Soo Much Fun

Man the past couple weeks have been some of the best in my life!!! With the weather finally at a temperature that makes you want to go outside life is good! TJ and I purchased a new car about a month age well new to us it's an 07 Corolla, I named her Betty I sill love Olga, the Jetta though! We've already tried to show Betty all the pretty sights around here.

TJ and I ran a relay called Running with Ed, with 3 others of his family members, it was 42 miles and we took 4th. It is a fundraiser for Park City School District. We woke up about 6 am and I checked the weather forecast for PC and told Teej, "it's winter up there!" it had actually snowed 6", but stopped at 9 our start time was 10. It felt warm while I was running but then when we stopped we would freeze! I was really excited to do this because I ran the Wasatch Back 2 years ago a 188 mile relay and it was my favorite race ever! A couple weeks later I was running in the am thinking how much I wished I had signed up for the Wasatch Back when I arrived home to a text from the same team I ran with 2 years ago. Their work sponsors it and a man had dropped out and they thought of me, so I will be running with some of the same team mates!!!! I'm in better shape this year and I am running one of the hardest legs!! I am so happy about this I actually was jumping up and down!

After the relay we went to the U19 national rugby tournament down at Rio Tinto, it will probably be a long time before it's here again. TJ was captain of the rugby team in high school it was really fun to watch him and to cheer for Highland although they barely lost to United. They tied it from 0-13 at the half then United scored and then Highland was about to score when United booted it out of bounds:-(

My dad came into town for a few days it was hard to juggle work and dad but we managed to eat some good food, talk a lot, hike Ensign peak, trailblaze through City Creek canyon, and do some family history work. My dad is always blazing trails when we go hiking and you just got to follow him or else you may not have a ride home! It was really fun to have my dad here because he is my dad and there is no one else like him, he really brought a good feeling to our home.

One of the other things that makes me so happy is that on Saturday Lily got married!!!! Lily was a good friend of mine on my mission and we were roommates after here in SLC, she is one of the smartest and sweetest people I know. She really deserves the best and the way her hubby looked at her really made me happy, he's a Salt Lake local as well and all of his background screening came back with rave reviews as all of Lily's old roommates and I stalked him to check him out when they started talking marriage! Lily deserves the best and it looks like she found him or he found her, either way I hope they move to SLC! It's just not the same without Lily here!

There is a new display at Temple Square of the Temple it shows a scaled version of it with the side cut out so you can see inside, people often get confused as to whether the Temple is a cathedral or what.

After the wedding we went up to Midway to run one of my legs we got lost a lot but it was so much fun, and so pretty! TJ's friend Scott called who happened to be at his families condo in midway and we went and shot some holes I wasn't to shabby at golf and it was my first time playing. On the way home we ran over some deer guts, which will come into play soon.

TJ has a friend Jesse who is a river guide down in Moab we went down the Colorado with him in duckies they are like a 2 man raft. I was way more fun than rafting!!!! We even hopped out at a spot to redo some rapids and ended up flipping. I have been rafting twice before and really had no fears but recently had friends tell me some horror storries so my goal was not to tip over. Well we did and my first thought was this is not so bad, my next thought this isn't so cold, my next thought ROCKS!!!!! but there weren't any phew, then BUSHES!!!! Jesse told us to stay away from those. TJ hopped back in and I tried but our life jackets plus being a woman made it so hard my life jacket kept getting in my way and soon we were headed straight into the bushes. Luckily it got really shallow and I jumped in, thank you bushes!!! It was one of the most fun things I've ever done I highly reccomend it. We brought our friends Ted and Marissa but I neglected to take any pictures of them darn it! It was 93 degrees and perfect, plus we got a little camping in, and I had a nice morning run up Kane canyon. We heard a man snore like a bear and a neighboring camps dog bypassed the bacon we were cooking to lick the deer guts off our car, don't worry we washed it today! This morning either we slept through our alarms thanks to the man bear or neither went off, tonight we will set 3 alarms. Oh and today I ran 4 miles up hill, my buns feel like steel! With that happy thought good night!

