Brazilian Date Night!!

Ian and I are trying to do a date night every Friday night and there was this one date that we had been putting off: cooking together. We made Brazilian Cheese Bread and oh man was it an experience! For starters, NO ONE sells tapioca flour!  I went to an Asian market because that's where I was told they would sell it and I got SO lost!

Ian and I made it step by step and more than once, we thought it was not going to work! The dough was SO sticky that I thought our Brazilian night in was going to end in pizza but it all worked out :)
The almost impossible to find tapioca flour:

 At this point, we thought we had messed up and were ready to make something else:

By this point, we were more optimistic (this was right before we added the cheese and put it in the oven):

They looked so ugly that when we put them in we just thought "well, at least we tried":

After 20ish minutes, they looked much better than expected:

 Fresh out of the oven! 

The center of the bread was SO cheesy!

Dolly was a HUGE fan of these and asked for a piece of every little cheese bun:

Brazilian Cheese Bread Recipe

Ingredients
*1 cup milk
*1/2 cup veggie oil
*1 tsp salt
* 400g tapioca starch
*2 eggs
*1 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese

Instructions
*Preheat oven to 350 degrees
*Combine milk, oil, and salt in a saucepan bringing it to a gentle boil over medium heat. Remove from heat when you start to see bubbles come through the milk
*Add all the tapioca starch and mix together until you see no more dry starch. The dough will be grainy and gelatinous
*Transfer the dough into a stand mixer and with the paddle attachment, beat the dough until it is smooth and has cooled
*Whisk the eggs together in a small bowl and slowly add into the dough with the mixer on medium
*Add the cheese until fully incorporated. The dough will end up being between the consistency of cake batter and cookie dough
*Using a spoon, scoop out rounds and place on baking sheet. (i dipped my spoon in a glass of water to avoid sticking)
*Bake for 35-38 minutes until they puff up and look dry but just as they start to colour. DO NOT OVER BAKE! 

My First Ever Hockey Game!

Last Friday, I officially became a Canadian; at least that's what it felt like! In all my 22 years of life, I have never been to any kind of hockey game. Somehow, I got my hands on some tickets to the hockey game in Toronto and I had one very excited hubby! Now I had been sick the whole week and I felt like I was one step away from passing out, but this was my first hockey game EVER so I sucked it up and prepared for the night. Since we had 4 tickets, Ian picked one person to bring and I picked someone (which was a lot harder than expected because of the extreme short notice).  We sent our friends this picture to bribe them and included in the text that they were FREE:

Here's the deal: I thought these seats were going to be good but then Googled them. Absolutely no amount of sickness was going to keep me from this game because we were seventh row from the net!

That morning, Ian was showing how excited he was by wearing his jersey to work:

I was ready early for the game in my Team Canada jersey because I don't have a Leaf's jersey. Now here's the deal: I didn't know what the other team's jersey's looked like but I will most definitely be looking into that next time because my Canada jersey looked like the other team's jersey and hockey fans are HARDCORE!

 Dolly thought she was coming with us to the game:

So we meet up with our group and look for our gate to get to our seats and after lining up in the regular Gate 2, the dude tells us we are in the platinum section and don't need to line up. That's when I freaked a tiny bit from excitement! Jonny and I were super excited:

I have to say, the entrance to the arena to get to our seats was definitely overwhelming but the look on the faces of the three grown men I was with was SSSOOO funny that I really wish I had filmed it (picture three giant grown men with their mouths and eyes wide open and I may have seen some tears... just sayin')
Another thing I learned was that even though our tickets said row 7, the rows don't start until row 5 so we were really sitting in row 3.  

We were lucky to be at a Hall of Fame game and they had a whole ceremony before the game started:

This an UN-ZOOMED picture of how close we were:

Everyone was rushing to take a picture with this Hall of Famer but I had NO idea who this was until someone told me later on Facebook (he's Borias Salming):

 This was the first of not many fights that happened RIGHT IN FRONT OF US!!!!!!!

We had a blast at the game that went into overtime and shootouts (WE WON!) and the night ended with me completely loosing my voice from screaming at the game. This was definitely up there with the best of my surprises for Ian and I have no idea how to top this one...

Halloween 2013

So I know this is late, but Happy Halloween! Ian and I went to our church's Trunk Or Treat and since we don't have kids yet, we wanted to scare the candy out of these kids! It was raining so it moved indoors and each family took a room. It was too dark to take pictures of our room but it was covered in GIANT spiders that creeped me out, black drapes, creepy music to set the mood and Ian jumping out to scare whoever came into the Davenport Cave of Terror!
When the judges came into our cave, I found out it was my dad and the bishop who were going to decide the winner. Some people who know me might say that I'm a tiny bit competitive, but when I found out there was a prize for the winner, I told Ian we had to traumatize to win!
Ian was Superman and I was Barbie so when people first saw us, they thought we were harmless and cute... then they came into the Cave...
By the end of the night, WE WON SCARIEST ROOM!!!!!!

This little guy was an Ewok and totally melted my heart!

Johnson Baby Shower

We have a new sister in the ward and she is very pregnant.  I found out that it was her first baby and I absolutely HAD to throw her a baby shower! I had three days to throw a baby shower and while most people would completely panic and throw in the towel, I turned to the best website ever created: Pinterest! I have everything on Pinterest ready to go from dinner parties to baby showers to designs for my baby's room so the tough part was already done.  All the ideas were there and I just had to make them come to life :)

Our first game was the classic clothes pin game. Everyone gets a clothes pin and you steal other people's pins through the whole party as they say the word "cute". At the end of the party, whoever has the most pins, wins!

I had everyone fill these in for a memory book for baby Johnson:

I made her cake because it was actually a lot cheaper to make than to buy anywhere else:

This was the second game: blindfolded diaper change.  I didn't have any blindfolds so I just had everyone look up at someone throughout the diaper change. We faced off against everyone and since I'm so competitive and love to win, I thought that matching me up with the new first time mama was a good idea.  I later found out she had a whole bunch of little siblings and was actually a diaper pro (she won the whole game!). I also learned that this game was A LOT harder than I thought and I learned that Ian will be doing all the diapers because I got it around the doll's leg both not looking and looking (I have never done diapers before this and you can tell by my face below)

 Kim was seriously a diper pro!

 She even beat my mom!

By the end of the night, I was so grateful for my Pinterest baby shower board that pretty much had everything already planned! It was also great that Ian spent the whole party in another room with his guitar to help with the take-down (and he tried to teach me how to change a diaper but it didn't work)