Tag you're it!

A- Attached or single: Very Attached
B- Best Friend: Jeffrey and my sister Kathryn
C-Cake or Pie: Ice cream cake!
D- Day of Choice: Thursday night. Work is over for the week and the WEEKEND is a head.
E- Essential Item (s): Contacts, chapstick, and lotion. (I have nightmares all the time that I left the house without my contacts or glasses)
F- Favorite Color: lately... Brown
G- Gummy Bears or Worms: Gummy watermelon slices
H- Hometown: West Point, Utah but I also grew up in Indiana, Germany and Texas.
I- Indulgence(s): Ice cream from Cold Stone (but only if we have a coupon)
J- January or July: JULY!!!
K-Kids: 1 boy, Jeffrey:)
M- Marriage Date: October 20, 2004
N- Number of Siblings: 3 older brothers and 1 older sister
O- Oranges or Apples: Clementines
P- Phobias or Fears: Being the center of attention and speaking in church... only because I know I will cry and I HATE THAT!!!!
Q- Quote(s): "Take a deep breath" what I say to Jeff every day when he needs to CALM down! Oh, and "SSSSHHHHHHHH" he can also be kinda LOUD:) (I love you honey!)
R- Reason To Smile: My Jeffrey! He can be funny too! and At the realization of the many blessings I have!
S- Season: Spring
T- Tag Six: Darcie, Emily L., Emily P., Sivi, Amber, Jen B.
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I have NO self control when it comes to diet and excercise! And I LOVE to get rid of stuff!
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: I eat meat!
W- Worst Habit: Laying in bed while I say my prayers... I am currently trying to break this one! Please don't judge me! Oh yes, and I burp really loud in front of my husband and family!
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: I would like to have an ultrasound someday but currently I take probably 40+ x-rays every day!
Y- Your Favorite Food: Mexican and anything sweet!
Z: Zodiac: Scorpio

Random Recipes

Ice Cream Cake

I made this for my mom's birthday. I kinda just made it up but it turned out pretty good. It went something like this...

• I used 2 spring form pans (highly recommend).


• Crush up some Oreos and mix with a little melted butter kinda press into the bottom (I didn't use very much butter and my Oreos were kinda chunky they were actually just kinda spread across the bottom and not really pressed in).


• Layer on a carton of SOFTENED ice cream (I used cookies and cream in one of the spring form pans and chocolate chip cookie dough in the other. You can use what ever kinds you want!) Spread the ice cream out to fill the pan and try to make it mostly flat on top.


• Cover with plastic wrap and freeze (put your plastic wrap right on the ice cream).


• I made it the night before but I think about 5 hours would be good too.


• To put it all together: take apart one of your pans and put the 'cake' on your platter (Oreos down) spread a thick layer of Herseys Hot Fudge Topping (or some other brand of thick chocolate topping. Do not warm it up! Do not use chocolate syrup!) on the top of the ice cream and then take out the second 'cake' and put it on top of the chocolate topping (Oreos down) .


• Frost with Cool Whip and sprinkle with broken Oreos.


• Don't be scared by my crazy recipe, it really is SO SO easy to make! --and YUMMY!

Spinach Smoothie
(I got this recipe from a fellow blogger and thought it was pretty good)

1 1/2 frozen bananas

Several spoonfuls of frozen orange juice concentrate

A handful of fresh spinach leaves

Put in the blender and then EnJoY!

Utah Dental Convention

Last weekend was the annual dental convention, filled with lots of classes, friends, free samples and FOOD! A few of us that were available went to the Macaroni Grill on Friday for lunch, YUM! It was so great to run into some of the old class mates and catch up on life after school, and of course the faculty at WSU and hear how much they miss our perfect class;)

Ashley, Lindsey, and I got a hotel room right by the Salt Palace and partied it up (Jen and Ryker joined us for the party too) all night on Thursday. Well, by party I me we got pizza delivered and we sat and visited and played with Ryker and then went to bed at about 10. We are party ANImAlS!!

