Phillip Phillips Concert

I LOVE American Idol (ever since I was pregnant with the twins and was stuck on the couch).  Last season I LOVED LOVED LOVED who won, Phillip Phillips!  So when I heard he was coming to UVU I knew I had to go.  The big 3 (especially Dallin) liked him too so we took them with us - on a school night!  First we ate dinner at Chick-Fil-A - YUM!

 Here are my boys, all ready to go into the concert!

 Of course we had to take some pictures "with" Phillip Phillips!

 

 I wish my phone took better pictures - but this is Phillip Phillips playing with the opening act, but I can't remember their name right now - they really were fun to listen too.

 Here are my boys in the concert, waiting for Phillip Phillips to play!

Such a FUN concert!  I lost my voice!  The boys were so tired - it didn't end until 10:30 - Matthew did take a nap during it.  It really was a fun concert and a fun night!

Happy 40ish Birthday Ed!

Today is Ed's birthday!  He went out of town for work on Tuesday and won't be back until Saturday night - so I had to take the traditional cheesecakes and treats to work on Monday.  I ended up making 4 cheesecakes, 4 dozen fancy toffee brownies, and about 10 dozen butterscotch oatmeal cookies.  I'm not sure why I always make cheesecakes, they STRESS me out since it is difficult to tell if they are done or not until you cut into them.  But I must say, that I was super happy with how all of them turned out!

We are sad you aren't home to celebrate today (or have a big party tomorrow night) but we will do a little something on Sunday - and maybe I will even have some sushi for you when you get home Saturday night (ha ha - I am writing like he reads this).  

Happy Birthday Ed!  LOVE you!

Triple Chocolate Cheesecake with a ganache topping

White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake 

Turtle Cheesecake (with caramel and pecans)

This one went the fastest - too bad it didn't look this pretty once I took the sides of the springform pan off.

See - not so pretty!  The caramel all slide off!  

Carrot Cake Cheesecake

This was a layer of carrot cake, cream cheese frosting, cheesecake, more cream cheese frosting, another layer of carrot cake and more cream cheese frosting.  This was a new one but I think people liked it!

Here it is cut into.

Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies

I had to make these since these are Ed's new favorite cookie!

Fancy Toffee Brownies

I always make these and they are always a huge hit!

 Here's all the goodies together.  It is still  killing me that the caramel slide off that cheesecake looks horrible!

I am still working on recipes from Thanksgiving but I will add these to the list as well!

Fall Fun at Cornbelly's

This is a LONG post!  I took over 200 pictures so it could be longer!

One of our kids (at least the big 4) favorite things to do in the Fall is go to Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point.  It is such a fun place and every year they add TONS of new stuff!  So when I realized that the kids did NOT have school today, that it was still Fall Break (I had no idea until the boys mentioned it on Sunday - I was all ready to send them to school today), and it was suppose to be a nice day, we decided to go to Cornbelly's.  It was an extra bonus that Ed was able to work from home in the morning and go into work when we got home so he was able to come with us!

 A new "ride" this year was potato sack slides.

 Brecken LOVES running from one thing to the next (makes me VERY nervous) - he really LOVES all the big wooden playsets - they have trains, trucks, airplanes, boats, etc.

 I LOVED that they had pumpkins EVERYWHERE!

 I wanted to sit on the big spiderweb but it turned out to not be as strong as I thought.  I couldn't get up - Ed had to pull me up!

 They had this new ball throwing section - they could throw footballs and baseballs and they could shoot baskets.  I think we might need to figure out how to make one of the football ones - how cool would that be in our basement!  Maybe for Christmas!

 Brecken is just so much fun - I have way more pictures of him because I spent my time running from thing to thing with him while Ed got to actual do stuff with the big 3 - I didn't mind though!

 How handsome are my boys!

 They love driving the cars - of course they have to race!

 We got to go on a tractor ride through a corn field!

 They had a haystack maze!

 And hay to climb on!

 Cool fire truck!

 They even had big races!

 The boys LOVED the bounce houses!

 They had a real, old fire truck you could pretend to drive!

 More slides!

 More pumpkins and more bikes!

 They even got to milk a pretend cow!

 Matthew's favorite thing each year is rock climbing.  He did every route and got to the top of each one.

 They had life-size lincoln logs so Dallin built a little house!

 Of course they had a corn maze - and luckily we made it out!

 What a fun day!  I sure LOVE spending time with my boys!  Can't wait to take the twins with us next year!