tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31966149022765895952024-03-13T06:49:04.055-07:00Sam and Nicole1 accountant + 1 (future) dietitian = 2 lovebirdsNicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04739018369886054971noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196614902276589595.post-49731504403275270112013-03-21T20:19:00.001-07:002013-03-21T20:19:59.881-07:00Back from the dead<div style="text-align: center;">
Hey remember that one time I had a blog? I do... barely. Sorry that I have completely abandoned this thing... although I'm sure no one reads it anyway. I am going to try to be better.</div>
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A lot has happened in the mean time! Here are some pictures to show what we have been up to.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">We bought a house which we LOVE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">This is the tree in our backyard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">We went to many Utah football games.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">We got a cute housewarming present from my mother-in-law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I painted a rug.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">We played pickleball in the freezing cold because we love it so much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">My little sister got married.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">We went to Logan for an anniversary/Valentine's Day getaway...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ate at the best pizza place EVER...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Went to Hardware Ranch and went on a sleigh ride to see the elk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Said elk.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Oh and a week ago we got baby chicks! We love our little babies so much already.</span></div>
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Oh yeah and did I mention that Sam and I both started graduate school? And got fairly significant callings in our ward? He is the Ward Employment Specialist and I am the Young Women's President. Needless to say, our lives have been kind of crazy lately... but we are loving it!</div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04739018369886054971noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196614902276589595.post-49816881042175272482012-08-04T18:02:00.001-07:002012-08-04T18:02:27.934-07:00Williams Family Vacation<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last month we went on vacation with Sam's family. We went to Ogden and stayed in a condo at Powder Mountain. We boated, played lots of games, went to the Hill Aerospace Museum, and just enjoyed one another's company!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sam's wonderful Utah "drum and feather" creation on the beach of Pineview Reservoir.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sam's second creation: a fish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">In my next life, I am going to be an aerospace engineer. I think airplanes are seriously cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">This plane is HUGE - I love it!</span></div>
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Sam and I just spent 4 days at the lovely Lake Powell. We went with my family and it was a BLAST! Going to Lake Powell is a trip that we always look forward to. Water-skiing, surfing, playing cards, water volleyball, eating, relaxing, and sleeping under the stars... could life get any better than that? I think not.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Out on a beautiful night ski.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Me in paradise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sam tearing it up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sam put a towel around my head to try to keep my hair from whipping me in the face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Love this girl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Day 2.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Me skiing on GLASS. It was glorious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Day 3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Seriously, could life get any better than that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sam skiing on glass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">My dad trying to barefoot. He's legit.</span></div>
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Well... Sam and I have officially graduated from college! Okay, I guess I have some classes this summer... and then graduate school in the fall... but still. I was able to walk with my friends and husband and it was wonderful!</div>
