Fun visit and dry ice FAIL!

Today my best friend from college, Lauree Strong, and her family stopped by for a quick visit while they were in Utah for a family reunion. Lauree and I were almost inseparable during our undergraduate years. We actually both knew each other in high school and graduated together, but we didn't really start hanging out until we shared a Spanish class our freshman year at ASU. She is such an incredible friend! It doesn't matter what is going on or where we are in our lives, we can just pick up where we left off. Lauree lives with her husband, Dallin (also a friend from college) and five kids in Round Rock, TX. Needless to say, she is a busy girl! They only stayed a couple hours, but it was fun to catch up and introduce her to Jonas. She never lost hope that I would one day get married and have a baby. I have appreciated her love and support all these years.

Dallin, Lauree and I

That evening, the boys, Jeff and I went to Katie's to celebrate Greg's (the brother not the husband) birthday. Katie makes a dessert each year to commemorate his birthday. It's hard for everyone to believe that next year will mark 20 years since he passed away. After enjoying some yummy desserts, the boys decided to create dry ice bombs. I guess this was something Greg liked to do so Grumpy made a dry ice bomb gun out of PVC pipe to make things more interesting...and boy did it! The first few bombs went off as expected. The gun worked according to plan as well. However, the blissful fun came to a blasting halt when the gun exploded in Dallin's hand! We're not sure if it was the fact that the water bottle was more sturdy or the position of the water bottle in the gun, but whatever it was caused the pressure to build up so much that it shattered the PVC pipe and gouged Dallin's finger. We're lucky it didn't blow his whole hand off! Needless to say, there won't be any more dry ice bombs.