After the Farmers Market we met my parents, sister, brother in law and little brother at Ruth's Diner up Imigration Canyon in Salt Lake City. If you have not ever been to Ruth's Diner I highly reccomend it! It is so amazing and such a cute little place. If you go on Thursday, Friday or Saturday nights they have singers there playing on the patio, so be sure to go then. Again, no pictures.
After breakfast at Ruth's we went back to Salt Lake and went to a cute little concinement shop called Emilie Jayne. It has a lot of antiquey/vintagey things in there. And next to it we found a home with a tire swing out front! We really wanted to ride on it so Brady went up to the home owners and asked, they had just moved in and were from Germany and were totally fine with it, it was great!
From swinging to American Apparal. Brady had a Groupon that was given to him by his lovely mother. We saw that they were expired so just assumed we would only get what was paid for the groupon. Anyway we get there and Brady tries on clothes and finally finds some items he wants to buy, but he cannot buy them because it is expired! We had to call into groupon to get it verified so we can use it and of course they were closed on Saturday. What a bummer!
From American Apparel we went to an antique shop. There were some pretty great things in there. We found these tiny plastic cars going for $75! Can you believe that?? It was insane, but fun to see things that both of us had when we were younger. Brady made friends with the owner, we got to chat with him for a while and learn about how he got into it with his wife before she died. It was sweet to hear him talk about her and how he is keeping it open because he promised her he would.
Off to Gourmandise!! There is this amazing bakery in Salt Lake City that my brother and sister in law introduced us to. It is amazing! They have good food, but their desserts are amazing, and there are so many of them! We decided it would take us a month to try one a day to get through them.
Straight from Gourmandise to the Joseph Smith Memorial building to see my friend Andy's ring ceremony. I went to school with him at the University of Utah and got to know him really well, I am so happy for him! As soon as we were done we were off to Idaho.
Oh wait how can I forget?! Sometime during this day Brady needed to go the bank and when he got out he saw a man. A man that told us his age in months and wanted to dance for us. This is what we got.
Whoa. So you notice how my title says weekend? Yup that was only Saturday. You are in for one long post.
Sunday we had a BBQ at his sister's house for his niece's birthday. It was so great to be there with his siblings, parents, nieces and nephews.
The 4th of July was one crazy, fun, amazing day! We woke up, went for a run and then went to the parade. Brady's mom and sister run three different sno shack's in Rexburg so during the parade they were driving the mobile one around by a four wheeler as well as running the sno shack that was on the side of the road where the parade was taking place. It looked pretty crazy, but we just got to enjoy the parade.
After the parade we went boating at Island Park. It was absolutely gorgeous there. The mountains and trees surrounding it was breathtaking. When we got there the water was a little choppy so we surfed and then as more boats left we had some people wakeboard. It was a great day of boating, especially for the first trip of the year.
Brady Surfing
Brady's little brother Devin surfing
Brady
What a babe right?!
After boating is where the craziness starts. Brady, his mom and I really wanted to get a sno shack and since they were closed down for the day we decided to sneak in and make one for us. The lights were off and everything but as soon as we got there people started lining up and pulling up to the drive thru window. We were going to tell them we were closed, but they started spewing out orders like it was nobody's business! Brady's mom hadn't worked the cash register in a while so we were a little stuck there. Brady had helped out a bit at the sno shack before so he knew a little bit what to do and I had never done anything like that, I was like a deer in headlights. It was so crazy, I wasn't good at packing the shaved ice, I wasn't good at putting the flavors on, but somehow we managed. With just us three working it, the shavers so loud we couldn't hear peoples orders so our heads were sticking all the way out of the window in the cusotmers space just to hear what they wanted. Not knowing where the ice cream is or cream either. Wow it seriously was insane. As soon as people stopped coming we could not stop laughing. It was so insane, but we had to do it! It was so great, I enjoyed it!
This was before the craziness started. I wish I remembered to take an after picture, but I didnt!
Brady and I were wanting to make cupcakes for the 4th of July, but because we got caught up at the sno shack we got home two hours later then we hoped for! So we started rushing the cupcakes. Got the oreos smashed and put in the batter and cooking. We started on the frosting and thought we used butter, but we were wrong! Oh margarine how I dislike you. We had to start completely over. We also came to discover that you should NEVER use anything reduced fat when baking. Just saying. We used reduced fat oreos, they tasted different, and we used reduced fat cream cheese and the frosting was just not the same. Come on if you are going to have dessert you might as well do it right!
FINALLY DONE. By the time it was 10 o clock we went out with the rest of his family to cook hot dogs and light off fireworks until midnight. Oh and we had A LOT of fun with the sparklers.
What a great weekend.
