All about May!!

May has been a very busy and fun month for us! For starters we have been married for a YEAR!!!! It has been the best year! So, Chris surprised me with a weekend get away to a bed and breakfast in Logan, Utah! It was so fun. The bed and breakfast was so cute and so comfortable. We went to the temple and walked around and walked around the town a bit and ate at the bluebird cafe which was amazing!! We went to bear lake, I had never been to bear lake it was so pretty. We had to get milkshakes because they are famous for the milkshakes up there. They were delicious :D We also went to a cheese factory and pepperidge farms and when we got out of the car in the parking lot it smelled like the goldfish crackers! It was such a fun relaxing vacation. My husband is the best! He did all the planning and made it the best one year anniversary gift!!!

For my dads birthday I made him a harley davidson cake! It turned out pretty good!

Sarah and I signed up to do the women's speed triathlon! I did it!! It was amazing! I had so much fun. I would recommend it to anyone!!

We then got to go down to Manti for a friends wedding! The temple is so beautiful!

bUnNiEs

A couple weekends ago Sarah let us come over on the most beautiful day to see her bunnies!! They are the cutest things I have ever seen. I want one so bad..but, I don't know where I would keep it. And Chris doesn't want animals in the house so, I guess I'm out of luck right now. haha I loved holding them and it was so cute that they would all cuddle up next to you. Her rabbit had 9 babies! She said that, that's a lot for her kind of rabbit to have! They are so precious!

Orthodontist--Good/Painful

That's right! Chris got braces! We decided that now is the perfect time to do it! So, we went ahead and made the appointment!

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Disneyland Trip!

Can I say how much I love Disneyland!! It is the happiest place, funnest place ever! To start off our trip my mom  took us to the airport so we wouldn't have to leave our car there. While we were driving my mom was telling us how she always misses the airport exit. We just laughed and made sure she didn't miss the first airport exit off of I-15. Well, low and behold she misses the next exit off of the 215...haha I couldn't believe it! That is going into the books mother!


So we get to LAX and get to fly over the ocean for a bit before landing which was really cool to see the coastline. We get on our shuttle that is waiting for us and we drive in L.A rush hour to what we thought was our hotel. We learned really fast that it was not the correct hotel. The guy at the counter said it was 2 miles north of the hotel we were at. So, Chris and I thought, we can walk it wont be that bad. Well, After walk and walking and walking some more and crossing freeways etc...We were beginning to think we were lost. So, we call home to Chris' parents to see if they can tell where we are. They told us we were really close so we kept walking. We finally get to our hotel 1 1/2 hours later and after walking 4 miles. Man we were tired and hungry. But, we made it!

Cupcakes!

So I decided last night that I wanted to make cupcakes! So, I did. They turned out great! I needed to use the rest of my homemade icing and that's what I came up with. I got out my Wilton piping equipment and a little food dye...haha and tried it and it worked out awesome! I love decorating!!  Here are my results:

Cakes and More...

So just recently I've decided I wanted to start a new hobby. I got thinking and I love to bake and make food So, why not experiment and try decorating cakes! Great Idea! I went to the library and got a few books on how to decorate cakes! This got me all excited to learn that a lot goes in a cake. I had no clue how difficult you can make a cake. Well, I was determined to make a heart shaped cake for valentines coming up. So, I got all my ingredients and started baking. I took the cake out of the oven and I left it to cool in the pan for a bit. but, my instructions said to take out of pan to cool on a rack so I did so. As I was taking the cake out it cracked in half..I was so mad. The first thing I had to do was ruined. But, it actually looked okay put back together and the frosting wouldn't show it and I was going to attempt fondant! 
Frosting of the cake:

Then came the hard part...Kneading of the fondant to dye it pink! It took a lot of work but, I finally got it the color I wanted it!Fondant color:

I'm really not very creative when it comes to thinking of ideas of what to make the cake look like. If I have an example I can usually just copy it but this time I had to come up with something. Here is the final cake!

I think that it turned out pretty good for being my first cake! I will post about my next cake that I have in mind!!

Disneyland!

We just bought our tickets for our Disneyland trip in February!!! We are so excited!!Chris has never been to Disneyland so this will be really fun. I went 2 years ago and actually tried the roller coasters. I have always been afraid of roller coasters but I was brave and got on them. I don't know what I was so scared about. They are fantastic!!

Tis The Season!

Well! It's that time of year again!When you get to eat all the yummy goodies and have celebrations and parties with people you love! I love this time of year...Especially when I think back a year ago Chris and I held hands for the first time!! Wow, it seems just like yesterday we were doing the whole dating thing. We were at temple square and I really wanted to hold his hand so, I would walk really close to him and bump into him with my hand to kind of give him a hint. Well, it worked! We held hands for the first time. It was amazing. Now a year later and we have been married almost 7 months now. Oh how time flies when you are having fun. I love this time of year when I get to spend my time with family and friends and celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. I'm so thankful for the birth of Jesus Christ and I love that we can reflect upon Him especially this season.   

I'm excited to make new years resolutions! I'm so excited to have Chris help me be motivated to do them. He is such a great support to me. And I will help him in all of his! 

Chris's Corner:

Here is the basic rundown of my life...work, school, homework, school, more work, hang out with Emily, oh and watch Prison Break (our favorite show on Netflix.)  Update complete.  Signing out.

Witches!!!!

I got to go with my sisters and mother in laws to witches night out at gardner village! We all dressed up and went up and I think my favorite part was seeing almost everyone dressed up. It's amazing how people go all out and make their costumes perfect for that night. My costume was a makeshift costume...haha I wasn't planning on dressing up but I conformed because everyone else was so I need to too!! It was really fun. I love hanging out with chris's family. We always have a great time in whatever we do.

