SCRABBLE

So Sunday night I convinced Trev to play scrabble with me, his least favorite game. We decided we didn't have time to play Monopoly and we didnt want to end the night on a bad note, which always happens when we play that particular game. So I found our scrabble board to be quite hilarious. Before I explain, I must let you know that last time we played trevor quit because i got a tripple word score with quiz which was worth 40 points. He claimed quiz was an abbreviation for quizical. So this game started with wool, by me, and then Jill by Trevor.
Me: "We aren't doing names"
Trev: "Then go ahead and challenge it"
I dont challenge.
next comes Omar.
Me: "Omar are you kidding me?"
Trev: "It's a word, challenge if you want."
I dont challenge.
Next comes Mig
Me: "thats a joke, I will not give you that one."
Trev: "Then callenge it."
I callenge. Mig is a word.
Needless to say I still won, well I think I did, the score sheet conveniently was wripped up before we had time to count. Trev let me use IRS and a few other questionable words, but I wouldn't give him Bendy, so he went with Bends. All in all it was fun, and I have come to find that you can tell a lot about a person by their scrabble board.

WIMBLEDON

June 22 marked the start of a fabulous two weeks in the Tripp household. Needless to say Trevor and I woke up and instead of heading straight for the mini wheats, we went straight for the remote to watch Wimbledon.

Sadly the first thing we saw was that Serena Williams was winning. It seems as though they mistakenly put her in the women's draw this year instead of the men's. Lucky for Andy. Roger won, thank heavens. Trevor claims that we are "Fed Nation" and he will win his 15th Major a week from Sunday, we can only hope.

It is funny how Golf and Tennis consume our television time. I used to despise golf and feel as though watching paint dry would be more entertaining but recently it entertains me and i take wonderful naps while watching it on Sundays. We are just lucky that the time changes isnt like it is in Australia and Trevor can actually sleep during the night as opposed to being glued to the TV.

I will keep you posted throughout the next two weeks on the emotional ups and downs we are about to experience. Hopefully next year we will be at Wimbledon- if that is what we decide we want our graduation present to be :)

Daddy-Daughter Tripp :)

Last week, my dad treated me to a daddy daughter trip to Cozumel for a weekend of Scuba Diving. It was so much fun! Trev stayed home and worked extra shifts so i could go have fun, thanks trev! We have 10 dives in 3 days, we were busy people! but will still had plenty of time to lay out and explore cozumel. a couple nights we just drove around the town to explore, it was fun, until we hit a moto dude that cut us off- no damage and no mexican police got involved so that was good. clay and his dad came too so clay used his spanish to get us out of the situtation. we had a great guide, erick, who is a local, and was amazing. we did such cool dives, and my favorite was devil's throat- 110 feet through caves. i about had an anurism before i went under but i did it and was so thrilled. the time flew but it was such a fun trip and i had so much fun with my dad! thanks dad!












the crew on the boat



erick took us here, it was so good, we went twice
me and erick, i was tired
our last dive of the trip
gotta love daddy daughter trips!

MOM'S DAY!

So, this past weekend my mom came to visit me and trevor(he worked the whole time) but still got some new sperry's out of it. i am kind of sad to move back to Colorado because that means no more visits from my mom where she spoils me. the first night we went to this amazing pizza place that was a little too out there for trevor but it is at the top of my list. thursday we went to the mall and then to CPK for lunch because trevor was distraught we forced him to go elsewhere the night before. we watched bride wars and went fabric shopping for hours. friday was a perfect day. we woke up went golfing with trevor and his friend mitch, went to cafe rio, trevor headed work, and we went to the spa. there is this amazing aesthetics school by us that has their own salon and it is soooo cheap. saturday we spent the whole day out shopping at home stores and at the Rack and then had her mother's day dinner at the cheesecake factory on my dad :). we took her to the airport today to rent a car and head up to see her sisters. it was so much fun to have her here and i was so glad i got to spend mothers day with her. i made her berry french toast this morning. she is the most amazing woman i know and it takes a saint to put up with me. no matter what outrageously rude things i said or how unhelpful i was in highschool she did SO much for me. i realize more now that i am older just how lucky i was to have her as a mom and she is my hero.

