After the fair we headed over to Brigham to visit Matthew, Kristin & Axton. As you may remember from previous posts the four of us like to try new cooking adventures together, this get together deserved something new also....what you may ask? Well Matthew got a smoker (for food) for his Birthday so he figured we should try it out. We discovered a few things, 1) we should have read the instruction before starting the chicken 2) when smoking something you should have an appetizer ready 3) it can take longer than expected. You can either see not knowing these things in advance as a terrible thing and let it ruin your evening or just go with the flow. The dinner was amazing, but the journey of completing it was even more amazing! We had so much fun just laughing, mostly at Axton & his personality, catching up on life and going for a pre-dinner walk that I would probably be okay if we repeated the night the exact same way again.
Saturday Mark had to work so I spent the morning cleaning our apartment & car. Yes I did accomplish both of them in a about 2 hours, really the only nice things about a small apartment is you can clean it really fast. When he got off work we packed up the car & headed south to Cougar land to visit James & Emily. The 4 of us have been trying to get together for about the last month with no sucess so we just decided it was time & invaded their house this weekend. Friday evening I got an email from Em asking me if I was up for trying to make new a new treat cake balls, for full details of this visit the following link James & Emily.
Our friends Natalie & Nichole had a Birthday party in Sandy that evening we headed back up the freeway, since Emily was singing at Gloria's Little Italy. The party was held by their empolyeer at Bouncing Off the Walls. It was so much fun to act like little kids, bouncing on blow up toys and sliding down huge slides. Even if we have a few bruises and cuts today. The party was great, cause well it was a party but also for a few more reasons. 1) we got to see Nichole & Jeff before they move to Texas 2) got to meet Natalies boyfriend, and we like him 3) we got see Natalie (if you didn't know we are very close to her but don't get to see her much.)
After the party we headed back to Prove to stay the night with James & Emily. We arrived later than planned, but thanks to eating a few chocolate cake balls we were able to stay awake talking & laughing much later than we should have. It's weekends like this that make me really, really hope for a job in the state of Utah. This morning Mark made us a very yummy breakfast of buttermilk waffles, and James made amazing hashbrowns to go with it. Church wasn't till 1 so after starting a roast in the crockpot we took turns getting ready for the day & watching planet earth. I am totally addicted to those DVD's now, I can't wait to have a little extra cash to buy them! It was great to be able to attend church today, missing it last week really well sucked! Emily's roast turned out so tender & yummy, James seasoned it to perfection! To top it off Mark made us his yummy gravy to go with it. I contributed by taking pictures, not really helpful but they are great for the memories. After eating, way to much food, we had to head back to Logan so Mark could go to rehearsal for the American Festival Chorus. When loading the car we discovered something, well not so great. We left some crayons in the backseat of the car, I really didn't think anything of it with the temp. only being in the 70's. Story short, I should have...melted crayon & two ruined jackets later I am totally kicking myself. I'm glad I have an understanding husband for when I have "brain-lapses." Thanks James & Em for a wonderful weekend!
I apologize for any errors that make this post hard to follow, I'm tired.
2 comments:
Boy you guys really know how to pack a lot of fun into one weekend! Nat has a boyfriend?
I wish we had a Bouncing Off the Walls in Chicagoland. That looks superb!
Melted wax on a jacket...yergh, that doesn't sound too fun. At least it would have been a colorful mess!
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