Birthday Extravaganza

I love this time of the year when for a few months me and the husband are the same age. Friday night we went out to dinner in salt lake just the two of us and did a little bit of shopping at the out door Gateway mall and then went to our friend's house to watch the game. That would be the Jazz playoff game. There is a lot of basketball watching goin on in the Egan house hold as of late. Saturday was our neighbor and good friend's 30th birthday so we did a combined birthday celebration day consisting of a delicious break fast, fun movie "Date Night" & bbq.

Look closely at the mirror....Looks like the ghost of Ryan watching over them.... creepy

Ryan did his best fruity pose:)

Sunday, the big day, we had dinner with Ryan's family with his mom's famous home made ribs which were wonderful and then had his family and a few friends over to our place for cake and you guessed it another Jazz playoff game. I tried making a peanut butter cake recipe that my friend had made and Ryan loved. He had been talking it up for months in advance. I definitly should have done a trial run before the big day because it was a disaster. Actually, I think it tasted ok it just looked terrible, like if there was some contest on the worst looking cake I could have entered and won. Its hard to tell in these pics but it was bad. It turned out to be more of a peanut butter cobbler look.

Vegas Baby

What happens in Vegas usuallly stays in Vegas but I guess I'll break the rules. It had been forever since we had been down south and I couldn't stand another cold weekend, so we drove to St. George last friday after work. Immediatly upon entering St. George we stopped at my favorite ghetto fast food restaruant Jack in the Box. We then tried hitting up the hot tub at the condo but kicked out about 5 min after getting in due to the pool patrol who closed it up right on the dot of closing time. Not too long after that our friends showed up and we watched a movie. Saturday morning we made our way to sunny warm Vegas. On our scout to find somewhere to eat, always so hard to do in Vegas cause there are so many options and none of us were decision makers we stopped by Tiffany's (never been in one before). I was eyeing a gorgeous diamond ring and the sales lady asked me if I wanted to try it on. No, no I'm just looking I said, (obviously, like I'm ever going to buy anything at a store where armed security guards in tuxedos greet you at the door) then she says, are you sure it looks better on or something to that effect so I gave in and tried on a $34,000 ring. Didn't look to bad on either, hint, hint husband:) Yea right I wouldn't even want that a ring that expensive. Anyways, we found a PF changs to eat at and sat on the patio. After that me and Aimee went to the pool and soaked up the sun and took a really wonderful nap while the guys went to the casino and promptly lost their allowance. After that we headed to the factory outlet mall where I found the coolest jacket at Armani but it was still on the expensive side so I used all my will power and resisted it. After all the shopping that my husband could handle we went to the Venitian/ Pallazo hotel for dinner and at a place called the Grand Lux which is owned by the same people as the cheese cake factory so of course it was delicious. After walking around for a bit me and Ryan decided to go to our favorite Vegas activity the Bellagio water show and gardens. We walked and walked and got there just as a show was beginning and it just happened to be our song "Your song" by Elton John. It is our song because when we were first dating Ryan took me to St. George/Vegas (don't worry mom we were staying at his grand parents house :)). It was a little early in the relationship and I thought that this trip was either going to make it or break it and it definitly made it. We waited forever at the Bellagio for the water show to play that night and when it finally came on I think it was really windy or something that night "Your song" was the one it played, anyways that night was when I really started to like Ryan so Vegas is always fun for us cause it brings back lot of good memories. If we had danced at our wedding this is what we would have danced to. Anyways back to the present day after our

Bellagio jaunt it was about 1am in the morning and we thought a good time to drive back to St. George. Our friends were staying in Vegas thru Monday so we thought we would just head back to St. George so we could have the day there to relax. Luckily Ryan was driving because I was so tired I could barely stand it and thanks to his good driving skills we made it back alive so that I could write this really long blog post. Sunday we slept in, relaxed in the sun again, visited Ryan's sister and headed home. A Pretty nice get away but it made me want to go on a much longer one and with a beach. This is a taste of the water show.. .

Muse

For Christmas I got Ryan tickets to see the band Muse and so yesterday the day had finally arrived. We had a really fun time. We ate dinner in Salt Lake and then went to the concert. Unfortunatly we missed the opening band. But they played all our favorite songs and had cool light show.

