shakin it and lighting it up!

such an eventful week last week. its weird how i'm done with school yet i still have SO much going on! mostly because i've been doing the polynesian club thang this whole semester, and i hope to continue with it until brett and i leave rexburg once and for all. so up on campus we had a culture night consisting of our poly club, the indian association, the african association, and the latino association, and i believe thats it... but it was a blast. it was pretty much our last "major performance" for the semester. so thats why it was a little stressful for me last week. i got to do this way cute tahitian dance with my 2 good friends katie and alena.

i've been in the PCA for about 3 semesters now, i started 2 summer semesters ago and have gained such great friendships, a greater appreciation for different cultures, and learned some sweet polynesian dances.


and then it was PARTY TIME!!!!
brett turned 24! i can't believe it, he's getting old yet 24 is def really young.

we decided to have an asian invasion dinner night for brett's birthday bash! we had the party at the cougar court lounge so that we could have more room for our close friends that came...i fried my famous filipino lumpia (which i didn't burn, they just give off a lot of smoke) for the festive occasion and in so doing this is what happened...
i set ALLLLLLL the fire alarms off in the whole cougar court complex.... i was mortified. especially when the cops and the firemen showed up. but after the whole incident i couldn't stop laughing about it. our manager looked really pissed though. brett had to go to the church and grab him from his ward Christmas party so that he could turn off the alarms...sorry manager dude but next time how about adding a vent over the stove?
the shi-fu! katie made this delightful beverage for the party.

i surprised brett with a DQ birthday cake and i wasn't gonna light the candles after what just happened, but katie and gwen convinced me so i lit them up. but being afraid of setting the place on fire again i pretty much just ran to brett with the cake and half the candles blew out by themselves. sorry brett (i REALLY don't think he cared)

happy birthday boy! hopefully next year the cops and firemen won't come to your birthday party.

hey mom

happy birthday m♥mmy!

thanks for being my best friend (next to brett) and for always having your phone on hand in case i need to call you for ANYTHING. its always fun to call you with any random questions i have especially when it comes to cooking. i love the fact that we can share our passion for cooking now that i'm married. i never truly appreciated how hard you slave in the kitchen to cook our family delicious meals everyday. thanks so much for that. and i know i'll be slaving away too when i have a family in the future. you are the master chef and i hope to be as good as you one day.

i know you and i have had our ups and downs...but i ALWAYS treasure the ups! sorry i was such a piste han before and you know, i'll probably be a piste han in the future too...so i'll just apologize now. i like making fun of tootsie with you and reviewing movies. i miss watching movies with you all the time.

thanks so much for the wedding of my dreams! that was such a fun and magical day. thanks.
i can't wait to share even more memories with you!

peace out girl scout. i seriously hope i look as good as you when i'm your age.

I LOVE YOU!

rollin with the homies

i attempted my dad's world famous rolls for our ward Christmas party tonight.

it took me all morning and stressed the crap out of me. i wish i really paid attention to how my dad made them.

during the long and difficult process of kneading the dough my bowl of flour fell off the table and onto the carpet.

i screamed.

our table is completely dumb. mainly cuz we bought it from wal-mart.

i thought i had no hope in finishing these freakin rolls.

but with brett's help with rolling out the dough they turned out AMAZING!! i think i got an ab workout from all the kneading, so thats a plus too.

most definitely the rolls weren't as good as my dad's but i know one day they will be!

also this is the same recipe used to make my dad's ultimate world famous cinnamon rolls. so now i'm a little more confident to attempt his cinnamon rolls now!

its the Harry Potter weekend on abc family.

awesome.

the only thing keeping me alive

a few weeks ago brett and i bought a hot chocolate mixer. it was a NECESSITY. i seriously suck trying to make it myself using the microwave. the magical ingredients never gets completely mixed, that is, when i make it. our mixer gets the job done and PERFECT in just a few minutes. it's been one of the best investments i've ever made in my life. why the heck didn't i buy one when i was single and even lazier to make some delicioso hot cocoa during the cruel and torturing months of rexburg winters?

a cutie snowman filled with warm goodness makes a horrible cold day a heck of a lot better.

oh yeah, brett def helps with that too.

p.s. rexburg was 0 degrees this morning. sux. brett, get me out of here and lets go to texas please? thanks, love you!

