tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42989207080743501622024-02-21T06:37:51.370-07:00A Slice of Our LifeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298920708074350162.post-2391904593549858062018-09-20T22:16:00.001-06:002018-09-20T22:16:06.123-06:00testtesting testing<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298920708074350162.post-64339178452773079732018-06-20T22:27:00.002-06:002018-06-24T08:41:05.250-06:00What to do in Oahu (North Shore)!<span style="font-family: inherit;">We've been back from Oahu for a couple weeks now & feel like we've somewhat come back to normal earth life now (Unfortunate, I know). We. <b><span style="font-size: large;">LOVE</span></b>. It. There!!! We plan to move there sometime in the next few years. It was that good, just absolute heaven. We were lucky enough to be there for 3 weeks, so we got some good time in to experience the Hawaiian local life there! I had a couple requests to share some of our favorite things there that other people should do when they go, so here it is! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">***Where to stay:</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">North Shore!! Just my personal opinion, but if you want the Hawaii experience, you gotta stay up on the North Shore. It's nice because for being such a popular touristy area, they have done <b>SO</b> well at "keeping it country" as they say. There are no big hotels, shopping centers, malls, etc. It's all just little beach towns, small ma & pa restaurants, and homes. The road to get everywhere is single lane. You see wild roosters everywhere. It's just beachy, rural, and dreamy. I suggest Airbnb (always) to look into places to stay. You can stay anywhere from Hauula (being cheaper) to Haleiwa (more expensive) and go to all the North Shore beaches and things to do in the area. (Note: I would share where we stayed so you could stay there too, but we did a house swap with a family we know, so it's not a rental, but we <b>LOVE</b> airbnb and have used it lots!) </span>If you are new to Airbnb, click <b><a href="http://www.airbnb.com/c/ncrane8" target="_blank">HERE</a></b> to get $40 travel credit on your first trip!<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you are wanting more of the resort type stay, Marriott's Ko Olina Beach Club is really awesome, pretty, and nice. It's kind of down in it's own little corner of the island on the opposite side of North Shore. I haven't stayed there, but I have lots of family that love it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hukilau Cafe - Breakfast!!! They have the best breakfast!! Those pancakes are <b>SO</b> dang good. I dream of them. I seriously had to restrain my craving to go there every morning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Matsumotos - the <b>BEST</b> snow cones. If there's a line (there probably will be), <b>WAIT IN IT</b>!! It goes fast, and there's a reason for it. <b>DON'T</b> go anywhere else! Their flavors are homemade and it is just so dang good. It's a good thing we didn't stay closer to Haleiwa or we would have had "shave ice" for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. My favorite flavors were guava & melon. Just go there, and then send me one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ted's Bakery - Okay this is a must if you're visiting in the area. Everyone loves Ted's Bakery - their baked goods are so yummy. The best is their Chocolate Haupa (Coconut) Pie, it's so good, not too coconutty, and even my husband who doesn't like sweets wanted to keep going to get more. What was surprising, though, was when we discovered that they have normal food too. And just not even normal food - the <b>BEST</b> food! Seriously we were on a quest to find the best shrimp, and we found it at Ted's! Okay so this is a trick only the locals know - order a plate & it comes with a piece of pie! But they don't have that on the menu and they won't tell you that haha, you just have to get a piece of pie & take it to the counter with you! Now you can get the two best things and kill two birds with one stone - the garlic shrimp and the chocolate haupa pie. You're welcome! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ice cream - Scoop of Paradise in Haleiwa. Homemade ice cream & waffle cones. Don't bother asking which ones are good like I did - they're just all good. Haha</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kua 'Aina- possibly the best hamburger you will ever have in your life. They put a whole half (whole half? Haha an entire half?) avocado on the avocado one & it's so dang good. A little pricey, but so is everything else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Konos - Okay this is a place I wish we went and people kept telling us how good it is, but we unfortunately never made it there! But apparently it's really yummy and the burritos are bomb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Seven Brothers - When we were here with my family six years ago, my grandpa literally took us to Seven Brothers every night for dinner. I'm serious. Everything they have is dang good. When we went here this time, we tried the Ahi & coconut macadamia nut shrimp and it was two thumbs up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kahuku Farms - This is a good find! They grow their own acai and it took seven years for them to be able to finally harvest it! But now they have acai bowls from their own home grown acai! Something you just gotta get while you're in Hawaii. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Korean BBQ- we asked a few of the locals where their favorite place to eat is, and they would always say the Korean BBQ place in Hauula! We didn't end up going there, but they say it's really good, so it might be worth a shot!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Best place to get shrimp:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>NOT</b> the shrimp trucks! Don't do it!! It's tempting... but it's soo overpriced & still shelled & just not very good. Go to Ted's!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ted's Bakery - locals say this is the best place to get shrimp!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Seven Brothers - they claim their coconut macadamia nut shrimp is life changing. I wouldn't go as far as to say it's life changing necessarily, but it is good. Haha </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">***ENTERTAINMENT:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC) - </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Okay this is a <b>MUST</b>!! It is what it sounds like, you learn about the Polynesian culture, but it's so much more than that. There's dancing, there's shows that are <b>SO</b> funny, there's hands on activities, good food, and more. It just is something you can't fully explain, you just have to go there and do it and see for yourself and you'll be glad you did!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's expensive. It will probably be one of the "big" things you do. But it's worth it! Think about it - it's an all day activity that's so fun for the whole family, dinner is included, and a show is included. I would say from the options, the villages are a must (guided tour is nice, but if you're looking to save a little you could cut that out and tour them on your own), you gotta do the luau that includes a dinner show, and then the HA Breath of life show is awesome. To get the best deal, I would do the Ali'i Luau package. And you can save 10% if you book 10 or more days in advance. Click <a href="https://www.polynesia.com/packages" target="_blank">here</a> to go to their website to see all the package options.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another tip is if you happen to know someone that works there, or try to meet someone that does, they can get you a 20% discount I believe. But if you have a big group, it's risky because you have to buy them once you get there, and if it's sold out then you're out of luck! We did that because the bishop of the ward we went to worked there and told us he could get us in for cheaper, and it was kind of stressful & last minute, but we did save. Either way, I feel like you can't go to Hawaii and not do this, it's just a part of the Hawaiian experience that totally teaches you and helps you appreciate their culture! Are you sold yet?? Haha</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pineapple Plantation - </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is just a fun little activity. Not super necessary, just if you're looking for something to do. It is a little overpriced in my opinion, but you can just go there and do the free things. There's a 20 min train ride that you can pay for where you go through all the pineapple fields and stuff - it's okay. Not like the funnest thing ever, but it's cool. They also have a maze (like a corn maze, but a pineapple maze?) that we didn't do, but it could be fun. Or it could be really hot and lame, i'm not sure. Haha. They have all the pineapple souvenirs you could ever dream of, and the best part is the Dole Whips! This was my first time trying one, and they really are all they're cracked up to be. So good! I would say on a scale of 1-10 this is like a 6. Don't book anything online - just wait till you see if you want to go and buy whatever when you get there. They don't sell out or anything. Click <a href="https://www.doleplantation.com/" target="_blank">here</a> to go to their website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Macadamia Nut Farm Tour -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We found this place just driving by and me telling my hubs that we should stop here and check it out! It's kinda fun. They have lots of yummy samples, lots of chickens, haha and a tour you can go on! We missed the tour, but from Yelp it sounds like it's kinda fun. If you don't do the tour, you can just do what we did and pull over when you're passing by, check it out, and grab some yummy local nuts from their store! Click <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/tropical-farms-macadamia-nut-kaneohe" target="_blank">here</a> to see the yelp reviews on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pearl Harbor - This is a cool place to come visit, but it's kind of one of those things you only need to do once. It would probably be boring for kids, but it is cool if you like history! And that's my favorite movie, so it's cool to see once. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Laie LDS Temple - Whether you're LDS or not, this temple is sooo beautiful and the grounds are so pretty! It's fun just to walk around and feel of the peacefulness. You can even go inside the lobby and see the awesome friezes, they'll tell you about them and tell you about the temple! My favorite message is that families can be together forever, because all I want in life is to be with these guys forever and ever! Nobody can hate that right!? For more info about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS)/Mormons, go <a href="http://www.mormon.org/" target="_blank">here</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Best beach for Kids: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lanikai Beach (not to be confused with Laniakea Beach) - warm! Hardly any waves!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Three Tables Beach - good little beach with pretty small waves</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Turtle Bay - resort that has a public beach with a great place for kids to play in the waves!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Waimea Bay (in the summer) - great little bay with hardly any waves (in the summer - apparently they are huge in the winter!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Waikiki (down south) - really pretty, good snorkeling! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Best beach for playing in waves/boogie boarding:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hukilau Beach - good fun waves & a good beach to hang out at!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">***Best snorkeling:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Haunama Bay - okay you gotta see pictures of this place. If you're a snorkeler, you need to go here and check it out. And if you're not a snorkeler, you need to go here and have it be your first time at the best snorkeling place ever! It's a protected bay with sooo many fish. It's shallow for a long time and no waves. You do have to pay to get inside ($7.50/person) and it's closed every Tuesday. (Oh and take snacks - they have a snack bar but it's at the top of the hill & it's expensive.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Three Tables Beach - this was my favorite spot to snorkel! It was close to where we stayed on the North Shore, free, and <b>SUCH</b> good snorkeling!!! There are so many dang beautiful fish in that area! I just couldn't even get enough of it. We spent a lot of time here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Waikiki Beach - a good beach, great for kids, with good snorkeling!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Best place to see & swim with sea turtles: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Laniakea Beach - this is so fun! There are always turtles there. Sometimes on the sand. There are always volunteers there to answer questions and make sure the turtles are protected. And just know you have to stay at least 10 feet away from them, even in the water. But you can go swim by them, it's so fun! This was my mother in laws first time snorkeling, and she loved it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Best place to watch surfing (or go surfing):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pipeline (in the winter) - world famous beach with lots of pro surfers & competitions here. The waves are really big in the winter and not very big (still look pretty big to me haha) in the summer. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pretty much any of the North shore beaches, you'll see surfers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Other fun beaches: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Keiki beach - a <b>HUGE</b> beach with so much sand and hardly any people! The waves break on the shore, like a lot of places, so it's not super great for playing in the water, but it is so dang pretty!! It's just a ginormous beach and it was such a great place to watch the sunset. And we saw people doing a bonfire here that looked like it would be soo fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunset beach: Great place to... you guessed it... watch the sunset. And play in the water. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Rocky Point Beach/Gas Chambers - one of our favorite little places to hang out by just the local people that lived nearby. My husband had fun surfing and snorkeling here. (And we may or may not have seen someone famous that lives nearby).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">***BEST HIKES: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Waimea Falls - okay if you are anything like my husband that loves anything nature, or anything like my brother in law who is obsessed with photography, or anything like me and just love a nice, easy, paved, path in nature that leads to a waterfall, you should go here. It is kind of pricey (like $16/person), which almost deterred us, but we decided to just do it and were really glad we did! There's a waterfall at the end, so wear your swim suits under your clothes (and you can totally just wear flip flops) and you can swim in it at the end! It's a little chilly, but totally doable. We swam to the waterfall and my brother in law took some awesome pictures of us. They make you wear life jackets, which they give you at the waterfall for free. It's a beautiful walk with sooo many awesome plants along the way, a lot of which are endangered. It's awesome! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Maunawili Falls - we didn't do this one, but my cousin that lives there said this one is awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hauula Loop - we did this one twice. The first time we took my mother in law, who did it just fine, and both times we had our baby strapped to one of us the whole way and we did just fine. It's a good hike that is a good challenge, but totally doable. It took us maybe 2 1/2 - 3 hours each time, taking our time. There's also beautiful views at the top of the mountains & the ocean!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunset Pillbox Hike - I haven't done this one either but my cousin has with her kids, and it looks really pretty! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pali Lookout - also didn't get to this one, but it's always on the lists of hikes to do. I think it's pretty easy and has beautiful views at the top! It might not even be that much of a hike, I'm not sure, but look into it haha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kahuku farms has the best priced produce, cheaper than the little fruit stands.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Costco (<b>BEST</b> place to buy food for sure. If you're planning on eating where you're staying, you should stop here at the beginning of your stay for sure. The prices were very reasonable and pretty similar to how they are here in Southern California. Everywhere else the food is insane.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Target - another good place to buy produce and other small things you need. But honestly I would just stick to Costco. haha</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Up on North Shore, the only option is Foodland, and it's crazy expensive. If you just need a few things, it's not worth driving to Costco, but just know it's really expensive if you need to go buy a lot of things here. I paid $4.50 for 3 potatoes. And almost $3 for one onion. haha</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">-Just know all food is expensive here. So I would bring snacks if you can fit them (or just buy them at Costco once you get there). There's a running joke now about me bringing mashed potatoes, because I brought some mashed potato packets from home- they're from Costco and they're good okay? Of course security had to search my carry on bag in the airport and I had packed so many snacks. The lady was going through <b>EVERYTHING</b> - pulling out gallon ziplock bags of granola bars, trail mix, fruit leather, etc. I was seriously laughing so hard because she just kept pulling more and more snacks out, and then she got to the mashed potato packets, (Trent embarrassingly rolling his eyes pretending like he doesn't know me) and she was like "<b>WHERE</b> are you going?!" The lady behind us was in a hurry and did <b>NOT</b> think it was that funny, but I couldn't stop laughing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">But those snacks came in handy every single day on our hikes, out on the beaches, etc. so I don't even feel bad about holding that lady up in security, haha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Also, we had to pay for our checked bags, so we only checked one bag, and had 2 carry-on's, and then my husband had a backpack, and I had our diaper bag, and I'm proud to say I somehow fit enough diapers and wipes that lasted us the whole 3 weeks we were there. (Barely... I had like 3 of each left when we got back!) I'll do another post sometime in the next 5 years (insert laughing emoji... I hate that I can't put emojis in here cause I keep thinking of some I want to add & feel like the 2018 Natalie can't accurately convey what I'm saying without emojis) about traveling with a baby, so I'll link that here once I write about my tips for what to bring & how to travel with a baby! But to put it short, definitely bring a carrier (ergo baby) and we did bring our stroller, which is free, but we didn't use it very much, so I probably wouldn't bring it if I were doing it again. And <b>BRING BABY FOOD</b>!!! Baby food was more expensive here, like everything, and I was so glad that I had packed almost enough pouches, bars, formula, and Veggie Straws for my little guy for the whole time we were there. Again, sorry airport security people :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">-If you plan on snorkeling, bring your own gear. Buying it once you get there is a little more expensive. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">-Same with sunscreen, it's cheaper here. <b>DO NOT</b> forget the sunscreen. And do not forget to <b>PUT ON</b> the sunscreen! Everywhere! Even if it's cloudy. Just believe me... haha</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The short(ish) version</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">: (More detailed one below if you want to skip down there instead)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My water broke at 3:45pm on Trent's birthday. My mom had babies really fast, and so did her mom, so my whole pregnancy I was nervous I would have him really fast, and just hoped we would be able to get to the hospital in time, and hoped I wouldn't have to do it without an epidural! So we thought for sure we were having our baby on Trent's birthday! I was dilated to a 3 but wasn't feeling the contractions, so they tried to get me to go into active labor by walking through the halls, for like 6 hours, which didn't help. At 3:30am, they started me on pitocin to help the process along, and had to keep upping the dose more and more all day until she said she couldn't up it anymore at about 3:30pm, but luckily the painful contractions started coming! It had already been 24 hours since my water broke! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I only had probably 7-8 of the bad contractions, and then the doctor was like okay do you want your epidural now? I was so shocked that I could already have it, that I only had to be in pain for that short amount of time. But they really are all they're cracked up to be, they hurt!! So I said yes please!! Haha. The anesthesiologist was right in and did an amazing job. (And PS, for anyone reading this that hasn't had a baby, the epidural is NOT a big deal, like at all. It was the tiniest pinch and the rest you can't feel. Seriously way easier than everyone makes it out to be, in my opinion.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At this point I was at a 6, so they let me just relax while I dilated the rest of the way. It was Trent and I, and Trent's mom had gotten there that morning. We called her when my water broke and she bought a ticket on the next flight, but it didn't get in till 9:30am the next morning. I thought for sure she wasn't gonna make it for the birth, but sure enough, she had plenty of time to spare! Haha. It was fun to have her there with us and it was so cute to see her so excited. So we hung out for about an hour, and then I started feeling it in my lower back SO much. I pushed my magic button a couple times, but it wasn't really helping. So I asked my nurse and she said she better check me. She looked up and said you're complete! You're at a 10! Whoa. So Trent's mom left the room and we started pushing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I pushed for 30 min, then she had me turn a different way and push another 30 minutes, then a different way and another 30 minutes, then back to my back and another 30 minutes. I had already pushed for two hours and felt like we were still at square one! Then the best part of the day so far: the nurses switched and in came my angel of the year. It was about 7:30pm and I hadn't eaten since 1pm the day before because they don't let you eat anything when you're in labor, (other than clear things, so I had a couple little things of jello and popsicles). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had only slept a couple hours on and off the night before, and had just pushed for two hours (which is seriously a total body workout, holy cow), so I was totally spent. I asked the nurse, Lana, what my options are, and she said they'll let me push for 4 hours and then we would talk about other options (c-section). I broke down and cried thinking about pushing for two more hours, and told her and trent "I. Am. SO. Tired!!" What little energy I had to begin with was gone. The only thing I could think of was to ask Trent for a blessing. I knew that was the only way I was gonna be able to do this. Trent asked Lana if me and him could say a prayer together, and she said of course! So he asked if she wanted to leave the room or stay, and she wanted to stay. So trent stood on one side of the bed and put his hands on my head and she stood on the other side of the bed and held my hand. She was seriously the sweetest. After that blessing I felt a completely renewed motivation and strength to keep pushing. She asked if I was ready to keep trying and I said yes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I ended up pushing another two hours, but it was so much better than the first two. Lana and Trent were SO so great. After another two hours, she said she was going to get the doctor to talk about options. The doctor came in and said he is so close, and asked if we wanted to use the vacuum to try to help. It's basically a plunger haha that they suction to his head and help pull him out, there are no bad side effects to using it other than he will have a dark spot on his head for a few days. So of course I was game for anything to get this baby out. Then things got kind of intense, the NICU team came in just in case he needed them, they got all set up and turned on the bright lights and it was show time! With one contraction & just a couple pushes, he was out! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The many emotions at that moment are hard to put into words, but total relief swept over me from him FINALLY being out, total shock from him being so huge, and his giant cone head haha, total amazement that that all just happened and there was a real life baby at the end of all that, my baby, and of course total love for this little guy. We all thought he was going to be a smaller baby, including the nurse and the doctor, but when he came out, everyone in the room (and Trent the most!) was shocked- he was so big!!!! He ended up weighing 8 lbs 11 oz and was 20.5" long. