sunday dinner

so last night we decided to have branson's little brother chad over for sunday dinner. after church, i made a fresh garden salad, a delicious pot roast with red potatoes, carrots and green beans on the side and my most favorite thing, creme brulee, for dessert.

after i stuck the pot roast in the oven, we ventured down to provo to pick chad up (aren't we nice? i think so...) and then got back in time for dinner to be ready about 30 minutes later. it was so fun to hangout with chad. he is one cool kid. he is currently at byu, finishing up his freshman year. he gets his mission call this wednesday. i'm so excited for him! it will be cool having two brothers out serving missions - my brother austin, who will be in toronto, cananda. and chad, wherever he's going. i can't wait to find out. its so exciting!

anyway, i had decided to have dinner at the house (sidenote: we are having a hard time coming up with a name for it. while its still my grandma's house, we have kinda a hard time calling it that. i mean, she lives next door. that's 'grandma's house' now. but we feel kinda weird about calling it 'our house'. but i guess if we're living there, it kinda is our house minus the financial ownership. ha ha we'll figure something out. but i guess for now i'll just call it 'our house'.) then we wouldn't have to worry about disturbing mary and brad who were having dinner at the condo i currently live in. so 'our house' it was.

it was so nice! we set the table with nice plates and glasses, and for a minute or two, it felt like our home. branson and i love our house and we are so excited to live there. i've been excited to live there for years, but yesterday was the first time i finally felt the first little feelings of being in our own home. shanna and branson's home. aww...

dinner was great. the food turned out well. the pot roast wasn't one of my best, but still was decently delicious. but the hit was the creme brulee - chad had never had it before. before dinner, i let him help brulee the top with my torch. i started out doing it, but chad looked so interested, so i asked him if he wanted to try. he was hesitant at first, but then was excited about it. branson took over for a minute and chad made fun of him, pointing out the spots branson was missing. ha ha it made me laugh. but when it came time to eat it, chad basically licked the plate clean. he loved it! i was thrilled. it was the best one i've made yet.

and i decided that nothing is better than sunday dinner with family. here's to many more...