A new direction

Since my new years resolution of loosing weight was an epic fail, I have decided to make EVERY CUPCAKE IN THIS BOOK!! Carly bought me this recipe book for christmas, without know that I had seen it before and fell in love but for some reason did not buy it ... I know, I know its a first I wanted something and did not buy it. Anyways everything happens for a reason i guess, so stay tuned for my cupcake posts, we will see how close I can get to making my cupcakes look like the pictures. Each month I will make a new cupcake and post mine in comparison to the picture.

I guess I better get that gym pass I have been putting off...

Dead or Alive?

Alive! We are still very much alive! We both have been so busy moving and finishing the semester of school, the worst of my life by the way. But yes we have moved out of the many homes we have lived in throughout the past few months, his mom's, my mom's, etc. and have finally settled in one place! We are now living in the condos in Woods Cross just behind the apple. You may recognize them by the tall skinny "San Fransisco" style condos. We are so happy to finally be living in one place and I promise now that I have a break for a few weeks from school I will definately get some pictures / video posted of our new house!

Homecoming...for a minute

Courtney finally got to come home and see me and Chip for the weekend! It was so much fun to see him! I had almost forgot what he looked like after not seeing him for over a month! Just kidding kind of. But me and Chip were very excited to see him and can't wait for him to come home to us again.

For those of you that don't know what the deal is...Cort has moved to Dallas for the extended season for selling alarms for Pinnacle Security, and I had to come home at the end of August to go back to school (in the final stretch now people, PRAISE THE LORD!) So I haven't seen him since I came home on August 17!! So it was great surprise to have him here.

New Logo

I decided as my senior year in the interior design program it was time for me to update my logo for myself, since it will be on all my business cards and portfolio documents. Write a comment to let me know what you think!

Our last day together :(

It was our last day together on August 16th before I came back to Utah to start school again (senior year, finally!!). Cort is staying out in chicago until the end of August and then moving to Dallas Texas to do the extension and will be back around mid - end of September.

So on our last day in Chicago we thought there would be no better way to go out with a bang then by going to a chicago cubs game at Yankee stadium. When we woke up that morning it was perfect weather for a baseball gam, not to hot and not to cold. As we drove closer and closer to the stadium it began to get overcast. As we got a little closer it started to sprinkle. And finally as we reached Wrigley field...it started pouring buckets!! I was so disappointed, but decided that was God's way of punishing me for procrastination.

Even though the game was a bust we still had a really fun day. We met up with our friends and went to the Skydeck href="http://www.theskydeck.com/theledge.asp"> of sears tower. It was so cool to see the sity from that high up (103rd floor, 1,353 feet). The just added the glass boxes to the outside so you can stand outside of the building enclosed in glass, it was really scray actuall! I didn't think I would ge scared but I did, it was a little windy that day and I swear the building was swaying! (Look at the few pictures I have from the day, I forgot my memory card so I had to rely on the camera's memory..it sucked)

After the skydeck Cort and I went to the Hard Rock Cafe in Chicago, it was cool but not the best one I have been to.

Finally, we went and saw Courtney's boyfriend AKA Michael Jordan. We went to the United Center, the home of the chicago bulls, to see the statue of Michael outside the stadium. Although I am not a bulls fan it was a cool statue, and Courtney is the biggest bulls fan ever so he loved it!

Although we were sad to leave eachother I am lucky to have a husband that works so hard to support my expensive habits :)

Independent Woman!

I bought my first car on August 4th, that I got all by myself! It is a 2006, Dodge Charger with a V8, which could be dangerous since I had my license revoked for speeding tickets :). Its beautiful and I love it! Look at more pictures of the inside in Picasa web...
Then on August 6th...

It broke! The fuel sensor broke as I was driving out of Nordstrom Rack parking lot. A tow truck had to come and get us after an hour, and then after an hour ride in the tow truck we were suppose to be picking up a rental car and ... the keys were locked inside! So we waited around for an hour deciding what to do and $85.00 and an hour ride home in a cab we were home, rental car and new carless. :(

The Robie House...

The Robie House, another house designed by Frank Lloyd wright, is the greatest example of the prairie style...and the greatest disappointment! I was so excited to go see this because this house is so famous we talk about it in my classes all the time and it the best example of Wright's Prairie style, so you can see why I was really looking forward to seeing it.

I wasn't able to take pictures of the inside, which I already new from the tour of Wright's home, but even if I was able to I probably wouldn't because there was nothing inside!! The house was totally gutted because they are in the middle of renovation and really the only thing that we were able to see were the decorative glass windows, which were beautiful; more beautiful than in pictures so that was cool. But even the walls had none of the original coloring, they had paint swatches on a board in one room to show what the colors will look like, and they had covered all the floors with either rugs or pieces of linoleum, ghetto. Then in each room they had a black and white picture of what it looked like when the Robie's lived there, and some rooms had a chair or a table, but none of the pieces were original they were all reproductions, and not very good ones at that, they looked cheap, it was lame; which was so disappointing because one of the other reasons the Robie House is so famous is because of the furnishings that Wright designed specifically for the house.

Not only was the house a disappointment but so was the tour guide. She looked about twelve and had to read the tour from cue-cards, so whenever anyone asked her a question that wasn't in the cards, she couldn't answer it. After the presentation one lady was talking to the guide and asked her if she was an architect major at the university (right down the street, by the way, it was an amazing university in an old part of Chicago, tons of really awesome buildings, Weber sucks) and she said no! She was some other wacky major, I was like and why are you here giving us a tour again??? Glad I saw it, but wouldn't waste the money to see it again even when the renovation is finished.