Happy Father's Day!

I am so happy that you are the Father of my children.  We are so lucky to have you!  Every single one of the kids would much rather spend their time with you than me and I am totally ok with that.

We love you!

Miso Salmon

This might be my favorite dinner that I make.  My family loves it!!! It is from Cheesecake Factory.

Miso Salmon
1/4 C brown sugar, packed
2 T soy sauce
1 t. ginger
2 T hot water
2 T miso (yellow soybean paste, ask someone at the grocery store where to find this)
2 C uncooked rice
1 C fesh snow peas
4 salmon fillets

Sake Butter
2 T peeled, julienned ginger.  Or if you are lazy like me, I just use 1 or 2 t. powdered ginger
3-4 garlic cloves, minced
1 T unslated butter plus 1/2 C cold unsalted butter
1/2 C plus 1 T Mirin (found in the Asian section at the grocery store) Usually good sake is used but I didn't want to go to the liquor store for it so my friend, Barbie suggested using this instead and I love it!!
1 T heavy cream (I just use skim milk and it works great)
1/2 t. fresh lime juice

Directions:
Cook rice.  Combine first 4 ingredients and whisk.  Arrange fish on a baking dish coated with cooking spray.  Spoon miso mixture over fish.  Bake fish at 375 degrees for 30-40 minutes or until golden and flakes off easily with a fork.
sake butter:
In a small saucepan over medium heat, cook garlic and ginger in 1 T butter for 2-3 minutes.  Add 1/2 C mirin and bring to a boil for about 3 minutes.  Add the heavy cream or milk and boil for about 2 minutes.  Add the pieces of cold butter to the sauce one by one, whisking over medium high heat.  Once all the butter is incorporated, remove the pan from the heat.  Whisk in remaining 1 T of mirin and lime juice.
Place Sake butter on plate, top with a bed of rice and snow peas, place salmon on top of rice.

Enjoy!!

Tim and Amy's wedding dinner

 Tim and Amy had their wedding dinner and it was such a blast!  Seriously, the people who marry into my family need a sense of humor to enjoy us and we definitely display that at these wedding dinners.  Half the time I felt like I was at a comedy club because all of the jokes.

Tim and Amy

Heather and Nate

Whitney and Jake

Bob and Kelli.  He introduced her as his "smokin
hot wife" then proceeded to name off her
amazing accomplishments.  In the end he yelled,
"I've hit the jackpot!"  It was awesome.

Josh, Mabel and Tiff.  Love them.

Pat and Kimberly.  Patrick was hilarious while giving his speech but also made me cry.

Tim was so sweet talking about Amy.  I am so happy 

for these 2.

Mom and Dad

Brian and I.

                             My Dad and brothers.

Katrina (Elizabeth's cute friend from her mission), Elizabeth, and Alex.

The girls

And our glorious video that we made for Tim and Amy for their wedding dinner.

Going through the Temple with Amy

I was lucky enough to go through the temple with my family because Amy got her endowments taken out.  I was so sad that Brian couldn't be there but we couldn't find a babysitter so he was sweet enough to stay home with the kids.  It was so much fun having all of my family there.  I love the temple.

I am so happy for you two!

We went to Cheesecake Factory after the temple.  It was delicious.  I loved sitting with my sisters and Mom during the temple.

Amy's Delta Gamma Bridal Shower

Amy had her bridal shower last week for all of her Delta Gamma friends.  My Aunt Sally and cousin Ellie threw the shower and it was fabulous as always.  The food was so delicious.  We had such a fun time.

 

Don't you want to be a DeeGee too?


                                                        

Amy's cute friends

                             My Mom and Aunt Sally

Caitlin's Wedding!

Caitlin's Bachelorette Party

I have mentioned this before but I have stayed friends with these girls since the 3rd grade.  We decided to relive all of our past times this night.  I thought it would be kind of boring when they brought it up to me but it was THE BEST BACHELORETTE PARTY EVER.  It just shows how I haven't really grown up... and I don't know if I ever will.

Sliding down the stairs on sleeping bags was awesome.  I am surprised none of us broke a bone.

 I seriously love these 2 so much.  The sweetest, kindest girls in the world.  They would do ANYTHING for me.  I would do the same for them.

 The Big Day

Caitlin looked BEAUTIFUL.  I couldn't stop telling her that.  Her dress was so pretty!

You should have seen the ceremony.  I looked at Jeremy and he was crying.  Then I looked at Caitlin and she was crying walking down the aisle (which was more like through the gardens at Red Butte).  They are so in love and happy.  I think I cried through the whole ceremony.  It was such a beautiful afternoon for the ceremony.

We are the biggest dorks.  Haha.  This was hilarious.  Heidi actually ended up falling in the fountain and got pretty wet.  We were crying we were laughing so hard.

I love you Caitlin!  Thank you for such a wonderful wedding that I will NEVER forget!