What's Cooking?

I started a blog called What's Cooking?
Basically this blog is a place where we can share fun/easy/favorite recipes with each other!

If you're interested, I can add you as an author to the blog (just with your email address) where you can add recipes freely...just let me know. Or if you just want to share a recipe, but don't want to be an author, you can email it to me too and I can post it. Also anyone can view or comment anytime.

Memory Lane Monday

a day late....I knew I'd forget

Here's a stroll down memory lane. I believe this was 89...? Yay for B-days! I thought this picture was appropriate for my upcoming b-day's this Sat.

Thankful Thursdays

So I totally forgot I told myself I was going to do this. I got the idea from Andrea's blog and I thought it was great, if only just for my benefit.

I want to take time on Thursdays to mention something I'm thankful for. I think I tend to take many things in my life for granted. By looking at the world a little differently and stopping to smell the roses, I hope I notice and realize how much I have to be grateful for.
I also like the idea on Jaime's blog to start Memory Lane Mondays. (That is if I remember.)

I'm thankful for so many things, but today I am especially thankful for:

• Having all 5 senses
• My cell phone
• Others' talents that are shared with me
• A Great work environment
• The knowledge that I'm loved for who I am
• Makeup

Life's treasures are the small pleasures

Nifty Nineties!

So I got an email entitled, "You know you're a 90's kid if..." We've practically all received those emails before (multiple times). If you haven't, or want to jog your memory, visit this link for an example. I thought it would be fun to make up our own... to hear what you specifically remember from the nineties, the good ol' years. A lot of participation would be fabulous and you can write as many memories as you want (even if you haven't posted a comment on my blog before). I know I'm a nerd, but life might be a little boring for me if I wasn't.
I'll get it started.

I remember...

*tying my barbie car to my bike with some yarn and letting my ninja turtles take a "joy ride" as I whipped down the street on my bike.

*wanting a Chiapet to take care of and Quick'n Brite... and all because of those fantastic infomercials

*staying outside late with the neighbors playing Ghost in the Graveyard and Freeze Tag

Immortal...

I thought this was too funny! Us throughout the years.

Cabin Fever

This last weekend a group of us went to our friend Lissa's parent's cabin just past Heber. It was a lot of fun with a lot of fun and silly people (as you can see in the picture above. ) We surprised Joseph with a 30th Bday party, played pool, Animal, foosball, games, ate a lot of food and just chilled staying up late into the night. Here are some pictures and videos of the adventure.

Kendra, Anslin, and Joseph, shortly after we surprised him

Anslin and Matt

We got there Friday night and Severin and Lissa were in charge of dinner, so the rest of us went down stairs to play some pool.

Tyler and his mad skills

The girls, minus Lissa


A preview of the game Animal. So much fun!

Tyler was being goofy and wouldn't smile for any pictures I took that weekend.


Kendra, the reigning champ!....until the next video


Kendra finally lost a round and had to act like a horse.
She knew I was filming and tried to do it as quick as possible.


(sorry the recording job was so horrible)
We ate dinner and then sang to Joseph.
I loved his reaction after our beautifully sung Happy Birthday!

In the morning a few of us played Foosball. Kendra and Joseph

Scrapblog

So I was looking through pictures on my computer and came across quite a few of me and Tyler. Memories came flooding back and I realized that we've been through so much together! I compiled a few pictures we have into a slideshow. I made this slideshow on Scrapblog. It's an awesome site! I highly recommend you check it out if you're into scrapbooking. Way cool.

Tagged...

