Late Birthday Gift

For a birthday gift this year Rick bought me a cooking class at Orson Gigi's.

It was a class on flood icing cookies.  It was fun, and I learned a bit.

I need practice at getting better, which I may or may not do, but it sure was a fun time!

The teacher used some special machines to copy the pictures onto a couple of cookies, and I was able to use an air sprayer with edible color for a couple of them, but all of the others were made using the flood icing.

The unfrosted cookies.

Beginning icing...

...finished product.

This cute Halloween gingerbread house was siting on the table from a previous class.

It was super cute!

Maybe next year I can make one of those:)

 

                Thanks to my sweetie for this thoughtful gift!  I had a wonderful time!

Teenager Rafe

Huge news!

Rafe is now officially a teenager!

He is a great young man and we are so happy to have him in our family!

We met up with him at his other grandparent's home for a celebration.

We didn't have a lot of time there because of a meeting we needed to be to, but we got to see him blow out candles and open his present from us.

His mom made him a Tres Leches cake.  Look at all those candles!!

Rick bought him a range finder, and I bought him a camouflage hoodie.

He was happy with both.

Tomorrow he is going golfing with some friends to celebrate!

Happy Birthday Rafie!

 

Rick's 61st Birthday

Rick and I were able to spend a night out for this year's birthday.  We started our outing with a trip to our NINETY NINTH temple.  We attended a sealing session at the new Orem Temple.  It was dedicated earlier this year, and this was our first time to go there.

                    It has the same floor plan as our DP Temple.  We loved it so much!

After the temple we had reservations at Carver's Steakhouse where we enjoyed some good grub.

Next, we drove downtown to get to the Le Meridian Hotel.  It is a new hotel in Salt Lake's West Quarter.

We were upgraded to a suite and had a beautiful view of the sunset.

Thankfully the Delta Center was a half a block away, so we were able to just walk right over to the Jazz game.

I really like our seats this season.

They are in a good spot!

The Jazz came out on top (just barely) so that made it a good game to leave with the W.

We got back to the hotel and turned on the TV to relax.

I lasted about fifteen minutes, if that.

The next day was spent shopping, riding bikes, and eating.

Rick was on his phone for a lot of the day. BOO!

But it is what it is sometimes.  We had fun riding our bikes...(without the phone)

We found some pretty fall foliage up Bountiful Canyon.  It was really pretty and smelled so good.

We finished our day at Chilis Diner.  Rick finished off his meal with a birthday dessert...

molten lava cake.  What a way to go!!

We ended the evening helping out at the Dry Bar comedy show in Grantsville.

It was ok.  This was our second go at Dry Bar Comedy.  Neither of us are huge fans of it, but we were glad to help out with the Lakeview Church by setting things up and putting back together.

All in all it was a good birthday getaway.

                                                         Happy sixty first birthday, honey!

Halloween Party Part II

On Wednesday this week we had our second Halloween Party of the month.  We had the younger cousins join us for a super fun night of togetherness! 

The kids arrived at 6PM, so we were all ready to get some dinner in us.  We all made individual pizzas and then let them cook while the kids had a scavenger hunt.  

 They had eleven clues to find their treasures, which were hidden in grandpa's bbq grill.  

They had fun prizes in their treasures...Halloween puzzles, pencils, squishies, pop-ups, and lots of candy.

The scavenger hunt lasted long enough for the pizzas to finish cooking.  We had a spooky relish tray and some sparkling drinks to go along with their pizzas.

Here's a toast to Halloween fun!!

We then worked on our Halloween craft.

They all did a nice job on them!😻

Next we played games.

First was pictionary...

                                                                ...then musical chairs...

...then twister.

We had a lot of laughs along the way!

Next was new Halloween PJ's.

They all looked so cute, and weren't they surprised when we discovered they glowed!

Daisy and Chloe

Merik, Eric, and Brady

The party crew!

Spooky story fun.

The stories were a little spooky with silly endings.

The kids laughed and laughed at the story, "The ghost with one black eye"

We ended the evening by watching a couple of shows while the kids ate their Halloween candy.

We all got a good night's sleep...except grandpa who was in the smaller bed with Merik who likes to sleep curled up in a ball and had his legs in grandpa's back for the night.  Anyway, we made some wonderful memories with our favorite kiddos!  Happy Halloween!