Tuesday, March 17, 2009

These are a few of my favorite things...for the time being

So I may have an addiction...I've actually been struggling with this problem for some time now. And I'm here to confess, I have an addiction to blueberry smoothies and homemade tortillas. And I'm here to share it with you! I noticed that most tortilla recipes call for shortening (yuck!) So I have a substitute for that icky stuff. It's called, OLIVE OIL! And here's the recipe:
2 cups unbleached flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
2/3 cup warm water (I heat mine up in the microwave for about 30-35 seconds)
And that's all it takes. Now for making them.
Add flour, salt, and e.v.o.o. Mix until it makes little clumps (it makes a big difference if you have like a Kitchen Aid over a hand mixer). Slowly add warm water, and mix until dough forms. Break into 2 inch sized balls. Flatten and cook in a skillet on medium to high heat until golden brown. That's it! Super easy, and super quick! It should make about 12 tortillas, but they're pretty small. So if you'd like to make them bigger for burritos or something then just make your dough balls bigger..duh!
Yum!

Okay and now I'll share my blueberry smoothie recipe with you. Because I know you all care oh so much!
Ingredients:
1 banana
2 oranges
All natural vanilla yogurt
2 cups Milk
Raw honey
1 cup frozen or fresh blueberries
6-8 frozen or fresh strawberries

First put in blender, banana, peeled oranges, about 2 big spoonfuls of yogurt, about 2 cups milk (add more if you would like to make it more liquid like) and 2 big spoonfuls of raw honey. Blend together. Once everything is mixed add in your frozen blueberries and strawberries. If your smoothie is too thick, add a little more milk and some water (or just milk or just water). And that's it. If you'd like to make it a green smoothie, simply add some spinach and broccoli and you've got your own homemade "super food" smoothie.

FIN!

Oh, I didn't take these photos...I stole them from google, whoopsie daisy!
Only 2 more weeks until I start school! Woo Hoo! Oh and I applied for a cheer advisor position so wish me luck on that too :)

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Having the strangest/strongest cravings!

And that craving would be....WANTING TO GO TO HAWAII!! For the past month or so I've been wanting to go so bad! This feeling may have been provoked even more because of the fact that my parents and sister are there right now. I'm in the process of trying to convince Conryd that this summer would be perfect to go, especially because I found CHEAP tickets to fly to Oahu. So now I'm trying even harder to convince him, but so far, it's not working :( I know right now really isn't the perfect timing, seeing as how we're pretty much broke and I'll be starting Paul Mitchell the end of this month and really can't afford to miss a week of school, but who cares! It's Hawaii! I guess the best I can do is reminisce of our wonderful 2 weeks we spent there last year for our honeymoon...



So these aren't the beessst pictures, but it's the best I have :)

Awh sweet paradise! Anyways, I'm still working on getting us there, so keep your fingers crossed!

Oh yeah good news, well new news I guess. But for those of you who don't know, I'm starting Paul Mitchell the end of this month and really looking forward to it. Not just because it's school specifically for my future career, but because that means I'll be doing a lot less hours at work! YAY! I'm so sick of working it's ridiculous. So yay for less hours! Anywho, just my quick little update. Sorry it's not very exciting but not much is going on in our lives. Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

P.S. If you're craving something sweet to eat but don't want to eat junk, try cutting up some fresh strawberries and pour agave over it. It's so yum!!!! I may have an addiction to it :)

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Valentines Day!

So I've never been a huge Valentines Day person and I don't think I ever will be...Oh darn! We did however "celebrate" it sort of. Thursday was our super sweet 10 month anniversary and Saturday was Valentines day, so we decided to kind of combine the both and went out to a nice dinner Friday night (like we would really try to go out on actual Valentines? Pass, too many people out for my liking). Actually we really only went out to this place because we had a gift card, that my sister-in-law and her husband so kindly gave us for Christmas. We went out to a restaurant in Salt Lake called...

It was a pretty nice dinner, but it made me realize that "nice" dinners are completely overrated. I would much rather go to a restaurant in comfy jeans than trying to eat food in a dress that I can barely breath in. I would post a picture of us at this restaurant but I just looked at it and I look horrifying in it, so I left it out.

Although, one nice thing about Valentines is that it gave us the perfect excuse to eat some of our favorite things like Salt and Vinegar chips and Cadbury mini eggs!



So that's our update for our "holiday" weekend. Now for an update of last weekend, my sister and Lance came up to Utah just for a few days but we were able to see them for half the amount of time they were here. It was so fun to see them again and especially to see my little adorable niece, Elle. I was able to capture TWO pictures of Conryd playing with her. He's going to be such a good dad some day :)

And I'm not quite sure what Elle is doing in this picture but she's still so cute! I think the bow got too heavy so she needed a rest :)

And well I guess this completes my update. Love you all!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

MMM oreo cookies and exercising?

