.Creme de la creme

Before I went to Paris I had heard of this dessert.

Mostly from the show Gilmore Girls {which I was border-line obsessed with at the time}

I finally spotted it on a dessert menu at some fancy restaurant near my home in Chicago and got a tiny bowl for a pretty high price.

I instantly fell in love with the stuff.

While planning the trip through Europe, one of my main goals was to try crème brûlée in Paris.
{Which, when it came to Paris, only came after the Eiffel Tower and The Louvre on my list}

I was determined!

And I succeeded. So good.

But now I've really done it!

I finally made my own crème brûlée.




It worked out really well and tasted just like being in Paris again.

Only better… because this time Air was there with me.


Oh yeah, I also got to do some of the other stuff on my list in Paris... but that's not as important

*2007 at The Louvre with my sister Megan and niece Alexis | *top of the Eiffel Tower

Let the dieting commence!
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.I'll Follow the Sun

I’m very pleased to announce that the sun has returned! The snow is starting to melt away... finally.

We went for a long walk the other day and didn’t freeze at all!

Not even a little!

We didn’t even freeze when we were drinking ice-cold slurpees!

Don't get me wrong though… it still looks like this out there:

I just can’t wait til it’s completely gone!


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You know what else is melting away?

Air.

He lost 25 lbs in a month!

Way to go babe! Looking good, as always...

believe me, I know

I checked you out.
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.Olympians

Our seminary kids got to be Olympians for the past few weeks in the Scripture Mastery Olympics!

It was incredibly fun

We had competitions every morning at the beginning of class...

snowboarding

luge

downhill skiing

figure skating & speed skating

On Monday, we had our closing ceremonies and handed out awards.

We had the Olympic theme song playing as we called out their names and handed them these awards I made out of cookies. It was awesomely cheesy.

Gold Silver and Bronze

Champions!

Gold medalists!

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.weekend of crazy

*cards from Nichole and Joel, Air’s family, the RS, and my parents

As you already know, my birthday was on Friday.

We had a pretty uneventful day until Air got home from work and walked in the door with Tam and Josh all singing and surprised me with a DQ ice cream cake! We ate pizza, played volleyball, threw confetti, ate cake, and watched a movie. I’d share the awesome photos from that day, but somehow they all got deleted from the camera the next day… sad.

Here’s a picture of my second surprise birthday cake from my seminary student Shania!:

On Saturday we went out to lunch with Air’s family. Tara wanted to show us a new place where she likes to eat. We were pretty surprised when we pulled up to this place:
Those faces say it all, don't they?

Located in the sketchiest part of town; it’s called the “Motoraunt” because it’s basically made out of a giant bus and a bunch of cardboard boxes. haha

But, HOLY COW! It was sooo awesome! We will definitely be revisiting this place.

After Lunch we went down to the Muttart Conservatory pyramids.

We took a million pictures of the awesome plants. It was so cool to go somewhere that feels like summer again…

I told you we took a lot of pics! Not gonna lie... this isn’t even half.
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