tulip festival and my dream home

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Remember when I said spring finally sprung in my neck of the woods?  Well, here's proof!  We spent the most beautiful Saturday at the Tulip Festival with my parents, Trevor and Alycia, my aunt and uncle and cute little cousins!  (I don't have a copy of the picture with my family AND aunt and uncle but when I do, I'll post it!)  Personally I had so much fun and loved it!  Oh an I found my dream home here. 

We'll have our mansion sitting at the top of the hill (as pictured) complete with the mass amounts of land, a pool, a love bridge, a naked slip'n'slide (Eric's idea, no worries!  NO ONE is invited to that haha) camping, tulips, and anything else you can think of!  I'll definitely be hosting the biggest blogger's meet-up party ever.  Every one's invited! :)  (Again, no worries, we'll avoid the slip'n'slide area haha)  Yes, I dream big ;) 

food. shopping. food. graduation. food.

Waffles + fries = YUMMY combination!  Seriously!  Friday morning we spent the day in Salt Lake and ate at Bruges Waffles & Frites.  If you go to SLC you need to try this!  Bruges Waffles and Frites was even featured on Man vs Food!

Eric always tries to sneak out of pictures, I thought I'd show him... ha!

I'll be honest, I didn't care to take pictures of the food.  I just wanted it in my belly!!  :)  Anyway, you are more than welcome to thank me after you go eat here! ;)

After breakfast we went shopping at the Gateway.. I am SO lucky my man likes shopping with me!  And I have to say, it was a gorgeous day!  Spring has finally sprung in my neck of the woods!

Random side note:  My little brother sent me this flower from Chile!  What do you think?  I think I love it!  He is serving a LDS mission there and we got to talk to him today!  Can't wait to see him in December!

Can you guess what we did after shopping?!  We ate more food!  Cheesecake Factory!  Seriously, it gets us everytime!
And the reason we spent the day in SLC is because my sister in law Alycia graduated from the U!  This semester about killed her, thank goodness it didn't because life would be so dull without her!  (As blog land has noticed I'm sure!) 

Congratulations Alycia!  Love you so much!

We celebrated the graduation by going to ice cream!  (As if Cheesecake Factory wasn't enough...)  What an amazing day spent with family!  No judging... I know it's ridiculous how much food I can eat :)  But it's SO good haha!

Happy Mother's Day to my mom, mom Brinkerhoff, and all you other hot mommy's out there! :)  I can't wait until I'm a mommy!  I bet you can't either, my blog will be filled with pictures of our cute baby, instead of love sick pictures of us.  Hahaha who am I kidding?!  There will still be ridiculous amounts of me and Eric pasted on the blog!  Please don't get sick of me and my love for Eric and food! :) 

best day of May. our anniversary :)

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart.

It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.  -Judy Garland

kissing as brand new husband and wife

3 years ago today I said yes to an eternity with you.

I've never been happier.

Happy Anniversary baby.  I love you!

happy weekend

I love the weekends that are spent with family!  We got to hangout with Eric's family and definitely enjoyed ourselves!  Oh and in case you were wondering, it snowed on and off all day Friday.  kill.me.now.  Or give me warm, sunny weather.  Anyway..... back to our weekend.  We went shooting, of course :)

I do not have dumbo ears, those are ear muffs under the hood :)

Eric and his cute dad!

Do you love our home made target?  And the hot safety glasses?  I had a lot going for me Saturday..haha!

Despite the freazing winds, we had a great time!  This is my 3rd time shooting the hand gun, I got pretty close to the bullseye!  I'm not as good as I was with the bow and arrows, or a 22.  But for all the creepers out there, if you're as skinny as that board/paper, my aim will land a bullet in your body.  Probably not the heart.  But that's still scary, right?! :) 

Thank you mom and dad Brinkerhoff (and Amy and the boys of course) for a great weekend!  We love you !

I hope everyone's enjoying their sunday!  It's one of our favorite days of the week :)  Oh and happy May 1st!  May is my favorite month, you'll find out why in a couple days! ;)

past pictures in Vegas

Yesterday we woke up to a little winter wonderland.  That's right...everything was covered in snow.  Disgusting.  (Although, I am grateful it was snow instead of tornadoes, praying for our family and friends safety!)  I was craving some warmth and wishing we could just pop down to Vegas for the day.  We used to live a short hour and a half away and would find any reason to go play... 
"Oh you want Cheesecake Factory?  Let's go to Vegas!"
 "Shopping?!  Vegas!" 
"Want to walk around until our legs are about to fall off?  Vegas!"
"What should we do today?  VEGAS!"
"One year Anniversary?  Vegas!"
"We're going to California?!  We have to stop in Vegas on our way back!"
So today I am daydreaming about Vegas, it's shopping, it's warmth, and it's pools.  Here are some past pictures :)

My very large virgin pina coloda ha!

Bellagio

Mandalay Bay

Hilton

Dang Cheesecake Factory...get's us everytime!

Mirage

Treasure Island

Caesar's Palace

We love and miss Vegas :)

p.s.  I bet you're all jealous and wishing your man could look as thrilled as my man does while taking some of these pictures.  It's a gift really :)

p.p.s.  Vegas has FREE valet parking!  Who knew?  After all the countless time's we've been there... I just found out in January.  Geez louise!