Merry Christmas! (Late)

I don't really have any pictures from Christmas this year because SOMEONE was in such a hurry for us to open presents that it was Chaos. Boyfriend and I spent the week in SLC at his Grandma's house, his family was in town. I LOVE them! Emma (Boyfriends sister and one of my BFF's) has lots more pictures on her camera from the week so when she uploads them, I will steal them from her :]

We received some wonderful gifts and I am grateful for all of them.

Here is my favorite part of Christmas every year!

This is our door with all of the Christmas cards that we received. (LOVE getting Christmas cards!)

Boyfriend, Doggie and I even made our own this year (we meaning ME but all the same)

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Love us!

1 semester down

Three more to go until I'm done with school :]

I passed both of my finals, so I passed all my classes! It's such a relief to have a break for a few weeks. I plan on sewing Christmas presents, reading lots and lots of books (My first stop after I finished my finals was to the Library) and cleaning the house. Which is much needed!

I guess I haven't updated in forever..

For thanksgiving we went to the boyfriends Grandma's house there were a ton of people but it was fun. I also got a cricut and learned to make baklava!

I have alot to finish for presents but I am SO excited for Christmas. We will be with the other side of KC's family in Salt Lake. His sister Emma is like my favorite person ever and I haven't seen her in a year and a half, so I'm VERY excited!

more later. :]

Honey Lime Chicken Enchiladas!

So I first heard about honey lime chicken enchiladas from Busy Bee Lauren's Blog but there was no recipe so I don't know if these ones turned out the way that hers did. So I went searching for another recipe and found it at The Sisters' Cafe

Here's the recipe that I used.

Honey Lime Enchiladas

submitted by Brittany

1.5 lbs pork or chicken, cooked and shredded

Sauce:

1/3 c honey

1/4 c lime juice

1 Tb chili powder

1/2 tsp garlic powder

2 (10 oz) cans green enchilada sauce

equal parts mixed together of:

mozzarella cheese, shredded

cheddar cheese, shredded

flour tortillas

Mix together sauce ingredients then add to shredded pork or chicken. Let the sauce soak into the meat for about 30 minutes.

Lightly spray 2 pans with non-stick baking spray. (I usually use one 9x13 and one 9x9 but it may vary with how thick you stuff your enchiladas) Pour green enchilada sauce into pans to coat the entire bottom. Fill tortillas with shredded meat and desired amount of cheese. Roll and place in dish.

Pour remainder of sauce over enchiladas and sprinkle more cheese on top - don't be stingy! (I sometimes use more like 1 1/2 cans- you can freeze left over enchilada sauce in a baggy.) Bake uncovered at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Then turn on broiler and place enchiladas nearer the top of oven. Let it broil until cheese is slightly brown and crispy. It is now time to WOW your family!!

Diabetic Doggie!

So Popcorn hasn't been feeling well lately. She has had a stuffy nose and has been really thirsty. Some days she'll pee alot, others she won't pee at all. So KC took her to the vet and they ran some tests and she has been diagnosed with Diabetes! So now she is on insulin.. now for a normal person this would be sad, but it cracks me up. Not because I think it's funny that she has it. I get home from clinicals, ask the boyfriend how the vet went and explains to me that she has diabetes, and I will be giving her insulin injections. So I check the stuff from the vet/pharmacy and find the script to say (NPH 10 units BID) in non-medical terms it means 10 units of normal insulin twice a day. Then I open the box of insulin and it's the insulin I use at the hospital!

I guess it's really not that funny... but in my nerd nurse (in training) brain I find it comical...

here's a picture of her all tucked in ready for bed

Vote for #17

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New couches!!

Boyfriend bought us new couches from Tiffy and Bryan (parents to my ADORABLE nephew Brax!) LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM!

Our previous couches were from Boyfriends mom, and they were comfortable but the colors did not go with our (or should I say my) interior decorating. :] ♥


[FYI: these are bad pictures because my camera is dead so I took them with my phone!]

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from Taffee

Taffee tagged me, and so I guess I better do this!

1. Favorite season: Summer! LOVE the sun, I think I could lay out all day, I love wearing shorts and flip-flops and eating pomegranate/coconut snowies :]

2. Favorite physical feature: uhmmm... My smile? I'm kind of OCD about my teeth

4. Color your hair regularly? usually about every8-10 weeks.

5. Top item on your wish list: Geez I don't even

know.. I need a printer but it's not something I want to buy... Maybe clothes?

