If you were my phone...

Here are some random shots from my phone...

 First picture posted on Instagram

 David spoiling me one evening

 Walk around City Creek Mall

 While my parents were visiting - see the temple spires in the background?

After shots of my most recent haircut in June, haven't had it curl under b4 

 David taking his application picture.  I just love his ensemble :)

Me surprising David with duo nerf guns when he returned home one day.  We have fun running around the halls every once in awhile when we need a break...

FROM MAY - JULY 2012

My Birthday!

Guess what?  I turned older.  Or in a more happy tune, I had a birthday!!  I'm not too excited about the whole age thing, but that's life I guess.  The rest of the celebrations were wonderful!  Thanks to everyone who wished me a Happy Birthday! JULY 22, 2012

Here are some of the things we did to celebrate:
1) Boating the day before - boating is like one of my ALL TIME favorite things to do.  And it's even more fun with friends, so it was a blast.  And I got cake and sung to, so it was special.  That night we rented a movie, one from my past - Liar Liar.  Not too proud that I watched that all the time, but it is just funny.  And I can pretty much quote it all, guess I watched it a lot as a teenager!

2) Treasure Hunt for my birthday presents - Never told David this, but I love doing treasure hunts for other people, and I got one myself.  It was a pretty easy hunt, so I will expect something more dangerous next time, but I mean, it was Sunday... so we were chillin.  Here are a few silly pics

I got a double layer cupcake holder with a lid for transport.  A whole case of frosting tips (I'm getting into the decor) and a gift card to Red Mango (my favorite frozen yogurt place!)

3)  Next up we had dinner at the In-laws, nice for a Sunday relaxation.  And they got me a cookbook, yum!  And for dinner it was Hawaiian Haystacks and cookies for dessert.

4) Then on Monday we celebrated with a little lunch out and movie date.  We had Bennihanas, one of our favorites!  And then we saw Dark Knight in the IMAX theatre.  Oh, I took the day off, by the way, so that made it wonderful!

5) Tuesday was July 24th and I took that day off too, can't believe my work doesn't give us that holiday!  (I know all you non-Utahns are like what is it??  Pioneer Day, we really don't celebrate too much except for watching fireworks though).  During the day we relaxed and then David made dinner, my favorite that he does, Chicken Lemon Pesto.  And then we drove out to see the Fireworks very close downtown.  Since everyone can set those huge fireworks off, I'm a big fraidy cat, but we survived, yay!

6) Packages - I also got birthday packages from my Mom, Lexie, and Dad & Diane.  They were all thoughtful and I'm using it all that they sent.  Lexie made me a necklace that I'm wearing all the time now!  And I got some nice phone calls as well that brightened the day, thanks everyone for calling and wishing me a happy birthday!

Annual Boat Trip

July 21st we went boating with our normal crew (from our prior singles ward).  It's +1 so some bring their spouse, others bring a date/friend.  We had 8 this year, which was a little more roomie.  Bro. Linton, from our singles ward, loves the reunion and lets us freely use his boat with him.  We had a few mis-haps this year, but I guess that's normal.  We all survived (a little crispy and sore, but happy).
I don't think I need to remind you that we just LOVE being on a boat.  Someday (dreaming) we'll have one and take any of you good friends/family out with us!  We aren't all-stars, but maybe with a few more trips in a year, we'll get there.  Both David & I got up on the wakeboard - yay baby!!  And then we tubed together too, me requesting to go a little slower than when David & Eric go together.

We go to our normal cove area for lunch and everyone brings a side to share and this year we brought our own sandwiches.  Shayla was in charge of the dessert.  She was VERY sneaky and made me a cake and took it on the boat!  Who's ever eaten a homemade red velvet cake on a boat?!?!?  I have!  We all have!  And it survived even with all the bumps and spins in the boat.  The only thing is we didn't know it was Bro. Linton's b-day in July too, or we would have sang to him :(.  Very cool Shayla, and very yummy too!

And then below are the normal tube battles that happen each year.  D + E and then D + Shayla, but Shayla just screams the whole time.  So the boys did the same thing and copied Julie-Ann and Shayla this time with some high pitched screaming :)

And then we did this last year too, a picture of the whole crew!  Thanks again Brother Linton!  You are so generous and it is so fun to go with you and the past singles ward crew!

What we got cookin?

Here are a few things we've made over the past few months.  I can't say enough, it's just FUN to cook and try new things (as long as it's not too complicated or too time consuming).  We do well in the kitchen together.  Even when it is so small.  (This past weekend I was able to spend some time in a modern kitchen, with even a dishwasher!!!, and I just can't wait to have one of those to cook/bake together in one day)  Below are some shots we took, and hopefully I can remember what each one was.  If you want the recipe, most likely it's on my pinterest page, oh how I love you pinterest!
1) Okay this one below isn't a new dinner, haha, it was just a fun meal outside at a park.  BLT and relaxing on a Sunday afternoon, yay!

 2) Lemon Garlic Spaghetti (minus the pine nuts, we didn't have any that day, but does include our home-grown basil, and below are our recently picked basil branches that we leave like that to keep it fresh longer... basil yum!  Good easy meal.

 3) Coconut Lime Chicken - has some curry flavor too, we'd definitely eat again.

 4) Coconut Chicken Curry - I've been in a real curry mood, so this was our next attempt at curry.  A lot more like curry than #3.  It was delicious!  Potatoes included.  Definitely smelled the house up for a week though.

 5) Spicy Chicken Ravioli & salad - YUM!  We've had this twice already.  The sauce is marinara and alfredo mixed with a little kick of red pepper, chicken, peas, add whatever else...  It's great when you have a little left over pre-made sauce to mix together!

 6) Stuffed Peppers (with sausage) - Also YUM!  This was so good and we had 2 meals all made.  The sausage probably sold it fully, but we'll definitely be making again when we have extra peppers on hand.

 7) Corned beef & Potatoes - This was a first for us!  We cooked it in the crockpot and it turned out great after about 8-11 hours on low.  I just love corned beef (not just St. Patrick's day) and on sandwiches too so we needed to try it since we had the beef on sale after the holiday.

 8) Okay here's some veggies from our pot garden.  Missing the basil (above) and cilantro (died early).  We've been adding these to salads, homemade salsa, etc.  We've actually made home-made salsa 2x - the best!

 9) Chicken Ticka Masala - I may have made that name up.... oops!  My friend Megan gave me this recipe and we just LOVED it.  It really didn't take long, and didn't smell the house up for a week.  But it does us a TON of spices, so we'll run out soon enough if we keep making this!  Broiling the chicken that has marinated and then making the sauce.  Next time we'd throw in some potatoes/veggies and thin down the sauce a bit.  (not on pinterest)  But it was great even w/out the fixes.

10) Honey Mustard Baked Chicken - I so wanted to take a picture of this, but we had to eat it as soon as it was done (we were running to church meetings) - and it was DELICIOUS.  One of our new favorites!  Check pinterest, the picture shows it all.  Basically chicken dipped in honey mustard dressing and then breaded in corn flakes and baked.  Yum!

Okay that's it for now!  Any good recipes?  Send them our way!!