So I've done something similar to this before, but I was tagged by my friend Jill and I felt like doing it again. Hopefully I can think of things that I didn't tell you on the other post (and not embarrass myself too much in the process). Here goes:

20 years ago:
- I turned 3
- I had a fairly new baby brother (who's on a mission now, wow!)
- I used to go flush the toilet and sing the Pinwheel song as I watched the water spin down
- I owned a pair of hot pink jellies and wore them all the time
- I LOVED roller skating. I'd skate all the time. When I'd have to come inside, I'd skate on our toy train's flat carts or on books in our kitchen (and get in lots of trouble)

10 years ago:

-I turned 13 and was trying to figure out my style. I had braces, huge bangs and flared pants...which were all the rage (well not the braces).
-I loved NSYNC and had posters of them on my wall. I once pulled an all-nighter trying to win tickets on the radio for their concert (sad I know). I didn't win, but come to find out, later that night my sister Anna told me she had an extra ticket and invited me to go with her and her friends. I thought that was the coolest.
-I was a hippie for Halloween (and only had to buy new shoes for the outfit, as I already had the pants... haha)
-I started wearing makeup

5 years ago:

- I had graduated High school and spent my time working a couple jobs and going to school in CA.
- I was taking 2-4 dance classes a day and began teaching dance and gymnastics (and really miss it now)
- My diet pretty much consisted of my refried bean dip and chips. It was probably during that year when one day my sister Eileen was eating it with me, put some on a spoon, flung it at me, and it stuck to my face. We still crack up about it now.
-I taught the 3-4 year olds in Primary for a while before going to the singles ward. I didn't stay there too long before I decided to move to Utah

3 years ago:

- I finally decided between Tyler and Daron and started dating the man of my dreams.
- I was working at Stans Diner (before I started hating it).
- I got a digital camera. (Remember life without them?)
-Well my life was pretty much hanging out with Tyler, having a blast with my roomies, watching a TON of Alias, water balloon fights, doing things at midnight just because...midnight trips to IHOP, midnight swims, and midnight runs to here and there.

So far this year:

- I started a new job
- We moved into a new place
- I got pregnant ( just kidding... that one was for Anna)
- We celebrated our two year anniversary
- We went to my hometown twice (and plan to for Christmas...I'm so excited)
- My sister got married

Yesterday:

-I opened for work and got home about 5:30
-I did the dishes when I got home as we talked about our days
-Then I hung out with Tyler all night.
-I actually don't remember what we did. But I did have some of my left over girl scout cookie blizzard from Dairy Queen (mmm...so good)

Today:

- I didn't have to work.
- Tyler and I went to Thanksgiving Point for their Xango Summer Party.
- We acted like kids and played on the inflatable slides and obstacle course (and may I mention that I beat Tyler on the obstacle course race... granted while he was leaping over the inflatable tires he kinda biffed it and his glasses fell off and had to gather them, but I still won)
- We went to a nursery to buy herbs (hot and spicy oregano, spearmint, and garlic chives) and pretty flowers to go in our flower bed under our front window.
- Then while watering our garden I had Tyler spray me with the hose because it was over 100 degrees outside. I think he had too much fun with that privilege and I got soaked fully clothed. It made me feel like a little kid, but it was so hot that I didn't really mind.

Tomorrow:

- We will go to church.
- After church tomorrow we'll drive up to Salt Lake with Tyler's siblings Candice and Travis and have dinner with his Aunt Ann.
-After that, who knows.

In the next year:

- Tyler will have graduated from the Accounting Program at BYU and will be working at a new place.
- We'll possibly be having a baby
- We'll both be a year older.
- We plan to get filthy rich
- And with any luck I'll get a pair of new brown high heels

I tag Anna, Julia, Marie, Frances, and Meghan

Eileen's Wedding and CA fun!

Tyler and I spent July 5th-15th in my hometown, Elk Grove, California. My sister, Eileen, got married to Larry Thorpe in the Oakland Temple on the 12th. It was a lot of fun and really hot! I loved spending time with my family. I felt like I hadn't seen them in so long and my nieces and nephews were so old! I got to see my new nephew Parker, making him the 10th of my nieces and nephews. We saw 3 movies while we were there. Wall-e, Hancock, and Get Smart. I enjoyed Get Smart a lot and recommend it. I remember watching the tv show when I was younger so it was neat seeing the same kind of jokes on the big screen. We basically spent the rest our time swimming, eating out, celebrating bdays, and hanging with the fam. I have a bunch of pictures below of the fantastic trip.