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For Christmas my Father surprised my mom, my sister and I, as well as our spouses with Wicked tickets in Phoenix for February 24. Josh and I decided to make a week vacation out of it and enjoy some warm weather mixed with family. What an awesome week it was. 

I will start off with Wicked since I waited all week for Friday to come. 

I have been wanting to see this musical for so long and it DID NOT DISAPPOINT. I think the 3 hours spent at the Gammage was the shortest 3 hours of my life. 

I believe I need to see it again because I couldn't take it all in the first time. 

As my mother-in-law facebooked me before I went ... it defies gravity!

I loved every minute of it and I loved that I got to see it with some of the people I love the most. This way I can always call them and talk to them about it. 

I had never been to the Gammage and I loved how intimate it felt.

I also loved the turquoise lighting however I was not able to take pictures due to the usher who was really good at his job. 

I only took two pictures. 

One of the bathroom stall not because it was so amazing but because I found it odd to find what I did on the back of a bathroom stall in an amazing theater. But then again we were at ASU and apparently they have these on the backs of all the women's stalls in all the bathrooms across campus. I wonder how Frank Lloyd Wright feels about this?  It clearly doesn't go with his work.

 So ladies if you feel the need to examine your breasts while enjoying whatever it is your enjoying at the Gammage here is a visual and they even have couch's in the lounge area of the bathroom for your convenience.

So Mom, Dad, Shelbie, Tim, and Josh what do you say we hit up Wicked in SLC during the summer?

I think it would be the popular thing to do.

be mine

I wish I would have documented the disaster in my home the night before Valentines Day.

When I asked Chamberlain what he would like to give to his classmates for a Valentine I, for sure, thought he would say Peeps or Conversation Hearts, he loves those.  To my surprise he replied with sugar cookies. Not just any sugar cookies, the ones that I made a few days prior to introduce the gender of our new addition.  I found a new recipe for sugar cookies the Lofthouse sugar cookie to be exact and these cookies require planning and time. I made the dough on Sunday and decided I would bake and frost the cookies on Monday to be ready to take to class Tuesday morning. 

I figured Chamberlain and I could decorate together during Siri's nap.  Of course Siri decieded to skip her nap that day and I ended up baking, frosting and sprinkling cookies till the wee hours of the morning.  My kitchen was sugar cookie central I only have about 2 feet of counter space to roll out dough, cut, frost and sprinkle. Then to let the cookies cool I had cookies spread out everywhere  kitchen table, washing machine some on the microwave.  See why I wished I would have taken a picture.

Then to realize past midnight I had ran out of saran wrap, tin foil and paper plates. Everything I was using to display the cookies for classmates. Luckily I have the greatest husband who ran to the store and picked up everything needed even though it was way past his bedtime.

I did all this only to realize that the cookies were just going to get shoved and smashed into a big manila folder  and tossed to the side. Who wants to eat a sugar cookies when they have dip sticks, fruit by the foots, dum dums and more. 

However, I remind myself its what my son wanted and I as a mother wanted to please his wishes.  In the end I had lots of left over cookies to pass out to neighbors, friends and siblings and the surpise of the day was when my Parents came up. 

Those cookies did not go to waste. 

These are just a few. I think I made about 3 or 4 dozen sugar cookies all different sizes from one batch/recipe. 

another year older

Another year older am I.

This past week we celebrated my Birthday.

Our time was spent with family, family and more family.

Best Birthday week ever.

We started it off with Sandi, and Ken, Angela, Eddie and kids at the BO.

 Balloons for all.

Followed by a surprise Pancake Breakfast from my siblings Tanner and Sage complete with strawberries, bananas, OJ, and fresh whip cream. 

Thank you very much guys!

 A nice lunch date with the coolest cousin ever. Whitney treated us to lunch from Cafe Rio while the kids entertained each other and we got to chat while I got to hold that darling baby Bram. 

Not to forget that Josh and Chamberlain surprised me with a treasure hunt to find the best gift a 5 year old could pick out/think of. 

 

boy, girl, boy

Baby Burgess # 3 is arriving this June.  

We found out on Tuesday that we are having another boy!

Chamberlain predicted a girl, he was so sure we were having a girl that when we came through the door with our blue balloons, blue Gatorade and blue succors he exclaimed "but mom I wanted a girl!'

Then he quickly went back to his wii game and has been pretty happy that we are having another baby in the summer.

Tanner stayed the night so he would be sure to be up by 9 am to watch the kids while Josh and I went to our appointment. His only request,  that he be the first one to know what we are having and we obliged.

Tuesday was a good day, Ken and Sandi flew in to visit Chris, Lesa and the girls before their next adventure. I thought I would be a little creative and make some sugar cookies to introduce the gender of baby #3, for our after dinner sweet. (This is not like me for babies 1 and 2 we just called our parents and told them)  While Josh was at work Chamberlain and I were busy frosting the afternoon away.  He decided that I would frost and he would sprinkle. 

I had Josh grab a plain brown doughnut box on the way home from work.  I was able to get about 21 cookies in the box. I wrapped them in Turquoise tissue paper and closed the lid.

Of course I never thought to take a picture.

Around 8 pm is the time everyone was searching for something sweet and of course the moment I slip out to grab something out of the car Josh (on his behalf he didnt know I had slipped out) presented the cookies to Sandi and Ken. Who had no idea we were even expecting baby #3. I could hear Sandi cheering loudly while I was outside. 

I'm glad we surprised them in a fun way,

I think everyone enjoyed the cookies. 

bananas twice a day

Siri eats bananas about twice a day.

She likes one right after breakfast and one right after her nap.

She prefers the the afternoon banana chopped up into banana quarters and put in a bowl.

Then she shoves as many as she can in her mouth at once. 

As for her breakfast bananas she likes them straight up.

Just something I love about Ms. Siri.