Today’s lunch we went to American Fork and tried Avenue Bakery.
I had the brie cheese sandwich. I didn’t get the veggie because I’m not a fan of mushrooms. The employee said the veggie is her favorite out of the entire menu and I should have tried it.
I didn’t care for brie sandwich. Aaron was so sweet, he gave me half of his panini and his was REALLY good, minus the chicken 🙂 I will definitely be back to try the veggie panini.
I will also be back to try this! Looks tasty, right? Raspberry cheesecake. We skipped this because we had plans to go to….
Blox. Dessert Bars. This place was good, and I would return.
Starting from the top. The guy said the pistachio cream cheese cookie was good seller and everyone keeps asking for them. Not sure why 🙂 we didn’t care for it. It was good, but not that good.
The peanut butter chocolate cookie was my runner up. It was good and I would go back for another one. Reminded me of the prison’s, Serving Time Cafe’s bar.
The rice crispy bar. I didn’t try it. Mom and Aaron said it was REALLY good and it was one of their top choices.
The chocolate brownie was all of our favorites. But, it definitely needs ice cream. I would go back for this one, take it home and put some homemade ice cream on it.
We stopped off at Best Buy to help Cindy find a laptop. I ran into this. Microsoft Surface Duo. I need it! It is a foldable phone/ tablet. It folds up and you can put it into your pocket! Your pocket! I sent Paul a picture of this. Mothers Day is coming up… 🙂
Eli had a week off for spring break. We did everything. We went hiking, fishing, bike riding, played at the park…it was non stop.
He went running with me in the mornings.
He’s my little coxswain. He would ride his scooter as fast as he could and encourage me to run. “Faster mommy, faster!” My speed increases when I’m with him.
He has great theatrics. This is what he does after he reaches the top of the hills.
His energy returns we get to the park!
Learning how to skateboard.
In honor of spring break, Eli wanted to take pictures of the spring flowers. I thought that was appropriate. This is what he took.
See his shoes 🙂
Every picture! He is such a cute boy, he makes me laugh.
The Easter bunny gave Eli a new switch game, Animal Crossings. This game is kind of fun, and addicting. What is fun is our characters are just like us. Paul and I walk around logs and make a relatively straight line to where we need to go. Eli takes the long way, and runs around and around, and over logs, sits on logs, jumps over logs… it’s been quite fun to watch him play.
Another thing that is fun, is watching Eli decorate his tent. His tent looks just like a 6 year old tent. He needed to display all his fish he caught.
No room for his bed so it went outside. Of course.
This was just the beginning of his fish collection! We spent a lot of hours playing.
We took a day and went to Crystal Hot Springs. Sadly, no pictures. The day we went was snowy and cold. Perfect to sit in hot pools! After several hours in the water, we went to Maddox for dinner. My usual is the salmon with about 30 rolls and cornpones. Too full for dessert, a coconut cream pie always goes home with us.
We went to Wasatch Bagel Cafe. They were supposed to have the best bagels in Park City.
Little Pea was on Spring break and off school for the week, so I was pretty excited for him to join us! You can’t go wrong with an egg and cheese bagel sandwich.
We haven’t been to downtown Park City in a few years so we stopped and walked the streets.
Creative outdoor seating. They had heaters in each of these balls.
Drove a few miles to Deer Valley. With the lack of snow this year, I didn’t think the ski resorts would have a enough slow, but we saw a few skiers out there.
For our dessert, we went to the Windy Ridge Bakery.
Everything looked tasty. The employee said the pumpkin ginger heart cookies were the best out of all the desserts.
So we tried two cookies. The chocolate star was a chocolate graham cracker with icing in the middle. The ginger heart cookie was definitely the best one! Soft with creamy icing in the middle. I would definitely come back for these!
They had some delicious looking fruit tarts as well. I was so full from lunch I wasn’t hungry enough to eat one. So when I come back for another ginger cookie, I will try one.
We drove back to Park City and played on the play ground. Eli needed to get his wiggles out for the trip home.
One detour we had to take. We’re looking for some property, so we had to look at the outrageous prices of land. We knew everything would be over priced, bu we had to see what was out here. We found this .24 acres for $1.4 million. Crazy.
Eli arranges the bunnies almost every day! Today he was pretty creative by having them sit on the Easter sign 🙂
While the eggs were boiling, we made some bunny cars. We glued the wheels on with the frosting from inside the twinkies. Eli LOVED eating the glue!
I must be the worst mom ever, because this is the first time Eli has had a marshmallow bunny. He couldn’t believe all the sugar that was covering the marshmallow. Neither could I! 🙂
Eli was waiting ALL week for this. And now the time came!
We started writing secret messages on the eggs to each other. I used the classic white crayon and dyed the egg.
Eli used red. I love his message. He also has wonderful handwriting!
The next day the Easter bunny came!
Copying the pictures over to put on the blog, I came across this video. This is what Eli made. It was a fun to see a little bit into Eli’s world and what he is thinking 🙂
Paul made our usual Sunday breakfast. Dutch apple pancakes.
