Happy Birthday Mom!

My mom turned the big 50 yesterday and I wanted to make it special for her. My stepdad was out of town so it was up to me all on my own. Mom wanted something low-key so I talked her into dinner. Her new favorite place is Lucky Chen's. It is owned by the former cook at The Magic Wok, so I gave them a heads up that we would fill their small restaurant and they were nice enough to save us tables and let me do a few decorations.


My Auntie Theresa (my mom's twin) who we also celebrated for..



My mom, cousin Annie and Luke and Ava back there too.



My little Mac, he's so cute!


I hope they weren't offended that Mac touched their Bud ah, I'm not sure if that's bad luck or disrespectful.. oopps..


Me and Cody


I got this awesome Costco cake and Mike said that it needed 50 candles, so we put 50 candles on it and lit them. Then I had to walk it out to them across the restaurant, it was like a torch! I nearly caught my hair on fire!


This is how much smoke occurs with 50 candles!






Mike thought it would be fun to tie a balloon to my hair..

I didn't really think it was funny..




These are the funny/cute new shoes one of the girls in our old neighborhood made for my mom. I think they would tickle too much to wear them! It was so nice of her to make them for my mom though! :)

The Alpine Slide

Sunday morning we decided to head to Park City, none of us have been on the Alpine Slide in a while and it sounded fun. Kristin, Brooke and James' friend hadn't been to Park City ever so they did the zip line as well, so we waited for them to get done and headed up the lift to the slide.



Mckaius and Mom


Amiee and Cody


Me and my brother


Poor Mac was so bored, so we let him get dirty and play/throw rocks.




Todd, Kristin, Brooke, James, Jaime and Pete



James waiting in line for the slide


Cody and Mike



Finally Mckaius got to ride something! Some lady gave my mom a ticket for the merry-go-round. They were going to buy him a pass of his own but we were told it was $22 and he's so little the merry-go-round was the only thing he could go on..

Then Jaime and Pete took us all out to lunch at Main Street Pizza with gift certificates they got for buying a fence at their new house. Thanks Jaime and Pete!

The Hell Fire Challenge

When Brooke told me that they were coming into town she also mentioned seeing Kobe Sushi on "Man vs Food" and said that James (her fiance) wanted to try the featured "Hellfire Challenge". Well, this is something that you just cant miss out on! I wanted in! Not to partake in the challenge, but to be a spectator. So Friday we all decided to head up there.
We were excited to find that Pete, my stepsister's husband, was also going to try it.


Jaime and Pete



James, Brooke and their friend Kristin there at the end



Todd and Mom



This is the "yum-yum roll" that the server recommended to start with because it coats your stomach with cream cheese, which helps with the burning..



The challenge consists of 7 levels of hot. To qualify you just have to eat three pieces of the #6 hot roll.


Yeah, apparently its hot..



James started sweating and running from the nose..


This is where the "challenge begins". Its like $19.99 or something, plus the price of the previous rolls. I thought this was a rip off but it's all in the challenge so they decided to proceed. This is the #6.5 level hot roll. If i remember correctly, they each had to eat one or two.









Poor Pete had eaten so many things to "coat his stomach" and cooled the burning with so much diet coke, water and milk that he was done at this point.

The chef came out at this point to check on these crazy boys.



James decided to proceed without Pete so he had to sign a waiver to move on to the next level.


This is the #7 level hot roll. You have to eat 6 of these pieces to pass the challenge.


Pete got free ice cream for trying.



James made it through one of the #7 pieces before throwing in the towel.
He has a tear, his nose was running like a faucet, he is sweating and he is turning red. I'm glad he stopped!


Pete is talking to another patron who has previously passed the challenge. He says the trick is "being asian, white people aren't use to eating spicy foods".



This is how the night ended. James lost his cookies (or sushi rolls rather). Gross, i know. But I think they both survived to tell a great story about Hellfire in and Hellfire out!

Out-of-Towners

This past weekend my step sister, Brooke, her fiance and friend came into town from Buffalo, NY for a visit. It made for and exciting, fun, full weekend! Thursday night we caught "Thirsty Thursday" at the Bees Game.


Brooke and Todd


Me and Mike


Mac and Mom waiting for the train


Mom and Mac finally on the train


Jaime found funnel cakes... MMMmmmmmm!