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't say enough good things about the nurse we had, I truly believe she saved me from having to have a c-section by helping me go another two hours, her encouragement, and helping to stretch me out. Man, she saw it ALL from me and dealt with it like a champ. She was my angel sent from heaven. And Trent couldn't have done better or been any more helpful & supportive. Words just don't do it justice how much I love him, so I won't even try. He's just the best and every day I think about how lucky I am to have him. I told my friend the other day that he's a better mom than I am, and I really mean it. I've learned so much just watching him be a dad, it still just melts my heart every time I see him taking care of Coleman. We sure love him & have enjoyed the many sweet little moments we've already gotten to have as a family of 3 (well 4 including Copper, who is still recovering from feeling a little replaced haha).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone told me to enjoy the journey and take in every moment because it goes by so fast, so that's what I've tried to do. After living a very busy and fast paced life the last ... 26 years haha... I try to not let myself feel guilty about sitting and doing nothing but hold him & snuggle him. I'm trying to let the moments pass slow, because they were right- he has grown and changed SO fast already! But as crazy as the adjustment has been, we have enjoyed it every step of the way and couldn't love our sweet little Coleman more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was Trent's birthday, 3 days before my due date. Trent and I had gone to church, came home and ate, and then took a nap. At 3:45pm I woke up to some fluid leaking out, but I wasn't sure if it was my water breaking or not cause it wasn't a gush and wasn't a lot of fluid. I waited about 20 min, laid back down, went to the bathroom, tried bounced on my ball to see if I could make it "pop" or break a little more, but it just slowly kept trickling. Of course I'm googling everything to see if this is the real thing, and decided that I think it was! The whole time I knew Trent was going to freak out when I went into labor- like go into a panicked rush haha. So I didn't wake him up this whole time cause I didn't want to give him a false alarm and make him panic for nothing! But I decided this was the real thing maybe, so I went and woke him up and said "I don't mean to alarm you, but I think my water broke!" I think I did alarm him, haha!, but he did great. We were both kind of skeptical so he said I should call the nurses at the hospital. She said yes to come in! The hospital we chose was about 45 minutes away, so I told trent I felt bad if we went there & it ended up being nothing! But he said we should go in and if it wasn't then we would go hang out at La Jolla for the day or something. We grabbed all our last minute things and went on our way! We left at about 4:45pm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My mom had babies really fast, and so did her mom, so my whole pregnancy I was nervous I would have him really fast, and just hoped we would be able to get to the hospital in time, and hoped I wouldn't have to do it without an epidural! So we thought for sure we were going to have a baby on Trent's birthday! It was funny because it was the one day I didn't want him to come! I just wanted them to each have their own days, and thought it would be cool if he came on the 1st, or the 4th of July, or 7/7/17, or 7/11, but not the 9th! Of course :) The fluid continued to trickle more and more on our way there and I was pretty sure this was it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I got admitted to the hospital, they did a urine sample, and they told us it was positive that my water that broke! I got hooked up to all the monitors, and the nurse said I was having contractions! At this point I didn't feel a thing, I was so shocked she said that! My stomach did feel tight, but not any more than normal! And I was still dilated to a 3 (I had been at a 3 two days before at my last appointment). I got moved to my labor and delivery room, and met our nurse DeJon- she was really nice and young. At about 7:30pm she started my IV (ew I hated that IV! I don't mind needles at all but it was right on the top of my wrist so any time I bent my hand it was like the needle was getting pushed in my arm! Not the greatest spot for when you're in labor and trying to hold a new baby!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the one thing I would tell people when they go into labor: EAT!!!! Before you go to the hospital! We didn't eat before we came so we were STARVING! And once you're there in labor, they only let you have clear foods so I asked for a popsicle and some jello. She checked me and said I was at a 4-4.5. She said in order to try and get me into active labor where I was starting to feel my contractions, they were going to let my body try and do it naturally before we tried anything else. So they had me walk for 40 minutes up and down the halls with my little IV cart, and then I could rest in bed with the monitors on for 20 min. Walk for 40, rest for 20.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I met the doctor on duty, and he said if I deliver before 7am he'll be the once catching him! I thought well of course it will be you, it's not gonna take THAT long!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At 11:30 trent and I got so tired, so so sleepy!! I couldn't believe I had such a long night ahead of me and especially with no food! I told trent and my nurse I feel like I'm never gonna get to sleep again! (And I was right haha). I walked probably 2 miles in those darn halls! All trying to get my contractions to be stronger, but I STILL was not feeling a single thing! It was kind of nice to walk up and down the halls by myself, it was quiet and peaceful! I thought about the angels that were there to be with my baby, and thought a lot about my dad. He was probably nearby watching over his first grandkid make a safe arrival. At one point the nurse checked me and I still hadn't dilated any more, so she said they would probably start me on pitocin if I hadn't changed anymore, but I was soo tired and I asked if I could just take a power nap and then walk some more and then get checked. So I did that, except of course now I couldn't sleep when I had the chance. I walked one more time, got checked, no changes! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She started me on pitocin at 3:30am and then I finally got to rest a little! Off and on until about 6:30am, so that was nice. She kept upping the dose every once in a while. Then I finally started feeling some kind of painful contractions! I felt like my belly was so tight and hurting for like 15 min straight! I asked the nurse and she said it felt normal, then it went away for a while, and felt a couple more somewhat painful ones, and then they went away! We had already been there for over 12 hours, and still not even close to having this baby! Our new nurse Becky came on shift and she was really good and nice, she's been a nurse there for 27 years. We also met my new doctor, (yes they switched shifts and I was so surprised that I was meeting a new doctor and hadn't had a baby yet!) She checked me and said i was still at a 3-4. What the heck is taking so long?! A long labor is so not what I expected!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Becky had to go to a delivery so Tonya became my new nurse and we liked her! And my mother in law made it!! She booked her flight the moment we told her my water broke, and the next flight didn't get in till 9:30am that next morning, and I thought for sure the baby would have been born before she got there, but she got to be with us before I even went into active labor! She was so happy to be there and had been soo anxious to get here!! It was cute to see her so excited. And my mom, stepdad, and sisters started driving too! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The nurse kept upping my dose of pitocin because I still wasn't feeling anything. She kept saying her goal was to get me to be uncomfortable cause that means things are progressing, but she kept saying it and we thought it was kinda weird haha. My whole pregnancy my midwives had known his head was down but told me they thought that his body was turned so that he was face up (the perfect kicking position!) When the doctor came in and checked me and felt, said she thought he still was face up. So the nurse had me keep doing different positions to try and get the baby face down as I went into active labor. First she had me lean my chest over an exercise ball on my chest and let my tummy sag, for 30 min. Then she had me stand next to the bed and lean on the bed letting my tummy sag for another 30 min (all while downing some jello and ice cream cause I was SO hungry!!) She said she was putting me at the highest dose of pitocin and if that didn't work she would have to ask the dr for permission to go higher! Then she had me lay on the bed on my side and put the peanut ball between my legs, and had trent roll the top of my hip around in circles for 30 min. Then to the other side. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then FINALLY, in the middle of that, at about 3pm My contractions got super painful all of a sudden, so the doctor checked me and I was at a 5 or 6. Yay! I probably only had 7 or 8 painful contractions (which yes they are painful! Holy cow!) and then the doctor was like okay do you want your epidural now? I was so surprised that I could already have it, I had only been in pain for a few minutes! But they really were painful, and I'm all about the epidural, so I said yes PLEASE!! So the anesthesiologist came right in and did such a good job!!!! He seriously was awesome. I barely felt anything, and he kept us distracted by asking about our wedding and what kind of music we played at the reception, I said probably country, so he got his phone out and put country music on! He was so sweet. He had been doing this for 30 years. Then I instantly felt great again! And PS, for anyone reading this that hasn't had a baby, the epidural is NOT a big deal, like at all. It was the tiniest pinch and the rest you can't feel. Seriously way easier than everyone makes it out to be, in my opinion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then it was time to just keep progressing and let myself keep dilating. Trent, lauri jo, and I just kind of hung out for probably about an hour. I pushed the button 2 more times because the nurse said it's better to slowly get more instead of be in pain and have to play catch up, and I figured if I'm gonna get an epidural, I may as well be out of pain. But I started feeling so much pressure in my lower back that wasn't going away, so I told my nurse and asked if that's normal or if I should push the button again? She said she better check me, so she did and looked up and said you're complete! You're at a 10! So it was time to push! Lauri jo and I had been talking and I asked her like now that I'm out of pain, what's the big deal about pushing if you don't feel any pain? My mom said she always only had to push a few times, for just a few minutes, so I thought it was all downhill from here! (So wrong haha) One of us talked about how the doctor had said something about she estimated for a first baby I would be pushing for an hour or two. Lauri jo was like I've never heard of anyone having to push for two hours, that's crazy. I'm sure he'll come right out. So she left the room and went into the waiting room and trent, the nurse, and I started pushing. I thought for sure it would be just a few minutes till we had him and she got to come back in! (So wrong haha). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First I pushed on my back with my legs up, did that for 30 min and nothing really happened, so she had me go to my left side and push like that for 30 min, still nothing, then same on the right side for 30 min, still nothing, then back to the middle. At one point I was pushing so hard and my body had probably just had enough that out of nowhere I was like I feel like I'm gonna throw up, turned to my side, and threw up all over the blanket I had by me. It really was so exhausting and I could see myself down there in the mirror, and it didn't look like anything had changed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then the best thing of the day so far happened- the nurses switched. The night before when I was walking the halls forever, a nurse stopped me and said do I know you from somewhere? She kind of did seem familiar but I didn't know. I asked if she went to the dentist I work for and she said no, so I was like I don't know! Now I think she was one of those people that I was friends with in heaven because it just seemed like we knew each other. So you can imagine my relief when she walked in the room and Tonya said this was my new nurse! Her name was Lana and she was from Ukraine. She is an absolute angel and saved me that day. After two hours of pushing, not eating for over 24 hours, and only getting maybe one or two hours of sleep, I was totally spent. I just felt like I wasn't getting anywhere and pushing wasn't helping, like I had done so much pushing for TWO HOURS already and didn't make any progress. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I asked her what my options are, like if I was doing something and if pushing was going to keep helping? She told me that they would let me push for a total of 4 hours, and then if we got to that point then we could talk about options (c-section). I broke down and started crying and told her and trent "I am. So. Tired!!!" There was NO way I was gonna push for two more hours. I couldn't physically or emotionally or mentally handle it. The one and only thing I could think of to help was ask Trent for a blessing before we started again. He asked Lana if it was okay if we said a prayer together, and she said of course! He was like okay do you mind leaving the room or do you wanna stay in here with us or...? And she was happily like I'll stay in here!! So trent stood on one side of the bed and put his hands on my head and she stood on the other side of the bed and held my hand. She was seriously the sweetest. After that blessing she said that was such a beautiful prayer and asked trent if he was a priest, and he was like kind of, I'm called an Elder in my church. After that blessing I felt a completely renewed motivation and strength to keep pushing. She asked if I was ready to keep trying and I said yes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From that point on, with every single push and every contraction she would say something encouraging, like "you're doing so great," "that was a good one, good job!" "You're definitely helping, he's getting closer!" With every push, her and trent would both count to 10 and would both push with me. She said I was lucky because after all that pushing I got to keep a baby, she just got hemorrhoids! Haha she was so cute. In between contractions she just sat on my bedside and talked to us. She told us about her kids, about her vacation plans she had coming up, and anything else she could think of to distract us, which worked. I always thought it would be such an intense medical scene when pushing a baby out, but it was so chill. Just the three of us in that room, having casual conversations in between contractions and pushing. She would take her finger with almost every push and help stretch me out and feel where his head was (sorry TMI). I also threw up again from so much pushing with my stomach, and she was so sweet to help clean me up and give me water to swish with, and said that it happens all the time (probably doesn't haha). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At one point when I was pushing she finally said "he has a lot of hair!!!" and that gave me a huge boost of strength that he was really almost here!! I could even see his head and hair in the mirror and that was all I needed to help me push a little better and know that we really were getting somewhere! With every contraction, I had pushed and pushed, for ANOTHER two hours. His head had sloooooowwwwly gotten closer. As Lana felt his head, she said he felt like a small baby. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When we finally hit four hours, she said she was going to call the doctor to come in and go over our options and said that she would probably say we could try using the vacuum- a little suction device that they could put on his head to help pull him out as I pushed. There's no harm in using it, he would just have a little bruise on his head for a couple days. In no time, people started coming in and setting up, turned on the lights, got all their instruments & carts, and the doctor was in! Her name was Dr Meshkat, and we hadn't even met her before. She told us about the vacuum option, and I said yes of course! Anything to help get him out! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They had the NICU team in there in case anything went wrong, so there were probably 7-8 other people in the room with us. It got really intense really quick! She got all gloved up, and we were ready to go! She felt his head and said he felt like a small baby. Same thing Lana said! With the next contraction, she had the suction thing on his head ready to go and I started pushing! In just one contraction, it was like slow motion. They had taken away the mirror to make room and I couldn't really see down there, so I couldn't really tell exactly what was happening, so I was just watching her pull on him, and I remember she was pulling so hard on him and trent was saying "PUSH BABE PUSH!!!!!" It was probably only 5-10 seconds but seemed like forever that I was pushing my hardest just waiting for her to set him on me! Finally someone in the room was like "he's here!" so I stopped pushing but I guess only his head was out! She grabbed his head and pulled the rest of him out and set him on me! Trent went from saying PUSH BABE to OHHH MY GOSH, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's hard to describe the emotions that happened in that moment, but it was SO relieving to finally have him out, and so surreal to see a real (BIG!) baby on me, that's mine! And yes, he was big, it was mind blowing! I felt like he was half the size of me! And his head was sooo cone shaped from being in the birth canal for 4 hours! It was all just so amazing and overwhelming and the craziest thing I've ever experienced, I couldn't help but just bust out in tears and hold him tight while they started cleaning him off! Right away I remember holding his sweet little hand and seeing his little fingers wrap around my finger (hey, maybe that's where that phrase came from haha) and hearing his little cry & seeing his sweet face for the first time!! It is just the most surreal moment ever. I just couldn't believe there was a real baby on me that just came out of me, and he's mine! Haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He was born at 9:27pm, almost 30 hours after my water broke! And I wasn't the only one that was surprised at how big he was - everyone in that room was!! That's why trent kept saying oh my gosh, because like me, he could just NOT believe how big he was! The Dr was like "I bet he's almost 9 lbs!!!" And Lana was like "WHERE were you hiding him?!?!" One of the girls on the NICU team said "I hope you didn't buy newborn clothes!" (Totally did haha, and they did fit thank goodness) and another girl told me "I did not think they were gonna get him out of there!!" It was just a fun moment sharing that with everyone in the room, and I felt a little bit justified for why it took so darn long to get him out- he was just so big for me! I would have felt more like a wimp if he was a small baby like they said he was! Haha. That and he was face up too, which made it harder. He did kind of turn on his way out though, so he came out kind of sideways I think. A big baby is so not what I expected (seems like that was the name of the game for me, expect the unexpected! Haha)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While I was holding him and enjoying the moment with Trent, I was so distracted by him that all of a sudden I felt the WEIRDEST sensation I have ever felt in my life, I can't even describe it but the Dr was delivering the placenta and had her whole hand up me (sorry TMI!) She kept doing that to make sure she got every piece of it out and it seriously is the weirdest feeling I've ever felt. I looked down at her and was like what on earth is going on down there?!? Haha. Anyways, she got me all stitched up in no time, shook our hands and congratulated us, and was on her way to another delivery! The hospital we delivered at is Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns, and they deliver more babies than any hospital in California (so probably the whole country haha) and they were so busy that night, Lana said they had to call in ALL their nurses to come in and there were 8 babies delivered in the same hour as Coleman!! So crazy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I am so glad we went to that hospital, it is so nice & I was so impressed with every doctor. And Trent & I seriously can't get over how amazing Lana was. She MADE the experience just amazing and went the extra mile above and beyond to be my angel that night. It seriously makes me tear up thinking about how much it meant to me to have her with us, she was just absolutely incredible. I still need to send her a thank you note & tell her this! (If she's even a real human, she really may have just been an angel sent from heaven just for me that night haha). But I've since learned from several doctors that I was so lucky I didn't have a c section! I was very close to that point, and I'm really convinced that it was Lana that saved me from having to do that. I just love her & want to find her & be her friend forever. After we got sent to the postpartum floor, I gave her a couple hugs and was so sad to leave her! Trent stayed behind for a second with her to grab all our bags and stuff, and she ended up asking about our church. He told her we are Mormon. I want to send her a Book of Mormon! She was just the sweetest. Trent and I just can't believe that those nurses do that every day. What a crazy day it was for us, and they do it every day!! I seriously can't believe it. They are true saints.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And while I'm raving about our awesome nurse, I can't leave out how amazing Trent was. He always joked that he wouldn't want to watch our baby be born (just stay up by my head- haha I would say the same thing!) but he was SO sweet and so helpful and so supportive. One of our songs is "I thought I loved you then" by Brad Paisley, and it is still so true every step of the way- I thought I loved him when we were first dating (I did), but then it grew to be even stronger when we were engaged, and more when we were married. And more and more every day, and more when I was pregnant, it just seemed like I couldn't love him more. And now that we have gone through all this together, it's crazy to think I thought I loved him as much as I could way back then. It just keeps getting stronger & it's hard to believe I could love him more than I do now. Through the whole 4 hours of pushing, he counted to 10 every push I did, he pushed with me, he held my legs, he held his breath with me, he held my hand, and was so involved every step of the way. And now that we've been parents together for a while, it makes me tear up to think about how good of a husband and dad he is. I just LOVE HIM to pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyways.... after Coleman was delivered, they had him & I do skin to skin for an hour. It was so special! Trent's mom got to come back in and see him- I'm so glad she was there! She loved it. Then they put him under the warm lights and it was so funny, he loved it!! He was naked but just sprawled out all relaxed on the table and didn't even make a peep. He loved the warm! Then they weighed him & this was the true test, to see how big he really was! 8 lbs 11 oz! We were all so astounded haha. He passed every test they did just fine & didn't have a single concern! He was a big, healthy boy! Oh and one of the best parts was when they brought me in food! They must know the poor moms are starving- it had been a day and a half since I had eaten (besides a couple little things of Jello & sorbet), and man, that food tasted so good!