Birthday week

So its been a while since the last blog because our cord to our laptop was not working and so the laptop was dead for over a week.

Last week was my 22nd birthday and Bryant surprised me by taking me to the bowling alley where all my friends were waiting.

Jason being sad over a gutter ball.

Then after bowling, we went to the high school homecoming game to watch my little brother play, which was a lot of fun. My whole family was there including my aunt and uncle and their boys, and a lot of our neighbors.

It's hard to see my brother, but he's on the sideline and he is number 57.

On Sunday, Bryant and I went for a ride up the canyon on his new motorcycle.

It was the perfect temperature and it was beautiful with all of the leaves changing. I want to take Bryant up to the cave up there sometime before it closes for the winter.

When we got home, my grandparents came over for dinner. Since it was my birthday dinner with the family, I chose to have my moms enchiladas, which are my favorite, and my little brother made all of us Peach cobbler for desert.

On Monday i decided to test out my birthday present from my parents. They gave me a whole set of cake decorating stuff like a baking pan, a fondant roller, frosting tips, pattern stencils, etc. Cake decorating is a hobby I have wanted to try for a long time. My aunt has always made really cool cakes for my birthdays growing up and she did our wedding cake for the Utah reception. I'd really like to find a class somewhere eventually. But I decided to try my first cake last week and this is the outcome


I used just regular frosting and not fondant. For some reason trying fondant scares the pants off me. Im just worried that it will be a major disaster. Someday I'll do it though. I think I'll have my aunt show me step by step so I wont just be doing it by myself and get confused. This cake that I made turned out a little messed up, but I didn't expect much for my first time. At least it tasted good.

Toga!

This last week has been a really fun one for Bryant and I. We made it home from Idaho in one piece and still sane after worrying for 4 hours if Bryant's new motorcycle was going to survive on the trailer, and no radio or CD player to drown out my babbling on about anything and everything :)

The next day we drove down to our friend Sarah's apartment to give her a ride on the bike, since she had never been on one, but claimed that she would "never fully live" until she had given it a spin.
She did really good and had a lot of fun!

Then Friday night we went back to Sarah's apartment where one of her new roommates was throwing a "Toga Party" to break in the new place.
Sarah's toga was the best because it was her spiderman bedsheets she had, and Miranda just kind of threw hers over her shoulders... She looks like a lazy Roman haha! And I wish I had taken a picture of how many people were actually there, we were upstairs mostly playing guitar hero, but there were a lot of people we didn't know downstairs (still miffed that her apartment HAS an upstairs and costs the same as our old 3 bedroom 6 people apartment with a hole in the ceiling...) and the food was amazing! It was mostly greek food (one of my favorites!) and they even made Italian sodas, yum!

Saturday night after I got off work, Bryant surprised me by taking me to Macaroni Grill for dinner (best bread ever!) and then we headed over to the movie theater where we saw District 9 (which was really good! Kinda gross... but if you have a strong stomach it's totally worth it!)

Then yesterday (Sunday) we had a few friends over for our newly organized Sunday Night Football group. It was a lot of fun, but we will have to find somewhere else to have it because out apartment is not large-group friendly.

Other than that, we have both just been busy with school and work and potty-training our puppy, who is still the cutest thing ever.
Especially when he takes a nap with Bryant...

A busy week

This last week was a busy but exciting one. I started my first full week of school, and after a mix-up with a class, the rest of the week went pretty smooth with no other hiccups. Sunday was Bryant's 24th birthday, and to celebrate we went up to my grandparent's cabin with some friends over the weekend. We had the best tinfoil dinners ever on Friday night, then spent all day saturday hiking, shooting and 4-wheeling.
Sunday we had my family and my grandparents over for dinner (tri-tip, his favorite) and just to humor him about his complaining that he never gets a little kids-type party anymore, I bought Transformer party hats, spiderman plates, and made him a superman cake.
As for gifts, my parents probably got him the thing he wanted most. They recently had a litter of puppies and we had grown very attached to one, but we were told that we had to give him away, but then my brother came marching in with a gift bag and with it's head poking out was our puppy!


We decided to name him Ace. He is he sweetest thing in the whole world. Unfortunately, he developed a disease that is nicknamed the "puppy strangler". His face, neck and belly swelled up and he lost a lot of fur on his nose and ears. After a rush visit to the vet, we was stuck on some steroids and the swelling fortunately went down, but he wont ever grow his fur back. But looking on the bright side, he is healthy and safe and looking much better!


Later in the week we decided to catch an Orem Owlz baseball game. I love baseball but the only way Bryant will watch it with me is if it is a live game :) And to our surprise it just so happened to be dollar Tuesday! Admission for every seat was 1$ and hot dogs, drinks and popcorn were all a buck.
This is Hootz, the Owlz mascot. Apparently they have a girl owl this year too, but I didn't snag a picture of her.
Bryant enjoying our perfect 1$ seats!

We ended up leaving at the 7th inning because Bryant had a soccer game. For the last year he has been playing on an indoor soccer league. He really loves it and I love going to watch him. This week he had two games in two days, and he played goalie. The first game, the first guy to play goalie had six goals get past him, and so at half time they stuck Bryant in and he only allowed 1 in!
Then Yesterday (Saturday) after I got off work, we took off for Idaho where Bryant's brother Jacob and his wife Sally live. His parents are bringing his little sister Chantel out to BYU-I and brought out his Dads motorcycle that we are buying from him. So this was a great chance to see everyone again before it gets busy with school and work.