Pizza and Dominion and Zombies, oh my!

Tonight Mike and I had a couple of neighbors come over to play some games!

First, we had some great pizza from our backyard pizza neighbors, Mountain Mike's. 

Then we introduced the Jackson's to one of our favorite games, Zombies.  It's a dice/board game where you try to collect 20 zombies or reach the helipad for safety to win the game. K won that one...

Then the Jackson's introduced us to a really fun card game called Dominion. There's a lot involved with it, so I'm not going to go into details here, but I really liked it!  L won that game.  Apparently our house is good luck to those that visit it!

Fun family night all around!

Idina Menzel Concert!

Saturday evening, Mike and I had an AMAZING date night! First, we went to our favorite restaurant, Asian Star. (sigh) Just talking about it makes me want it again. We LOVE Chinese food, but that is definitely one of our most crave-a-licious meals!

We then took off to Deer Valley where IDINA MENZEL was performing, along with the Utah Symphony. We got there pretty early, but we were prepared with Phase 10 in our pockets. :) 

Man, the weather was perfect. It was probably low 70's, chance of rain, and not blistering hot. My kind of weather! 

The symphony started coming out on stage, and who should I see, but my old violin teacher Jack Ashton! I headed up to him to see if I could say hi, and he totally recognized me! It was so good to see him and catch up. They did SO well, and I miss going to the symphony as often as I used to. (Maybe I could get Mike to take me...)

Mike and I enjoying ourselves!

Mike and his constant chatter on the phone...

The standard kissing-the-cheek photo!

Then, Idina came out with the symphony introducing her with the fun beats of "Life of the Party" from "Wild Party". Everyone was just ecstatic to just see her come out! She was so beautiful, and everyone was commenting on it! I just got tears in my eyes as soon as she sang her first note! 

I actually got to see one of her last performances in the original production of Wicked on Broadway, and I never thought I would have the chance to see her live again! She is so amazing and just captivates you with her original tone and her amazing stage presence.  

She was so hilarious as well with her personal stories, and was so great at involving the audience! She sang "Love For Sale" by Cole Porter, along with my favorites "I'm Not That Girl" from Wicked, "Funny Girl" and "Don't Rain On My Parade" from Funny Girl. She got emotional as she sang a soft version of "No Day But Today" from Rent and had the audience sing with her. She even sang her version of "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga from Glee! All the while she was just making fun of the song and how ridiculous the lyrics were. She wrapped it up by singing, "For Good" and "Defying Gravity" from my FAVORITE musical Wicked. She then sang her encore "Tomorrow" from Annie.

We were really a lot closer than this, but we weren't supposed to take pictures and had to be discreet!

 All in all, it was an amazing concert, and I was SO happy Mike and I got to see that together. If anyone ever has the chance to see her, I would greatly recommend it!

Happy Anniversary!

Today is Mike and I's third anniversary! He has to work tonight, so we couldn't really celebrate it today, but we're going to party tomorrow! He did give me flowers-a dozen red roses, so that was so sweet. So beautiful! He is such a great husband-and I pale in comparison as a wife. I do not deserve him. I love him so much and I look forward to the decades of anniversaries to come! 

WE ARE WHAT WE EAT

So, this year I decided I want to do a food blog/cookbook. Whenever I cook something that looks super good, or if I eat something out that looks amazing, I'm going to take a picture of it. If I cook it, I'm going to take the picture and put it in my cookbook so I can see the picture of what I've made and if I liked it or not. So far, I've made a couple of meals and they've turned out really good. The roast was Sunday's and the spaghetti was tonight. More food to come! 

Slow-Cooked roast w/ button mushrooms, mashed potatoes, side of veggies and a whole-wheat roll. 

Whole wheat spaghetti w/ meat and mushroom sauce and garlic bread.

Happy New Year!

Well, another year is about to pass by, and I have really done a bad job at updating my posts and everything. I have decided to come up with my resolutions for the new 2011 year! First, Christmas was really great! Just look below...

The Youngs

Mike and I at my mom's house

Eldredge Christmas!

My sister Lindsay and I

Mike with his loot-Qwirkle and clothes!

Mmmm....

Now, for my New Year's resolutions.

1. Be more postive-I feel like I'm a Debbie Downer sometimes when it comes to certain things, well-most things, and I think it would help me a lot to be more postive when doing things!
2. Conquer my fears-I feel like a lot of what I would LIKE to do, I don't, because fear overcomes me. I just need to take leaps of faith-accept the choices and consequences and do it-because most likely nothing bad will really happen to me! 
3. Lose weight-now this one has always been a problem for me. It's the whole self control thing-and the fact that I love food and how it tastes way too much. But I have to just do it-so I feel much better inside and out! It will just make everything more enjoyable.
4. Definitely take more pictures and videos. This year's video scrapbook was such a let-down. We did things-but did not take as many photos as I would have liked. 
5. LIVE LIFE. This goes with number four. To take photos and videos, we have to do more things that warrant taking photos and videos. I want to have adventures, feel like I'm having a LIFE-especially right now while I don't have kids.

Those are my resolutions. I feel good, positive, and looking forward to the future. This will be a great year in my 25th year of life. 

Take Me Out to the Softball Game!

Tonight Mike had a softball game, one of his last. It wasn't their best, and they didn't win, but it was fun to go! 

Jake and Mike!

Park City Fun!

Saturday, Mike and I went to Park City for a work party! We got to go on the Alpine Slide, the zip line, and the coaster! It was great to be out in the fresh air and experience a little bit of adventure.

Getting ready to go down the slide !! Got my game face on :)

We are in line to go down the zip line. I was so scared! It was way fun though!

While we were in line, Shaun White got to cut in front of us to go down the zip line first.  I can't be too annoyed at an Olympic Gold Medalist who cuts in front of me, can I? 

Mike and I after we went down the coaster. It was so fun and so fast!! I would totally want to do it again! 

I also conquered one of my fears...going on a tramp. I made an exception because I was harnessed in and got to go high and wasn't worried for my life! 

This is the highest I've ever jumped in my life!