Family Home Evening

So far in our marriage we haven't been super duper good at doing FHE. But tonight we had a fun/random FHE activity.

It included Nutella, Ritz, and Valentine marshmallows.

Don't be jealous.

Instructions: Place mallow on a cracker.

Microwave cracker and mallow for approximately 15 seconds.

Spread Nutella on a second cracker.

Squish the two crackers with the mallow in between together.

Ya, it's a beautiful thing.

I have the best family.

Office Party

This is Mindy Gledhill

She's a really great LDS singer with a few church cds plus a new one that's all her own stuff. She's great.

So, the owner of the website I work for is Mike and Leslie Gledhill.

Therefore I shouldn't have been surprised when on Wednesday we got a little visit from their daughter-in-law Mindy! She's so cute but I wasn't totally sure it was her at first because it's always weird when you see famous or even semi-famous people. So I didn't say anything to her.

But after the fact I thought of exactly what I would have said.

I would have said "Hey are you Mindy? I love your music so much. It seriously got me through high school." Then we would have been instant friends, my boss would give me a raise, and she would have had me sing backup or something for her next album or show. Then her agent would tell me I'm awesome and I should sign with them and go on tour. Then I would the first famous person in our family without even trying. After my tour I would take the Broughs and the Porters all to DISNEYLAND!!

I hate it when I think of the perfect thing to say after the time is far gone... I guess that's just life.

This is What I've Been Looking at for the Past 3 Days at work...

These little cuties have been staring me down all week.

My job this week is to download tons of these images and then post

them on our website... The problem is that these little babies

are too darn distracting! They keep saying thing like...

Don't you want a little baby like me?

Don't you wish you had a little Zachary to dress up and carry

around with you everywhere, all the time?

YESSSSS!!!

I can't take it any more these kids are

so cute and these little baby clothes are just killing me.

So ya I guess my job isn't too bad for me... But Zach might be feeling the heat...

The images and clothes are from Cherry Lane Keepsakes or Zootie B. Little if you were wondering.

Hope you're having a good week. It's almost Friday!!

Cinderella Ate My Daughter!

This semester I'm in a Multicultural America class where we study class, gender, race and all that controversial stuff. It's an awesome class. For one of my assignments I listened to this radio show on the Diane Rehm show where she discussed the Princess culture in today's world. She's talking with Peggy Orenstein, the author of "Cinderella Ate My Daughter".

Here's the link if you're interested. It's pretty interesting...

One point they make is that years ago little girls would have baby doll phases and now our 3-year -olds are having makeup phases... I don't know. If you have a little girl or know any crazy princess fanatics, let me know.

New Job!! .... Kind of

So, if you're in my family then you might know that the job I've had for the past five months was in the shipping department of Cherry Lane Keepsakes. It was pretty much me standing there, by myself, with my ipod on, getting paper cuts for four hours every day. Love it... Any way this week I switched roles and now I'm in the office! It's great. I get to sit down, with other co-workers, work on the computer all day, plus I think I'm gonna get a raise too. Woo hoo! Seriously it has had such an effect on my mood. I've just been so much happier. So ya it's pretty cool. Here's what I do. I pretty much put info in to the html of the website and it pops up like this. So anyway... GO me!

Have a great weekend:)

I Wish I Wore Heals

How much do I love these shoes? I wish I wore more heals but I just can't give up my cute comfort for pretty pain... Can you blame me?

P.S. These are from Anthropologie's new wedding line. I would love to plan another wedding, but $3,000 for a dress is a bit too much for me.

Valentine's Weekend

So I promised I would post about my experiment with the heart cake.

Well.... It didn't quite work out how I planned

I had everything planned out...

I even did the cool rag around the pan trick to

get the cake to be level. And it totally worked!!

If it wasn't for this stupid little layer that didn't cook long enough my

cake would have been perfect. I learned a lot of lessons from this experiences...

So this is the difference between a ragless pan and a

rag wrapped pan. Incase you were wondering.

So this is what I ended up with instead. Cute huh?

Turns out I didn't have enough powdered sugar for the frosting so it wasn't as thick as I would have liked but it worked ok:) And the roses behind the cake are from Zach. LOVE HIM!

Zach seemed to like it a lot! We have a lot of cake to eat this week...

For Valentine's Day we had a lot of fun!

We went to Brick Oven Pizza for dinner with four other couples in our ward. So fun! We love our new friends:) Then we went to a stake dance! Don't laugh!! Stake dances are super fun when you have a date you actually like, everyone else has dates that they actually like, and there is a chocolate fountain.

We also have been watching a lot of basketball on our big screen TV.

Well it's big when you sit as close as Zach does. Go Jazz!