Thursday, March 31, 2011

Hahahaha

Recently heard by my ears, Ellyse and I are in the back seat together on the way home from a fun night out: E: pinky promise. Mom? Pinky promise. Pointing her finger at me. Me: it's actually called pinky swear. You do this, (link our pinkies together) and then say pinky swear. Ellyse's face gets really somber and she says you're not suppose to say that! Me: what?! E: You're really not suppose to say that! Me: honey, you can say pinky swear but you can't swear.

On the way to The Home Depot, we passed Ihop. Allie goes Look Lesee, there's the pancake place! Ellyse goes "Ihop stands for Natural House of Pancakes!" She was totally sure that that was correct too.

Friday, March 25, 2011

March Madness, retooled.

Back in February my brother in law mentioned that March is the worst as far as weather is concerned and wondered why. I told him I thought it was because you expect it to be good weather and then you get slapped in the face with the snow storm that has you scraping off snow from your car in your sandals.

You're told it's officially spring, you're tempted by a few really nice warmer days, the grass turning a bit greener, and the daylight sticking around a bit later in the evening. The shorts and capri's make their cameos. The kids get to be free outside a few more days in the week but then a storm takes all those wonderful things and smothers them in snow.

Annnd on top of it all, the TV is constantly on with stupid basketball games being played by people I have no interest in at all.

No wonder we're all mad in March, right?

How's that for your motivating speech?

Friday, March 11, 2011

Sweet Saturday

There's a new cupcake shop in town and as soon as I found out about it I've wanted to go to there. (30 Rock) Even more so after there was a groupon for the cupcakery.

I took the kids to the Vintage Cupcake Co in Ogden and then because we'd tried before and it was closed, I took them to the Candy Land Shoppe behind the Newgate mall too. You know, because cupcakes the size of my fist isn't enough sugar.

It was darling inside, all bright and cheery and pink! My pictures don't do it justice at all. I was trying to get all the cuteness of the chandeliers and cute painting job and I failed to notice the BIG WHITE POLE smack dab in the middle.
Ellyse got the chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting. Hate to admit this but the frosting was awful. Even she thought it tasted weird....but she still ate it all.
Don't get vanilla frosting for sure.
Allie however, chose very wisely. When I was first told this was a cotton candy cupcake I may have gagged a little bit. Then I tasted it and it was one of the best. I would order this one again for sure.

I think this one is pretty self explanatory, vanilla cookie cupcake.
This was the peanut butter cupcake. I got this one for Jason. He seemed to like it okay but I wasn't a huge fan.

What?

I had to taste everybody else's.

You think I wouldn't?

BTA. Pretty darn close!

Off to Candy Land shoppe.

You guys, it's soo cute in here. I really like all the bright colors and the all the fun candy. They are really nice store owners too. I feel bad it's not a more busy place because it's so cute. I know, total girly answer.



They have what I like to call the sixlets bar. They have all kinds of different colored sixlets separated into bins. So if you were say, throwing a baby shower for a baby boy, you could come get a bag or container full of all blue sixlets as favors or decorations or something. I thought that was so fun but I forgot to get a picture of it.
Look at those chocolate covered rice krispie treats that you can use to decorate a candy bouquet (also available at this store) or just to eat for fun. Way cute!

If you're ever in the neighborhood, you should stop in and see these places for yourself! You'll be happy you did.

Jillian Michaels DVD will be getting a big workout this week.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Goobers


With my mom's wigs.

My birthday, aka Jason being a superhero post.

Birthday's are BIG for me. I seriously LOVE my birthday's because I've been spoiled my whole life with great over the top ones and now, I make sure that every year I make plans and drop rather obvious hints about what I'd like to happen.

I'm just very blessed to have loved ones who care enough to listen to my whines and help me have great birthdays! Jason is getting excellent at this! He knows how much my birthday means to me and makes me feel special each and every year! This year was no exception.

I asked Jason to plan an adventurous date for both of us with the money he would have used on gifts. I gave him some ideas but for the most part, I told him I wanted to know nothing of what we were going to do. (Honestly, the surprise of it all was the funnest!)So, this is what he came up with.
It started with taking the kiddo's to the grandparent's home for the night (thanks so much to the W's for their help!) Then we headed toward Salt Lake. He had booked a room at a nice Inn in Salt Lake that turned out to be one of the most amazing Inn's I've ever stayed at!

After checking in and eating yummy warm cookies they had for us, we headed to dinner. I had a choice of 2 resturants and I chose Buca Di Peppa. That's a really fun place to eat. It has a great atmosphere. Our waitor on the other hand, not so much. He was a chatter and kept forgetting things. Anywho, it was just super nice to be out with the man I love and not have little people about 4 feet high telling us what the other one has done to the other to make them cry.
We ordered this.

We had to hit the local grocery store for Jason's favorite drink, Mt Dew Live Wire. They don't carry it up past about Farmington for some stupid reason so he stocks up whenever we're down there.
Then we headed here.

It was soo much fun to put on ice skates again and go in circles with the teenie boppers! Jason fell twice, that was fun to watch. :) He was trying to learn how to stop without using the edge of the rink. I found out the hard way that ice skates hurt your ankles without thick socks. Still so much fun to be a little active and have fun!
We then headed here.

We never knew that the Cheesecake factory was as hot of a spot as it is. We were there at about 9:30 and there was still a 20 minute wait to be seated.
We decided to take a slice of one of those bad boys back to our room. It was delish!

The next day we had a yummy complimentary buffet breakfast at the Inn before heading home where Jason made not 1
not 2
but 3 seperate birthday cakes/cupcakes with homemade frosting. I'm telling you guys, I don't know how I scored this guy. It was amazing frosting and my mom has even asked Jason for his recipe.

My parents had us up for dinner. It's always fun to hang out up there. The kids got to play in the foot of fresh new snow. I even got to have my brother and s-i-law and their family up with us. We had a great time!

The next day, I was able to go shopping with my mom all day. I love this part of my birthday! It's so fun to just hang with my mom and not do anything but shop and talk all day.

Thanks soooooo much to all of you for your birthday wishes and all the effort that was put into making it such a special day, once again, for me this year!