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There were a lot of graduation ceremonies to attend: my Convocation for the College of Health, Commencement, and Sam's Convocation for the School of Business. Graduation ceremonies are not the most exciting things ever, but all the delicious food and time spent with friends and family definitely made up for it. It was such a great weekend and I feel so blessed to have such wonderful people in my life who are so supportive of Sam and me.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Nethery's, my friends from Colorado, came all the way to see me graduate. They are the best!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">The After-Party: This is the DELICIOUS carrot cake Sam's mom, LuAnn, made for us. So cute!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You are now looking at a future Registered Dietitian... I got into my graduate school program! Yay! I am SO excited! And so relieved. Before I found out I was having nightmares almost every night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here is how it went down. I actually found out about 2 and a half weeks ago... but I haven't really been allowed to say anything. Why you ask? So the program at the University of Utah is pretty competitive... they only take 13 new students each year (and of course this year they had more applicants than usual... around 70 or so). Well, the students they knew they wanted they accepted without any interview (I was one of them - yay!). And I found this out because the Director of the program is in my Bootcamp class and she called me and told me I got in (it has been very nice to have that connection). BUT, some of their picks that they weren't quite sure about were still being interviewed until the end of last week. So I couldn't really say anything in case any professors or other students involved found out and had not been interview/notified yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway, I am just so excited I got in! I have so many plans and ideas for the future and now I will be able to put them into action! So it's official... beginning in August I will be a graduate student at the University of Utah, getting my Master's in Nutrition. It is a 2 year program and it will be a challenge but I am ready for it! I am ready to take on the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am about a week late but last Tuesday was my 23rd birthday. I can't believe I am 23... where has the time gone?!?! I had a good birthday. It was pretty low-key and relaxing, which I really enjoyed. The night before my birthday, Sam's mom (LuAnn) treated the family to Pizza Factory to celebrate. I have been to Pizza Factory for 3 years in a row now for my birthday... what can I say, I really like pizza! And their breadsticks of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I got to spend the day of my birthday with this girl! Erin is one of my very best friends. We were roommates our first year at the U and became best friends! She just recently (last August) got back from a mission in Denmark and is now attending the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. I am sad she doesn't live nearby but I am so glad she was able to come visit for spring break! Erin just got engaged and I got to go wedding dress shopping with her while she was visiting... so fun! I had never been wedding dress shopping with anyone before (just when I went for myself) so I was really excited to go. Plus we found her a beautiful dress that she is going to look STUNNING in!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Last Saturday Sam and I decided that we wanted to try to make homemade bread. We were getting tired of store-bought bread so we thought we would give it a shot. We wanted to make somewhat healthy bread and found a recipe for <a href="http://www.ourbestbites.com/2012/01/multigrain-bread/">Multigrain Bread</a> on ourbestbites.com. We pretty much use their recipes for EVERYTHING... all of their stuff is fantastic! And this recipe certainly was no exception.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of course, making this bread was like a whole-day ordeal, but it was totally worth it! Sam and I were nervous because we put so much effort into the bread and we were going to be really disappointed if it didn't turn out well. It seriously turned out great and exceeded our expectations... so much so that we ate almost an entire loaf after it was done baking! Haha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway, Sam and I have made some different types of bread lately (rolls, banana bread, and this multigrain bread) and they have turned out REALLY GOOD so we like to think we are bread-making professionals now. Or maybe we are just really good at following recipes :).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Well, I definitely have not been good with updating this blog. Sorry about that. I guess it has not been on the top of my list of things to do. Plus, I don't think we have had very many exciting things happen lately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So I realized that I never posted my second sewing project on here. It's pretty sad, though, that I did this back in December. It is actually Sam's Christmas present. He wanted an apron, so that is exactly what he got. He is pretty much the brains behind the entire operation... I only did the sewing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The apron is a little dirty because he had already put the apron to good use by the time I got around to taking a picture of it. Sam insisted on having the front made out of terry cloth (towel material) so that he could just wipe his hands on the apron... which is why there are stains on it. Unfortunately, the only colors of terry cloth we found at the fabric stores were pastel colors (which are super girly) so we decided on white... even though white gets dirty easily. We were originally going to make the apron a University of Utah apron (shocker!) but then we decided on this. The back and lining is actually little red and gray football helmets... so it still looks kind of like a Utah one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sam's apron is definitely a unique one! When we were at Joann's getting the fabric cut the lady asked us what we were making and when we told her, she looked at us like we were psycho in the head. She actually wasn't all that nice to us and made us feel stupid about our idea. IF ONLY SHE COULD SEE IT NOW! Haha. The apron turned out great and Sam loves it. It was the perfect gift for him because he loves helping in the kitchen and is such a wonderful cook!