sick week

 this week we celebrated the husbands 1/2 birthday.  because i wanted him to feel special.  i've had a cold all week and he has really been the best care taker ever.   i also wanted to try a new recipe for a tres leches cake.  um soggy cake, still not a big fan of that.  

and tonight the hubby is working late.  soooo i may have done a little online shopping {finally ordered that watch i've been eyeing on piperlime, because i got a 2O% off and may have had like 1OO dollars in rewards, shhhh don't tell husband. ha kidding, he knows about my naughty spending habits} and some crafting.  i've been wanting to make pillows since we finished the headboard...so, okay not that long.  but today i got the pillow form and found some cute fabric surprisingly at hobby lobby.  so i made my first envelope pillow case with some adorable chevron printed fabric.  more to follow...once i buy more stuff one at a time with my 4O% off coupons, because i'm cool like that.

w e e k e n d

our weekend consisted of some working and a lot of playing.  

we finally hung the headboard!! i'm trying to decide if i should paint the word love on it like the headboard i got inspiration from had it, but for now i'm content leaving it plain.  especially because i'm going to make pillows and i feel like that will jazz things up enough.  {don't laugh too hard at our wall, i painted it almost 1O years ago, and it was cool back then...}

friday night we dated it up with a little smashburger, a stop at the mall and then up to sundance for the full moon lift ride.  i've wanted to do that with forrest for 3 years now.  and finally made it.  it was way fun.  we even saw some deer moonlight grazing below us.  

sunday night we celebrated one of my best friends birthday.  it was a dress up dinner party.  we had a really great time.  forrest was a real sport, he doesn't even know any of those people and he still came and had an enjoyable time.  he even wore a suit...i didn't even ask him to.  love that boy.  

c a m p i n g

well, like the slacker i am i didn't have pictures of the headboard on monday.  in fact it isn't even hung yet.  tonight.  forrest has to help me hang it tonight.  but i do have a good excuse, we went camping for a few days at one of our favorite spots called mill hollow.  it is up past heber and kamas, so a little bit of a drive but the view is so pretty.  we stayed the first night by ourselves, forb and i have been camping together a lot of times over the past 2 1/2 years but have never actually been camping alone.  it was so fun but so odd, i don't feel old enough to go camping without adults....err i mean we are the adults.  i feel like i'm having a mini crisis, it just hit me that pretty soon i'll be the mom and forrest will be the dad and we'll be in charge of packing everything for everyone and always entertaining and feeding and providing and a whole sleuth of things.  {and they say camping is relaxing, excuse me for a minute while i have a hard time breathing in this fresh mountain air}  okay really, not that dramatic but i swear yesterday i was 12.  that being said our very first completely alone camping trip went rather smoothly.  we only forgot camping chairs, but who needs those when you have massive rock chairs around the fire pit.  oh and i guess i forgot mayo and mustard for our lunch but chik-fil-a came in handy with their little packets of each.  we pretty much hung out, walked around and did nothing.  went to bed early, maybe a little too early.  i didn't sleep too well the first night we were there and around 4 am i was just laying there trying to get comfy and i heard freaky noises and footsteps.  i was terrified.  real real terrified.  so a few minutes later i whispered to forb, are you awake?  and he said yes.  i asked if he had heard the noise, he said yes.  he told me we weren't in any danger.  so we laid there for a few minutes, he asked if i wanted to go for a drive i said no it's okay.  the longer i laid there the more i felt like i was going to vomit, then i thought when are we ever both wide awake at 4 in the morning, so i finally said where are we going to go.  we got dressed and i ran to the car.  ha ha i'm such a scared little girl.  we drove to the heber wal-mart so i could use the restroom and we needed mantles for our lantern.  it took about 2 hrs there and back so it was around 6:3O when we were driving back to camp and the sun was rising.  we saw lots of deer, but i see lots of deer driving my car in alpine so i hadn't bothered to put my contacts back in yet.  when suddenly forb yelled  "MOOOSE"  i put my contacts in as fast as i could and we saw 2 bull moose.  they are my favorite animal so it was amazing!  we drove back to camp and slept for a few hours.  then sean and brittany came up and camped with us.  i was definitely ready for a shower and our bed by the end, but camping and laughing around the fire was just what i needed.

t h e l a t e s t

i told you in my bedroom post that i was in the process of making us a headboard for our bed.  i'm glad to say i'm in the final stages of said headboard.  i'm just trying to decide on final touches.  i found inspiration on pinterest of course.  its been a bit of a task, because instead of tracking down weathered wood i made my own.  i beat the heck out of it, sanded it, stained it with tea, paint, steel wool & apple cider vinegar.  but i'm actually really happy with the results!  i cannot wait to finish it and get it above the bed.  hoping to have final pictures to share by monday!  and next on the bedroom list of things to do...pillows.  find them.  make them. buy them.  whatever just get some that i cannot live with out!  

here is a little peek at the wood.  

ca-ching

the cups of cake have been delivered. 

the cupcake delivery went pretty smoothly this morning.  2 dozen funfetti cupcakes, & 2 dozen red velvet cupcakes.  i was lacking cupcake inserts for the boxes, that made delivery a little difficult.   they shifted in the boxes a little but they still looked completely fine when i got to the house.  i spent quite a bit of time on the red velvet's but the hard work paid off.  these were for a bridal shower and the wedding is going to be vintage with a lot of lace and twine, hence the red velvet decorations!  hopefully i can make this more of a regular thing.  

