Willy Wonka Cupcakes

Sarah volunteered to help out at her brother's play by selling cupcakes. The play was Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, so we went with chocolate cupcakes with purple and green frosting.
We ended up making over 150 cupcakes, and we sold almost all of them. I was hoping we could spend it on groceries, but we'll probably end up buying more shoes. (Sarah is looking over my shoulder and she says this is not true).
Here's our awesome cupcake stand. We sold chocolate cake with vanilla frosting, and yellow cake with chocolate frosting.

Everything We Have Eaten In The Past Month

Sorry it's been a while since we have posted anything. Sarah and I have both been really busy. Sarah has started a training program at work, and I have been pretty busy with Law School. However, I had the last week off for Spring Break, so I was able to catch up on naps. And, of course, Sarah and I were still able to find time to cook and to bake. This first picture is of some brownie cupcakes that Sarah made for Valentine's Day. They were pretty delicious.

I tried my hand at crepes for breakfast one morning, and they turned out pretty well. This one had raspberries, lemon zest, and powdered sugar, which was pretty tasty. The batter takes a while to make, but they're worth it.

One night during Spring Break, I decided to try making Cuban food, which turned out alright. I made a tropical-seasoned pork chop with an orange and lime glaze, with some yellow rice. It wasn't half bad. I also put up some Christmas lights to give it that authentic Hispanic restaurant feel.

For dessert, I was a little ambitious and made churros. Since I haven't had a good churro since Disneyland, I figured it was time to make my own. This is the dough that I had to make. It was massive, eggy, sticky, and ridiculous to make, but it turned out pretty good. It's worth it if you're a foodie like me and Sarah.

I gues this is the Spanish style of churros, because I made it with some chocolate dipping sauce. It was pretty much the greatest thing I have ever made in my life. Don't worry, I have plenty of dough in the freezer, so if you want some, come on over.

More Cupcakes!

I promise that Sarah and I are not getting fat. We try to give as many of these cupcakes away, I swear. Anywho, Sarah made some awesome cupcakes for a baby shower this week. Thought you would like to see them!

New York!

Sorry, it's been a while. I have been super busy with school, but we finally have some time to catch up on things. These pictures are from our trip to New York over Inauguration weekend. We had an awesome time! Here's a picture of me and Sarah on our way to see "Mary Poppins."
Here's Sarah at her happy place: Tiffany's on Fifth Avenue.
The Statue of Liberty was really cool, and not quite as cold as you might think. We also went to Ellis Island.
New York is an awesome city. We loved all the bagels, pastrami sandwiches, black and white cookies, and fried chicken.
Of course, no Peterson family vacation would be complete without cupcakes. We stopped by the Magnolia Bakery near Rockefeller Center, and had some awesome Inauguration cupcakes, but I refused to eat the Obama one. All in all, it was a pretty awesome trip!

Christmas with the Petersons!

For our grand sendoff from Washington, DC, Sarah made us some more cupcakes. This time she did red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, and they were pretty awesome. I was sad we had to give most of them away.















This is Christmas at the Petersons in Arizona, before all the children arrived. It all looks so calm and serene.















Here is my Mom's famous tower of treats. It had every type of Christmas treat known to man, and I managed to sample them all... daily.




















Here Sarah marveling at all the gifts that Santa brought. I think she was just surprised that Santa chose to give her anything at all.




















And last of all, this is our nephew, Sam. He's the biggest 3-month-old baby we've ever seen, but he's still pretty cool. Sarah and I had a fantastic Christmas.

Christmas Time is Here! (sung to the tune of the Charlie Brown special)

Here we are gearing up for our Christmas card photo. You'll have to take our word that it's really cold, even though it looks like a balmy 80 degrees in this picture. We also went to the recently re-opened Muesuem of American History, which was pretty cool.

Here's Sarah. I made her pose in her Christmas dress in front of our tree that's barely taller than us. Also, we have some awesome stockings that Sarah's mom made for us.


These are the gingerbread men that Sarah made. I got to decorate quite a few of them, so I tried to get creative. See if you can find Batman, a football player, a stick figure, and a dude in his underpants.

We also went to see the temple lights on Sunday. Here's a picture of Sarah and her mom. Christmas is great, and we are so excited to go to Arizona this year. Yay!

Picture Time!

So it's been a while since I have posted anything on the blog, mostly because of law school finals (which I should be studying for right now). But I figured we should add some pictures of the exciting non-law-school-final events of the recent weeks. First off, our table finally came, so now we have a place to eat! We were so excited that we took a picture with the box. As you'll notice, we're winners, because the box told us so.

Some folks in Sarah's family's ward started a tradition of having a pie party on Thanksgiving morning, where everyone brings a pie. Anyone who knows me knows that my priorities in life are as follows: (1) Sarah, (2) Pie, (3) Everything Else, so this was a pretty exciting event for me.

For Thanksgiving dinner at the Brutons, I was responsible for the Peterson family stuffing, and Sarah was responsible for the rolls. The rolls rocked, and Sarah did a great job, and I was so excited about my stuffing that I took a picture of it. Even my picky brother-in-law ate some, and he only likes rice!


Sarah got involved in a Gingerbread House competition at work, so we tried to think outside the box and stretch the bounds of the traditional gingerbread house to new heights. We came up with a gingerbread Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, which was pretty dang awesome. Sarah made the gingerbread from scratch (I helped by eating some), and then we cut out the pieces of gingerbread according to a complex posterboard model we built beforehand (I say complex because I even had to use a protractor). Also, we made that awesome snowman out of fondant frosting, and everything came out great.

Here's the more or less completed project, complete with reflecting pool! So those have been the highlights of the last few weeks. The rest of the time I have spent secluded in the bedroom pouring over unilateral agreements and forum non conveniens while Sarah watched Law & Order reruns all by her lonesome. Only two finals to go, and then I'm free!