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was so sweet to have our little man finally there with us and be a little family together! They never took him out of our room at all the whole time we were in the hospital, and I liked that. After the longest, hardest day ever, it was late and we had gotten up to our postpartum room, and were finally together just the 3 of us without any distractions. We were getting ready to finally be able to go to sleep, and Trent & I held Coleman and played him a song. Trent had found this song when I was pregnant and played it for our little guy while he was in the womb. It's called Ashlyn's Song by Peter Hollands. It's about a dad first meeting his little son when he's born, and it's the sweetest little song. We sat there together that quiet night in the hospital with our brand new little baby that was only a couple hours old, and played him this song. At one point in the song it says "it's been the longest day, and one I won't forget" and I will never forget as long as I live our little Coleman smiled at us SO big right then. It was literally the sweetest thing I've ever seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And for those of you wondering about his name... we liked the name Tanner my whole pregnancy. This was really the only name we had both really liked. We told people it wasn't set in stone, but it would probably be Tanner. My cute grandpa would always text me and ask how me and Tanner were doing, up until the day I gave birth! Haha but I did always like the name Cole, and I remember having a patient back when I was working for Dr Packer in Provo that was named Coleman, and he was such a cute, well behaved kid. I loved that name! But I kind of forgot about it! Then in February I was working, and started working with a doctor named Coleman. We were talking about names and I told him I was actually pregnant with a boy and liked that name! And how cute is Coleman Crane?! I told trent about it and he didn't really like it at first, he said he didn't really like the name Cole and didn't want people to call him Cole. So I thought that was that, and mentioned it a few more times the next few months, but we mostly stuck with Tanner. But as it came closer, we talked about the name Coleman more, and I could tell that Trent was warming up to it, and then he really liked it. But even going into the hospital and at the hospital, we still didn't know which name we were going to choose. The day after he was born, we said we better decide on his name! I could tell Trent liked the name Coleman for him better, and I loved it too! We decided he looked more like a Coleman, so Coleman Trenton Crane it is :) surprise! Haha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He is such a sweet little guy. Sometimes we just sit and stare at him. We love all the little faces he makes and every little sound he makes. You can't help but know he's a sweet innocent little angel. Parenthood has turned our world around, but in a good way. It's shocking home time consuming it is! It's a full time job for two people for the first little while! It's definitely an adjustment, but we wouldn't change it for the world. We love our little man, and have loved watching him grow every day! Him and trent already have the cutest little bond. Trent just adores him & is so happy to have him!! He's excited he has a little hunting buddy in the making :) And he's SO good with him. I feel like my patience level has never been something to write home about, and I can get frustrated easily. Watching trent be a dad has taught me so much already, his patience and love is an example to me every day. He makes me want to be better all the time. The good thing is Coleman doesn't require a whole lot of patience, he's a good baby and really only cries when he's hungry! Or has gas :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone told me to enjoy the journey and take in every moment because it goes by so fast, so that's what I've tried to do. After living a very busy and fast paced life the last ... 26 years haha... I try to not let myself feel guilty about sitting and doing nothing but hold him & snuggle him. I'm trying to let the moments pass slow, because they were right- he has grown and changed SO fast already! But as crazy as the adjustment has been, we have enjoyed it every step of the way and couldn't love our sweet little Coleman more!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298920708074350162.post-55485834256976889902013-11-23T22:30:00.000-07:002013-11-23T23:25:49.039-07:00New Etsy Shop!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">So I made a bunch of these cute little missionary quotes for my little brother Jeremy on a mission in France for a Christmas thing I'm doing - don't tell! ;) - and I decided since I went through all the effort of making them I would put them on Etsy so other people can have them too! So <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/MissionaryQuotes" target="_blank">here's</a> the link if you care to see! Some of these quotes aren't as popular, but are so good! I loved finding a bunch of good quotes :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trent and I had 2 weeks after I graduated BYU & before we started school again (update on all that boring stuff later, maybe, let's get to the good stuff!) So we went to Florida and on a cruise and it was </span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">AMAZING</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">. I look at these pictures and wonder why I ever came home. I'm also amazed that we took all these pics and that we actually witnessed all of it firsthand. Like we were there. It was so fun. Best trip ever. Miss it already.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">My awesome grandparents gave us a week stay at a Marriott Vacation Club resort for our wedding that we still hadn't used, so we chose Orlando! And we love our cruises so we thought it would be convenient to go on a nice little cruise after. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This was our villa - it was so nice and so amazing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">After dinner one night w/ our heart balloon :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Trent got to see Shamu for the first time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I thank my lucky stars this is as close as we got to a shark this trip - we were nervous about that one after watching shark week the week before!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Then we went to....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and fed some alligators</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This picture cracks me up! Tell me it doesn't look like the alligator is dying laughing at the other alligators joke...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">On the topic- i just love alligators! I think it is SO funny that it looks like they're smiling!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What can I say - i love smiles :) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This alligator definitely needs his teeth cleaned though. You think he'd let me? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I couldn't help but wonder what would happen to us if there was an earthquake while we were standing on this wooden bridge over 130 hungry alligators... yikes...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> This was us on a big tower above the 130 alligators: "let's hurry and take a picture of us" (as the wind is blowing and we hear the wood creaking) "okay yep let's get off now!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">However... If we did end up with the alligators, I think we'd be able to wrestle them... right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Yep! </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">My little animal lover is so cute. o. m. g. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I think these animals are a little nicer and might not eat us as quickly if they had the chance...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Yes those are real. I had to ask like 3 times "are you sure those are real??"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And Trent fed an emu (apparently it's said like eem-you, not ee-moo FYI)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">All over the park there were signs that said things like "If you fall in, the alligators </span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">WILL</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> eat you!" They don't allow you to put your kids on your shoulders or sit on the railings or anything. Scary!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Wow this picture is huge. haha. These snapshots are courtesy of my lovely iphone photography skills. Not too shabby right? Scary though!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trent and I went on this cute little nature walk. When we got </span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">OFF</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> the trail we saw this lovely sign...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">There were also signs by all the ponds in our resort area that said...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Now on to frogs... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">There are <b>TONS</b> in Florida! And even more lizards! They are <b>ALL</b> over the sidewalk. I even accidentally stepped on one... and killed it... I felt so bad! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We found a church to go to on Sunday - took us forever to finally find it but we made it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We also played tennis one night - it was so fun. And holy humid!! Orlando is seriously the most humid place i've ever been - way more than hawaii! I'm sad for my skin now - it's back in the desert. But it was so fun being in the humidity, and playing tennis w/ my hubby. Needless to say, he kicked my butt. I need a lot more practice. A lot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And i even thought of a floating popcorn dish :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> One good thing about Utah... No tolls!!! We hate toll booths now!! The guy in one of them told us it costs Florida residents about $3500/year just to drive on the freeway! Kinda takes the </span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">FREE</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> out of </span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">FREE</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">way!!! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Then we went on our cruise! We </span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">LOVE</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> cruises! If you've never been on one, you need to go. They are the best. On any other vacation, by the time you pay for all your meals, all your entertainment, hotel, transportation and everything, it is such a good value to just go on a cruise instead! Because all that is included! And you wake up in a different place every day! And the food is amazing, the people are so fun, the shows are fun, there are always fun things going on, and it's just f.u.n. So go on a cruise. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">our first stop was Cozumel, Mexico.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We took a tour of the island, toured a tequila factory (don't worry, they were more than happy to drink our tequila for us...), and snorkeled! oh and Trent saw a Barracuda! He came to me and said "Barracuda" and i was outta there! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">so glad he speaks spanish!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">These two little lovebirds!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And these two little lovebirds :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">beautiful sunsets on the boat!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">the next day we woke up in Belize!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">ahhh... belize....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This is my happy place. Here & Lake Powell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">we were in pure heaven the whole day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Our heaven will be in belize I think :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We took this tour with 2 other couples (one from france and one from canada!) to the barrier reef. I hear it's the largest living barrier reef in the world! It was a.m.a.z.i.n.g. Best snorkeling ever!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Trent took his GoPro - which was the best thing to have!! I'm <b>SO</b> glad we captured so much on it! The only thing is most the footage we got was videos, so i'm gonna talk him into making a cool video of everything we saw! But we held a starfish, we saw stingrays, saw a lobster, tons of cool coral, and hundreds of the coolest fish! Stay tuned for an awesome video...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Our tour guides were so cool! They let us sit on the bow of the boat, and it was like one of the coolest moments ever - just gliding along the perfectly blue water. ahhh</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Then they took us to Bannister Island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That is one of my favorite pictures of the trip! You can't really see but there's colorful kayaks under the little hut - so picturesque!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Trent and I want to own Bannister Island someday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It was <b>SO</b> incredible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">By the time we got there, everyone else's tours had ended, so we got the island <b>ALL</b> to ourselves!! It was <b>SO</b> cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This cute little family lives on the island. I repeat - they <b>LIVE</b> on Bannister Island. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The dad was so cute and helpful - him and his wife blew up inflatable tubes for my cute little french friend and i to sit on in the water. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And their kids were so cute. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">While on the topic - i have <b>NEVER</b> seen so many beautiful black babies in my life as i did these two weeks. I was drooling over every one. Every single black baby we saw was like model status. I need one. And yes, I definitely take after my mom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You can see Trent swimming in the background, just hanging out with a starfish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Anyways... this was Trent relaxing on his chair by his little tiki hut. Also another favorite pic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Don't ask how I left this place - i thought they were gonna have to drag me away!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Love our GoPro! And look at that water!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Look how smooth the water is! I couldn't believe this was the ocean!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You just can't beat Belize. We had the time of our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you go here, snorkel the barrier reef and then go to bannister island!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But the fun didn't stop there! The next day we woke up in Roatan! It's a small island off the coast of Honduras- and Trent has wanted to come here for a long time, so he finally got to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> We snorkeled here the whole time. And this place got the best snorkeling award! Ever! The water was crystal clear and <b>SO</b> beautiful. oh my gosh. it was like swimming in a huge aquarium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> he is my favorite fish :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> but this lil fella is my 2nd favorite fish - we saw a ton of these and they were SO cool!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> this was one of my favorite moments of the trip - there was this huge school of these purple tangs. We swam RIGHT along with them! Like literally right with them! They didn't even seem to notice us or care - it was so cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> you can't really see it, but some of that big school of purple tangs is right by trent to the right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> These guys were big fish! They also let us swim right along with them - you can see me in the background - that's not a fish :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you ever go here, go to West Bay Beach/Tabyana Beach. The snorkeling is <b>RIGHT</b> off the shore. the fish swim right up to the shore and the coral is all right there!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Apparently they have "Islands Gym" there - haha! Had to include that cause i thought it was so funny they copied golds gym :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Here's our boat: the Carnival Liberty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Crazy story: At midnight that night, we could tell something was going on with the boat so we went up to the top and realized they had completely stopped the ship. We went over to look off the side, and there was this </span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">TINY</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> raft with a bunch of people on it waving flashlights! Mind you - we had been sailing in the ocean on a huge boat for 9 hours - we were in the middle of the ocean with nothing around us. They told us in the morning that there had been 8 people on the raft heading to Honduras, but they had run out of food and water so they flagged us down. But they didn't want to come on board! We're pretty sure they were Cubans escaping to Honduras. But seriously- their little raft wasn't even a boat. it didn't even have a motor. You can barely see cuba in the top right of that map, and that's how far they had </span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">ROWED</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">. It was crazy. And it was </span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">PITCH</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> black outside - like you couldn't even see the horizon - it was just all black. no stars, no moon, no light. I can't even imagine being out there in the middle of nowhere in the ocean in the pitch dark, and we had gone through some storms too. Honduras is so poor and that's what they were going through to escape to there- So sad what people do to escape their bad situations! We are so lucky.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It was so fun, but so rainy! It poured almost all day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We went on a little tour to go out to Stingray City!! It looks like Trent was the driver, but</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">they drive on the opposite side of the road! It's so crazy to see that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> If you haven't been, Stingray City is about a 20 minute boat ride out to the middle of the ocean! But it's a sandbar, so you can stand up - it's crazy. but the even more crazy part is that there are stingrays everywhere! And they're nice! They'll swim right up to you and let you touch them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Trent found a big shell :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Trent gasping for breath after swimming under water with them - he calls it beast mode haha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you ever go to Grand Cayman, go to Stingray City! It was so cool! The tour guides let you hold a stingray</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This looks like a new parent picture to me. We're holding our new baby! haha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">They say kissing a stingray brings 7 years of good luck!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> I like kissing him better :) while getting a back massage is even better!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Then they took us snorkeling by some reef!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Trent likes to hang out at the bottom of the ocean :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> The rain held off the whole time for us, until we were snorkeling. then it started lightning and thundering. needless to say- it was a long, cold, rainy, boat ride back in the rain!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But we got all dried off, finally, for elegant night on the cruise!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Little plug here for Carnival's chocolate melting cake. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It is another piece of heaven on earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This cruise was the best! We'd do it again in a heartbeat! Any takers?! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Trent took these pictures when we are about to get off the boat in Miami - it was earlyyy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> and we hung out in the Miami airport for ten hours. We went to the only place that had our first BYU game on - the budweiser bar! haha Trent: "uh do you have sodas here too?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and trent taught me how to play blackjack! We had fun watching people gamble in the casino on the cruise. We're glad we weren't the ones losing all the money! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 weeks all day everyday with my best friend wasn't so bad! It was a good vacation before we start school and get all stressed out and never see each other anymore. And we're not sick of each other AT all & still want to be together every second :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">My favorite thing: traveling with my favorite person in the world! :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Luckily we have we have lots more traveling to do - so many other places to go, people to see, and things to do! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Here's to fun trips!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Well I've about reached my typical 2-months-late-post standard, so I guess better post! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Our cute friends Ryan & Natalie had their baby!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It was so fun being able to go through the whole process with them (well not the <b>WHOLE</b> process, that could get a little crazy...haha) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But it was fun for me to be there with Nat through the whole pregnancy and hear how everything was going! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Nat asked if I would take pictures of her and Ryan to send as an announcement to their families. We decided we liked this idea best... I think they turned out so cute!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> By the way - we were going around to different spots to see which pictures we liked best. Nat and I saw this brick wall from afar and thought it was perfect! We parked and walked over there, and the "+" and the "=3" was already spray painted on the wall! So meant to be!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Nat's other friend Hilary and I threw her a baby shower. It turned out so cute!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> <span style="text-align: center;">I even made the invitation & thought it was pretty cute if I can say so myself. I think I might put these up on Etsy if I can ever remember to do it! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> I wanted to make Nat's baby girl a quilt - this is how it turned out. The backing is cream minky - it's soo soft & cuddly! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Well, fast forward to the day of May 13. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I was in my infant development class and we just so happened to be talking about going into labor and having your water break. Right as I was walking out of my class Nat called me and told me her water broke! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I told her I put it into the atmosphere by thinking about it, so thanks to me she went into labor :) haha jk</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">She said they had to hurry and go to the hospital and didn't have time to grab any of their stuff, so she asked if we could grab it and bring it to them. I had to get a picture of our back seat cause I thought it was funny for some reason. Not really funny - but notice her cute as heck baby bag in the bottom right! Coach! So freakin cute. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I took some pictures while we were waiting :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It was such a beautiful day. And might I add - this hospital is amazing! So nice and homey!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We got to see some cute tiny brand new babies get rolled into the nursery!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We finally got to go into their room and see them </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Why was I not surprised that there was a basketball game on? Haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We hung out with them for a couple hours while Nat was just waiting to get more dilated! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I kind of feel bad now because they could have been sleeping (maybe) and it was their last few hours being just the two of them (gosh just saying that makes me feel bad!), but if Nat was going to deliver her soon, we wanted me to be there to take pictures of everything right after she had her and of course we got carried away talking forever like always. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But we had fun. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Trent claimed that he knew everything about labor and delivery because "he walked a cat through labor once." It became even more funny when Ryan tried to explain this to the nurse by saying "It's okay, Trent gave birth to a cat once." haha! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That nurse was probably like a) why are you guys here hanging out with your friends at 10pm while she is in labor and b) you are weird! haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I was so excited when I got this text in the middle of the night!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Get it? :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> My kids will call her Aunt Nat, and her kids will call me Aunt Nat! yay!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I love that little Aliah! She is so sweet and so dang cute. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I got to help give her a bath a couple times and it is so cute! She loves it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Can you say cutest thing ever!?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Ryan got an internship in California for the summer, so they hurried and blessed her and took off! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So sad to have them gone but I'm glad they're coming back! </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298920708074350162.post-36754457858514777912013-03-22T21:46:00.001-06:002013-11-15T22:35:46.187-07:00A Sweet Easter Treat: Bunny Bark<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">My friend Natalie (I know- Nat & Nat!) and I made these cute Easter treats! It was really easy & so yummy! It's called Bunny Bark!