[.I let Karma handle my dirty work.]

Sorry this will be kinda long but now that I have gotten some homework out of the way I'll take a minute to sit down an relax before I have to get started once again!  So let's begin with last week.

For my birthday I went to school, went to work, and took my mom to the hospital to get a cortisone shot in her back.  Sounds like a fun day right!?  Well Kevin and my mom took me to dinner at Applebees with Lance, Jake & Jenna and Ty & Brooke.  I LOVE that place!  Jenna and I split the 3-cheese-chicken penne and the Oriental Chicken Salad!  MMmm!  I almost forgot that I was supposed to make a fruit salad/jello my Lance's uncles luncheon the next day so Jenna and I ran to Bowmans to grab a few last minute items, went back to the house and tried to not eat all the pineapple before putting it into the jello.   Lance and I went back home and on our kitchen table he had left me some way cute flowers with some sick Nike shoes!

I wish I could wear them everywhere they are so comfy!
Saturday morning we woke up to head to the Draper Temple for Lance's uncle Steve's sealing to his wife Wendy.  I always love going to sealings because it always reminds me of the words I heard on the day Lance and I were sealed together and always makes me want to try harder to be a better spouse.
Of course football was going on, it was Saturday afterall, so we went to Lance's parents to watch the football game(s).  My dad had wanted to celebrate my birthday as well so he invited us for dinner Saturday evening.  Tracy always makes yummy meals so I was quite excited!  AND it was even HEALTHY dinner so it was even better!  She made chicken breasts stuffed with asparagus!  I'll have to make that one again sometime soon!  We stayed and talked for a while as usual.
Do you want to know the ONE thing I love about having multiple sides of the family!?  I get to celebrate my birthday like a zillion times!  On Sunday Kevin made katsudones for my birthday dinner!  I always crave these babies!  So so good!
Afterwards we opened presents and had cake:]
Kevin gave me a cute new shirt!  Jake and Jenna gave me my new favorite perfume!
Scratch and Sniff Here
Okay not really, but you get the point!
So this is kinda random but Jake convinced my mom to let him get another cat.  He is so dang cute!   We decided to name him DJ (Doc Junior.. Since Doc is 13 years old and all).

He basically fits in the palm of your hand and loves to sit on your shoulder like a parrot while you're walking around the house.
Anyway, after dinner and presents we went over to  my Gma and Gpa Neilsons to celebrate my Gpa's 72nd birthday and have dessert!
My Grandpa always reminds me how he is almost exactly 50 years older than me!  It's so cute!  At least I will never forget how old he is!


For young women's on Wednesday Angie (the Young Women's president) and I decided it would be a good activity to teach the girls how to make pie!  It might have been good if either one of us knew how to even make a pie before we tried to teach the girls a new skill!

Doesn't it look so appetizing!?
Well to start off, luckily I bought this graham cracker crust in case ours *homemade* one didn't work out. As you can tell, it didn't!  It pretty much tasted just like chalk!
Oh and did I mention the creamy rubbery bouncy-ball-like-consistency chocolate mousse!?
It was just splendid!
 I was sure to pile on about 2 cups of whip cream before I was even willing to try a bite!

But we still had fun!!
Somewhere in the middle of all this Diet and Myrna took Lance and I to Siegfried's for our birthday Lunch!  We all got wienerschnitzel and spaetzle. Tim and Matt decided to come along as well!  It was fun and so yummy!  Thanks you guys!
Afterwards we went to Tyler and Chantelle's wedding ceremony at the Draper temple and then later on to the reception!
Congrats to the both of you!
Over the last week I feel like my homework overload is way more overloaded than it should be! But I like taking a break and doing something fun every once in a while.
Our "relaxing" Saturday turned out to be..well..not so relaxing so to say?
We woke up expecting to go to the Turkey Shoot with my sister Cort.  That ended up not happening.  So Lance and I went to spend some of my birthday money and go to lunch.  As we were getting on the freeway we saw a copper.
We have a radar detector that has pretty much become worthless!  I say this because cops don't run off of radar anymore.  Unfortunately they run off of LASERS!  Which the detector does not detect!  So it went off basically telling us we were SOL!  We stayed a consistent speed getting on to the freeway hoping he wasn't coming after us.  Lance asked, "Babe he get coming!?"
Looking in the mirror I replied, "Yup!!"
As Lance was looking in the rear view mirror he saw the cop merge over two lanes!  Ah, we were safe! NOT! Not even ten second later the lights were flashin' right behind us.  We pulled over only to give the friendly officer our license and registration!  He came up to our window.  You know how this goes,
"Do you know why I pulled you over?"
Uh... No?  I was not speeding to get in front of all the other cars before the lane merged over!
"For speeding?"
"Yes, do you know what the speed limit is sir?"
I'm sitting there hoping Lance would say a high number.
You could tell Lance was really contemplating his answer...
"Um? 40?"
"Yes, it is, do you know how fast you were going?"
"No?"
"You were going 55 miles an hour"
Blah, Blah, Blah..
Lance is always nice to the officers (I say that like he gets pulled over all the time?).  But as soon as the officer goes back to his car to write us a ticket, neither of us were too happy and not really in the mood to move along with our plans.  So..we went back home.  A little bit later (around 11:30 maybe?) Lance asked me to check to see what time the BYU game was on and which channel.  I brought him the lap top so he could look it up but he was "busy".  I looked online and told him it's on at 4:00 on the Mtn.  So our plans were to go to lunch at Applebee's (with our giftcard from Brit:) and then go to Lance's parents to watch the BYU game.  While we were at lunch we sat there and talked while we were waiting for our food.  Once we were finished we boxed up our food and Lance looked on his phone just to reconfirm the game was on.  Oh no!!
Remember how I told him the game was on at 4:00!?  Well uh.. that wasn't quite the case.  It more so started at noon about an hour and a half ago!  Needless to say, I did NOT have a happy husband!
I felt so bad!
We went back home (again).
I knew Lance wasn't happy with me so I decided to leave and finish spending the rest of my birthday money.  Hey if he wasn't happy, I sure as heck wasn't gonna sit home.  So off I went and came back with some new jeans.  Cause that always makes you feel better right!?  Well for me it did!
Later that night Lance and I went with Josie & Tyler and my sister Cort & Austin (Ozz) to Fat Cats to go bowling.

.Lancer.Tyler.Jos.Austin.Cort.
[fresh, tiny, pineapple, ozz, corny]


It was super fun!!