One Wicked Week!

Well, it didn't start out completely "wicked". I started out the week (Tuesday March 17th - Happy St. Patties everyone) with getting ready for the Relief Society birthday party. We had a garden party theme complete with everyone wearing a garden party hat & enjoying a short play "Emma Smith's Garden Party" that gave a brief history of each general president of the Relief Society starting with Emma to the present. It went "Wickedly" well. We had 60 ladies show up & everyone had a great time. As for my hat - nothing is better than an upsidedown potted plant holder that has a twig theme!

Thursday me and my two friends Courtney & Dana went to Portland to see "Wicked"!!!! It was absolutely - fabulous and amazing - and even though I have already seen it once before it didn't loose it's fabulosity!! If you have the opportunity to go (heads up my SLC friends!) it is TOTALLY & COMPLETELY worth the big 'ole ticket price. The drive up was full of fun, giggles & talking (for the whole five hours it takes to get there from Burns, OR), we stayed at a hotel that was walking distance from the theatre. It was great walking around and feeling the vibe of such a busy city ("I just felt like a little baby chick out of the hen house"). We saw the play that night and in the morning we enjoyed some breakfast "at Tiffany's" (or at least right by it). Now, while Dana & Courtney enjoyed their Starbucks coffee I was introduced to their Steamers - ooooh! Who knew that warm milk with a hint of vanilla could be so good!! (for my Cedar City-ites is that what a Hot Cow was at the Pastry Pub?) and they go great with their pumpkin scones!! Yum! I had so much fun walking around - and you got to love a super Good Will! I missed my Ry-guy though, but I'm sure he was happy to stay home and not have to sit through, yet another, musical.

There's no rest for the wicked! When I got home Ryan & I got ready for my cousin Lyle, his wife Jamie & their kids Dasha, Cohen & Gemma. They stopped by and stayed the night before they headed out to see the Redwoods! We had a lot of fun and gratefully nobody peed on anybody (a little inside joke!)

With all the things I had going on this week it was totally -Wicked! (in the 80's sense of the word!)*click on the images and it will slide into a big one.

Happy Birthday Babe!

Babe, my brother, David. Not to be confused by my Baby, Ryan. My little brother David is now 19 years old - crazy!! Time goes by fast! I've had some people ask how David got the nick name Babe and on this, his Birthday, I will entertain you all with the tale:

When David was born the movie "Babe" (you know the one about the talking pig "Baaa Raaaam Yoooou") had come out and we were watching it alot around the house. Now, David was the cutest baby in the whole world (at least I thought...too bad I don't have a picture to prove it) and for some reason the name Babe just worked for me and from then on David was known as Babe. And that's it.......yeah, next year I'll think of a more entertaining story of how he got this nick name.

He's grown quite a bit since then and is now always mistaken for either Jared or a lamp post depending on his hair color at the time. I always have fun with Babe and enjoy the fact that even though he is soooooo old now he still lets me call him that. I hope that you have a great birthday, you mean alot to me and I love being with you always (except for the time that you picked me up for a big bear hug, and being as tall as you are, smacked my head at the top of the door way).

I love you!!!!

Tag I'm It!

My sister-in-law, Shelley, tagged me. I have posted the sixth picture in the sixth folder in My Pictures and this is it. I call it "Man Under the Heat". For Halloween last year Ryan and I did a shout-out to "The Office" by wearing second heads a-la Michael Scott. To make these masks we did the classic paper mache crafting project. So with strips of newspaper and a mixture of flour and water I framed the face of my husband, Ryan, and to help it dry a bit quicker we used the blowdryer. The heads turned out quite well (see our Halloween post). I, however, did not do the paper mache on the face with the blowdryer method. I was just getting over a cough and I knew that I couldn't hold it in that long and as delicate as paper mache is I didn't want it to crack. So, I built my face on a balloon.

I'm running after Paco - tag your it!

Doughnuts!

Oh those beautiful, delectable, pieces of fried, sugared, dough! Heidi & I (minus our third culinary-musketeer Candace) had never made doughnuts before, but took on the challenge. They turned out rather well and .....rather tasty! Sadly, there were some victims of our green-baking thumb. My slotted spoon melted (it's amazing how hot oil can get) and my candy thermometer. While fishing out the last doughnut hole I wondered why there was red liquid swirling in the oil and then it hit me....the candy thermometer! Popped, cracked...died. But the doughnuts in the end were well worth it! Yummy!