Easter

I wanted to share this video to help prepare for this Easter Sunday. The video speaks for itself.

Link for the Bible videos here. They are incredible.

Birthday.

So I have had a really good birthday today! I enjoyed it so much that I have decided you are all cool enough to hear about it as well.

At 9:00 a.m. my friend from work took me out to breakfast! I told him he needed to surprise me with where we were going. He told me that when I saw where he was taking me I would be asking him if he was serious. He drove to the mall, and was driving towards where we park for work. And I was thinking, 'seriously? You're taking me to chick-fil-a for breakfast?' I was laughing. But then Zach told me he was joking, and we went to Mimi's Cafe.

He got the french toast, and I got a Cinnamon Broche (spelling?...) french toast. I really enjoyed it. It was super sweet, but super delicious. It was so fun to gettig to talk to Zach outside of work, and i'm thankful for the time he took to start my birthday out with a bang.

Later on I played Harry Potter Scene it with my mom and sister. I love that game. Sometimes I disturb myself with how much I know about those dang Harry Potter moives though...

Then we went to Five Guys for dinner!! It beats in 'n out by a landslide.

If you've ever been there, you'll know that they have peanuts you can eat while waiting for your food.

 

We had a peanut that looked kinda like ET. Creepy.

 

 

After snacking our burgers were done!! The greatest moment ever. We got one large fry to share with everyone because they give you a massive amount of fries.

 

 

I got mine as a cheeseburger with mayo, lettuce, grilled onions, grilled shrooms, ketchup, and mustard.

 

 

Worlds largest cup of fries. With amazing fry sauce on the side.

 





After lunch/dinner we crossed the street to the movie theater. We watched the Hobbit again! This was my third time seeing it, and it was still awesome.

And when we came home, I had my birthday cake. My mom made me a chocolate chip cheesecake with an oreo crust. I have to say that it was very yummy.

Doesn't my piece look perfect?

And now i'm finishing off my day by watching Groundhog Day. Classic.

Puzzles with the Fam

Yesterday I went home for Martin Luther King day because my dad was making steaks for lunch. Who would ever say no to steaks?? I have to say it was very delicious. Some of the best steak my dad has ever made.

While we were eating me and my sister were talking about Phantom of the Opera because we went to see it with our cousins on Saturday. So Erika decided to put in a c.d. of my dad's that has some of Andrew Lloyd Webber's best songs.

We have a weird tradition in our family that we always do puzzles with this c.d. playing. This c.d. and some other country ones that my dad has. While the c.d. was playing my dad said, "hey we're not doing a puzzle!" So I told Erika to go get a puzzle and then we started working on a Disney puzzle.

I don't know why, but it is not a fun puzzle unless we have our awesome music playing in the background. And if there is awesome music playing, we have to be doing a puzzle or playing a board/card game with each other. I love it.

This particular puzzle we did is one of our favorites. It is a Disney one that we got from Disneyland. One of the best souveniers I have enjoyed from there.

The first thing we do is turn all of the pieces over and take out all the edges. I'm pretty sure everyone does puzzles like that, but in case you don't, that is what we do.

 

Our process of building the puzzle is pretty cool too. We kind all pick what part of the puzzle we want to focus on. I wanted to do the princesses and my dad wanted to do the monorail. Erika did the edges, and my mom did the Disneyland letters. Once we get going we realize that all of our pieces fit together and the puzzle is almost done! It is so awesome seeing how everyone did their part to make the puzzle happen.

 

 

This is the finished puzzle. I had to leave before it was completely finished because I had work :( I left at the above picture ^.

 

 



I had an awesome holiday yesterday! I hope you all did as well. I love having days that I can just spend with my family :)

Good Times!

I don't know if anyone else does this, but I love the times when I listen to old music that brings back memories of good old childhood days. Me and Rosie are in our room doing just that. Right now it is Hillary Duff's c.d. It is crazy how much I remember the songs. It is seriously so much fun doing this.

Here is some of the music that I love listening to because of the memories:
1. Hillary Duff
2. Jesse McCartney
3. Backstreet Boys (if this is not on your list you did not have a proper childhood)
4. George Strait-this is what my dad would listen to when we were younger. It is so much fun!
5. Clint Black-for the same reasons as George Strait. My dad used to think he was a cowboy :)
6. Moosebutter. They are just weird and totally remind me of good times had.

