Hawaii here we come!

Ryan and I are going to Maui for spring break, like I mentioned before. I am soooooooo excited!!! I just finished a mid-term, which I aced, and now I'm ready for some R&R. I hope everyone enjoys conference, we will be recording it, and I hope you all enjoy your spring break! Look forward to some pictures from our splendid trip.

Cait

Looking forward to spring break!

No posts lately unfortunately. Ryan and I haven't been doing anything too exciting seeing as I have been sick with a nasty cold for a week. Yuck! I do not wish to prolong this sickness so I've been at home resting a lot. But we do have something exciting coming up! We have planned a trip to Maui for week over spring break! Yeah! It's my first time going so I'm very excited. Especially about getting a tan and playing all day at the beach! So those are some photos i'm sure you all will be looking forward too :) Oh and I have to share this with those of you who care. Ryan bought me a pair of new shoes, and they're so beautiful! I seriously feel like beyonce when i wear them! Not trying to brag, just want to share my happiness with everyone!!! Yeah! I love my new shoes!!!

A Picture of Maui and Mah new shoes!

Valentine's Day

The Flowers, a little wilted by now

The candy

The adorable movie

This year we did valentine's day a little more low key than usual. Ryan and I love to go crazy for any type of holiday/birthday, but we toned it down a bit. So we just started the morning off with exchanging gifts, ryan got me gorgeous flowers of course, the movie "Baby Mama" (i love love love this movie!!!), and a new blue tooth because since we've been living in california I've been illegally driving while talking on the phone, yikes! This year I got ryan some scrumptious see's candy and a nice cardigan from American Apparel, unfortunately the sweater did not fit, so we had to exchange :( after presents we ate breakfast and headed over to the high school to play tennis, it's our new form of exercise and fun. We're both learning still so it's nothing intense, yet. Then we hung out around the house, ran some errands and then headed over for some dinner at a hole in the wall mexican place, pretty decent food, but not the taco shop, yum! Then we went to see "Coraline" in 3D which I really adored. It's just a really different, creative, and artistic movie. Unfortunately ryan fell asleep in the movie, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a great movie, because it really was. Anyways, i hope everyone else had a wonderful weekend! Oh yeah and my young women and I kind of pigged out with the valentine cupcakes i made and loads of other goodies and treats. they're a bad influence :(

Dying for a few nights at the movies...

I don't know about everyone else, but I am dying to see these two movies! "He's Just Not That Into You" comes out tomorrow and "Confessions of A Shopaholic" comes out next weekend! Yeah, I'm soooooo excited to go to the movies finally, it's been a long time.

Yummalicious!!! Valentine Cookies!

Tonight our Miamaids and Beehives got together to decorate Valentine cookies. So much fun! And we ate chocolate, frosting, the cookies of course and laughed the whole night. We then made a few extra to take to the girls that couldn't come, and we had loads of fun. I made a few for my valentine too :)

These are the cookies I had decorated, including the one I was eating, yum!

My beautiful beehive girls!

All the girls, including Haylee and Claire who were on their cell phones the whole night! Yikes, cell phones are bad news in the hands of teenagers.

Happy early Valentine's Day!

LA Madness.Birthday Fun

To begin this blog, I want everyone to brace themselves because there are just too many photos for one blog and it's quite overwhelming, haha. We spent Ryan's 26th birthday in LA for about 3 days. We ate at amaaaaaazing restaurants, stayed at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, took a tour at Warner Brothers studios (filled with fantastic movie and television excitement), went to the Lakers' game, downed an amazing breakfast, and finished off with a little celebrity star map fun.
25 degrees grilled cheese and tomato soup (killer burger place inside our hotel)

Ryan's burger, and what's left of the fries and onion rings

Our hotel room, the size was reminiscent of a February trip to New York

Birthday Gifts

Warner Brother's tour. We began at their WB museum, complete with costumes and memorabilia since its opening (1929). The museum also had one floor devoted to Harry Potter, we both got sorted with one of the actual sorting hats from the movie. Ryan is in Hufflepuff and I am in Gryffindor. Then we toured actual sets, saw where they were filming ER that day, and loads of other things. I'm in front of the "Gilmore Girls" home in this photo.

Spiderman set, the alley in the back of the picture is from the upside down Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst kiss.

The Tumbler

The set of "Friends," which is the only preserved tv show set at the studio.

On the "Friends" couch!!!

Banksy

Sprinkles cupcakes. For ryan's birthday cake we decided to purchase cupcakes. This was the first time we'd tried sprinkles, and I know many people are big fans, but we were not impressed. We also spent 20 minutes waiting in line for these, yikes!

"Birthday cake"

The Lakers' game

Horrid picture of me, but i love ryan's expression, he was totally caught off guard. This was us waiting to see who would finally win. Wonderful game! Too bad for the Lakers.

traditional birthday signs

The griddle cafe's version of egg's benedict.

yikes

the best french toast in the world!!! and we even got to see Hillary Swank!

Star mapping it up. We would have more pictures of the celebrity homes, unfortunately they are either covered by a giant wall, as seen with the olsen twin's home, a giant gate, they have a ridiculously long driveway, or live on a private road. So basically you would be seeing pictures of walls and or gates.

Mary-kate and Ashley's home!

Family birthday cake

adorable!

Work birthday cake

A wonderful 26 year old man!

Happy Birthday Sweet Husband!

Ryan is turning the big 26 tomorrow, and since we'll be celebrating in L.A. all weekend, I just wanted to dedicate an early post to him. My wonderful husband works so hard everyday, and enjoys being with his family, watching seinfeld, surfing the internet (mostly on ebay), taking our little lulu to the dog park/beach, and lately being a connoisseur of sushi. He's adorable and I love every silly quirk and characteristic about him! Here are some pictures of him and us from the past few years.

Formal night on our honeymoon cruise

Snowmobiling in Yellowstone

Photo shot somewhere in idaho, courtesy of Oto

The ruins in Cancun

Our donkey ride up the hill to Santorini

Feeding Venetian pigeons

Our beautiful wedding day

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Shop Once For A Week's Worth of Meals

I get emails from martha stewart online all of the time. This week I got an email about shopping smarter and I checked it out and out came a list of several weeks of planned meals, including the grocery list for the entire week. I don't know about the whole four of you reading this, but it's hard to gather tons of new recipes and make a grocery list that makes sense and isn't outrageously expensive. There are many different categories of meal plans, from five ingredient meals to one pot dinners, to healthy and flavorful dishes. They show all of the pictures of the meals so you know what you're getting into. Thought I'd make life a little easier for all of you cooking wives and mothers :) Here's the link:

http://www.marthastewart.com/grocery-bag?xsc=eml_edf_2009_01_13

Enjoy!