Food

This happens every single time I'm baby wearing while I eat.

That is a piece of food on his head.

Spit Up

If you walk away for like 1 second, your baby will spit up and roll his head in it.

Baby's First Post

He's over here crying, but I'm the one that got peed on. By him. 

Dishwasher Safe

When the water bottle says it is not dishwasher safe, it means it is not dishwasher safe.

Flattering Angles

Today, through an unfortunate sequence of events, I accidentally found my least flattering angle.

Haircut

Supercuts does not do a good job of cutting hair. David went  to get his long hair chopped off, and his resulting haircut looked puffy, and way too long in the back!

We both hated it. And then we got it re-cut (for cheaper - only $13), and it looked soooo much better.

Full transformation:

Buttons

That moment at the end of the day when you have no idea how long your shirt has been unbuttoned.

Ranch Dressing

If you want to bring a homemade BBQ chicken wrap for lunch, make sure it has few enough ingredients that you can remember to bring them all! Inevitably, I forget at least one ingredient, like cheese or tortilla strips. But today, I forgot the BBQ/Ranch dressing-the single most important ingredient. So I'll be eating a wrap filled with tons of vegetables and no sauce.

Cilantro

So this one time I bought cilantro at the store to put in my veggie spring rolls, and I spend the entire meal wondering what tasted so weird. I opened the brand new bottle of peanut sauce in case the old peanut sauce was bad. I took all the veggies out of the rice paper wrap in case the wrap was bad.

Then I got a nice big bite of cilantro, and knew that it was the culprit.

It wasn't cilantro.

It was Italian parsley.

Sandwich

Sometimes, you go to make your egg salad sandwich to take to lunch and you make sure the egg is boiled by shaking it and spinning it, and then you decide it is boiled and you crack it and find out it's raw.

PB&J to the rescue, this morning.

Backward Shirt

Sometimes, I accidentally wear my shirt backwards all day long and don't notice until I go to take it off at bed time.

Work Sandwich

If you are pregnant and need to eat all the time, so you have to eat before your lunch break at your cubicle which has zero sound protection from the other cubicles, re-think putting mustard on your sandwich if the bottle is almost empty. The mustard bottle will make that tooting noise that all condiments make when they are basically empty and all your co-workers will probably think you just ripped a nasty toot.

Hoodie

 Sometimes, your XL hoodie comes with a child's size hood.

Hahahah look at the neck and how the hood pulls the rest of the sweatshirt up. Makes me laugh err' time.

Macaroni Salad

When you buy macaroni salad from the grocery store deli to eat for lunch on the drive home but don't have any utensils, you have to use the sample spoon they gave when you sampled the potato salad.

You can only eat roughly 4 macaroni pieces at a time, but hey, at least you have a spoon and don't have to eat like a Neanderthal.

Strawberries

It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon. David and Amanda decided to go to the strawberry fields to pick some strawbs. Strawbs were picked. Amanda was in charge of the container of strawbs on the drive home, and she put them on the floor by her feet.

David: "Do you have a good hold on those strawberries?"
...0.25 seconds later...

Amanda did not have a good hold on the strawbs.

Side note: These strawberries were soooooo sweet and delicious and I ate at least 10 straight from the vine after we filled up the container. 

Second side note: It's been over 5 years of us kissing, and we still don't know how to avoid the nose-squish. 

Hair Tie

Hair ties before hair, I always say.

It all started when I decided to put my hair half-up. This hairdo is notorious for getting my hair knotted around the hair tie.

About halfway through the day I decided I wanted to take my hair out and put it all up in a messy bun. As I started to take my hair out, I noticed I had a huge problem.

I couldn't untangle my hair from the hair tie.

I worked at it for a solid 5 minutes before I knew I only had one choice: cut my hair off of the hair tie.

My hair is long and scraggly enough that I knew it wouldn't be noticeable if I cut a small chunk of it off. So I did.

I cleaned up the rest of the hair off the hair tie, and as I was throwing away the stray hairs I thought to myself, "Huh, I guess I could have just cut the hair tie..."

Ice Cream Overflow

BEWARE: If you put too much ice cream into an ice cream maker it will magically expand while churning and spill everywhere! Here's the story.

Since leaving BYU, David and I have been missing some of our favorite treats: Cookies and Cream Milk, Graham Canyon ice cream, and mint brownies.

