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Prepping for a Baby Shower! September 12, 2010

Filed under: Food,Friends — Kelocity @ 8:26 pm
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One of my best friends, Ashley and JR, are having a baby soon, so today, Erika and I threw her a shower to celebrate!

But back up to earlier in the week when we started making the favors and the cake!

First Step: FAVORS!

We made chocolate covered pretzels!
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We melted down some chocolate to decorate inside the molds with:
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We had to paint all the details with a paintbrush:
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And we melted down some chocolate for the base:
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Viola!
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All wrapped up!
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Second Step: Sugar Cookies!

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Then we had to frost them all!
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Third Step: Bear Cake!

Erika found this super cute bear cake in the Wilton Magazine:
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We Erika made the two layers of the bear first. and used frosting to stack it together.
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Then she got to work decorating with frosting!
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(I think my camera ate some of the detail shots of this!)

Erika pretty much made them and I watched (moral support!) And she was nice enough to let me lick the spoon. lol

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The Final Product! So cuuute!!!
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While we baked, the boys were jumping around playing the wii!
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We had a BLAST planning the shower. I was sad Ashley couldn’t be there… but I guess we had to keep it a surprise!

 

Around the World in 6 hours! September 7, 2010

Filed under: Food,Friends,Las Vegas — Kelocity @ 1:00 pm
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First thing’s first when in Vegas:

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How is there a Dunkins in Vegas and not in LA??

Erika, Timmy and I went straight for the coffee and bagels/donuts. And my husband went to the Mexican Market and came back with Churros and a Tecate Beer. lol
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oh man.

Timmy hadn’t been to Vegas before, so we had to do the grand touristy tour of all the big hotels. It was so fun because I hadn’t been in some of them in years!

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New York, New York!

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MGM
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We saw Lions in there!
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Excalibur
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Luxor

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I don’t even have to go all the way to Cairo to see hieroglyphics. haha

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Bellagio!

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L ook Out, Reese!
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Paris!
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It’s exhausting going around the world in one day. 🙂 It was so much fun.

For dinner, we all met up at the Rain Forest Cafe. IMG_5723
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The highlight of the dinner was, of course, the dessert.

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It was a crepe with bananas, ice cream, whipped cream, caramel and chocolate sauce. Mmmm!
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The highlight of the evening was:
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We were SOOO excited for this. Cirque shows in Vegas is just something you have to do. I was looking forward to this for so long.
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The show was incredible. We absolutely LOVED it. Everything was impressive…from the stage to the music to the performers. We had great seats and soaked in every awe struck moment of the show.

In other news… I broke a nail after the show. It was SOOO sad!!
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Irving doesn’t think a broken nail is blog worthy, but I disagree. This is my first broken nail ever!! (I’ve been growing them out since April). I was devastated.

le sigh.

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Night Vegas!

 

La La Luxury! September 6, 2010

Filed under: Food,Friends,Las Vegas — Kelocity @ 9:30 pm
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Welcome to Las Vegas!!
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I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the Encore is pretty much the nicest hotel that I’ve ever stayed in. We scored an AMAZING deal for Labor Day weekend. ($300 for three nights in an Encore suite INCLUDING two tickets to Le Reve!) Yes, Please! They were practically begging us to come!
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Our Room!
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The Mini Bar!
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This trip was pretty shopping heavy. Because of Labor Day, the outlets were having AMAZING sales! I got tons of shirts, dresses, shoes, jewelry and shorts! Irving got golf clothes and some other stuff. We were shopping machines this week!

The first night, we ate at “The Mac Shack”.
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My kind of menu!

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I got the traditional Mac & Cheese with Spinach and Peas mixed in. Mmmm!

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Cheese!!

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As you leave the restaurant, they have free Tootsie Pops!!! MY FAVORITE!
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Later, Irving ran into a friend from high school! As he put it, they “haven’t seen each other in the heavy half of a decade”. — since 1997!
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After dinner, we met up with Erika and Timmy and headed over to Blush nightclub inside the Wynn.

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We had VIP access! That’s how we roll!

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The lanterns were all handmade in China! And they coordinated with the music. So cool!

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And ladies got free champagne all night!
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It was a fun night!

Stay tuned tomorrow for more!

 

John Williams at the Hollywood Bowl August 29, 2010

Filed under: Food,Friends,Hollywood Events — Kelocity @ 1:57 pm
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Last night, Erika and Timmy, Erika’s Mom, Irving and I headed to the H-Bowl for one last show of the summer. It was ‘John Williams and the Music of the Movies’!
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John Williams is a legend in Hollywood. He conducted the music in SO many of the world’s greatest movies!
-Indiana Jones
-ET
-Jurassic Park
-Star Wars
-Catch Me if you Can
-Harry Potter
-Jaws
-And SO much more!

But before the show, we had dinner ––picnic style (per usual!)
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Summer Must be coming to an end because it was SO dark out!

On the menu was:
-Eggplant+Tomato Salad
-Bruschetta
-Fried Chicken
-Cole Slaw
-Cheese + Crackers
-Sweet Hawaiian Rolls w/ Honey
-And… Wine!!

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They allow you to bring in whatever you want, but they still check bags at the gate when you walk in. We were joking that they are probably checking to make sure you BROUGHT your wine… maybe you wouldn’t be allowed in without it. LOL

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Anne, Erika, Timmy!
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Me and Irving!
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For Dessert, Irving’s Favorite!
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I mean… his ULTIMATE favorite! This man can easily eat a whole box of these babies. 🙂 But he shared.
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The show was great!
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I love how they light up the bowl.
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Of course, the highlight of the evening was when he played the Star Wars theme!

Out of NOWHERE, all these Light Sabers came to life in the audience!!
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Look at them all!!!!

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We were laughing so hard. Light Sabers are officially on my Christmas List for this year. (I never thought I’d say that!)

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It was a great show to end the season on!

 

Celebrating with our Friends! August 26, 2010

Filed under: Dining Out,Food,Friends — Kelocity @ 7:06 pm
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On Monday, Erika found out that she scored an amazing new job! We were SO excited to celebrate with E+T that night! We headed up to Universal Citywalk to have dinner at Saddle Ranch.

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The service was slow, but we started off with a ginormous plate of Nachos!
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It was as good as it looks, I assure you.

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I had no idea what I wanted, so Timmy and I did halfsies and split the Buffalo Chicken Wrap and the BLT.
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It was perfect. I could only eat the wrap and took the BLT home, but it was perfect. 🙂
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Congrats, Erika!!!
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