

Then we went to the old car museum.

After that we walked down the historic 25th street and ate at Bistro 258. It was an old building, and we ate in the back where there was a high, slanted ceiling made out of glass. It would have been really neat to eat there if it was raining or snowing.

We walked back to the train station after we ate, and then we rode home. It was a grand time, and now I can finally say I've rode the train.