11 YEARS!

Wow - as of yesterday (yes, tax day) Quentin and I have been married for 11 years! What makes me feel even older is that we've known each other for 14 years. And I guess we know each other pretty well - we got each other the exact same gift (a windmill for our yard)! (This also happened for Valentine's Day and Christmas)

To celebrate our anniversary, we went on a little "trip" to Logan. Some of my friends make fun of me for taking our kids with us on our anniversary - but Quentin said, "You know, the day we got married, our family began - so our anniversary is not only a celebration of our marriage but also of our whole family." Awww.... Anyway, we wanted to go somewhere close but somewhere we had never really been. So Logan it was. And we had a blast in the 2 days we were there. Here are the highlights:

TUESDAY
* We picked Kiera up from school and stopped by Grandma Johnson's house to wish her a happy 86th birthday on our way to Logan.
* As we stopped to check out a hotel, we couldn't re-start our van. Our battery was dead. So Quentin flagged down a cop, who jumped us, and we drove to AutoZone where Quentin installed a new battery while the snow started to fall pretty heavily.
* We got a room at a hotel (Kiera called it her apartment), got some pizza, looked at an antiques mall, went swimming in the hotel pool, took baths/showers and vegged in our room.

WEDNESDAY
* Took a tour of Crumb Brothers - they took us in their huge kitchen and showed us how they make their artisan breads. We also got some delicious samples!
* Walked down Main Street and browsed at some of the "old-fashioned" shops.
* Went to a candy shop.
* Went to the Gossner Cheese Factory. We heard they give tours, but they had to discontinue giving them after Sept. 11. So though we didn't get to see how cheese is made (actually, that might be a good thing), we got plenty of samples of cheese and flavored milk. And we HAD to buy some "squeaky cheese" because the girls thought it was so cool.
* Went to the Pepperidge Farm outlet.
* Drove by the Logan Temple (we didn't get out because it was snowing).
* Went to Cox Honeyland where we got to see inside a beehive, taste different honeys and syrups, and look at the gift shop full of "bee things."

And now we're home! We only did half of the things on our "idea list," but I guess that gives us reason to go back some other time. Even though we weren't gone very long, I think we all got a little homesick. Tuesday night during Kiera's bath, she started to cry and said she missed our home. She wanted to call it to make sure it was okay. It's nice to get away every once in awhile, but there's nothing like home! (P.S. Kiera is hoping her kindergarten class will throw her a surprise party when she returns to school tomorrow after missing a day of class!!)