I Stayed up Way too Late and Learned A New Word, Beat that Reading Rainbow!

Last night was the midnight showing of "Twilight Saga: Eclipse". First of all I wonder how Stephenie Meyers feels about her book series now being called a "saga". The books are hardly long enough to be called novels as is. :) Oh well. I'm not going to give anything away because I have a certain sister in law who didn't get to go :( with us last night and I'm pretty sure she would/ could reach through the internet and strangle me to death for talking about it.;) Just kidding. I will however say this, I learned a new word last night that I will never ever forget but also will never ever use unless I'm making fun of someone, okay hear it goes.... And the new word is.... "Twi-Hard" (stifled snort) this word is to give a genre to all the crazy fans who dress up, have those insane all day parties, and have left their husbands in search for their real life Edward, or Jacob....(yes it actually has happened). But really? "TWI" hard? Good grief do we really need to make up our own words just so everyone will know what kind of sheets we sleep on at night? I don't think so, but hey I could be gravely mistaken. :)All things considered, I will say that the acting has (heavy sigh) gotten a little better, so don't go to the movie expecting to see the same crap you saw in the first one with Robert Pattinson, "Must. Not. Puke." But there are a few times I was afraid he would actually swallow Bella's head... why Rob? why can't you just pucker like a normal human? Even fish can do it! Oh that's right because you're a Vampire... (heavy sigh) and if you are on Team Jacob (chuckle and shake head) like so many (snort) Twi-hards out there, you'll be glad to know that he steams when rain water hits his muscular body. And this time, it's either ALWAYS raining or Jacob is just sweating, ewwww. That's really all I can say other than, is Carlisle supposed to have an accent only half of the time? Or is that just the "cool" thing to do nowadays?;)

Excuse Me I HAVE to Gush about this...

So today I've been in a total, "OhMyGoshThatisFreakinAdorable" mood and the root cause is cause I've been online shopping. Isn't that the root of everything girly and retarded? They really make you feel like you CAN'T live without it and because you can't pick up the price tag, look at it and walk away, it makes it hard to close the window. Anyways, I've found a new favorite website and while I haven't spent any money there yet because out of self control (I knew I wouldn't be able to stop) I thought I would share. www.princessbowtique.net has the CUTEST little girly things I have ever seen, and they aren't outrageously priced like places like matildajane although they are very cute, just WAY out of my personal price range. Check it out and buy something if it tickles your fancy. For the sake of my husband, I'll just advertise for it, not spend too much money there.:)Come on tell me this isn't the most adorable thing you've ever seen:

I May Have Already Featured This...

Okay tell me this carseat isn't adorable. I know I already have one but I'm still secretly harboring the hope there's two in oven, so we'd have to get at least one more.:)

Swing Swing

We went to the park tonight and had a picnic and Riley spent her first time on the swings. I think she enjoyed it.:) Sorry about the quality my camera is dead so I have to get everything on my phone...

Worst Day Ever...

So Mindy my SIL my recall getting a text this afternoon asking her if she had ever had those days she felt like driving her car off a cliff... Let me explain, today was pretty much the worst day of the my life. It started out okay, but very quickly fell apart as I watched my sanity fall bit by bit down around my ears. I woke up and was fully awake at 6 30 when Riley decided it was time to get up and play. So I played with her in bed for a while hoping Tim would just give up sleeping and just get up and shower, but I swear he could sleep through a nuclear explosion. Anyways, Riley finally gets tired again after Tim leaves about 7 30 and falls back asleep. So I think, GREAT! I'll take Penny out really quick come back in and shower and then we can be out to mom's house in a timely manner. I get up and get dressed and take a very excited Penny to the door. Okay got the leash got my shoes, Penny be quiet and DON'T wake up Riley, now I just grab my keys and- wait a minute, where's my house key? Stupid pregnant brain you put it somewhere and forgot where it was. It's on the table... no not the table, or the counter, or the dresser,... okay let's think about what we did yesterday. Tim came home we went swimming, i had to have them to open the door when we got back, so they did make it into the house, Then we went for ice cream I didn't take my purse or anything cause Tim had his keys... hmmm where could they be? So after this lengthy inner monologue, i call Tim
"Where are my keys?"
"Are they on my dresser?
"No, I just looked there, oh ps your dresser is a mess you'll have to clean that up sometime."
"Yeah. Is it on the key ring?"
Would I be calling you if it was on the keyring?"

pause

"I don't know."
"no not on the key ring."
"Well I've just pulled into work so I'll call when I get in the building."
"Okay"

