2012's First BBQ!

We packed up the car, bought some road trip goodies and hit the road to travel to Ogden for a BBQ at Andy and Melinda's house!  Okay okay...it at least felt like a road trip from Herriman :)

  They had an awesome backyard with a playground and trampoline!  I don't know how you could ever beat great friends, great food and great activities for the kids all in one night!

 Here's Ryker loving the climbing wall and slide...head first...

Lexi (Andy & Melinda's youngest)

 Seth, Corina, Emily & Chris

 Emma (Corina's oldest)

 MacKenzie & Braden (Andy's twins)

 Mercedes (Emily & Chris's) & Emma

 Lily -Corina's and also Ryker's best friend :)

 

 

 I loved all those crazy hair shots!

Seth and Andy

 The kiddo train!

 The out numbered two boys

 Emily & Chris

Ryker wanted a turn on the camera so he took a self portrait plus the next photo

 Garden update:

Compost/Mulch is in the flower beds.  Seeds are sprouting.  Vines are climbing.  And Mindy's painting rocks!

The girls and I painted rocks for craft night this last week.  Very relaxing....until your kid starts throwing sand at the pretty girls!

Spring

Our new swimming pool!

 

 

Gotta love Nerf guns!  It been one of our most favorite toys for the last few months. 

Aaaaaannnnndddd.....this is the reason I'm inside blogging.  I'm avoiding a major project in my yard.  This is the space between my fence and my garden.  Too small for a mower but just wide enough for weeds.  Blah!  I need to clear it, level it, put weed cloth down, pin, lay bricks and then fill in the gaps with gravel.  It's 83 degrees outside in the middle of April...what's up with that?

1st Quarter Tidbits

I had to post these first since they're what inspired me to blog :)  I took Ryker shopping last weekend and let me pick out some sunglasses and a hat so that we could work out in the yard.  He's so stinkin cute!

 

Easter 2012

We enjoyed Easter with family, brunch and an Easter Egg Hunt!  

Unfortunately I was so wrapped up in it I only got some decent photo's of Ryker.    

 The week before I spent hours and hours cleaning up the flower beds and edging them.

 5 huge bags!

 Ry was sopping wet within an hour of our first day outside for Spring!

 Seth felt the need to take a picture of me tilling the garden.  I love it since I'm ankle deep in dirt :)

Corina's little girls came to play this same week and I had to take a photo of all the sweet smiles!

This March I hosted a Hunger Games Premiere Party at work.  It turned out to be a lot of fun!  There was only about half the attendance of my Twilight or Harry Potter events but I think the next one in 2013 will be a lot more.  There's a lot of steam and fans behind this movie!

 Cornucopia Competition (Trivia)

 

Battlefield Utah

There was also a Fireball Dodge, Mellark Bakery, Hunt Lassoing, Fighting Skills, Jousting, nerf guns, compound bows and Tracker Jacker Darts.

To end the evening we had a Reaping and the Megaplex's 1st Annual Hunger Games!  24 Tributes were selected and competed in elimination games to win prizes.  Guests were entered into the reaping by donating canned goods!  We collected 880 of them for the Utah Food Bank!

At the end of February Seth joined me in Vegas for a Conference called Catersource.  I learned a ton in the classes on Sunday and Monday and then Tuesday I couldn't get out of bed due to the FLU!  It was such terrible timing!  Luckily Seth and I still were able to enjoy a nice date Sunday night with dinner and the Penn and Teller show.

Here's some pictures from the tradeshow and other vegas stuff:

This was my favorite table scape!  Maybe since pirates are near and dear to my creative heart but also since they did an amazing job with the structure and details.

I really liked the candle holders on this one.  It was a vase on an upside down cup.

 

This one was my second favorite.  A jungle theme with a lot of details!

 Edible glitter chocolate truffles....I'm thinking my last Twilight Event this November!

 Neat catering idea!  Food served on the wall!

 Seth and I at an evening event

 Ceasar's Palace - View from our room.

To end the post off with the way I started.... Ryker!  We've been having fun with art projects!