Free Pattern for Bandana Dress

I am still very much a novice at sewing, and I am always looking for easy projects. My friend Jana's sister posted the most adorable bandana dresses on her blog and I totally want to make one for my niece for her birthday this weekend. And for all my friends that are having baby girls this year!

Check out her website to get the free pattern:
http://www.readjame.com/2011/07/bandana-dress-pdf-pattern-free-this.html

So cute!

Netflix

I hope Netflix has hired a good PR agency because they are going to need it. I think it is ridiculous that they are going to practically double the price of the plan we are on right now. That’s an extra $72 a year. We will be dropping the unlimited DVDs portion of our plan at the very least when the change goes into effect.

They are going to lose a ton of customers, but maybe they are optimistic. I just hope that the person that decided on the pricing when the streaming option first became available is fired. Isn’t it Business 101 that you charge your customers enough to cover your overhead and make a profit? We all learned from the Michael Scott Paper Company that not doing so will only lead to failure. I understand that they need to charge more to cover their expenses, but shouldn’t they have thought about that a year ago? Were there no excel spreadsheets and formulas brought out in their meetings to figure out what price they should be charging? I kind of feel sorry for them. They made a huge mistake and now they will be paying for it for a long time. I have enjoyed being a customer of theirs for over a year, but I can’t appreciate poor planning and poor decision making.

The Rest of April Festivities

There is so much to catch up on. Kevin's birthday was April 22nd. The big 31. He is officially in his 30s now. I feel bad that we didn't do anything too exciting for his birthday. We ended up having to work late, so we got home really late and made tacos. He has to have tacos on his birthday. His birthday gift from me was 4 golf lessons with a pro. He was pretty stoked. Saturday we drove up to Layton and had lunch with my sister Heidi and her family and my Aunt Judy and Uncle Kevin. Then we dyed Easter eggs with some pretty cool dye kits. The tie-dye kits are totally worth it!

Easter Sunday we drove back up to my Aunt and Uncle's house and had a fabulous Easter dinner. It is always nice to spend holidays with family. My niece Isabel is adroable and had her own little aster egg hunt in the living room. Wish I would have taken some pictures.

The following Monday we celebrated Kevin's birthday with some friends as Los Hermanos. We love Mexican food!

April in Mesa

The third weekend in April I was lucky enough to fly down to Mesa to visit my sister Jenny and her adorable family. They moved down to AZ in December from Provo and I miss them like crazy. Jessica and Kaylee talked to me non-stop once they picked me up from the airport. Liam is just as cute as ever.

We went straight to Grimaldi's in downtown Scottsdale, which made me very happy. Love that pizza. Saturday morning I got to go to Jessica's first gymnastics meet. She was the youngest one to compete and so adorable. She did really well too. She placed first in her level on the bars. Later that afternoon Jenny and I had some sister time and went shopping and had lunch. That night there was a Dunn family BBQ and I got to hangout with my brother-in-law's family.

The weather was pretty toasty at 100 degrees each day, so I 'm not sure I could ever handle living in Arizona. On Sunday we went over to the Mesa Temple grounds and I took some really cure pictures of my nieces and nephew. I posted them on Facebook if you want to see them.

I was just so happy to be able to spend time with my sister and her family. I miss having them so close. I wish Kevin could have come too, and I know the kids missed him.

April Festivities

The month of April has been a pretty fabulous one! My birthday was on the 3^rd and it was pretty great. My friend Ashley and I went for pedicures the day before (Ashley’s birthday gift to me, which was awesome!) and we went to lunch. It was great to have some much needed Girl Time. General Conference was that weekend, so we watched a lot of that. After Kevin was done with the Priesthood session we went to The Pizza Factory for dinner. Love those breadsticks!

My actual birthday I ended up waking up fairly early and couldn’t fall back to sleep, so I decided to make my birthday dessert myself. Blueberry Supreme! It is basically cheesecake dessert with blueberry pie filling on top. Kevin woke up just as I was finishing it, and he wasn’t too happy that I had made my own dessert. I just wanted to help! I finally got to open my birthday presents in between Conference sessions. Kevin bought me an Xbox Kinect and a dancing game to go with it. We set it up right away and found that our little townhouse is a bit small to really be able to play. We still had fun though.

That night we had some fun friends over for dinner (Kevin’s homemade lasagna. My absolute favorite food in the world!) and dessert. We played Catch Phrase, boys against girls, and the girls won every time. Of course! Turned out to be a pretty perfect birthday!

The following weekend was our First Wedding Anniversary. Since we are going on a cruise in May, we tried to play it a little low-key but I couldn’t do nothing, so we did celebrate some. Our anniversary was the 10^th,which fell on a Sunday, so we really celebrated on Saturday. Kevin and I bought Utah County super passes or whatever they are called, so we went to the Trafalga in Lehi in the afternoon to play mini golf and laser tag. Unfortunately, it was insanely busy and we spent about 2 hours in line to play two 15 min games. After our adventures at Trafalga we headed up to Salt Lake City and checked into the same hotel we spent our wedding night in. For dinner we went to Ruth’s Christ Steakhouse. My boss had given me a $100 gift card for there a couple months prior so we saved it to use for our anniversary. So glad we did since we still ended up paying $50. The food was incredible though. Best steak I have ever had, and incredible crème brule. Would definitely love to do it again, when we are rich.

The weather was pretty gross, so we were very grateful we didn’t have to drive all the way back down to Spanish Fork. The hotel was nice and had an indoor pool and free breakfast, so we had a pretty fantastic weekend.

It is hard to believe that I have been married to my incredible, loving, generous, selfless, patient husband for over a year now. I still get butterflies when I see him and fall in love with him more and more each day. I am incredibly blessed!

I still have two more events to write about, but I will have to write about them later. And hopefully will be able to post pictures soon.

Sprinkles

I have so much to update, but until I have the time to do so, I have to share that I finally ate at Sprinkles this weekend. I am a huge Cupcake Wars fan, and a huge cupcake fan, so I have always wanted to try one of Candace's famous cupcakes. I was visiting my sister in Arizona this weekend and managed to make it to Scottsdale yesterday to try a cupcake.

I ordered the Red Velvet and it was pretty good. I loved the frosting. Was it the best thing I ever ate? No, but it was pretty darn good.

I failed to take a picture before I devoured it, but here is one I found online.

Leo in Warrenton

When I was in middle school and probably part of high school, I was madly in love with Leonardo DiCaprio. I saw Titanic 3 times in the theater, and would have seen it more if my mom would have let me. I made up a pseudonym (Daphne Alexis) and wrote him a letter professing my love. I don't think I ever sent it, at least I hope I didn't.

Anyway, today he is in Warrenton, VA along with Clint Eastwood filming a movie at the Courthouse. I grew up in Warrenton. I'm pretty sure my 13 year-old self would be wetting herself right now. Too bad he came just a few years too late.