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Bag of Easter M&M's</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> 1 lb White chocolate chips (or white almond bark - which I actually prefer, but either works!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We didn't but I would recommend putting wax paper down on the cookie sheet before.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> We made extras for the girls we visit teach- it was an easy, fun, and yummy treat to make and give!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298920708074350162.post-47530603938874851622013-02-24T14:00:00.000-07:002013-02-24T14:00:01.086-07:00Freezer Meal Exchange Group<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Remember when I made all my own freezer meals?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you didn't read my blog post about it, you can read about it <a href="http://trentalie.blogspot.com/2012/11/my-day-of-freezer-meal-preparation.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Well, I think it was way fun and very well worth it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But... It took for <b>EVER</b>. And it was a <b>LOT</b> of preparation. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When I was doing it, Trent was like "wouldn't this be a lot easier if you did it with friends?" Haha. So I got thinking about it, and I started looking into freezer meal exchange groups. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I loved the idea and decided to do it! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So I got a group of 10 of us, we set a date, then we all prepared ten of the same meal, met that day, and traded with everyone! So we went with ten of the same meal and left with ten different meals. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It turned out really great! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I would definitely recommend it - so this is what I did in case any of you decide to do the same thing (which you should!) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">First I had to put the group together. I just asked my friends & posted on facebook to see who wanted to join me. Then I made sure everyone could do it on that certain day and time. I made a facebook group with just us 10 and posted instructions and "rules" for everyone. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you are thinking about putting a group together, you can use the ones I made up. They are at the bottom of this post! I think they are good so everyone is on the same page, makes the same amount of servings, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I decided to do my aunt Tami's recipe for Chicken Tortilla Soup in her cookbook.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I went to Winco and Walmart to get everything. I needed a lot of cans in my recipe (as you can see) and they are always really cheap at Winco. But you also know I love price-matching at Walmart, so I went there for the rest. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you don't know how to price-match, you can read my post about it <a href="http://trentalie.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-to-price-match-at-walmart.html" target="_blank">here</a> :) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Awesome story about price-matching while we're at it: I obviously needed a lot of chicken, so I saw it on another store's ad for $1.99/lb. When I got there, it was already priced at that, so I didn't even need to price match it. When I was checking out I had a few other price matches, and the cashier asked if I wanted to price match the chicken. I said, "No I don't have one for it. Unless you know of one you want to put in for me!" (half kidding, half serious). But to my surprise he was like "Yeah I actually do know one I can put in for you." Trying to act normal I just said okay!! Then after he put it in I asked what price he knew, and he said he put it in for $0.99/lb!!! I was shocked!! So instead of the chicken being $50, it was only $25!! I was so happy! I have never seen chicken at that price... Trent says he probably just put it in cause he was flirting with me, but Trent was actually with me and had been talking to him and being nice to him, so I think it was because Trent was being nice. And most people that go through his line probably don't take the time to ask him questions and be nice. Trent is so great that way, I love it :) Anyways, that's my price matching story of the week! Moral of the story: Always be nice to the cashier and price match! (And look cute when you go grocery shopping... you never know... haha kidding)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Total I spent $68.29. That ends up being only $6.83 per meal, which is a lot of servings of soup, so I don't think that's too bad!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> And all the cans I went through... I was a good recycler that day!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> The recipe called for one 4-oz can of diced green chiles, but Trent said I should just cut up fresh ones instead! They ended up being way cheaper, and fresh is always better right?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">After the exchange I realized my hand was burning!! It felt like it was on fire!! It burned for a good <b>FIVE</b> hours and i could <b>NOT</b> figure out what the heck was wrong with it. It didn't occur to me until later that night when Trent was like maybe it was all those chiles you were cutting up! Totally it. So there's your warning if you're gonna cut up a million green chiles. They're not even that hot are they?? Apparently they are. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That took a while, but the part that took the longest was cutting up the chicken. I was running close on time (I decided to do it the morning we were meeting - so that was probably a bad idea.) It ended up working out though. I recruited Trent's friend that was over to help me cut chicken and that saved me! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> The first time I did this when I made all my own different meals, it took about 8 hours!!! This only took me 2 1/2! So it was <b>SO</b> much easier, faster, price efficient, and convenient!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The exchanged worked great. We all just met in a church parking lot and did our own version of Trunk or Treat! :) It was really fast and fun. I wish I took a picture but I was too busy taking meals around to the other people that I didn't even think of it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> This was my brother Riley's meal. I was so impressed and so proud of him! He made up the recipe from a meal he loves at this restaurant by us, and it turned out </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">SO</span><span style="font-size: large;"> good! It was the chicken artichoke alfredo one with peppers. So dang good. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">Hi Everyone!! If you were added to this group, then I am planning on you!! We are doing the exchange next Saturday, February 2 at 12:00 noon. I am so excited about this! I hope it all works out great! Here are some things that I need all of you to read to make sure we are all on the same page! </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">-You need to put what you will be going to make on our Facebook group wall by this TUESDAY the 29th.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">-You need to prepare each meal to be FOUR SERVINGS (for leftovers or big eaters! Most recipes are 4 servings anyways)</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">-CROCKPOT recipes are totally a YES!</span></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">-Make sure you have enough freezer space (but in winter we have unlimited amount of freezer space right?! Just go bury them in the snow! Haha)<br />-You need to prepare meals that are "freezable," obviously! (look on Pinterest for ideas- there's tons!) some things don't freeze very well- like spaghetti I'm guessing would be gross haha<br />-You need to make something that makes a pretty complete meal alone so we don't have to add a bunch of things to make it!<br />-You need to make a meal you think we would all like! Don't go making anything too crazy on us! On the other hand, it will be nice to try new things! I get sick of my same 5 dinners I make all the time haha.<br />-If you have any allergies, let me know asap and we'll see if it will still work for you to do this! :)<br />-You need to include any directions on how to prepare your meal! (Obvious!)<br />-Since you're making ten of the same meal, keep your eyes on sales and buy in bulk to your advantage!<br />-Be sure to schedule in enough time to prepare your ten meals- it might take longer than you might think! Especially the first time.<br />-We have TEN people in our group, so make TEN meals. Be ready to exchange your meals, and you can take home your meals with whatever you bring yours in. You can bring a cooler, or whatever works.<br />-If you could, attach the recipe to your meal so if we love it we have the recipe to make it again!<br />-Don't forget to put on this wall what you are planning on bringing by tomorrow (Tuesday!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Have you ever seen the price of granola in the stores?? It is expensive!! And I <i>LOVE</i> granola! So I found a recipe to make it on my own - for <i>WAY</i> cheaper & still just as good- if not better. Oh, and it's the easiest thing ever. It only takes 5-10 min to prepare.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Here is the Recipe: (I got it from a friend once, so I don't know who's recipe it is - sorry! I've also modified it a little to work better & be the kind of granola I like)</span></div>
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<u><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Granola</span></u></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">4 c oats</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1/2 c water</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1/4 c oil </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Tbsp vanilla</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 c brown sugar</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">cinnamon as wanted</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 tsp salt</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">sugar for sprinkling</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">*can add wheat germ or crushed flax seed for added texture & nutrition!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Instructions:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Preheat oven to 250 degrees. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Put the oats in a bowl. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Add water and oil, mix.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Add vanilla and brown sugar, mix.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I like mine a little more cinnamony so I usually add probably 1-2 tsp cinnamon. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Add the salt, mix again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">I like my granola clumpy,</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> so i</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">f it looks too dry at this point, don't be afraid to add a little oil and/or water until it will stick together a little better. I usually just drizzle it with a little water and a little oil. Are you loving my measurements here? :) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Put the mixture on a cookie sheet (I put it on tin foil for easy clean up). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Sprinkle with sugar. I don't like mine </span><i style="color: #783f04; font-size: x-large;">too</i><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> sweet, so I actually don't do too much, if any.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I also like to push down on the oats with either the wooden spoon I mixed it all with or my hands to get it to stick together and clump a little more. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Put in the oven for 30 min. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Then use a flipper (spatula pancake flipper thing... what are those called?) and flip. I like to use the biggest flipper I have and try to keep the pieces together and clump as much as I can. The first time I made it I wasn't careful in my flipping and pretty much just stirred it around, and it wasn't clumpy, so it didn't turn out as well as I like it. It will come apart but try to be gentle in your flipping to actually flip it over.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Then bake it for 30 more min. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Your house will smell soo yummy at this point! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Let it cool and enjoy!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Also, can I just add - Did you know oats count as a whole grain? This is totally healthy! There is no butter, shortening, etc. Mmm I love it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">My serving suggestion: Eat it as cereal. Is that weird? I am totally <i>NOT</i> a cereal person, I never have been. I could count on one hand how many times I have cereal a year. <i>EXCEPT</i>... for when I make this! It is soo yummy. Just put it in a bowl of milk and enjoy the best cereal of your life! (And most healthy!)</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298920708074350162.post-23470619253039439192013-02-03T23:37:00.002-07:002013-02-23T21:26:01.287-07:00Rest-of-the-Year Resolutions<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Well it's the beginning of February. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We've all been at our New Years Resolutions for a month now! </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">How are you doing with your goals? Have you been keeping up? </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Have you quit going to the gym yet? Haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Did you even make New Years Resolutions? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We all know January is a time for making New Years Resolutions. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But we also all know that by the time March, April, May roll around... that ship has sailed, am I right? </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And by the time December comes around, that ship is loooooong gone. I would be willing to bet most people don't even remember what their New Years Resolutions were. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I don't know about you, but at the beginning of the year it is always a little overwhelming for me to pick goals that I want to work on for an entire year. I know there are lots of things I need to work on, but I can't work on all of them at the same time. That's just asking to get burned out before February even rolls around. And it's hard for me to think of goals that I am <i>WILLING</i> to work on for a whole year!! I don't want to be one of the "quitters" so I want to pick realistic goals, but if you are going to work on some for the entire year - you gotta be pretty committed! And you can't pick too many or you'll get burned out. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Why am I talking about New Years Resolutions in February? (That was so last month right!? haha)</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Well because if I had written this post in January when everyone was thinking about goals, it would have drowned in the sea of the hopeful goal-making season. But now, we have all been at our goals for a month. The excitement has died down a little (not that making resolutions is all that exciting...) But now that it's February, we can really take the opportunity to evaluate how our New Years Goals are working out so far, if they were realistic, and if we are really doing them, if they were too much, too little, etc. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So I wanted to share my little twist on goals that I am doing this year.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I got this idea from my aunt Tami, who I always say I am a "Wanna-be-Tami." I want to be like her when I grow up! In 2012, she picked one goal to work on each month. I really loved that idea. Instead of trying to work on lots of goals for 12 months straight, she just worked on one each month. I feel like that is much more effective. She told me this when we were at Lake Powell, and I've been thinking about it ever since :)</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I put my own little twist to her idea, and this is what it is:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I'm calling them the "Rest-of-the-year Resolutions" so we remember to work on our goals all year long and continue to get better each month! I decided to pick 3 goals to work on each month. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i><b>One physical, one spiritual, and one personal. </b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I work on those 3 for that month, and then pick 3 more to work on the next month. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As for physical goals, I pick one thing I want to work on physically that month (obviously)- for example my goal this month (February) is to work on my legs! I'm going to get a leg-up (get it? I'm so dumb haha) on swim suit season! I gotta get my legs tougher and that's just the bottom line. I need to get my whole body tougher but thats overwhelming right? We take baby steps in this household. Let's not make this harder than it needs to be!) In January my goal was to go to the gym three times a week. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Did I fail miserably? </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Yes. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And that is why there are 11 more months to work on that. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As for spiritual goals, Trent and I decided that we wanted to focus our scripture study on one topic a month. This year is spiritual boot camp for us! So in January, we decided to study the "first principle of the gospel" - faith! Baby steps I tell you. And I'm happy to say we didn't fail miserably in that. We either read scriptures, quotes, conference talks (part of them at least, they are long!), or listened to conference talks or mormon messages about faith every night of the month (well - almost every night.) It was good! I even had a good experience with faith that helped me learn a lot about faith - I would write it but it would be long and you would all probably think I'm dumb because it is a simple and kind of dumb story, haha, but it taught me a lot :) You think you've learned about it your whole life, I have, but there is always more to learn. Personal experience is always good. Anyways.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Then there are the personal goals.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">These are things like writing in your journal every day (which I did, but that wasn't my goal, but should have been cause I did it!), being on time to work (which was my goal but shouldn't have been because I failed miserably - ask my coworkers. But, like I say, that's why there are 11 more months in the year :) I kinda feel bad and embarrassed writing about how bad I did with some of my goals, but I guess that helps you guys see that I'm not some perfect person at what I'm preaching here. We are all working on this together!) Anyways, personal goals are things like figuring out your finances better, budgeting better, organizing a closet or room, drinking enough water every day, not biting your nails all month, etc. I like these ones. I feel like there are tons we could all work on.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This all begs the question, do you still work on the previous months goals the next month, so do you work on February's goals in March? I asked my aunt Tami this same question and I loved her answer: </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">NOPE</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">! We sure don't. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And these are my thoughts on that: </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Let's say you made a goal to floss your teeth every day (I like this one haha). If you really made it a habit that month (which they say it takes 21 days to create a habit) then you would already be doing it the next month and you wouldn't have to focus on doing it so much the next month. But if you made it a goal to write in your journal every day that month, and wanted to work on a different goal the next month, you can do that! (Side note: Being in the dental field, I do think you should floss every day of every month. Just sayin.) Another example is like if you wanted to organize your closet, you wouldn't work on that every month. You just make it a goal to get it done that month and be done! Or if you work on your legs one month, focus on your arms the next, etc!</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Anyways, that is my twist on making goals. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">One physical, one spiritual, and one personal. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I invite you all to join me and pick 3 goals you want to work on for February. I also recommend writing them down! Then you see them every day and remember to do them! Also, if you are reading this and it isn't February or it isn't the beginning of the month - that's okay!! Make some goals for the rest of the month :)</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">These are my 3 goals this month: working on my legs, Trent and I are going to study repentance every day, and my personal goal is I am going to watch the Bachelor faithfully every week. Haha kidding. Although I am going to do that (guilty pleasure), I also am going to have the dishes done before I go to bed every night (this is gonna be a stretch for me). </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Keep in mind that I don't suck at everything. I only make goals for the things I need to get better at so I have told you a few things I am <b><i>NOT</i></b> good at. Just needed to make that clear, for my ego's sake. Haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If any of you decide to do this, I would love to hear about it! Tell me what you're goals are and then you will feel more accountable! :) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Blogger Jessica Lebaron over at the "<a href="http://funandfancyfoods.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>What's Cooking?" blog</b></a>,</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> a fellow crafter, cooker, and blogger nominated this humble little blog of mine as a </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">recipient</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> of this fun blogger award and I am thrilled! So sweet. The Liebster Award is for blogs that have less than 200 followers. The word "Liebster" is German for kindest, nices, dearest, beloved, lovely, valued, cute, pleasant, endearing, and welcome. You should check out Jessica's blog</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b> <a href="http://funandfancyfoods.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a></b></span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">, she has TONS of yummy looking recipes! I'm gonna have to try some! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1. Each person must post 11 things about themselves.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2. Answer the questions the tagger has set for you</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3. Then create 11 new questions for the people you tag with the award</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">4. Choose some (5-10) bloggers (with less than 200 followers) and link them in your post.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">5. Go to their page and tell them about the award</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">6. Follow the tagger and visit at least 3 of their nominees. Spread the love!</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And Remember, no tag backs! :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">1. I have been married for a year and a half and couldn't love it more!!!</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">2. My birthday is April Fools :)</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">3. I will hopefully be going to Dental Hygiene school next year, which I don't think I've mentioned on my blog yet!</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">4. We pulled an all nighter the night before our wedding! Read about the chaos </span><a href="http://trentalie.blogspot.com/2011/06/our-all-nighter-packing-party.html" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a> <span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">if you feel the need</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">5. The first time my husband saw me I was wearing high heels and a swim suit - on stage! Embarrassing I know.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">6. I <b>LOVE</b> summer and warmness. Unfortunately I can't say the same about winter and freezingness. Although my husband does like to snuggle me more in the winter :)</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">7. I wish i could be a full time humanitarian-ist?