Zupas? Chili's?

If you have ever been to Zupas in Provo, or Chili's this might look a little familiar.
It is chicken enchilada soup and both Zupas and Chili's have fantastic variations of the soup. It is spicy, but nothing too bad, and has the warm wholesome goodness that comes with soup. The soup in the picture is actually a home-made chicken enchilada soup. I have not yet made it, but I plan on it sometime this week. I hope it turns out as good as it looks!!!

Guitar Hero

A couple of months ago we went to one of Jason's friends, Seth and Mariah, for FHE and played guitar hero. It was so much fun! Jason got the hang of it pretty quickly and it took me quite a while... Haha, I kept getting boo'd off the stage. Seth and Mariah however were amazing!
A couple of weeks ago we went back for another friend's birthday, and played guitar hero again. I didn't play, but Jason did and he had really gotten the hang of it, I was quite impressed.
About a week ago Jason and I decided that guitar hero would be a great game to have. It would be a game both of us could play, we would become more educated on rock music, and learn hand eye coordination all at the same time. Needless to say, we got the game. We actually got guitar hero 2 & 3 plus 2 guitars and played it pretty much non-stop.
We played GH2 on Easy and beat it! (I even helped!) As soon as Jason started getting 4-5 stars on each song, he changed to medium, while I stayed on easy practicing so that I could move up as well. I'm still not super good, but I can play most of the easy songs on medium. We then (mostly Jason) beat it on medium! As soon as we (he) did that, we (HE) went onto hard. Those songs are extremely difficult!!! Therefore we have put the game on pause for a couple of days, so we can start hard with fresh minds and fingers, and then when (or if) we beat it on hard, we will go on to GH3. Anyone want to come over and play??? (Open invitation)

7/18

On Saturday I threw a baby shower for my friend Shea. (My first friend in the ward.) It was my first time throwing a baby shower and it was sooo much fun! My camera actually died in the middle of it so I don't have a ton of pictures, but I did get a few.
Two days before Shea and I made a cake for the shower. The cake is amazing! We also decided to make fondant to make the cake look awesome.
We had some fun games! We froze some plastic babies in ice and had each girl try to melt the ice and whoever had their "water break" first would win a prize. It was really fun, and then a girl cheated by biting it and breaking the ice off the baby. We also played the diaper game... A different version than I was used to. In this game we got six diapers and six types of baby food that kind of looked alike. We the food in the diapers and everyone had to smell it and guess what it was. So many girls looked like they were going to be sick because we had green beans and it looked like baby poop. This is Shea smelling one of the diapers.

I forgot to buy decorations, so the morning of I hurried and made my own hanging BABY SHOWER decoration. I bought baby diapers to try to make a diaper cake, but by the time I was finished with the BABY SHOWER decoration I had to run over to help finish the cake,
cut up some fruit, and help carry over the salad and such. We had to stop by my place to pick up a knife for the cake and the frozen babies. While I was gone Jason made the diaper cake! It turned out amazing! I'll let you see for yourself!


We had so much fun, and it turned out great!

The Dark Knight: A++

Picture borrowed from Yahoo movies.


Oh my goodness! Last night at about 8:30 we went to wait in line to see the new Batman movie. All of the waiting certainly payed off. The new batman movie is better than the first! Don't get me wrong, Batman Begins is incredible! It's a movie I could watch twice in the same week. The new Batman movie is even better than that.
I will be honest, I have never been a huge fan of Heath Ledger. Yes, I liked the movies he was in, but no I did not watch them just to see him. That being said, Heath was incredible! He portrayed the Joker so amazingly well! I hated the joker but knew that the acting behind him was superb!
Christian Bale is the PERFECT Batman! There is nothing else I need to say about that.
Michael Caine is also the perfect Alfred, same goes for Aaron Eckhart playing Harvy Dent.
There are two things I didn't LOVE about this movie. 1: They changed Katie Holmes to Maggie Gyllenhall (I don't think either of them are the best at acting, but switching a actor in the second movie is just annoying). 2: The way they wrote the Rachel character to be someone you didn't like. That's my opinion. I really didn't like the character since the first movie. Other than that, the movie was PHENOMENAL!!!!

Tribute to Dave!

Jason and I made philly steak and cheese sandwiches. SOOOOO Good! Jason started off by cutting ribeye steak into thin pieces and cooking them. We put provolone cheese on the rolls then put them in the oven to become deliciously toasty. When they were perfectly toasted we pulled them out of the oven and assembled them. They were delicious! Jason says we were thinking about Dave while we ate them, and it was quite a tribute!



This is my sandwich.

This is Jason's sandwich.

Don't they look good?! (Because they were!)

JUNE 26, 2008

(I started writing this on JUNE 26) Today it has been exactly one year since we have been married. In other words, today is our 1 year anniversary. The morning started out with Jason sneaking out of the house and coming back with roses! I then made him a delicious breakfast, and we watched the simpsons. (hehe) We went to the store to buy me a book for school and then went to Lehi to get some food.
For those of you who don't know, Jason served his mission in California. He has been talking about this place called el pollo loco, and how amazing it was, for as long as I can remember. Conveniently an El Pollo Loco opened in Lehi TODAY! We drove up there and went inside... Not such a good idea! There were people everywhere inside! There was not an open seat and there were people standing around just waiting. The line was to the door (the farthest door) and people waiting in another for the food to be ready. We waited about 20 minutes in the line to order our food. We were fine waiting. We ordered our food and waited. People behind us in line went through and about twenty minutes later (at the most) they had their food and we were still waiting. We waited and waited. 45 minutes later our food was finally ready! Jason and I were so upset. Not because we had to wait, we would have been fine if everyone had to wait as long as we did, but people who ordered after us got their food before us. It was really upsetting! The food was amazing! We will go back, but not for at least a month. We have learned our lesson, when we go back, we will go through the drive-thru.
We went home pulled the top of our cake out of the freezer and watched the NBA draft.

Graduation & memories

The past week has filled my mind with a ton of memories. Janna graduated from high school and I was filled with memories of my own graduation. The actual graduation, the senior all night party, the friends and family. During my senior year in high school I was working at the Brick Oven, saving all of the money I earned so that we (my sisters, my mom, and I) could afford to go to South Africa to pick up Tanner (my brother) from his mission. I remember not being able to tell my siblings that we would be going, and I remember finally breaking the wonderful news to them on Christmas morning. I remember the Eiffel tower, the Metro, the Louvre, and Kate and I spending the night in Paris while Janna, Penny, and my mom flew to South Africa. I remember all of the houses in South Africa (each about the size of a shed), the many faces of people Tanner taught, and the game park. I remember going to London with Tanner, Janna, Kate, Penny, and my mom; The London Bridge, the Tower of London, Buckingham palace, Big Ben, and the Underground. I remember thinking about how amazing it was to have been to those places, I had spent a lot of time in the past dreaming of going to those places. Reading books about them and when we actually went I realized that no matter how good those books were, words simply could not describe the feeling of being there. I completely agree with the saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words," but even then, I don't think any words can really describe the memories of something. Which brings me to another memory that came to me last week. At the end of April last year Janna and I had gotten to go to Hawaii. It was amazing, and since I can't think of any better words than amazing right now I will post some pictures of that memory.


This was at the end of an amazing hike. This is Janna and Keli'i about to jump into the pool.