Our life has been pretty busy lately it seems. With Chris going to school and working and just getting a new assignment to teach an English class in the stake on Thursday nights and me working almost 10-12 hours a day it gets pretty crazy. But, we are loving life besides the cold mornings that I really don't like. I'm really excited for Halloween this year! Halloween is significant because that's really the first time me and Chris really "hung out"!! After that we were inseparable 

Pumpkin Patch!

Yesterday inbetween conferences Chris and I got invited by a family friend to come to their annual pumpkin patch party! Boy! there were tons of people there. It was fun though to see how cute the decorations were and to see some of my family there. They served hot dogs and chips for lunch which was actually pretty tasty. We even got to take home a cute pumpkin!! I think that was my favorite part.

Can you believe we have hit our 4 month mark of being married! Time flies like crazy when you are busy with school, work and of course more work! But we are sure having tons of fun!!

OOOHHHHH!!!

Oh how I wish I was there:

Yes, I took that picture! Around this time 3 years ago me and my mom were in Hawaii!! It was so much fun. The blue skies, the green blue water and you cant forget the rainbows!! I'm actually not looking forward to the cold cold winter months. I love the weather we are having right now and it should stay this way all year around. But, ya know..I can't have everything I want ;)

RSL and OneRepublic!

So for my birthday Emily got me tickets to the REAL Salt Lake vs. Kansas City soccer game last night.  Which also had an after game concert with OneRepublic.  I really enjoy watching soccer and OneRepublic so last night was really awesome for me!  Not to mention Emily came with me which made everything 100% better!  We were told when we were there that there were more than 19,000 people at the Rio Tinto stadium.  It was packed!  But so much fun!  If you've never been to a REAL Salt Lake game, I suggest you go. Here are some pictures of our awesome/fantastic night!!

 OneRepulic performing!!

Chris's Corner:

So today as I was riding the bus to work, a man got on with quite possibly one of the funniest things I have ever seen.  I realized as he got on that he had a backpack on.  His backpack was furry.  Wait!  That wasn't his backpack that was a dog hanging out of it, head, one leg, one paw, and all.  I couldn't stop chuckling to myself all the way to work.  It was seriously hilarious in a, may I say it, cute way.  Well, here's to all you who carry little dogs in your backpacks, keep it up!  You never know if it will brighten up someones day!  

Weekend!

This weekend has been so much fun!! To start off Chris and I practically had all of friday off (Chris worked in West Valley from 8am-10a) I went with him so that afterwards we could go straight over to the Salt Lake Temple!! Chris planned the whole weekend! I was so excited to go to the temple. I've always wanted to go inside the Salt Lake Temple and now I had my chance! It was amazing! Everything is so beautiful inside and out. I hope everyone can see it one day, it is breath taking.

Then after the temple we were starving of course! So, Chris took me to Applebees where we ate some yummy lunch. I was kind of disappointed when our waiter said they were out of ice cream. How can a resturant be out of ice cream? haha but, I really didn't need the ice cream anyway.

Then we spent the night at my grandma's cabin in midway! We had lots of fun just relaxing and having a scrabble tournament! Yes, our favorite game is scrabble!! So, if anyone wants to play with us we will be very happy to. We also played E.R.S card game that I am totally horrible at. I kept making Chris play over and over because I just could not seem to win one game. After 8 games I won the last 2. Making the score 8-2. My luck must have ran out.

Chris's Corner:

So, Emily and I decided that it would be cool that on this blog I have a spare bit of space to share my ideas.  Here and there I will be randomly coming out with ideas of general interest, mainly to pass time away!  When there is something of interest to you, feel free to hop on and talk, debate, and if the topic is a heated one you can even fight for what you think is right!  Enjoy!

Can you say Cafe Rio homemade?

Yes!! I made our own Cafe Rio pork salads last week for dinner and man it was amazing!! They tasted so good! It is time consuming but so worth it in the end! I am loving being able to cook all sorts of different foods. And Chris says he will eat whatever I put in front of him. haha

Motorcycling!

We sort of, kind of invited ourselves on a motorcycle ride with the gang. Chris had never been on a motorcycle ride so it was about time we got him cultured. We had lots of fun, we went up through Heber and then onto Park City. At first I didn't think he liked the ride but, he might go again someday :)

Marriage!!

Yes I did get married!! May 21st That was 2 months ago! It goes by so so fast. It has been so much fun. I love being married. It is so fun to have my best friend with me all the time! Our apartment is really cute. It's 2 bedrooms and 1 bath nice little kitchen. Oh! and I've decided I love cooking! I love trying out new recipes and having them taste wonderful! I'm so domesticated haha. We went to vegas on our honeymoon and it was so fun. We got to try 16 different coca cola's from all over the world. We went and saw phantom of the opera which was amazing. I highly recommend it!

Engaged!

So, I've been engaged for about a month now! And it has been fantastic! Chris and I are having so much fun getting ready for the wedding. I'm so blessed to have so many people wanting to help with the plans. Thanks to all of them!!
We went to color me mine the other day and made our first soup bowl together! It turned out really cute. (pictures to come)  We also found a place to live! It's called oxford square condos. It is over by the provo library. It is so cute. Of course its on the third floor so when I told my dad, he just started laughing because the last time I lived on the 3rd floor of an apartment he helped move all my stuff up the stairs. haha but hopefully, it wont be as bad since there arent as many stairs to climb.