Fun in April

April already seems so far away. Hopefully I can remember everything associated with these pictures :)

Brea and Darrell blessed Spencer in April. Afterwards they had lunch, after that (when everyone had left but Clark and I) we played games. They recently had gotten a new game, at the moment I couldn't tell you what it was called. It was fun but I'm always nervous playing games against Clark and Darrell as they always seem to dominate, somehow I actually wasn't in last place for all of the rounds!

Erick's Birthday is in April (among others) and the Chuy's invited everyone over for cake and ice cream. 

They had two different kinds of cake...a chocolate one from Costco and a chocolate flan that I believe Libbey made. 

I got a pedicure, I kind of copied Lucy's that she had gotten done but changed it a bit. I thought that they came out super cute. 

Mom went on a trip for a couple of weeks (I believe it was to visit Kyle...is it sad that I don't remember for sure). We've been getting a lot more use out of the Provo airport lately then we have the Salt Lake as Kyle found this cheap airline that flies from Provo to Oakland. 

You know...just one of those days that I felt cute. 

I gave a talk in Sacrament meeting from General Conference, as I was preparing for it it looked like a printer had exploded everywhere. 

I think this was the last time that I went to the nicklecade. Kayla and I decided to go on night randomly. We definitely are fans of the new Wizard of Oz game. 

We got new shelves and bins for all of the nap stuff (we had outgrown the space that we had it in). I put all of the shelves together one morning and with the help of Jenn got them all labeled and filled with the correct stuff. I was proud of how it looked. 

Sonia's brother Andrei got married in June and Mom and I were asked to take their wedding pictures. I left early one afternoon to go take them at their luncheon. I love taking pictures but I was afraid that I wasn't good enough to be taking them for them, I hope that they were happy with what they got. 

I introduced Mom to Waffle Luv finally and she was a big fan (of course!). I had told her that I had a recipe that was a copy cat recipe that I had been wanting to try. While we were there though someone was purchasing pre-made dough from them and we asked if they had any extra, they just happened to have some so we bought a dozen (that's how they sold it). It was an adventure to cook these to say the least. Because of the sugar in there it requires you to clean in between every waffle. We decided that in the future we will let the people of waffle luv cook our waffles for us. 

Easter morning we went and had breakfast with Ben and Sonia's family. It was a beautiful day and we ate outside. Sonia's family has a tradition of hard boiled egg wars, each person holds an egg and whacks them together, the person that cracks loses. My egg never cracked! I was the winner :)

The winning egg :)

Sorry these pictures are all mixed up, this is Mom with her Waffle Luv. 

If you haven't ever tried Sweet Baby Ray's Honey Mustard it is AMAZING! They sell it at Costco (not all of the time) and not in any other store. I finally tracked some down on Amazon as it had been almost a year since Costco had sold any and I was out. I ordered a couple for me and one each for Kayla and Derek. A week or so after I had gotten it I was walking thru Costco and what do I see!? I wasn't very happy about that. 

Whoopy Brea--Look Who's 23!

Way back in February my bestie turned 23! Where has time gone that we haven't gotten that old (I was talking with my Mom tonight about how close I'm getting to be a quarter of a century, to be honest not that excited about it). 

Brea and Darrell hosted a fun party at their house, it was fun to get together with all our Newport friends, we live so close but because of life we don't get to see each other all the time. 

I was in charge of the drink and because I've cut back on soda I wanted to a drink that didn't include any, I found this really yummy lemonade- it must have been a hit because the whole bowl got brought into the living room where we were eating. 

Probably the best picture of the whole night, Leah was trying to tell Addie to be a monkey and I caught in on camera :)

Look at those cute pregnant bellies, crazy that they both have had their babies now and that Abby is two months old and Carson is a month old!

You would have thought that it was Addie's party with all the attention that she gets :)

At one point Addie disappeared into her room and shut the door, Brea and Kimmy were trying to see what she was doing in there by herself.

Brea has become quite the master at making awesome and delicious ice cream cakes.

Kimmy kept clipping the hairbow on Addie's nose and then it would fall off, Addie thought it was the most funny thing in the world and kept on bringing it back to her so she could do it again. 

A Slab Good-Bye

I'm realizing that I'm not really a fan of growing up :( Especially when growing up means that friends graduate and move away. Erin and J.J. finished school in December and have left for Texas for the summer and then they will be going to school in Iowa. Yeah for them, boo for me. Before they left we wanted Allisyn and Addie to have one more chance to play and to see each other so we met for lunch at a newer (I think that it's actually been there for a year or two now but it was my first time going) place called Slab Pizza. It was really good and I would highly recommend it. There were so many different choices and it was hard to narrow it down so Brea and I got two different kinds- The Chicken Club and Rosemary-Potato Bacon and shared (they were both super yummy!). 

It was fun to watch the girls play, they were both ready for naps by the end but they were certainly having fun chasing each other in circles around the table. 

Jamie even returned from her mission a couple days before so she joined us to get as much Erin and Allisyn time as possible.

The Chicken Club....I may or may not have recreated it a couple of times at work this past week :)

The Rosemary-Potato Bacon...I thought that it sounded a little strange at first but it was really good.

They were really good size pieces. Because the place was right by campus Darrell came down and joined us for lunch as well.

Addie and Allisyn were so funny, Addie would lead and Allisyn would follow (along with my water bottle, both Alli and Addie love it for some reason and seem to think that it is theirs).

It's hard to believe that we have been friends for 5 years now, my how the time has flown!