Murder, Mayhem & the Mob

Saturday we hosted a murder mystery dinner - roaring 20's, prohibition era, hardcore mobster, scandalous flapper style!

Welcome to Rosie's Joice Joint

A lavish 1920's speakeasy

We had a delicious (if I do say so myself) dinner of Chicken Saltimbocca, Creamy sun-dried tomato pasta & roasted asparagus. Followed by these beautiful {great job Krissy} and only marginally yummy {recipes fault} red-velvet cake balls.

[since you asked - click names for recipes]
Thanks also to Krissy for the hotsy-totsy name tags/place settings.

**The Dames**

**The Fellas**

**The Couples**

~ Notorious Nick & Rosie Marie ~
Northside mob boss and notorious ladies man and a fashionable, wealthy skirt mourning the loss of her husband.

~ Cindy Butt & Mayor Biggs ~

The cigarette girl with the cutest baby bump and the very powerful, hilarious story-telling Mayor! Together they extorted and bribed the most money out of other players, but overall Cindy was named Mrs. Money Bags much to the Mayors disapproval.


~ Southside Sally & Bernie Booze ~
One tough & sexy mob boss and the other a successful, handsome, yet suspicious, bootlegger. Do not mess with this power couple!

~ Kitty Cocktail & Cy Ramsey ~

Employees of the Juice Joint, this waitress and bouncer make one incredibly good looking couple! Not to mention Kitty wore the most amazing dress and Cy definitely brought the most impressive accent.

~ Dina Diva & Hal Hollywood ~
This gorgeous couple brought the glitz and glamor of Hollywood as the canary and movie director kept everyone on their toes with promise of fame and fortune.

~ Chief Cameron & Molly Moll ~
An unlikely couple {or maybe not} as the chief of police and the "most popular" gal in town. These two stole the night with their impeccable attire and acting abilities winning the Dressed to Kill award as a couple and the Drama Queen award for the Chief.

**The Entertainment**

After dinner some of us dames got our wiggle on and learned the Charleston. We had so much fun we forgot to take pictures, let alone the video that I know you all would die to see!

What's a speakeasy without a little "Gentlemans Entertainment"?

//Yes, I laughed so hard putting this together!
It was totally one of those last minute ideas.

**The Story**

So this fella Nick, he was too powerful for his own good.


These plugs made for a likely list of suspects...

In the end this cat got the bit.

**The Awards**

--> Dressed to Kill

--> Mrs. Money Bags -- See above

--> Drama Queen

--> Smoking Gun -- All four of these mugs guessed the killer.

Christmas with friends.

Each year we have a Christmas party with our friends and this year we decided to simplify. We went out to eat, no kidlets and in my opinion it was fantastic! More time to chat and relax.

We went to hang as couples and since Scott and I switched places for most of the evening it seemed appropriate they should have their own 'happy couple' pic.

Ryan took it very literally when Kacey said
THE GIRLS are dressing up...

And we were stunning!


The beautiful hostess! (on the right, the beautiful girl on the left was a guest ;-D)

Apparently we have lots of dog loving friends, why can't my dogs behave themselves like this at a party?!


Thanks Dave & Kacey ~ Your home is beautiful, your friends are so much fun and the food was delicious!

Soggy Dog Christmas

Way back on December 4th (time is flying!) we kicked off the holiday season at the SOGgy-Dohg Christmas party! SOG is Shades of Gray and Dohg for Pladdohg, you know the bands I always post gigs for? Pladdohg is Ryan's aunt and uncles band that used to practice in our basement, not everyone can say they had a celtic rock band in their basement, good times! Anyway...Joey (drummer) & Joy (fiddler) hosted at their home in Eden. Joy made AMAZING Filipino food and we danced, like really danced, to live music no less! Aside from being the fiddler Joy is also one of our choreographers for Jaks so you know she took this seriously. We first learned the swing (although it is important to note that Ryan took 2nd place in the swing contest of 5th grade so he needed no teaching there!) and then the waltz, which was actually quite difficult! But so much fun.

Definitely not your every day party and most certainly a fantastic way to start the holidays!

Ryan and Tomba, cute...apparently I spent the whole night behind the camera!

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

~Elisabeth Foley

July 4th ~ St. George

We had a fantastic, relaxing, patriotic and down-right lovely weekend in St. George with one of my all time favorite families - the Madsens.