UpDATEs - Caramel Apples (10-5-12)

*Remember me? I finally updated this blog. Be sure to check out Brotherly Barbecue and Swiss Days.*

I can't remember one time in my whole life when I had eaten a caramel apple before October 5, 2012. It's a good thing we dipped some apples so I could broaden my horizons!

BYU was playing a football game that Jeff couldn't resist. Hence the computer being our third wheel. Or perhaps I was the third wheel? Whatever. I had all that caramel to keep me company.

First caramel apple. She's a beaut.

Fine. Not totally a beaut but it sure tasted good!

Brotherly Barbecue (9-15-12)

Jeff kind of inherited/stole his dad's old grill. We couldn't let the summer pass without having some company over for a little barbecuing! Who better to have than Bryan who served his mission in Alabama and was anxious to show us how they smoke dem ribs and bake dem some macaroni. I lived in the south for a little bit so it's not offensive that I wrote that last sentence that way.

 Jeff made a delish garden salsa for an appetizer.

 Bryan and Celeste whipped up the mac and cheese. Hello beautiful.

Salsa was gone in 2.4 seconds.

Smokin' dem ribs.

Boys and fire. This is my life.

 Jeff's seal of approval that the meat was ready.

We couldn't have a southern barbecue without cole slaw gracing our plates!

I basically kicked back with my feet up the whole time because my contribution was rosemary bread which I had made earlier.

Why did I ever move further away from Alabama, ya'll?!?

Oh yeah. The cockroaches. And scorpions. And tornadoes. It's all coming back to me.

Swiss Days (8-31-12)

Picture a Saturday morning with nothing to do. Jeff had just rolled out of bed and wandered downstairs. After a few minutes on the internet, he started talking about seeing something about the Swiss Days. Before long we were making hypothetical plans of how we'd plan our day if we decided to up and go to the Swiss Days. Soon enough our hypothetical plans materialized into Jeff strutting around in some swiss garb from his mission as we packed the car for a day of swiss adventure.

Our spontaneous decision meant lunch on the go for this little boy.

Look at us being adventurous! Who said marrieds with kids were boring?

We loved to see the leaves changing as we approached Park City.

As we puled up to the Swiss Days, we were in shock. There were SO MANY people there. Don't let this picture fool you. When we were walking around the booths, there wasn't even enough room for us to walk with our stroller. We literally walked there, saw the crowd, and walked back to our car. Between this event and that time we went Black Friday shopping, we have now vowed to each other to avoid crowds at all costs for the rest of our lives. And that's how marrieds with kids get boring I suppose.

We took our adventure to Park City -- thinking maybe we could at least hit the Alpine Slide while we were in town. Then it started raining. So we settled on a lunch stop. At Panda Express.

We were going to go shopping afterwards, but it got really cold so we decided to call it a day.

It was fun to get out of the house for a little adventure and to do something spontaneous even though the day didn't go perfectly.