Busy Busy Summer!!

Sleepovers!!

Chad's neice Hailey and I had a sleepover one night and we baked all night long! She was a great sidekick! We decided that baking is even more fun when you wear cute aprons and feather boas!

Here's Hailey mixing her cupcakes

Hailey wrote my name on my forehead with frosting

Here's Hailey's cupcakes she made one for each member of the wedding party! The dark blue gel didn't show up on the chocolate but there is a letter on each one for all the names

She made a new friend with Ozzy, he loves to lay on his back and have his arm pitts rubbed, what a weirdo, he was in 7th heaven with Hailey

Another Birthday Party

A co-worker asked me to make a monkey cake for his nephew's first birthday, I was a little out of my league since I am definitely not an artist I don't free hand anything. My mom, sisters and I were laughing so hard as I started because we thought it looked like a teletubby!! I figured a 1 year old wouldn't be able to tell the difference! Apparently he just ripped into it anyway!

These are the new cupcakes I made for the party, they are a chocolate cupcake with a Reese's baked inside then a peanut butter frosting piped on top with another Reese's, if you like peanut butter these are the cupcakes for you!

First Wedding, which means mine's getting closer!!

My good friends Chris and Nichole finally got married on June 25th after dating for 3 years!! We were all really excited for them to finally take the plunge even though it has seemed like they have been married forever! This is us girls with Nichole after the ceremony

Here is Chad and I just posing for a pic!

Laura caught the bouquet, which is funny because she's the next wedding on August 8th

Here's another one of Chad and I under the tent, she had her reception in a big beautiful backyard and then they had a big tent.

Desolation Lake

One night after work Chad was dying to go on a hike and I was dying to get away from all my stress at work so we headed up to Desolation Lake it was so pretty! It had been raining and just cleared up as we started, so the sky was so pretty.

I told Chad to strike a pose!!

On our way back Chad bent over and pulled out his pocket knife and cut me a little bouquet of flowers it was so cute! I held them the whole way down and when we got home I put them in this little vase!

Happy 4th of July

Chad and I headed down to Delta for the 4th, it's my favorite place to be on this particular holiday. Kaitie, Chad and I started out Friday night camping in Oak City Canyon, we made a fire and cooked tin foil dinners then pitched the tent which turned out to be a good thing because it dumped rain on us all night long, surprise surprise. We woke up the next morning to a tent full of spiders and I HATE spiders the inside zipper was broken so they all found refuge from the rain in our tent! We then headed back down to town and watched the parade it's my favorite parade because they throw lots of candy!

Here's Chad enjoying the parade from his lounge chair

I am out with all the kids picking up candy, I kept waiting for all the good stuff like Frooties, those are my favorite, but unfortunatley we were up to our ears in salt water taffy, the first few pieces are good then you're just sick of them!

Here's Kaitie and I with my Grandpa, he is such a stud!!!

Here's my awesome Gram in her bling bling shades, they have rhinestones on the sides! She has been battling breast cancer and we are happy to say she's cancer free right now!!

Here's Chad and I waiting for the 35th annual Delta Demolition Derby, we had to go an hour and a half early to get good seats, it was soooo hot, but people watching made it worth it!

The red truck is my uncle, he ended up taking 3rd place!

Chad got to experience the Delta Rez we my mom's friend has property out at the resevoir and they were there with their boat so we went out and boated before our big party we had back at my grams. We had the whole family and then some for a big party my gourmet cook Aunt's made a huge spread of food, we all ate until we were sick!!

Days full of Baking!

My Friend and I decided to try our hand at cupcake pops Bakerella gave us the instructions and we tried it out. It was a lot of work but a lot of fun!

This is what they look like once we dipped the tops in white chocolate I can't wait to try it again with different sprinkles and different colored chocolate!

And here is the final product, Individually wrapped and pretty tasty, look at www.bakerella.blogspot.com to see all of her different cupcake pops!

Here is one of my favorite things that I make, my rice krispy tower! I made this one for my friends birthday, I alternated each layer with fruity pebbles and plain rice krispy

One of my co-workers asked me to make cupcakes and a cake for his daughters 2nd birthday party I made one batch of my oreo cupcakes and another batch of white chocolate raspberry cupcakes, I think I found a new favorite, the frosting was so delicious!

