Wendover

A few months back Danny and a bunch of our friends decided to buy these groupon discount passes for the funbus to Wendover. We love going to Wendover...we may have a slight gambling problem. So we buy these passes and it ended up being like 10$ for each of us to go and we got a free buffet and they give you money to gamble with. The times comes and they are almost expired so we decide it is time to go! When the weekend came only four of us could go. Dan and I and our friends Dallas and Janee. None of us had ridden the fun bus before and so we decided we would go on the 7:30 bus. We thought you could decide what bus you returned on. NO! You have to come back on the bus you came on, and we got on the latest bus and they announced after a half hour of driving that they would be picking us up at 3:45 AM!! We were all stunned. So I searched on my phone and there is a sad little theater in Wendover that plays three movies each night and they had a midnight showing of the new Pirates movie. We had already seen it but it was better than losing more money in the casino. So we get to the buffet and it is 9:30 but by the time we sit down it's 10:00 and the buffet ends at 10:30 sharp! You would have thought we had never eaten before. They had the seafood buffet and the four of us took shifts collecting crab, tuna steaks and filets. It was hectic but so awesome! So we play a few games and start heading over to the movie theater because the movie started at 12:30...we get there after a 20 minutes walk and it is closed! My iPhone lied! It was telling me the times for the next day!! So we went all the way back and kept playing in the casino. I am happy to say we ended up for the night! It was such a blast and Dal and Janee are always so much fun to hang out with. We finally made it home at about 6:30 AM and crashed for a few hours and then went to work. But it was well worth it, good food, great friends and gambling :)

Sadly I only took one picture. I'll do better next time!

Limbo Land.

So it's official...Danny and I have sent off our applications to dental and pharmacy school. We are applying to about 23 schools each! Yes that is more than most people but most people only have one person applying. With the two of us applying and needing to get into the same school it's going to be pretty tough. So now we just wait....and study for our tests coming up in three weeks!! So soon I can't even believe it. So our days consists of being at the library studing for those. I feel like we are in limbo land. We are planners, and we have no clue where we are going to be a year from now. We could be in Florida, Buffalo (no I'm not joking, we actually applied to a school in Buffalo, NY) or not get in at all and still be living in Utah. We won't here back from schools for quite a while...some pharmacy schools don't even start interviewing until February! So we are just going to be in limbo for the next year if feels like. Hopefully we'll find out sooner but who knows.

Anyways...

Things have also been really great lately. In May Amber and the babes came home for a visit. And we finally got to meet baby Beckam and he is adorable! It was so fun to be able to just snuggle him for hours. He's just so sweet and we get pictures now and he's growing so fast! I can't even believe it. It was so fun to get to see them and of course Jaynie is cuter than ever and so fun. When they first got off the plane the three oldest kids linked up and were walking around like they are the best of friends. So cute.

Lately Dan and I have been cooking lots from the Unofficial Harry Potter cookbook and the recipes have been really yummy! The best was this cherry almond cake with butter frosting. I hate to brag but I've got to be honest...it was awesome. My mom even said it was the best cake she's ever had...and she isn't a big cake person so that's saying alot.

Then we made homemade butterbeer. So my uncle told me just to mix carmel sauce with cream soda and then for the froth to mix carmel with heavy whipping cream and pour it on top. Well I decided to search the internet for a recipe I thought sounded more authentic. So I take all this time to make this yummy sauce to mix with the cream soda. It had rum flavoring, sugar, vanilla, vinegar and a few other things. Well after an hour of making this sauce I realize that I have discovered a very expensive long way of making carmel sauce. Haha I should have just done what my uncle said. It was pretty good but it was soooo sweet. Making it a little to sweet to drink. So not exactly like the butterbeer in Universal Studios but pretty close.

So like many, I have discovered a new love of pinterest. It is awesome. And I saw this yummy picture of a dessert....

It looked awesome and I thought...wow how could that not taste good? Chocolate chip cookie dough for the bottom layer, oreo cookies, and brownie mix to top it off...Well it takes an hour to cook and it ends up coming out pretty hard...and the flavors don't really go together. None of us were that impressed. I get really sick of trying recipes that LOOK really amazing and then you make them and they're just...meh.

Anyways, I've got to get back to studying. Hopefully I'll have more yummy desserts to share on the next post!