1 Whole Year

Yesterday Ben and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary. I still can't believe that a year has gone by already. It has really been a wonderful year. I love him so much and am so grateful to be married to such a great man.

For our anniversary we decided to go out to Chefs Table. For those of you not in the Provo/Orem area, Chefs Table is a this nice fine dining restaurant in Orem. It was such fun place to go. They pull out your chair for you, lay your napkin in your lap, bring out new silverware as needed, the whole deal. The food was AMAZING!! So good. For starters they bring out this sorbet to cleanse your palette. We then ordered New England Crabcakes. Then we both had a caesar salad. For dinner I ordered the Tenderloin Marsala (Roasted Tenderloin of Beef Finished in a Marsala & Veal Sauce Herb Roasted Baby Red Potatoes & Seasonal Vegetables) and Ben ordered House Beef Tenderloin Filet (Peppered Tenderloin Filet Served with Mango Chutney or Veal Reduction Sauce). Sounds Amazing right?! Well it was. The food was amazing. We finished off the meal with this chocolate mousse dessert.

My favorite part about the meal was that we were not rushed to eat and move on. It seems like today most restaurants just want to get people in and out as quickly as you can. But Chefs Table lets you take your time to eat. One course is never served until you are both done with what you are working on. It was nice and relaxing and really enjoyable.

I didn't get a picture from the outside so I snagged this one off their website.

Pioneer Day Fireworks

So for those of you outside of Utah, Pioneer day is celebrated on the 24th of July and is a day that celebrates when the Mormon Pioneers first entered the Salt Lake Valley to settle after being forced out of Nauvoo. Well, my favorite part about Pioneer Day is that there are fireworks. Probably just as many fireworks as on the 4th of July. Ben and I were sitting around Saturday evening realizing we missed a lot of the festivities and fun. So we decided to look up where in Utah there were going to be firework shows. We were excited when we found out that Heber puts on a fireworks show by Deer Creek Reservoir. We decided to drive up and park on a pull out overlooking the lake and watch the fireworks. Ben took these awesome pictures of the amazing show put on. Hope you all enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoyed the fireworks!!

This first one is probably my favorite

So as we were sitting out waiting for it to get dark we noticed all these boats on the lake floating over to where they could watch the fireworks. Smart idea huh? Well, my favorite part is that as soon as the fireworks show was over we saw all these lights (boats) race to the dock to get there before all the other boats so they wouldn't have to wait to load up their boats. It was pretty entertaining.

World's Largest Water Balloon Fight

Ok, so not the most attractive pictures of us be we were soaked! My pants are normally light gray. BYU set the record for the largest water balloon fight today. There were 3,927 people and 120,000 balloons. Go to the link below to see a video of the fight. It was AMAZING!!! So much fun!

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=11694889&hl=7

Spiral Sablée Cookies

Ben's latest baking adventure...they are good!!!

Sunbeams!

So we just got called to teach the lovely sunbeams in our ward. This should be a fun adventure since Ben is used to teaching college kids and I have never taught primary. We accept any advice you guys have of what has worked for you guys!

Croissants

This past Christmas I bought Ben this baking book that he wanted. I have to admit I LOVE bread, so I was pretty excited yesterday when he pulled it off the shelf and decided to make Croissants. My favorite part about this picture is the first sentence on the page..."few pastries are as satisfying as a buttery croissant" ...so true!

He made both regular croissants and pain au chocolat...which are basically croissants with chocolate in them. Yum!!

Don't they look good?!

Breaking In Our Tent

Ben and I went camping for the first time together since we have been married. Our ward hosted a fun Ward Campout down at the Payson Lakes. We think we have a pretty good set up :)