the entertainer

we often sit around my mom's kitchen table on sundays and listen to gordon tell stories.  he's pretty interesting to listen to.  and funny.  very, very funny.

he's the reason we put whipping cream on our chocolate milk. 

see, funny.

for my grandma.

it was fun hanging out with you this weekend, getting take-out and talking about whatever popped into our heads.  thanks for suggesting the delicious rootbeer.  you know how much i love rootbeer.  i'm also glad you liked the cupcake i gave you earlier last week.  i was a bit nervous that it wouldn't hold a candle next to your mom's cupcakes, but you said it was good and you wouldn't lie to me, right?  thank you for sharing your dream with me.  i think about what you dreamt about all the time and it gives me goosebumps.  you are very special to me and i'm beyond blessed to have you as my grandma.  i love you.

our first hike of the year.

although we didn't make it quite as far as we would have liked (dang snow and ice) it was nice to get out and spend a couple of hours hiking together.  we also had a picnic!  it was a bit cold and windy, but we had a picnic none the less. 

here's to spring!

how he spends his evenings.

the cruiser will always need work.  not to say that is a bad thing.  i look at it and think it's good to go.  gordon looks at it and sees all the upgrades that need to be done.  he's been working on a couple of upgrades the past couple of weeks.  i'm excited for him to be finished so we can drive in it already.  he doesn't know it, but i love the thing just about as much as he does.  shhh, don't tell him.

i am looking forward to this weekend.

some of my most favorite weekends are my church's general conference weekends. why? while my husband attends a priesthood conference on saturday night i get to spend time with the girls in my family.

and the weather has been beautiful. maybe a picnic dinner and a hike are on the schedule for this weekend.

and we're having sunday brunch with my family.

happy weekend!

i think i have an addictive personality.

i use to frequent tony burgers often. dare i say almost weekly. i am no longer close to tony burgers so i don't frequent them near as often...i've only been their twice this year. well it would seem that i am replacing my love for a mouthwatering hamburger for my love of an adorably sweet cupcake. sweet tooth fairy bakery is my new tony burgers. some of you may not be able to compare a cupcake and hamburger, but for me they satisfy the same thing: my need for good food. and although i don't frequent this bakery weekly (okay, maybe this month i did only because their monthly flavors were chai tea and salted caramel) i go there often enough for the lady behind the register to no longer ask to see my id when i pay with my debit card. it would seem i am a regular at all the "wrong" places...


wait, i'm a regular at my gym. they know me there too. that makes up for all of this right? and the fact that my addicted behavior doesn't only go along with my love of good food. it goes along with my love for physical activity. i'm addicted to pilates too. you can catch me twice a week at 6:00am in my in-laws basement sweating it out Jodi on her pilates machine. our pilates pass ran out a couple of weeks ago and because i loved it so much (i have visible muscles people!) i'm sticking to my morning routine.

around here, birthdays never last just a day.

last thursday was gordon's birthday.  he's a quarter of a century.  we celebrated all week long.


sunday: my family's sunday dinner, gordon's birthday dinner.  complete with french dips and twice baked potatoes.  and a salad of course.  and it wouldn't have been a birthday without homemade ice cream.  white oreos in vanilla ice cream...just the way gordon requested it.

thursday: his actual birthday.  went to dinner at ogden pizzeria, his choice, then hung out the rest of the evening.

friday: snowboarding at powder mountain.  this was the first time i had been all season.  gordon said it was one of the best days of season.  i couldn't have agreed more.  i'm usually a fair weathered boarder, but the snow that was falling was powder.  i've never boarded in anything like it.  it changed me forever.  oh, and i've improved significantly from last year.  one of these days i'm gonna keep up with gordon.  i've just gotta let go of my fear to fly down the mountain.

saturday: my dad threw gordon a birthday party.  we karaoked, which is something gordon doesn't really do, but he surprised us all and sang!  i have photos to prove it, but they will never appear on this blog.  i promised him they wouldn't.  dang promises.

and sunday: gordon's family birthday dinner.  his sister, melanie, cooked up a delicious indian entree.  we loved it!  and we had ice cream cake.  pretty much every year of his life he has had ice cream cake.  this year was no exception.  my favorite part of the day was when the little man sang happy birthday to gordon.  he had been practicing.  it was the sweetest happy birthday song my ears have ever heard.