Hello cupcake!

Wednesday I attempted to do something for the first time, with a bad oven, with very limited time. Not a good idea.turned out okay though..
I offered to make cupcakes for Bible Study. Then I realized I only had 9 cupcake holders and thought I would make a cake. Then I saw my shiny, unused, giant cupcake pan. I thought I'd keep my promise and make a giant cupcake. Well since my oven bakes unevenly the top of the cupcake cooked way fast and the bottom part did not...long story short...I threw the top out and kept the bottom...partly frosted because I did not have time to frost the thing..and did not bring it to Bible Study...sad :(
But here it is...pretty ugly but it tastes like yummy cake :)

Warning...this may be too cute!

This is the second posting about my friend's animals. My friend Whitney has an adorable dog named Remy. Remy is very laid back and loves friends. He gets along great with Dexter (a little too great for his liking if you know what I'm talking about) and he cares for his adopted kittens like his children. He gives them kisses, cleans them, worries about them...it's quite sweet.
I was able to snap a little picture of Henry/Bruce/Mrs. Norris (Whatever his name is today) and Remy bonding over my converse sneaker.

Yeah they're pretty cute. Mrs. Bruney (yes he's a guy), was neutered earlier that day so was more lethargic but he still found plenty of time to play with everything in sight. I love animals. How precious are they?

May the fourth be with you.. Happy Star Wars day!

Sorry, not a star wars themed post. I was going to take a picture of Brand looking coincidentally Jedi-ey today (he didn't know what today was..AHH!) but Lost was so EFFING mindblowing I had to capture our faces of the utter shock and confusion that Lost is.

Besides words such as "destiny", "fate", and "Freckles" the common theme of Lost really is WHAT THE F**K! Yeah I went there. Lost has balls. I won't spoil tonight's episode for someone (mainly Rheanne) but Rheanne...get ready for a wild ride that season 6 is. There have been at least three all time best Lost episodes solely in this season. Tonight being one of them.
I read an article review about the episode on eonline.com, the writer happens to be neighbors with the creator of Lost, Damon Lindelof. He said he was going to borrow a cup of sugar and then ask some serious questions. If you are neighbors with the creator of one of the greatest TV shows of all time and you're a journalist..man you must have it easy...
Anyway, I love Lost. Rheanne, SO excited for you to see this season :)

Date night with Date Night

Date night is sponsored by the Darrs. For my birthday, Jared and Amanda Darr gave me a $25 gift card to the theater. We opted to see Date Night with Tina Fey and Steve Carell. It was hilarious! Those two are great together and it was funny seeing them resolve common marital issues with hilarity.

Here are some highlights of the night:

• Zip your vagina! -Steve Carell
• That's really nice Jeremy but I'm gonna go home and fart in a shoebox-Tina Fey doing the voice of some bored chick
• Why do you need muscles on top of your shoulders?-Steve Carell (talking about Mark Wahlberg)
• Tina Fey and Steve Carell acting like snobby New York hipsters that included Steve's jacket on backwards
• Seeing "Mark Walhberg's costumer" credited when all he wore was a pair of black pj pants...never a t-shirt. Easiest job ever
• And of course, seeing the big cardboard 3 for Toy Story 3!!

I LOVE Toy Story! One of our first date nights as a married couple was seeing the double feature of Toy Story in theaters in 3D. It was fantastic! And seeing kids whose parents were probably still in high school when the movies came out enjoy it was pretty neat. I'm very excited to see the gang at it again :)

Lazy Sunday

A very lazy day today. We didn't even go to church! For those that do not reside here in the Lilac City, today is Bloomsday. The largest timed race in America (or so they say I'm not really fact checking here). Our church leaders thought instead of having us all inside church while the rest of Spokane is out there running, that we should be out in Spokane being with the people of Spokane, either by running, handing out water, or doing something creative with your small group. We thought about doing something, I even set my alarm..but we just slept. Probably not the most productive thing, but oh well...
I did get inspired to make some homemade chicken noodle soup with the leftover chicken from my cheesy stuffed chicken breasts I made the other day. It turned out pretty good!
Here's a little picture of Brand "praying" with our biscuits, soup, and Kool Aid :)

It's been good to cook again. I haven't cooked a lot lately because of the lack of ingredients and that we can't afford to go get stuff just so I can try something new. I just cook with what we have and that's usually just meat and potatoes. I guess that's why Irish people just ate that, because it's cheap and easy.
Tomorrow, Brand and I will go on a proper date night..to see Date Night. Our friends Jared and Amanda gave us a gift card to the movie theater so we could go on a date outside the house. It was incredibly sweet and we are so grateful for it. We haven't seen a movie in a long time so we're pretty excited to finally leave our house and have a proper date :)

At the end of the day, I come home to you..

A wee bit late..I'm sorry!
This weekend was great! Having Cassie visit for my birthday is definitely the coolest thing that happened. We spent all day Saturday together. Her and Mollie were doing Bloomsday the next day (today) so we walked around downtown Spokane to get them all signed up. I'm kind of happy we didn't do Bloomsday this year. Last year was fun and worth the soreness..but it was nice to just chill at home while everyone else was running bahaha.
But anyway, I was so busy just hanging out I didn't take any pictures! So after being away from Brand all day, I really missed him...so here's another shot of Brand and me...these are our crazy faces :) So excited to see each other!

We will have good looking kids.

Happy birthday part two!

So I didn't get any good pictures of my costume. It was so dang hot I didn't have it on for too long.
But I was Severus Snape. I wore black slacks, a black turtleneck, a black blazer, with my black graduation robe. I then cut my long Morticia wig from Halloween pretty short for some Severus hair. It was pretty sweet :)
But I did get a pic of me blowing out some candles! Mollie made made a delicious ice cream cake with brownies, mint ice cream, oreos, and the hard chocolate shell stuff with sprinkles..YUM!

Mollie picked up the candles after I blew them out and they were hot apparently haha.
All-in-all it was a great birthday. We didn't get to play Quidditch like planned but we played some HP Scene-It, the game of things (awesome game), and made some highly inappropriate jokes..here's my fav from the night.
After guessing what spell Harry was casting which the correct answer was Periculum...I said well that sounds dirty.
Evan: Yeah like perinium
Mollie: What's a perinium?
Allison: Well I know what it taint!!!
Hahaha pretty great eh!
And one of the best things was that Cassie came to town for my birthday...so now I am off for some adventures with her and Mollie!