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As a side note, my grandma officially gave me her sewing machine (after a lot of convincing on my part). I am stoked! I just need to find a new project now...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yesterday Sam and I celebrated our First Anniversary! Pretty exciting! It is crazy how fast time flies... seems like we were getting married not too long ago! We had such a nice, relaxing day. We spent our anniversary getting a couples massage and then going out to a nice dinner. I must say that I am the <b style="color: #45818e;">LUCKIEST</b> girl in the entire world. I have the most amazing husband ever. This past year has definitely been the greatest year of my life and I am so excited to see what life has in store for us in the many years to come!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sewing project #2 = DONE. On Thanksgiving I made Sam and I's Christmas stockings. My mother-in-law, LuAnn, has made all her kids, their spouses, and grandkids such cute stockings that I decided I wanted to make Sam and I's stockings. LuAnn went with me to pick out fabric and helped me throughout the entire process... and I must say that I am SO grateful because I definitely could not have done it without her! I am still a beginner with this whole sewing business. It was fun to make the stockings though. They were not all that difficult and they turned out great!! I <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;">LOVE </span></b>the fabric... neither are traditional Christmas colors/fabrics but I think they are super cute!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sam and I went and got ourselves a Christmas tree Friday night. And I must admit, it is a fake one. I grew up having a real tree <b>EVERY</b> Christmas, so I was a little reluctant to get a fake tree. Of course, we<b> </b>couldn't just let the little guy stay in the box, so we put up the tree as soon as we got home. We don't have any decorations yet, just lights, but I am still so excited about it!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Isn't it so cute? Our ceilings aren't very tall so it isn't the biggest tree. But I love it! Christmas season is my favorite time of the year. And I can't even tell you how much I <b>LOVE</b> Christmas trees. Whenever there is a Christmas tree up in my house, I always find a reason to turn the lights on and sit by the tree.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am sure after this Christmas we won't have very many decorations on the tree, but I am excited to see what ones we can come up with! Hooray for the holidays! And that includes Thanksgiving too :)</span></div>Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04739018369886054971noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196614902276589595.post-53946036336667037692011-11-14T15:45:00.001-08:002011-11-14T15:57:58.461-08:00Weekends are the BEST!!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is so hard to go back to school and work after each weekend. They are just so wonderful! We especially had a good one this last weekend. Friday night we went to a movie which was exciting because that is not a common occurrence for us anymore. We even made it more exciting by taking Trax down to Gateway to see the movie! I don't know why but it was really fun!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We saw Moneyball... SUCH a good movie! We highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it yet. Sam and I aren't huge baseball fans but we still really loved the movie.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is crazy how fast this year has gone by! It is almost over... which means that the semester is almost over as well. Thank goodness! Sam and I have really been enjoying the fall. We love the colors of the changing leaves, football season, going on walks in the crisp cold air, and snuggling up on the couch to keep warm. Hopefully the lack of continual snow holds up for a few more weeks! I am not holding my breath though...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sam and I have done a few exciting things lately! Things that most people would probably think are really not exciting at all. A couple of weeks ago we decided we didn't want to sit at home (like we usually do) on a Friday night, so we ventured to Macy's. We still had gift cards from the wedding so we decided we would go see what we could find to spend them on :). We got a meat grinder attachment for our KitchenAid which we think is pretty sweet... AND, while we were there, I found this little gem... don't worry, I didn't buy it. I just thought it was hilarious.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once again, I have failed at blogging. Life just gets so busy sometimes! I really have been meaning to update this thing but just have not gotten around to it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For one, Sam and his brother Jon put bead board up on the back of our kitchen counter so it looks much prettier now!