Monday, September 24, 2012
Saturday, September 22, 2012
DIY Chair Reupholster
Remember when we first moved to Rexburg? And we bought those so-ugly-they're-almost-cute-but-still-actually-pretty-ugly chairs? They were $4 dollars at D.I.
I always said I was going to recover them, but they just kept being ugly. Then one time while we were roaming the isles of Hobby Lobby, I found this cute gray and yellow fabric.
So then I pulled everything apart and spray painted the frame with a nickel finish.
I cut out the foam and stapled up a storm.
I screwed the cushion back onto the frame and tada!
Back in it's home.
I think it's a lot better looking than it was before. Maybe a little too thick, but it's comfy. :)
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| The edges were bursting, and they were vinyl. |
I always said I was going to recover them, but they just kept being ugly. Then one time while we were roaming the isles of Hobby Lobby, I found this cute gray and yellow fabric.
I cut out the foam and stapled up a storm.
I screwed the cushion back onto the frame and tada!
Back in it's home.
I think it's a lot better looking than it was before. Maybe a little too thick, but it's comfy. :)
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Stuffed Peppers
Before I even started cooking this I knew it was going to be good. So I documented it.
After I cooked it, I realized it was awesome. The only thing I would change is use canned tomatoes like the recipe called for, it would make it a little more...juicy.
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| This is what I used. I don't know what kind of peppers those are. They were given to me. |
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| I cooked the qinuoa, then added chopped onion, garlic, black beans(about 3/4 can) and corn (3/4 can). Oh and chopped tomato. And some cumin, chili powder and some cilantro. |
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| While the quinoa was cooking, I sliced the peppers and took out the seeds |
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| Stuffed 'em and put on some cheese |
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| Topped with guacamole.
I've seen some people cook the pepper until the skin is black. Then pull off the black part, and stuff 'em. I don't know if there's a difference.
But, it was really good. Try it!
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Monday, September 3, 2012
Our New Place
We've moved, in case you didn't already know. We're now in Orem, Utah. By Nickel City on State Street. Nickel City is a nickel arcade that we're very excited to visit. Anyways...here's our place.
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| You walk into the kitchen |
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| More of the kitchen. Front door is by that striped rug. |
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| Laundry and those bins on the side of the fridge are recycling. |
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| Living room |
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| More living room. And my beautiful computer. |
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| Our Bedroom. Thanks Mom for the mirror! (still haven't put pictures in those frames. the one on the right still has my senior picture. haha) |
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| More bedroom. We now each have our own dressers, and the closet. FABULOUS! |
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| Bathroom |
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| More Bathroom. |
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| Nathan's study room/storage |
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| And here's a picture of us from my phone! |
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Busy Weekend
Danna's baby is not cooperating. And this is proof.
We (Danna, her mom Sue, and I) hiked the Y. The whole thing! To the top! Danna is over nine months pregnant, past her due date...and NOTHING! So I've decided to be patient. She will come when she comes. But man, I'm excited. And very impressed Danna did that hike without a problem.
Also, we made pasta Sunday morning. Then after church we finished everything else up and had some friends over for dinner. It was pretty tasty. But I feel like homemade pasta is one of the most delicious things in the world. And it's SO simple! Plus, we have a pasta maker. :)
This is how we do it. 3 cups of whole wheat flour, 1 cup of white flour, and 5 eggs. Mix in kitchen aid. Then kneaded by hand to get the feel right. We had to add water. It shouldn't be sticky, but it also shouldn't be dry. (kind of like pizza dough)
Monday Nathan started school. I packed his lunch, and made him take a first day picture. He tried to look as nerdy as possible. (I suggested wearing some of my glasses...he declined. he didn't want to look THAT nerdy.)
I dropped him off, then drove by where I'm having another interview today. Cross your fingers! I picked him up from the bus stop when he was done. It went well, and he already had some homework. At 6, they had freshmen convocation. It was a presentation about why UVU is so great, and why it's a good choice and blah blah. I was mostly interested in the live sculpting! There was a guy on another stage that was sculpting the whole time. So cool! All the freshmen (and family) got fancy hats, and popcorn, snocones, cotton candy, pulled pork sandwiches. We were then entertained by the Green Man Group, which is the UVU drum line. And Nathan won another shirt. It's 2XL. I said I'll sleep in it. Pretty cool.
