Hint: Escape From _______

If you know what country we're in (at Busch Gardens) then you know what country we'll be in (for real) in a week!

Chef Hot Cup

I love Hot Cup's yummy cooking! Sometimes I take pictures, and I'd probably have shared them before but taking good pictures of food is hard. On Sunday he made this delicious Valentine's Day dinner:

bacon wrapped chicken with chili cheese sauce; fresh asparagus; roasted potatoes

I didn't take a picture of him making dinner on Valentine's Day, but here he is another day:


Everything he makes is perfect and super delicious! I probably 'let' him cook too much, but I don't think he minds, and I'll be making all the meals soon enough. And I try to be a helpful chef's assistant. And I cook sometimes too, I promise!

Snow & Ice

Our walk on Sunday to borrow a shovel.


The icicles keep getting longer.
>Yesterday at 2 PM
>Today at noon (look how far it goes below the rail!)

Isn't the mid-storm vs. sunny difference amazing?

Merry Christmas!

Hot Cup has been teaching himself to play the piano and brings you this Christmas song:

Toward the end you can see he's a little conscious of being recorded, he can really play it perfectly.

Snowed In

I was quite happy to spend a couple of days at home with my husband. Some highlights from our weekend:

>Decorating the tree (we still need to get a topper)
>Playing the piano
>Shoveling snow
>Making a gingerbread house (although we didn't finish that until today)



Here's a few pics of the tree. We were having fun experimenting with the camera settings :) Which is your favorite?
>Indoor
>Night
>Star lights
>Green accent


We didn't have a shovel but a neighbor had two and let us borrow one. Hot Cup helped with the car he was working on at first and then they both, and a couple other guys, helped with ours. I stood around feeling useless (there weren't more shovels!) and ended up talking a bit with a couple of other girls. It was the most I've talked to any other residents here.

New Camera!

We got a new camera and it's very exciting to be able to take pictures.

We got it not long before our ward Christmas party. Here's me and Hot Cup with Santa.

This elder is asking Santa for a baptism for Christmas.

As you can see, Hot Cup is very excited to be putting together our brand new Christmas tree.

Now the tree is all decorated, I will show you pictures in a little while.

Welcome Home!

Nearly a month ago my brother got back from his LDS mission to Barcelona Spain. It's so fun to have him around again and to hear all his stories!

Here are all us siblings together after 2 years. That lovely scarf I'm wearing came all the way from Spain!