Things my husband says

Evan came home a couple weekends ago excited from an exhilarating tennis match with his new racquet (The Babolat.  He was SOOO excited to find it at Play it Again, and be able to make a pretty good trade for his old one).  He was standing in the living room behind me, I was absentmindedly checking facebook, just scrolling and Evan was reenacting his best moments from that morning.  He then stated: "I've been working on my backhand.  If you wanna know how to hit a good back hand, start practicing your pimp slap."  He then swung his racquet, demonstrating- complete with sound effects.  Seconds later, he set his racquet down and swung his hand in pimp slap fashion. Again with sound effects.

Thus started the Evan quote of the day.  It has been a wonderful experience listening to him, keeping an ear out for those little things he says that must be shared.

I love my husband, and all the crazy things he says.

I won!

The purple ribbon!  It says MVP, so I'm not really sure what that means... but out of like 40 desserts, there were only 6 or 7 ribbons, so I'm pretty proud.

Tonight, Evan and I were in charge of desserts for FHE (we have an ongoing rotation with some other couples).  Being that I was home all morning and have been itching to try out another decorating idea (I have this really fun book with a bunch of different fun cupcake decorating ideas.  I made an april fools cupcake platter a couple months ago... it was awesome... see below) I decided to take on one that looked simple enough.

In reality, it wasn't hard.  The icing just got too soft in my hands so it didn't always hold its shape.  For next time- two bags so I can have one in the fridge and one in my hand.  This was pretty easy though, just green icing, then oreo's, and yellow & orange icing for petals.  The ladybug is an m&m with 'black' (black food dye isn't easily accessible so I made a dark purple) icing.  I was pretty proud of myself!



Here's the first idea I took out of the book:

Cupcakes made to look like a tv dinner!
Drumsticks:  Cupcake, mini cinnamon roll on top, frosted and rolled in crushed cornflakes
Mashed potatoes with butter and gravy:  vanilla icing, yellow starburst, caramel sauce
Peas & carrots: green sixlets and orange starburst pieces
Chocolate pudding: chocolate icing and sprinkles


I'm 2 for 2 now in my baking contests, it will be disappointing to ever walk away from one without a ribbon.  I've been spoiled.

So, we haven't been keeping up with cheesecake Friday.  No excuses...
However, today we (read: Sarah) tried our (read: her) hand at cheesecake.  I'm super nervous about it.


The Stake Fair is today, and they asked people to bring an apple dessert for a bake off of some sort.  Well, we found a recipe for a cinnamon apple cheesecake.  So why not try it?  Problem is, cheesecake has to be chilled before it is served, and it is still in the oven, and it is already 1, and we have to leave at 4. ish.  Also, we thought it looked a little thin so added more filling, which means I should have increased the baking time.  Whoops.  I just hope it comes out resembling a cheesecake and is firm enough to fork.  :)

The top looks great though.  Cinnamon sugar coated pples arranged in a spirally way. I'll share pictures eventually.

So, wish us luck on our cheesecake endeavor! 

Ouch!

So, I was sitting in sacrament this morning, listening to the wonderful talks, in my peaceful calm place, when all of a sudden, this searing pain ran from the back of my neck straight out my right shoulder.  It really, really hurt.  I tipped over onto Evan and explained to him what happened, nearly in tears, and he started giggling.  He then explained it was probably because of playing tennis with him.  It then clicked that is why my forearms, back, and abs all hurt.

Oh yes, we played tennis all right.  Evan hit a ball to me then I had to hit it back to him.  After hitting at LEAST 200, he reversed rolls.  I hit him about 50-60 more and he hit them back to me.  So that is about 300 balls.  To someone that never plays tennis except for like three times... OUCH.  But it was way fun, a great way to spend time with my husband :)

And today, I made some oatmeal/craisin/white chocolate chip cookies.  They are still being tested, but they look good in our cake display.