I really want it to be spring, (hence the new spring like blog background) it was snowing so hard yesterday I couldn't believe it when we were making the trek from parking to the stadium

Painting Fiasco

So, I've been wanting to paint an accent wall in our master bath for a while now, (ever since I was dying my hair and accidentaly splattered it on the wall above the toilet). So we made a pre-visit to Home Depot to check out the options. I wanted to do that Ralph Lauren textured paint same as Annaliese did for our downstairs bathroom but they didn't have any samples to take home. All our previous painting adventures took me at least 5 agonizing trips to look at paint but I was determined to be more decisive this time but still lets not get too crazy I couldn't do it on the first try. Saturday we went back debated between three shades ( at first I was thinking of doing a teal color but couldn't get up the nerve) so then what I wanted to do is a sand color since we have a little beach theme going. We looked at a couple of darker colors and then decided to play it safe, this is what no risks get you=EXACT same color as our current walls. We look at our walls everyday how could we not know it was the same color? And I hate wasting, we just threw $30 down the drain, I can't stand it. If you take it back can they add more color? I would gladly give it to some one to avoid this terrible waste but who needs beige paint or should I say desert taupe? -they throw you off with those creative names

Fun in the Snow

For the 3 day weekend we went to Preston, Idaho (home of Napaloen Dynamite) with our friends who have family that live there. We had a really fun time. We did some snow mobiling, snow shoeing, and playing of games. I haven't done any activities that consist of going out side and staying outside for longer than it takes to get to my car for the past I don't know how many winters, so it was fun to actually enjoy winter for a change.

Here is us snow shoeing on V-day, it was such a nice day and I was wearing so many layers I actually had to start taking them off and this view was so pretty.

Here are the husbands trying to get one of them un-stuck. The snow was so deep in some places, it was crazy.

Penny's Visit

So, my little sister Penny came to Utah this weekend to audition for the BYU music piano program. I took the day off on Friday from work to hang out and do girly stuff. We did each other's nails in the morning and then Penny finished up some last minute college scholarship applications while I went and got my hair cut. That afternoon we went to lunch, shopped for Prom dresses, and saw the chick flick, Leap Year. That night we played our new favorite game, Ticket to Ride, which me and Ryan play every sunday night together but some how manage to get beaten by any new comers we teach it to including Penny, twice. We also played some Wi tournaments of Tennis, me and Penny are actually pretty evenly matched but Ryan is practically unbeatable at Tennis. Saturday morning I took Penny down to Provo to BYU and let her roam the campus while me and Ryan went to Draper for Ryan's sister's wedding. After the ceremony we headed back to BYU to pick up Penny unfortunatly we did not get there in time to hear the audition:( After that we had just enough time to grab a bite to eat, change & freshen up for the wedding dinner and reception. Ryan made an awesome wedding video for his sister & fiancee Jake but they couldn't get the audio to work on the projector screen at the reception place so unfortunatly they just had to play it on a small tv and it was hard to hear. He also played the piano for a song Jake made and sung to Erin and did an awesome job on that too. Such a creative guy. The reception was at a Nursery (garden place) so we amused ourselves by having a mini photo shoot.

Also, I need help from the face book experts, I tried posting these pics on face book but I'm not sure they showed up on the wall. Can you guys see them on face book on the wall? How do I do it, just attach some pics on the main wall thingy? I just don't want to re-post them if they are already there.

Chaos

This is how I would describe my first experience in nursery. We were walking to sunday school a little later than usual today and as we passed the nursery rooms got grabbed to be a substitute. There were about 3 parents in there trying to wean themselves away from their kids and 1 kid crying and was not to be consoled, (we finally had to have the nursery leader find his parents). There was a total of three room changes throughout the process, the snack room was my favorite. One of the kids found a smaller kid to bully, whenever he found him alone he would come up to him, at first sight you think he's hugging him but then he pushes him down. Another of the kids was autistic and was really interested in the walls, chairs and especially the door and kept trying to leave the room so one of us always had to be on door duty. It was an interesting experience, all the kids definitely had their own personalities and were all cute in their own way, but I was exhausted by the time church was over, so hats off to everyone who is or has had a calling in nursery.