EVERYTHING IS AWESOME - Heart Shaped Sushi bonding time

To celebrate our 1st valentine's  - as a married couple who is finally living together under one roof no longer long distance love -  YAY day we stayed in and decided to make a weekend out of it.  Friday Night  We DIY Sushi 

quick link for heart shaped sushi Bonded over how badly we made the sushi rice. We still have not perfected the ratio of vinegar to rice.

Tried to be all romantic and made some heart shape sushi. It's my first time soooo..not perfect but he got the message.  Saturday Watched THE LEGO MOVIE.  We may have been there during matinee hour with a room full of ages 4+ but didn't care because it was so awesomely HILARIOUS. During the film we realized the villain Lord Business was someone we both knew- THE MISTER!!!!! If you know the Mister and see how they describe Lord Business in the movie: A tyrant that likes to separate things and have a place for everything.... THAT'S HIM!

After the movie you definitely catch us singing 'EVERYTHING IS AWESOME'
Catch Phases that makes us laugh to ourselves 'RELEASE the KRAGLE' 'EXACT-ZERO' 'POLICE REMOVER' If you haven't watched it, we highly recommend it!

Cute Valentine's Ideas

Not my ideas but random cute heart recipes or love messages that I am loving this valentine's season and wanted to share. 

http://www.livinginyellow.com

http://www.100layercake.com

DIY Canvas Art

http://www.simplyxclassic.com

http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2013/02/salted-caramel-brownies/

Baby Shower DIY: Owl Theme

As promised here are the goodies that her best friends and I concocted for my sister's baby shower! The theme was owls. At first, I had no clue why she was obsessed with them but after working with everything, Owls can be PRETTY CUTE!

the decorations

Diaper Owl Cake ( tutorial here)  

the desserts

BIG EYE Owl Cupcake Recipe(HERE)

My scary melon baby (Here)

A lot of the guests wouldn't touch the crib because they were scared Chucky might come out of it or something.

Homemade Watermelon Lemonade 50/50 Punch with ginger ale

This was a hit! We used real watermelon and store bought lemonade and blended them together. Then added Gingle Ale to taste. It is pretty easy to do and was very refreshing.

From afar you couldn't tell which was the real cake  (L) versus the diaper cake (R). My aunt did an amazing job making the diaper cake!

and I wasn't sure if I should post my version of an owl cake pop but here it is...

WARNING: IF YOU OWN ANY PET CHICKENS, COVER THEIR EYES. 

It is my first time making any sort of creative cake pop so of course the first times always the most hardest -slash- ugliest. I mean COME ON, look at the cake pop on the right, it looks like the brain exploded.


CLOSE UP OF EXPLODING BRAIN 

But at least it tasted good!


Our generation's most popular motto:

Congrats to the happy couple on their bundle of joy!  

...and if you didn't get a chance to see their city hall wedding- They are HERE. So beautiful!

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P.S.

Everyone's been asking us when we are going to have kids and my honest to god answer is... I have no FREAKING CLUE. I hope not soon. SO STOP ASKING ME! 

I find that to be the most annoying question you can ever ask a married couple especially newly weds because general opinion of people getting married is to have kids. BUT I am in the group where we want to be married because we want to be committed, not to procreate.

ok- I am no longer venting.  BUT.... now it JUST got awkward....

Posting now!

Happy 2014

Happy New Year! I am only 3 days late but better late than never. 

I have been busy with rotations so hopefully after that I will have time to work on the blog as well as study for my boards. I only have one block left and then am free after Feb 14. Isn't that romantic?

Recently we have been getting our home ready for new years eve. 

We..okay really ME.. didn't want to plan a get together because of the clean up and expenses. BUT I really wanted to end the year with a bang so everyone we invited was really kind and helped chipped in. We made it a pot luck- they bought drinks, food, champagne and even decorations! We are REALLY lucky to have such great friends so THANKS GUYS!!!

We planned it really last minute..like the day before.

So I didn't have time to DIY anything >.< other than my quick 2014 number sign with whatever items I had lying around the home. I promise next year it will sparkle!!! 

2013 has been really good to me. Quickies Updates:
I recently have become an auntie !!! Niece photo below. I am not a big baby person and it totally took the pressure off me but my mother in law is all about babies once she saw this one. 

The baby shower was super cute and there were some nice DIY projects and pretty decorations so hopefully I will chat about that soon.

Hubs and I just recently celebrated our 1 year anniversary. 

YAY we made it! It was sad at first because majority of our newlywed stage was long distance but now since I have FINALLY settled back home again FOREVER I am happy. 