Here's our "baby."

Last week Conryd and I made our first BIG purchase...an elliptical! We figured our gym memberships are up in a few weeks, and the money we would spend for a new membership would cover more than the total cost of our elliptical, plus the warranty for 5 years. We are very excited about our big buy and now we really have NO excuse for not working out :)

In other news...I had the strongest craving for homemade oreo cookies today. So I ignored all of my "health" eating instincts and caved in. And you know what, I'm not even mad I did. But good news for me, I now have an elliptical right at my finger tips to work off all those delicious oreo cookies...mmmm I can still taste the goodness! Here is a picture of my beautiful creation (Sorry if it's blurry, I guess I don't have that steady of a hand)


Bree is coming Friday, WooHoo!! And my mother is already here. It was so nice spending time with her and I look forward to spending time with my adorable, adorable, adorable niece :)

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

GAAHHH!

SO "good" news, I basically want to quit my job. I'm sick of being treated like crap and being taken for granted. I'm sorry but that is just not worth the tiny amount of bucks that I'm making. I think I'd much rather have my dignity than have a couple of nothing dollars in my bank account. Today pretty much just drew the line that I either need to A. Quit and find a new a job or B. start school full time and still find a new job. What I would really love to do is coach this...



"This" being coaching cheer. I would seriously do anything to be able to coach and quit my stupid job. Anyways, just an update.
What did we learn? My job sucks, I want to quit and some how find a way to coach cheer. The end.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Inspired for "change!?"

Well yes, I have conformed to "change!" And that change being...my blog background :) Bree inspired me to do after her post on changing some things of her own. After I read that I couldn't stand to look at my background anymore! So I finally changed it, after hours or template searching, I found one that I think I like? Let me know what you think? Better or worse?

In other news, Conryd is now in his 3rd week of school at BYU and doing great. He's studying all the time, which I hate but can't make him not study. He's putting a lot of time into his school work which is great to see. He's really enjoying it and keeping up in all of his classes so far, so I'm quite proud of my little "cougar." As for me, I'm still working and trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. Suggestions would be great!

Not much else is going on in our lives as of right now. If any of you are looking for some good movies to watch may i suggest Ghost Town, The House Bunny (I know it looked super lame but it's actually hilarious), and Horton Hears a Who. They're all surprisingly funny. But if you watch them, and end up hating them...don't blame me! Oh yeah I just found out that Kate (my cousin) started her photography business, I think it's hers? But a few of our engagement photos are on her website. So we're like pretty much famous :) She's really talented when it comes to anything "artsy". Here's her link if you guys would like to check out some of her stuff.
http://kateosbornephotography.com

Oh yes, and here is our Salvesen family photo...

This photo made me decide that it's time to start losing that "Holiday" weight.

Good night!

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Finally, a Christmas update!

Merry (late) Christmas and Happy (late) New Year! I hope everyone enjoyed their time off of work. I know I did :)

So Christmas this year was just wonderful...although I don't think anything could have beaten last years Christmas! Conryd and I were able to fly out to CA to see my WHOLE family! I was so excited to finally see my sister and her baby, "Baby Elle."

We spent the week in San Diego, but unfortunately we hit rainy weather. But in the end it all worked out...seeing as how I was practically paralyzed (no joke) for half the week. It was super depressing, I threw my back out. Yes I know, I am only 20 years old but I felt like a 90 year old woman. I had literally never felt so helpless before in my life. It all started off with me lying on the floor and not being able to get up again. I cried my eyes out for about 3 hours out of frustration and pain. My dad and Conryd finally gave me a blessing and within the next 20 minutes or so I was finally able to stand up-ish, and make it next door to our house, up the stairs, down the hall, and FINALLY into our bed. And then once I was in bed, I was pretty much stuck there for 2 days, no joke. Conryd was so so soooo good to me. He brought me food in bed, rolled me over when it was time, heated up my heat pack, and pretty much catered to my every need. It was so sweet.

Anywhoooo, Christmas was amazing! We went to Sea World, which was surprisingly better than I thought it was going to be. I think I want to become a dolphin trainer now :) It was cute to see Cadence play and just be amazed by everything! San Diego, although paralyzed for most of the trip, was a lot of fun! Thank you mommy and daddy.

Going home was so great, but also a bad thing because it just made me miss everything about it. My family, my house, the warmer weather, my dog, the nail forum :) and so much more! I'm hoping we'll be able to make it out there soon but I doubt that will happen, especially with Conryd's harsh school schedule. I think we'll be stuck in Utah forever! LAME! Well now comes the part to post pictures and a cute little video of my new-ish niece, Elle.