Got on the scale this morning. Yikes. I gained two pounds this week. Honestly, I knew it would happen after eating tons on Thanksgiving then last night going to Cafe Rio and the Cheesecake Factory for dessert.
Guess it's time to up my workout (which shouldn't be hard seeing as I've worked out maybe 10 times this entire semester) and get on a low glycemic, low sat. fat diet. Justin will be so excited when I tell him..... not.
Anyone have any good low sugar, low sodium, low sat. fat recipes? I'm starting to get tired of lentil soup and vegetarian pastas.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is always in my top three of favorite holidays. Something about dedicating a day to be thankful is so relaxing and wholesome. Justin and I slept in til 8:30 that morning! Then I spent an hour with Justin preparing food, cleaning up the kitchen and eating breakfast. I know it's silly to post about what we ate and made, but I'm a food snob so I'll do it anyway. I made a salad with pomegranate, walnut and gorgonzola with a raspberry vinagrette. For breakfast I had some beets with lemon juice and a fried egg over sunflower bread. Delicious!
We left the house around noon, visited our friend Marianna Stringham in Holladay and her adorable malamute, Whistler (named after the resort). Then we picked up the Henderson family dog, Zoey to take for a hike. We adore Zoey. Not only is she sweet but we kept getting compliments about how pretty she is. Our desire to get our own dog is getting worse and worse. Zoey, of course, loved the snow (being a purebred Alaskan husky).
We hiked up Millcreek canyon. The trail was so muddy we didn't make it to the overlook, but the hike was beautiful still.
After dropping Zoey home we headed to my parents house in Highland. My Aunt Cathy and Uncle Karl came over with their sons Eric and Ryan. Eric is a junior at Skyline High and Ryan is a sophomore at UC Berkley studying Physics and Music. I love my family!
Dinner was sooooo good. My sister Caroline and her husband brought their chihuahua puppy, Buster. My parents have a 2 year old dachschund named Devo so the two little dogs played together all night. I wish I had pictures, they're so funny to watch. After dinner we watched the best movie EVER: Twilight.... with RiffTrax! So funny. If you are a Twilight fan you may not appreciate it, but since my whole family thinks Twilight is literary garbage we loved it. 
After pumpkin cheesecake (which Caroline made) my mom, my sisters Caroline and Hilary, my Aunt Cathy and I made earrings! The boys watched football. These are my creation.
Love Thanksgiving! Now we have more holidays and vacations to look forward to. In the next month my niece Rylee will be having her one year old baby Luau, Caroline will be turning 22, my nephew Ashton turns 5, Christmas will be here and then we are leaving for Brasil! Yay!!
We left the house around noon, visited our friend Marianna Stringham in Holladay and her adorable malamute, Whistler (named after the resort). Then we picked up the Henderson family dog, Zoey to take for a hike. We adore Zoey. Not only is she sweet but we kept getting compliments about how pretty she is. Our desire to get our own dog is getting worse and worse. Zoey, of course, loved the snow (being a purebred Alaskan husky).
We hiked up Millcreek canyon. The trail was so muddy we didn't make it to the overlook, but the hike was beautiful still.
After dropping Zoey home we headed to my parents house in Highland. My Aunt Cathy and Uncle Karl came over with their sons Eric and Ryan. Eric is a junior at Skyline High and Ryan is a sophomore at UC Berkley studying Physics and Music. I love my family!
Dinner was sooooo good. My sister Caroline and her husband brought their chihuahua puppy, Buster. My parents have a 2 year old dachschund named Devo so the two little dogs played together all night. I wish I had pictures, they're so funny to watch. After dinner we watched the best movie EVER: Twilight.... with RiffTrax! So funny. If you are a Twilight fan you may not appreciate it, but since my whole family thinks Twilight is literary garbage we loved it. 
After pumpkin cheesecake (which Caroline made) my mom, my sisters Caroline and Hilary, my Aunt Cathy and I made earrings! The boys watched football. These are my creation.
Love Thanksgiving! Now we have more holidays and vacations to look forward to. In the next month my niece Rylee will be having her one year old baby Luau, Caroline will be turning 22, my nephew Ashton turns 5, Christmas will be here and then we are leaving for Brasil! Yay!!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Anniversary
This is a little recap of our anniversary. Justin was so sweet. He planned it perfectly. We went hiking and trail running up Dry Creek canyon near our apartment in the avenues. It had snowed earlier in the day but not enough to need snow shoes. It was gorgeous!
Afterwards he took me to "The Five Alls" on foothill. I had never been there and was pleasantly surprised by our five course dinner. They served us so much good food! I got the Filet Mignon Roquefort and Justin got some chicken Kiev. Yummy!
The next day we followed the tradition and took out some of our leftover wedding reception cake. Surprisingly, it was just as good as it was a year ago. I ate way too much of it, as German chocolate cake is one of my faves.
Justin liked it, can you tell?
Afterwards he took me to "The Five Alls" on foothill. I had never been there and was pleasantly surprised by our five course dinner. They served us so much good food! I got the Filet Mignon Roquefort and Justin got some chicken Kiev. Yummy!
The next day we followed the tradition and took out some of our leftover wedding reception cake. Surprisingly, it was just as good as it was a year ago. I ate way too much of it, as German chocolate cake is one of my faves.
Justin liked it, can you tell?
