First off, my mom visited us the end of February/beginning of March and we had a great time. We visited the reception site, tried on my dress, went out a few nights, did some random running around, devised centerpieces for the reception, went to cake tastings, etc...
Let's talk about cake: we went to 2 cake tastings and cake began to become a theme for my mom's vacation out here. The second day she was here, we went to our first cake tasting at Shamane's Bake Shoppe in Boulder. It was divine... We tried 5 different flavors of cake:
- Chocolate Cinnamon
- Hawaiian Honeymoon
- Raspberry Citron
- Maple Spice
- Champagne Toast
After the cake tasting we went to the Renaissance, where the reception is being held, for dinner at their restaurant, FLATZ. It was delicious as usual and I think my mom was thoroughly impressed. If the reception food is half as good as the restaurant food (it's the same kitchen), it'll be the best banquet/reception food ever. Seriously.
On Saturday, we went to another cake tasting. Yes, we had already decided on the cake, but this other shop has cake tasting open houses and my mom is a cake afficionado, so we decided to take advantage of another cake tasting. This cake tasting, being an open house style, was a bit of a zoo. But in the end, we had tried 14 different flavors of cake. My mom loved this cake, but Brian and I thought it was a bit over the top-sweet wise. The buttercream was super sugary and the cake flavors were a bit artificial tasting.
That evening, we went out for pizza at Proto's, and then went downtown to celebrate Kimberly's birthday at Wynkoop Brewery. We played some darts and called it a semi-early night... We had been going non-stop since my mom arrived and we were all a bit exhausted.
The rest of mom's visit was busy- we spent some time packing at my apartment, I brought her to Dream Dinners one day and put her to work, we did some more running around, and ate some more cake. YES, we figured to continue the tradition, we had cake two more evenings for dessert! We had a such a great time and I was very sad to bring her to the airport on Thursday. :(
Since my mom's visit, I've been super busy with work and also working on the wedding invitations and busy with the dentist. Yup, I had been having problems since November with my 'face' hurting... First I thought it was a sinus infection, then an ear infection... Then my doctor suggested I go to the dentist and after a couple days of absolute horrid pain, I went to the dentist to discover that the previous dentist most likely damaged a nerve while filling a cavity way back in October. The new and awesome dentist gave me vicodin and scheduled me for a ... root canal. I was frightened. Scared. Terrified. I don't mind the dentist, but had heard all the horrible stories about root canals. EEEK. So a week later, I went to the endodontist for the root canal. They numbed me up and I have to say that the worst part of it all was the needle with the numbing stuff. I listened to my iPod during the procedure and was baffled when it was over, because there was NO PAIN. No pain whatsoever. It was a piece of cake and I proceeded to tell them how awesome they were and that I would totally go back for another root canal anytime. Well, anytime I really needed one!
Yesterday I went back to the regular dentist and was fitted for a crown. This procedure was also totally fine. With the exception of my jaw hurting a bit just from holding it open for a while, I'm doing good, and in 3 weeks I go back to have the permanent crown put on. If anyone is looking for a good dentist in Colorado, I can highly recommend mine, he's got such a good personality and is very informative (if you want him to be, which I did) and I think he answered all my questions before I asked them and totally walked me through the whole procedure before starting so I knew what to expect.
I know I'm missing some stuff that's gone on.... OH! We booked our honeymoon! I am sooooooooooooo excited! We're going to Jamaica for a week and can not wait!!