</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">8. I want to travel <b>EVERYWHERE</b>. I love love love going fun places with my hubby and seeing this beautiful world </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">9. Trent and I have picked out the name for our first daughter :)</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">10. I have never lit a match. Or eaten a corn dog. Weird I know.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">11. I Love cooking & crafting & blogging & hanging out w/ my family and hubby!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Jessica at "What's Cooking?" questions to me... I thought I would answer in pictures to make it more exciting!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">I think I've decided on Ellen. I just love that lady. I've put it on my bucket list to go to her show! I find myself watching clips from her show <i>ALL</i> the time. Coming in close second would probably be Tim McGraw. I mean just look at the guy. And his voice... ahhh.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">2. What would you do if you had a free day all to yourself?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Unproductive Idea: Nothing. Be lazy. All day long. ahhh...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Goodwood BBQ. I worked there all through high school and never got sick of the food. And they catered our wedding dinner - now that's saying something! Go there, ASAP. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Clearly, this handsome man, my hubby. Also humanitarian work. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">So far, Hawaii!! Although coming in close second is Lake Powell, Guatemala, Virgin Islands, Bermuda, and Puerto Vallarta. And I </span><i style="color: #783f04; font-size: x-large;">LOVE</i><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> cruises.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Oh man that opened up a can of worms. I just spent an hour looking through all my vacation pictures reminiscing on all the fun adventures I've been on. Words can't even describe all the fun & happiness contained in all these pictures!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">6. What are you afraid of?</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"><b>SPIDERS</b>!!! AHh! Probably more than being kidnapped, if you could believe it. And i <b>REFUSE</b> to post a picture of one on my blog. Seriously. Trent and I had a lot of spiders in our house when we first moved in, and we prayed every night that they would go away. Mostly for my peace of mind and sanity :) and since then, we haven't had any! Aw, God must really love me! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">7. What would you do with a million dollars? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">8. Best tip/advice you've ever received?</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Hmmm... I think it would be don't do anything once that you don't want to do forever (like mow the lawn!) haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Gosh these are good questions. Trent. My grandparents. My cute aunts Summer and Tami, just to name a few. Gosh now I feel like I'm leaving people out! My family basically entails most of them :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"><b>LOTION</b>!!! I would die without it. Seriously, I could not handle it. My life would fall apart in shambles. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">11. Favorite Gummy bear flavor?</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">There are different flavors??? All i know is i always get gummy bears in my cake batter ice cream at Cold Stone! mmm...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Aw I'm sad that's over! That was fun! Anybody else wanna ask me any more questions that I could answer with a fun pictures that makes me happy and brings back fun memories?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">1. If you could have everything on one of your Pinterest boards, which board would you pick?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">2. What is your favorite must-have item in your purse?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">3. What is your favorite brand of makeup?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">5. Who is your idol?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">6. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">8. What is your favorite movie?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">9. What is a random fact about you?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">So here are some of my favorite blogs and they're amazing! Craftiness, food, DIY, photography, the list goes on! Go ahead and check them out and show them some love! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://theflammilykitchen.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>The Flammily Kitchen</b></a></span></span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> - lots of great recipes & yummy ideas! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="http://astoriadesigns.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Astoria Designs</b></a></span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">- the <i>CUTEST</i> bows & hair accessories you'll ever see! All handmade & individually designed & crafted!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="http://alexibullock.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Alexi Bullock Design</b></a></span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">- awesome design tips, food ideas, color inspiration, etc.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="http://daringbakerduluth.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Rise and Shine</b></a></span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">- tons of great recipes & cooking tips!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.beg-photography.com/" target="_blank"><b>Brown Eyed Girl Photography</b></a></span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">- such cute photography!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Oh and... Last the Best of all the game... </span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="http://trentcrane.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>my hubby's blog HERE</b></a>. </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">He is</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> awesome at teaching people to sell things on ebay. He has super helpful tips for anyone - mostly beginners! You should check it out!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Thanks for the Liebster Award Jessica! :)</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298920708074350162.post-34017526615129572482012-11-12T17:50:00.000-07:002013-11-15T22:12:25.299-07:00My Day of Freezer Meal Preparation<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Lately I've seen a lot of people doing the freezer meals, where they make a bunch of meals in one day and then they don't have to cook for a while- they just pull out a meal every day and it's pre-made, ready to simply cook and eat! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So I wanted to try it! So I did!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I looked at a lot of blogs looking for the best tips & what was best to do. I'm no expert or anything, but this is what I did. Hopefully you can learn some good tips of what to do (and what <i>NOT</i> to do!). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">First, it takes a lot of preparation before hand. You need to figure out what recipes you want to make, and how much of each food item you will need to buy. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I found <a href="http://moneysavingmom.com/2010/02/how-to-plan-bulk-cooking.html" target="_blank">this girl's blog </a>where she has downloadable planning sheets that I used and actually helped me a lot! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">For my recipes, I used mainly (a) a family cookbook, (b) one of my favorite cookbooks - which my super cute aunt Tami is the author of, which you can see at the bottom of this post (c) my cute mom (d) And as always, I used Pinterest and tried some new recipes! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">After doing this step, I had 13 meals planned (a few of them were the same recipe that I doubled to make two meals), plus a bunch of twice-baked potatoes. S</span><span style="color: #783f04;">o you can get an idea,</span><span style="color: #783f04;"> s</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">ome of the recipes I did were: Taco Soup, Chili, Beef Stew, Stroganoff, Chicken Tortilla Soup in Tami's cookbook, Apricot Chicken, Creamy Chicken, "Dinner in One Pot" in Tami's cookbook, Garlic Brown Sugar Chicken (found on Pinterest, </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/238831586459943835/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"> is the link so you can repin it - it was a good one!), etc. Most of my recipes were crockpot recipes. I </span><b style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">LOVE</b><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"> crockpot recipes, they were beyond easy. All I had to do was take it out of the freezer, empty it into the crockpot, and eat it 8 hours later. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I. Love. Crockpots. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> When I was figuring out how much food I needed to buy, I basically just made a basic list of things I knew I needed to buy at the store (onions, potatoes, carrots, chicken breasts, chicken soup mix, etc) and then went through each recipe and put tallies next to each item on the list. Then I knew how many of each item I needed total, and I added to the list when there was something I hadn't put on the list already. Also remember that you probably already have a lot of the staple items already, like seasonings, flour, corn, ranch dressing, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Then go grocery shopping! And since you will probably be buying a lot of things, try to find good deals! </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you haven't seen my blog post about price matching, click <b><u><a href="http://trentalie.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-to-price-match-at-walmart.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></u></b> to read it - you're gonna wanna do it if you're buying lots of stuff for this! I bought tons of ground beef for super cheap, tons of chicken for really cheap, tons of vegetables for way cheap, so if there's one time you're going to want to save money, it's for this! </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Here is everything I bought/used to prepare my meals. I don't know exactly, but I'm guessing I spent about $75 for everything. A lot of the stuff I didn't use all of - like ranch dressing, french dressing, salsa, chicken, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In preparation, also make sure you have enough time. It took me a lot longer than I expected - like 7 hours! Next time it would be a lot quicker, but for your first time plan a little more time than you think. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Also make sure you make room in your freezer. I didn't think about that part, and my freezer was full to the brim for a while!</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I would say the preparation is the hardest part - making sure you have enough of everything, making sure you remember to get everything you need for each recipe, going to the grocery store & getting it all! Then all you have left is preparing it all - which is the other half :)</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I started by scrubbing my potatoes for my twice baked potatoes - so they could be cooking while I am preparing the other meals. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Wrapped those, put them in the oven for about two hours. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Then I started peeling and chopping all my vegetables - these will be out the longest and will be fine if they sit out for a few hours. Save the chicken and beef until last so they can stay cool in the fridge while you get everything else ready.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Okay tip time: Have a grocery bag out on the counter while you peel/chop/cut and throw all your garbage pieces in there. It makes it easy so you don't have to keep going to the garbage can!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The thing I dreaded the most: The Onions... </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Having a lot of recipes calling for onions, it was inevitable that chopping onions for 20 minutes was about to happen.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And I do not do well with onions.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You know what i'm talking about, I cry every time.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It <b>KILLS</b> my eyes! </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So in order to prepare myself, I looked up the best tips online I could find. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">One: chew gum. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>FALSE</b>. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Why that would work?? I'm not sure. But it sure as heck doesn't.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tip Two: Have a flame nearby and it "burns" the burn away... </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>FALSE</b>. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Been there done that... didn't work.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tip Three: Cut them with water running nearby.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>FALSE</b>. Still got teary. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Again, why that would work I'm not sure, but I tried it, and it didn't do a darn thing. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Tip Four: Soak the onions in water beforehand.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>FALSE</b>. Nada. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So I came up with my own trick. Sure to work, and the only one that did. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>GOGGLES</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">At least Trent thought it was funny.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When I was ready to disperse my vegetables, I labeled a Ziploc bag with each recipe name and where I found it so I could go back and look at the cooking directions when I was ready to make it. Then I measured out how much of each vegetable the recipe called for, and dumped it in the bag. If you planned right, it should end up about even (give or take a little bit).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I read from a fellow blogger that she adds grated carrots to a lot of her recipes because it is hardly noticeable and adds a little extra vegetable. I did that for a few of my recipes (especially Meatloaf) and it really wasn't noticeable at all!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">After you're done with all your chopping and dispersing of vegetables, go through each recipe and add all the "extras," like the spices, cheese, sauce, etc. For some of my recipes, it was kind of pointless to add a cup of water to the bag when it would just add space, weight, and would be frozen anyways. So I would just write on the bag "Add 1 cup water" or "Add 1 can Tomato Soup." </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It depends on if you want to add it when you're ready to make it, or if you just want it to be 100% pre-made and not have to worry about it later. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Then it's time to add your meat. Chop and add away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">One of my recipes was Chicken Enchilada Casserole, which was supposed to be layered in the crockpot so it would be layers of tortilla, cheese, peppers, onions, chicken mixture, tortilla, cheese, etc. So I separated these ones into their own Ziplocs inside my big one. Was it hard to layer a bag of frozen peppers? Was it hard to spread out a bag of frozen chicken mixture? </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">YES</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"> it was. Did I end up having to thaw everything out so I could layer it? </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">YES</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"> i did. So would I recommend it? </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">NO</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"> i wouldn't. I would <b>DEFINITELY</b> recommend this recipe, it really was sooo yummy! But it took me just as long to prepare it frozen as it would have been to prepare it fresh. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So be aware of recipes like that. I would recommend only doing recipes that you can add everything all to one bag, like this.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Although some of the recipes called for a pound of ground beef, so I would keep that separate and then add it to the crockpot when I put the rest of it in there. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I am trying to find which recipe I used for these - I have no memory of where I found it, haha. Sometimes I read a bunch of recipes, and make up my own based off all those. If I remembered, I would tell you. They're really easy though. Basically it's butter, sour cream, cheese, bacon pieces if you want, and chives if you want. There, now you have it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">These are nice because you can wrap them individually, freeze them, and then whenever you feel like you need an extra side or just need something quick, you can take one out, put it in the microwave for a few minutes or the oven for about 20 minutes, and they taste awesome. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Put ground beef mixture in a loaf pan (helpful tip: You can line the pan with tin foil, then when the meatloaf is frozen take it out of the pan, so you can use the pan. It will keep its shape - obviously since its frozen - and when you are ready to cook it, put it in that same pan to cook! The tin foil also makes for easy clean up) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">By the end of it all, I had 13 meals, plus a ton of chicken I had left over, plus a bunch of baked potatoes. 13 meals may not seem like a lot, and I thought that maybe it wasn't worth all the work to just make 13 meals, but let me tell you.... </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">(Don't mind my Grandma curtains in the back. We're workin on it okay?)</span></div>
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">They lasted us <b>SO</b> long. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Some of the recipes were just 2 servings for the 2 of us, but some were whole batches of chili and taco soup that we eat for dinner, then lunch a couple times. So they last us a while! And because our schedules are so crazy, I don't make dinner </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"><i>EVERY</i></span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"> single night. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But we do eat every night (haha let's hope so) so sometimes we would come home late after a long day and be starving so I would just make some rice & fish or something. Or pasta. Or whatever other quick, go-to meal you make. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But you get the point?? We didn't eat one of these frozen meals every single night. So you can really ride them out for longer than you think. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">To be completely honest with you, I have been putting off this post for about 2 months (haha i tell ya, I always take 2 months!) and we are </span><b style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">JUST</b><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"> now about to use our last frozen meal! I am gonna have to either do this again, or get used to making a full on recipe again! Granted there are only 2 of us. But <i>TWO</i> months! </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">At the end of it all, I only had this many dishes! I was shocked! I'm still not sure how that happened, but I'll take it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The best part about this all is how <b>EASY</b> it is when you are done. In the morning:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Empty into crockpot. (Sometimes it was hard to push it out of the bag so I would just use scissors to cut down the edge of the bag and cut it out)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Turn crockpot on. Leave. (Sometimes mine were too bulgy like this to fit in my crockpot, so I would just put the lid on and as it slowly melted down, the lid would go down. I was nervous about that but it worked fine every time)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">Well I hope that helped any of you that have been wanting to do this lately, like I had! It is about time for me to do it again. If any of you that live around me want to do it with me let me know! Trent gave me the </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"><i>great idea</i></span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"> that you could </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;"><i>do it with a friend</i></span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">, make double of each meal, have her make double of each meal, and then trade! That way you would get twice as many meals! So if anyone wants to do that with me, let me know :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Also, I'm sure I didn't explain everything perfectly. If you have any questions that I didn't answer, feel free to leave a comment below & I will reply!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Here is my cute aunt Tami's cookbook on Amazon if you're interested! It is one of my favs - I use it all the time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Price Matching: A few months ago this meant nothing to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, this is something I have learned about and now can't <i>not</i> do! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have figured out that a lot of people know that Walmart price matches, but don't know what that means or how to do it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">SO... For those of you that might fall into that category... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to the world of price matching! I will tell you <i>all</i> about... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are all the tips of what helps me, all in plain simple English, not complicated at all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am in a Public Speaking class right now and we had to do an
informative speech. I decided to do mine on How to Price Match at
Walmart! No one in my class knew what it is, and being college
students, they were all shocked at how easy it is and at how much money
you can save. We had to video the speech to analyze it, and so I realized I could just post it on here for you all to see if you want a brief summary of everything, and if you feel like judging my speaking skills - haha kidding. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So if you want a brief overview of price matching and a specific example of one "price matching grocery trip," watch here! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> You can't really see it that well in the video, but I had
two big bowls of oranges and gave each student an orange after my speech (I could