It was another succsesful year at the UDA Convention. I look forward to spending many more of them with my dear friends! Next year we want all the girls at the hotel with us!

Happy Birthday MOM

Where do I even begin to express my feelings for my dear sweet mother? It is her 60th Birthday today:) I am so blessed to have such a wonderful mother that I have always considered my friend! She has been an amazing example to me through out my life and she continues to be today. She is the most talented person I know! She has a contagious laugh! She would give you the shirt off her back! She is selfless and humble! She never shouts or puts you down! She always has great advise! She wants the very best for you! She never gossips! She is very knowledgable about the gospel and has a strong testimony! She is a GreaT cook! She loves her children and grandchildren unconditionally! She is a wonderful mother-in-law (so my husband says:))! She is sweet and kind and loving and lovable and generous and thoughtful and handy and creative and happy and and and and....

THANKS FOR BEING THE BEST MOM A GIRL COULD EVER ASK FOR!!! I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU WILL EVER KNOW!!!

Friend-Filled Weekend

Friday night we meet up with Danny and Darcie and then headed over and meet Jake, Amber and their cute kidos for dinner at Rumbi Grill!! After which we hung out at the Ericksons house and mostly just... chilled. FUN TIMES!

Jayma and Jake

Danny and Jayma

Amber, Darcie, and Me

Jayma and Jeff

My Jeffrey

Saturday after CRafT DaY with the girls, the BOYS came over for a night of fondue(cheese AND chocolate:)), games and a spiritual message from the world wide church training meeting!

Jeff, Chantel, Kip, Preston, and Ashley

Ashley and Preston

Kip and Chantel

Jeff and I (oh, and Preston)

the LOVE BIRDS

Our game gang:)

WE LOVE LOVE LOVE ALL OF OUR FRIENDS!!!!

We love our weekends and we love them even more when we get to share them with our friends! It was a GrEaT weekend!

Superbowl Sunday

Since our first Superbowl together, we have been hosting the party! Jeff looks forward to it every year! This year we had Jeff's parents, older brother and his wife and their 3 children and his younger sister.

Andy and Kristin

Mike, Lesley, Caitlin and Jeff

William, Adam and Zach (doing what they do best)

Andy looking at the poster Jeff made for the party. At the end of each quarter depending on the score we had the chance of winning a gift card.

And the winners were... 1st quarter: Me, 2nd and 3rd quarter: Zach,

Grand Prize Winner: Adam

Jeff's party's are always a hit!! He did a great job!

Changing it UP!

Okay, lets be honest here, I am not sure about the new template. I generally have a strict rule with these kind of things... you have to LOVE it! This goes for home decorating, blogging templates and other such ventures:) You know what I mean right? When you see something and you just LOVE it!! Well I don't LOVE this yet, which could mean that it I will find LOVE in my heart for my new blog template soon (not usually something that I even would give a chance, but it is late and need to go to bed) or you will be seeing some changes soon. Only time will tell. LOL

Congrats to Matt and Kirsten!

Jeff has had a great group of 7 guy friend since Jr High and prior. They loved to play basketball together and infact still do every chance they get. Yesterday Matt (one of the friends) married Kirsten and none of us could be any happier for them! They are truly the perfect couple, an example to us all! (In the photo, they are on the far right)

Nick and Brittney flew up from Arizona for the special occasion! It was SO great to see them and their adorable kids!

Danny and Darcie

Us:)

After the luncheon the 6 of us went to Target and got all kinds of treats and stuff to make Matt and Kirsten a honeymoon basket. I must say Darcie and I did a good job of puting it all together, we were pretty proud of ourselves:)

After the reception that night we enjoyed a little dinner and shopping with Dan and Darc. There is always a good time when we are with friends!

CONGRATS MATT AND KIRSTEN!! WE LOVE YOU GUYS!