Ta Da!! Here is the Elmo cake I had so much fun making it!!

Two of my other dear friends are getting married too! Nichole's roommates had an engagement party for Nichole and Chris, we took this picture so we could send it to Rachel, poor girl was quite overwhelmed by all the news! Mine is the pastey white hand on the bottom! I can't believe we are all getting married within 3 months of each other, Nichole is June 25th, Laura is August 8th and i'm September 4th! It's funny how life works we could have never planned for this to happen it just did! The next few months are going to be extra exciting, planning a wedding and getting two other's before my own!

Here's Chad and I at the party, it was nice to see all my friends and get to show them the ring.

I wish I would have thought to get a picture of all us girls but at least I got one with Laura and Nichole.

I'm Engaged!!!!

Chad proposed last night! I told him all I wanted was to be surprised since he told me the day he bought the ring, he told me the day the jeweler called him to tell him when it would arrive, and then he even told me the day he picked it up! He was just too excited! I did get my wish, he completely surprised me. He kept telling me he was going to do it after finals because he needed to focus. Well I took my last final yesterday and apparently he was just waiting until I finished mine.
I went over to his house last night because we were going to dinner. He took me into his room and told me he had something special to give me, so he held it behind his back and told me all sorts of sweet things and all I could think of was that he was going to get down on his knee in his bedroom!!! Then he said "I hope you accept this gift as a symbol of our love" and all I could say was "What are you doing?" Then he whipped out a fake tattoo from the gas station! He knows how much I love gas station tattoos! Then he told me he knew a great place to go to dinner and he drove us up the canyon. We had been driving for a bit and I told him, you know I am out of gas and he was like "do we need to turn around and get gas? and I told him I didn't know because I didn't know where he was taking me and he said "to the top!" So I told him I didn't know if we would have enough gas and he said "oh great, that ruins everything" that's when I started getting the hint that something was going to happen. So he took me to dinner at Silver Fork Lodge up the Canyon and he said so many sweet things and then he told me he had a question to ask and that's when he opened the ring and asked me to marry him!! So here we are at Silver Fork Lodge just getting engaged!!!

My mom took this picture of us a few weeks ago. I told Chad we have to start getting more pictures of us, he doesn't like pictures and that is why we don't have any!

This is on our way to Las Vegas we spent Valentine's shopping in Vegas!

This was the very first picture we ever took, it was on Christmas Eve, I was recovering from my tonsilectomy and these were our Christmas presents to each other.

Robby took me to the Rascal Flatts concert last Thursday for an early birthday present! We had so much fun! Jessica Simpson opened for them to promote her new country album, she starts off a song by saying "this is my favorite song on the album" so halfway through the song she totally forgot the lyrics and stopped singing! It was so funny, but atleast she proved she does not lip sync!

Valentine's Formal

The Friday night before Valentine's Day my girlfriends and I went to a Valentine party that some friends were throwing. I was just excited to dress up! I wish I had better pictures but they went all out, there was a table of nothing but candy (I hung out at that table most the night!) Spoon Me was there with frozen yogurt it was all decorated. They had it at Noah's which was a great venue for this event and what was even cooler is they made it into a Cancer Benefit, they charged $10 and the proceeds were donated to cancer research!

Mexico Baby!!

My mom gave Kaitie and I a cruise for christmas so we went on a singles cruise to Mexico!! All my girlfriends went and there were like almost 300 hundred of us from SLC!!

Here we are in Mazatlan, this was probably my favorite day, we rented 4-wheelers and spent the day at this awesome resort on their private beach and they had an awesome pool. Then some of my friends rented wave runners and we spent an hour out in the ocean on wave runners having races around islands. Then we rode the 4-wheelers around the city, it was an eventful day!

This is in Puerto Vallarta at Senor Frogs

Cabo San Lucas Lovers Beach, this was just a handful of girls in our group!

Our dinner table was anything but boring, my friend blew powdered sugar all over me, I tasted declicious the rest of the night!


Titty Twister!! Our ship was full of naked paintings everywhere you turned, this was in one of the elevators.