Yummy Treats

One Lovely Sunday Afternoon Kelsi came over for dinner... We love it when she comes. We made our favorite Calzones and Daniel made his most famous cookie recipe however, it didn't turn out because he uses shortening in his cookies and since we don't have shortening we had to use butter.. Unforbidden in his cookies. Since the recipe makes so many we decided to make jumbo size cookies.. with all sorts of ingredients on top. :) YUM

Well they turned out looking really cute and fun but they tasted more of bread than a cookie I think if we had added lots more chocolate it would have tasted GREAT!

Here They are.. Great Date idea or way to get nice and fat

So for April Fool's day I really wanted to do something to Daniel, so I got up before him to make him breakfast but I started getting a guilty feeling inside of me about doing a mean prank.. cuz dan usually takes his breakfast on his way to work so i'd feel bad having him be hungry all day. Instead I made pancakes with raisins inside of them, he doesn't really like raisins but will eat them. And I put one huge chocoloate chip in one pancake. I made some tang and added lots of salt to it. Well he didn't even eat my surprise chocolate chip pancake and he thought I was trying to make him eat healthier by putting raisins in the pancakes. sheesh. Then he asked me if i was a little tired this morning. I said why and he was like because you put salt in the Tang instead of sugar and he was worried that I'd come home and drink the tang and spit it everywhere not knowing that i had put salt instead of sugar.. Sheesh sheesh.. So my pranks didn't really work. DARN.
That night we went to Shelby and Brandon's house and brought homemade Pizza....

We gave a slice to Brandon.. he was nervous of course to try it but HE LOVED IT!! THis isn't your ordinary pizza.. we like to call it FOOL's Eye Pizza. It's actually cake for the dough with frosting for the pizza sauce, white chocolate and coconut for cheese and fruit by the foot pepporoni. Scrumdiliumcious

 Daniel eating the leftover part of the cake.. 

What will today bring? Excitement? Grief? Happiness?

So many things have been happening lately and school just keeps me so busy that I finally have a time to tell you all what has been going on in our crazy but fun lives. This picture dates back clear to Feb. 21 President's Day, yup I even remember the exact day, it was monday. Daniel and I got to spend the whole day together (which on a Monday is crazy talk) up in Ogden, UT. He has been dying to take me to Maple Garden a chinese restuarant in Ogden. He says it's the best Chinese restaurant ever... I've had a hard time finding a decent chinese restaurant since being back from China.. It was fabulous!! If you're ever up that way I highly recommend the Seshwan chicken:) We received our fortune cookies.. Mine informing me that I have great news I will soon tell.......

Here's how it all began......
I came up with an idea to have dinner with the family and Daniel came up with the brilliant idea to have Chinese dinner and make fortune cookies for everyone with their own fortune. Side note do not ever make fortune cookies by hand unless you have the perfect oven. This is how our sad looking cookies turned out miniature tortillas. Daniel spent hours trying to perfect them but this was the best we could get. Taste= magnificent!!

 So with our poor little fortune cookies up we went to South Jordan to start making the most Amazing (since China) feast yet. Mom made orange and sweet and sour chicken I made sticky beyond sticky fried rice, daniel made most delicious jouza or pot stickers.

Dinner was over and we brought out our surprise.. Daniel handed everyone a fortune cookie. Each took their turn to read theirs out loud.. Dad got you will come upon many hills and bumps in your journey (biking). Mom couldn't even read hers so she had Lexi read it.... which said Beware this Halloween for a  new "Mummy" will be here. Mom laughed and said oh yup i'm going to be a mean mom. We forgot to to give one to Shae so daniel hurry and made up a fortune to write and she signed what it said. No one could understand what she said but only got out two letter "N" and "T" finally brandon said Auntie?? It immediately hit Shelby repeating AUNTIE!!! A second later this was the reaction of beholders......

Please notice everyone's faces please...



HOORAY SHae Figured it out cuz mom couldn't with her Forutne!

For those who still don't understand what's going on.. HERE is a self-explanatory Aid......

 

 I skyped Mckay and Makana and the first thing they saw was this........

So there you have it folks.. I am going to be a Mom by the end of this year. HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY(says daniel) oh and I am very excited  too :)  hee hee.
Due date October 31st.
Now begins the guessing of what gender....ready go

Trip To ITALY

Daniel and I went on our very own private trip to Italy. I surprised Daniel with 2 tickets a month ago to fly to Rome Italy. We arrived and we went straight to the world's famous Cafe "Cassidy's Cafe" it's known for its eloquence and beautiful scenery and of course it's Top class menu. This isn't your any type of Cafe, we arrived and immediately went straight to work. We were given a slab of dough and told to roll it out into one big circle. Once done we were given a variety of ingredients... a homemade delicious pizza sauce, green peppers, onions, black olives, tomatos, pepporoni's, mozzerella cheese, parmesan cheese. We spread the sauce on half of the dough and sprinkled our desired ingredients on top. Next we folded over the non-food side and pinched the sides together making two Enormous Calzones. When they came out of the oven I could not believe my eyes, it was as if someone had put steroids inside them. ( I have pictures to attest). Along with our Calzones we had the most delicious breadsticks, they had bit of sweet taste to them. We were also treated with the most excellent drink in town, Sparkling Cider. It was candlit dinner with a beautiful orchestra playing in the background. Once dinner was over we had to make a quick stop at a local store to buy a few essentials for our next activity. We stopped and got some free icecream (Birthday coupon). Since we were in Italy we wanted to take part of all the things Italy is most famous for. With Michelangelo in the mist we decided to paint self portraits of one another with cheap water color and acrylic paints (some colors were already dried up that's how cheap they were). It was fun to see each other's masterpieces. The final activity of the night was we caught a night showing under the stars on the most comfy lounge chairs and watched Italian Job. Italy we will miss you.



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This wasn't even half of it.



How romantic!

My painting of Daniel

Daniel's painting for me. Of course he'd write that.

Fun Memories over Christmas Break

 Daniel The stud Muffin ready to go out and play in the now with the monster claw.

 Here is what our Christmas looked like in our small little

Apartment. Most of those presents weren't for us.

 Granny and Gramps 60th Anniversary. It was a fun memorious occassion to be with them on their special day.

Cute Lydia at Church. I caught her redhanded attempting to fish out some goldfish. However, she was unsuccessful as she would not let go of her new friend Barbie.

 Parker and I have a traditional close up picture of us at Temple Square, pretty soon he'll be taller than me. Wait he already is darn it. It was so fun to be with the family over Christmas and I like that I'm posting right now about Christmas so I can reminisce once again.

 Daniel and I drove all the way to Arizona to help his brother move. It was a fun but short trip. I gotta a little wacky on the drive there, I mean who wouldn't, after 9 hours of driving and then hauling Matt's clothes after clothes after clothes and more clothes and a few boxes. :)

 On the way back we drove with Dan's parents but we took a detour route to see Monument Valley and Part of Arches National Park. It was beautiful, cold but amazing. I want to go back this summer and actually hike around when it's nice and warm :)

 We decided to stop and do a small hike up to see the Famous Delicate Arch (ya the sign said it was like a mile ya right) But I guess hiking in boots with ice all over the path makes 1 mile seem like eternity.

Wedding Pictures



The Backyard





My centerpieces, one had whole apples, another slices limes floating on top with rocks on bottom and the other mutliple sliced limes and flowers




The beautiful Sisters