My Twenty..fir...se..fifth...whatever Birthday!

So, I had two parties for my birthday this year so far! On Saturday the 10th Eric's mom (Julie) took us to Utah to go shopping!!! FUN FUN. Perhaps the greatest gift Eric gave me this year was giving up fishing and tagging along with his mom and I as we went shopping! I asked him not to, but to no avail (though I secretly felt loved seeing his death ridden face as he followed us through Target)! Then we came home and had pizza and cake...carrot...can you believe it? I never thought the day would come that I ate carrot cake willingly! Then on Tuesday (my actual birthday) Eric surprised me with all of our friends from Kemmerer coming over for cake and ice cream with DORA the EXPLORA plates, cups and birthday hats! Life doesn't get better than that, huh? Here's to a birthday worth celebrating!

Raclette

So...we had dinner at our friend's (Destry and Kristi Dearden) house. Destry served his mission in France and got this to relive his glory days!!! :) We had potatoes on our plates and put ham and cheese in individual sauce pan looking things. You put it in the Raclette and it heats it up and you pour it all over your plate. YUM YUM! Just FYI the grill is called a Raclette...but that name stems from the semi-firm salted cheese the french and swiss use in this dish. Anyways...enjoy our "cheesy" picture!

Halloween Babies!

So, while we did not have too many tricker treaters, we had good friends come by and show us their cute kids. Eric and I dressed up as prisoners and passed out candies. After the trick-o-treaters were safely tucked in bed, we stayed up and watched scary movies (in our costumes because Eric insisted that we had to stay in our costumes in order to watch scary movies!). Never a dull moment with Eric Phillips!