itchin

i'm hungry.

dinner for 2 please

apple-stuffed chicken breasts.

looks quite scary...

but absolutely delicious!

you can find it here!

i've been so bored lately trying to figure out what to cook for dinner. i've been in a bit of a rut i guess and i never feel like cooking after work so we'd been eating out too much and have been feeling like fatties. so i've been trying really hard to get over myself and cook something! i love trying out new and crazy recipes and haven't had TOO many disasters so far....on the Taste of Home website i've been finding some really good recipes that fit us like recipes for 2 and healthy stuff. its been helpful in the fact that it makes just enough for both of us and it prevents us from eating like pigs when there's a lot of leftovers....

current obsessions:

1. SCENTSY.

my friend ailinh, who is a scentsy consultant, has gotten me SO addicted! i swear i never wanna buy another dumb candle again. i need more scents though....but one of my favorite things to do is to come home, turn it on and RELAX! ahhhhhhh. its so wonderful and so easy to clean up. i'm planning on having a scentsy party sometime soon, let me know if you'd like an invite! and every season they come out with new cute warmers and scents for the spring/summers and fall/winters. i love it l♥ve it love it! here is the scentsy website. i can't wait to have a bigger house so i could put one in every level and have my WHOLE HOUSE smelling beautiful.

2. CRAFTIN.

here is the glass cube thing (i don't even know what the heck its called) i made for my sis kyla and travis' late wedding present...i love doing vinyl lettering

this was my favorite to make! i was so excited that i actually bought a wood board, i painted it and rubbed on the vinyl lettering! i seriously went to porters (the rexburg craft store) about everyday one week. i felt like my mom at the craft stores getting all excited about the possibilities that could be created.

yes yes thats pretty much it. and i haven't really done a lot since i started working but i was quite proud of myself when i made these, its not like they were horribly time consuming but its a start. also i can't start junking up my apt with a bunch of random projects cuz we just don't have room.
i really hope to be one craftin cookin mama one day.

3. LADY GAGA-PAPARAZZI

just cuz.

she's kool and krazy

october's over

dinner tonight: ORANGE CHICKEN

thats right. i made chinese orange chicken and it was glorious.

here's how our halloween weekend went down.....

brett and i went to the ward's halloween party as gun slinging cowboy bandits from texas.

going as cowboys wasn't exactly my top choice but due to not even knowing what we're doing for halloween until the week of and the lack of money for maybe some awesome costume materials we went with some clothes we had already and bought our bandanas and tuff guns....brett had to give me some tough love when i was really frustrated we couldn't buy any COOL costume stuff. well, next year, we'll plan better....

for the activity we decorated cakes with our family home evening groups...

here's our butt-ugly spider that actually looks like a butt-ugly ant....
then on the actual halloween day we went to a brasilian halloween party! pretty random huh? but our friends carmelo and autumn invited us and i wanted to go to some kind of party on halloween and get all dressed up. even if it means going to a brasilian party where in brasil they don't even celebrate halloween.....
yeahhhhh not too eventful for halloween festivities. its so hard to figure out what to do for a holiday like this when you're married with no kids, but i'm sure when we start havin some i think it'll be WAY fun!

tonight brett and i got to watch President Uchtdorf's CES fireside talk and it was awesome. i felt like he was speaking directly to me when he said something like, "don't let your sorrows get you down and depressed but instead think of the things in your life that brings you light." ohhh man i've seriously been a bit of a whiner lately. i truly believe that the cold makes me depressed....but i really do need to think of better things that me me super happy.
like:
BRETT!
thanks brett for putting up with my grumpiness.
i love you very much!
♥

mo' money, mo' problems

just got done with an 8 1/2 hr (2-10pm) shift at jamba.

before you call me a whiner, it was an 8 1/2 hr shift on a saturday at a place where there are no breaks, no lunch, you're on your feet almost 100% of the time and the usual shifts are about 4-6 hrs. i needed to cover someone else's shift after mine so i was dreading the day going into work. but today turned out to be one of my best days at work! it wasn't as busy and we closed the store within a decent time after closing time...my hands are just really RAW. but now i got a little ka-ching ka-ching in my paycheck!

which is never a bad thing.

p.s. brett quit his job at wal-mart and is now working on campus as an assistant to the business advisor. which means he gets weekends off and we have sundays together to go to church and RELAX!

hay hay hay!

yesterday was such a GOOD DAY.

working at jamba so far has been great. its just been killer on my hands cuz of the sanitizer. but i'm getting a lot faster in making smoothies, i just haven't memorized as many of them as i would like. but all in all its fun and getting a free jamba everyday i work is the best thing of all!! yesterday i worked, like, 4 hours and it was pretty chill. no huge rushes and it was steady my whole shift. i freak out when there are huge rushes like there has been last week. just not used to them yet....

after work brett and i went to the straw maze with our friends from the polynesian cultural association (pca). i'm actually the secretary for the pca this semester and its been hard trying to figure out what to do for meetings b/c the fall semester is just not eventful with shows and performances we would usually do during the summer. so we decided to do a delightful fall tradition and go to a straw maze!

brett and i didn't know where the heck we were going!

and brett had his HUGE flashlight that was blinding everyone coming towards us.

i can't wait to have cute kiddies and take em to pumpkin patches and corn mazes and have them run around! in the meantime brett and i will do the runnin around.
and here's me and my girls with some delicious hot chocolate after accomplishing the maze under 30mins when it takes the average peeps 45mins...
we rocked it.


i'm just starting to appreciate the dreaded cold. last night's brisk and crisp weather is about as cold as i can stand it. i love hot chocolate and wearing cute layers. but not having to wear tons and tons of layers suffocating me. please rexburg, hold off the blizzards and the negative degree weather till the first of never?!?! PLEASE?!
kthanks.

