How Do you Like your eggs?

I love breakfast! Probably because of my Dad, cause he loves breakfast and makes delicious breakfast goodness. So whenever I go out to eat breakfast at a restaurant I get pretty excited. However, I have learned that not all things restaurant are what I'm used to.

My Dad makes killer scrambled eggs. I love them. When I go to a restaurant I always order scrambled eggs, but they are not the same. My dad loads his eggs with milk, cheese, bacon, and seasoning. Delicious! Restaurants don't do this. They are just scrambled eggs.

When we surprise visited my parents and went to Awful Annie's, I explained my dilemma to my parents. I have never tried any other kind of egg. So they recommended over easy, which is what they always order. I tried this. It was good.

Well this cold morning, I decided to make my own eggs. I didn't have any meat to put in them, but I got everything else. And they were delish! I might be a scrambled egg snob, but what can I say, I know a good scrambled egg when I see one.

Freezing already

Well October is almost over. Crazy how fast time flys. And with October ending, the freeze has come. For the past few weeks, I have taken our big warm t-shirt blanket to Brad's softball games to wrap up in. Brad finds it ridiculous because he does not think it is that cold. Well last night, was the tournament. If they won their 6:30 game, then they got to play in the 8:30 championship game. For some reason, I did not think this through so when I told Brad I was ready, I was wearing jeans, a thermal long sleeve shirt, a sweatshirt, ankle socks, and tennis shoes. I also brought the big blanket. By the end of the 6:30 game, I could barely feel my toes. Smart. I should have worn my snow pants, long socks, and boots, and maybe even a big coat.

Well, they won the 6:30 game by a pretty big margin. There was almost a fight too. I'm glad Brad didn't get involved, but his Dad and one of the other teammates looked like they were going to take out the pitcher on the other team. He was a jerk. But we won, so it was fine. And thank goodness the teams kept the pitchers from killing each other.

Well, I explained my freezing body to Brad, so we went to 7-11 and got some delicious hot chocolate. My roommate Jen introduced me to 7-11 hot chocolate and the goodness of the coffee mixins (like french vanilla, half and half, and pumpkin spice). Yum, so i had a very creamy pumpkin hot chocolate. Which was great, but my toes were still frozen. So Brad had me put his sweats on over my jeans, which helped. The crazy guy played both games in just his shirt and shorts. Crazy! He is a snowman, I am not.

Well they lost the championship game. Sad, but they still got a big trophy for taking 2nd place. And they did get t-shirts for being the regular season champions.

On a good note, the Cardinals won last night, while Brad and I were sleeping buried in our blankets and with the heater turned on high.

Time to turn on the space heater for the basement so I don't freeze all day. I already am cold now. I'm too scared to look at our thermometer to see what the temp is down here. Upstairs it is only 65. Freezing. Can I just say how excited I am for November and December when it only gets colder?

Surprise!

Not a picture of THE surprise face, but this was funny candid. I would loved to seen my dad's face when he saw our car in the driveway though, next time I need to have hidden cameras to capture such priceless faces

2 weeks ago, Brad text me at work asking if I could get off early the following Wednesday (Oct 6). He told he was going to try and get thursday and friday off. When I asked him why, he told me that we could go and surprise my parents! Awesome idea. So we both got the time for this impromptu trip. Then the weather decided to play a funny joke on us.

You see, we seem to have a knack for driving to Sacramento whenever there is a huge storm. Like Memorial Day 2009 when we drove through a snow storm over Donner pass. Fantastic!

So when the news all of a sudden started talking about this rain/snow storm coming through, I just wanted to laugh. The storm was supposed to be leaving California Wednesday and coming into Utah Thursday. So Brad started to check the weather over the pass like crazy. The storm then seemed to move faster then planned so when we started our journey Wednesday at 4pm, we drove through rain in Utah, a little snow in East Nevada, and then clear skies. Caltrans kept reporting no chain control over Donner pass, so it was looking like our timing paid off!

At 11pm we crossed in California, passed the fruit patrol, and Caltrans still was not reporting chains. Then we hit Truckee. I hate that city so much, cause there was chain control. It was snowing, and not sticking cause it was so wet. It was now 11:30 (CA time), and I wanted to punch the guy who told us we HAD to put chains on. Hello! We are from Utah! No one puts chains on, especially when there is no snow on the ground!

