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a common equation

I can’t forget about the best part of any party that my brother’s at!

Tyler + Karaoke + booze = The Devil Went Down to Georgia

…every time

And please excuse the horrible video quality!! This is video from my still camera and I’m just holding it and laughing..oh and I had had a couple drinks 🙂

Enjoy!

Mom’s 50th Birthday

Here are some pictures from my mom’s 50th birthday party, it was a blast!!! To start, here she is with her lovely 50 crown.

Here are some details: the chocapalooza table with the glorious chocolate fountain, the “25 things about me” wall which included many interesting facts about my wonderful mother, and the signature drink – the chocolate martini!!!! sooo yummy 🙂

Such a cute picture of my cousin Colton hugging Caleb, Tiff’s baby…the couch full of grandmas (I’m so blessed to have so many)…and my uncle Larry entertaining the party with his band!

The cake…all my mom’s friends who have turned 50 recently…and my mom and I taking a shot together, ahh bonding

My cousins pretending they were missing a leg (haha imaginations!!)…some of the guys exclaiming “wow, 50!?!?!?!”…and karaoke (where the martinis come in handy)

Naughty pic of my mom and her librarian friends “taking shots” (be sure to notice the sign behind them)…and my mom, her sisters and their mom, such a nice pic.

Happy Birthday mom! 50 down, 50 to go!

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Photo Friday #14 and #15

I’ve been so busy…it’s pretty bad that I have to keep loading my once a week blog into two. Oh well.

So here’s a bit of what I’ve been up to, in photo Friday form:

jared and I went up to Santa Barbara (where we managed to not take a single picture) to hang out with some friends. It was lovely! On the way back down we stopped in Orange County for my cousin’s wedding. I was one of the bridesmaids. I was pretty worried about wearing yellow but I think it turned out to be a “good” yellow, hah. Her wedding was beautiful! Then we stayed up there at Rachel and Matt’s house. It was a lot of fun seeing their new place and hanging out. They made delicious delicious food and even had Easter eggs for us Sunday morning 🙂 We managed to not take a single picture there either!! What is the world coming to?? We also got to experience their cute new dogs, one of them is farty. Farty dogs are pretty funny, gross but funny. Anyway, that’s what we did for spring break.

Here are Shannon, Diann and I at the wedding:

Another thing that I’ve been up to lately is going to the Wild Animal Park. I’ve been there 3 times in the last month for different Special Ed. field trips. It was a lot of fun hanging out with the kids and watching their experiences with animals. Being in speech I NEVER get to go on field trips so this was pretty cool for me.
The last time we went we actually saw a cheetah walk right by us. Apparently they are really docile animals and they walk them through the park in the mornings because the guests like it! It was so awesome!! I think the very best part though is right after we saw the cheetah, we walked by a little pond with a duck in it. One of the kids started jumping up and down screaming “duck, duck, duck, and water!!!”. We were laughing so hard, the kid JUST saw a cheetah walk by and he’s excited about a duck, oh and water. oh man.

I happened to have my camera out so here’s the cheetah:

2 days and counting until we are homeowners 🙂

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Photo Friday #12

We have this plant in the backyard. We had no idea what it was for the longest time until one day we saw something on the ground. I couldn’t see what it was from inside so I went out and there were peaches everywhere! Good ones too! We actually couldn’t eat them fast enough there were so many. They were there for like 3 or 4 days, and then they were gone. It was really weird.So I went outside the other day and saw this same plant looking like this. I don’t know if these are two plants just growing in the same spot or what but I’d say that this is the most interesting plant ever. It doesn’t do anything for a long time and then it sprouts up out of nowhere. Anyway, I thought it was pretty, hence the picture.

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jared’s birthday

So the gentleman turned 33 this year 🙂 I made him a cake. It was really really ridiculously good! A friend from work passed on the recipe and so I thought I’d pass it on to you…So here goes:

Black Russian Cake:

1 box yellow cake
1 lg. box instant chocolate pudding
1/2 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 cup oil
3/4 cup water
1/4 cup Kahlua
1/4 cup vodka

mix

bake 350 degrees in a bunt pan for 45-50 minutes

cool 10 minutes

invert, poke holes, drizzle 1/2 cup Kahlua and 1 cup powdered sugar.

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New blog favs.

So recently (right around the time I came across the videos a couple posts ago) I also came across 2 blogs that I can’t get enough of! Please explore a few pages of these blogs…there is some good stuff in there and will definitely brighten your day 🙂

#1 – Fail Blog
Here is an example of what you would find on the site. I like it because of how simple it is. FAIL, that’s awesome! Plus, many of the pictures remind me of signs I saw in Asia, misspelled or not making sense.

#2 – Cake Wrecks
This blog is all about cakes that have gone wrong…but not just any cakes, professional ones! There are so many I could post about, but since I’m in the wedding business, I’ll have to post a picture of THE BEST WEDDING CAKE EVER! Here you go, and you’re welcome.