We celebrated in style by going to OYA 

They are very well known for their creative sushi dishes such as the Omakase so that's what we got. Since 1 year anniversaries don't happen everyday we decided to splurge on it. 

They have been featured in:

Food & Wine as one of the world's 10 best new restaurants of the year, 

Zagat's America's Best Restaurants, 

Bon Appetit's Top 10 sushi Restaurants in America, 

Eater National Nine Exceptional Omakase Menus Across the U.S., AND 

Andrew Zimmern from Bizarre Foods named OYa as one of his top 5 favorite restaurants in the country. 

You can kind of see why based on the photos below. 

Instead of freezing our wedding cake for the year because it just takes up space and I don't think it will taste that great, we just ordered the same cake favor ( strawberry grand marnier) and shared it with our family after Christmas dinner. Glad we ordered it from a regular cake shop so that we can do this every year!!!!!

Time to get some work done. Rotations start Monday!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN: Black Widow outfit DIY

Since Halloween is on a Thursday this year we celebrated early this past weekend. The theme was Superheros. I have to admit it was pretty damn cool. While we were all waiting in the dining room for the rest of the group, it looked like a crossover episode with all the heroes;  discussing how to save the world over dinner.

THE HEROES

THE AVENGERS minus Hulk

Our friend's IRON MAN outfit is also a DIY! Isn't it super cool???

I chose to be Black Widow this year because I thought all black leather would be kicka$$! That and my husband is Captain America and if you are a Marvel nerd you know that Black Widow and Captain America will have a somewhat complex relationship.

Here are my inspirational photos

 It was very simple to do. All you need is:

Black Jumpsuit: Could use black leather pants/leggings with leather jacket.
Bullets: For bracelets and belt. Spray paint this black.
Leather Biker gloves
S.H.I.E.L.D patches: made out of foam and felt. Taped them onto suit.
Black Belt : Use old one and taped foam cutout onto belt.

 This took the longest time because I had to make sure it was cut correctly and looked equal.

Using foam I cut out the black widow symbol and taped it onto an old belt. 

These were my bullets- post black spray paint and used as part of my bracelet. 

Not sure if you can even see it but I even dyed my hair red for Halloween. I wish it came out more red! This is how intense I can be with Halloween. LOVE IT!

I just wish I was young enough to get some free candy!!!! 

TRICK OR TREAT!

Pumpkin lovin'

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and this year is our FIRST as a couple celebrating it together! OF COURSE we have to have matching outfits which I am in the process of making but that is for another future post.
In the past AKA Before Marley, the Mister has made our house into a non-doorbell ringing home which probably marked us to the neighborhood kids as a NO CANDY ZONE.
Last year NO ONE rang our doorbell!!!!  So this year our goal was to make our front yard as halloweenieeee as possible. We set up some decorations and motion activated monsters ( which scared the heck out of me so we left it on the OFF button until Halloween day!). 
We also made our very first pumpkins. 

Can you guess which is his and which is mine???

The idea of picking pumpkins and carving them is fun but when you're actually carving, it's REALLY HARD and sortof annoying. So much to clean up and it was pretty ugly when we started out so it was a bit discouraging but after seeing our artwork come together- we both ended up with great pumpkins!
Have a happy Pumpkin picking! 

9-21-13 The Day I CONQUERED the Road

9-21-13 Is the day I GOT OVER MY FEAR of driving.
223 miles, 3 hrs and 10 minutes
It wasn't so bad. 
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You may go, really that's nothing, I've driven 123456789 miles before. Well honey, if you know me the furthest I've EVER driven is down the street and back! 
OK- maybe not that bad but I am the typical ASIAN FEMALE DRIVER. I do not like to go on highways and if I possible I would take the LONGESTTTTT local route just to avoid it. 
The furthest I've ever driven in my whole life non-stop is 20 miles and even then, I get sleepy. 
Even my BEST FRIEND did not believe me.
Bestie: Yea right, I don't believe you. Me: I am SO SERIOUS! I am at home and I drove by myself. Bestie: TAKE A PICTURE OF YOUR CAR RIGHT NOW and text it to me. Me: -_______- 
I ain't going to lie, when I made it within 100 miles of being away from home, I breathe a sign of relief because if anything happens AAA will tow your car within 100 miles for free!

So HOW  after 4 years of being in VT did I FINALLY get the nerve to go the distance NON-STOP to home? 
Because I miss my Mister :( 
I guess LOVE does Conquer All. Especially the fear of driving. 

Thanks babe. P.S. It did backfire. Now he won't have to pick me up to help drive my car back home....  I have to do it by myself. >.<