Oh, and I cut my bangs.
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| The last switchback! |
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| Danna did it! |
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| Provo/Orem (I'm the shadow) |
We (Danna, her mom Sue, and I) hiked the Y. The whole thing! To the top! Danna is over nine months pregnant, past her due date...and NOTHING! So I've decided to be patient. She will come when she comes. But man, I'm excited. And very impressed Danna did that hike without a problem.
Also, we made pasta Sunday morning. Then after church we finished everything else up and had some friends over for dinner. It was pretty tasty. But I feel like homemade pasta is one of the most delicious things in the world. And it's SO simple! Plus, we have a pasta maker. :)
This is how we do it. 3 cups of whole wheat flour, 1 cup of white flour, and 5 eggs. Mix in kitchen aid. Then kneaded by hand to get the feel right. We had to add water. It shouldn't be sticky, but it also shouldn't be dry. (kind of like pizza dough)
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| KitchenAid working hard |
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| Nathan kneading that dough! |
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| I run it through starting thick, and keep adjusting to make it thinner |
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| Then you pick the thickness of the noodles. (we did the thicker ones) And you separate them, and let them dry. |
I dropped him off, then drove by where I'm having another interview today. Cross your fingers! I picked him up from the bus stop when he was done. It went well, and he already had some homework. At 6, they had freshmen convocation. It was a presentation about why UVU is so great, and why it's a good choice and blah blah. I was mostly interested in the live sculpting! There was a guy on another stage that was sculpting the whole time. So cool! All the freshmen (and family) got fancy hats, and popcorn, snocones, cotton candy, pulled pork sandwiches. We were then entertained by the Green Man Group, which is the UVU drum line. And Nathan won another shirt. It's 2XL. I said I'll sleep in it. Pretty cool.
Oh, and I cut my bangs.
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| I may shorten them up even a little more. We'll see. |
Friday, August 24, 2012
Last Week of Freedom
Nathan starts school at UVU on Monday. As he says, this is his last week of freedom. This week has been running around trying to get tuition paid, books bought, getting school supplies and trying to have fun. (we don't have to try very hard.) We had his orientation, we've walked around and found all his classes and now his books are all on our coffee table. He's ready to go. To get away from school, before it even begins, we went to SLC. We were given a Cheesecake Factory gift card for our wedding, and we finally got to use it. There's a Cheesecake Factory in Murray, so that's where we started for lunch. Our waiter was hilarious, and the food was delicious. For dessert, we obviously had cheesecake. I had red velvet cheesecake, and Nathan had some kind of oreo explosion.
They were both very good, but I think we were both happier with our own. After we were full to the brim, we walked around the mall. And I have to say, I'm really surprised at the stores that I've seen in this area. When we were at City Creek, and then at this mall in Murray...some serious stores. J. Crew, Banana Republic, Express, Tiffany & Co., Porsche Design. I mean...seriously...people have money to shop at these places? We enjoyed window shopping and trying on makeup at Sephora. (Wait...I enjoyed it.) We also went to the Art of Shaving. Nathan's become fascinated with straight razor shaving, and they had a store in the mall dedicated to it. (Put that on the Christmas list)
After the mall, we headed over to Capital Theater in SLC to try to win Wicked Tickets. Again. I almost think that trying to win tickets is almost worse than just not getting tickets. You enter your name on a piece of paper that's thrown in a cauldron, stirred and then 10 names are drawn. The anticipation is terrible! The little girl next to us got her name called. She was crying she was so happy! Our name wasn't called, I was crying because I was so sad. Just kidding. I didn't cry, but I was pretty sad. I really wanted Nathan to be able to it! I had seen it in high school, with some awesome friends. We decided we'd just come home.