We made mint brownies a while ago (which made it on the blog here), and now we decided it was time to try making Graham Canyon ice cream. I saw a post of a copycat graham canyon recipe on someone's blog, and the ice cream looked really watery, so in an attempt to avoid that we made the most delicious, decadent, custard ice cream and I can't get enough.

But I get ahead of myself.

We finished the ice cream base, and then we put it in the ice cream maker for the recommended 20-30 minutes. We've never had an issue before so we just left it running and went upstairs.

And then I came back downstairs to this disaster.

And of course when I started took out the churning piece to put the ice cream into a freezer container I just made the mess worse. 

Was it worth every drip and every minute of cleaning up melted ice cream and washing all the dishes involved in making it (there were a lot)? Absolutely.

I can't tell how close it tastes to graham canyon because it's been too long since I've had that, but it is just delicious.

I think I ate half of it while transferring it to the freezer container.

For anyone interested in the recipe:
The vanilla ice cream/custard base was made using Alton Brown's recipe. It takes 8 egg yolks! Also, for vanilla sugar I just used 9 oz. of white sugar and added 2-3 tsp or so of vanilla to it. This base needs to be cooked before chilled and then churned. The hot ice cream tastes just like tapioca pudding, and I was eating it by the spoonful.

Once the ice cream cooled on the counter, I added 1 sleeve of crushed graham crackers. I mean crushed to dust. I did this in a blender. It was kind of chunky when I added it to the ice cream, but that was fine.

I followed Alton Browns instructions and cooled it for 4-8 hours (I actually did 24 hours, oops).

In the meantime, I used this recipe to make chocolate honeycomb candy. I crushed the candy to very small pieces (but not powder) and covered it completely in a thin layer of chocolate by shaking it inside a zip-lock bag with melted chocolate chips.

Once the ice cream was cooled in the fridge, I added maybe 1/2 cup or so (we didn't measure, I just did what looked right) of the candy to the ice cream, and put it in the ice cream maker, where it proceeded to overflow over the next 30 minutes.

This stuff is just to die for. So rich. So creamy. So sweet. So graham cracker-y.

Balloon Bouquet

At my work, we always celebrate birthdays by everyone bringing cake/candy/balloons for the birthday person. I signed up to bring balloons for one of my co-workers, so I bought them the night before an put them in the hallway at home. 

This is what the balloon bouquet looked like (after giving it to my co-worker).

David and I wake up at 6am every morning, and we usually walk downstairs before turning on any lights. 

You can probably see where this is going. 

We walked out into the hallway, and with only the moonlight to light our path, we saw the big balloon bouquet. We had forgotten about putting it there the night before, and of course my brain thought it looked like a tall man wearing a hoodie. 

I screamed, David screamed, and we both jumped/ran away. 

I think that may have been the closest I've ever come to having a heart attack in my life. 

Drive-In Movie

Going to a drive-in movie is super fun, but documenting the adventure with pictures is not.

I forgot to bring my actual camera, so all I had to work with was my phone.

My thoughts:
"Hey! Let's take picture so we can always remember this! I'll do it during the previews so I don't miss the movie."

"Not too bad, but you can't even tell whose feet those are, and there is only one set of feet."

"Hah! You can't even tell what is happening in this picture!"

"Dang it, I missed the bright screen and it's black in this picture."

(Timing it as perfectly as I can) "Finally, both our feet in front of a bright-ish movie screen. Man, it's still so hard to tell that we are in a car. Maybe a flash will help."

"Oh gosh. Bad idea. Well if I can't document the movie experience, maybe I can at least get a picture of us enjoying the movie."

"HOLY COW that flash is as bright as the noonday sun and it stays on for like 30 seconds! But I'm not in the picture. Is it worth it to take another one? I'm sure all our neighboring cars are so annoyed right now."

"Nailed it"

At this point I was just to embarrassed to try to get a better picture because I thought all the neighbors were probably staring at me.

Mistakes Were Made

If you don't check who the recipient of your text is before you press send, you might just make a very funny mistake.

This morning I did my workout, and then I took a picture of my abs after. I was feeling really confident and felt like I looked so good in the picture, that in the middle of the day I texted David the image.

Only I didn't text David.

 Luckily I sent it to Kati, one of my best friends, instead of someone else.

David and I could not stop laughing. It wasn't the picture that made it funny, but the wording. "Look how sexy my bod looked this morning" Hahahah.