Little Baby LJ

Today I'm thinking about this lady (ok, and her husband)...




at our wedding shower, thrown by her and leviticus



at my endowment session (same day as the wedding shower, big day!)



YOLO



i love them.

 because today is the day that little (actually, its going to be big) baby is supposed to come into this world

so here's hoping! i want to meet him so badly!

"i want american food"

thats what M told me when we were discussing where to go for our date night last Friday.

So I suggested chicken wings - of course - so M went in search of the best place around our parts courtesy of the internets.

and we found it. plugged it in to the (not-so-trusty) tom-tom and went on our merry way.

on our way we saw a different wing place, but we couldn't remember if it was one of the 'good' ones (they aren't very original - 'Wing Factory' 'Wing Place' 'Wing Joint' - I mean seriously I can't tell the difference)

SO we passed it up and went to the supposed 'good' place -

after about 63 minutes we figured out that it, in fact, did not exist anymore.

sooo about another 20ish minutes and we were back to the previously mentioned Wing Something-or-other place we had passed earlier.

sat down, and sat and sat and sat some more

Until numerous servers/workers/wing people all ignored our stare downs and pleas for good ol american chicken wings and we walked out {yeah I was not patient anymore at this point.}

so we walked around the shopping center hoping (so much!) to find a place that was still open

NO SUCH LUCK. surprise surprise.

so we got back in the car, pushing about 104 minutes since departure of our apartamento, and drove to none other than

5 GUYS

and no one was there - so we got piping hot cheeseburgers and a butt load of extra fries

and we drew pretty pictures of said cheeseburgers.

If that's not american, I don't know what is.

**not all the ketchup pictured above was consumed. yes, we are wasters.

LIFE!

well, work life.

it changes in the blink of an eye (or a meeting randomly at 10 AM on a Tuesday)

and when its for the better, you just sit and wonder - wow. (its for the better right? its for the better right? i'm pretty sure it is. over and over)

i've been in what people call the "industry" or "professional world" for almost two and a half years now.

and i'm (still?) not used to it.

but i think thats good. i'm always on my toes, ready for the next new step.

and that, my friends, is how knowing how to use powerpoint (well. because those SmartArt graphics are important ;) gets you a pat on the back and a front door into meeting the head of the department. (well, thats the simplified version)

but whats funny is that the whole time all i was thinking about was getting out that front door as fast as possible to meet my husband to go on a temple date night.

so the moral of the story, kids? 

temple > powerpoint.

and don't you ever forget it

Good thing my husband doesnt read my blog

because he would probably not be happy I'm sharing this, but getting this e-mail this morning made my (very very very very long) week...

Subject: Hello Wife ;)

Hey my love I just wanted to let you know that I'm back safe from my run. I sent you this txt this morning:
"I'm going on my run now baby cakes! I love you so freakin much!!! You are seriously the most beautiful woman ever!"
During my run I remembered your cell was probably in your car. How's your morning love?
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

thank goodness its Friday, my friends, because that means its date night with that sweet, handsome husband of mine.

and yes, i may or may not forget my phone in my car often.

Oh what I'd give

to be back on the shore of the Ambergis Caye of Belize with the hubs.

suburn and all.

Happy 1 month and 22 days

and if you are wondering, yes I had to go to my calendar and count the days. and no i don't deal with numbers anymore (well, except for our {very newly wed} budget) so yeah, i count days now. awesome.

I'm sure a lot of you are wondering either
a) how the wedding went
b) how the honeymoon was
c) how the move went
d) how we like DC or
e) all of the above.

yeaaaa, i'll get on that. later.

but for right now, i found a little (probably not-so-secret) secret to making cake box mixes the bomb dot com. Saturday night on the way home from the temple we were jonesing for some sweets. and I wanted to make something to enjoy during Sunday night football as well, without a whole lotta "work" (its Sunday, a day of REST for peets sake!)

So we picked up some peanut m&ms for some instant gratification and a box of Betty Crockers chocolate cake, some chocolate frosting, and some instant chocolate pudding (oh yea, we were going ALL OUT on the chocofactor). I didn't know exactly how to make the improvments yet so I didn't buy anything else, but the good news for me was that I had everything else :)

So heres the (not-so secret) secret to make your box cakes oh-so-much more delicious.:

Ingredients:
- a box of pudding (whatever flavor you want)
- 1 more egg than the box calls for
- 1 cup sour cream
- some milk (do half the water on the box and then make up the rest with milk)

Directions:
- mix the box ingredients and the box of pudding together - set aside
- mix together the water/milk, oil(or butter if you want some extra goodness) and eggs
- add the dry ingredients to the milk mixture and mix/beat/whatever well
- then add the sour cream and mix/beat/whatever some more
- while you are doing this DO NOT WORRY THAT IT LOOKS WEIRD!

and wa la - make sure you have some cupcake liners or some pam and finito!

also, even though the can frosting is DELISH! next time there will be some homemade frosting on those bad boys (i made cupcakes), because lets be serious, homemade frosting is also the bomb dot com.

p.s. don't forget the sprinkles :)

A weird thing..

I only eat the red and green gummi bears.

And only Haribo.

C'mon I'm not the only one.

right?