Oh, I forgot. At orientation, we set up Nathan's ID card as a debit card. And when you do that, you get a free starving student card. A starving student card is pretty awesome. It's a bunch of free stuff, two for ones, and sweet deals to places around town. So today, while we were taking stuff to recyling and getting school supplies (and a tennis ball for the dogs), we picked up one of our free items! There's a little place called Juice Press, and they make really good smoothies. And we got one for free! We decided we couldn't share and bought one as well. The flavors we picked were Max Green, and Green Delicious. They were both pretty bomb. Gotta admit, I liked Nathan's more. His was spinach, pineapple, peach..and some other stuff. Mine was raspberry, spinach and some other stuff.
Here's Puma with her new tennis ball.
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| so tasty! |
After the mall, we headed over to Capital Theater in SLC to try to win Wicked Tickets. Again. I almost think that trying to win tickets is almost worse than just not getting tickets. You enter your name on a piece of paper that's thrown in a cauldron, stirred and then 10 names are drawn. The anticipation is terrible! The little girl next to us got her name called. She was crying she was so happy! Our name wasn't called, I was crying because I was so sad. Just kidding. I didn't cry, but I was pretty sad. I really wanted Nathan to be able to it! I had seen it in high school, with some awesome friends. We decided we'd just come home.
Oh, I forgot. At orientation, we set up Nathan's ID card as a debit card. And when you do that, you get a free starving student card. A starving student card is pretty awesome. It's a bunch of free stuff, two for ones, and sweet deals to places around town. So today, while we were taking stuff to recyling and getting school supplies (and a tennis ball for the dogs), we picked up one of our free items! There's a little place called Juice Press, and they make really good smoothies. And we got one for free! We decided we couldn't share and bought one as well. The flavors we picked were Max Green, and Green Delicious. They were both pretty bomb. Gotta admit, I liked Nathan's more. His was spinach, pineapple, peach..and some other stuff. Mine was raspberry, spinach and some other stuff.
Here's Puma with her new tennis ball.
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| she may or may not have eaten it. |
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Birthdays & More Weddings
Thursday we drove to Liberty Park in SLC for Bret's wedding luncheon. (but it was at dinner...is it called...a dinnereon?) Nathan met Bret in the MTC, they were on the same floor. Oh, and they're cousins! The first time they met they were 19! They were so cute! His new brides name is Erica, and she was barefoot. It was a small gathering, with Cafe Rio catering. The best part of this dinnereon? Nathan's grandparents from Cali drove up to be there! It was great to see family the second weekend in a row. After we talked in the park, we wished Bret and Erica a happy honeymoon and headed over to grandma and grandpas hotel. We just hung out there and chatted for awhile. While we were there I received the cutest voicemail from my niece. I saw that I had a voicemail from Heidi and I wish there was a way I could let you all hear it, it was SO cute. Nyssa started singing happy birthday to me, and you hear Heidi in the background..but it's not her birthday! Then Nyssa says, "I know, I just want to sing it to her ok?" So she proceeds to sing me happy birthday! Super cute.
We also found out we were going to go to a birthday party the next day. Whose birthday is it? President Monson. So Friday afternoon we headed back to the hotel. We brought stuff to sleep their because they had a suite with a pullout bed in the living room. So we changed, and headed over to temple square. We watched the Joseph Smith movie. I had never seen it. It was really good. If you haven't seen it, I would recommend it. It gives a brief history of how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was restored, and all the persecution and trials that came along with it. It made me very grateful to live in the time that I lived in. Yes, there is still a lot of smacktalk about Mormons, but we aren't being chased out of town or killed. It was great. Go to it. It's in the Joseph Smith Memorial building in Temple Square, inside of there..the Legacy Theater. It's free. And it's awesome.
After the movie we walked over to Farrs ice-cream to meet some more family. We had sandwiches and ice-cream before we headed over to the conference center. I forget how cool of a building the conference center is. Religion aside, the building itself is quite amazing. It's huge! I think it holds 21,000 or something like that. And we had great seats!
The performance was so great! It was called Golden Days: A Celebration of Life. President Monson loves Broadway, so we got to hear some amazing musicians play/sing broadway. Obviously the Mormon Tabernacle choir sang, and the Orchestra at Temple Square played as well.
