It's about time for an update

So I'm at work right now, and we're having some computer problems, so they've shut down the 2 programs that I ONLY work with, so now I have absolutely nothing to do for the next million hours...yes I said million. So I decided that this would be the perfect time to update my blog. Very exciting I know. And my boss just left for a "meeting" which really means he's out playing basketball, but hey, that's fiiiiine with me.

This past weekend my mom came up to Utah for the Ascend Gala, and has been up here for a couple of days now. Conryd and I were able to go to the Gala with her Friday night, and I guess you could say it was fun? I actually enjoyed it, except for the fact that it was 5 hours long, and I was sick. But it was fun to hang out with mom and see people spend ridiculous amounts of money like its nothing, but atleas they're spending it on charity right? So anyways, we went to Salt Lake for Gala at the Grand America Hotel. It was really nice and had a really pretty court yard. Below are few pictures from that. Nothing too exciting but i guess they're just "updated" photos.





Saturday mom came down to Provo to check out our sweet pad. And indeed...it was sweet. We then had a mommy daughter day and went to get a quick bit and then off for some shopping. Afterwards, Cecilia made us all dinner and it was delish. And then we went to Hello Yogurt for dessert (sooo good). Sunday was our primary program, and those are always enjoyable to watch, well atleast a little bit more enjoyable then other sacrament meetings. The little sunbeams and 5 year olds were by far the cutest. They reminded me of Bree because of the way they pronounced their "R's." So adorable! Mom and grandma and Carol came over to our place later that evening to hang out and what not. It was pretty fun to have them all there and to be with family. Anyways, my life is pretty boring. Nothing too exciting going on right now. But incase you all cared, i thought i would just update you on things. Hope you all enjoy the rest of the week.

avocado salsa...mmmm

So my mother-in-law has this recipe for this AMAZING salsa. It is my favorite thing to eat right now, I guess you could say I might be obsessed/addicted with it. It's pretty much all I've been craving. And its so quick and easy to make. I was telling Bree about it yesterday and told her I would send her the recipe but I decided to post it on here so I could share it with all 3 of my "blogging" friends :)

AVOCADO SALSA
2 cups of corn
1 can of black olives
1 cucumber
1-2 tomatoes
4-5 garlic cloves(pressed not chopped)
1 red bell pepper
1 onion
2-4 avocados
however much cilantro you want

Thats kind of like your base stuff, next you make the dressing/sauce/whatever you want to call it

1 cup olive oil
1 1/2 tbs. balsomic vinegar
1 1/2 tbs. apple cider vinegar
1/2 tsp. salt and pepper (add more if you would like)
1 tbs. dried oregano
1 squeezed lemon (optional)
Then you pour the dressing on top of your veggies and mix
Eat with tortilla chips (F.Y.I. Costco has these really yummy organic veggie chips)

You can add or take out whatever you would like. I personally can do without the red pepper and onion and I can always add more salt and cilantro. If you are trying to stay away from carbs, like the chips, its really good to eat by its self like a fresh salad. It really only takes about 15-20 mintues to prepare. But if you have one of those chop wizard things, it take a lot less time. Anyways, try it out, hope you enjoy it and fall in love with it like i did :)

Our Lake Powell trip

So this past week Conryd and I have been in Lake Powell. My sister-in-law and her husband invited us, along with their family, to stay with them on a house boat for week. It was AMAZING! Not only was it great to get away from work for week, I also got away from Provo...no offense to those of you who "like" provo. It was a really fun week, I will admit i was a bit nervous to go just because i had never done any type of boating activities since i was about 6, and that ended quickly because my brother and sister thought it would be "fun"to scare their little sister by telling her (me) that if you hit a warm spot in the lake it's a dead body and they pull you under and drown you..thanks a lot bree and casey. But now that i am much older, i've come to realize that that is not true! Luckily Tristin (My sister-in-laws hubby) and his family don' wakeboard, which i've heard is really hard and extremely painful if you fall, they wake surf which is really fun. I had never heard of that until this trip, and its awesome. I was able to get up within my first couple of tries. It was kind of difficult to understand what to do, but i think i sort of, kind of, got the hang of it. I was definitely no where near as close to being as good as Conryd and everyone else, but none the less, i still had a blast attempting. A couple days into the trip, Conryd was wake surfing and split his lip open. The board back fired at him and sliced his bottom lip open and his top teeth came down onto his bottom lip as well, splitting open the inside of his lip. Sadly, i have not been able to kiss him since :( sad i know. Well below are a couple of pictures and movie clips of our trip. Its been awhile since i've updated this thing. Enjoy! oh yeah and my wipe out looked a lot more worse in video than it actually was.

