Metro 3150

Here is a beautiful shot of Metro Group Inc. that is being used on the invitations for the open house and brochures. It looks amazing! Nice work Dan! Moving day this Saturday... open house, ribbon cutting,  and luncheon next Thursday...and then open for business on June 4th. We are almost there!!!!

Temple Challenge

We had some extra time yesterday afternoon so we decided to hit two more temples... 

Temple #7 Draper...

Temple #8... Jordan River

The Taylor family is giving us serious challenge! We love competitive people and good competition! And it has been so much fun learning about each temple...

Momma's New Car!

We picked up my new car on Saturday morning before we headed to the Metro Family Day. I am beyond excited! It's a new Acura MDX advanced. I love it!

 It's a cross-over with seating for seven... so the kids can finally have friends come along! McKenna can drive alone with friends in about a week so it was finally time to hand over my car full time to her... and she is thrilled! This is a win-win for both of us!

 A view of the inside. I should get some better pictures... but this will have to do.

 When we got home from the lunch we spent a couple of hours in the driveway figuring out as much as we could. (It has about 1000 voice commands... this may take some time!)

 While we were in the front, we put on a movie for Courtney in the back seat. She loves the wireless headphones... this will make traveling way more fun! Wish we would have had this for the road trip to Chicago a few years ago!!!! I wish we were taking it on our trip to Nauvoo this summer but Dan doesn't want to "road-trip" so we are flying....

Love my new car!!!!! Thanks Dan! I love you HUGE!!!

Metro 3150 Friends and Family Day

Saturday, May 19, 2012 was Metro Friends and Family Day...  

 This gives you an idea of how big this part of the warehouse is... that is a semi pulling doubles...

 Preparing for the employee's and their families to arrive...

 Some of the new trucks parked inside so the kids could climb in and check them out....

 A few of our favorites enjoying their lunch... Lindsey and Shelby and their cute babies....

 Liz and Preston helping serve...

 Jake eating... I mean serving... brownies....

 Dan and Kenna serving the chicken breasts and fruit...

 Metro Group Inc....

 Courtney wanted a ride on the lift before we left...

 A view of the bailer... it is going to be amazing when everything is up and running!

 I forgot to post this picture weeks ago.... while they were finishing the offices they realized that this raccoon (Courtney named him Kevin....) had gotten in. It took days and lots of food to catch him... but they finally did it! Dan took him up East Canyon and released him....

It was a great day and wonderful event. It was really fun to show the employee's the new building and have them get to show it off to their families. Next weekend we move in... and the 31st is the ribbon cutting. We are almost there!

Rescue Me....

Yesterday afternoon I was waiting for a phone call from Dan to determine our activities for FHE. We are buying me a new car as Kenna can finally drive with friends alone in the car in the next few weeks. We have decided on an Acura MDX. It is really beautiful...but I won't give any more details until I pick it up and can post some pictures. When the car arrived at the dealership it had a tiny scratch so the dealer was having it buffed out and detailed... and unfortunately it wasn't ready for us to pick up. However, we still got to go to Salt Lake because my sweetheart needed to be rescued! Dan locked his key in his truck, so we headed to "new Metro" to rescue him. We decided that we might as well complete some more of our "Temple Challenge" and hit the Salt Lake Temple. We got a cute sister missionary to help us out... she was from Chicago! Floyd's: 6 Temples plus 2 Bonus "Under Construction Temples"...

 We then decided to walk to the Olive Garden so we could burn off some of the calories before and after the meal. It was quite the walk... however it did make us feel far less guilty....

 And by the way... if you misplaced your black fruit of the loom underpants.... you can stop looking. We found them. They are on West Temple outside the Nordstroms. You're welcome.

Fun night with my favorite people. I am loving this weather!!!!!

St. George Trip: May 2012

Last fall while we were at Tuacahn for "The Little Mermaid" they announced tickets were on sale for the "Brian Reagan" Concert for this weekend. He is the funniest and cleanest comedian ever... one you can take the kids to and not worry for a second about what might be said....so Dan ran out and bought tickets during intermission. We decided to take my parents for their Christmas present... and we had a blast!

 We stopped in Santaquin to meet them at the Dairy Queen by their house... nice "SEE-food" Dan....

 Several hours later after checking into our hotel we headed to the Texas Roadhouse for dinner... Courtney pretty much climbed into the barrel of peanuts...

 Grandma and Grandpa enjoying their dinner...

 We decided to try the "fried pickles"... I like pickles but these were way to salty for my taste...

 Then we headed over to Tuacahn... love this place!!! It is so beautiful and the weather was perfect!

 Sunday morning... Mothers Day... we headed to a local ward for Sacrament meeting... it was funny because the bishopric was greeting people as you came in. They got REALLY excited to see us and our KIDS. The second couselor said... "We've been fasting and praying for more youth!".... and Dan told him "Well, it worked for today!" So sad...

 After changing we started our trek back home... but of course had to run to the St. George temple first. This "Temple Challenge" is going to be fun!

 Our beautiful girls enjoying the beautiful weather!

 Kenna and Courtney saw this dinosaur in the parking lot of a gas station and wanted to stop for a photo shoot... of course Dan obliged... When we got to the hotel my parents asked "How did we beat you here?!"  

 The hotel we stayed at this trip.... can't believe that I forgot to take my camera to the pool yesterday for some shots of everyone... Courtney had a blast in the pool and the rest of us just soaked up the sun...

 We came home through Manti... I promise we are in this picture!!! Just left of center by the tree. This is the temple we were sealed in. My great-great-great-grandfather (probably a few more greats...) C.C.A. Christensen painted many of the murals in this temple. It holds great meaning for us...

 When we got to Payson my parents showed us where the new Payson temple is being built. This is our "Bonus #1" temple...

 We then stopped at what will be the new Provo Tabernacle temple. It too is under construction... "Bonus #2" temple.... luckily we found a really nice guy to take our picture here...

 We then headed to the Provo temple... found a nice girl from Texas to take this shot...

 And finally, we ended the trip by stopping at the Mount Timp temple... we found a nice lady with kids out on a walk to snap this one. This is turning into a great way to make new friends!!!

This was a really fun trip and we sure enjoyed our time with Grandma and Grandpa King. I think if they didn't already think we were "cuckoo-pants"... they do now!!! The new "Temple Challenge" total.....
FLOYDS: 5 Temples plus 2 "Under Construction Bonus Temples"     EVERYONE ELSE: ?

I Love to See the Temple....

This past Sunday Dan challenged the members of our ward to visit a temple of their choice and take a picture of their family in front of it. Then to go home and put that picture where their family will see it often. He then really threw down a challenge...and committed our family to it (of course!).... to visit all of the temples in Utah. A cute family in our ward sent us a picture of their family in front of a temple they went to that very day after church. The comment: "Taylor Family:1 Floyd Family: 0  You know that got Dan motivated! He wanted to go to 4 temples on Monday night but we decided to pace ourselves! Great challenge that we look forward to completing! I love to see the temple!