Happy Labor Day

Happy Labor Day everyone! Today was truly a family day - from going to a 2.5 hour lunch with Husband's family (honestly, I DO NOT recommend the restaurant Ahi Muse) to spending the evening with my sis and her family. First, we went to Target to get some ingredients for dinner. While there, Darth was trying to find a friend of ours that works there, to tell him that there were too many carts outside.

 Alas, he wasn't working that day, so the carts remained outside.
Then, we came back to make dinner. We made parmesan topped asparagus, and as my sister was shaking the parmesan (yes, we just used the parmesan cheese in the green can), we learned the lid wasn't quite on, notice the parmesan all over the floor and oven.

 And then to top off our delicious dinner, a Snickers poke cake. It's just so easy to make -
Chocolate cake in a 9x13 cake pan
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
1 cup caramel sauce (I just used Smuckers)
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 cup powdered sugar
1/3 cup peanut butter
1/2 tsp vanilla
Snickers bars, chopped up

Make a basic chocolate cake, easy enough.
When it comes out of the oven, poke holes in it. I used a regular wooden spoon, using the handle. I do a hole every inch or so of the cake, really give it ways to spread. Then, combine the caramel sauce and sweetened condensed milk, and pour that over the cake.
Let the cake cool! I just left it on the counter, but if you're in a rush you can also refrigerate it.
Then, put the whipping cream, powdered sugar, peanut butter and vanilla into a bowl, and whip it on high speed until stiff peaks form.
Spread the whipped cream on top of the cake, add some chopped up Snickers bars, and then drizzle some caramel and chocolate sauce on there.

Guys this cake is so good! I want to eat the whole thing!
And that was it for our day! After dinner, Darth suggested a walk for everyone to "get his wiggles out" which just made me laugh. Hope everyone had a great holiday!

Labor Day Shenanigans

For this Labor Day, we got to celebrate Husband’s birthday. Since we were out of town for his real birthday, and things were crazy this summer, we finally went today and celebrated. We went stand up paddle boarding at Jordanelle. It was fun, but crazier than the last time I went. This time, it was really windy, so the water was really choppy. I even fell in once, which freaked me out, but I lived, so that’s awesome. I didn’t get a picture of myself on it, but I got one of everyone else, so it worked out.

Husband preferred the sit on his board while doing it. I think because he couldn’t stand up ha ha. After an hour, we headed back home. On the way, we were going through Provo Canyon, and a fire had recently started there, so the road was shut down, and we just sit there, in traffic, for like, 40 minutes until they opened it back. Right before we all stopped, the truck in front of us, who was hauling logs, had a log fall out, and almost hit us. It was by the grace of God that it didn’t hit us and we got out of it all right. I snapped a pic of what we could see of the fire while we were stopped.

It was scary, but at least we got home eventually. Happy Labor Day, everyone!