2023 Blue Jeans Week 12

It was a good week.  Had a birthday and yummy cake.  Went to lunch with some friends and my mom.  Saw an amazing concert! Ben took the day off on my birthday, and we had a great day.  Take a look at our week...

Sunday game was Carcassonne which we had checked out from the library before and liked, but we found it for cheap last week and bought it.  It is a fun game.

Girls Lunch out this week.  Sure love these ladies! 

For my birthday, Ben took the day off.  We went to breakfast at a fun restaurant about 30 miles away and then had our bikes and went to a lake that had a bike trail we had never been on before.  It was kind of cold, but we enjoyed it.  After we went hiking on a new trail too.  Then we came home and Mr J made us dinner, and we had an extra yummy cake--pictures below.  It was a great birthday!

Happy birthday to me!  I made this cake.  It is called The Tonight Show cake from Cake By Courtney here.  I made it for the first time 2 years ago for my birthday, and loved it, so I decided to make it for myself again.  Ben offered to get me a cheesecake with lemon curd, which I also love, but I decided I wanted this.  It is so good!

Happy birthday to me!  It was a great day!

Day after my birthday my mom took me to lunch.  So nice to be with her. 

On the weekend we went to an amazing concert!  One of the best we have ever seen.  If you ever get the chance to see Italian Luca Stricagnoli play, don't hesitate.  Just go!  He is amazing!  He is playing a three neck guitar that he invented.  The only one in the world.  So talented!

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2023 Blue Jeans Week 11

Last week was our spring break, and we really took it easy.  Mr J did not want to go anywhere. We made no big plans and just relaxed at home.  We did venture to the city one day and then Ben and I headed there for a day date for the weekend.  Did some more puzzles and played some games and made some yummy food.  It was a good break.  I told Ben Sunday night that it feels like we are at the top of a roller coaster and ready to plunge down as we start these last 8 weeks of school with a senior and track and two graduations (oldest daughter Mrs A from Law school and Mr J from high school) and end of school activities and all that involves with a senior--our LAST senior!  So, we really enjoyed a relaxing week before the crazy roller coaster ride of the next few weeks begins.  It is all good stuff, just a lot of it!  Take a look at our week...

We got a new puzzle during our last trip to the city.  It is a fun ice cream one.

Mr J and I did venture to the city one day this week to check out a potential car and then we explored a cool bridge and statue over the river.

The Keeper of the Plains statue

We always celebrate Pi Day on March 14. 3.14.  Mr J helped me make the pie to celebrate.  It was an apple crumble pie and MR J made the pi decoration to go on top.  It was yummy!  Perfect way to celebrate!

Donated blood this week.

Played some games.  This is Sushi Go Party which is one of our favorites.  We admittedly have a lot of favorites :)

This is probably our favorite puzzle that we have, and we did it this week.  A fun cereal one.  

Mr J made some macaroons to celebrate St. Patrick's day.  They were a mint chocolate chip and were amazing! Those are a tricky cookie to make, and he did a great job!  Love how he decorated them too!

Happy St. Patrick's day!  We always have a green themed dinner, and Mr J shows off his leprechaun socks that he wears every year.  Fun tradition!

Our date this week was heading up to the city early Saturday morning to attend the Temple for our church, and then we did some shopping and had lunch.  It was a great day date!  Sure love this cute guy!

 Thanks for visiting!  Hope you are safe and happy and healthy wherever you are!  Have a great week!

2023 Blue Jeans Week 10

We had a good week.  We have been doing lots of puzzles lately.  We like puzzles.  Did some yummy baking and got away for a little at the end of the week for the beginning of our spring break.  Take a look at our week....

Went over to my dear friend's house and taught her how to crochet beaded socks. I was making some for a friend who just had a baby, and she was making some for her grandbaby!  So fun!

First puzzle we did this week.  We like the White Mountain brand of puzzles like this one.

Each month I am going to try a new recipe.  This month I did Mel's Kitchen Cafe easy twisted croissant bread.  I have never done a laminated type dough that you have to make a butter packet for, but this recipe was pretty easy.

And the result was amazing!  So good!  She came out with a chocolate version that I need to try now.  So yummy!  I love bread.

New cake recipe this month too.  This is a sour dough discard chocolate bundt cake.  It was so good!  I got the recipe from Lo's Kitchen here.  I like her recipes for sour dough and using the discard.

Mr J's spring break started on Friday, so Ben took off, and we went up to the city to do something fun to celebrate.  We went to an amazing art museum, and Mr J loved this statue. 

We went to a HUGE screen to see the Ant Man and the Wasp movie.  Lots of fun!

They were having the Big 12 basketball tournament in KC while we were there.  We didn't go to any of the games, but it was fun to see all the basketball stuff and fans everywhere.  And we are excited because next year our BYU Cougars will be in the Big 12!  So we will get to watch them play!

We did this puzzle also this week which is one we really don't like because it is purposefully different than what is on the box top, so you really don't' know what exactly it is supposed to look like, so we took pictures to put in the box for next time, so we will like doing it better next time :)

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2023 Blue Jeans Week 9

Nothing too exciting this week, but it was a good week.  Take a look...

Sunday game was Cover Your Kingdom which we all love now that Miss E taught us how to play it. :) and we can even play it without her here to help us, so that is also a good thing!

I made a batch of strawberry coconut jam and some sour dough peasant bread to go with it.  Yummy!

We did one of my favorite puzzles this week.  Seeing all these books brings back lots of memories of reading to my kids when they were little.  So many good books!

Happy birthday Dr. Seuss!  Mr J read Mr Brown can Moo! to us to celebrate.  I loved reading that to the kids when they were little too.  Lots of fun sounds!

My project for March is to get my 2019 album done.  It is my last physical album with 2020 being my first all-digital printed album, so I just need to get this one done!  

Speaking of digital albums, ordered and received my physical copy of our 2022 family album.  Yeah!

For date night this week, we went to a National Geographic speaker who was a mountain climber, and we loved it!

For a scholarship, Mr J needed a picture representing what he career would be---he is thinking of accounting and finance, so we staged this.  Looks pretty good to me!

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