Vegas?...Yes Please

I am off to Vegas tonight for a weekend filled with:

1. Laying out poolside (my most favorite thing to do in Vegas)
2. Pacquiao vs Mosley fight
3. Spa
4. Shopping
5. Hanging out with some great friends!

What more could I ask for?! Pictures to come.

Meet my new friend...

Lamar Odom! It was just a normal day at work on Wednesday, my co-worker went on his regular afternoon walk to the end of the pier, and on his way back he saw a congregation of Laker fans waiting outside this restaurant Sangrias waiting to meet Lamar Odom. He came back to the office and we both headed down in hopes to meet him as well. Luckily this was not advertised too much and only waited a few minutes before becoming new friends. I love Lamar so I was pretty stoked. I only got to say hi for 2.5 seconds, just enough time to snap a quick photo.

Khloe was hiding behind the backdrop but I got a couple peaks at her. Three words to describe her: Lots. of. makeup.

This made for a very good midweek activity to get me through to the weekend.

PS. I also just started tutoring a 6th grade autistic boy. It will give me some extra spending cash and will be a good experience!

Happy FRIDAY!

I'm feeling Wicked!!

I got tickets to go see the musical Wicked in March with three of my best friends. I am so excited for a Girls Weekend. Chad couldn't be more excited that I am not dragging him to see this play (even though I am sure he would have liked it). Let the countdown begin to a weekend of getting all dolled up, staying up late, talking to the wee hours of the morning, home-made facial masks, and all the other fun sleep-over stuff!

Happy Sunday!

I have been reading so many different blogs lately and really want to get back into blogging. I have been SO bad at staying on top of blogging, I thought about why, and the answer... I am still trying to come up with. A few reasons are I normally blog about what we "do" and since I have been working I don't get to "do" much, another reason is we don't have internet at our new place, and lastly blogging without pictures is hard for me to do (this is hard for me right now).

So the purpose of this post is to let you all (if there is even more than my family that reads this), and myself know I am going to be better at blogging.

Of course now that I sit down to blog I can't remember all my great ideas I was going to write about (those ideas normally come to me when I am showering, or driving). Also it might be because I am blogging and watching GLEE at the same time.

I did actually get to "do" something this weekend. I was able to go out to Wildomar and see some of my very best friends from high school.

I also spent some time with my family. My little brother is hysterical, here are a few things he said/did that made me giggle:

1. My mom said a prayer to bless his food, after she finished he said "Nice and short one mom, I like prayers that are short"

2. He loves fruity gum, I gave him my last piece, he accidently swallowed it with in five minutes and started to cry because that was my last piece.

3. He has a girlfriend, she is 10, he is 4, and he stares at her during the whole Sacrament meeting.

4. When I get there he always runs out to greet me at my car.

I love this little guy!

So here's to my first picture-less post, may there be many more to follow.

New Years Eve in Vegas

Where do I start with NYE? This year we were invited by Chad's friend Jake to come to Las Vegas, stay in an awesome room, enjoy great food, and my favorite part attend a dinner and Coldplay and Jay-Z concert on NYE. The dinner was overlly fancy foods (Cherry covered caviar, lobster bisque, veal) but I couldn't even focus on dinner when there were TONS of celebrities around us. Both Chad and I noticed that there was not one overweight person at this dinner, I can't believe how small the "Hollywood" crowd is.

After dinner (around 10:45) we went upstairs to the concert, there were only 2500 people there, not a bad seat in the whole place. Coldplay came and performed about 8 songs, then Jay-Z came out and did the countdown. After midnight Jay-Z performed along with suprise performances from Kanye West (not a huge fan be/c he dissed my girl Taylor Swift), John Mayer (dissed Taylor also) and then Beyonce. She has the most amazign voice and is so gorgeous. I couldn't believe how luck we were to be there, Jay-z kept reminding us all of that the whole night.

Some of the stars we saw: Emmet Cullen (Twilight), Lance Bass, guy from Glee, Brandy (DWTS), Kiersten Dunst, and Hayley Duff, Gale (Oprahs bff), Kelly Slater, guy from 27 dresses, Channing Tatum and his wife.

Here are some pictures of our weekend. Need less to say it was tough to come home after such an eventful weekend. Big thanks to Jake for a memorable time!

If heaven were a brownie...

this is what it would taste like!



I made dessert for Christmas Eve and it was delicious. I can't take the credit because I didn't come up with it myself but it sure did turn out good. I bought a trifle dish a few years ago because I thought it was pretty and have only used it once (like over 2 years ago). Well I decided to bring it out since it makes the desserts look so good.

Here are the "cast of characters"

1 box of brownie mix
1 big or 2 small boxes of pudding (white chocolate or vanilla), I used vanilla
1 8 oz frozen whicpped cream (thawed)
2 cups milk
Heath Toffee pieces

1.Bake box of brownies according to the box, let cool.
2. Cut brownies into small squares 1 x 1 inch
3. Combine pudding mixture and milk and stir till thickened
4. Fold whipped cream into pudding
5. Layer bottom of triffle pan with 1/3 the brownies, then layer with 1/3 the pudding mixture, then a layer of toffee bits, repeat 3 times.
6.Refrigerate and serve.

Going back I would have saved a little more pudding mixture for the top so it covered better.

Enjoy!

Christmas 2010

Trying to get caught up on blogging so I am going to give the Reader's Digest version.

On Christmas Eve day we played beach volleyball for a few hours and then we went over to Chad's parents house for a great Christmas Eve dinner. We opened up our presents with them. I got a sewing machine which I am SO excited about. We then headed to my parents and spent Christmas Day with them.

Landon woke us up at 7:00 in the morning he was so excited! After we opened up presents we headed to the park to play frisbee with my Coram cousins, this has become a tradition that I love. We then watched the Laker Game had a great dinner by my mom and played Just Dance on the Wii.

Christmas was so nice to have some time off work and spend time with our families and see friends who came in from out of town.