.babymoon.

this past week we got to go on our 'babymoon'.  we went to California and stayed at my granparents house in grass valley.  forrest had never been there before and i figured he would really like it.  the deer practically eat out of your hands, and if you know my husband you know his fascination with animals, not really in the "animals are so cute" way as much as the "i love to hunt animals" kind of way.  my assumptions were right, the first morning we were there he was immediately enthralled with 2 bucks who just sat and watched him from the deck for about 10 minutes.  we explored surrounding areas, went shopping in Nevada city, played at the lake, went to the Sacramento temple, spent a day in san fran and watched the Boston Red Sox play in Oakland (the latter being the main purpose of this trip, Boston is forrest's team and he had never been to an MLB game before).  We had a great time, it is so nice to escape reality sometimes and just be together.  That being said, we are pretty excited for this little guy to join us in a few short months!! 

vegas

last week we went to vegas.  we bought a deal on living social and got a steal of a deal at the jw marriott.  we even got a 100 dollar resort credit with which i got a hot stone massage, oh.my.gosh.  heaven on earth.  we spent the rest of the time hanging out with our friends nate & heather and getting to remember why we are best friends {after a week with the twins it was just what we needed}.  i love having those moments when i get to remember who i am and see that fun, flirting, handsome man i fell in love because we don't have to worry about our day to day responsibilities.  i love you forrest brett, thanks for the great week in vegas. 

 

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.

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.  

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.

thankful

for the temple.
the beauty & peace found therein.
the ability to perform baptisms yesterday morning with the man i love.
& for the knowledge of eternal families, that you can attain within those sacred walls.

.ny style cheesecake.

i found the best cheesecake recipe.
i know because i have made it 2 times, both times. divine.
first i started with the crust, graham cracker crust. don't even get me started. i could eat that stuff plain.
then i made the filling, & ohhhh so much cream cheese. a disgusting amount. but oh my yum.

and then you go through this rigourous baking process, bake it for 45 min @ one temp & 3O more at a different temp & then you turn off the oven & crack the door & let it continue to bake for 1 more hour, then you must let this baby set over night. but oh the wait is worth it.
thank you martha.

corndog

tonight i was feeling adventurous when it came to dinner, however my taste buds were feeling kinda like a kid. i wanted a corn dog. with tater tots. wow, the only way it could have gotten any kiddier was with a side of mac & cheese {don't get me wrong, that crossed my mind....but we had that for lunch yesterday}.
in order to justify a corn dog dinner for the hub & i, i decided to make home made corn dogs.
and let me tell you. so bomb. they were super easy to make, & oh so delicious. plus now we have plenty in a ziploc baggy in the freezer to pop in the microwave for an easy lunch on a random day in the near future......

batter recipe & instructions:

1 tbsp vinegar
about 1 cup milk
1.5 cup flour
1 cup yellow corn meal
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsps baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 eggs
12-14 hot dogs {i recommend hebrew nationals!!}
popsicle sticks
1. preheat your oil in a deep fryer or large skillet to 375 degrees. you need it to be somewhat deep so the dogs can submerge themselves.
2. place the tbsp of vinegar in a measuring cup, then add enough milk to equal 1 cup. stir & let sit for 5 minutes.
3. whisk together the flour, corn meal, sugar, baking powder, salt, & baking soda in a large bowl. add milk & eggs then whisk until combined.
4. insert popsicle sticks/skewers in hot dog, dip in batter. coat hot dog well & fry in oil until golden brown. place on paper towels to soak up extra oil. enjoy.
try it, you'll be amazed.

6th birthday

today we celebrated gabby's 6th birthday.

i honestly cannot believe she is that old, i remember the day she was born.

in celebration i made her some minion cupcakes in honor of "despicable me".

they were quite a hit & pretty yummy too.

maybe some day i'll get to do this for real....as a job.

did I mention

I love roadtrips...when I test drove my car i may have tested out the back seat to deem it roadtrip worthy.

i'm totally diggin warmer weather!

I love kissing this boy.

I love hanging out with friends all weekend.

this i'm certain you know I love shopping!! & exploring new things.

oh and I think we are in love...

& we went to vegas for presidents day :)

life

now i realize i have sucked as of late...been busy trying to live a little. since then i've completed my first 1/2 marathon {meaning there will be more to come} in 2hrs & 18 minutes. honestly one of the hardest things i have ever done.

made forb ride a horse...he is more terrified of them then i am.

attempted to eat about 5 lbs of food...the burger was literally the size of my faceeee. never again.

and just hanging out :)

duck hunting practice

the group.
we went shooting so i could practice for the ducks. all i have to say is watch out duckies because you are goin down. and man am i one lucky girl...to be in love with a boy who will be able to provide dinner no matter what ha ha, we happened across a wild chicken...so of course forb shot it. we had every intention of plucking & cooking the poor little thing but failed to realize that we should probably let the blood drain before it ruined all the meat...but now we know for next time :) i focused really hard because forrest said i had to hit the clay pigeons or he wouldn't take me hunting...& i really want to go hunting so it took all my focus to shoot!

& us.

sorry we've been busy...

sneaking drinks into usana.

singing our hearts out at the brad paisley concert.

making things out of pull 'n peels. cheering on real salt lake.

but mostly just falling in love.

random cuteness

the other night forrest & i went to dinner at cpk {california pizza kitchen} we were sitting there talking, waiting for our food & forrest was talking about his bills. this is what he said " then i'll only have my cell phone, gas, & you as bills." i couldn't contain my excitement, i really like the kid. who would have thought being called a bill could be so romantical?

broken

no time to blog simply updating at the bf's house.
i am still alive.
internet is not.
please keep having summer fun & i'll hopefully be back soon with our list of things to accomplish this summer!
xox
if you have any have to's i'd love some help!