Baby Shower

The Thursday before we went on vacation, I threw a baby shower for a friend at work. I did it on the same day as a wedding I did, which wasn't the smartest, but I spent the entire day baking and designing flowers. It was a crazy hectic and busy day, and I left the house a complete mess and then right after the shower I went to work at Frito Lay. Scott was amazing and got home late as well, but he cleaned up a lot of my mess. It was super sweet and unexpected. He is super awesome like that. Anyway, here are pictures of some of the things I did for the shower. It was a lot of fun, and I was pretty happy with how everything turned out. This is the invitation.

This was my first try at fondant. I used marshmallow fondant, and it was super eay to make, but it was kind of hard to get on the cake. The cake was super good though. It was almond with raspberry filling. Super tasty. It may not look amazing, but it was tasty. I also made Oreo cake bits and sugar cookies, but I guess I didn't get pictures of those...darn.

More Wedding Flowers

Here are some pictures of wedding flowers I did for a girl I work with. It was really fun. I was so excited to do a wedding without gerbs. I did one with gerbs 5 days later, but this one was colors people don't use a lot and it was fun to be able to use some orchids. Unfortunately my camera battery died, so the pictures we got were from Scott's phone on his camera. Here are some pics.

It's been so long

I keep thinking I am going to blog more, but recently I haven't had a lot of time, and when I do, I haven't felt like blogging. But here I am trying to catch up a little bit. I got a new job that has taken up a lot of my time. I started working for Frito Lay as a "detailer" in the evenings. I go to stores after my full-time job and I put product from the back room on to the shelves. It is actually super physically demanding and I am not as fast as I should be yet. I worked Wed, Thurs, Fri and Sat right before we left on Sunday morning for vacation. Because it was Memorial Day weekend the stores were super busy and I worked more than when I was scheduled. This week, I am scheduled every night except Wed. I am only scheduled for 1.5 to 2.5 hours per night, but I have taken a little bit longer than that so far. Eventually I will get fast enough. I am still pretty new right now. It is nice having the extra money to pay off bills, which was the whole purpose of getting a second job to begin with.
Scott also has a second job. It is something he can do on his own time. He is an independent rep for telecommunications companies which includes cell phones, home phones, home security, internet, and satellite. It is cool because he can get people the same services from reputable companies at discounted prices. If you are in the market for any of those things, let us know, and we can save you some money.
We are both super busy right now and working really hard. But we try to make sure and spend as much time together as possible. We have a hard time being away from each other. It was really nice to get away for a week and not worry about our jobs.

A lot going on

I have been mentally blogging in my head for quite a while, but have had so much going on, it has been hard to find the time to actually get it on my blog. Sadly, I think I have forgotten everything I wanted to blog about. Let's see. Probably the thing that has the least to do with me and what I have been doing is the end of The Amazing Race. Sadly, the cowboys didn't win. They were the most deserving of the win, but I know that they will be fine either way. I have read a lot of people's comments and they were definitely the fan favorites this year. Also, I am not sure if this is true or not, but several people have indicated that the team that did win, cheated by flying first class. Honestly, I don't know enough about the rules to know if they did cheat or didn't, but I do know that the cowboys finished the race with integrity and were kind to everyone all along the way. They are the type of people who really inspire me to be a better person. There are a lot of good people in the world, and it was awesome to see an example of that on the Amazing Race this season.
Anyway, also last weekend, I did a wedding. I was really excited about doing something different than gerbera daisies. The last few weddings I have done are all gerbera daisies. This one was hydrangea and roses. The colors were green and hot pink, and it was really cute. Here are a couple of pictures of the bouquet.
I didn't get pictures of everything I did, but I am glad I have these. I was really happy with how it turned out, and I hope the bride was as well.
After I dropped off the wedding flowers at the Mt Timpanogos Temple, I ran and got groceries and then when Scott got off work we headed down to his parents house to work on their backyard. We took flowers down to his mom as well. After spending the afternoon moving their wood pile and taking down a fence and burning a bunch of remains, we headed back up to my house to do dinner and a movie with my parents and my sister and Malachi. We got one of those family dinners from KFC and we watched Avatar. It was a good time, but a super busy and hectic day. This past week went by really quickly. I can't even think of everything we did, but it felt like it went by extremely quickly.
Oh, I don't know when this was, but we got a new calling. We are members of the activities committee. Usually not a calling I love, but the head of the activities committee are some people from Nephi that Scott knows, so I think we will be fine. It might actually help us to be a little more social and stuff. Did I already write about this? I am starting to think I have. Well, sorry if you have read it before...We still don't love our new ward, but hopefully if we get involved we will enjoy it a bit more.
This weekend, I started my new job (more to come on that later, and yes I kept my other job) at 630 in the morning, which means I had to get up at 530 on a saturday. I got home around noon and changed my clothes and had some lunch. Then when Scott got home from work we got some groceries and ran a couple of errands then headed down to his parents house again to work on the backyard some more. We got A LOT done, and Scott worked his butt off. One of the many things I love about him is his ability to work so hard, and his drive to work as hard as he does, but I was worried about him because of how hard he was working. We dug up some tree roots and cut them to removed the trees. The part that took the longest was getting out an old cement irrigation thing. Don't really know how to explain it, but we had to dig it up and remove roots from around it, and there was a tree that had grown up under and around it so it was really tough to get out. But after we got done, we all felt really productive. I thought I would be sore today, but I am not. Of course Scott is. But it was a good work out.
We are going on vacation in two weeks from today, and I am super excited about that. We are both really ready for a break. To not worry about anything but having a good time for a little while.