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One thing I did a couple weeks ago was make a cute Halloween runner for our kitchen table! And the coolest thing about it? I sewed it all by myself!! For me this was a HUGE accomplishment. I literally had never really sewed <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-weight: bold;">anything </span><span class="Apple-style-span">my entire life. Very sad, I know. Luckily I have a mother-in-law who is great at sewing and she taught me how to do it! Well okay, she taught me the beginning steps. She was very patient while I made the runner (probably took me a million times longer than it would take her) and let me/made me do all the sewing myself. For those of you who know me know what a perfectionist I am. This does not help projects like these go fast AT ALL. But I persevered and finally did it!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Isn't it so cute?! I must say, I am pretty proud of this thing. Hopefully my first of many sewing projects. (I am determined to learn how to sew well).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As a side note, I just have to tell about something cute Sam did for me last week. Mondays I get home late from class and Sam is kind enough to make us dinner those nights. So... last Monday night this is what I came home to:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Labor Day weekend seems like forever ago now but we did such fun things so I have to share! The night before Labor Day we went camping... in our front yard. Daniel (brother-in-law) thought it would be fun to set up tents and camp out in the yard. So we did. The front yard at our house isn't terribly big but we made it work.</span></div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04739018369886054971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196614902276589595.post-31851241120631736892011-09-04T08:21:00.000-07:002011-09-04T08:21:41.117-07:00Sam's 24th Birthday<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sam just recently had a birthday! His birthday was on August 23rd. Sadly it was the second day of the semester and Sam had class late that night so, as a family, we celebrated Sam's birthday the following Friday night... we had steak, baked potatoes, grilled asparagus, pistachio salad, and all kinds of delicious food! I also made Sam a birthday cake... that began as a complete disaster. I tried twice to bake two 9" round cakes but the cakes did not come out clean either time. Luckily we were able to save the second attempt and turn it into a pretty decent cake!</span></div>
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Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04739018369886054971noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196614902276589595.post-15718929122388098132011-08-18T09:57:00.000-07:002011-08-18T09:57:18.449-07:00Our new kitchen... and other fun things<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am so sorry that I have failed, once again, at updating our blog on a regular basis. Sam and I have been so incredibly busy! On top of finishing another semester of school, we had two funerals on back-to-back Saturdays in July because there were two deaths in my family exactly one week apart... but on different sides of the family (my grandpa passed away and one of my cousins was killed), <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">AND THEN</span></b> we did some home improvement on our kitchen! The home improvement included: laying down 98 tiles, new cabinets under the sink, bruised knees, dirty clothes, about 20 trips to Home Depot, and an incredibly messy house just to fix a $7 part. And yes, you heard me right... only to fix a $7 part. What the heck?!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here is what happened... a couple of weeks ago I went to the sink in our kitchen and right after I stepped in front of the sink, my socks were soaked. I looked down to see that a <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">LOT </span></b>of the carpet in front of the sink was all wet. And I could not figure out where the water was coming from. Awesome right? I showed Sam and LuAnn (Sam's mom) after dinner and they figured out that the water heater was leaking and somehow came into our kitchen. Luckily, all we had to do was replace the plug to the water heater and we were good to go (hence, the $7)! Except that somehow we didn't stop there. We pulled up the carpet with the intention to let it dry but then discovered that the tack strips were coming up with the carpet and that it was just a mess underneath the carpet. LuAnn had been wanting to tile the kitchen downstairs for a while (we live in her basement apartment) so she figured now was a good time to do it. She also wanted to get new cabinets for one side of the kitchen, so we replaced those too. Basically, replacing the $7 part turned into a huge project. Quite funny if you ask me. It was my first time ever doing a project like this so it was quite an experience. I enjoyed it for the most part though. And to see the finished product (well mostly finished product) it was all worth it!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So this is what our house looked like for 5 days. I did not love the mess. I do not handle messes very well. I was stressed out about it most days and just avoided the downstairs all together.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8lkmDD4rkIzSNzQhxEd5WxU2HdLZC06sd3IKb8_CggCCkUX5U4Ay2wIKlvD0RGmw680-QCSKOpLAjp4pVQgHbcSQmEiPveIQDtF6thwmkv8W2xjWl156IJOZhE-k5BCPCQvyr3KmiQpk/s1600/Messy+house.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8lkmDD4rkIzSNzQhxEd5WxU2HdLZC06sd3IKb8_CggCCkUX5U4Ay2wIKlvD0RGmw680-QCSKOpLAjp4pVQgHbcSQmEiPveIQDtF6thwmkv8W2xjWl156IJOZhE-k5BCPCQvyr3KmiQpk/s320/Messy+house.