since trevor never looks at slash reads this blog i will talk about his mom for him. kenna is an awesome mother-in-law. she sends us grocery store gift cards that make our lives so much easier and always sends cute cards for every holiday. for valentines day i got new kitchen canisters and for easter new clothes from the gap, could a girl ask for more!? trevor is her only boy and her golden child and i am so glad so let me take over raising him haha. i can see a lot of his mom in him and she definately raised him well. i never thought my husband would have opinions about home decor but thanks to kenna he knows exactly where the furniture should go and if our house didn't look good he would let me know. 

we are so lucky to have great moms that do so much for us and we cant wait to move back to colorado and see them more often and to pawn our children off on them :)

p.s. my mom bought children clothes for her unborn grandchild whom she doesnt know the sex of- i love you!!

we love you!!!!

San Francisco!!

This past weekend we finished Winter semester and headed to San Francisco for the weekend. We counted it as our one year anniversary, just a month early. We had so much fun and are sad to be back in Utah. We got there and headed strait to the our hotel in Union Square that was awesome. We then shopped around- went crazy at the Gap-they were having a killer sale- and then went to china town and ate at Pantarei, which is my favorite italian restaurant ever! We spent the next two days do all the touristy things- the wharf, the bridge, the park, the ferry, etc. We always took afternoon naps and had killer desserts every night, especially at Ghiradelli Square. It was so much fun to get away for a few days and now we are back at school and back to our normal, crazy lives, for another 3 months!

the trolley was my favorite part!

saturday morning we walked the boardwalk

the golden gate bridge- amazing

the bug show at the academy of sciences

china town!!

EASTER!

So, this is the first Easter I have ever been away from my family so I was excited to start new traditions for Trevor and I. Last night I made a huge batch of sugar cookies and decorated all of them. Making sugar cookies is my new favorite thing to do and I have a new theme each month and give them to the people I visit teach. We went to bed early- midnight, which is an hour earlier than most schoolnights. We had a good hashbrown and egg casserole thing for breakfast that was kind of a disaster cuz it took an hour longer to cook than usual and we didnt even have time to eat it before church. After church we watched the masters and wanted tiger to win so badly but he didn't pull through for us. We also decided next year we are going to go to the masters. I have found if it involves golf, Trevor is willing to go. I made a ham for the first time, twice baked potatoes, got croissants from a French bakery, and had fruit and vegetables with an apple crisp for dessert. I was so happy that it all turned out. Tausha and Katie and Kyle and their friend Ken came over. We then played catch phrase and stopped playing because Trevor is the biggest cheater on earth. I have decided that I really like Easter and can't wait to have easter egg hunts when i have kids in 5 years haha. But it was really fun and getting Trevor an easter basket was so fun! But i never realized how expensive easter dinner is- definately going to look forward to having it at mom's next year :)

Spring Breakin' in AZ

so for Skippy's spring break the Tripp family headed down to AZ to stay at an awesome hotel. Trev, Tausha, and I met the rest of the family there and got there really early on Friday morning and spent the day basking in the sun, it was amazing to be in warm weather again. We had forgotten what it was like after living in dreary utah. We went to In n out and the mall that night and got all of our easter presents- gotta love Kenna :). The next day Taush and I ran 12 miles and had a lot of fun. We couldn't walk for the rest of the day but it cancelled out everything we ate that day, so it was definitely worth it. We then got to go to the NCAA sweet sixteen UConn against Mizzou game. It was so awesome. It was at the Cardinal's new stadium. Trev and Winston got to sit courtside while me and the girls sat club level (darn :). It was so much fun and was an awesome game. We spent the rest of the time at the pool and saw Knowing (the weirdest movie ever!!) We also got to see Jack and Kerry and Karli and Desmond. It was so much fun to see them. Trev went golfing monday while i sat in the sun and got a sun rash that was brutal. We were so sad to leave but so grateful for all Winston and Kenna did for us! Coming back to the cold was brutal!

Trev going down the slide at the hotel
Us with Tausha and Skippy
Last day at the pool
Trev and I at the NCAA game

the lazy river at the hotel