24 And Counting

27th April...my birthday. This year I turned 24, only 12 months until I am officially in my mid-twenties and will hit a quarter of a century. With Lucas being born and lots of family in town I kept forgetting my birthday was coming up and we didn't really plan anything, but it was still a great day!

Just like last year we went to the mall for me to pick out my present...I got this cute ring! Not super expensive, but definitely not from Icing haha.



We ate lunch at 5 Guy's and then decided we would risk taking Lucas to see a movie. We had been dying to see The King's Speech and when they re-released it as PG-13 we were excited. Until about 15 minutes into the movie we were the only ones in the theatre and then one other person joined us. This was nice because we didn't have to worry about Lucas waking up, not that we had to worry, he slept through the WHOLE thing!

We loved the movie and I must say Colin Firth has always been a favorite of mine and he is still hot for an older guy! Shhsh don't tell Brett!

Thursday night we went to Texas Roadhouse (another thing we had been anxious to do) with the usual gang. As pictured below Gavin ate a lot and was feeling it! Once again Lucas just slept, he likes loud places.



And of course we went back to our place to play the classic Bonanza. We never get bored, the winning spot it generally between me and Gavin and Jordan always loses! Lucas was as cute as ever and just hung out and played!

I had a great birthday with my gorgeous boys and great friends! Here's to another wonderful 12 months before I have my mid-twenties life crises!

Funfetti Cake

Let me preface this post...I am kind of disappointed with the end result, but I just keep reminding myself it was my first time trying this and I didn't really know what I was doing.

Brett's best friend Jordan turned 23 yesterday and last night his parents treated us all to Tucano's (yummy!) so I thought I would make him a birthday cake for our little gathering of games that we will be having tonight...

I have wanted to try using fondant for a while so thought this would be a good time to try it. Jordan loves funfetti cake so I thought I would decorate the outside to kind of resemble the actual cake. I made the fondant myself, even coloring it, I made A LOT of mistakes along the way.

This is the cake before the candles...


With the candles...


Things I learned along the way:

• Getting the fondant that covers the entire cake to look nice is HARD, even the tools I purchased didn't really help there, I had a couple of cracks and the finished bottom was less than desirable.
• Never start the process at 9:30pm like it did...I wasn't done till midnight and I was exhausted!
• Buy ready made fondant, it's gotta be worth the extra couple of bucks, saves a lot of time, a lot of effort and will probably be better anyway! Just find a coupon for Hobby Lobby or Michael's!
• Don't try and learn this skill at 8 months pregnant like I did...my body was dying afterward! How our sister-in-law made our 3 tiered wedding cake at 8 months pregnant is beyond me! Yes, she has a lot more experience, but still!!
  
• Go into your project with a design planned out...mine turned out to be very random as I was ready to go to bed by the time I actually got to the fun part!!
  

Gingerbread Houses & Gavin's Birthday

Yay for finals being done, making Gingerbread houses and celebrating Gavin's Birthday! We all gathered at Jordan's house (he avoided the couples picture above) and went to work on our festive houses!
After about 10 minutes Brett gave up on any kind of decorating tool other than his fingers!! It got rather messy!

Carrie was in on the action, giving ideas, and encouragement along the way!

Jordan went full out and made a town, throughout the night it was named the Shanti Town, The Bronx and The Polygamist Colony!
The end result! Somehow ours ended up huge!
(Front)
Yay! This was my first time ever making a Gingerbread house, it turned out pretty well! Go team Steenblik! Next year will be even better!

(Back)
The leftover candy, yes we had WAY more than this to begin with!
Jordan and his masterpiece!!

I love the holiday season!

My Amazing Birthday!

Yesterday I turned 23 and it was amazing day! Brett and I both had the day off of work so we slept in and then Brett made me breakfast in bed! Yummy waffles with chocolate syrup! We played some Wii and then headed out to get smoothies from McDonalds.

Next we went to campus to walk around and take pictures, we haven't had the time to do that since we got married and it was a lot of fun! What we do best!

The Bell Tower, it was kind of hard to get a good picture, but this is where we have spent a lot of time!

My new favorite thing is frozen yoghurt with a bunch of mix ins so that was our next stop! Yummy!

The came my present! A 14 ct white gold necklace with a pure blue topaz pendent! It is beautiful!!

Then...! I was surpised by many of my friends for a BBQ at the park! I had been told we were going to dinner with Ally and Tim, but before we went Brett said he needed to pick something up from the house...instead we went to the park! John, Jordan, Gavin, Jen, Heather, Ali, Natalie, Trevor, Ally, Tim and Oli were all there! It was super fun! Thanks guys for being there!! We had burgers, hot dogs, chips. and a great cake made by Brett! The wind was blowing hard so it was hard to light the cake (hence the protecting hands!).

Yay John!!

Oli's birthday is today (the day after mine, we tried so hard to make him come on my birthday!) so we got him a BYU bat and ball...he loves it! He was rubbing it on my head and thought it was funny!

Some of the gang! Yay I have the best friends and the most amazing husband! Thanks for a GREAT day!!! Love you all!