Bryan met us at Hires Big H for lunch. I always get the veggie burger with avocado and cheese. I have tried a lot of veggie burgers , and it Utah this place has the best one! Can’t get the fries. Not worth the calories, but other than the fries, you can’t go wrong with anything on the menu. Aaron says all the burgers are really good, I will have to take his word for it 🙂
Dessert today was a bust. We went to the Sweet Spot. I need to document to NOT go here. Nothing sweet in here. It is a Brazilian café. Let’s see, how to describe this café ….first thing, the health department needs to make a stop here and make some changes. We walked in, looked at the dessert case and walked out. Enough said.
Next stop. Family Fun Bakery. Not to put down my cooking skills, but I can make a better cookie than what they had in the case. Won’t be going back here either.
With two down, we just decided to go to Crave. It was getting late and I needed to leave shortly to pick Eli up from school, so we went where we knew they had a good cookie.
We tried the Oreo stuffed cookie and Aaron got the safe chocolate chip cookie. it was good, but I should have gotten the chocolate chip cookie. Next time!
We had plans to drive to Heber to ride the Heber Creeper, but they were closed for maintenance. So instead of riding on a real steam engine locomotive, we went on …
The UTA. Ha! We rode trax downtown and ate brunch.
We went to Eva’s Bakery.
Eli had the stuffed french toast. Paul and I split the Boulange Benedict, with ham on the side. Then Eli finished what we didn’t eat. 🙂
We walked around downtown for a while and headed home.
Popped some popcorn.
And watched a movie.
Although we didn’t get to ride the train today, we will for sure ride it in a few months. Looking forward to it!
My life is never easy. I also never finish a project. I have many sewing starters, but not a lot of finished products.
Today I have decided to make my life difficult and relocate my sewing room across the house.
Ugg! This is my sewing room. I’m embarrassed to even show this. My tables are covered in unfinished projects and piles of material that I have dug out of my cabinets to work on a project.
Yes, my exercise bike is in the middle of the room. I have pictures of the other side of the room, but I just can’t upload it due to the mess. Those pictures were moved to the trash bin. 🙂
This is my family room. Again. Yes, that is a vibraphone in the middle of the room 🙂 I’m practicing for a piece that I have volunteered to play in sacrament meeting and the basement is too cold to practice in 🙂
The couch on the right is a heavy beast. I have convinced Paul to help me load it up on the trailer to donate next week.
This the arch I want to hang the barn doors on. I have measured and remeasured, and of course every door out there is either too tall or not wide enough. I have to make my own doors!
Paul is so not happy with me 🙂 Over the last week he helped me load up the couch on the trailer, and move my both my cabinets and desk into the family room for me. They are not the lightest furniture. Sturdy and great for an embroidery machine, though!
I looked at several pictures of barn doors and drew plans for the doors I would like to have in my house. Checked and doubled checked my numbers. I drew a new design, more measurements, and another plan. This is my first door 🙂 I wasn’t sure what I was doing.
I Went to Lowes to look at wood and then dropped in at my parents house to announce my new project. I wish I had taken a picture of my father when I told him we are making barn doors.
We cut everything.
We glued pieces together.
We drilled pocket screw holes.
We measured, and measured, and measured!
We clamped.
We cut some more. 🙂
And crazy enough we had a frame of a door!
Of course I couldn’t just have a plain door. I wanted texture and light to come through windows.
I ordered plexiglass through a local company who cut them to a specific size. We had to carefully slide the glass through each panel.
It’s looking like a door!
I filled the holes with putty and started painting. I came back the next day to put a second coat on the doors and the doors warped! I cried. I didn’t get pictures, but we clamped the frames of the doors to straight pieces of wood and by morning they were looking pretty good.
Ready to head over to my house!
Paul was not happy with me this day either 🙂 My rails were delivered. Paul had to find the studs…
Screw in the back board, which if I were to do this again I would use a thinner board. I was unsure of the thickness of the back board, because I didn’t know how heavy the doors were going to be.
I was also worried about the looks of the door and what side of the arch I should put them on. Front or back? I tried to imagine what it would look like both ways, finally I chose the back of the arch.
Adding the pully wheels to the top of the doors.
And we have a door.
Lulu came to help.
I removed the paper from the plexiglass and couldn’t stop opening and closing the doors.
They need a bit of cleaning, but they look great! I absolutely love them. I love that I can shut out my mess.
When we move I want to take them. I worked so hard on them I want to keep them. The new house will have barn doors to the entry way to my workout room, so I will install them there. Paul is going to be thrilled to help me install these doors a second time!
Strap Tank is a beer brewery. Aaron was showing me what beer he was drinking 🙂
Bryan and Aaron split the pizza. This thing was HUGE. The four of us could have ordered this and still have left overs.
Mom and I split the fish and chips. A very good choice! I would come back here again for the fish and try another pizza.
For dessert we went to Crave.
We each tried a different cookie. Out of all the flavors of cookies, I think the chocolate chip cookie is a good choice. All the flavors were good, but the chocolate chip cookie was the best. When I go back, it will be the chocolate chip cookie for me!
Crazy thing after. I needed to go to a model home to get some house plans I liked. This house was in a 55+ community so I asked mom to pretend she was looking for a house in the community so she could get the plans. She was so funny! I wish I recorded it. She played the role perfectly! I always like touring model homes so it was a perfect ending for today’s lunch.