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BBQ Chicken Pizza

So I came home from work starving, but not just for any food, specifically BBQ Chicken Pizza!!!!!!! I found an amazing and quick crust recipe from allrecipes.com it only took about 15 mins. to rise for the topping I put:
too much BBQ sauce
chicken-cooked by TJ in a pan (although I think grilled would be even more delicous)
green and red bell peppers
red onion,
smoked Gouda on one half, and mozzarella on the other it was yummy!!!! Like I said before bell peppers are pretty much in everything I cook!

Adventures in Cooking

I decided to blog about food more, I love food, I love cooking, nutrition, and eating!!!! The following meal is in no way one of my best:
I decided before my last final of the semester that I needed to plan meals again, first reason being, I eat healthier when I eat dinner, otherwise it tends to be candy plus ice cream, and maybe some food at about 9 or 10, second of all and much more importantly my husband perpetually looses weight and looks like he belongs in a concentration camp, his self made dinner consists of a peanut-butter sandwich and yogurt, much better than my improve dinner. Anyway being the aspiring nutritionist/dietitian and cook that I am I want to blog about food. So I started making a list at work, my brain likes to be doubly if not triply occupied. I started asking coworkers for some ideas because I feel like I always make the same variations of a constant theme when if comes to dinner. Peppers, mushrooms, and cheese integrated in some fashion to make either, spanish, asian, or italian food. My coworkers first suggestion was a broccoli chicken caserole. About a week later it finally came into frution. Most recipes I found had mayonaise in it, sounded gross to me, so I chose to just throw it all together my self:
1 C brown rice
enough broccoli to cover the bottom of the pan
! can of cream of chicken soup
all the mushrooms I had left in my fridge
a really big breast of chicken
some milk poured on top
and about 1/4 of a white onion
and 2 T of butter shhh don't tell TJ

It turned out very tasty however there was a bit too much chicken and not enough rice for my tastes but with an extra cup of rice I think it would have gone perfect.
TJ just walked in the door and his eyes got all big with excitement when I pointed to dinner, yeah!!!

Frijoles!

I had all kinds of fun pictures of my brother Mike first of all, Mike loves beans and that movie Nacho Libre or whatever it's called so on our trip I nicknamed him frijoles, I love beans too, actually every 6 months there is a bulk foods sale at Smiths and every 6 months I seem to buy more cases of beans they are stacked next to our refrigerator and are about as tall as me. My mom hates beans, my dad loves them, I think all of us kids love them but I remember when I was little my mom always told me I wouldn't like them and surprise I love them! Mike's birthday is in 15 days so we can call this his birthday post as well. When we were kids my mom would make a can of OJ on Sunday's at which time we were aloud one glass. No more just one, so the night before we left the house we had to clear out the OJ and I just might cry posting this picture bc I love that kitchen!!!!! Next up my mom had us clean out our school boxes, what is that? Remember when that was considered technology? Haha I threw away so much artwork, and even my timberwolf medals, my family was in shock but what was I supposed to do wear them around saying I was an honor student in middle school? When I told TJ he said I should have kept them to show our kids oh well children, yes your ma was an honor student who had medals with timberwolves on them on gray and blue ribbon, ya I should have kept them but I hate junk!!!!!!
Anyway back to Mike, so Mike is one of the most fun people I've ever known, it was always a party when Mike lived at home! He started the semi-watching on top of bridges and our Sunday drives to the Garden of the Gods, as well as playing on Gold Camp! He showed me many of my favorite things about Colorado Springs! Mike and I were always shopping buddies, we trust each others opinion for style! It was so fun that his flight got can canceled, TJ was sick so we went thrift store shopping and he ended up with a cool hoody and I found the perfect shirt for my wardrobe, just what I had been looking for, we stopped by Old Navy and talked each other out of $20 sandals, mine were too flashy and his were just too expensive for flip-flops. TJ hates shopping so it was a blast for me! The next day after I extracted chlorophyll from spinach in my organic chem class we headed to see Fictionist play in front of Gray Whale, the weather was perfect and TJ was feeling better. TJ's shirt was actually my grandpa's I'd say it was made for TJ! Anyway back to Mike again, Mike was in a punk band in college that actually opened for Plain White T's, funny thing bc I was an early fan of PWT's and didn't know my brother had such high connections;-)