Mommas here.

My momma came to visit. It was lovely, I chatted her ear off until the wee hours of the night. She COMPLETELY stocked my cupboards and freezer to the brim. This wasn’t an ordinary grocery shop—she cooked and marinated tons of meat and sauces and onions and just so much I can’t even explain. Also she made a bunch of homemade granola that I can’t stop snacking on. I keep going back to the cupboards and freezer and get so excited discovering things she’s packed away in there. She worked for so long doing it and I am officially awarding her Mom of the year. Yep –it’s official.

(please excuse the terrible picture quality.. my iphone was all I had with me)

all those jars are full of cooked hamburger. And there's a bunch of chicken & a million other things!

Besides all the hard work, we also relaxed. We went to one of my favorite Provo restaurants—La Jolla Groves. The food was so delicious everyone ordered dessert. Oh yum.

lemon tiramisu



rasberry.. something?

chocolate lava cake

Another day we went to my sister’s favorite local Tai food place. It has weird seats and its pretty good. After dinner we showed my mom the Rebecca black “Friday” song. It just cracks me up.

It was so nice having my mom here—I love talking to her and she is so helpful! Dad—provo is calling your name—you’re next!

Operation.

Operation get Nicia to move to Provo (OGNTMTP).

I’ve known Nicia before we could talk, but we go’ed and ga’ed and each other and we were great friends. She lives in Seattle and I live in Provo and it makes me sad. Therefore when her family came to Park City we took advantage of the opportunity and I secretly tried to convince her to move here. Actually I was pretty obvious about it; I have no shame. We’ve also known Missy forever & she was the perfect partner in crime.

First, we went to lunch at Jdogs. When you visit Provo you just have to go. It’s the perfect polish dog with “special sauce” that’s to die for. I mean it’s still a hot dog, but its good.

Nicia with her first (but not last) J dog. ;)

Then, we had girl talk at my place for awhile. But then we showed Nicia Provo’s best selling point, tons of guys. Hahahah Oh my, I told you I am shameless. We took her to the business building, where there are an unusual amount of boys (for single girls).

Later we went for a little tour de Provo and showed her all of our favorite apartment complexes. We even showed her “the pent” which is Jordan and Tessa’s apartment. It’s super adorable so we thought that was a good selling point. lol

Then we went to Sammys. It’s a little hole in the wall that has amazing milk shakes. They make the shake with an entire piece of pie, cobbler, cupcake, or whatever you want mixed in. Oh my so delicious.
We had fun, so I’d say it was a success!
(ps. Nicia please don’t hate me and know that I am mostly kidding). LOL.

Our Wedding Part 1

With Jake’s sister Jordan getting married, I’ve been spending some time looking at wedding blogs. It really serves no purpose except so I can ooo and aaah at all the creative ideas.


All of this wedding business has made me realize that since I wasn't blogging when we got married, I havent shared any of our wedding pictures! So today, I'm going to post a million pictures from our wedding that bring back so many fun memories for me & hopefully you can enjoy them too.

(We have a million pictures of friends and realatives at the wedding, and hopefully someday I will post those, but for today I mostly just posted details and decorations)

Our Wedding Part 2

 These are in a very random order : )

Sunday.

I recently ran out of “free photo space” for the blog, however I figured out a sneaky way to keep doing it for free.. the only problem is it only works about half the time and takes forever. This has led to several failed blog posts that I’ve just given up on. So I’m just keeping this one short and hoping it works.

This weekend has been one of those lazy relaxing weekends. It’s been pretty nice. Every Sunday Jake and I go to church at 9am for 3 hours, so you can imagine my excitement that this weekend is General Conference aka we stay in our pajamas and watch church broadcasted on t.v. Not only is it fun to snuggle and eat treats during church, but it’s also very inspirational. Perfect.

This morning I made cream cheese coffee cake from my Southern Living cookbook. It was pretty good, but not "so-good-I-must-share-the-recipe" {ya know?}. My mom’s coffee cake is better, so if you want a realllly good one, just ask her. If you didn’t already know, there is nothing healthy about it, I’m pretty sure they just put “coffee” in the title to make people feel ok about eating cake for breakfast. Don’t be fooled, its cake, but I’m ok with that.

For dinner we went over to Jordan and Tessa’s apartment for a fun southern dinner. We had fried chicken, biscuits and gravy, creamed corn, and peach cobbler. So yummy!

On a completely unrelated note, we are selling our little scoot. We have had a lot of fun with it, but we both have cars and could use the cash more than the scoot, so it’s time to say goodbye. We will miss you scoot.

I lied, this isn’t short at all. I think I’m incapable of keeping any sort of “conversation” short.  I'll work on it..