because I only paid $3 for all of them!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Basically... Walmart will match the price of any competitor (pretty much any other store) for a specific item. So, for example, if Walmart has an item and you know that same item is at another store or in another stores ad for cheaper, Walmart will match that price, so you can get that item at Walmart for the other store's cheaper price. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://corporate.walmart.com/ad-match-guarantee" target="_blank">click HERE</a> to read their policy really quick so you know what you can and can't do. It's pretty simple. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So the first step is going through ads. You've all seen these... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(These are from my favorite stores to price match: Rancho Market & Buy Low - for those of you here in Provo, or where ever else those stores are!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When you price match at Walmart, you don't have to have the ad with you. And since most stores put their ads up online, this makes it really easy for us! I just google "rancho market ad" or "buy low ad" and then go through them, writing down a list of things I would possibly want to buy and the advertised price. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This might seem like it would take forever, and when you're first starting it does take a little more time as you get used to it, but after you do it a few times, you get really quick at it. Going through the ads and making a list usually takes me about 10 minutes or less.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> (Side note: I'm all about putting everything in my phone. I put reminders for everything, lists for everything, and anything else in my phone. BUT... This is one thing that I prefer to actually write down with a pen in a little notebook - i know, so last century! But it just seems easier for me.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So after you have a nice compiled list, time to go grocery shopping! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just do everything like you normally would. I do the cold stuff last, but that can probably go without saying. I also like to keep my cart organized as I go - I put the items I'm not price matching on one half of the cart and the items I am price matching on the other half. This just makes it easier when you check out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first time I went "Price Matching," I was a little disappointed that Walmart's receipts don't tell you how much you saved at the bottom. Since saving money is kind of the point of price matching, something I would suggest you do if you want to see how much you save is write down the regular cost of the item you are price matching. For example, you will have on your list</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Plums 2 lbs/$.99</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then when I pick up the avocados I would just quickly write next to that:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Plums 2 lbs/$.99 1 lb/$1.38</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> (the advertised price) (Walmart's price)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That way you can figure out later how much you saved (more on that later)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Side note: Some of you may think that you would feel dumb having a notebook in the store and writing in it as you shop. Well, I felt that way too. And then I realized, oh wait, I don't care if you random person see me writing a number on a piece of paper. I have never seen you before in my life and will probably never see you again, so I don't care. I am saving money and you are not. So watch me write my numbers all you want. :) )</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When you have everything you need you are ready to check out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now... this part might sound discriminatory. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And it is. Sorry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But when the cashier helps you to price match, they are usually really fast at it and can do it just about as fast as you would normally check out. But sometimes they have to do quick calculations on a calculator and have to push just a couple extra buttons. And if you get in Mr. Old Man's line, he is probably going to take a lot longer, and the people behind you will get annoyed and you will kind of be embarrassed. So you kind of want to pick out someone that looks like they would be fast and know what they're doing. Like someone young. Or someone that just looks like they know what they're doing. And then it takes hardly any extra time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When you get to checking out, I put all my stuff I'm not price matching at the beginning and the items I am price matching at the end. Then tell the cashier that you will be price matching today, but not until you get to this point (and point to where your price matching items begin). Then they know they can scan all the beginning stuff just like normal, and that gives you time to get everything else up on the conveyor belt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> When they get to the items you are price matching they will ask you, "bananas?" and you tell them the advertised price you found. That's it. See how easy? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because Walmart doesn't make you have the ad with you, and they basically just put in what you tell them, there is room to bend the truth and there are ways to be dishonest. <b>BUT JUST DON'T</b>!! Be honest. In case you needed reminding... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A lot of times they are up on the current price-matching prices and will know if you are being dishonest or not. Also, they have all the competitor's ads right there and can double check on anything you tell them if they feel the need. They usually won't ask what store that price is from, but just be sure you have it down on your list so you can tell them if they need to double check.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When you get home, you can see how much you saved!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is my favorite part. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All you do is take your receipt, and write Walmart's regular price next to each item (what you would have paid if you didn't price match). Then you can add up how much you would have paid regularly, and then add up how much you ended up spending. Then you can see the difference! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is from a time I went grocery shopping for the two of us just like normal. I price matched a lot of things and was so happy to find out I <b>saved $42.30</b>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Grapefruits - I paid $.80 instead of $4.56 (82% savings)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ocean Spray Juice - I paid $1.79 each instead of $3.29 each (45% savings)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">97% Ground Beef (Fun fact. I <b>HATE</b> fatty ground beef.) - I paid $1.99/roll instead of $4.38/roll (55% savings on dang quality meat!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This is when I bought 20 oranges for my class presentation to show my teacher my visual aid, and then got some other produce items I needed. I would have spent $25.70, but because I price matched I spent $6.49, which is <b>75% savings</b>!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This is from the 2nd week I bought 20 oranges for my class presentation (the first week we just had to show her our visual aid, and then the next week we had to actually give our presentation) and some other produce items I needed. I would have spent $26.95, but because I price matched I spent $8.04, which is about <b>70% savings</b>!! The oranges alone would have cost $14.80, but instead I got them all for $3.00 (<b>80% savings</b>). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The list goes on and on. I wish I would have done this for every receipt I've price matched. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But as you can see, price matching really does save you money on things you are going to buy anyways, and to my great surprise, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">it is <b>SO</b> easy!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes you may think it's not worth saving just a few dollars, but as you have seen here, those dollars add up! So go out and save yourself some money, and price match! I love it because if I save $40, that is $40 worth of clothes I could go buy! (Or Trent would say I could just keep the $40! haha) Or a fun date night! Or some new shoes!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I think price matching at Walmart is the best kept secret around! And now the secret is out! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well that's enough on price matching for today. Maybe I'll post "good-save trips" in the future, so keep your eye on me! If you have any questions let me know! And if any of you have any good price matching stories after you try this, you have to let me know!!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298920708074350162.post-37732178632815855312012-10-09T12:18:00.000-06:002013-02-23T21:27:35.466-07:00Yummiest Snack You'll Ever Have - Pesto Tuna Melts<div style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">My aunt Tami was telling me about what yummy snacks she makes, and this is one I had to share. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's a Pesto Tuna Melt</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Might sound weird, might not, but read on... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First you mix some pesto sauce with a can (or two depending on how many you are making) of tuna, just like you normally mix mayo with tuna. But this way you don't have to use mayo! (You can still use a tiny bit if you want, but use mostly pesto.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Then turn your oven on to broil. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Butter as many slices of bread as you are using and put it on a pan - I put it on tin foil for easy clean up :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dice up some tomatoes (if you like tomatoes -hubby likes tomatoes, I don't. You could also use sun-dried tomatoes)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Put a slice of havardi cheese on tuna (or in my case, I didn't have havardi cheese at the moment and so I used some string cheese and that worked awesome!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Put in oven for a few minutes, watch it closely because you don't want it to burn! (as you can see, two of mine </span><span style="font-size: large;">got a little too toasted</span><span style="font-size: large;">- of course they were the two of mine without tomatoes! - but they were still amazing! It didn't taste burned at all)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Eat up and enjoy!! I've made these a few times lately, and they are so fun because they're easy (which I am all about), yummy, healthy, fast, and a nice change from your typical go-to snack. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298920708074350162.post-19991863875037058812012-10-06T23:39:00.001-06:002013-02-23T21:27:53.103-07:00Be the Happiest Person You Know!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04;">I was driving down the street one day and I don't know why I was thinking about this, but I was thinking about who is the happiest person I know. After thinking about it for a minute, it suddenly dawned on me.. "I think I am the happiest person I know!" </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04;">Sure I have hard times, bad moments & bad days, but overall I am just so lucky to have the best husband ever, and be healthy, have <a href="http://mormon.org/" target="_blank">the gospel</a>, an amazing family, and to have the life I do (although it has been anything but easy).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04;">So </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04;">something for you all to think about - </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04;">my words of wisdom of the day are to... </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04;">And if you are not, who is the happiest person you know?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04;">And what makes them happy?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04;"> Then try to implement one of those characteristics more into your life and do something this week that makes you <b>HAPPY</b>!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04;">I sound like a counselor or something... haha, but really- Just be happy. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298920708074350162.post-74006878065443151762012-09-21T23:23:00.001-06:002013-02-23T21:28:11.005-07:00It's Called Glazing<div style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I hesitate to even post this for a few reasons:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>. I love the color I picked, but in the context of our kitchen, it just isn't clicking with me for some reason. I just feel like it would look a lot better with a different counter (not my fault) in a different kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span>. I'm not even sure if it looks better how it is now or how it was before. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span>. You are seeing the kitchen I live with (all 4 square feet of it)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You now can't judge me about any of the above stated reasons. Just look at the technique and the cabinets, not the rest of the kitchen, and we will all be happy :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But... Here's why I wanted to post it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>. I searched and searched for how to do this and had a hard time finding instructions or tutorials on how to do it, so most of you probably don't know how to do it! I even went to the paint department in Home Depot and they had no idea what I was talking about. So maybe I can give someone a new idea or teach someone that doesn't know how to do it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span>. I was just feelin extra crafty and up for a project so you all get to hear about it :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>AND</b>...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span>. I took all the dang pictures!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now that you've all been debriefed, here we go!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So Trent and I moved into a new place. We really like it now. But when we were going through it the first time, we were bummed about the <b>TINY</b> kitchen. And i am a kitchen person, so it was rough. But there is actually a TON more storage space in the kitchen than our old place (hard to believe, I know) so we decided we would take it. Sometimes you gotta give up some things to get other things. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But after living here for a while, I actually don't even mind the small space. It really doesn't bother me, which is surprising. The best part is we can only go up from here! Any kitchen is going to seem like a mansion kitchen from here on out! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The moment we got the place, I knew the first thing to go was the kitchen cabinets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They were painted like centuries ago probably. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And it was the worst paint job ever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stark white. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not the cute white cause i know some of you out there have cute white cabinets, no. Just ugly bland chipping old cheap white. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I was thinking of what I could do, and I was at my moms and noticed their mantle. It was so cute! It was cream but had this kind of streaky but not, kind of paint but not, coat on top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cool right? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So like i said, i looked all over pinterest and the internet and couldn't find that much about it! (Also because I didn't know what it was called.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally I found some different ideas and decided to try it, and also found out... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I hesitate to show this picture, cause I just hurried and snapped a picture when we were very first looking at the house when the other people were moving out, so it wasn't even clean. But you get what I mean about the bad cupboards right?? And notice the two "handles" on those ones are like an inch off?? haha!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Small right? Whatev, I'm over it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(This is also motivation that if i can live in this kitchen, you can live in yours!!) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> So first you have to get your supplies, obviously. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">SECRET TIP: (Not secret but it was a mystery to me!) Go to the <i>DOLLAR STORE</i>! They have like EVERYTHING you need to paint. Make sure you have </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">brushes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">a paint roller (I <b>DON'T</b> recommend you get this at the dollar store. Get a <b>GOOD</b> one, or else you will have small little fuzzies coming off into your paint every other second and it is <b>REALLY</b> annoying. Trust me on that one)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">a paint pan (ya know, the plastic flat rolly bumpy thing where you roll the paint with the roller? is that what they're called?) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">a plastic tarp</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">painters tape (might want to get at home depot - the good stuff)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">masking tape (for things you don't need good painters tape for - like for holding the tarp in place if you need)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">screwdrivers to take your cupboards and the handles off</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">a drill if wanted - makes things really easy </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">and of course, paint! I got mine at home depot. I got a gallon and probably only used half of it. But like you just saw, I didn't have a TON of space to cover. Home Depot has the Glidden brand of paint - it's cheaper and you can pick any color of paint from any other brand and they'll mix it to match that exact color. Cool right?</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And if you want to do the glaze on top, get these things:</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stain. I got the Minwax brand of stain, and got the shade Dark Walnut - and don't worry, unless you plan on glazing the White House, you will have <b>TONS</b> left over when you're done for another project! They have these at Walmart for around $5</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">And then for the glaze you need to get Valspar Clear Mixing Glaze - you will also have some of this left over too. This is a little pricey - i got it for around $18 at Lowes. But it's what you gotta get! Thats what I hear anyways. It worked great for me!</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Also a sanding block,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">some sort of bowl, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">and a straw for easy mixing, but anything will do (more on that later)</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All in all, I spent about $65 maybe? If you already have painting stuff, then you pretty much just need the paint, stain, and glaze, which would be about $50.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Step #1. Take off all your cupboards and take out all your drawers. Make sure they are clean!! Wipe them down with a wet cloth and let them dry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Tell me i'm right when I say the paint job on these things were bad...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is what it looked like after the cupboards and drawers were out (Thanks hubby! Couldn't have done it without you!) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Step #2: Paint away! (don't forget to put on your favorite Pandora station :) )</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Another important tip is to use painter's angles that let you paint both sides of the cupboards at the same time. (Instead of doing one side, letting it dry for ever, and then flipping it over and doing the other side and then the bottom isn't quite cured enough so it kind of smudges - don't ask how i know that)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> While that was all drying in our shop, I went back to tackle the inside part of the kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Step #1: Tape it all off (with good painters tape)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Step #2: Paint Away! (Again, don't forget Pandora - that's important!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did two coats - I just went through and painted everything and then by the time I was done, the part where I had started was pretty dry and went through it all again! The second coat is way quicker. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before and After of the inside... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now for the fun part...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When your cupboards and drawers are all dry, you are ready to glaze!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Get your glazing items out, and put some of the Velspar clear glaze in the bowl (however much you feel like starting with, but I would say about 3/4 cup ish to start)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then get your handy straw, and bring out your childhood thumb-over-straw-and-pick-up-liquid skills </span><span style="font-size: large;">(i know you all know what i'm talking about) </span><span style="font-size: large;">dipping it into the stain and then letting it release into the bowl of glaze </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> You don't need very much stain. I used probably a full straw full for 3/4 cup ish. And stir it all together! My ending color was about the color of chocolate milk (see a couple pictures down). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't worry - the glaze does NOT show up that dark. So it's okay if it's pretty dark, but not too dark. And you don't want it to be too light, cause you won't be able to see it very well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After I did that, I gave my cupboards a quick sand over (literally like 10 seconds) - you don't want to sand off any paint but just roughen it a tiny bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Then get your brush and dab the stain mix all over the surface (see the chocolate milk color?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> till it looks something like this</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Then I just did an up and down brushing motion to make it all smooth! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can really just have fun with it and experiment to see what you like. It doesn't dry that fast so you have time to work with it. If you have too much you can just use the brush to get some of it off, or have a cloth on hand to wipe it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And same thing with the drawers. Just make sure the texture goes the same direction (up and down) on everything, so on the drawers you don't want to go lengthwise, go up and down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Again, sand... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Dab on the stain mixture (it can be messy)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And smooth so it's all evenly spread going one direction!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you have a whiter area or a darker area, it's okay. It adds character! You can also emphasize the edges if you want, which i think would add a cool look. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then let it dry!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And dry!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And dry more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Make sure they are nice and dry when you go to put them back in the kitchen. You don't want any smudges or dings or things sticking to the paint after all that work to make them look perfect!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reattach your cupboards back where they go, put in your drawers, and reattach all your handles - we found these ones in our shop! miraculous! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you have a husband, he comes in here. Great help. If you don't have a husband... this is why you need a husband :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And these are my after pictures....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> (for some reason every time I tried taking this picture, it turned out more yellow than it really is)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope this helps anyone wanting to do this! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy painting and staining! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you decide to do this, let me know how it goes! It really isn't hard, it just takes the time to do it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, I would love to hear your input - do you even think it looks better? I won't be offended - really. If you think it looks bad, please refer to the first paragraph. I almost didn't post this. I am aware of my surroundings haha. I'm wondering if maybe it looked better white! I hate our counter. Bad. If the counter was different, I think it would look a lot better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I just look at it this way, hey, i learned how to do it, so i am all practiced up for when I have to do this for real, in our real house someday where I will have to live with it forever -or for a while til i get another idea :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So really though, comment below. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Okay, you've had enough of me. Bye.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298920708074350162.post-2009415051934723392012-09-09T16:50:00.000-06:002013-02-23T21:28:26.754-07:00Personal Peach Crumble<div style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">So I tried this awesome recipe the other day you all HAVE to try... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are so yummy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They're perfect cause they're easy, they're healthy, and they're individual so each person can have their own little one! It's not too much, but not too little - just the right amount of dessert!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The recipe I tried called them peach crisp, but i didn't like that because they're not that crisp. It's more of a peach crumble :) </span></div>
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<li class="ingredient"><span style="font-size: large;">4 ripe yellow peaches (or just make it according to however many you want) (If the peaches are still a little on the hard side, it's okay because they soften a little when they bake. I think it's better to have them too hard rather than too ripe, personally. The really ripe ones get a little mushy)</span></li>
<li class="ingredient"><span style="font-size: large;">1/2 cup rolled oats</span></li>
<li class="ingredient"><span style="font-size: large;">1/2 cup white whole wheat flour (I just used normal flour)</span></li>
<li class="ingredient"><span style="font-size: large;">1/4 cup brown sugar</span></li>
