Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Momma came for a visit

This past week has been a wonderful one. My mom came down from Canada for a visit and spent 10 days with us here in Provo. It was so nice to have her here and it just made my heart sing seeing her and Cambree together. When I was pregnant, I remember telling Ryan how excited I was for my parents to have a grandchild. I truly believe that children are a gift from God, and they can bring so much joy to a family! Cambree has done just that, and it is the sweetest thing seeing the special bond she and my mother have!

We had a jam packed 10 days full of shopping, good food and lots of laughs! We took my mom to Temple Square to see the Salt Lake temple and she was also able to go to a session of General Conference, which is a conference where leaders in our church give talks and speeches... Very inspirational!


Cambree was loving the sunshine while we were at Temple Square!




Mom was such a help around the house, and she especially loved getting Cambree all clean and ready for the day - I think Cambree may have loved it too!


We went to see one of Ryan's football games and my mom shot a pic of some of the wives. I am so grateful to have made such great friends while here in Provo!



Getting all 3 to smile at once was just too hard!



My mom and Ryan also made it out to see one of my rugby games!

My mom left on Sunday to head back to Canada. She only made it about 4 hours to Idaho Falls when she had to pull over because of a snow storm. She decided the next day that the weather was too bad to continue on, so she headed on back to Provo for visit round #2! I think that she was inspired to come back because 2 hours after she arrived at our apartment I had an accident with a knife and sliced my hand open! I was trying to separate frozen hamburgers with a knife and I slipped and stabbed myself right in my hand really deep and our kitchen floor was covered in blood. I had never seen that much blood before and I was really scared. I was so grateful that she was there and able to watch Cambree so that I could head out to the hospital!!

My favorite part of the story was that she was so flustered about my accident that she couldn't remember how to use a phone and kept on pressing the Instagram home screen and saying "I don't know how to use this! I don't know how to call Ryan!" She must have pressed the home screen 5 times until I got frustrated and walked out of the house and headed over to the neighbours, I knew that they would be sane! She finally got a hold of Ryan and apparently said, "Carly cut herself! You need to come home! She's bleeding everywhere!... And now she's run away!" Haha 

I ended up getting stitches and a shot and $1000 later I was back at home, only a little worse for wear :) I am so grateful we have such wonderful friends and neighbors who were there for me in my time of need! They also came over with a pizza and coke (My fave!) and spent the evening with us - They are the best!

All in all it has been an eventful trip, and I will sure miss my momma when she goes back home!

xoxo Car