April Fool's!

I'm not big on April Fool's Day pranks. I'm all for a good laugh or joke, but sometimes they are just mean. What bugs me the most is when someone plays a "joke" on me by saying something like, "I'm pregnant," "I got in a car accident," "I"m engaged," and then when I respond with an appropriate response they say, "I can't believe you fell for that." Well, you're my friend so of course I believed you. Do you not want me to trust anything you say? With that being said I found a clever "prank" in the Family Fun magazine I decided to play on Evan.

I made a "Sponge" cake. I frosted a car wash sponge with yummy frosting and sprinkled it with nuts. After dinner I offered Evan some cake, by saying "I'll scoop up the ice cream if you cut the cake." If you know Evan, you know he is very meticulous. He spent a good minute or so cutting the sponge trying to get the pieces even and trying to cut through the thick sponge. When he saw that it was orange, he said, "hey is this foam?" I said, "It's sponge cake." Then he said, "Oh, so it is cake?" And kept cutting. Then I quickly said again "It's SPONGE cake." I'm not sure Evan thought it was very funny. I think he was a little disappointed I used yummy nuts on a fake cake, but we made some AWESOME walnut brownies to make up for the disappointment.

Caverns

While on our "camping" adventure we went to the Kartchner Caverns. They were way more impressive than I was expecting, well worth the money. The caverns are newly discovered and have only had tours in the caves for about 10 years. They are highly preserved so you get the full effect of the cave and creatures.

This is the outside of the cavern

They found sloths in the cave

tight fit...

The Norby's did what?

Evan had a few days off of school so we went on a little adventure to a stake park, about 65 minutes south of where we live, and went camping. Neither one of us are very "out-doorsy," but we had a good time on our first camping trip together.

Setting up the tent...

Almost finished...I did help, but I also had to take the pictures

Playing games as the sun set

We couldn't have a fire...so this is our version of the "smore"

Number 24

Eating "Rex's Revenge" for lunch in honor of my birthday buddy Rex

Then off to the skating rink. One of my favorite things to do with Evan. Only took us 40 minutes to get there. How can there be 1/2 million people in Tucson and only one skate rink...and no ice rink?

There were a ton of kids there...lots of 9 year old birthday parties going on

After watching the basketball game after to our favorite restaurant....My Big Fat Greek Restaurant

Then Baskin Robbins for dessert. Flavor of the month ice cream Lucky O'mint Chocolate Ice cream...SO yum!

RANT

I am feed up with med school today. Evan has worked the last 10 days without a day off. Without a day off in sight. My birthday is this week. He is on call again tonight. The second time in a week. Evan keeps bringing home germs with him. I am sick for the second time in a month. He worked a "half" day yesterday. It was still a 6 hour day. Then he spent 6 hours on a research PowerPoint presentation. Thus we went to bed late last night. We didn't even get to watch our Tuesday night show. Now I am grouchy. I took last month's rotation for granted...

On a separate note I've discovered Sunflower Market...

Roasted Salted Peas...They taste like the popcorn at the bottom of the bowl.

Asian Peanuts. They were ok. I say were because we ate them all.

Today I went to Spouts and bought dark chocolate honeycomb...super YUM

Exploring Tucson

In early February I decided I wanted to go on a picnic. Evan got a suggestion from the doctor he worked with for a cool park...well it ended up that this cool "park" was a walking trail. So we started walking until we found some rocks to sit on and eat our dinner. Talk about awkward when some hikers passed us. Well last week we head back to the trail head, but this time for a HIKE! The weather was perfect and the hike was easy.

TUCSON

Look at all that cactus

The next four pictures are from our "picnic"

I know it's dark, but I love the Arizona sunsets

Ouch...Don't sit on the cactus!

"The Amazing Evan"

A couple weeks ago one of our favorite shows started up again...The Amazing Race. So I decided to make the premiere extra fun. I sent Evan on my version of "The Amazing Evan." Now you may be thinking "Oh Amber, you're so weird." Well I found this great blog thedatingdivas.com it is about strengthening your relationship with your spouse through well...dating them. I've been a bit inspired to do some creative activities with Evan and we've had a blast.

While Evan was home for lunch I made an excuse to go out to his car and posted one of the "Clues" to the steering wheel. When he drove back to the office I poked my head out the door to see his face when he read the back. Well he didn't take it off the steering wheel! Later I found out he wanted passer byers in the parking lot" to know that his wife loves him." So I had to text him and tell him to flip it over. So the clues were written in Amazing Race fashion... "Head by car" "You have 10$ for this leg of the race" I even had a "Detour"...The tasks were pretty boring, just things he would have done anyways (get a hair cut, work out, make a protein shake, ect.), but it was a fun little afternoon that concluded with you guest it watching The Amazing Race. I want Zeb and Justin to win-just in case you were wondering!