Monday, November 16, 2009
Random
Check out the picture of a methodist church my dad took while visiting the grandparents in Nelson County, Virginia. The road sign is telling of where this church will lead you.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
7 weeks!
7 weeks til we go to Brasil!
Some things I'm looking forward to:
Sunsets in Brasilia.
The waterfalls in Cuiaba.
Real Brasilian churrasco.
Brasilian lemonade.
Seeing a tucan (hopefully!)
Meeting Justin's friends who he served with and baptized. We're staying with the Reubervans in Brasilia.
Also, I've chatted with one of the girls Justin baptized in Brasil. Her name is Andrea. She sent me a Christmas card and we've chatted online a few times. She is becoming inactive in the church, but still has a testimony of the restored Gospel. I'm looking forward to meeting her and spending time her in Cuiaba. Hopefully we can remind her of the true happiness the Christ's message gives us. I have already come to love this girl!
Some things I'm looking forward to:
Sunsets in Brasilia.
The waterfalls in Cuiaba.
Real Brasilian churrasco.
Brasilian lemonade.
Seeing a tucan (hopefully!)
Meeting Justin's friends who he served with and baptized. We're staying with the Reubervans in Brasilia.
Also, I've chatted with one of the girls Justin baptized in Brasil. Her name is Andrea. She sent me a Christmas card and we've chatted online a few times. She is becoming inactive in the church, but still has a testimony of the restored Gospel. I'm looking forward to meeting her and spending time her in Cuiaba. Hopefully we can remind her of the true happiness the Christ's message gives us. I have already come to love this girl!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
To Anyone Who Doesn't Support Health Insurance Reform: GO TO HELL
It's time for my soapbox.
Here's the issue. I got the letter today telling me that my health insurance premium is going to rise in January costing my husband and I an extra $200 a year. I know this is a standard practice among the corporate health insurance monsters. It still shocked me.
Why?? WHY???? Tell me why I should pay more in 2010!!! Here's a little recap on my health costs this last year: 1. I got a regular check up required by my OBGYN that my insurance company covers as a preventive screening which concluded that yes, I was healthy and nothing was wrong. 2. I am on one prescription: birth control.
The end. TWO BLOOODY EXPENSES IS IT!!!! How does it make sense that health insurance companies can just randomly raise your prices for being in good health??? It doesn't work that way with auto insurance! If my bank called me and said, "You've had a positive balance all year and have saved up quite a bit of money, so we're going to raise your banking fees," I would say, "Great, and I'll be finding a new banker." And soon they would be out of business.
A lot of people say that it's going to make us socialists. I disagree. How about opening up state lines for the insurance companies to be able to compete with other states so prices will go down? How is more competition a socialist practice? Most insurance companies will charge the same amount for someone who is healthy and at a good weight as someone morbidly obese. How come a 23 year old female, with only a history of kidney stones in my childhood, with a BMI of 21, who is extremely active, who is going to college, has never smoked, drunk or done any drugs, who is in a monogamous married relationship is paying a ridiculously high insurance rate?!?!
Yeah, a universal health insurance plan would not be smart for the whole country, I agree. But how about a government health option for people going to college, in poverty, etc.? The rest of you could continue getting insurance through your jobs, and the rest of us could be covered.
Bottom line, the system DOESN'T WORK. It doesn't make sense. There's no competition among those heartless corporate leeches, there's no limitations or laws preventing them from screwing people like me over, blah blah blah. I could go on and on.
That's why I say without hesitation or regret to those of you in the world that don't support any sort of health insurance reform: GO TO HELL.
Here's the issue. I got the letter today telling me that my health insurance premium is going to rise in January costing my husband and I an extra $200 a year. I know this is a standard practice among the corporate health insurance monsters. It still shocked me.
Why?? WHY???? Tell me why I should pay more in 2010!!! Here's a little recap on my health costs this last year: 1. I got a regular check up required by my OBGYN that my insurance company covers as a preventive screening which concluded that yes, I was healthy and nothing was wrong. 2. I am on one prescription: birth control.
The end. TWO BLOOODY EXPENSES IS IT!!!! How does it make sense that health insurance companies can just randomly raise your prices for being in good health??? It doesn't work that way with auto insurance! If my bank called me and said, "You've had a positive balance all year and have saved up quite a bit of money, so we're going to raise your banking fees," I would say, "Great, and I'll be finding a new banker." And soon they would be out of business.
A lot of people say that it's going to make us socialists. I disagree. How about opening up state lines for the insurance companies to be able to compete with other states so prices will go down? How is more competition a socialist practice? Most insurance companies will charge the same amount for someone who is healthy and at a good weight as someone morbidly obese. How come a 23 year old female, with only a history of kidney stones in my childhood, with a BMI of 21, who is extremely active, who is going to college, has never smoked, drunk or done any drugs, who is in a monogamous married relationship is paying a ridiculously high insurance rate?!?!
Yeah, a universal health insurance plan would not be smart for the whole country, I agree. But how about a government health option for people going to college, in poverty, etc.? The rest of you could continue getting insurance through your jobs, and the rest of us could be covered.
Bottom line, the system DOESN'T WORK. It doesn't make sense. There's no competition among those heartless corporate leeches, there's no limitations or laws preventing them from screwing people like me over, blah blah blah. I could go on and on.
That's why I say without hesitation or regret to those of you in the world that don't support any sort of health insurance reform: GO TO HELL.
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