for the love of sprinkles

it is official!  i got my first real baking order.  to be completely honest, my goal of 1O commissioned orders for the year 2O12 isn't looking too hot if this is my first....but i'm still so so excited!  i love baking and i'm hoping to make enough of an impression to maybe get some more orders down the road.  this order is for a bridal shower, her theme is vintage.   i'm making 2 dozen red velvet and 2 dozen funfetti per the brides request.  to add my own personal touch & perhaps a little vintage style to the treats i'm wrapping lace and twine around each cupcake liner!  they should be adorable.  but tonight i tested out a new funfetti recipe.  if the batter is any indication of what the baked cupcake will taste like, i better attend a couple of classes at the gym tomorrow.  anyway, back to the cupcakes, i love using sprinkles and this was the first time i actually got to cut open a vanilla bean and use actual vanilla beans.  those things are cool and smell divine.  but really, who can turn down something covered with sprinkles?

our bedroom

contrary to the title of this post, i promise the content is not disturbing or 'tmi'.  i figured i'd shoot myself later if i didn't take pictures of our very own first apartment together.  so here is our bedroom, nothing fantastic.  i couldn't paint or wall paper, and really i didn't spend too much time decorating considering we were away from our house all the time.  here is the only bedroom in our first one bedroom basement apartment in alpine.   we bought the dresser from ksl, it's cute and served its purpose but i hope to get some cute knobs for it soon and maybe paint some chevron on it, i've seen a lot of cute ideas on pinterest.  i'm also in the process of creating a headboard.  i'm always on the lookout for cute decorative pillows to throw on the bed.  i'm super picky though so it will probably take a while to find the right ones.  {on a side note the rocking chair & beautiful curtains, not ours. ha they came with the apt, didn't want you to think i was turning all grandma on ya.}  also please note that this closet was the only closet in our whole house, it is seriously freaking AMAZING that all our stuff fit in our house.  but seeing that we've now condensed from a basement to one bedroom in the basement, i'm missing all of our "extra" space.

                           

rodeos & cupcakes

this past weekend we spent mostly with family.  we started making cupcakes for konnor’s 2^nd birthday friday night.  he loves a show called ‘timmy time’ that has a sheep named shaun.  so I made him some shaun the sheep cuppies.  they turned out pretty cute.  i shaped tootsie rolls into faces, made eyes with white chocolate chips and a dab of black frosting.  frosted the bad boys and mallowed them up for the wool.   i initially had the ambition to put some black licorice or something for legs but I ran out of time and figured they were cute enough, and he is 2 so…..i think he’ll forgive me for the legless sheeps.  it worked out perfect for the party, azure had a red barn she had made as her valentine drop box for school that we used to pose the sheep in and around at the party.  once again, konnor is 2, he didn’t care where the sheep was he just wanted it in his tummy!!  

let’s back track though, friday night forb and i had a much needed date night.  we live with my parents now and it has actually been pretty great.  but the little sisters don’t really give us any alone time.  so any chance we get we sneak away.  we ate at wingers…too much I might add.  we wanted to go to the driving range but it was so blasted hot we went to target and walked around for a bit.  bought stuff for the cupcakes and headed home where i did a test run of shaun’s head to make sure tootsie rolls would work.  then we went to the driving range, i must say i hit a lot better.  probably by the end of the season i’ll have mastered how to hit the driver, just in time to maybe play 9 holes.  saturday morning we both worked and that night we went up to park city with my family.  we enjoyed some chinese food at my favorite chinese restaurant szechwan.  next time you go to pc try it, I promise you won’t be disappointed.  {but definitely go before 3, it’s a lot cheaper to buy lunch.} we drove a little further up to oakley where we watched the oakley rodeo.  it was a really great rodeo, we thoroughly enjoyed it.  sunday evening was konnor’s party, and the sheep were a hit.  one day i’ll get to open that bakery…one of these days. 

4th of july

our 4th of july was quite low key, we spent majority of the day just hanging out.  which was quite alright with me and probably best for forb, don't say i said anything but he sprained his knee trying to do a dunk on the basketball hoop!!!  i started the day with a run, then forb & i got patriotic donuts for everyone, so yummy.  we helped dad make some bacon cheeseburgers and a huge delicious lunch for everyone while continually watching the fire in alpine burn.  that night we went to thanksgiving point where they did a big firework show.  it was a fab day.  we are so grateful to live in this wonderful country were we are so blessed with freedom.  may it continue that way forever.  god bless america.

animal jam

at the end of may some friends ran off with forb & i to yellowstone.  we stayed in our own little cabin.  with a loft where sean & britt, forrest & i had sleepovers every night.  we gave nate and heather their own room, seeing it was their first vaca without the babe.  it also came equipped with our own little hot tub, which we happened to use every night.  we each took a turn making dinner and just hung out.  a much needed fun trip.  and we only managed one major incident, heather chipped a tooth while eating lunch in the park one day.  but she was a trooper and stuck it out, and now a part of her remains in the park.  funny how we can't take any of the park but it can keep what it wants from us.

 during the days we'd drive off to west yellowstone and explore the beautiful park.  all via car, it snowed all the days we were actually able to go to the park.  but being from utah that didn't stop us, just made us a little lot wet and cold.  we were always on the hunt for a bear.  didn't see one that we could actually confirm was a bear, but i think we may have saw one or two up high on the hill.  we watched old faithful steam like crazy, it was too cold to actually see any water shoot.  we saw lots of buffalo, elk, and hot springs.  mostly we enjoyed being with friends and creating memories.