Justin's Bday, Parents in town and more...

Justin's birthday was SO much fun. Well the whole weekend was actually. Justin's birthday is on Valentine's day, and since it was also President's day weekend his parents and grandma came into town to celebrate!

 I was so excited because Justin only asks for practical, boring things for his birthday and Christmas, so I was anxious to give him something I knew he wanted bad, but didn't want to ask for since he is sooo practical. 

So we picked his parents up on Thursday from the airport, and Thursday night, Justin and Clyde went to the Mavericks VS. The Celtics game. Justin was in heaven, because first they went to Red Lobster and he doesn't get seafood often when I am around! 

The above picture is the outside courtyard of the American Airlines arena.

And this is the inside.... They had really good seats if you couldn't tell (wink, wink :)

So while the guys were out on the town, the women had to go and do some shopping at the great mall I have here just a few minutes away, it was SO nice to have some family to do some serious shopping with for the weekend! Just like we used to!

Then Friday we went to the Dallas Temple and did sealings while Grandma Cherry watched Korbyn for us! That was so nice of her to do that, it's sad to say, but that was our first time going to the temple since we moved here...

Thanks again Grandma!!

We also went to a great outlet mall, and more shopping is always fun!

Then Saturday morning we were talking on iChat with Dani and Trek in Germany, and we decided it would be fun to open Justin's presents while we were talking to them, so he pulled up a chair and started opening! These are pictures of what Justin's parents and I got him for his birthday! 

Here he is opening the second box I wrapped it in, the first one was about 4x that big. I always love to fool him, and it even worked this time, he had NO idea he was getting this...

He was really excited, and he LOVES it! Those iPod touches are really cool, and even though it isn't the iPhone yet, he still loves being able to have the internet at his fingertips! 

For Justin's birthday/ Valentine's dinner Justin decided he wanted Outback.  It was fun to go out to dinner like old times with everyone! We really miss being around family so it was so nice to have them here.

Overall it was a great weekend and Korbyn LOVED having SO much attention from his Mimi, Babba, and Mamoo! We are so grateful that they were able to come!

*WARNING*... Camera+Water=Disaster

So about 2 weeks ago, I had decided to give Korbyn a bath, just like any other normal day...

He was being so cute, so I decided to grab my camera and take some snap shots, and I also took a video... Here are some of the cute pictures...

And about a minute after this picture was taken, what felt  like a nightmare, happened next...

Korbyn decided he wanted to grab for his rubber ducky and he did a face plant right into the tub.  As a mother, you don't think of anything else, but saving your child in a moment like that. So that is what I did. Only after I went to reach for my sweet baby in the water, I realized that I wasn't alone... my camera tried to jump in and save him too. I was SO glad my Korbyn was okay, but in the same instance I was dying, because my awesome camera, which we only got the day before Korbyn was born, was dead. A mere 8 months old.  As I pulled it out of the water, I watched the screen melt away, and my dreams of taking cute pictures of Korbyn were over. I was devastated. You may think, "why, it is merely an object," but I was thinking, "a very expensive object, that I just ruined!" 

The happy ending...

I found out, as I was looking at the receipt that we bought a warranty! So I took it in to Best Buy to have them look at it. Then last Sunday they called us to let us know that we could come and pick up a new camera! Thank goodness Justin realized he was married to me and he needed all the insurance he could get his hands on! I have a pretty good history at breaking things, especially cameras. (Like when we went to Europe... half way through our trip, I broke our camera!) YIKES!

Anyway, it was cool, because I actually got a credit for more than we paid for our camera last year. And when we were looking we contemplated between getting a Cannon or a Nikon. Well we picked the Cannon, but when I went in the other day, I got an upgrade Nikon Coolpix! I am excited to start using it! Stay tuned, because there will be many pictures to follow!