Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Monday, December 1, 2014

life lately


sister-sister date at bangkok garden.  our first time eating at this restaurant but definitely not our last.
it was so delicious!  and to make the evening even better, a nice gentleman paid for our entire meal.
(okay, that nice gentleman was my sister's boss, who just happened to be getting takeout and saw us)
mom and daughter(s) night out.  we went to dinner and then saw a movie (the hunger games mockingjay).  then on the way home my mom spontaneously decided we needed a pumpkin pie blizzard from dairy queen.  i don't really like pie, but this was really yummy.
it's not secret that i love our town, ogden.  sammy brue is a local musician who is talented beyond his years (he's like 13 or 14!).  he arranged a show in ogden with the artist grace and tony headlining.
it was amazing!
all performers were fantastic.
and we got to hang out with them afterwards which is always a bonus.
(they are all VERY awesome people)

little man turned 6.  we had a birthday sleepover with him and took him to see a favorite of ours,
teenage mutant ninja turtles.
it was pretty good.  not as good as the original (what is?).
he enjoyed it a lot.  he laughed at all the jokes. and got his own personal snack box.
later than night little man noticed gordon's guitar in our downstairs living room.
he asked gordon if he knew how to play.
and then we proceeded to have a dance party.
it was fantastic!
oh where to begin with this little miss.  she is so dear to my heart. 
she invited me to be her special guest at her thanksgiving feast at preschool.
she created our placemats (a thankful turkey which said she was thankful for her bed and birthday cake).  she sang a couple of songs, one of which has a part that talked about being thankful for her friends at which she paused, looked at me and whispered "you're my friend." my heart almost burst.
she is just the sweetest and i love her so much!
i love the holidays.  holidays bring out of state family together.
i hadn't seen my cousin monika for six years.  when i found out she was coming into town
for thanksgiving i was beyond excited.  i knew i wanted to spend as much time with her as possible.
and i did.  we saw each other every day she was here except for one.  we got warm beverages at my favorite cafe. we went bowling. we ate at the delicious taco carts.
we went to the temple. we went to yoga.  it was the best week ever. 

(sorry, not sorry for the blurry pic)
our california niece and her family were also here over thanksgiving. 
we made sure to get some one on one time with her in hopes that we will be her favorites, too.
i think it's working.
my sister and i have a thanksgiving day tradition to run longer than we normally do our morning runs.
the weather had been perfect for our trail run.  the snow stayed in the mountains for gordon to snowboard on thanksgiving morning and off the trails for us.
thanksgiving day was spent at my moms (the day before thanksgiving we got together with all of my mom's side of the family, which was pushing 100 of us, for a pre-thanksgiving dineer).
it was terrific.
i got to have one last chance to have my cousin's little girl warm up to me.
her little boy wasn't shy at all and loved playing with gordon.

all my hardwork paid off and her sweet little girl decided i was pretty fun to play with.
the day after thanksgiving we went to temple square with gordon's family to see the christmas lights.
christmas lights and the slc temple are two of my favorite things.
i played princess with little miss practically the whole time we were there.
it was perfect.

i love food and i love trying new places.
our town opened a new thai restaurant that is so fresh and tasty, i could just eat there everyday!

Monday, May 19, 2014

year seven.

saying it feels like you've been together forever shouldn't be a bad thing.  there's no one else i want to feel that way about than with gordon.  our relationship just continues to get stronger as we move forward together.  i thank my heavenly father each time i pray that gordon is the one i get to spend forever with.  i feel very blessed that he is mine.
to celebrate our love (i kept saying that phrase and gordon kept looking at me with this look of "are you serious?"...he loves me, promise) we went on a little weekend getaway to the homestead resort in midway, utah.  it was my surprise for gordon this year.  we swam in a natural crater, enjoyed dinner at a delicious and local mexican food restaurant tarahumara, had breakfast on the deck with a beautiful view of the mountains that surrounded us, relaxed at the pool, went for a hike to cascade springs in uinta national forest, stopped for lunch at cafe galleria (best homemade bagels!), and slowly made our way home.  it was a relaxing and perfect weekend together with just the two of us.  
this is our year mr. hardcastle.  seven is my lucky number.




Saturday, February 2, 2013

sister time is a good time






2.1.12
dinner: el pollo rico
movie treat: peanut butter flavored and banana flavored popcorn from popcorn express
movies: seven psychopaths AND beasts of the southern wild

fun night filled with the best chicken sopes i've ever had, papas nachos that will stop your heart, the best popcorn flavors to mix, a couple of pretty good movies, and lots and lots and lots of laughter. my sister is the best!

Monday, October 29, 2012

dine local: the greenery restaurant (& a happy birthday lunch)









over the weekend we went to a very special "sister" luncheon in for my mom.
my mom has five sisters.  for each one of their birthdays they get together and go to lunch.
we got to go this time since it was our mom's birthday.
we went to the greenery
i forgot how much i love this place.
great food (try the mormon muffins!) and fun shops.
and it's ridiculously close to my house.  bonus!
 

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

dinner and a show

wicked.
we really liked this show.
the story is fantastic. (i no longer take offense when people call me the wicked witch when i'm riding my bike)
the evening was a lot of fun.
i finally got to see city creek.  didn't shop, but we ate yummy food there (sounds an awful lot like new york...)
and i now crave frozen rose lemonade all the time.