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just a few side notes, here is a little project I did the other day that took hardly any time at all. I have been wanting a cute centerpiece for our kitchen table so I stole this idea off of <a href="http://sassystyleredesign.blogspot.com/">this blog</a> and thought I would give it a try.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG1JXIlfaTw1Yeejm0028UmBqUvdFSw8gKnRbqDEcyDDNDM1tuvYHu0FzFXOrC_35L_nINW_atvIhA4qguwV6Fb35ESWOobPBaQxc9KdBMdaeoTq264oUnJa99-oL7MRCNMFl0GPw_Gks/s1600/Project.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG1JXIlfaTw1Yeejm0028UmBqUvdFSw8gKnRbqDEcyDDNDM1tuvYHu0FzFXOrC_35L_nINW_atvIhA4qguwV6Fb35ESWOobPBaQxc9KdBMdaeoTq264oUnJa99-oL7MRCNMFl0GPw_Gks/s320/Project.jpg" width="191" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Chewy/Baby Matthew (aka Matthew)... he fell asleep in my arms... how cute is that?!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSZqhyphenhyphenvYGviwTT7YhKSDYnGx4eEH99gL0lMWzAMRcg1NcsLC3rf9kczMzMfsUD-IaCaYpS252G6H3b0WoObTXqZZaApYYD3ann0nGdjexT9u7g-r2isjq_Sl9jaIwrSfA6Mu5VtYyHQ0w/s1600/Baby+Matthew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSZqhyphenhyphenvYGviwTT7YhKSDYnGx4eEH99gL0lMWzAMRcg1NcsLC3rf9kczMzMfsUD-IaCaYpS252G6H3b0WoObTXqZZaApYYD3ann0nGdjexT9u7g-r2isjq_Sl9jaIwrSfA6Mu5VtYyHQ0w/s320/Baby+Matthew.jpg" width="191" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div>Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04739018369886054971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196614902276589595.post-2726203171874129812011-07-07T20:47:00.000-07:002011-07-07T20:47:30.943-07:00Fourth of July<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We had such a wonderful Fourth... it was SO nice not to have any work or school!! It was a much needed day off. Sam and I began the day by going on an early bike ride - it was great! The ride was followed by the infamous neighborhood breakfast. It has been going for like 22 years. It was my first time and it was way fun! The food was delicious and the parade that the kids put on was hilarious.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If that wasn't enough, Sam and I recently got callings in church: we will be teaching in primary, the CTR 5 class. We seriously don't know how to connect with 5 year olds but hopefully we can figure out how! Ha. It will be fun, we are excited. OH but on top of that, I also got double duty for the next 4 weeks: I also got called as the assistant camp director for young women. Apparently the camp director just moved, so the assistant was made the camp director and I am the new assistant. Holy smokes! I am excited. There are a lot of girls but they seem really great. The whole being away from Sam for 3 days without any means of communication will not be so fun though. Oh well.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And then... there is more. I also just started about 2 weeks ago "volunteering" (so I volunteered to do this but apparently I get paid to do it which is pretty sweet) to help my triathlon training instructor I had long ago (freshman year) with this drug-court exercise program. It is a class that the people going through drug-court can take to help with success rates and such. It is so neat! My former tri instructor, Shannon, is intense! She works these people hard. And it is so wonderful because she incorporates life lessons into the workouts and is just really powerful and motivating. I have no doubt that this program will change these peoples' lives and help them want to get out of the drug scene. It is a huge blessing to be a part of this program. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oh, and one more thing. I take the GRE (Graduate Record Examination) July 19... haven't had time to study for it yet and now I have all this stuff getting in my way. Like girls camp, it's the week before the GRE. Just hope I do well on it because I have one shot at getting into grad school (the U) and this is one of the many things that will determine whether I get in or not!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway, sorry for the long post and lack of pictures. I hope to get my camera up and running soon! </span></div>Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04739018369886054971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3196614902276589595.post-20015843107117993152011-05-17T19:09:00.000-07:002011-05-17T19:09:53.860-07:00San Diego<div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Last week Sam and I spent the week in San Diego. It was our week break between spring and summer semester. We had such a good time! It was so nice to be able to spend some quality time with each other since it doesn’t seem like we get much of that lately.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The San Diego skyline from Coronado Island. It was cloudy the first couple of days we were there.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">So while in San Diego we decided to purchase a 3-for-1 pass to the San Diego Zoo, Sea World, and the San Diego Zoo Safari. We had a lot of fun but the places wore us out!</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Our first adventure was to the San Diego Zoo. Can you say HUGE? Seriously, it is gigantic. We were there for about 5 hours. And a little over half way through we no longer stopped at every animal and exhibit. Needless to say, by the end of the day at the Zoo we were pooped.</span></div><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Our next adventure was Sea World. It was way fun! And we got a little sunburned because we forgot that the sun burns people after 5 straight hours of being outside in it. The shows were pretty cool and the rides we went on were fun too.