Baby Shower Bliss

This past week end I attended a Baby Shower for my sister-in-law, Johanna. She is expecting to have her first child, Clark Cruickshank Bringhurst, in July. At the shower we played three games and I won two of them. HECK YES! I'm amazing when it comes to games like guess the candy bar melted in the diaper. My sister, Carly, decorated a "cake" it was made of rice krispies, and I made and decorated cupcakes. They were a chocolate peanut butter cream cheese and a key lime cheesecake cupcake. They were quite tasty.

Friendship Pictures!

Before my friend Camilynne moved up to Orem to go to school Lauren, her, I got together to take some friendship pictures. They were taken by someone while we just played around and acted like the dorks we are. It was way fun. So here are a few of our pictures...

Lauren, Me, Cami

I don't know what exactly I'm doing but everyone looks very concerned.

This was the coolest car ever, it was hard to drive because Lauren was sitting on the steering wheel.

Erica's Wedding

This past weekend my cousin Erica got married. It was quite the week. My family and I did all the food for the reception and my sister, Carly, and I did her wedding cake. It was a lot of work but everything turned out beautifully. For the food we did stuff that Erica asked for but we tried to vamp it up a bit. So we did popcorn chicken, pigs in a blanket, and our version of peanut butter and jam sandwiches. What we did was take sliced baguette's with almond butter and fresh strawberry slices. They were quite tasty. We also did a chicken salad roll up. As for the desserts we did lemon tarts, peanut butter brownie cheesecake bites, and rice crispies. It was a fun reception to cater. As for the cake I made a french vanilla cake, with actual vanilla beans in it, with a cream cheese berry center.  We printed off their bridal pictures on rice paper and attached them to cake with a bead frame around it. The cake was not originally going to look like this it took us a few different cake designs before we ended up with this one. We haven't really done one where there is a tier in the center of the cake but it worked with this cake I think. It was tasty and it looked really good when they cut into it. My sister says that its hard to watch people cut into a cake that you took so long to make and decorate. As for me I am just happy to be done with the cake so I don't really care what happens to it. Plus I work really hard to make sure that the cake tastes good so I like people to be able to enjoy that part. This wedding was a lot of work, but very worth it. I hope that Erica enjoyed everything. 

Ouch!

So a little background I play soccer once a week usually its pretty fun and I can walk away with everything working.  One thursday about 2 weeks ago I got kicked pretty good. I thought it was no big deal i've been kicked before. Turns out it didn't heal as fast as I would have hoped. 

This is the what it looked like a few days after the accident. 

When it first happened it turned white. This was as big as it got.

I'd say its pretty large. I had to wrap my leg because it would hurt when

I would walk on it. I limped for a bit. It was really fun.

This is what it looked like close up. You can kind of see

the bruising on the upper right side. As you can see it wants 

to heal. Hopefully it will go away. I'm tired of the pain.

This was today. It looks better and hurts worse but it's still

not looking great. I only have to wear a band-aide and I don't

have to wrap my leg anymore so thats always a good sign.

Needless to say it may be a while till I return to soccer. My Grandma Cruickshank told me I couldn't play anymore. I don't have very good luck when it comes to injuries. 

Angels Landing

Yay I finally made it up to the top. The last time that I tried I was unable to traverse the chains because there was so much ice under the snow that you slipped a lot. Well this weekend I decided to give one more try and I finally reached the top. It was my first time getting all the way up which is weird because I live right by it and I'm almost 21. I guess I was just a bum before. This time that I climbed I was a bit injured my right leg was hurt pretty bad on thursday so I had to hike with a good injury. It didn't hurt when I was doing it but I think that I angered it because the next day I had to wrap my leg up in order to walk properly. I finally am starting to heal but still the leg remains wrapped. The best part was that I was never sore from my hike the only problem I had was my wound. I am so happy. 

Lauren and I decided to hide in this rock cave.

Lauren, Dustin, Anna, and I sitting up at the top.

Smiling before we head back down. Which was an adventure in and of itself.

Tag I guess I'm it!

Okay so here is how it works: You must list one fact about yourself for each letter of your middle name. Each fact must begin with that letter. If you don't have a middle name, just use your maiden name. After you've been tagged, you need to update your blog with your middle name and answers. At the end of your post, you need to tag one person for each letter of your middle name. (Be sure to leave them a comment telling them they've been tagged and need to read your blog for details). 

Okay so my middle name is Kay:

 

Kilkennyish: (there is a county in Ireland called Kilkenny) mainly because I've always wished that I had a bit of Irish blood running through my veins but alas I am no more Irish then I am a Koala. I really just have an infatuation with Ireland and Irish culture.

Adventuress: I like going new places and seeing and doing new things. However I do not enjoy eating new food. Its hard for me to man up and get the courage to put something strange in my mouth, but eventually I do it or someone else does around me and I count that.

Yeller: I find that I shout more words then actually need to be shouted. If you don't believe me then you obviously haven't spent much time around me.

I tag Aimee, Carly and Kari

Vegas Woes

Saturday March something (I can never remember dates) two of my friends and I decided to head to Vegas for girls night out. We were basically going there to eat at the cheesecake factory (well worth a 2 hour trip). So we left kind of late mainly because we all had stuff we needed to finish so dinner would be around 8. So we all loaded up in my car and headed done to Vegas to visit Caesar's palace. When we finally arrived we got lost not just once but probably around 3 times I mean it shouldn't be that hard to find Caesar's palace. Anyways we ended up going in places that we shouldn't have been driving in we got lost in the Vale section of one hotel and finally escaped that. When we finally got in the right direction we missed our turn so we ended up parking at the casino next to Caesar's palace which was fine with us. We could walk a block and all would be okay. Well as soon as we left the parking garage and were in the casino my shoe broke. I then had to hobble down the Las Vegas Blvd till I could find a place to get a new pair of shoes. Well we ended up at the forum shops, everything there pretty much costs a ton of money, something I don't have. So again I had to hobble along till I could find an affordable pair of shoes. I ended up getting a pair of flats at gap which was fine except that my pants were then too long and dragged on the floor. We finally got to the Cheesecake Factory and were told the wait would be about 30 minutes. So to kill time we went to play on the giant piano at the toy store. That's always fun. Well we finally got to eat around 9. Well as soon as we got up my ankle kind of gave out on me so again I had to hobble, also i got a new shoe blister. Yay for Vegas and to make things worse the hem in my pant gave out so they were event longer. To make matters worse all of this happened to my left leg. I mean what are the chances that all of this would happen and then to have it all happen on one side. I don't think I'll be making a trip out to Vegas anytime soon. We then got home around 2 I was exhausted with all of the events of the day that I crashed.