And I have to throw in the Christmas music that reminds me of good Christmas times:
1.Johnny mathis
2. Ray Connif's singers
3. Trans Siberian Orchestra

I hope you all have special music childhood memories as well!!! If you do, listen to them. It really is so much fun :)

Pumpkin Carving

 Tonight for FHE in my ward we carved pumpkins! It was tons of fun. We originally planned to have 4 pumpkins and have teams of carvers, but people in our family ended up bringing some of their own, so we had 7! That made it was cooler. I was with a guy named Lee and we made a ninja turtle! Super intense, I know. Lee basically did all the cool and hard stuff and I was moral support, but hey, I enjoyed it.

 



This is our hot pumpkin all lit up. Don't you love his scowl? I do. I didn't get pictures of the other pumpkins...Now I wish I did. Everyone's turned out awesome. I really had a good time tonight :)

 

And just so ya'll know, after Halloween on thursday it is officially time to start playing Christmas music.

Autumn...:)

I am so excited that it is fall. This is a post to tell you about all of the things that I am excited for. And hopefully make you excited for fall as well :)

I am in love with the changing leaves! I hope to be able to go up to the canyon and see these colors!!

I am so ready to be able to wear scarves. Just like good old Harry Potter here. I want his scarf.

Pumpkins are the BEST thing that happened to this world. They are so cute and make fall official. I can't wait to buy some.

You can't forget pumpkin cookes. They complete life. I just might make some of these soon.

Oh yeah, did I mention it means football season?!! The season continues with BYU. I am so excited. I am loving it so far :)

 

I hope I just make you all excited for fall :)

Mom's Birthday

Yesterday was my mom's birthday! It was a pretty fun day :) We started off by going to the Dinosaur Museum and Thanksgiving Point. I didn't want to go at first, but it really was a lot of fun. I am always amazed at how big the dinosaurs were. That was a lot of fun.

We ate dinner at The Training Table in Murray (since our precious Provo one closed down :(. . . ) It was super delicious, as always. And we then stopped at Ikea since we were in the area. My mom found a sofa that she likes and will be getting it soon. Super exciting.

When we came home we had cake and icecream, and played a little Phase 10. Classic.

Erika made this super cute cake :) It's a little lopsided, and she wanted to be british so she said "mum". Adorable. I wrote Happy.

 This is us lighting the candles.  I know what you're thinking. My face is awesome.

 Mom and her cake :)

 Blowing the candles.

Shuffling the phase cards. So fun.

It was lots of fun! Hope you had a good birthday Mom.

Organized Bakery

My mom's birthday is tomorrow and for her present I decided to organize her bakery (a cupboard with plugs for mixers and blenders and stuff) because it is constantly messy. It is an easy place to hide junk that we are too lazy to put away. . .I'm guilty of that. So for a solution, I bought different things to make it cute and easy to stay organized. Here are the pics! :

This is the bakery all cleaned and wiped out. I should have taken a before picture, but I didn't think to! :( Oh well. . .

Here is the picture with everything in it all organized and in place!

 This is the top shelf, which is the easiest place to get crazy messy.

These are two office organizer things I found at Target (seriously love that place, I have a problem) The blue one is for large loose recipes and smaller recipe books that like to tip over and make life difficult. The tan one is the place for all instruction manuals. I thought it would be good to have those all in one place.

And this smaller tan one is for the small recipe cards. If my mom decides to get a recipe box for them, then this thing has dividers that split it up into 4 sections that she could use for pens or something. I just liked it, so I got it. Again, Target.

We like to keep Kujo's food in here because it keeps it from being on the counter, and it is also a very convenient place to keep it because Kujo's food is just on the floor around the corner from the bakery. We already had these containers. By the way, Kujo knows the sound of her treat jar from a mile away. It is just too cute.

And this is below by the mixer and blender. It is holding all the different parts for those. The dough hook was escpecially tricky to fit in there, but I did it. So it's all in there. Except for the blender blades. I didn't think that would be the optimum place to store those ;) Isn't that such a cute little bin? It velcros (spelling?) down to keep those parts clean, and it is super cute. Love.