</span></div><div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Our last major adventure was the Zoo Safari. It is part of the San Diego Zoo but not really located close to it. It is really like out in the middle of nowhere. It is different from the regular Zoo in that it is on a LOT of open land and many animals live together… like they would in their normal habitat. It is pretty neat. Part of our admission was the African Tram. Basically you are in a giant bus thing with tons of other people and you get to go out around some of the habitats to see the animals. There are other adventures you can go on but they are wicked expensive. Like on one, you get to go on a car thing out by the animals and get close enough to touch them. You’ll see what I mean in one of the pictures. It would have been really neat to do that but we didn’t because, well let’s be honest, we are cheap and broke :).</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br />
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</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">We really did have a lot of fun in San Diego. We stayed in a condo in Solana Beach, about 20 minutes north of San Diego. We went on bike rides along the coast, ate at yummy local restaurants (shout out to <a href="http://hodadies.com/home/">Hodad's</a>, a delicious burger place Sam's friend Julie from high school took us to... it was on the Food Network's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0hiSIjrnK0">"Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives"</a> so it is not healthy at all but SO stinkin good!), played pool, relaxed in the hot tub, went to the beach, took a stroll through Old Town San Diego, watched movies, napped a lot, and just enjoyed one another’s company. Oh, and we also did a session at the San Diego Temple… which is SOOO beautiful! Now one of our favorite temples. I highly recommend going there if you are ever in the area… and I know Sam would agree with that statement.</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I made my mother's DELICIOUS banana bread (seriously it's the best... <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">AND</span></b> has no butter or shortening!) and then tried a new recipe for oatmeal butterscotch chip cookies. Last time Sam and I made oatmeal butterscotch chip cookies they were DELISH but would not stay together at all. Thus, I tried a new recipe. These ones do stay together a little better. And are delish as well! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway, so far today has been lovely. Baking is just so relaxing, I love it. I don't get to do it enough so I decided I would take this opportunity to make some yummy treats. Which will be going to Sam and I's work tomorrow... so they will be the judges of it all. AND... later I am going to try out a new recipe for <a href="http://twopeasandtheirpod.com/baked-potato-soup/">baked potato soup</a> and <a href="http://www.justcookalready.com/search/label/breadsticks">twisty breadsticks</a>. YUM! I absolutely love to cook so I am excited to try these out... they look wonderful!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So today I taught my first ever spin class - it was so fun! I was definitely nervous at first but after a few minutes, I got comfortable and it was just a good time. One of the classes I am taking this semester is Group Instructor Fitness Training... we basically learn how to be a group fitness instructor. We are required to attend a fitness class at least 9 times and the 9th time we go we have to teach the entire class... a little intimidating. That's how I felt at least. But it was a good experience and I cannot wait to do it again. In the near future I am going to get certified to teach spinning classes and then I can actually go to gyms and teach for real - woot!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just in case you were curious, here is the playlist I made for the class. It is pretty great if I do say so myself.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You Make My Dreams - Hall & Oates</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We Live - Superchick</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rolling in the Deep - Adele </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gotta Get You Into My Life - Earth Wind & Fire</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You Can't Hurry Love - Dixie Chicks</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We Weren't Born to Follow - Bon Jovi</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lay Me Down - The Dirty Heads</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Black & Gold - Sam Sparro</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Real Gone - Sheryl Crow</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Misery Business - Paramore</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">PYT - Michael Jackson</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I Will Learn to Love Again - Kaci Battaglia</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forget You - Cee Lo Green</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bounce With Me - Kreesha Turner</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Street Lights - Kanye West</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Happy - Natasha Bedingfield</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So there is a good motivating workout playlist if you are looking for one. It has to be good since it has a Michael Jackson song... a workout isn't complete without a little MJ!!</span><br />
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