<li class="ingredient"><span style="font-size: large;">1/2 teaspoon cinnamon</span></li>
<li class="ingredient"><span style="font-size: large;">1/4 teaspoon ginger</span></li>
<li class="ingredient"><span style="font-size: large;">1/8 teaspoon nutmeg</span></li>
<li class="ingredient"><span style="font-size: large;">pinch of salt</span></li>
<li class="ingredient"><span style="font-size: large;">3 tablespoons melted butter</span></li>
<li class="ingredient"><span style="font-size: large;">2 tablespoons plain or vanilla Greek yogurt</span></li>
<li class="ingredient"><span style="font-size: large;">2 teaspoons real maple syrup</span></li>
<li class="ingredient"><span style="font-size: large;">A little bit of white sugar for sprinkling on top </span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Preheat your oven to 400 degrees and grease a baking pan that will fit as many peaches as you are doing. I had seven halves (I was going to have eight but one half was a little too mushy) and I used an 8x8 square pan and it worked great. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wash your peaches and DON'T peel. Isn't that nice? Keeping the peel on helps it to all stay together. It's like a built in shell for everything!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cut in half and remove the pits. Use a spoon to scoop out a nice little indent for the crumble to go in. Not too much, cause you still want to eat a lot of the peach, but enough that you can fit in a good amount of crumble!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Scoop about two tablespoons of dough into each peach half (or enough to use all your crumble mixture, or however much you feel is a good amount). Food for thought (haha): If you do have a little bit of leftover crumble mixture, just eat it. Haha. But really, it is so yummy. It's almost like granola or something. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And no eggs right? So it's free game. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not like I avoid cookie dough or anything with eggs in it anyways. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sprinkle a little bit of white sugar on the top of each one, and shove them in the oven!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bake them for about 20-25 minutes until the tops are golden and a tiny bit crispy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(I used Zoi honey greek yogurt, and it is to die for. mmmmm...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Try to not feel like you died and went to heaven - I dare you :)</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298920708074350162.post-991421617989257852012-09-07T22:12:00.000-06:002012-09-08T12:27:47.080-06:00Catch Up Time<div style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Hey everyone! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">School has started and therefore, I don't have a life anymore. It is </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">C.R.A.Z.Y. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I feel like I just simply can't do everything I'm supposed to do (aka homework, read 942478 pages of random textbooks, write papers, go to class, cook meals, clean my house, do laundry, go to the temple, go visiting teaching, go to work, you get the point - probably sounds familiar to you!) so what do i do? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I blog. haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided i am so sick of being behind on my blog! And i have a ton of things i want to blog about, but you know me - i can't blog about something until i get to it chronologically, so i can keep everything in order.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">SO,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">i am going to do ONE grand, brief catch-up post. Like a fast forward of our lives! Basically from May until now. haha only like 3-4 months right? Right? So get comfy, here we go!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">My cute as ever nephew Rome - has good style I must admit!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I had a little incident where I was up in Salt Lake and ran out of gas, but completely forgot my wallet was in my purse and i only had my backpack!! Don't mind the fact that I was RIGHT next to the homeless shelter. Luckily I found $2.23 in my car, and was able to make it to my cute Grandma & Grandpa Hansen's and they saved the day! I've never been so happy to see a $20 bill in my life!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We babysat my cute cousins - Donny & Summer's kids! This entailed us getting talked into going to the Humane Society, which was funny! And interesting..! And me being more excited to do the teeter totter than any of them!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We went up to ... (is it Pinecone or Porcupine Reservoir? I forget everytime, thanks a lot Tiarra!) It's up in Logan - with Britt, Camille, Tiarra, Will and their kids, and it was so fun! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Someone was a little excited to try to spearfish, except the water was freezing!! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Model child! hehe</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I just can't get enough of him sometimes! so cute!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">look at the leaf i found! </span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trent's family came to salt lake! We went to city creek and then played bocci ball at a park! So fun!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">My daddy's grave on Memorial Day, it looked so pretty</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trent & I babysat this family in my mom's neighborhood for almost a week, it was an adventure! Their house was amazing though... hope they don't mind me posting pictures haha.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trent playing with Calvin in their basement sport court!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We got so hooked on this dumb pinball game!! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">loooved having a fast car to drive for the week. I need one.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">My favorite part - the bath fills from the ceiling!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Playing with Trent's waterproof iphone case in their pool!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then it was time for my family reunion! My great grandma on my dad's side of the family takes the whole extended family, all 130 of us, up to Aspen Grove for a week every other year. We have so much fun! We just love our family. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We went to a firework show for the 4th of July during the week, it was the best firework show ever! We were laying right under the fireworks, so it was SO awesome! Parts of the fireworks were even falling on us!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Doing the ropes course at Aspen Grove! sorry it's a little blurry, not my fault :)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">You can't really tell but this is Jeremy and I together on a wire way up there!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It rained and we got a little carried away, haha</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">My hunny bunny playing tennis - isn't he cute?!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">CUTEST thing ever. Amy & I are sitting in the arts & crafts place painting, when out of nowhere this butterfly comes in the door and lands on her finger! It kept flying around her and landing on her, and wouldn't fly anywhere else! Somehow I captured the moment it landed on her nose!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trent and I moved to a new place. To put it short, we love our new place! It's so much bigger & we have more space for our stuff, and let me tell ya - we have a lot of stuff. How i don't know, but it's insane. We do miss Ryan and Nat at our old place, but we are happy to live in a place where we feel like it's kind of our own little place! And we have a yard! And trent has a shop that he loves :) Anyways, I was feeling super motivated thanks to Pinterest and felt the huge need to paint our kitchen cupboards. I will post pics soon...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a long story, but i had to add it to advertise how much we dislike/<b>HATE</b> comcast. Basically we went to return our cable box to them, got there <b>RIGHT</b> at 6:00 on the dot and they had already locked their doors, and <b>FOUR</b> people just stared at Trent as he held up the box, ignored him, and walked away. K at least have the decency to come to the door and be like "sorry we are closed now, our systems are shut down and we're not allowed to return it now" or something! So what did he do? He threw the box on top of the grate thing above the door (see it in the pic?) Haha!! He was really mad but I was like dying laughing watching in the car! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Don't get comcast!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Their customer service is SO bad. Like it's not even worthy of being called service. Gets me all worked up!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tiarra & I went to THE funniest yard sale of my life. "Wish Rocks - Free to good home." Haha!! PS they weren't joking</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Good times with T at yard sales!! haha we always have fun adventures :) PS this is her table she bought for a steal of a deal! cute right?! (minus me being a dork!)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Logan Rodeo!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sorry Ryann - I really do love you too. I just have more pictures of Rome for some reason! Not like her 3 year old self is reading this. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I had been dying to play Clue for ever! Tiarra and I found a wayyy old version at a yard sale, so i got it, for 25 cents :) haha</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I made cake pops!! Tutorial coming soon :) (see what I mean? I have a lot of blogging to do!)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every August my family goes to Lake Powell. The night before, I was packing at midnight (of course) and realized that i couldn't find my black swim suit bottoms - anywhere! Last year I had bought (boughten? haha bought sounds weird) a lot of tankini tops and I just wore my black bottoms with almost all of them. And those black bottoms were MIA (and still are). So in the morning on our way to meet everyone, I stop at Kmart. Surely they would have some plain black bottoms, but of course everyone is excited about halloween already and swim suits were like so last season (happens to me every year and i get really annoyed every year). So I try ShopKo, my last resort, and lo and behold, in the kids section, I found this. A Justin Bieber swim suit. Awesome. Thanks Biebs for saving my day (and thanks for being on clearance!)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">September through July we all seem to drive around just fine and have no car problems. But it seems like <i>every </i>year, it's just not Lake Powell if you don't have car issues. So we got delayed a little bit, but of course it's always a good time when you're with the Adamsons! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Like always, we had so much fun at Lake Powell! I don't think one of us took a single picture! (Not typical when Riley is aboard!) It was kinda nice though! We were all just so into having fun that we forgot to take pictures. So just believe me when i say we skied (that looks weird - skiied? ski-d?), we wakeboarded, we fished, we ate all day long, we got some sun, and now you don't even need pictures! There!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My lifelong best friend Erika got married!! I just love her! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She was such a beautiful bride & had such a pretty wedding! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm so happy for her & so excited that she gets to discover the fun world of marriage! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04;">Jeremy got his Eagle Scout award! Congrats Bear! Such a proud big little sister :)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that brings us to the end of our summer.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">:( :( :( :( :(</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I love summer. I never want it to end. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Fun fact about Natalie: It bugs me that people get excited about fall and halloween and stuff so early. It's like "hey, it's summer, let's enjoy summer while it's summer, and enjoy fall when it gets here. Enjoy what's here when it's here." For the record, this rule doesn't apply in February when we're all dying for it to be spring again. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And then we have to go back to school which makes it even harder. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I could cry just thinking about it. I think i have summer-over-sadness-syndrome.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Not really, but really.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Come back summer!<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Come back... </span>Come back... <span style="font-size: x-small;">Come back... <span style="font-size: xx-small;">come back... (as it dramatically echoes off into the distance...) </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">haha! i crack myself up. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298920708074350162.post-81229822035314910072012-08-16T00:24:00.000-06:002012-08-16T00:24:31.540-06:00Half Marathon<div style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">if you don't remember, since it has been so incredibly long, my name is Natalie. My hubby is Trent. And yes, we still do exist. My blog would say otherwise, but here we are. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember how last post (forever ago, about a trip we took even more forever ago?) i was joking that it usually takes me 3 months to post about things? And then i even joked that you would probably be hearing about my half marathon in 3 months? well folks, i guess i wasn't joking. My half marathon was in May. <span style="font-size: x-large;">IN MAY</span>. And i am just now about to post about it. But like I always say, better late than never! haha! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyways... back in the good old days i used to run. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In December my friend Natalie asked if I wanted to run a half marathon with her. It is actually on my bucket list to run a full marathon, which now I’m not sure if I would ever survive it, BUT I thought a half marathon would be a good start! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I said yes! <br />It was so fun to have someone to train with! I would never have done it myself. It was so nice to have someone to report to and be able to motivate each other! Nat and I ran together just about every week, but also did a lot of our own runs since we had such crazy schedules. But we would always check up on each other and make sure we were both on the same page doing the same runs. <br />We started in January on New Years. It was one of our New Years goals! And we started out big… with ONE mile. Haha. I went to the gym and just about died running a mile and a half. There was no way I could see myself running 13! But… I soon came to find out that </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I HATE TREADMILLS!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When we started doing long runs outside, it felt so much easier than doing one little mile on a treadmill. I just hate watching the numbers go up. .01… and then a few seconds later .02… ah I hate it so bad! It goes by forever. And it is always so much hotter in gyms and I about die of heat. My face gets all red and I absorb heat. Trent calls me an oven. Seriously, it takes me a couple hours to return to a normal temperature. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjGUozfe1-OEACjVUf_5LiMk2qJDgaty0c3YA4e3z9Rd41vwCJab88RHZ1lSmKCI2ZdCMqTW7J9dd83zE338u6xjISvB4u4d7YpDWTtWGECheTaxT0WSXHZ_Fp3oFUtK8ueNlogrPDjQyF/s1600/IMG_2843.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjGUozfe1-OEACjVUf_5LiMk2qJDgaty0c3YA4e3z9Rd41vwCJab88RHZ1lSmKCI2ZdCMqTW7J9dd83zE338u6xjISvB4u4d7YpDWTtWGECheTaxT0WSXHZ_Fp3oFUtK8ueNlogrPDjQyF/s320/IMG_2843.jpg" width="240" /></a><br />So anyways… I was SOOO grateful we had the best “winter” ever!! I ran outside multiple times a week from January to May, and never had a problem with snow! It was a little cold sometimes, but.. (and this probably surprised me more than anyone!) you really do warm up. Every time I ended up taking my jacket off because I got hot! I can’t even tell you how much I loved this winter! And I am one that has always said I hate being cold, and I would rather be hot than cold. But when it comes to running, I found out I would SO rather have it be cold outside than hot. <br />One time Nat and I did encounter some rainy weather though. But it was really funny. We tried to duck and cover at this one orchard market thing and were just standing on the front porch and the alarm went off on us!! So we kept running :) and called the cops on the way, haha. Good times! <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuUCzCloSNYlfgevdnzKOqxOz5-DEO5zIHH365rVoOAvgTESK6KNjupWoYyVv5GHY33dZGZbZsetckDYIuvgEB1PypF73hT5vVn87MqPmy2grHrEODSSXbU9OWpmJlQdIXKCB-gV-YbJxx/s1600/IMG_2778.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuUCzCloSNYlfgevdnzKOqxOz5-DEO5zIHH365rVoOAvgTESK6KNjupWoYyVv5GHY33dZGZbZsetckDYIuvgEB1PypF73hT5vVn87MqPmy2grHrEODSSXbU9OWpmJlQdIXKCB-gV-YbJxx/s320/IMG_2778.jpg" width="240" /></a><br />We slowly worked our way up to doing more and more miles. And I’ll be the first to tell ya, the first three miles are always the hardest! I’ve told everyone, after that your body kind of kicks into autopilot and you can just tune out with your favorite music and watch your body go! Really. That was one of our first runs, a big 2.2 miles.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiejfh03n2OIxfn2MQ4owzheMvRDjUKZM-HG93v87FmxfOXdxmNuG4f2IhL_CmYLYE9aC6H7Un149qIjODgnZdrgkoUepmXlOWQ0Jld7bxrlKQreyUvl_9vA_X3id-6crdrGEa5yHoOu8q6/s1600/IMG_2780.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiejfh03n2OIxfn2MQ4owzheMvRDjUKZM-HG93v87FmxfOXdxmNuG4f2IhL_CmYLYE9aC6H7Un149qIjODgnZdrgkoUepmXlOWQ0Jld7bxrlKQreyUvl_9vA_X3id-6crdrGEa5yHoOu8q6/s320/IMG_2780.PNG" width="213" /></a><br />Okay wait I lied. I guess I did encounter snow this one time. We were babysitting my siblings and took them to the gym, and I thought it would be a good idea to run home (just me, not the kids haha). This is what it looked like at one point, haha!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcfPu8JEjJ-r2sQ2KVT-tYFihuw0X0a0mA6AzXQlTypZisop-CTpxXgyNWnnitDpH9pErScOi6kQvz3enrdbBeCMmLJXe_VWMMS3VUNqXb1PXsym1tu1Sf_kJTr94C8sz8xDvTTjKty2qU/s1600/IMG_2912.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcfPu8JEjJ-r2sQ2KVT-tYFihuw0X0a0mA6AzXQlTypZisop-CTpxXgyNWnnitDpH9pErScOi6kQvz3enrdbBeCMmLJXe_VWMMS3VUNqXb1PXsym1tu1Sf_kJTr94C8sz8xDvTTjKty2qU/s320/IMG_2912.jpg" width="240" /></a><br />Sometimes people joke about having to walk up hill both ways in the snow… well I don’t wanna hear it people! <br />But like I said, I ended up actually getting hot :)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqNbgAr799NH5SJcqV3UXFwsCIOaxbZeauSUAdLgiswaawxsw9LVaeb52FMUmXIJuQGjpXh0tdcEDrP66viexWTZ0xFXFnf8O7OPkQfCw0W95wBPE60sYaFbqdtOZqIDBfpcn_XZfS2OaX/s1600/IMG_2913.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqNbgAr799NH5SJcqV3UXFwsCIOaxbZeauSUAdLgiswaawxsw9LVaeb52FMUmXIJuQGjpXh0tdcEDrP66viexWTZ0xFXFnf8O7OPkQfCw0W95wBPE60sYaFbqdtOZqIDBfpcn_XZfS2OaX/s320/IMG_2913.jpg" width="240" /></a><br />Slowly doing longer runs…</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298920708074350162.post-71777173986699715342012-06-27T23:20:00.000-06:002012-06-27T23:20:14.258-06:00One Year Anniversary<div style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’m not sure if you
guys will ever hear about any event in our life less than two months after it
happens, haha! I am so bad about blogging things right after they happen. I
probably could but I’m already behind so then things would be out of order! And
we don’t like things out of order. So once again, here is a two-month late post
for ya :) But once again, better late than never, right? Maybe I should rename
my blog that – Better Late Than Never! Haha.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>ANYWAYS</b>…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>WARNING</b>: Before I
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<span style="font-size: large;">So we have these
really cute great friends named Ryan and Natalie. We just love them. They live
two doors down from us and we love being so close to them! Except for I still
feel like we don’t see them often enough! They got married about a month after
us last year, so for our one year anniversary, we wanted to make a fun couples
trip out of it! (PS Yes there are two Nat’s. And two “babe”s – we have to be
really good at knowing our spouses voice :) it really is way less confusing
than it sounds). They had never been on a cruise, so being the smooth talkers
that we are, we talked them into one! Even the car-sick-prone-Ryan. It was
great.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are both from
Palmdale in Southern California by LA. So we drove down together and stayed
with Ryans parents for a night, then left on our cruise the next day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We loved Ryan’s
family – they are so sweet & fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After we got on the
boat (after a mad rush to get there, getting lost, squealing tires, and
actually remembering our ID’s, passports, tickets, etc. Believe me, we were
just glad they let us on the boat,) we just had tons of fun :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Adios LA!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And welcome aboard
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day we got on was April 22, our anniversary! So they sang to us. So
funny cause they have their cute little accents. They made us kiss after every line of "Happy Anniversary" and every time Ramon would say "kees! kees more!" I was laughin :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, and we saw a
whale! And I got a pic of it :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Introducing Trent and
Ryan with their “GQ Poses.” I still don’t know what a GQ is but whatever floats
their boat. We have cute husbands. They are so funny together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here’s the cute
Giffords:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Waiting to get off
the boat to go to Cabo!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This guy was so
funny. He was wearing a U of U shirt and we were like hey we are from Utah! So
he gave us a good “Utah deal.” After meeting tons of people on the boat and
realizing half the boat was from Utah, we think they do that on purpose to get
business haha. But it was still funny. We even heard one guy say “LDS
discount?!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nat with some gold
guy that totally freaked us out</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cabo is <b>SOOO</b>
beautiful</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We went to my
favorite beach ever – Lovers Beach. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We thought it was an
opportune moment to catch a pic, so we got one</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Then Nat and I wanted
one</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Then Ryan and Trent
decided they wanted one too. This was awarded our favorite picture of the trip
award. Do you see what dorks we were with!?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cave on Lovers Beach</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I like this pic that
Trent took with his GoPro!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So if you haven’t
been to Lovers Beach, it is beautiful and warm and tons of fish to see and
awesome. You can go on a glass bottom boat and they take you around to look at
the seals and all the pretty rock formations and stuff! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They also take you to
the other side of Lovers Beach, which is called Divorce Beach (funny I know).
But there is a reason! It is so dangerous! The undertow is insane, it will pull
you right under. And instead of the waves crashing on the water, they crash on
the sand. So if you are in a wave, best of luck to ya. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They even have signs
to notify tourists of the danger! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But some locals, and
some crazy tourists, did get in. And it was scary to watch!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And of course trent
had to talk to him. It is seriously one of my favorite things to hear him speak
Spanish. I don’t know why, I just love it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We
felt daring enough to eat at a legit Mexican place while we had the chance. I’m
not big into Mexican food, so I didn’t really like it, but the others said it
was good! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Turns
out Ryan gets burned really easily. Poor fella! The funny part is this is from
the very first day on the boat when he was laying out for 45 minutes, so he was
<span style="font-size: x-large;">FRIED</span> from the first day we got off the boat! Funny, but sad. Don’t worry, we
all had our turn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We
had two days in Cabo, so this was day 2! We shopped a lot at the markets, where
I bought the first item of clothing for our future child. It was irresistible.
