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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Christmas in Washington, fun in Utah, and Thanksgiving with the Dyers!

We have finally made a plan for the holidays! We will be driving to Utah and spending time with all of our wonderful family there, then fly to Denver, Colorado for Thanksgiving! We can't wait! Then, about a month later, we'll be back in Utah, spend some more wonderful time with my Mother, Joe her awesome new husband and some fantabular brothers. Then fly off to Washington! There we will spend Christmas with my Dad, my sweet sister Hope and Michelle plus all of Matt's wonderful family! Not to mention Isaac will also be there after graduating from BYU. Stranger and Layla, here we come!

Fweh that is a lot of fun in a short period of time. We can't wait to party with ya'll! Our next goal is to fly to Las Vegas and Florida! Then we will have seen all of our loved ones. See ya soon!

Fun in the Mud!

Yesterday, we were blessed with a beautiful sunny day. We were about to "waste" it with homework, when gratefully our friends Mallory and Matt(In the back of photo #1 haha) invited us to go on a four-wheeling adventure with them. It was so much fun! There's nothing like mud, sun, friends and sweet vehicles to make a day great!

Pretzeled Chocolate Delight Dusted with Crushed M&Ms

Here's our most recent baking adventure! Matt helped me critique them in the end. I am grateful that I do not have to eat them by myself. Here we go:

Begin by making the topper:

A pretzel with kisses willingly melted on top

Then a peanut butter M&M gently laid on the kiss

"Wow, that's amazing!"

Now, let's begin the batter. Simply make a chocolate batter and break up pretzels into the batter. Gratefully the pretzels were 50% off. This was meant to be. Adding these pretzels to the batter resulted in a delicious salty pretzel flavor that went wonderfully with the sweet chocolate while also adding a soft pretzel-like texture. Love it!

While the cupcakes are cooling, let's begin the frosting.

Now put it all together!

I forgot to take a picture of all of the cupcakes together, but gratefully we were able to take them over to two different friends houses and were not burdened with the job of eating them all. Woohoo!

Alrighty, now for my favorite part-Matt! Let's see what he thought.

I think we passed! And don't forget, these delicious bites of joy are recommended with a complimenting glass of milk.

Here's are the last of the Pumpkin Carrot Cupcakes with an adjustment in the flour amount to make them a little less moist. Delicious and adorable!

Back to the Doctor's Office

Unfortunately, Matt got an infection. A week after the initial surgery, Matt was in a lot of pain and had a large yellow "bump" on his hip. We went to see our surgeon and he confirmed it. He made an incision on the appendix incision, and immediately puss began oozing out. It was very...interesting. Although Matt was in a lot of pain while the doctor was squeezing his wound, he felt a lot better after. Before the doctor was done, he put some medicated ribbon-like gauze into the incision. He put about 3 feet of it in his wound and informed me that I would be the lucky gal to take it out...oh boy. Good thing I love Matt a WHOLE LOT, otherwise it would have been nearly impossible. The doctor equipped us with an antibiotic prescription, a lot of gauze and sent us off. When it was time the next day to take out the ribbon of doom, Matt was excited and I have to admit I was intrigued to see what it would feel like. I began pulling on the little tab poking out of the incision. The smell was instant and disgusting, but we endured to the end. I couldn't believe how long it was and how much "extra stuff" came out with it. Matt was saying that I should have taken a video of it for the blog, and I am sure that you all wish I had. I will make sure to do it next time. What an exciting adventure! Matt is feeling a lot better now and has caught up on his homework. What a hard-worker! Hopefully our kids are tough like their Daddy