Happy 88th birthday Grandpa BOB!!!!!

A few weeks ago we had the chance to go celebrate my moms dad's 88th birthday with the family. Unfortunately Tom had to work so he couldn't' come. We had a delicious dinner and my cousin Laura Jane made an absolutely wonderful lemon cake that we had with 3 different kinds of sorbet. That is my kind of dessert!

Me, Grandpa Bob (the birthday boy), GiGi

Laura Jane, who made the yuppy birthday cake. If you look closely you will notice that she has a ring on her left hand. Everytime I see her she steals my wedding ring and wears it until I leave to go back home. I almost forgot it last time- Tom would not have been happy! ha

Grandpa Bob has recently started to write short stories about his life that are so fun to read. It's amazing the detail that he can remember and it makes the stories seem so real. I'm so glad that he is writing these stories that we will have them as part of our family history and I hope that he continues to write more so that I can share them with my children someday. (Not for a while - don't worry!) He is an amazing man though, not to mention he gives the best back scratches. It's so much fun whenever we get to spend time with them.

calzone night

So I forgot to mention below about calzone night. For a little Valentine's Day gift my mom gave Tom and I a calzone maker from William & Sonoma (love that store). You just make your dough, roll it out, place it on the calzone maker, fill it with all sorts of goodies and press it closed and WALAAA!!! you have yourself a calzone. Then of course you cook it! It was such a good present though and we love it - thanks mom! I have the best mom ever, don't be jealous.

Devan is probably the worst at making calzones. His had holes everywhere.

Lauren working hard in her top of the line apron.

All of our yummy ingredients. Of course I only used cheese and bacon I think. ha

My handsome husband in his Tmobile work shirt. He is now a pro at making calzones. I cannot lie.

PIZZA PIZZA!

Anybody that knows me knows that I love to eat! As does my husband. So one of our favorite things to do is to have friends over to make dinner together. Lately it's pretty much been with Lauren and Devan and we have themed nights. So far we have had pizza night, asian night, and calzone night. We may be lame but it makes the week a little more fun.

So here are some pictures from pizza night and calzone night. We actually ended up having pizza night at one of Tom's good friends house - Tyler and his wife Tahnee. We all had a blast and our pizza's were delicious. I didn't get a picture of the first pizza that I made, but it was a potato pizza. I know that sounds really weird and everything was making fun of it but . . . it was the favorite pizza of the night! DELICIOUS!

BEFORE (artichoke hearts w/ ham - stuffed crust may I add)

AFTER!!! lots and lots of cheese

Speaking of cheesey ha

Valentine's Cookie Making!!!

So I realize that I am probably the absolute worst blogger ever but . . . . somebody has been very busy with student teaching all day long, and that somebody is ME! It's not like Tom is super excited to take time out of his day to update a blog. He doesn't even like that we have one! He'll learn to live with it though- if he knows what's good for him :)

Since we have been so busy lately we also haven't had a lot of time to take very many pictures which makes me so sad because anybody that knows me well, knows that I love me some picture taking. So I have decided to update just a little bit with the few pictures that we do have. So here are some pictures back in February of one night when we decided to make some yummy valentine's day sugar cookies. We actually made them a few nights that week and I think that Tom is all sugar cookied out - which is amazing because Tom loves anything with sugar! Tom's sister Britt and her fiance Addie came over one night and these are some of the lovelies that we made!

Tom showing off his work off art - I honestly think this is the only cookie that he frosted all the way. He tends to slab some frosting on and shove it in his mouth. Not good when I was trying to make some to give away. ha

Here's cute Britt and Addie frosting away. Addie tends to frost like Tom.

He eats more than he frosts!