The Best Sunday of the Year!

 I looooove the Oscars. 

My little brother and I watch them together every year and the past few years it has turned into quite a party!

Everyone fills out ballots guessing who is going to win each category and whoever gets the most right is hailed as the Oscar King (okay not really... but they usually get a prize of some sort).

The dresses this year were fabulous; some of my favorites were Kristin Wiig, Berenice Bejo, and Livia Giuggioli's.

I also have a whole list of movies I need to see now, and can we talk about how great Meryl Streep's acceptance speech was?!

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

 This past weekend we decided to continue the one-year-old tradition of making heart shaped pizza's for Valentine's day. 

Last year's date was quite successful if you ask me: 9 couples came and 5 of them ended up getting married to each other!

This year was a bit more low key, but I absolutely loved it that way.  

Cooking with Mr. JP always makes me laugh, because he is very serious about his food; I was hardly allowed to touch our pizza!

We also have completely different tastes so our pizza was split right down the middle haha. 

 

We matched. Not even planned.

 Hope your Valentine's Day is lovely!

Superbowl XLVI

I love the superbowl for five reasons:

1) the food

2) the party

3) the commercials (although I was disappointed this year!)

4) the halftime show (love me some Nicki Minaj)

5) the potential scandals that occur during the halftime show (wasn't disappointed this year, thanks MIA!)

I really don't understand football all that well so I have very little interest in watching the actual game haha. 

Also, it's strange to think that when we watched the superbowl last year, JP and I weren't married! It's amazing how much things have changed!

Who do you think is the bigger fan? 

Mary...

 ...or me?

  :)

On Martin Luther King Day...

... we went for a hike

got temporarily lost in the wilderness

Jean Paul scaled a mountain

we found some huge caves 

and took a band picture (?)

we played Uno and lots of Banagrams 

made a delicious Sunday dinner

 

the girls watched the Golden Globe awards while the boys watched football

and pretty much constantly ate treats.

Some friends went with Jean Paul and I down to St. George over the long weekend for the third year in a row! It's one of my very favorite traditions and this year was fabulous.

  (read about last year's extravaganza here)

The First Annual Pie Party

Jean Paul loves starting traditions. 

Basically everything we do together, he asks "Should we make this a tradition?!" 

Example: On Halloween we made fried rice for dinner, and he's told maybe 6 people that we have a Halloween tradition of making fried rice... Soo apparently if you are in the mood for fried rice, come on over to our house on Halloween? Haha.

However, when he told me he thought it would be fun to start a tradition of having a Pie Party the night before Thanksgiving, I actually agreed with him. So Jean Paul put the whole thing together, and for your benefit here is the description on his party invitation:

If you've ever met Jean Paul, this won't surprise you one bit haha. 

Dear Friends,

Thanksgiving is nearly upon us and what better way to celebrate it than to have a pie party? A pie party is a splendid tradition in which a group of people get together and celebrate the holiday of gluttony with none else than exorbitant amounts of pie. In order for this to work every person or group of people attending (please bring whomever you would like) needs to bring a pie. Quality is paramount. If you know me... you then you know I am what my wife likes to call a ‘food snob.’ I prefer refined. Needless to say, if you bring a store-bought pie you will be turned away at the door and I will defriend you on facebook.

There will be voting and a prize for the best pie. So consult your favorite recipe blogs, rifle through grandma’s old recipes, or call your mother, and prove to everyone else that you are a better cook than they.

Happy Thanksgiving! May your hearts be grateful and your stomachs gratified.

Jean Paul

PS – Only sweet pies please, I love a good savory pie, but I don’t trust anyone on this continent to make one. 

It was so much fun! We had over ten pies and who knew our friends were such good cooks?!

All of them were homemade too, except for one group who thought they could get away with passing off a pie from Kneader's as their own... tsk tsk. You know who you are.

Yay I love friends that come all the way down from Utah State just for our Pie Party! ;)

Provo Best Friends, obviously.

 

 

 The winner!!

 Using the first place trophy as a mic? Sure why not.

Kyler, Jeremy, and Victoria apparently are my most talented friends when it comes to baking.