So we pulled over and put the chains on. By we, I mean Brad. He is so wonderful. I was trying to help, but it was cold, the metal was hurting my hands, I was exhausted, and had started to cry. Turns out I was also low, so I sat in the car eating and crying, while my wonderful husband messed with the chains. So we finally get past chain control and are moving at a speedy 30mph. Woohoo! Then the whole line of trucks stops. No one was moving. We were stopped for an hour on top of the mountain. Brad was once again prepared and had loaded some Dino Rider episodes onto his phone (it's an old 80's cartoon show that Brad loves). I tried to sleep, but I just couldn't fall asleep, plus I was still made at the situation. We finally started to move again. After 3 hours, we were able to take chains off. Yup 3 hours! Normally, it takes tops 2 hours to get from Reno to Rocklin. This time it took 4!

So we showed up at my parents at 3am PCT. I had been up for 23 hours. I have a key to my parents still, but Brad was worried we would wake my parents, so he insisted we be ninja quite. I was failing at this ninja quiteness. Brad was concerned my Dad would come after us with a bat. Our work friends were concerned by Dad would hear us and shot us. I however, know that my parents have slept through very loud slumber parties, that my dad does not own a gun, and that Brad and I were much closer to the bat then he was. So we slept downstairs on the living room floor.

In the morning, my dad got up early to go running. Now, my dad is not the most observant person. He had to come downstairs and practically walk right by/in front of us to go out the front door. He didn't notice us. It wasn't until he got outside and saw a car parked in his driveway. He started to flip out wondering who had the audacity to park their car in his driveway. Then he saw the Utah plate and went "What?!" He came back inside and finally noticed us. I heard him stand there for a few minutes. Then he went upstairs and woke up my mother. My dad is quite, my mom is not. We heard here screaming from upstairs. So down they came laughing and shocked. I had text my mom the day before telling her I really wanted her to buy my awfuly annies and mail it to me (it's an awesome breakfast place). So when she came downstairs she said, "You sure did come a long ways for breakfast!"

The breakfast! Yum! Can't beat apple cinnamon french toast like this!

We had a fun few days in Rocklin. We went to Awful Annies, Buffalo Wild Wings, BJ's Brewery, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom (formerly known as Marine World), saw The Help, and went to the newly re-opened mall. Oh and I went to my friend Tamie's house and hung out with her and Katie for a bit. It was fun, the drive not so much. But at least the drive back was okay. And I was kept plenty busy with cutting my fabric for my halloween wreath.

Needless to say, I told my Dad that I would not mind it at all if they moved to Nevada so they were on the right side of the Sierras.

Getting Crafty!

So a few weeks ago I was talking with my fantastic friend, Shalise, and I mentioned how with all my free time on my days off, I would love to do crafts, but that I never know what to do. Shalise then told me about Pinterest. For those who haven't heard of it, it's like an online blog where people "pin" things they are interested in (ie: crafts, clothes, food). Facebook helps connect you with people you know so you can see what people like and find all sorts of awesome blogs/websites. I LOVE it! It's so addicting and fantastic!

So, through pinterest, I have found all sorts of halloween crafts to do. I have made pumpkins out of toilet paper rolls, hung up bats, made spiders, and am now finishing this wreath. It's awesome!

I must say though, the websites were you can find the crafts, don't always state the important things. For instance, from Country Living I found all of these simple halloween crafts. So i cut out bats to cover my walls. Country living said to use double sided tape to hang them inside. Great! However, the bats started falling after 5 minutes. Even with loads of double sided tape, they were dropping like crazy. I was not very happy, and Brad thought it was the funniest thing ever. So I had to create plan B: hang them with fishing wire and 3m hooks. No more falling!

I got the fall wreath from this "Sassy Sanctuary" blog. She makes it sound so easy! You just buy fabric, cut it into 1" by 6" pieces, and tie onto this wire wreath. Easy right? Nope! It is extremly time consumning! Oh my goodness. It is turning out really cute, but I'm getting blisters from all the tying. Basically, I tied a bunch on and thought I was almost done, except I still had a ton of fabric I hadn't used. Wierd. So Brad takes the wreath and uses his man power to shove the fabric around so I had tons more places to tie fabric. That was nice the first time, but he has done it 4 more times. I love him, and he is helping, but not the best thing to do when my hands hurt and it's 11pm. So after a week, I am hoping to finish today! If you decide to do a cloth wreath like this, plan on lots of time. The cutting takes lots of time, especially if you are just using a ruler and scissors. Luckily my mother-in-law has a huge fabric cutting board thing that made the cutting go by much faster. I would recommend doing the tying while watching tv/movies. It helps take away from the monotany of tying.

So there are my 2 cents. I love Pinterest and can't wait to get started on christmas crafts next month (I will not start them in October cause that is just wrong).

Finally Done! It wasn't till finishing that I realized I had read the directions wrong and used 4X as much fabric!

Oh well, it looks cute at least...