V-Day

I was so excited for Valentines day this year... cause it was the first time I have not worked on VDay for three years! ( except for last year cause it was a Sunday but same thing lol) So I laid in bed, read my book, the goose girl, which i loved and bought all her books after reading it in two days.

Chase walked in with flowers, chocolate and his cute little grin. Then we went and got a couple massages. Can I tell you how much I love massages! I got Chase hooked as well, its our own little treat to ourselves. He was jealous because I got the strong looking masseuse and his masseuse was like 90 pounds but he still said it was good. Chase then went and took a test while I did my Monday errands. That night we got Carrabbas to-go ( I hate eating at restaurants on valentines day cause I hate crowds) watched the bachelor and ate this amazing fruit pizza i made and got the recipe from one of my fav. food blogs melskitchencafe.com. Seriously it is one of the best fruit pizza's I have ever made! All in all it was a great day and just felt so nice to relax with each other. I hope everyone had a good day!


Fruit Pizza recipe

Dough:
1/2 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Zest of 1 lemon, divided (use the other half for the frosting)
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt

Frosting:
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Fresh lemon juice from 1 lemon (1-2 tablespoons)
Other half of lemon zest from above

Any of these Fresh fruits would be good:

Strawberries
Raspberries
Blueberries
Pineapple
Peaches
Kiwi

I just used strawberries. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 10-inch tart pan with nonstick cooking spray. This will give a fairly thick crust. If you want a thinner crust, try using a larger pizza pan shape or a 9X13-inch pan

For the dough, in a large bowl, cream together the butter and granulated sugar until smooth. Mix in egg, vanilla, and 1/2 of the lemon zest. Add the dry ingredients and mix until just blended. Press the dough into the prepared pan.

Bake the dough for 10-12 minutes, or until very lightly browned. Don’t overbake as the crust will become dry. Cool the crust on a wire rack completely. In a medium bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add the granulated and powdered sugar, vanilla, lemon juice, and other half of the lemon zest. Spread on the cooled pizza crust to within 1/4-inch of the edges. Arrange fruit on top of the pizza. Cover lightly with plastic wrap and chill until serving time and enjoy! Chase ate the whole pizza in one day, that is how good this is! hahaha

Clipper Game

While we were home we also went to the clipper game. My dad has season tickets to the clippers and Chase has never been! Can you believe that! So it was a must... The whole gang went ( minus kori and brad who couldn't go :( )My mom and dad, my brother john and his wife brooke ( they got a babysitter for their kiddos), My sis Lori and her husband Haws and they even brought their little 6 month old baby James! I was super excited cause I called dibs on holding James the whole time. People gave us crazy looks as we went to our seats, I can tell they were thinking.. why did they bring a baby.. the noise is going to make him cry! Little did they know that first of all James is an amazingly good baby, second of all Lori bought him these head phones where it blocks all the sound out, he could not hear a thing! It was soo crazy! he even fell asleep by half time and slept the rest of the game! he looked soo cute people were even taking pictures of him with their cell phones, it was classic. It was a fun time, we went to dinner before the game at this really good restaurant at the JW Marriott right by the staples center. We ate at this special table that was made out of wood placed right in the middle of the restaurant, it was really neat.

The wood table is under the red covering, u can see the corner of it but Chase was in love with it...

Side shot of the table, u can see it in the background with the high chairs around it. Chase is front of the classic Magic Johnson Statue
My dad begged me to take his picture next to Chick Hearn :)
Chaser and meJohn and Brooke
Lori, Haws and James ( notice the sweet headphones)

My beautiful mom and dad

Lori with sleeping James
Honestly, look at those little cheeks!!!!!!

Thanks Mom and Dad for such a great time! We miss all of you :(

Disneyland and New Years

I just had to go to disneyland when I was home. It is one of my favorite places and I have not been since we have been married. So this was on Chase's and I's to do list. A plus was that my parents bought us day passes for christmas so that made it even more fun :) haha. They had Disneyland all decked out christmas still. My favorite was the Haunted Mansion, they had it decorated like the nightmare before Christmas it was really cool. We had a lot of fun and got there bright and early because my mom said it was going to be so busy! And she was right.... We got there at 8 and hit indiana, splash mountain, haunted mansion and thunder mountain by 10 30. Then all of a sudden the park got crazy! all the fast passes got sold out, lines for evey ride was at least 2 hours, we heard on the news that they stopped letting people into Disneyland by 12 because they were full... so we went to space mountain and traveled over to california adventure to finish the day. It was sooo much fun! Disneyland just makes me happy :)

keeping ourselves entertained in two hours lines...
Yes, I was the driver for Indiana Jones.. Loved it!
No idea which rides we were on when taking these pictures.. must of been a really scary one hahah
Yes they brought back Captain Eo... Classic!



Chase begged me to let him ride this... too funny the little girl next to him kept saying her horse was faster.. lolA bugs life.. such a great 3D film! it is a little scary for little kids though, we heard at least 5 babies crying during it, but Chase and I enjoyed it!

For New Year's we had a pajama party! I am so mad because none of us took pictures, i only took some of my adorable niece and nephews. It was a blast. We had the Clawson's, King's, and us Davis' over. We made Cafe Rio food, Ate a ton, played games, and just hung out. I have not seen most of these people since I have been married and I just loved seeing them.. it makes me miss home sooo much! One game i think everyone should purchase is called Things... I just bought it at walmart. Such a fun game! It defianlty brings out something funny in everyone :)
Sweet Caroline...
Brothers... I just love this picture!

Lukey doing his famous superhero pose...

Christmas time!

I got two weeks off of work for Christmas which was amazing! It was the longest I have ever gotten off since working here for over two years.. We took full advantage of it, family time, Disneyland, new years even parties, lots of movies. The minute we got home we went to my sister Lori's house. I had not seen James since he was born, he had grown so much! This is Chase and I playing with him... Giving Chase a welcome home present :)

Seeing little James for the first time..
We then went on a walk around the Harbor to look at Christmas lights...

Love this picture of my mom and sister ...
The whole gang minus my dad cause was sick :(

Christmas Eve we went to my brother Johnny's house and had dinner, did the nativity scene, opened pajamas, and had lots of fun family time. The boys just love dressing up its sooo funnyChristmas day we all ate breakfast with at my parents house, opened up our presents and then went to my Grandmas for the annual Christmas day feast. So much fun! you can never go wrong with family, the name game, and doing Christmas chimes. It all went by way to fast. I have been looking forward to this for so long, and now that it is over it makes me really sad. Chase did really good this year, of course he always does so good with presents, he really is like the best present giver ever. He spoiled me, but I'm not complaining.We also got a Ipad from my parents... im obessed with it! This Christmas was just amazing... Lukey doing his superman...Opening presents.. Choas :)Little James and meDoesn't he look like he could be our kid :) haha

My dad and Tan Man.. Love it..

Temple Lights

Oh the temple lights... I just love this time of year when we can drive up to Salt Lake and just feel the christmas spirit. We started our day eating lunch at Chipotle. So good!! Then we went and saw the Joseph Smith Movie which never gets old I love that movie, I think I even caught Chase shedding a tear :). We then went and walked around the temple and the lights. After that we did a little shopping and finished our night off at Chilis! We were starving but just felt like appetizers so we thought Chilis would be just perfect!