My Love of Recipes....

I have always loved to cook. I have an obsession with Costco and Cook books because of this love. However, I feel it's unfair that I grew up learning to cook for 5 people...and then I was reduced to two when I got married. That's just not fair...especially when those two don't eat leftovers very well, lol.

Anyways, I ran across this little Blip on MSN this morning

(it's such an entertaining place to find fun random things on a slow day at work)

And wanted to share it:

Healthy Breakfasts:

http://www.delish.com/recipes/cooking-recipes/low-calorie-breakfasts?GT1=47048

I have also learned to balance my meals better from this website:

www.caloriecount.about.com

To make sure I don't gain too much weight from eating all this food I love to cook.

My go to place for recipes when I'm looking for something new or to refer to something I ate when I was young is:

www.allrecipes.com

And I am newly discovering this website:

www.eatingwell.com

who created that little "Healthy Breakfasts" blip.

{life is too short to not eat good food}

I can feel it...

the summer is slipping away....

It makes me so sad that the summer is slipping away. No matter how hard I try to ignore it, the time won't stop.

Although I do love the fall.....

• Light Jackets
• Bon Fires
• Lots of food from Mom and Dad's garden {Thank You!}
• Warm Drinks
• Get to start wearing boots again sometimes...
• Short season is close to over {Thank Goodness}

I had such high hopes of getting our yard all finished and complete at the end of spring/ beginning of summer so we could have the rest of the summer to enjoy it, but it's just so much more work than anyone would ever think, lol.

It is turning out great, it just takes time... So I guess we'll have to have a bon fire in the back yard for Halloween {If you're allowed to during that time of the year} in our new firepit (if we get it finished) and grill out on the back deck (if we ever get the railings up)

I can't believe that we leave for Hawaii in 20 days... It's unreal. I'm so excited to just go relax.....ahhhh...

I can feel it already- and it feels so good, lol.

I want to just sit out in the sun on the private beach, eat lots of good foor, go snorkeling off that same private beach, take long naps in hammocks, enjoy the fresh farmers markets and massages and luau's!!

For the next little while we're going to:

• Get ready for the Warren Family Reunion
• Finish running electricity to our back yard/ shop
• Finish spreading the gravel in the back yard/ planters
• Try to get started on the firepit
• Lay the sprinkling system in the back yard and
• Wait for the grass seed I planted last Saturday to start growing {Crossing my fingers}

In the mean time, check out this cute link I found on MSN. They have some really cute ideas!

http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-home/staticslideshowrs.aspx?cp-documentid=24972431&gt1=32067

Ga-Loon....

We went to Lagoon this last weekend. It was super fun. We all went shopping at the Gateway Saturday night before we checked into our hotels. Then we ate at the yummy Breakfast buffet at the Little America before we headed to Lagoon, which a quick Pit-stop at Costco (love that place)!

I forgot the camera at home, so we just had to use my phone camera!

We had a great time! Thanks all that came and joined in!

Excitement...

I'm getting quite excited for the weekend to be here. I officially have 41 minutes.

After work I'm going to go home, change my clothes, then go tanning and go running at the rec. center with Trish. Then I"m going home to work on the yard with my hubby!

I'm so excited for tomorrow: as it is the first time in WEEKS I'll be able to sleep in. Awesome...

Once I do wake up though, I'm going to re-seed our front lawn. It will be great in the long run but maybe not so fun in the heat of the day {however} I won't give up my only day to sleep in, so I'll have to just deal with it.

After Justin gets off work we will head to Salt Lake to go to Lagoon with his Mom, Aunts, Uncle, Brother and Cousins.

{The last time I went to Lagoon was with Justin in 2007- one month after we met}

So it's been a while...

I'm going to try to resist draggin him through IKEA to find some cute lanterns to hang from Shepherds Hooks in the {new} flower beds in the back yard...

(For $6.99 how can you resist!)

We'll see how that goes!

Have a great Weekend everyone!!!

Discoveries...

I have been exploring different blogs and facebook accounts this morning and I've found some pretty cute stuff. Like this website:

http://www.ldscoloringbooks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46%3Agreen-gel-a-tin&catid=34%3Agreen-gel-a-tin&Itemid=63

Has free LDS coloring books. Just print them off and take them to church! Wa-La... Quiet Children (Like I'd know, lol)

There is also this great LDS site, that has all sorts of information on it. There are helps for Primary lessons...(which is basically all I've looked at so far) but they're very cute and helpful!

http://www.sugardoodle.net/joomla/

More Stickers…

Here are a few more stickers that I've done lately. Pretty fun stuff! Enjoy.

The sticker is on the planter

Summer Fun!

This summer is/ has been just jam packed with so much to do and I must say, it’s one of my favorite summers so far. Justin and I have loved being in our own house and spending time working in the yard, although fun might not always be the correct term….

It’s so rewarding to have our own yard and to be able to work on it and build it up into our own, much loved, enjoyable space.

We have enjoyed so many fun activities so far, and have so many more to come!
What do we have coming up?

Finishing the new Burm for the front yard and digging in the fire pit this week.
LAGOON this weekend!
Putting in the Sprinkling System/ Running Power to our shop Monday
Softball Monday night
Warren Family reunion Next weekend
Maybe going to UBIC for the First time ever August 7th
My Great Grandpa’s “Wadsworth Grandchildren” Family reunion in Blackfoot, ID on August 14th
Leaving for HAWAII on August 18th – August 23rd

We also have to: Put the railing up on our New back deck
Build and plant the flower boxes in between all our new trees in the back yard!
Put together the fire pit area
Transplant my perennials to their new home in the back yard
Reseed our front grass
Move Justin’s tool boxes from the garage to his new shop (so that I can)
Set up my wood working area in MY garage (so that I can)
Build some of These:

cute benches for my front porch and back deck!

The plans for this bench are here

http://www.knock-offwood.com/2010/01/plans-7-steps-to-distressed-bench-from.html

And Maybe SOMEDAY I will have enough energy to clean out my basement and have (my second ever) Garage Sale.