Weekend Getaway

We went to Santa Monica over the weekend. I can't even begin to explain how much fun we had. I will blog about it soon, but here's a sneak peak of our little weekend adventure. More to come....

The Grooms Cake

When I went out for Christmas my Mom kept asking me to order Fatu's grooms cake. I couldn't believe that it hadn't been ordered yet. There wasn't much time to get something custom ordered. We came up with an idea that we liked. We thought it would be super simple to put together. All we would have to do was order some tuxedo strawberries to put on top of a chocolate cake. Voila! Super simple right?! Wrong!! I called every single bakery, and chocolate factory in the Salt Lake area and NO ONE made tuxedo strawberries!! I couldn't believe it!! It was too late to change the concept of the cake so  we decided to make our own chocolate strawberries. I showed Fatu a tutorial and he laughed and was pretty confident that he could make them. He does a lot of art, but I was a little hesitant to trust a guy with the task. We decided to turn it into a contest. Yeah, our family is super competitive haha. So we held a contest between him and Sila to see who could make the best strawberries.... and Fatu won.

We did a couple of different styles of strawberries and added them to our chocolate cake. Voila! Fatu's finished grooms cake :) BTW, the coconut ones didn't make it to the cake cause we ate most of them haha.

Christmas 2011

Me and Ti talked about spending Christmas in Vegas this year. We wanted to go to Salt Lake, but because Fatu's wedding was the next weekend, we decided that it would be best to stay home for the Holidays. As Christmas grew nearer we each felt like we wanted to be around our families on Christmas day. So we changed our plans and agreed that we would be going up to Utah. The kids had some Christmas gifts that were already under the tree so I let them open them the night before we left.

They wrote Santa a letter telling him that they would be in Utah and left him their Grandma's address so that he could find them.

And he did!

The stocking were filled with lots of treats

Stocking Sweets

We had Christmas breakfast with the Fangupo's (yes we open presents before we eat haha). The boys were so excited to see more cousins.

Of course we went and visited Ren as well...

She had her own tree that was decorated in her favorite color {purple} It was even lit up with lights.

We went up with my Dad, Beans, and Misi

Everything lit up at night! She had candy cane lanterns that made cool star patterns on the grass, there were Christmas trees that lined her picture and a snowman that would glow and play Christmas music. And her little candle holders too.

Jonathan & Sia stopped by with their kids while we were there.

The kids were out of school for winter break so we let them spend that week in Salt Lake and me and Ti drove back to Vegas. Even though we didn't have the kids for a week, there wasn't any relaxing. I was running around trying to get everything we needed for the wedding. Time flew by and before we knew it, we were driving back up to Utah for Fatu & Brittainy's wedding.