The Girls....and Mitch: Mitch's Birthday weekend

In the middle of December Mitch had OSHA training for work in Mt. View. That worked out perfect for us because it gave us the opportunity to visit his family in Evanston before Christmas (Evanston is only like 40-45 minutes from Mt. View). We left on Friday night after Mitch got done with work, so that we could go to Utah for Mitch's birthday. We went to Utah the next day with Mitch's family and ate at Rodizio's. It is a Brazilian restaurant that reminds Mitch of his mission. The serve different kinds of meat on swords. Then we did a little shopping at all of Mitch's favorite stores. Mainly Best Buy and Cabelas. At Cabelas Mitch found a flint and steel that he has been wanting for a while. I immediately shot it down and went back later to surprise him with it. He was a little grumpy with me after I told him no, so he was pretty surprised the next day when he opened his present. After shopping we went to see the lights on Temple Square. There were way too many people there for my liking, but it was still nice to go see them. The girls were so worn out, but we had a great day.

Sunday was Mitch's birthday so we went to his Grandparent's house and had dinner. Mitch has a tradition of always asking for the same thing for his birthday. He loves tuna casserole and always asks for it. So that is what we had along with his tunnel of fudge cake. Mitch's parents got him a really nice GPS for hunting.
Monday we put in a new closet for his parents. It was a Christmas/Birthday present. My brother-in-law does custom closets, and so we bought stuff from him to do it in their closet. It was fun for Mitch to figure out how to do. Marly and Maddi both loved helping. We hope his parents like it. The girls and I spent the next couple days hanging out with Mitch's mom. It was nice to relax with her. Before we left they had Maddi open up a couple of her gifts. She got an Ariel Mermaid doll, and a baby Rapunzel doll. She loved them both and had to go to bed with Rapunzel that night.