I just couldn’t help it. So maybe in a few years you’ll see a pic of a cute lil
blondie wearing this cute lil dress. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And
we went <span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Parasailing</b></span>!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have wanted to go parasailing my whole life,
and I finally got to go! It was even a cute yellow smiley face just for me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And
After! Yay!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our
cute little towel animals haha</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And
my cute husband</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember
how I said we all got turn being burned? Well of course I never learn, and my
nose gets burned SO bad every year. I know, that is SO bad. But even if I put
sunscreen on, it still gets fried. I am trying to do better though! But my nose
got FRIED. Like blistery bad. Trent thought it was funny that I was icing it,
for like an hour! Haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile…
Nat and I are in the middle of preparing for our half marathon. (Post about
that to come… in two months… ;) haha) On one of the days at sea, it was our
last chance to do a long run before our actual race. So we forced ourselves to
go up on the top of the ship in the middle of the windiest day of my life and
run <b>TEN MILES</b>. Yes that’s correct, we ran a <b>HUNDRED</b> laps around that forsaken
track. But we did it. And this is what we looked like after, embarrassing I
know. We were winded (haha get it?).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next
Stop: Puerto Vallarta! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I
had been here twice before but this time was different for some reason. I never
remembered it being SO beautiful and huge! We wished we would have had two days
here, cause it is so much bigger and so much more to do! But we got a lot done
in one day :) We had a blast here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We
decided to do something we all had never done before (well, in Mexico) - Horseback riding! We thought it would be fun,
but it was <b>SO</b> much fun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First
Nat and I had to get ourselves some cowgirl hats though :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We
went up a canyon in the mountains in the middle of this random neighborhood. We
went on a private tour so it was nice to just have us 4 and our 2 leaders! They
were so laid back and fun! They only spoke a tiny bit of English, so we were
glad to have Trent the Translator! They were awesome though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We
followed a stream up for a while until we got to this awesome deeper part, a
pool they call it?, with a rope swing and stuff! This was my favorite part!</span></div>
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fun. We didn’t want to go back to the boat!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Trent in the ocean!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> ahhh</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I'd say the self timer on the GoPro did a pretty good job :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I
just love all the servers and staff members! They are all so cute and fun! They
have a song after dinner every night and make us all get up and dance! Nat was
all over that :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh
my gosh. This melting cakes makes you think you have died and gone to heaven.
Nat and I got it every single night, and I had some serious withdrawal problems
the few days after we got back. Seriously, you have to try it someday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nat
and I thought we’d play a little round of ... whatever this is. No, we really
just saw our husbands and wanted them to think we were playing it. You can’t
really see it but I was all trying to touch the screen and Nat whispers to me
“Nat, it’s not a touch screen!” haha! </span></div>
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one night all 4 of us played phase 10. I wish I had gotten a pic of it! But we
forgot to get a paper and pen to keep score, so Mr. Economics-Major-Ryan is all
“how about we use the sugar packets as a monetary system!?” So we did. The
yellow ones were one point, the pink ones were 10 points, the blue ones were
50, etc. Haha. Aw, fun memories. </span></div>
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us on the last night with our cute servers Ramon and Andres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks
for the fun trip Nat and Ry, and Happy Anniversary Babe! Love you! Can’t wait
for many more years of fun :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Til next time Mexico...</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298920708074350162.post-57910206714807517492012-06-04T23:53:00.000-06:002012-06-04T23:53:00.506-06:00HAWAII<div style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trent & I had the amazing opportunity to go to HAWAII! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Both of us had never been and had been dying to go, and
finally got the chance!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My grandparents got to use a timeshare for a beach house in
Hukilau Beach, Oahu and invited the family to come along!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a blast. I feel like we did everything we needed to,
although we could have spent, well, our whole lives there! We decided we are
moving there when we graduate. Half kidding, half serious. Why not?! I want to! Like really. I have this adventurous side to me and I think I would love to live anywhere, at least for a while. I need to get out of Utah and see more of the world :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyways... </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Here’s some of the fun things we did. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Here's the view from the back deck - amazing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The beach house :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This guy was so funny. He made fire from 2 sticks & a coconut! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> So pretty there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Love my hawaiian lover!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The fam on a canoeing tour :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> we weaved these kissin' fish</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The famous pig we ate for the Luau!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> mmm</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> three of my most favorite people!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">they made us go up on stage and dance cause it was our anniversary month! I was laughing so hard for some reason!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> All of us girls!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We loved the Polynesian Cultural Center!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How cool is this?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> sea turtles on the beach!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> ... and swimming with the sea turtles!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> At turtle bay resort</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">cute little fella </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">all the boys catchin' some waves! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> One morning I went to the Laie temple with my cute aunt Tami!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">yummiest lunch of my life at Bubba Gumps!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I think it is safe to say this is my all time favorite picture of him. mmm i just can't get enough of him!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> cute little army fighter man :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> cute little army fighter men :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> cute little army fighter couple (minus me about to fall off the not-moving... gun? is that what this is?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It was cool to see the American flag after seeing all of this. The two sunken ships are in the background too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I always have fun with these three boys. We drove ourselves to pearl harbor all by ourselves with <b><i>NO</i></b> GPS - (I know, seems impossible right? I always wondered how our parents did it back in the day!) they all didn't bring their phones and mine had 7% left and still had to save power to call our fam when we were back to meet them, so we used a tiny little map of the whole island. Good times!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was our favorite almost-nightly place to eat!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I could definitely get used to that scenery!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Trent <span style="font-size: x-large;">LOVES</span> the water & beach. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I ran 9 miles on the beach one day, it was rough having all this to look at ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> THE best sandwich place at North Shore... Amazing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Somebody got a little too much sunshine. (PS in case your little wandering brain is wondering, yes he is wearing a swim suit.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Haunama Bay - the best snorkeling in Hawaii!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The yard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We all went kayaking, and it was so fun!! I had never been, so I was all excited for a nice little walk in the park (well, ride in the park), but it was <b>SO</b> hard!!! Haha! It is a serious arm workout people. Lindsay and I were laughing the whole time, we could never get in sync with each other! So we zig zagged down the river :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know, I know... I look prego, I have no idea why. Don't be getting any ideas. Let's be clear here, I am not pregnant. Maybe I ate too much pineapple. Or that hamburger you saw up there was pretty big...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">we are all dorks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Haaaandsome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Easter Sunday</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our last day it was a little rainy (it made leaving a tiny bit easier - it would be so much harder to leave the sunny weather!). We all hiked Weimea Falls in the rain, I think it was actually more fun that way though :) Not to bring attention to it, but forgive my low tank top. I was simply trying to point out that the waterfall was coming from above, not to the left :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jayne in the Rain - is she not the cutest?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Summer, Lindsay, and I were laying out in the sunshine and all of a sudden comes this big rain cloud and we were like "it looks like it's gonna rain!" and then out of nowhere it starts POURING! We were wet before we even had time to grab our stuff and run inside! I came in and took this picture,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And then realized, oh- who is still out in the ocean in the pouring rain? My husband of course. And Tyler and Riley. They are so funny.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My grandma made us this book of a bunch of pics from our trip! So cute!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I scored the jackpot in the family department, I love both sets of my grandparents so much!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Just look at them, how could you not love these two? She even autographed her pic for me :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trent took this pic with his GoPro, isn't it amazing? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hawaii - be assured that your old friends Nat & Trent will be back soon! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks Grandma & Grandpa!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trent and I won a sofa!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to Bride Access and IKEA!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sadly, we won because they had an ugly sofa contest, and yes
we had an ugly sofa (it's actually not THAT bad, but it was pretty bad. Notice I said Was... Thanks to our new sofa, it is no longer!) We had to get lots of “likes” on our picture we
submitted on Facebook, and ended up having the most! So we went to go pick out which one we wanted!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And here is the video they made about it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Side Note: Bride Access is so helpful for anyone planning a
wedding, it helped me so much (over a YEAR ago!!) when I was planning our wedding,
because they have a list of all the trusty vendors they recommend, for
everything! Reception centers, florists, photographers, etc. They also have
lots of helpful tips for the wedding planning, but also for after the wedding.
Check it out <a href="http://www.brideaccess.com/" target="_blank">here</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And here it is in our apartment! We actually won it forever ago, you all probably know because you all probably voted for our picture (thank you!) but we didn't know if our landlord would let us get rid of our current couch that came with the place, and we didn't have a truck (thanks grandpa!) and we didn't know if it would fit, haha. So we finally went and picked it up the other day! (Clearly I need to get pillows for it now, it's lookin' kinda bare. To the fabric store I go! And to Pinterest!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Other random things lately (like for<span style="font-size: x-large;">EVER</span> ago)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">probably not even worth posting anymore cause it's so old!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but better late than never right??</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(WAY back when... haha) We went to a BYU game to watch Trent’s home teaching
companion (Noah Hartsock) play some ball!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After a million and a half computer issues and headaches and
hours of frustration, we made the plunge and both got new Macs. Best decision
we’ve ever made (besides getting married of course). Love them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My new motto: Once you get a Mac, you’ll never go back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trent’s mom and sister came to stay with us for a night! We
love when someone is willing to come stay with us! We all went bowling :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Take note: the first round, I tied my husband. Next round,
not so much)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have stayed with my siblings a couple times while my mom & matt go out of town. And I must admit, being the mommy of six isn’t so bad
after all! We had lots of fun with them. We had lots of good food, (eight
people eat a LOT more than two people!), </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">went to the Treehouse, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">as I was trying to ask Siri if Nate had a girlfriend, she
said…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and Amy and I snuck away for some shopping, took lots of
pictures, and did some crafts (see my melted crayon art post!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Besides all these fun-filled adventures, our life mostly
consists of school, work, school, school, writing multiple annoying 10 page
papers, and more school. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Zupas Tomato Basil Soup!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you have some time and are dying to eat Zupas Tomato Basil Soup for a week, here ya go. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love this soup at Zupas and I found the recipe (I’ve been informed that it is, in fact, not the EXACT recipe, but I think it tastes exactly like it and so I, in fact, don’t care.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It actually took a lot longer than I expected, but if you want to save money and make way more soup than you would get at Zupas, then go for it! But just know you have been warned that it takes a little bit of time, like as much as it would take to make home made rolls. Both are amazing though, so maybe it is worth the time :) And if there are only two of you, you have also been warned that I had this soup probably six times before it was gone, haha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But it was good and worth it and I would love to eat it six times, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so here it is!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Ingredients:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4 lb tomatoes, halved lengthwise (apparently plum tomatoes make the flavor even better, but I use normal tomatoes and it works perfect)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-8 garlic cloves, left unpeeled</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3 tbsp. olive oil</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">½ tsp salt</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">¼ tsp black pepper</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1 medium onion, finely chopped</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2 tsp fresh oregano, minced (only ½ tsp if using dried)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2 Tbsp. fresh basil, minced (only 1 tsp if using dried)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2 tsp sugar</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2 Tbsp unsalted butter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3 cups chicken stock or low-sodium broth</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">¾ cup heavy cream</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cut all stems off tomatoes, and cut in half lengthwise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Arrange tomatoes, cut sides up, in one layer on a large shallow baking pan and add garlic to the pan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Drizzle tomatoes with oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Roast in oven for 1 hour, then cool in pan on rack. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">While that is cooling, cook onion, oregano, basil, and sugar in butter in a 6-8 qt pot over moderately low, stirring frequently, until onion is softened (about 5 min). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Peel garlic (should squeeze right out)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Add tomatoes, garlic, and stock and simmer covered for 20 min.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Puree soup in batches in a blender (be careful with the hot soup!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">then force through a sieve and into a clean pot or bowl. I put all the unblended soup into a bowl, and then put the blended and strained soup into the same pot</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stir in cream, and salt & pepper to taste (you need hardly any, if at all)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Simmer 2 min.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, Zupas adds in orzo pasta, so I made some of that too for the full effect! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found it at Winco in the bulk section, but you don’t need to add this if you don’t want to! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">We had these with grilled cheese sandwiches, and it was AMAZING. So yummy!!! Let me know if you try it!</span><br />
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</style> </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We had an incident in December I also wanted to post… </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trent and I were peacefully sleeping one night, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">when out of nowhere Trent gets <span style="font-size: x-large;">SLAMMED</span> in the face by something, and this something (or someone for all we know!) hits me in the nose too! </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">So we both wake up at the same time, doing who knows what... just freaking out. </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">He immediately thinks someone is in our room attacking us or beating us up or something, so he shoots up just about throwing punches, and I am clinging onto him having no idea what in the world is going on. </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We both sit up and he gets up to turn on the light. I started feeling around on the bed to see if I can find anything. I felt something warm, and when it hit Trent’s face I heard the slam! Like it made a crashing noise! So my first thought was someone had thrown a grenade through our window, naturally, and there it was sitting next to me on the bed, about to blow. (We had just had a conversation about grenades the day before, haha!) </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And can i just say... </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">being completely asleep and then being suddenly awaken by something slamming you in the face... is just weird. Like you are not expecting it to say the least and are just completely out of it and can't see a darn thing and are really frazzled, for lack of a better word!</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This all happened in a matter of like ten seconds. </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Come to find out, it was the vent on our ceiling!! What the?! </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We had been living at our apartment for a good 8 months, why in the world would the ceiling vent fall from the ceiling that much later, and what are the odds that we happen to be asleep, <span style="font-size: x-large;">DIRECTLY UNDER IT!?</span> And not only that, what are the odds it hits <span style="font-size: x-large;">BOTH</span> of us!? And the fact that we have vaulted ceilings doesn’t help either.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Poor Trent got a gash on his nose and eyebrow. Yes, eyebrow, see the pic! What if it had hit his eyeball?! I could have a blind husband! And by the way, those vents are heavy! And sharp! </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most of all, what if there had been a baby sleeping under it?! Could be death!! </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">SO… </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Check your ceiling vents! Make sure they are nice and secure. First of all, make sure they are <i>screwed in</i>...!!! Someone, not to mention names Landlord, had not screwed it in…?? Looks like someone needs to take Landlording 101. We couldn’t go back to sleep for ever, about gave us a heart attack! I know, weirdest thing ever. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4dfXFpoNlhzkrgR2UsQVZix8bh_quFi4lST9iCl_XH_6CclvphpTujJqfK0e9-JxXlBrKKq_dL9OY7-LB5WSF0Y7BGprgCR1j8eOhqH6Di6KDTTF8AJMotb-M0z4SkWf1cqAZeavJIaBh/s1600/DSC01152.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4dfXFpoNlhzkrgR2UsQVZix8bh_quFi4lST9iCl_XH_6CclvphpTujJqfK0e9-JxXlBrKKq_dL9OY7-LB5WSF0Y7BGprgCR1j8eOhqH6Di6KDTTF8AJMotb-M0z4SkWf1cqAZeavJIaBh/s320/DSC01152.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJUc2eCNqDVObEHU1SWdzjuXKrjv_1ytg-vhcbv6718cWq_8sQGMbCyg9aXPjGTVlpu6UT7rwBz4Rq2duXaB-S9sSlHffhsJEQtmt2Pxgg3vK8J13r2aS9x2xlpUj6VfnWMpj4IpvCFhL/s1600/DSC01153.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJUc2eCNqDVObEHU1SWdzjuXKrjv_1ytg-vhcbv6718cWq_8sQGMbCyg9aXPjGTVlpu6UT7rwBz4Rq2duXaB-S9sSlHffhsJEQtmt2Pxgg3vK8J13r2aS9x2xlpUj6VfnWMpj4IpvCFhL/s320/DSC01153.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKfTvK7Crw9ev_onbbl1-cgceRm6Rj2fyRR0fKnQHda74XWOYLiMdgJjTsbRcEU1hKMRVhyphenhyphencdxaq5lnxJF3onTwH5gTjKzXR-CWaVYNjmNjcsh8HDxHFpNujyDBwxx5z8Tz2DS1RHgRBHe/s1600/DSC01154.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKfTvK7Crw9ev_onbbl1-cgceRm6Rj2fyRR0fKnQHda74XWOYLiMdgJjTsbRcEU1hKMRVhyphenhyphencdxaq5lnxJF3onTwH5gTjKzXR-CWaVYNjmNjcsh8HDxHFpNujyDBwxx5z8Tz2DS1RHgRBHe/s320/DSC01154.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Sharp!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihlhScbaoyGg_zPq1nMWXCVW9Ow7lANS-aTXvwsOovZ3O6yF9n-1uxpzTX8_ZxyBmwblkgJ1e2YvthSDtEksdUKwMDmaDG2KJuialmjFUKCax8ZOVZA0BsIbCNtkkwp_ZoqcrQGx7tesrx/s1600/DSC01155.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihlhScbaoyGg_zPq1nMWXCVW9Ow7lANS-aTXvwsOovZ3O6yF9n-1uxpzTX8_ZxyBmwblkgJ1e2YvthSDtEksdUKwMDmaDG2KJuialmjFUKCax8ZOVZA0BsIbCNtkkwp_ZoqcrQGx7tesrx/s320/DSC01155.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Yes that is blood on the vent. </span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09118470305255118008noreply@blogger.com0