A Day of Love

February is one of the best months ever!  Between my birthday and Valentine's day, I have always loved February and love lots of pink and heart foods.  This year I had to try some fun new foods and I am pretty excited about how they turned out.

For Breakfast, I made heart shaped blueberry muffins and this really cute heart toast.  We had never made anything like this before and it was a hit.  

I found this really great recipe on Pinterest, I just had to try for Valentine's day.  And oh my goodness!!!  They are amazing!  I made a bunch for Brydon to take to work and it was a good thing I gave a bunch away, otherwise I would have eaten them all.  

Pink Lemonade Cupcakes

They are so yummy, moist and the perfect mixture of sweet and sour.  Everyone at work found them to be interesting.  Instead of a nice vanilla or strawberry flavor, they got a tangy surprise!

You can check out the recipe here.

I "Wheelie" Like You!

Caleb had a lot of fun picking out his Valentine's idea on Pinterest.  That kid loves to look at Pinterest with me!  This was such a cute boy idea and I liked the idea of not giving out candy.  I got the cars at the dollar store and then Caleb helped me design the card. 

Before Brydon and I went on our very unusual Valentine's date (hopefully more to come on that), we had a fun little family dinner.  I made some stuffed shells and chocolate covered strawberries.  And we added some yummy dipping bread, asparagus, and Jones Strawberry soda.  

It was a fun little family meal!

Hope you had as much fun on Valentine's Day as we did.  

I love a day that you get to celebrate the people you love most just for fun!

Another Year Older & Hopefully Wiser too

Well the time came again to have another birthday.  I have to admit the 30's are still pretty great and since I can still claim early 30's we are doing good!

This year it was meant to be a small quiet birthday but I did get a fun surprise!  My Primary Presidency and I have a tradition of doing a potluck lunch for each other's birthdays.  Due to timing and a crazy week, we decided to eat out at a wonderful local cafe and keep it simple.  Well when I showed up for lunch, a lot of other women did too!  It was a great surprise and we even got a private room.  I love the Hickory Street Cafe and it such a treat to be there with so many of the amazing women I have met here.

My birthday was on a Saturday this year, and so Caleb was so excited to treat me to breakfast in bed.  He had planned out the menu the night before and snuck into our room early to wake up Dad.  It was super super sweet.

No better way to wake up!

The Bradshaw's made me a yummy birthday dinner.  It was a dinner in a Japanese nebemono called Shabu Shabu!  So much fun! 

And Brydon made my Grandmother's "Strawberry Goop Cake" (as he likes to call it).  I do love Strawberries and this is one of my favorite cakes!

Here's to another new year!

Wonder what this year will bring?

No More Glasses for Daddy

Out With the Old

 &

In With the New

It's official!  No more glasses!

Did you know that it is actually cheaper for the Military to fix your eyesight then to try to provide glasses and the multitude of inserts for gas masks?  Well we were surprised (pleasantly surprised) to learn this.  And it just so happens that there is a great eye surgeon stationed at Lackland in San Antonio. So we decided this would be a great time to get Brydon's eyes corrected.  He ended up getting PRK and not lasik done but it was still a simple procedure.  We made 3 trips down to San Antonio in a week and two of the trips began at 2 am, so it was a long week, but well worth it.  Brydon and I really enjoyed the time together and on the last trip down even made a stop in Fredericksburg!  What a cute town!  I didn't take any pictures but we most definitely have plans to go again sometime.  

Fortunately Brydon's Mom was able to fly down to help us out for the week so Caleb didn't have to miss school.  She got to hang out with the kiddo and be on school duty.  It was so nice to have her here.    I think she even discovered a new talent!  Caleb was quick to introduce her to the new Kinect and Skylanders.  She jumped right in and got into the video game world.  Brydon was a bit jealous because she never played video games with him.  

Always fun with Grandma!  Thank you for coming to visit us and help us out!