i are, therefore i blog: Monica's Birthday

Howdy all! Monica's birthday was this past week, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Her parents were still in town (they came out for the temple open house I talked about last week) so they watched Brooke while we had a night on the town! Or should I say, a night on the driving range? We went to a place called Top Golf, and it was a lot of fun, but more on that later.

This week we've had some chilly mornings, so we've tried to extra bundle up Brooke for our runs! Usually she ends up pulling down her blanket some so her arms are free, but it turns out if you use the blanket to hold toys right up to her mouth she'll happily sit there.

We also had Brooke's 9 month checkup this week (on Monica's birthday). She got shots and had to get some blood drawn. The appointment unfortunately started right at nap time so she was crying approximately the whole time. And the shots at the end definitely didn't help the mood. At least she got a really cool band-aid, which the doctor told us to take of before we left so she didn't pull it off in the car and eat it.

I also got new business cards at work because they changed the engineering job titles. It was a good thing too because I had used a lot of my old ones. Here is what I had left from the first box I got when I started.

Yup, I only had an over flowing box left.

So for Monica's birthday we went to Top Golf. It's like a driving range with colored targets to shoot for. Each golf ball has a chip in it, so when you take a shot it knows if you get the ball in one of the targets. There's a computer screen that you select games on, and then in the game it will tell you to try to get the ball in a certain color, and you get points for getting it in that color and lose points for hitting it in a different one.

It was a lot of fun and we definitely want to go back. It's much more "golf for everyone" than a traditional driving range.

Here's a picture of Monica rocking it. You can see her ball up in the air even!

And here's me, probably hitting it into the wrong hole.

On Saturday I started working on our food pantry again. First thing first was to put the backing on it.

Then it was time to make the doors. I started with the little doors at the top. First I assembled them.

And then it was time to install them. I think they look quite good for my first time!

Then it was on to making the big doors. I'm not really sure how this happened, but we bought one too few 1x3's, so I could only make one of the big doors. I couldn't hang the door either because I need them both to make sure they're evenly spaced.

While I was out working on the pantry Monica was inside cleaning up the kitchen. This, in part, meant going through old food and throwing stuff away. She decided we had some sun flower seeds we didn't need anymore and deftly threw them on top of the trash can... (in my defense- the motion sensor on the trash can isn't working right, so it should have opened and didn't!)