Wasatch Woman of the Year Awards Cermony

I was honored as Wasatch Woman Magazine's Mother of the Year on Friday. It was at the Hilton in Salt Lake City. My dad and his wife Candice were our guests at the ceremony. Lex De Azevedo performed. He performed a song with his daughter Rachel Coleman who was last year's Wasatch Woman of the Year. She is a musician, actress and is the inventor of Signing Time which is that sign language program for babies. She performed a beautiful song she wrote for her children in sign language.

I didn't know I was going to get an actual award. It felt like I was getting an Oscar or something. They really went all out and it was very humbling. All the winners got a dozen roses and this trophy and made a speech. The awards were presented to us by the ladies on Good Things Utah. They were so nice.

It was an amazing experience I will never forget and I met a lot of awesome women!! They all thought that Manuel was sooo cute too. Click here to see my magazine spread and article.

January Birthdays

celebrated birthdays this week. My sister Cherise, her husband Jared and my nephew Easton all have January birthdays. It was fun! I got a pedicure and free spray tan this week. I have to say I really like the results of the tan. I mean it's obvious it's not natural because it's winter and last week I was so white. But it looks natural to those who don't know me. There's no blotchy spots, lines or anything like that. To me it looks real. Just another thing to help it feel like Spring!

Oh, also this week - there is an article in Wasatch Woman Magazine about me and my "Motherhood Award". Click on this link to check it out. WW Magazine

Oh...the dish I featured this week is grilled chicken with caramelized onions, mushrooms, cheese and lemon garlic cous cous, with a side of asparagus in a lemon butter sauce.

Week of Poses

Not much new happening in the Rietzsch household this week. We did have an offer on our house but it was too low so we declined the offer. A third person looked at our house on Thursday so it seems to be picking up. We have been house hunting as well from here to Utah county. We were going to build but now we are looking at short sales - hoping to get a better deal. We'll see what happens!

Friday night we went to dinner and then did galactic golf at Spare Time in Syracuse. It was so fun. It's a miniature glow in the dark golf course with pirates, mermaids, monsters, warriors and wizards. The effects are pretty cool. I forgot my camera but it was funny watching Gabe get scared of the warrior people. He wouldn't go near them and skipped that part of the course. They were pretty scary looking.

Well Gabe took a lot of our pictures this week which is why he isn't in many of them. And Paisley sure enjoyed posing and being silly.