6. Favorite way to 'scent' your house: Scentsy

7. What are you eating for dinner tonight? We had balsalmic vinegar chicken and sautéed mushrooms. yum!

8. Are your toenails painted? yeah, I need to re-do them though!

9. One thing you splurge on even if $ is tight: uhh... I don't even know. haha

10. Post the most recent photo of you ...

(prevent swine flu ;])

11. Tag 8 friends:

(this is how lame I am, I don't even have 8 people who read my blog that haven't already been tagged) haha Feel free to do it if you are reading this and bored!

So I suck

So I suck at keeping this updated (Sorry Taffee!) But I've been busy with school, so I haven't really had much to blog about.. however I have MUCH over due pictures from my birthday party...So.. what's been going on lately?
Well I go to school usually from 8-12 every day on Tuesdays I have clinicals from 6:30-1:30 at Parkdale. I love the residents they are so neat! We only have two more left, (Tomorrow and next week.) Then we start hospital rotations, and I'm really excited for that, it will be such a different experience from the nursing home and I am looking forward to learning new things. School is going by faster then I thought it would. It's very busy, but I enjoy it and cannot wait to be done and move out of Price.
Last Thursday my sisters soccer team played against the parents. (I played because my mother would not) and we totally kicked their trash! I also watched Maddi-gas-car from Friday afternoon until Saturday afternoon. She is getting so big, and is too cute for her own good. Boyfriend and I enjoyed it, and I believe the doggy did too because she liked all the kisses she received!
Speaking of Popcorn, I am in the process of making her Halloween costume (pictures to come as soon as it's complete!) only I can only sew with bf takes her to work with him because she is not a fan of the sewing machine and tries to be destructive to the house to get rid of her anxiety. She and I are going to be bumble bees and boyfriend is going to be a bee keeper. :) I'm super excited for Halloween, what are you guys going to be? I hate the cold weather though. I finally made boyfriend turn on the furnace because I hate getting out of bed when it's freezing causing me to sleep in and show up right on time to class (which isn't always a good thing).
On a final note, I purchased this sweet pattern from Jessica of Happy Together on her Etsy Shop to make these adorable octopus stuffed animals. [if you're family your kids will probably be receiving them for Christmas, so be excited!]
I'll be back in the near future with pictures of our Halloween costumes and such. I'll be sure to update soon so you can keep up with my oh so exciting life (Taffee!)

Marley's Senior Pictures!

Lizzy, from Lizzy Jean Photography took my sisters senior pictures, she is super nice and VERY talented! check the site for more pictures, and if any of you seniors want yours done tell her the we referred you!

Thanks Lizzy!!

School and not much else

So I haven't blogged in a long time and it's mostly because I've been in school and not much else so there is nothing to blog about. Last week was our first week of fall semester. It wasn't too bad, however our wed-fri class is from 8-12 and let me tell you the time goes by SO slow! I do like the teachers though, and Pharmacology is not too bad :]

I worked at Dr. Monahan's office for my aunt a few weeks ago and it was fun, it gave me my first real taste of what being a nurse is like. (see picture below all offical like and such) haha

I was also spoiled by my dad and went school clothes shopping with my sister and we had alot of fun. If you haven't seen The Ugly Truth, you probably should, it's hilarious, although not apropriate for children ;)

Last but not least I cut and dyed my hair the coolest red I've ever seen! haha It's a SOCOLOR HD (a new dye which is supposed to last longer than regular) My cousin got it in and we tried it... Inside it looks like a maroon-ish red but outside it "looks like fire"- well according

to my cousin Bode it does anyways. I really like it :D I need to take a picture outside so you can tell the difference it's really cool!

New Computer/End of the semster/ etc.

So I got a new laptop, and I don't have any of pictures my pictures of here yet, so this blog isn't going to have any pictures, so I'll just have to post about my St. George trip later. :] June/July has been very busy between boyfriend being gone and work, our lives have been crazy! The Boyfriend went to Nationals for PBL and placed 10th in Cyber security! Woo-Hoo, go boyfriend! He then went to Chicago for his grandparents 50th Wedding anniversary. So he was gone for a VERY long time. Right now he's in Las Vegas at Defcon which is pretty exciting for him.

