Happy Birthday Baby!

This one is for my other love....(besides those cupcakes).

Joseph celebrated his 26th birthday today. I was so excited I had a hard time sleeping last night(of course. I'm weird about things like holidays and celebrations). We had strawberry crepes and eggs for breakfast and wished that we could just take the day off. But, seeing as how I have already used 21 of my alloted 10 vacation days (do remember that I got married this year) that wasn't really an option!

After work we met up for a quick dinner at this little Mexican place by my office, where I presented the hubs with the previously blogged about cupcakes. Of course I was far more excited by them than he was, but you can't argue that they are divine.

The evening ended with a show at the Wolly Mammoth Theater in DC, where we saw a one-woman show based on a teacher's experience in inner city schools dealing with No Child Left Behind. We went with the inlaws (who are fantastic) and really, really, really liked the play. To any DCers, we would highly recommend it.

And I am now typing this post as a little tribute to the handsome man that is the reason behind all these celebrations!! So...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, honey.

For the Love

Cake Love, that is.

Today is Joseph's birthday, and because we are going with his parents to a play tonight we won't really have any time to have the traditional cake and ice cream at home. So...I hopped on the metro to U Street to a favorite little bakery of mine and picked up a few of these babies.

Inside this little box



Is a delightful treat, ready to satisfy the biggest of sweet tooths (uh, that would be me).

Four mouth-watering flavors: Chocolate buttercream on chocolate, strawberry-chocolate, raspberry-chocolate, and German chocolate on chocolate. They're for my husband, but let's be honest...

if this were staring you in the face could you say NO...to just one tiny little bite?! I think not.

And, once again, Cake Love does not disappoint.

Holiday Happenings

Okay, so I've been off the blogging bandwagon for a little while, but in an attempt to jump back on this may turn into a "super post."

The holidays this year were particularly wonderful. It may have something to do with the fact that I now have someone particularly wonderful to share them with. Some of the best parts were spending time with family and friends, seeing old friends, shopping for Joseph (does it ever get better than spoiling your sweetheart?), eating mounds of delicious holiday treats, and enjoying the outdoors and a white, white Utah Christmas.

Seeing fall meet winter is a beautiful thing. An early snow in Virginia put us in the Christmas mood...
As the holiday treat cravings set in I invited some USU alum friends over and we had a great time making peppermint bark, caramels and other goodies.


I also got to catch up with an old friend, Anne Marie. I loved meeting her sweet baby, Jaclyn and enjoying some good laughs. Good friends and good memories are some of the sweetest parts of life.

Then it was on to Utah for the festivities. Snowmobiling.

There was a lot of this.....

and some of this...

And of course there was this.....

Christmas morn and the family pajamas (Designed and produced by yours truly...8 pairs of pjs...never again)!

Christmas Dinner

We've been friends since kindergarten, and even though we may only see each other once ore twice a year, we never skip a beat. I was so glad Shayla stopped by to say hi.
Getting all dressed up for dinner is the tradition at our house. Actually any excuse to get dressed up is tradition at our house :)
I also got to see my friend, MaryJo and her beautiful family. The Floyd Farnsworth family made a pit stop in Duchesne and had the famous pre-Christmas clam chowder. As well as Eric, another family adoptee.
And at the end of it all, I think this is how we all felt :) After all his hard work, the old elf was just tuckered out!