New Niece!!!!

Yesterday, July 30, Elle Marie Erickson was born. She weighed in at a whopping 9lbs 1 oz! Way to go Bree :) She is just so adorable and too cute for words. I was able to skype with them last night for a little bit. Now I'm not quite sure as to who she looks more like? I know that she definitely has Bree's nose, but as for the rest of her face, at times she looks like lance and at other times she looks like bree...i guess she is just a complete mix of them both. I am very jealous of my mom though because she gets to spend 2 weeks in texas with them. And i have no idea when i'll get to see them next. Flight tickets are so dang expensive! I am really hoping to make it out for their baby blessing...so uh ehem mother, if you wouldn't mind dropping some cash on a plane ticket for me, i wouldn't even be mad :) Congratulations Bree and Lance, I couldn't be happier for you. Well here are some pictures that i stole from Lance...

this what i get to do while i'm at work

1. What is his name? Conryd Peter Salvesen
2. Who eats more? Uh…that would have to be Conryd.
3. Who said I love you first? He did. He almost let it slip out when we were first dating, but he tried to brush it off like nothing happened and I think he just quickly turned it into like “oh I love... hanging out with you” or something like that. To be honest, I don’t remember him saying it, but I wish I did :)
4. Who is taller? He is, he is 6’1 and I am only 5’3. I get made fun of a lot in his family for being the shortest. Even my 15 year old niece is taller than me…
5. Who is smarter? I am duh! No, he is definitely. He’s the reason why I got an “A” in math :)
6. Who is more sensitive? Me, I think I’ve always been sensitive, maybe even too sensitive.
7.Who does the laundry? I do. I think the only time he’s done the laundry was last week, when we were packing for CA he stayed up with til 3 in the morning to do the laundry, and even woke up early to check it. He is so sweet.
8. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? If you’re looking straight on to the bed he sleeps on the right.
9. Who pays the bills? We don’t really have bills, THANKGOODNESS! We only have our phone bill, and he pays for them.
10. Who cooks more? Cook? Ha uh, I guess I “cook” more. Right now we’re kind of eating raw foods, so no “cooking” for me, for now. But I can tell in the future that I’ll be doing the cooking.
11. What meals do you cook together? Dinner, in the mornings I just make smoothies for us, and for lunch I’m at work, so dinner is really the only meal we share together.
12. Who is more stubborn? We both are I guess? We’re really not stubborn people though. We’re both really laid back and usually don’t care, but in a good way of not caring…if that makes sense?
13. Who is the first to admit they're wrong? Never been wrong before in my life. But then again, neither has Conryd.
14. Who has more siblings? Him, he has 2 half brothers and his younger sister who is my age. I only have Bree and Casey. He wins by one.
15. Who wears the pants in the relationship? I do. I push him around and make him feel less of a man. Kidding, uh I guess he does? But only because I let him. I hate decision making, so if he wears the pants then hes required to make every decision.
16. What do you like to do together? We like to eat, work out, sleep, watch a lot of movies, play on the Wii, go to Disneyland, go to the beach, and well pretty much just spending any time together is what we like best.
17. Who eats more sweets? Hmmm…that’s tough. I’d have to say we’re probably equal. I have a bad habit for wanting sweets. I’d say I want them more than he does, but we’ll probably eat the same amount.
18. Guilty pleasures? Salt and vinegar chips, gummi bears, those dang chocolate chip cookies, sleeping into til 12 (which I haven’t been able to do in a very long time), pink berry, and that’s all I can think of.
19. How did you meet? We had a couple of classes together and saw each other from across the room. He had this friend named Roxy who was in our health class as well and I also thought at the time she was his girlfriend, but I ended up meeting her in the bathrooms at school while we were changing for health class, and so we started talking and found out that we also had math together and that Conryd was not her boyfriend. After class I went to talk to her to tell her I wasn’t going to go to math. And Conryd just so happened to be standing with her so I knew that was the perfect time to talk to her so I could talk to him. So after Roxy and I were done talking I then turned to Conryd and introduced myself and we had that awkward, first meeting, small talk stuff. We found out that we both were living in provo which was pretty cool. I remember that day after school, I thought to myself “wouldn’t that be awesome if I ran into Conryd some where here in Provo?” But I knew the chances of that happening were slim to none! But that next day, Friday night, I was at King Henry playing soccer outside with Ed and Conryd just so happened to be driving past with his friend and saw Ed’s big hair, and knew if Ed was there, I must be around as well. So he jumped out of the car (which was STILL moving) and came over. Ed noticed him and was like “Hey, isn’t that that south African guy?” so anyways, we ended up talking that whole night, and he pretty much ditched this other girl that he was suppose to be hanging out with to talk with me :) it was a long story, but I know you all were dying to know it!
20. Who asked who out first? Um well, I invited him to go to the tumbling gym with me and my friends, but I guess if that doesn’t really count as asking him out first, then he kind of asked me out by inviting himself over Sunday afternoon for quesadillas because “he was a starving African kid” and that my mom “would be so happy because I was doing my service by feeding an African.” It was cute, so how could I have possibly said no? But after that we hung out everyday and then had a reeeal date that weekend.
21. Who kissed who first? He kissed me first. It took him long enough! You would think that if we were hanging out til like 3 in the morning every night it would have happened quicker. I kept anticipating it but it never came ha!
22. Who proposed? He did. He wanted to make sure it was a complete surprise, and indeed it was. I’m pretty sure he lied to my face for like a month straight. And sadly, I did not catch on at all. It was perfect though. Best surprise and Christmas ever!
23. His best features? His accent of course! His eyes, his facial structure, his arms, his back, his legs, okay EVERYTHING is his best feature.
24. What is his greatest quality? I’d have to say how sweet he is. He is a very caring and hard working husband. I can honestly say he’s never done anything that has ever made me upset. Or if I am ever upset he’s always there to comfort me. He is just the most sweet and caring guy I have ever met. I love everything about him, and I can pretty much say he has no flaws, hes perfect :)
25. Tag? Well I only a few “blogging” friends…so Bree, Carly, and Chelsea, TAG!

