Food and other things

This last week was M's birthday, and I decided to go all out. Breakfast......

Cinnamon Rolls

Dinner.......

Pork Roast, Mashed potatoes, rolls, salad

Dessert....

Homemade banana ice cream! YUM!

It all turned out really great, it was a good day of food!!


On a completely unrelated note, I got the hiccups last night. They were the deep loud kind that everyone hates. So m told me to look up online how to get rid of them. She heard somewhere to eat a spoonful of sugar. So I looked the idea up, and sure enough it was listed as a remedy for hiccups. Why not, I decided. I took a teaspoon's worth and put it on the back of my tongue as directed. After a few seconds the sugar was gone, and amazing so were my hiccups!! Who knew?! Who knows if it will work time after time, but it was definitely a lifesaver last night!!! Next time you have the hiccups, try a teaspoon of sugar!

And here is just one more picture of the cute boy, sorry I can't help it!

Let Summer Being

M and D came up for a couple weeks after school was out. It was fun to have them up here, to just play around and hang out. One of my latest projects was to re-varnish some tray tables I got. I had to sand and re spray them. J was a great helper! The tables turned out really nice!!

We tried to get him to smile!!!

Down in Provo there is an amazing game shop we stopped in one day. I think I found my second calling, as a professional wrestler. What do you think?

Also down there is a new place called the Provo Beach Resort. Looks awesome, and I am going to have to go back to do some of the awesome things they have available. While we were there, C, P, and I decided to ride the waves...

It was fun to hang out with the whole family for a while. We made ice cream almost ever day...its delish!!! We had lots of fun just hanging out and being goofy!

Playin around

A few days ago I went up to visit K, C, and J. We had some fun just playin around. I got to babysit this cutie while K was out. We had quite a fun time runnin around, playin, and just havin fun! The kid keeps getting cuter and cuter!!

Last weekend was Summerfest here. Its basically a big craft fair/amusement rides/food booths/parade/fireworks. C and I went and had a fun time. We splurged on a treat....chocolate covered cheesecake on a stick! It was super yummy! It was a fun festival, and I LOVED the fireworks that night!

Food!

Summer is here! It has not gotten into the high summer temps that really make summer summer....but it is definitely warming up and I am loving it!! I can't help but make summer food lately....here was my first summer meal: homemade hamburgers, corn on the cob, and chips. So delish! Hamburgers were grilled on the grill, and the corn was fresh. It was really yummy and the perfect kickoff to summer!

I was food blog hopping the other day and saw a recipe for banana crumble top muffins. They looked really great, and I just happened to have three bananas lying on my counter getting way too ripe. I decided to try them out and see how they were. The muffins definitely did not turn out as pretty as they did on the recipe, but they were still really good! They tasted like little mini banana bread muffins! (Don't ask me why there are holes in the middle...they all turned out like that. They taste great though!)

I was over at C and P's tonight and they were making bacon for potato salad. C saw a recipe for praline bacon and decided to try it out. Also, we have been seeing signs for chocolate covered bacon for a while now and decided since we were making praline bacon to go ahead and try covering one in chocolate just for fun. They were both a fun treat! You get the salty and smoky from the bacon, and the sweet from the chocolate or the praline. C loved the praline best, while P and I favored the chocolate covered. Something you gotta try to really appreciate it. It sounds weird, I know, but it was fun! (Also, they don't look the most beautiful in this picture, but in real life they looked really fun!)

Memorial Day Weekend

Last weekend, Memorial Day weekend, I had the opportunity to go to this place...

(when we were at this sign taking this picture, Elvis and Big Bird were wandering around trying to get people to take pictures with them...)

It was a fun trip. Left Friday afternoon, got in Friday evening. When we got there at 8:30 it was still almost 80 degrees. Quite the difference from the 50-60 degree temps that have been the norm around here lately!

It was really fun to see the Strip all lit up at night. I will admit, I was quite the tourist while I was there, always staring out the window at the lights and the buildings.

For some reason, I have always loved palm trees. I got to see quite alot of them during the weekend! I love them!

I got to walk down on the Strip and see all the fun buildings and hotels. It has been a long time since I was there last, and I don't really remember seeing anything here. It was fun to walk around even though there were quite alot of people everywhere. This is me over by the Bellagio, in front of the Paris and the Venetian. I got to actually go into the Eifel Tower!

Another view of the Strip, and Planet Hollywood.

At the Bellagio, they have a ceiling that is full of these big glass flowers. It is really quite amazing and really pretty to walk under!

While there, one of my main requests was to see at least one of the fountain shows at the Bellagio. Luckily, I got to see two. They are really fun to watch and I love that they are set to music! I think because we saw the shows in the middle of the day that the crowds were not as major as I expected. We got prime viewing from right in the middle of the pond, and we even got shade and didn't burn up in the 91 degree heat!

At one of the shops in the Bellagio they have this chocolate fountain that is really cool. The chocolate (which comes in three varities: white, milk, and dark) comes out of the ceiling and flows down onto various platforms. This goes all the way from the ceiling to the ground. Pretty cool!

Also there, we got gelato at one of the cafe's. Strawberry and Snickers (not mixed...they were seperate). I have never had gelato before, but it was really yummy. Very smooth and creamy!

Another thing on my list to do while there was to go and see the Las Vegas Temple. It is really a beautiful building, quite different than the ones up here. The grounds surrounding the temple are beautiful also, lots of palm trees. Somewhat reminds me of the Oakland Temple grounds. It was kind of interesting that the temple is up on the hill which is quite desolate and plain. Then the temple and the grounds, which are beautiful. Quite the difference!

On the way home, we had to drive through St. George. You can see the St. George Temple from the highway, and I decided last minute to make an unplanned stop to go visit the temple. It took no time at all to get there, and I am glad I made the visit. It is such a unique building, and it was fun to see.



I was very prepared and took my sunscreen with me. I lathered up so that I wouldn't return home as a lobster. It definitely did its job, because I was not sunburned at all when I got back! While we were there, the weather was quite up and down. Saturday was 92, Sunday was 78, and Monday was 87. Regardless of the swing in the temperature, it was still hot. When I got back on Monday night and on Tuesday (when it was 75 here) I was actually feeling cold! So strange!!!

Overall it was a really fun weekend. The drive down and back was not bad at all, and went by pretty quickly. I got to see lots of the city, visited the Strip, saw the lights and the buildings, shopped, walked a lot, had some really great food, met some good people, and had a really fun time. I am glad I got the opportunity to go!