Pasta Envy

I made this tonight, and yes, it looked just like that...

...you can be jealous now.

Our "Spring Break"

So Cory and I decided to make our own spring break since BYU is too stingy to give us one. After much contemplation, Cory booked our hotel through hotwire. If you have never tried out hotwire I highly recommend it. Basically you pick what rating of hotel you want to stay at and you pay a discounted rate. However, the catch is that they don't tell you what hotel you will be staying at until after you pay. So we picked a four star hotel and ended up at the Hilton in Salt Lake. It ended up being really convenient since it is within walking distance of all the restaurants we were thinking about trying.

For dinner, we walked down the street to the Hotel Monaco where they have the restraunt Bambara. It was soooo good! Plus, we stayed at the Hotel Monaco after our wedding so it was fun to go back. After dinner, we just went back to our hotel room and rented a movie. It was so nice to just be able to forget about school and work and relax, even if it was only for one night. So thanks Cory for planning such a fun little getaway!

Sex & Drugs

Haha this post has nothing to do with sex or drugs (don't do drugs)! I just wanted to see how many people would look at it...but now that you're here you should look around, maybe click on the link to follow our blog.


Anyway, I've been continuing my adventures in horse jumping (and doing pretty well, if I say so myself). However, I fell off of a horse this past Saturday. I'd been trying to get a particular jump down, and was having a hard time with it. It was (supposedly) my final attempt, but something went wrong. After landing, I ended up in front of the saddle and hanging a little to the left. I tried to re-balance, but the horse gods had doomed me to fall. I accepted my fate and half lept, half fell off the horse. I must have had some good momentum considering how many times I bounced; in fact, I kind of rolled and bounced right back onto my feet...kind of.

I quite literally bit the dust. The trainer called at me to get back on the horse and "actually do it right this time." I stumble back to my semi-faithful steed and climb back on. As I line up for the jump, I can feel the dirt pouring out of my ears and can still feel the sandy grit in my teeth. I can hardly see because my eyes are also full of dirt. Apparently being nearly blind and punch drunk was the ticket: I finally got the set of jumps right. The only bad thing though: I knew that there was more than just "dirt" in the dirt...manure tastes like it smells...

REAL Lemonade

Lemonade is probably my favorite thing to drink, but I really get sick of the over-sugared, frozen, concentrated junk they sell at the grocery store...it's really pretty nasty. I think it's much easier and cheaper to make make it yourself. Not to mention it tastes WAY better than anything you can buy in the store.

1 c. water
1 c. sugar
1 c. fresh lemon juice (usually takes 4 or 5 lemons)
3-4 c. of additional cold water

1. Boil 1 cup of water
2. Add 1 cup of sugar, and stir until completely dissolved (this just makes a simple syrup)
3. Stir in the lemon juice
4. Stir in another 3-4 cups of water (depending how how strong you like it)
5. Put it in the fridge until it's cold (or just pour it over ice if you want it now)

That's all there is to it. It's fantastic and super easy. Also, if you prefer pink lemonade, just add some juice from a fresh squeezed grapefruit.

Man + Purse = Murse

There are all kinds of really odd people on BYU campus. Today's encounter was particularly odd.

I was in the BYU library studying away and a guy sat down next to me at the table. First I noticed that he was sitting way too close for comfort, then I saw it: a medium sized leather bag that looked oddly like...a purse. I pretend to not notice him, just to see how odd this guy will turn out to be. He pulls out his planner and since he's sitting SO ridiculously close to me, I can't help reading his schedule for the upcoming week: "ballroom dance test...yada yada yada...Grey's Anatomy."

Seriously, what real man schedules time every week to watch Grey's Anatomy. There's a couple girls sitting on the opposite side of the table (the two girls didn't know each other), and one girl had a couple friends standing nearby that she was talking to...as if the guy wasn't weird enough, he starts introducing himself to each girl one by one and shaking their hands. The then places his planner back in his murse and walks away. Seriously, where do these people come from?

FRIED

The weather is nice outside there's only one more month in the semester and I'm fried. I do think that it is nice that BYU gets out of school earlier than the other colleges around. However, right now I would happily sacrifice that time for a nice week-long SPRING BREAK!

So in order to stay sane, Cory and I are going on a mini-vacation this weekend. Any great ideas on where to go or what to do?

Mmmmmmm.

So lately I have been feeling the need to learn how to be more domestic. Scary I know, but I thought for the benefit of my future posterity I would at least try. Besides, I'm not doing anything drastic like learning how to sew my own clothes or scrap booking for hours. No offense to those of you who participate in those activities. Instead Cory and I have been trying out a new recipe at least once a week. My favorite so far has been pumpkin chocolate chunk cookies with maple brown butter frosting.Ours were not quite that pretty but they still tasted amazing! I got the recipe from this fun new baking blog I found: http://bakerella.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html
By the way if any of you know other great places to get recipes let me know!

Hope everyone is doing well! Much love!