So we're here in valencia spending some time with the family and i had to make sure to get some video clips of cadence to show the world that i have the cutest niece ever! heres some proof...

4th of July weekend

So as you were all aware...or at least i hope you were aware ,that this past weekend was the 4th of July. This was my first 4th of July away from home and away from the parade :) it was awesome. Stadium of fire ( i had never heard of this before until this year) had Miley Cyrus and the Blue Man group performing, sadly we did not go see Miley (she is Conryd's idol...in a non pedifile way) not really though. So we ended up going to their family friends house to watch some fireworks and hear the distant singing of Hanna Montana.

To the left of me is our nephew and niece, Scott and Tayla. Crazy to think that I now have a nephew who is only 3 or 4 years younger than me! weird!

On Saturday we ended up hiking Mt. Timpanogas with Juanique and Tristin. It was a pretty quick hike but really steep. The caves were really interesting to walk through. I hate that when you get in there they tell you not to touch anything because it just made me want to touch everything! And I think I could honestly say that that was really my first hike ever! I can't say that i LOVED it but I don't think i hated it? I did hate it the next day though...ouch. here are a couple of pictures of this hike to prove that i actually did it :)

After the hike we headed back to Juan and Tristin's house to go swimming, eat some pizza, and watch Be Kind Rewind. It was a pretty full, tiring, fun, weekend.
Tomorrow Conryd and I leave for Valencia, and I know that I am way excited to be back in California and see my family. And it will also be nice to get away from work, even though my job is way relaxed and way awesome...working everyday is hard to get used to when before that you didnt have to work one day :) But I know Kristina will probably end up reading this so i will say this, I miss working so much! It's so much fun, I wish it would never end :) Anyways, so we're pretty much going to have a relaxed weekend back home, hopefully go to the beach once or twice, lay out by the pool, get some in n out and stone fire, and see my nieces! Oh and to Bree and Kelli, i will set up my voicemail whenever i feel like it okay! get off my back! kidding, i've tried setting it up and i just cant figure it out. And i'm too lazy to call to fix it. Well that is pretty much my week. Pretty exciting stuff i know! Oh and i know i said this sort of in my last post, but i cant believe Bree is going to have her baby THIS MONTH! crazy! so excited though!