So happy birthday mom! I hope you enjoy your organized bakery. Keep it clean, I mean it. . . And happy birthday tomorrow! I will definitely have to blog about that :) I"m obsessed.

Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day to everyone! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday today. I sure did. The first thing we did was go to visit my Uncle Travis's grave. I don't really remember him, but I love that we go to see him every year. I am so thankful for the blessing of the plan of salvation so that we can be reunited with our loved ones again. Memorial Day always reminds me of this blessing.

After doing that, we went to the Armory (where my dad works) to clean. We do this every week, but since I usually work I haven't done it for awhile. Dang it! I thought I would never have to do it again ;) Just kidding, it is always a good opportunity to spend time with family. I feel like when my family works together we grow a lot closer to each other.

Later in the afternoon we had a BBQ. It was delish. You have to have BBQ's on memorial day. I mean seriously. We had hot dogs, corn on the cob, strawberries w/ whipped cream, and chips and soda. I loved it. We then went up the canyon and just kind of walked around. We brought Kujo, and she kind of got annoying so we left. But that was still fun!

Then we apparently had a cleaning assignment at the church. On memorial day? I was really bugged at first. But we had the opportunity to clean the chapel. Whenever I clean the chapel I feel really blessed for that opportunity. I know that I am preparing it for Sunday, where the sacred ordinance of the Sacrament takes place. I feel good that I was able to prepare the church building for that.

Enjoy the rest if this day :)

Thanks to all the soldiers who have given/are giving so much to this country protecting our freedoms. Especially my Dad. I love him! :)

Mother's Day

I wanted to post something for my AWESOME mom for Mother's Day. She is pretty much the coolest lady I know. I don't know where I would be with out her. Not only is she awesome, but she has an excellent sense of humor. Her sense of humor is so great, that everyone wants to be around her. It kind of makes me sad that I have to share her with other people :( But hey, that just proves what a great mom she is!

My mom has always been there for me when I needed her the most. She is always supportive of the decisions I make. And when I make a bad decision, she helps me to correct it. Support is such an important thing, and she has always given it to me.

She is also one of the biggest examples I have had in my life. My testimony is as strong as it is right now because of her. She has taught me to make the right decisions no matter what others think of me, or how hard it might be. She has taught me that everyone is important to our Heavenly Father, no matter what they do or have done. I could say so many more things that she has taught me, but that would make for a very long post :)

 I choose this picture of me and my mom (and dad) because it means so much to me. I don't know that I would have graduated from High School with out my mom. She supported me so much through out the years. Especially at the end of High School, I can't even put into words how much I am glad that she was there. I will always be so very thankful for her and her patience and love. I love you mom! I hope you had a great day today. :)

And to make Mother's Day even better, we got to Skype with Josh. He is doing well and is very happy. I am very thankful for the technology available to be able to talk to his face. What a wonderful Sunday it has been.

Birthday

It's Friday! Always a good day, right? I forgot to blog about yesterday which was my dad's birthday! It was a fun day :) I worked until 3, so I didn't miss the celebrations. When I was at work yesterday everyone was telling us that Pretzelmaker was giving out free pretzels! Apparently it was national pretzel day. So I got a pretzel on my way home. Who wouldn't? On my way home I stopped by Macey's to get angel food cake and whipping cream for my dad's cake. I also got him a couple of Toblerone's for his gift from me.

We ate dinner at The Training Table. My family LOVES that place! We were all so sad when the one in Provo closed :( So we traveled up to the one in Sandy. I will never get sick of the food there. When we got home we had cake!

After the delicious angel food cake and sugared strawberries with whipped cream, we played Ticket to Ride! We (especially my dad and Erika) love this game. My mom is exempt from that sentence because she hates this game. Hater. We played 2 heated rounds.

Yes in this next picture you see my dog Kujo laying on a pillow on the table next to us. She is spoiled. Get over it ;) She was lonely while we were all at the table while she was alone in a dark living room...

I hope my dad had a good birthday! I really enjoyed it :)