Anniversary Getaway

Cory surprised me with a fabulous getaway for our anniversary. He shipped the kids off to Grandma's and we headed up to Seattle. He had reserved a suite for us at the Homewood Suites with a huge Jacuzzi tub in our bathroom. It was bliss.

Our beautiful hotel!

Before we checked into the hotel he brought me to Ipanepa Brazilian Grill. (For those who don't know, Cory served in Brazil on his mission). That was amazing. There is a buffet of several different Brazilian side dishes. Delicious! And along with that, you have guys rotating around the restaurant with huge sword skewers with slabs of meat on them. They cut a slice off for you at your table for you to try. They come around many times and you can you have what you want! Their meats range from buffalo, pork, Tri tip, pepper steak, fillet mignon, garlic shrimp, garlic steak, bacon wrapped turkey and bacon wrapped steak, Wild boar, and much more!!! They also brought around a cinnamon grilled pineapple which was wonderful. All in all it was a wonderful dining experience! A real treat.

One of the workers bringing around some meat! Just so you get an idea.

The next day we headed to Pikes place market and walked down by the water front. It was so romantic and nice to just be with my honey without the children. I could just focus all my attention on him and his on me! It was so wonderful!

The beautiful flowers at the market. Yes you see those beautiful bouquets with the tulips are only $5. Cory bought me a beautiful one for only $10 and now i am enjoying them in my home!
Just some of the beautiful flowers they had. There are thousands!
We tried to get the Pikes Place sign in but it was just not happening! At least we got the Farmer's Market sign.
All in all it was such a wonderful getaway. He truly spoiled me! I am very excited for our next little vacation together at the end of the year! If we ever get there!

Happy 5 Years

April 23, 2005

5 Amazing years

2 Adorable Children

2 car breakins

3 Crazy moves

1 sorrorful loss

3 Fabulous Vacations

Countless pointless arguments:-)

Endless laughs

And still going STRONG!!!

I love you so much Honey. You are my rock and my love. I love spending my life with you and can not wait for the rest of eternity to see what it will bring!

XOXOXO

New Dessert

So a couple of weeks ago, Cory and I went to the temple with our dear friends, Bryan and Celeste. Before that though, we hit up the Cheesecake factory and enjoyed a wonderful dinner and an amazing dessert consisting of Red Velvet Cheesecake. It is a layer of Red Velvet cake topped with cheesecake topped with another layer of RV cake and again with Cheesecake all frosted in a delectable butter cream frosting! Well, being the baking lover that i am i decided to try to venture out and recreate this dessert. With a few mishaps, i succeeded and i know that next time will be better because i learned a lot from my trial. So Celeste, i did it and i will share my secrets with you. It was a tedious process but not very hard. just a lot of steps! Here is a picture, not the best quality. Sorry i could not cut it and show you what it looks like inside (it is beautiful!!!), this one was going to a friend! Next one i will show the inside!

Easter Day!!!

Easter day came and went and was wonderful. Macade understood why we celebrate Easter, the resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ. But along with that, i made sure my boys got some of the fun of Easter as well. I made sure that the Easter Bunny came and brought those boys something special! It was not a beautiful day, but it was not raining so we actually got to hunt for eggs and baskets outside this year. That's a first for Macade!! So out we went to "play soccer", and lo and behold, there were eggs all over the yard. Macade went crazy. Braxton loved to gather them too. It was so much fun to watch their faces light up whenever they found another egg. And when the baskets were found, words would not express the excitement from the boys.

Searching for the Eggs!

Braxton and his basket. He was happy enough with his eggs!

Macade thought the Easter Bunny ran out of baskets because he could not find his. So with a little bit of help, and a lot of searching....he found it and went berserk.

With their Easter Baskets.

Totally Cheesin' it!