The Wilhelmsen Botanical Blog

Hello, hello! As you might have surmised from the title college starts up again for Brandon today.  Holy cow, is all that I have to say about it. It seems that we always have a million big ideas for the summer and then when all is said and done summer has slipped away and our list of things to do remains barely touched. For example, Brandon planned to build a giamongus kite this summer, he has made immense progress but alas the kite is not finished…maybe for next spring eh? He also planned to do a huge chunk of research and planning for the business that he wants to start and while he has laid a lot of good ground work it appears that he will have to make the big push over the Christmas holidays and next summer after he graduates (yes, I did say that, it is his LAST YEAR at the U of U!!!! WAH HOO!!!).

As for myself I wanted to attend a lot of the summer concert series at the Brigham Young Historic Park as well as a few of the farmer’s markets downtown. We never did make it to a farmer’s market but we did go see Peter Breinholt perform.

Which brings me to our week, Tuesday evening is when we went to the Peter Breinholt concert. It was a lot of fun. We used to actually go and help sell c.d.’s at Pete’s concerts so it was nice to go and be able to just enjoy. He played, “You wear flowers” and as usual invited people to come up front and dance. After the song he said , “When I first started performing teenagers would come down and dance, what you saw dancing up here just now was their children.” It made me laugh. Gotta love the circle of life. The evening weather was nice, just a perfect summer evening temperature.

Weds. we took Aiden to get his six month pictures taken (can you believe he is already that old, I can’t.) and there was a mix up. This mix up has happened to me twice now at Target and once at Walmart. We got there, we were signing in and another person claiming to have a 1:00 appointment came in. Well, it was THEIR name in the book and not mine so guess who gets to keep the appointment? They do. Luckily the girl called another Target and we drove there for the pics. The lame part is that we will have to drive back there to pick up the photos and it wasn’t exactly convenient. OI! In the evening my sweet hubby took me to Robintino’s for our 3 year anniversary. I can’t believe that we have been married that long. It has gone by quickly and has been filled with many happy days and various bumps along the way (like an endless cycle of having to find Brandon a new job.) The truth of the matter is that we are still as in love as the day we met (if not more so). We can still be called the poster children for PDA’s and why not? I want the whole wide world to know how much in love I am with my hubby! 🙂 Dinner was yummy and thank you to grandma Carolyn and Grandpa Warren for watching their great grandchild for a few hours.  Here is a picture of us on our wedding day…

Thursday was a day of many trips to the airport for Brandon. He picked up his dad at 7:00 so that he could come and visit with Aiden. Aiden was not too sure about this “new” person for a little bit but eventually he warmed up and flashed he famous smile for him. Thank you for the Jamba Juice Dad Wilhelmsen! After we had smoothies Brandon and his dad went to pick up my mom from the airport and deposit her back home. Aiden and I stayed home and had a visit with Mr. Sandman.

Friday was less eventful. Brandon worked 10:30-6:00 at a one day temp. job and then we just lounged around here at home (by lounged I mean ran around taking care of Aiden and keeping him entertained as well as doing household chores that needed to be done).

Saturday we went to have our family pictures taken. They turned out cute and I am excited to get them back. After that we dropped Aiden off at my mom’s so that she could babysit Aiden while we went to Desert Star. It was the last showing of Indian Bones and the cast had the giggles. There was a TON of ad-libbing and I was laughing SO hard pretty much the whole time. The best part was that they were riding stick “llama’s” and the good guys had white Llama’s while the bad guys had black Llama’s. Well, one of the good guys was miming that his Llama was trying to buck him and was somewhat violent so then the bad guys arrive on scene after the good guys left and one of them was playing along with the whole “violent” bit and really rough housing with his stick Llama and the head went flying off. I was laughing so hard that I couldn’t breathe. Then as he puts the head back on the stick he says, “this is not a good time to lose one’s head.” I must also say that this characters name is Rahboul and he is dressed like an indian snake charmer/sultan. He had an excellent comedic indian accent. So anyway, he rejoins he posse and then says that his Llama is very serious and has no experience so he must be Barack O’Llama. There were plenty of silly antics including some involving a riding crop and a token Nazi with a Hitler moustache but I will end my description here. After the show we went to get Aiden and enjoyed a slice of my birthday cake with my mom. (My birthday is on Tuesday but that was the only time she had available between now and my birthday to help me celebrate.) We spent the evening at home.

Today we enjoyed church and visiting teaching, home teaching, being visit taught and being home taught. This evening we will have dinner with my dad in celebration of my birthday and Brandon has a few things up his sleeve for my real birthday on Tuesday. Well, I guess that is all for this week. Have a good first week of school to those of you who are heading back this week and as always, thanks for reading…