Week 2-The Eggett's House

We were so excited when Calvin arrived in Utah! He got in late Monday night. On Tuesday, my parents bought tickets for us to go see Avatar in 3D at the IMax theater. After watching the trailer, I was a bit skeptical, but I actually really enjoyed it! The whole 3D-IMax experience was pretty awesome. Even Camden did really well in the show until he got tired (and tired of eating popcorn) near the end. He fell asleep in the theater. We missed Amy and Danny due to some miscommunication in confirming the purchasing of the tickets.

On Tuesday or Wednesday night, Calvin, Camden, and I took my grandma Helton out to dinner at one of the places I just had to go in Bounitful, Nielsen's Custard. We had the grinders (sandwiches) and concretes (a shake with custard, yum!).

On Thursday, Calvin, Camden, and I rode up to the lodge with my dad. It was fun to see all of the snow and tour the new five bedroom cabins! Everything looked great up there! Poor Camden was sick during the week; he had a cold and a fever and just wasn't himself! We were so happy when he started feeling better toward the end of the week.


On Friday, Calvin went back up to the lodge with my dad and my mom and I went down to help Emily move out of her apartment. Amy came over to help and we quickly cleaned and and packed everything up. Emily had already done most of the work, so it was easy! While Emily was checking out and getting her new key, we took a little video of Camden being goofy in the car.

On Saturday it was time for our Second Annual Eggett Christmas Party! We had so much fun! In the morning, we had egg casserole and homemade cinnamon rolls. Also that morning, Amy and Danny passed out a little present to all of us to make a little announcement...they're going to have a baby in July! Yay! Camden will have a cousin! We are so excited for Amy and Danny!

After Camden's nap, we played our favorite, the packing tape ball game! The packing tape ball is filled with prizes; this year there were movies, lotions, fizz balls, socks, etc, and most importantly, little peppermints! For each of the peppermints, there are envelopes with other prizes. To play, you sit in a circle and roll two dice. When the first person rolls doubles, they get the packing tape ball. They rip at the tape to try to get the prizes out. They get to keep ripping at the ball until the next person in the circle rolls doubles. Needless to say, we Eggett girls are pretty competitive. At the end of the game, we all got to trade our peppermints in for the prizes in the envelopes. In half of the envelopes, there were prizes like cash, gift cards, etc. In the other half of the envelopes, to signify the hard year in the economy, there were prizes like coupons, reward punch cards, and mostly used gift cards. Calvin and I were really excited when one of our "mostly used" gift cards had $16 on it to use at the Megaplex movie theaters! Brooklyn was pretty disappointed that 3 of her "good" envelopes contained $5 gift certificates to Keva Juice. Sorry Brooky!

At the end of the day, the plan was to drive to Salt Lake to go to dinner and see the lights at Temple Square. We were getting ready to leave when there was a knock on the door. My dad said it was someone from the ward, and then we all went out the front door...and what was waiting for us? A white hummer limo!! My dad had traded with a guy the weekend before for a hummer limo to take Brooklyn and her friends to the Christmas dance. After seeing how much fun it was, he made plans for us to take one to Salt Lake for our party. It was awesome!

The limo dropped us off right by the Lion House, where we went and had dinner. Then we spent some time walking around temple square and admiring the lights. It was very cold but very beautiful! Camden had on his BYU cougar paw gloves, so cute! What a fun night and a fun week!