O&W Game and Easter!

It's that time of year again!!!! FOOTBALLLL TIME IN TENNNNNNESSSSEEEEEE!!!!

The Orange and White game has come and gone. We have so much fun when dad comes to visit! I love that we all have a common interest we can share together. 

We arrived Friday night and all picked dad up from the airport. We went home, told stories, ate candy and went to bed at 1am. 

The next morning we ate a huge feast Nana prepared for us and headed to the Orange and White game! We got a nice close, free spot and saw the warm ups at 4:30pm. The game unfortunately started at 6pm. Luckily we had great weather and had a blast; the game was 4 quarters with tv timeouts so it was lengthy but we still got out in time for Blaze pizza at 9pm. 

Morgan's custom pizza.

Cody's custom pizza.

My veggie custom pizza, of course.

After Blaze, we re-watched the game super analyzing every play and went to bed at 2am after visiting with each other. 

Sunday we woke up early, went to church, and ate a delicious Mexican meal Nana cooked.

Of course following tradition, Morgan and I got our famous picture in front of the gorgeous flower bush in front of Nana's house. For some reason we look more tan this year, that is a mistake because we aren't haha. The only thing different is our hair is longer!

My beautiful sister!

She snapped this pretty picture of me!

After lunch all of us including cousin Nathan ran out and grabbed the new recipe Butterfinger and the original and did a blind taste test below.

The original was on the top and the new recipe is on the bottom. You can already visibly see the original recipe is much more crumbly, different color, poorer quality chocolate, and a little thinner. Taste wise, the new recipe at the bottom sticks to your teeth less, has a richer toffee taste, a wonderful lingering after taste, and a deeper peanut butter flavor. The new recipe won out of 3/5 people. What a fun experiment! Do this with your family while the original recipes are still out! Which is your favorite?

We finished the day playing dominos. I won two out of the three games and I never win!!! We probably had some of the best fun doing this just talking together.

It was difficult to leave Knoxville and dad but it helped knowing he will be back in 6 weeks for Morgan's wedding!

On the way out Cody and I swung by and got some boba rose tea! So amazing! I am obsessed with boba/bubble tea right now!

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The next weekend (the day before Easter), Cody's sister-in-law and oldest brother had their gender reveal party for their second child. I had bet all of of my proverbial money on it being a girl but see below if I am right.



The kick says it all, I was dead wrong and Travis and Amy are all-boy parents to two little boys. Kaden was ecstatic. 


After the whiplash of being so wrong we all cheerfully congratulated Travis and Amy. Little ones are such a blessing!

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Easter
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One of my favorite things to do is decorate my house for Easter and Christmas. I feel like I am decorating in celebration for our Savior.

I of course have to brag on this new Easter decor mom got for me. This is so out of character for her but so fitting for me, a 'pooping' duck! When you press it down, it poops a candy piece and quacks! I was so surprised when I opened this, mom rocks!!!!!! This will be on my counter every Easter for the rest of my life! :):)

I thought this plush fluffy bunny was the epitome of precious, but I love stuffed animals. I wanted to order this from Altar'd State so bad but it was sold out unfortunately. Maybe next year!

This random picture of this little girl kissing her bunnies just made my heart melt. 

Easter morning was so special, me and Cody's bond lately has been really really great so every day right now is magical. Also there is something special celebrating our living Savior with your spouse.

*We have found some things that improve our life lately that I will expand upon that in another post but we have gotten some health related answers and help (we are more than ok, will explain later) so life is good.  

I finally got to wear this cute Easter outfit that you saw from my previous post 2 blog posts back form Altar'd State. It was so comfy and cute:). 

It was such an absolutely beautiful day! Perfect day to celebrate our risen Savior!

Ok guys, so what color color are my eyes here? My eyes change between green, blue, and grey. 

Of course we couldn't have Easter without Easter donuts! Cody's idea and I was all for it! 

After church we picked up Buffalo Wild wings and took them to Cody's parents house to spend the day, eat with them, grade Cody's papers, and fellowship. It was beyond a perfect day!

Happy Easter 2019!!!!!!!

With so much love,

Kayla Raborn

4/21/19