SLC, UT II

brett and i went to salt lake city this weekend. i know, we just went last weekend too. last weekend, as you see 2 posts earlier, was for brett's mission reunion and general conference. this time it was for 2 weddings and to see my sister whom i haven't seen in almost a year...

and it was awesome.

so we started out our day waking up at 3 am just so we can make it for chick-fil-a breakfast all the way down in sandy, ut and then for ryan and susan's sealing in the Salt Lake Temple at 10am.

seriously has anyone tried the chicken biscuit? brett got me addicted. i guess its sort of a southern thing so its funny when we go to a chick-fil-a in the morning down in utah or west virginia and it is deserted. but brett says down in texas it is PACKED!

i DROOL for this.

anyways you should try it. it does sound bizarre, chicken for breakfast?!?!? just try it, if you don't like it, you can send your leftovers to me, i will gladly take it off your hands (since we don't have a freakin chick-fil-a in rexburg!) i seriously want one just talking about it. but yeah, its worth getting up at 3 in the morning...

okok enough with the delicious chicken talk and back to the main event...

so ryan is my best friend charlene's brother and susan is my friend from back home in WV. so this wedding was pretty much a harpers ferry reunion. ryan and susan looked so wonderful on their wedding day. and ryan wore his marine uniform making him look super sharp.

this is my cute sis kyla and her hubby travis.

story here is that she was one of susan's bridesmaids so my other reason for coming down to utah was to see her. i haven't seen her in almost a year and she just got married back in july and brett and i were unfortunately unable to go.....so i told everyone to NOT tell her i was coming down for the wedding. she didn't think we would come all the way down to ut, especially with our work schedules. so when she saw me she FREAKED OUT. pretty sure she pooped herself...jkjkjk...but she cried and i cried. it was wonderful....i love her and i wish i could see her more often. she lives in ephraim, which is like, 5 1/2 hrs from here.

this is my best friend charlene. i love and miss her SOOOO much! her family just recently moved to ut from wv so i hope we get to hang out more often...she was my first friend in high school and my first roommate in college. bffs!


and here's me and my BESTEST BEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD! my best friend for ETERNITY. ♥ him!

after ryan and susan's wedding and reception we then went to one of brett's friend's reception. we didn't stay long at all cuz we were SO exhausted.

and that was the end of our 2nd utah adventure.

i can die now.

cuz JIM and PAM ARE MARRIED!!!!!!!

i just got done watching what i believe to be the office's most important episode EVER.

i am a hardcore addicted office fan. i have all the seasons and i have never been into a tv show like this. this is my SOAP OPERA.

i cried.

i screamed when jim kissed pam at the end of casino night.

i cried when jim proposed.

and i cried again at the wedding.

well, i didn't bawl my eyes out, but got quite emotional. brett has been at work, so he didn't get to watch it with me and tell me to hold it together cuz its just a tv show. but still. i love them.

the wedding episode was nothing like i had imagined. i don't wanna spoil it for anybody but it was crazy, had the usual moments of intense awkwardness, and beautiful tender moments. ♥

i thought pam looked so beautiful
(in a dress not attempting to conceal that she's preggo)

i wish they were married in real life. but its ok, i like the girl john krasinski is marrying.

but still.

SLC,UT

brett and i got the chance to go to his mission reunion and general conference this past weekend in salt lake city. we had so much fun getting the heck out of rexburg and seeing friends. brett's mission president, Bro. Bradford, holds the mission reunions around general conference time so we thought it would be fun to go to one of them. (fyi, brett served in the brazil, sao paulo interlagos mission, portuguese speaking) also the reunion was catered by braza grill...BONUS!.... there weren't as many people that brett knew from his mission but there were just a few that he did know...it was just a little weird for me not knowing anybody there tho it was a lot of fun seeing brett catch up with old friends and talk about old mission stories.

here's brett at the reunion with his scrapbook page the mission president's wife made.

and here's my cutie from when he was on his mission!

love!

the prayers were done in portuguese and after dinner everybody gathered in the chapel and the mission president and his wife gave talks about mission stuff (thankfully in english) and at the end of the reunion everybody made a circle around the chapel and sang their mission song in portuguese. it was amazing, even though it was in another language i felt the spirit so strong. i sorta felt like i was back at efy in a circle singing the efy medley....but this time i wasn't singing but listening. i myself never having gone on a mission or know anything about the sacrifices made to serve one but i am TRULY grateful to those who have served a mission. and i am even more grateful to have married a guy who served a mission too. our plans are to teach our kids portuguese but first i need to learn it! i'm excited.

the next day, saturday, we went to general conference for the sat. morning session. we were able to get tickets from brett's parents down in texas. it was my first time and it was super exciting for me!

it was really crazy seeing how much people they could pack into the conference center! this picture looks like japan! haha

the session was really good. we were up on the balcony so the apostles looked this big! it was seriously awesome to be in the same room as the prophet. and the mormon tabernacle choir sounded a whole lot better in person. going to conference was such a great experience.

this is one of my best friends, katie, and me on the top of the conference center

the weekend was AWESOME.

and i l♥ved spending every moment of it with brett

p.s. i don't have a she-wolf in my closet,

but a she-cheetah.