recent (food) happenings

this evening i looked through the pictures on my phone and decided to put a bunch of them up on ye old blog. but then it just occurred to me that they all have to do with food. 

good news, kneads (kneaders) has the best soup in the world in stock right now. it is called spring veggie. they make it every monday and thursday. except for the thursday that is today. major bummer that they didn't have all of the ingredients to make it. odd how there is a harmons grocery store within a hop, skip and a jump. literally in the same parking lot. i would have even picked up the missing items for them.

there is a new see's that is just a couple miles away from our house, so of course i had to reminisce with this barbie as i attended the open house.

"one of these things is not like the other"

my prize for spinning the wheel at the see's grand opening. my mom informed me that it is a hammer for cracking the toffee. naturally.

i promise i will be putting up before and after pictures of our house very soon... i just need to take the after ones

conference

i am so excited to hear counsel and guidance from the prophets and apostles of the Lord this weekend! i can't wait to feel my Savior's love through these leaders and the words they will speak. short. sweet. and to the point.

basement

I think I have mentioned this before, but our basement is sca-ry. The previous home owners had their daughter sleep down there and it is not even finished. We're talking visible wires and wood and fluffy insulation. It is also weird because they have a dead bolt on the door that leads to the basement that you can lock from the main floor. So i'm not sure if they locked their daughter down there or what but it is creepy. I keep it dead-bolted 99% of the time. Yesterday it dawned on me why it is so frightening. As you come up the stairs, the stair you just came off will squeak as you are moving onto the next one. So by the time you are at the top, the previous ones are still squeaking so it sounds like someone is coming up after you. It is strange. It is like a stranger is following you up the stairs at the same pace you are going. Does this make sense? As a result of this conundrum, I developed a couple rules: no going down there by myself in the evenings and if I need to go down in the evening, Mike must follow and lead (or else he is sneaky and will turn back up stairs and leave me stranded down there). We are hoping to make a little exercise area down there but I am not sure how it will get used if I am too scared to be down there. Just a random thought....


And if anyone would like to give me input on arranging my family room furniture, please stop by. I think about how to do it at least once a day. 

cinnamon

i crave cinnamon like no other... and no mom, i am not pregnant... haha...  but seriously i eat it every day. i love it in every form. every night i look forward to the next morning because i will be able to eat my cinnamon chex for breakfast. 

i go through boxes and boxes of that stuff. it is good. yes, it is a sugary cereal but sugary cereal is the only kind that is good. it is also made with whole grain brown rice. bam. whole grains right there. i eat healthy. and speaking of eating healthy, i recently discovered two cinnamon products that i needed to try from the local walmart. 

            

i haven't tried the first one pictured, that would be the cinnamon roll flavored mini-wheats cereal. but the second one is seriously the bomb. it is so good and if you love cinnamon streusel on other desserts my advice to you would be to not follow the streusel swirls throughout this ice cream. it only leads to a path of eating a lot of ice cream, which is not the best thing in the world. i only follow the swirls and it actually works out nicely because mike thinks that this ice cream is too sweet so he gets all the leftovers that don't have cinnamon swirls in them. it is the secret to our marriage. i heard the other day that the secret to a happy marriage is for the husband to realize that your wife is always right. the secret to our happy marriage is my husband letting me take control of the desserts. :)

i have big ideas for this little blog of mine. i hope to post before and after pictures of our home and also different crafts that i do for the house because that is how i like to spend my time. the worst part of it is uploading pictures so here is to hoping that i can get past that bothersome task. 

sorry for the angry birds bandaid in these pictures. i cut my finger cutting butternut squash for dinner. see, i eat healthier things too :)

busy season confessions: year 2

so it is busy season again... chances are you could find me a little upset at times or talking to Mike about slavery or being sassy since my husband works forever during this period or talking to Mike about how I am 100% sure it is possible that I get paid more per hour than he does on average throughout the year including all of his busy season hours. 
anyways here are my confessions a week into busy season 2012.
* i like to lay in bed and watch Hulu shows whilst eating a small serving of chocolate chips
* i am convinced I can do too many projects on  my own and then I get frustrated and whine to Mike that I can't do them all and I need a man to help me.
* some nights I have zero desire to workout during my workout time that I plan for ahead of time. Instead I turn to the chocolate chips.
* i have been tempted to quit work so that I can be a stay-at-home mom furniture re finisher and crafter. There are one million projects I want to do. But that temptation swiftly gets brushed aside as I walk on our pet, pet hair, stain and gross infested carpet from the previous owners. I will work for new carpet and then I will quit. :) (Good thing my boss, aka, Dad, doesn't read this...)






more confessions to follow as busy season continues...

BASEBOARDS!!!!

Putting up baseboards means that we are done painting the walls, which means that our new floors are in, which means we are getting close to finishing the main projects on this house of ours, which means this is one happy gal.

look how happy he is

Last night Mike and I watched our favorite show, Modern Family. At the end of the show the dad is up in a tree building a tree house for his son. He just met a new friend and it made him extremely happy.  The expression on his face sums up how I am feeling right now! He had the biggest smile on his face. This picture isn't very clear but you get the idea. 

Out of the many hours this past weekend that we worked on the house, I had a few hours during this to think to myself. 

I am one happy girl.

I am happy that by next spring (hopefully) we will be mostly done with the major projects in our house and Mike and I will have time to ourselves... No busy season. No school. No constant house projects. I cannot wait for that! Mike and I haven't ever had that. It gets tiring working on the house every night after work and then all through the weekend. I am pretty excited. I have always been one to be excited for the future. I know that next spring is in the future but I am really learning to enjoy life at the stage I am in right now. I broke it down from "when we have kids" to "next spring". Don't get me wrong folks, I love life and Mike and working on the house and seeing things get done on it but it will be nice to have a more normal schedule. It has also been good to think about this time that Mike and I can have before we have kids. It is nice to think that when kids should come, it will feel right and Mike and I will be ready.. In the mean time... we will enjoy all our long days together. I have never understood how some people will say that it is selfish to put off having kids to get more financially stable or further a career or fix a house up or pay off debt. I don't think it is necessarily selfish. But I think it is also important to listen to our church leaders and follow their counsel on the matter. It is different for every couple. In our case, we are finishing a house for our little kiddies that will come some day.. :) Our intentions are there and we will have kids eventually. 

I am happy that I have come to the realization to live life in the present. 

I am happy that Mike wants me to be happy.

I am excited for a nice long period of Mike, me and our cozy home.

I am happy.