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Ben & Jerry’s / july 30, 2010

My Dad’s line of work as a Chevron station owner is usually pretty fun for us kids. Free soda, icees, carwashes…and this time free Ben & Jerry’s.

It’s not exactly a good thing, but a few weeks ago Dad got a phone call from the station at 2am and the freezer was broken. Because a repairman isn’t available at 2 in the morning, all the ice cream melted and other frozen things started thawing out. Luckily he was able to save everything but the ice cream, which meant dozens and dozens of pints to take home!

The ice cream wasn’t perfect (a tiny bit crystally from refreezing it – that’s why he couldn’t sell it again) but still so so good! I’ve never had Ben & Jerry’s (never wanted to splurge for the good stuff I guess) but many of the flavors are quite tasty!

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Inception / july 27, 2010

Today we (as in Mom, Dad, Logan, and I…but unfortunately not Tyler because he is working) are all going to Disneyland. Except for the fact that Logan and Dad had to work so we won’t be leaving until 2:30 or 3:00pm. Kind of a joke, really, but the tickets were free so I can’t complain.

Because Tyler can’t come along, we went to see Inception last night (at the good ol’ Krikorian theater in Vista) to make up for it. It really adds to the whole movie-going experience to hear the Krikorian Theme Song and people rhythmically clapping along to it. (There’s a specific spot in their theater promo that locals clap to, and it was great to see Tyler’s grinning face when he heard it. I used to participate in high school – well, as a matter of fact our generation invented the clapping in the first place.)

Anyway. Inception was AMAZING. No wonder the reviews were so high! I honestly wasn’t thrilled about going because I didn’t have a clue what the movie was about – the previews are very confusing and don’t tell you anything. But man it was so worth 2 1/2 hours of my time. Mind boggling. I must admit though that based on other people’s comments about the movie I expected to be more confused and “lost” on the plot than I really was. It was the hardest movie I’ve ever had to sit through in my entire life because Jack was so dang active the entire time. Usually he’s pretty active after 8 or 9pm, but last night was an entirely different story. I’m not kidding you – this kid didn’t rest for more than ten seconds! Because of the loud sounds and my heart rate and whatnot, Jack was wiggling more than ever and that made it difficult to sit still and pay attention!

Bottom line: highly recommend Inception. Tyler and I will RARELY see a movie in the “real” theater (we go to the dollar theater), but this is an exception. I’d pay to go see it all over again. (But next time, perhaps earlier in the day so maybe Jack will sleep through it?)

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Overheard / july 23, 2010

As heard on TV advertising for the show “the REAL housewives”:

“I don’t need to keep up with the Joneses. I am the Joneses.”

I don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing to sort of wish that were true. Ahaha.

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The story behind Jack’s middle name / july 22, 2010

Naming your child is harder than it looks! Tyler and I have been going back and forth on names, and after many suggestions I turned to family history. I knew I didn’t just want to “pick” a name I liked – I wanted to learn the story behind the name. It didn’t have to be anyone famous, but I didn’t want to name Jack after someone we didn’t know anything about.

I browsed my mom’s family history books and asked stories about my dad’s. Nothing inspired me. Now this isn’t to say our side of the family isn’t cool enough, just nothing struck me this time around. I knew I was looking in the wrong place. (Tyler’s dad once told me that he believes a name is extremely important, and has prayed about each and every one of their childrens’ names. He told me we’ll just know if it’s right, and I agree.)

Then we turned to Tyler’s genealogy chart (new.familysearch.org) and I browsed his Mom’s line. A few lines back, her ancestors in the mid-1800s had the surname of Dalton. I immediately liked that name and felt like I should do more research with that specific family. My sister Courtney suggested googling a name, and most likely someone will have written about him/her. Thus, I googled Edward Dalton and read his entire life history that someone had compiled. Turns out Edward Dalton was the first in Tyler’s mom’s line to join the church! He brought the entire Dalton line to the gospel of Jesus Christ – how neat is that? Without this conversion, Tyler and I wouldn’t be married for time and all eternity.

But it doesn’t stop there. Some of my family spent the day in Old Town, San Diego on Tuesday and we finished up by touring the new Mormon Battalion museum. (Which, on another note, I highly recommend. It is free, newly remodeled, and was so neat and interactive! The guide told us most people think Disney designed it!) At the end of the tour, I hopped on their computer to casually browse through the list of soldiers who volunteered, and the name Dalton caught my eye. Edward Dalton. Could it really be the same Edward Dalton??

I emailed the information to myself, and upon further investigation it is the same Edward Dalton! How neat! I honestly can’t wait until Jack is old enough and we can take him to visit the museum and learn about his ancestors! Lesson learned: research pays off! (It is also neat to consider the fact that if I hadn’t been researching the Daltons the very day before we went to the Mormon Battalion museum, I wouldn’t have ever discovered the connection. I still could have come across the Daltons in my google search and learned about his conversion to the gospel, but I wouldn’t have known for years – if ever – that he was also a part of the Mormon Battalion and that museum was about him and his friends and family! God works in amazing ways. Nothing is coincidence, friends.)

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