Life and Health.

If anyone happens to be wondering what we're doing..  Andrew got an internship.  His first day is today actually.  I hear tell this new employer is putting up a volleyball net and they have Nerf wars in the office or something.

As for me, I'm far more boring, I've been watching a lot of documentaries. I shall list a few and what I got from it:

Forks Over Knives- I totally want to be a vegetarian, for health!

Hungry For Change- Set your mindset to stun! I mean.. to positive 

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead- Juice is a tasty way to eat all the recommended amounts of fruit and veggies and get a ton of vitamins! 

Farmageddon - Man I hate the government, why can we no buy fresh raw milk!?

Vegucated - Vegetarian longing even more.  Animals sure fart a lot.

Life style changes are hard!  I try not eating sugar and processed foods, and I try to not eat meat.  NEAR IMPOSSIBLE! Especially when eating out.  So for now we'll just cut out the sugar and ween off the red meat.  (we have to use what's in our freezer!)  Then work our way off poultry and fish.  Kind of annoying but it'll be worth it.  Eat to Live!  Not the other way around.

Oh hey.

It's almost spring! YAY!  I'm excited to plant.

I'm not much of a blogger, but since this is mostly for family I will keep doing this.

We got a new dishwasher, juicer, and food processor.  I love appliances.  That is all. :-P

I wish I lived in Skyrim!!!

I have started a Nightingale Armor set, along with the help from that blog it's proving to be a success.  If it weren't 10 degrees outside i'd go spray paint my bracers! 

2. Hot glue the edges and details

1. I cut the armor out of craft foam..

3. MOD PODGE!

(front and back)

Stay tuned for the finished bracers!

Also while crafting I've been listening to Lindsey Stirling check her out. I'm a tad obsessed... for the moment.

Thanksgiving in St. George

Suffice it to say, we enjoyed spending a few days in the nice weather with family over Thanksgiving. There were people out playing tennis, riding their bikes, and jogging late in the evening. I felt like I had gone back in time to spring weather. I guess that's what it's like in St. George late in the fall.I'm used to the bleak, winter weather in Logan (winter hasn't really come here yet).

It's finally Fall time! We already went to a haunted corn maze. There was hardly anyone there and it was still relatively warm. Good times.

I opened the fridge about a month ago and saw a plethora of fresh jelepinos left over from the summertime harvest. A friend had given us the jalepinos from their garden. I stood there wondering what we were going to do with all those jalepinos. Then it hit me. Jalepino Poppers! What a great idea! Check out the recipe here.

Jalepeno Poppers and Roasted Brussel Sprouts

And who would have thought that brussel sprouts could be delicious? The recipe for roasted brussel sprouts is extremely simple and they taste great! The stems are bitter so make sure you trim them before roasting.

Memorial Day 2012

So for our first married memorial day we hiked to the infamous Jardine Juniper.  It was 5.8 miles one way.  A fairly easy hike... just LONG and very wet/muddy.  Then we had a little BBQ, roasted some marshmallows and made s'mores! 

Homestead? Yes, Please!

So I am on a total homestead kick!  It's the #1 thing I would like to have at this moment.  We already have a garden, but it's not enough.  I need more!! It's growing far too slow for me to be truly excited about it.  So for now the only thing that can keep me content is research. EW! I know.  Books are sooooo not my thing.  However, there is a LOT of awesome yummy information out there just waiting to be absorbed into my brain.  Like today's project:

Making Butter!
How had I never done this before?  How did I not know this was also how buttermilk was made?  I am a fool.

Long Time No Post!

Our Apologies!!

We have failed to entertain!  The motherboard on our desktop is fried and once the holidays hit that was pretty much the end of international food week.  That is right "D-E-D dead!" We decided instead on just doing a secret ingredient of the week.  So one of the weeks in January we did Quinoa.

Pictures will be added shortly! 

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/quinoa-with-peaches-and-creamy-yogurt/detail.aspx
- This was a delicious breakfasty dish which we altered a bit...  We used a honey flavored yogurt and omitted the peaches.  It was truly divine!

A day later we tried this for dinner!

Chicken and Veggies with Quinoa 

Christmas Fun

We spent an evening creating ginger bread houses. However, these are no ordinary gingerbread houses. Instead, it is a gruesome zombie attack on the poor survivors!








Emily and I recently had an exclusive photo shoot done by the one and only Toban Knight. The credit for the following pictures all go to him. Playing in the freshly fallen snow up Green Canyon was a blast. It was bitter cold even though it doesn't look like it!












And, as a side note, for ZAP (Zombie Apocalypse Preparation) we made homemade torches! Here I am trying out one of the torches outside our house.

American and German... food stuffs

There was nothing picture worthy for American food, but we did make some other wonderful delights. There are more German dishes to be had as the week progresses.  

German food: frikadellen with spaetzle.

Jewel got pumpkin soup on her face. Silly dog.

Almond Roca. A delicious toffy treat!

Russian Week

This last week we made two Russian Dishes, Zebra Cake and hearty bean soup! Both were delicious the beans weren't quite cooked right so we had to pick them out... that was our fault though :(. 

Also, our organization/club we created, ZAP is in full swing with weekly meetings where we watch The Walking Dead, and try and prepare ourselves for the worst scenarios!  Today we(ZAP's founders: Cody, Emily, and Andrew) went shooting and had a trip to Smithfield Implements to pick up a few emergency supplies.

Cody bought me a clown figurine, trying to help me conquer my phobia.

$3 dollars for an oil lamp.. YES PLEASE! and .99¢ emergency blankets? Heck yes.  Piecing together our emergency kit :D