Little Shop

Little Shop of Horrors!

Jer and I went to see this pretty lady play Ronnette in the trio of Little Shop of Horrors at the Scera Indoor Theater.

It was such a fun show, even Jer was entertained! And we got an awesome Daily Herald deal, two for one!

I would totally recommend seeing this show, it is the perfect length and you can find tons of deals for tickets everywhere!

Here is a link to one of the deals.

Couples Retreat

While we were in Nauvoo, we had some awesome roommates, the Thornocks! Way back then, we decided to plan a fun getaway for the fall, so we put it on our calendars.

Jer's Nanny and Papa live in beautiful Cache Valley and have some amazing property with a fully furnished log home that they often rent out. They were so sweet to let us come up and have some fun with our friends.

I bet Car got some awesome pictures of our fun campfire dinner when we first got there, we had tin foil dinners and yummy banana boats!

 Saturday morning we all slept in and then Chase made us some SCD omlettes. (Jer and I weren't quite all the way SCD :o))

Such a fresh, yummy meal.

 Then we took an easy little hike and enjoyed the changing leaves.

 Jer found a sweet walking stick.

 Chase, checkin out the fishing.

 Mountain man.

The girls in the great outdoors. (Notice our BYU pride shirts?)

 A yummy kebab lunch to fuel us for...

 A little bit of archery.

Yes, I did shoot that fake deer right in the eyeball. It only took me like 20 tries.

An artsy silhouette picture of the sunset, aka we couldn't get the flash to work. :o)

And then....we watched the game. We won't talk about that.

We spent a lovely Sunday morning sleeping in and going to church and then we took off back to reality, but it sure was fun and relaxing while it lasted! Such a fun weekend, can't wait to do it again!

Wednesday Winners

Here are a few greats for ya.

No dessert this week :o(.

Chicken and Cornmeal Dumplings

Click here for the recipe.

Cheesy Zucchini Rice

Click here for the recipe.

YUM.

Zucchini Yogurt Muffins

Click here for the recipe.

Sisters, Sisters...

There were never such devoted sisters!

Happy Birthday to my big sis Katie!

"God knew I loved you too much to just be your friend, so He let me be your sister."

Hope you've had a great day!

Brussels Sprouts

First of all, my husband just informed me last night that the ABC's are sung to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Um, how did I get through my almost 25 years of life not realizing this?!

I feel stupid, but whatever. :o)

Secondly, did you all know that today was our ward's primary program? Neither did we. Whoops. There we sat minding our own business when the bishopric member invites the primary children up to the stand for their program.

Jer and I are in the primary.

We had about 10 seconds to figure out what was going on and get our butts up onto the stand with the other teachers (who, by the way had been sitting on the stand the entire time, unbeknownst to us.)

But it turned out great! No thanks to us. ;o)

And finally, I'm proud to announce that I have finally found a brussels sprouts recipe that both Jer and I really like. Last time I made them we both proclaimed that we no longer liked them.

Thanks to Bountiful Baskets, I was forced to try again.

Here's the recipe, pinned from my dear friend Courtney.
http://whatsgabycooking.com/lemon-garlic-brussel-sprouts/

Lemon Garlic Brussels Sprouts. YUM.

And just a P.S.
Guess what season it is?

 That's right. FALL! My favorite season. I don't remember why, but my mom always made these in the fall, so now I will almost never make them unless it is fall. I love this season and everything about it. I don't care that it has been 85 degrees here and I got a sunburn yesterday. It IS fall. :o)

P.P.S.

We had a garage/yard sale yesterday with a couple of our friends and it was a success. Chels was modeling her dollar store Christmas stockings to try and lure in more customers, I don't think she sold those....but I bet you could buy them from her! ;o)

To My Dear Old Dad...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

 You wear your many hats oh so very well. Our dad is the most fun.

 The best Papa.

 Biggest support.

 Stake president/busiest man I know.

Best daddy to this daddy's girl.

I love you dad! Hope you have a great day TOMORROW when stake conference is over! :o)

A Labor of Love

Surprise! I went home with my sis and her boyfriend Dave this weekend to surprise my parents and little sis. Jer went on a business trip to Jackson Hole and I was going to be alone all weekend so I decided to be the 3rd wheel. :o) For a full (and better) review of our trip see my sister's blog post here.

 My lovely home. My mom has done such a great job with her gardening.

 Sisters lounging on my parents' beautiful new patio furniture after an awesome dutch oven party. Yum!

 Sunday dinner after math. In and out of a food coma.

 Going through mom's closet. Loved finding these treasures. We would get rid of them but what about Anna's ugly Christmas sweater parties?! :o)

 Breakfast on the beach at Summerland Inn Cafe. One of our faves. Always been a daddy's girl.

 The group without dad.

 Group with dad, Dave's the camera man.

We had so much fun but as always, the weekend went by way too fast and we drove a lot, but it was totally worth it. I love my family and can't wait to see them again!

And.....its official! My name and "office hours" are now posted outside the ballroom office. Of course it was official a few months ago but it was fun to see my name there as an official part-time faculty member! I love my job!!!

In other news, I just accepted another job at a boutique in Orem called SexyModest. Kind of an oxy moron I know but it is a super cute store and all their stuff is under $50! You should come check it out! :o)