p.s.s. brett kindly reminded me that it was actually -2 degrees this morning and that tomorrow it'll be -6/-7 degrees.

gee thanks ya poop

hatred

it snowed.

and i screamed when i looked out the window.

i'm not ready at all.
i'm not ready to swerve all over the road when i drive.

yes i admit the snow can be pretty but not pretty at all when i have to go outside and get the bottom of my jeans all wet and my hair all up in my face and frizzy...

i would rather cuddle up INSIDE drinking hot chocolate and watching movies with the snow wreaking havok OUTSIDE.

n00b. he likes the snow.

itchin

i'm hungry.

dinner for 2 please

apple-stuffed chicken breasts.

looks quite scary...

but absolutely delicious!

you can find it here!

i've been so bored lately trying to figure out what to cook for dinner. i've been in a bit of a rut i guess and i never feel like cooking after work so we'd been eating out too much and have been feeling like fatties. so i've been trying really hard to get over myself and cook something! i love trying out new and crazy recipes and haven't had TOO many disasters so far....on the Taste of Home website i've been finding some really good recipes that fit us like recipes for 2 and healthy stuff. its been helpful in the fact that it makes just enough for both of us and it prevents us from eating like pigs when there's a lot of leftovers....

current obsessions:

1. SCENTSY.

my friend ailinh, who is a scentsy consultant, has gotten me SO addicted! i swear i never wanna buy another dumb candle again. i need more scents though....but one of my favorite things to do is to come home, turn it on and RELAX! ahhhhhhh. its so wonderful and so easy to clean up. i'm planning on having a scentsy party sometime soon, let me know if you'd like an invite! and every season they come out with new cute warmers and scents for the spring/summers and fall/winters. i love it l♥ve it love it! here is the scentsy website. i can't wait to have a bigger house so i could put one in every level and have my WHOLE HOUSE smelling beautiful.

2. CRAFTIN.

here is the glass cube thing (i don't even know what the heck its called) i made for my sis kyla and travis' late wedding present...i love doing vinyl lettering

this was my favorite to make! i was so excited that i actually bought a wood board, i painted it and rubbed on the vinyl lettering! i seriously went to porters (the rexburg craft store) about everyday one week. i felt like my mom at the craft stores getting all excited about the possibilities that could be created.

yes yes thats pretty much it. and i haven't really done a lot since i started working but i was quite proud of myself when i made these, its not like they were horribly time consuming but its a start. also i can't start junking up my apt with a bunch of random projects cuz we just don't have room.
i really hope to be one craftin cookin mama one day.

3. LADY GAGA-PAPARAZZI

just cuz.

she's kool and krazy

october's over

dinner tonight: ORANGE CHICKEN

thats right. i made chinese orange chicken and it was glorious.

here's how our halloween weekend went down.....

brett and i went to the ward's halloween party as gun slinging cowboy bandits from texas.

going as cowboys wasn't exactly my top choice but due to not even knowing what we're doing for halloween until the week of and the lack of money for maybe some awesome costume materials we went with some clothes we had already and bought our bandanas and tuff guns....brett had to give me some tough love when i was really frustrated we couldn't buy any COOL costume stuff. well, next year, we'll plan better....

for the activity we decorated cakes with our family home evening groups...

here's our butt-ugly spider that actually looks like a butt-ugly ant....
then on the actual halloween day we went to a brasilian halloween party! pretty random huh? but our friends carmelo and autumn invited us and i wanted to go to some kind of party on halloween and get all dressed up. even if it means going to a brasilian party where in brasil they don't even celebrate halloween.....
yeahhhhh not too eventful for halloween festivities. its so hard to figure out what to do for a holiday like this when you're married with no kids, but i'm sure when we start havin some i think it'll be WAY fun!

tonight brett and i got to watch President Uchtdorf's CES fireside talk and it was awesome. i felt like he was speaking directly to me when he said something like, "don't let your sorrows get you down and depressed but instead think of the things in your life that brings you light." ohhh man i've seriously been a bit of a whiner lately. i truly believe that the cold makes me depressed....but i really do need to think of better things that me me super happy.
like:
BRETT!
thanks brett for putting up with my grumpiness.
i love you very much!
♥