As for me I've just been busy with school. I finished my first semester yesterday, and I'm very excited about that! 2 more semesters to go until I am an LPN! I also went to St. George and hung out with my cousins there for a weekend with my dad while KC was gone, (as I said before I'll post pictures, and tell about the trip later).

Another thing, the boyfriend is also starting new tech-help videos, so check them out.

Finally check out thePfactor, he's the Boyfriends brother and is SUPER hilarious!

FINALLY an update..

So KC FINALLY got my pictures to me but I've been too busy to put them up so here they are now... In no particular order... First we went to Dane Cook at the E Center he is absolutely HILARIOUS. Then, we went to California for Labor Day weekend to hang out with KC's parents on one of the days we went to Santa Cruz to the mystery spot. it was so neat if any of you have the chance you should definitely go sometime! Also we went to the Santa Cruz boardwalk which was also pretty neat.
Now that it's nearly July there aren't many blogworthy events I started school yesterday and KC has been in Anaheim for his PBL competition but he'll be home on Wednesday so I'm VERY excited for that. (So I'm probably Blogger retarded because I don't know how to re-arrange the pictures so whomever is reading this will just have to put up with them not being in order. SORRY)

long awaited

update coming AS SOON AS boyfriend gets my pictures off of Lisa's computer from our California trip. HINT HINT :]

Super Cross and more importantly DAVI MILLSAPS!!!

The 25th of April was Supercross in Salt Lake and the Rice Eccles Stadium. My dad, Marley, and I went two years in a row and then they stopped having it here 5 years ago. BUT they finally had it here again this year and I was SOO excited. We've had out tickets for a year and they were AMAZING. (front row) well technically they were 5th row but 5th row was the front for this event. We were so close! My dad's friend Ken who got us the tickets also had 10 other tickets so there were other people with us. Johnny Downard who I used to work with at GNC won a freaking dirtbike! LUCKY. Most importantly however I met DAVI MILLSAPS!!! I've been a fan of Davi for probably 5+ years or however long it's been since he started his supercross career. Here are the pictures :-] Bubba Stewart finished 1st, Chad Reed 2nd, and Davi 3rd it was an intense battle for 1st place between Reed and Stewart it was a great night even though we FROZE!






















(L to R Davi talking about his third place finish, Davi and I, Davi signing autographs, Roger Decoster dads hero, David Bailey another one of the "good ol' boys" my dad actually me him on the plane when he was on his way to basic training for the coast guard., Ivan Tedesco, He's really cute!

Britney Spears

So I went on a Random trip to Salt Lake with Mace and Kelly to the Brittney Spears Concert... I'm not a HUGE fan.. The concert was alright I guess it would have been better if I was a super obsessed fan or something.... but here are some pictures from that day :]

























Pussy Cat Dolls!





Britney (we were REAL far away so not amazing pictures)








The pictures below are of Kelly's cousin Cassie ( I think) and her husband. They work as performers in Vegas but are currently part of Britney's Circus tour. NEAT huh?!

Meet Pablo!

Pablo!

So on Easter Sunday I was at Gracie's Birthday Party and I decided I wanted to ride the Mule... Gracie told me that he "bucked her off almost today" but really what had happened was Kendal (Gracie's dog) jumped over the fence and scared Pablo (Gracie's mule) so he ran the other direction and it scared her because she wasn't prepared for it... SO he was a bit temperamental for the rest of the day. Steve rides him around to the yard.. and I attempt to get on... well watch the video for what happens next.. I'll just say that I never ended up riding him that day!

The girls and I waiting for Steve to bring out the Mule

apparently he doesn't like me... notice my shoes! they're my dad's I was wearing flip-flops and apparently you can't ride mules with them on.. but i guess I can't ride mules at all if they don't like me!

Home Alone

The boyfriend is out for the night so I'm about to update my blogs... be prepared :]

pictures finally annd stuff :]

Alright well blogger is being dumb... here are some pictures of what I've been creating with my new lovely sewing machine. Boyfriend never expected me to actually get as much use out of it he thought he'd just buy it for me and it would sit for all eternity.. WRONG. haha okay so starting from the top... A purse I found a pattern for and finished yesterday. Next the reversible purse I made for Gracie's birthday (which is tomorrow) with the pattern from smallfry&co. and finally two 15-minute dresses i whipped up for Madd's first birthday. (She wore the pink one to her party) Thank you Tanya from Trey&Lucy's blog! Well that's all for now :]