I miss my Cowboys

Scott and I have recently become addicted to a couple of shows, Amazing Race and Celebrity Apprentice. Since I get super involved in shows I watch, I have a few people I just love on those shows. On Amazing Race, I freaking LOOOOOVE the cowboys. They are so sweet and polite and super redneck, so they say the funniest stuff. I was really sad that the County Music Awards or whatever were on instead of the Amazing Race this week. I didn't get my weekly dose of my favorite cowboys. I really hope they win. They are just so great. Scott and I go around quoting the things they say. Love, love, love.
As for Celebrity Apprentice, I adore the two most unlikely people: Bret Michaels and Sharon Osbourne. That's right folks. I think they are both pretty awesome. Bret works his tail off and actually has an amazing heart. That is if they person he plays on TV is the same as he is in real life. If not he is pulling off a wonderful scam. He definitely doesn't have the highest morals in the world, but he is a good guy overall in my opinion.
As for Sharon Osbourne, she is tough lady, and she would have to be to be her husband's manager. She is the type of woman you just don't mess with, yet she still manages to come off with class. I know if anyone watched their show, you will disagree, but whatever. I like her. Her don't mess with me attitude and all. It is too bad that she has been sick a few episodes, because I would really enjoy seeing more her.

Only at Walmart

Scott and I were at Walmart a couple of weeks ago and thought we saw an empty spot. Instead, this is what we saw: Apparently someone rode their bike to Walmart, parked it in a stall on the grocery side. It was there when we got there, and it was there when we finished our shopping. Scott brought up a good point: How do they plan on getting the groceries home?

Gymnastics Olympics

This last weekend Scott and I went up to good ole' Rexburg,Idaho for our niece's gymnastic "Olympics". It was a good trip. Brittney did so good, she is 8, and just started doing gymnastics this year, and she was the best in her group. She was probably the oldest in her group as well, but she was the only one that knew the mat routine without any help from her teacher. I was so glad we went to support her. I know she was really happy Scott could make it. I'm pretty sure she has a little crush on him, but that is ok with me. Here are a few of the pictures I got:

I guess I might be a little excited about her doing well because I quit gymnastics because I couldn't do a cartwheel. I still can't do a cartwheel, so I guess that kind of thing is just not for me. I will stick to running.

Anyway, I was loading for the HCG diet over the weekend as well. I got lunch on Saturday at New York Burrito. I had been craving it for a long time. I used to have it for lunch a lot, but sadly, they closed the one in Orem. I was really excited to have it again. The loading part of the diet is always really fun. Eating anything and everything that isn't good for me. Lots of ice cream. I am on day 5 now. So day three of the restrictive diet. Only 18 more days to go!