Some of my favorites were...
All I Ask of You from the Phantom of the Opera sang by Rebecca Luker
Bring Him Home from Les Miserables sang by Dallyn Vail Bayles
Seventy-Six Trombones from The Music Man sang by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Memory from Cats sang by Rebecca Luker
Through the show, videos would play with old friends or church leaders saying nice things about the prophet. Then President Uchtdorf and President Eyring (his counselors) got up a spoke a little bit. It was an amazing show! Like Silvija said, "You couldn't pay enough money to watch a show like this." Truly so much talent in one building.
After the show we headed back to the hotel. We had ice cream bars and chatted. (you can never have enough ice cream) The next morning, we all ate breakfast together, then the grandparents started on their way back to California. We headed down to the Capital Theater. Wicked has been playing in SLC and only for one more week. I found out that they have a drawing before every show for $25 orchestra seats. Since it was Saturday, they had a matinee showing so we filled out our forms and crossed our fingers. And then they drew the names. We weren't called. Bummer. I know that I've already seen wicked, but we've been listening to it in the car lately and I really want to go. Unfortunately, tickets are about $130 each. And those are the cheap seats. So we'll try again next weekend, and if not, then we'll finally use our Cheesecake Factory giftcard. So we weren't called, and I was sad. But then we walked down to the City Creek Mall. It's amazing!
We didn't end up buying anything but lunch. Which was pretty good. We were tired so we headed back to the car and back to Orem. We finally planted our tomato starts. They are now giants and needed to be planted 2 weeks ago. But they are planted. And they look happy!
We then showered and got dressed for yet another wedding reception. This time it was Nathans mission companion, Paul Bills. He married Maddie. After they were sealed in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple, they had their reception at Le Jardin in Sandy. It was so pretty! Basically, a giant green house with paths running through it. Super pretty. Here's the happy couple!
And we're off to play games with some old friends, and some new ones!
We also found out we were going to go to a birthday party the next day. Whose birthday is it? President Monson. So Friday afternoon we headed back to the hotel. We brought stuff to sleep their because they had a suite with a pullout bed in the living room. So we changed, and headed over to temple square. We watched the Joseph Smith movie. I had never seen it. It was really good. If you haven't seen it, I would recommend it. It gives a brief history of how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was restored, and all the persecution and trials that came along with it. It made me very grateful to live in the time that I lived in. Yes, there is still a lot of smacktalk about Mormons, but we aren't being chased out of town or killed. It was great. Go to it. It's in the Joseph Smith Memorial building in Temple Square, inside of there..the Legacy Theater. It's free. And it's awesome.
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| the beautiful Salt Lake City Temple |
After the movie we walked over to Farrs ice-cream to meet some more family. We had sandwiches and ice-cream before we headed over to the conference center. I forget how cool of a building the conference center is. Religion aside, the building itself is quite amazing. It's huge! I think it holds 21,000 or something like that. And we had great seats!
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| We were on the third row of the balcony. (the first balcony. there was still another level above us!) |
Some of my favorites were...
All I Ask of You from the Phantom of the Opera sang by Rebecca Luker
Bring Him Home from Les Miserables sang by Dallyn Vail Bayles
Seventy-Six Trombones from The Music Man sang by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Memory from Cats sang by Rebecca Luker
Through the show, videos would play with old friends or church leaders saying nice things about the prophet. Then President Uchtdorf and President Eyring (his counselors) got up a spoke a little bit. It was an amazing show! Like Silvija said, "You couldn't pay enough money to watch a show like this." Truly so much talent in one building.
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We didn't end up buying anything but lunch. Which was pretty good. We were tired so we headed back to the car and back to Orem. We finally planted our tomato starts. They are now giants and needed to be planted 2 weeks ago. But they are planted. And they look happy!
We then showered and got dressed for yet another wedding reception. This time it was Nathans mission companion, Paul Bills. He married Maddie. After they were sealed in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple, they had their reception at Le Jardin in Sandy. It was so pretty! Basically, a giant green house with paths running through it. Super pretty. Here's the happy couple!
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| ignore the fan. haha. |