Sigh, well he wasn't much help. so I go through my steps. Swimming keys in the door and I put them... where? The whole time I was racking my brain thinking of where on God's green earth I could have put these stupid two little keys! But guess what? i didn't put them anywhere. My darling husband had carried them off and we all know what happens when he walks off with things, they are never heard from again.... Oh no panic time. so I call my mom.
"Mom I can't leave here without someone being here because I don't have a house key. i can't seem to find it. I would ask you to come out here, but you may not want to do that, I don't know."
Mom-"Yeah,... not really."
"Okay I'll keep looking"
So I basically turn my house upside down looking for these stupid keys, (don't worry anyone, Penny did make it outside) and after much cursing and praying for both help and forgiveness for the cursing, I find THE KEYS and the angels sang a happy song. Where did I find these you may ask, well in the bathroom of course. Out of eyesight behind the bag I use to pack my haircutting stuff when I make house calls. Well of course it was there, i should have known immediately there was nothing to worry about because doesn't EVERYBODY leave their house keys in the bathroom? Oh wait... yeah they DON'T!!! so ends fiasco #1
K fiasco #2 might be a little gross but you have to give me a break given my circumstances and the fact that I'm pregnant. (no I didn't pee my pants.)
So whilst I am driving out to my mother's house in West Valley I start to feel a little queasy... yeah I'm sure you can see where this going. Around the on ramp to 2-15 on 4700s my vitamins which i didn't take with food... (and I wonder why me?) come back up and all the water I drank with a little sunny d thankfully it was a: mostly all over me so I could slowly peel the mess off when I got to my mother's and b: it was mostly water because I hadn't eaten much for the past 24 hours. Although it did have partially disintegrated prenatal and daily vitamins in it, so now I have a strange aversion to the Flinstones vitamins which is what it smelled like. i think about it and really all that was going through my mind was " Oh geez I hope no one sees me do this."
REALLY?! Not oh geez I'm going to puke, let's open the door so it doesn't get everywhere when you're already late for your OB appointment... or Just breathe just breathe and don't puke... no no it's I hope no one is watching me throw up all over myself... I'm officially hopeless. anyways, I make it to my moms and borrow some clothes from Sarah and Charles yeas even 3 months prego I can still fit into my little siblings clothes!!!! but I make my way, VERY QUICKLY towards downtown Salt Lake where my doctor is. Okay i have a question to pose here: How much road does a construction team really need to tear up? honestly? I like to give this as an answer: EVERY ROAD IT CAN GET ITS GRUBBY LITTLE HANDS ON!!!!!!!!! i swear if someone gave me the choice between hit by a train but surviving as a vegetable or trying to get to south temple and 4th in a simple easy route, I would definitely take being hit by a train. because then at least as a vegetable I wouldn't have to deal with the INSANE construction that is going on downtown. I'm pretty sure they dig big hole sin the road just to drive people crazy and make my life miserable. So Fiasco #3 is be late to appointment because you had to find your way like a rat in a maze of orange cones.I swear I am never going east from the west again. and it's interesting how whenever you bring it up to everyone, and they all go " Oh yeah they're doing this and this and this project" I personally think that they should make commercials about what projects they are doing when they are doing them and have morning news announce the road closures and stuff EVERY morning. At the beginning of the newscast. But the day got better when I heard baby's heartbeat, and on a good note, my car doesn't stink like puke.:)

My Obsession

So if you ask my husband he'll say that I read not for knowledge but for sustenance of life. Which may or may not be true, I'm not sure, but it's true I do love to read. Anyways, there's been some hype over Alice in Wonderland lately and it's been really interesting to read different opinions about the book. My favorite take on the fantasy is Written by Frank Beddor a trilogy called "The Looking Glass Wars". His spin on the old fairy tale is that Alice is actually the Princess of Wonderland daughter to Queen Genevieve of White Imagination and King Nolan. The evil side is Redd Genevieve's sister who was denounced and surpassed by her younger sister to the throne, for her lack of respect for rules and anything good and her love for Black Imagination. Alice is running from Redd and gets transported through the Pool of Tears into Victorian London, Lewis Carroll's time and at first she insists of her royalty and is singled out and harassed for it. She in reality spells her name Alyss, which I think is much cuter than the traditional spelling, but is also badgered into spelling it more "traditional". She grows and learns to suppress her former life and adapts to the lifestyle she has fallen quite literally, into and when at the last moment she fears she would have to spend the rest of her life with a man she doesn't love, she is saved by a familiar face, a man, whom she knew as a boy named Dodge Anders, as Redd's soldiers come blasting through a portal into our world. Amongst so much action and craziness you find that "The Mad Hatter" is actually Hatter Maddigan the chief of the Millinery and protection to the queen and who uses his infamous top hat as an unusual weapon. The bong smoking caterpillars (yes there are more than just the one) are prophets whom the Monarchy call upon in times of need. So basically my point is, I read it in a day and a half so there's really no reason for someone to not read it. It's fun , it's easy and I loved the different take. Of course this is just my opinion, I highly recommend it. Please feel free to write me about any interesting books you have read lately, I like to hear from everybody!:)

Tim's 24th Birthday

Well another year has gone by for Tim he is now 24. Geez he's old.

New Recipe

So since I'm blessed enough to be a stay at home mom, I watch daytime tv sometimes. Yes it does happen, I have seen my fair share of soap operas, and yes I'm sorry, I laugh my head off whilst I'm watching. Today I'm watching the Rachel Ray show. Normally I don't watch these shows religiously and every once in a while something she does will catch my eye. Everyone knows that I'm not one to be really healthy when it comes to my waistline, because if it tastes good and I'm happy with it, why on earth would I not eat it? So anyways, Rachel Ray was doing this boneless skinless ranch style fried chicken. K who doesn't like fried chicken? So I've heard that most of the fatty parts of the fried chicken is the skin! the crispy fatty goodness of the skin.... mmmmm whoops focus, so if it's skinless it's healthier right? And it's even better because it's BONELESS so you don't have to work very hard to get a little bit of meat. Now that we all know why I'm a few pounds over weight, here's the recipe, give it a try and let me know what YOU think of it!


Tangy Ranch-Style Boneless Fried Chicken

Serve with a slaw salad mix dressed with vinegar, oil and seasoned with celery salt and pepper and large deli pickle spears alongside.



Ingredients
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup Greek-style yogurt
4 pieces boneless, skinless chicken breast, 6 to 8 ounces each
4 pieces boneless, skinless chicken thighs
Salt and pepper
Frying oil
Large brown paper sack
2 cups flour
4 tablespoons finely chopped fresh dill or 4 teaspoons dried dill, eyeball it
2 tablespoons granulated onion, a couple of palmfuls
2 tablespoons granulated garlic, a couple of palmfuls
2 teaspoons cayenne pepper, 2/3 palmful
A handful of flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
A handful of chives, finely chopped
1 lemon, cut into wedges

Yields: Serves 4

Preparation
Combine buttermilk and yogurt in bowl. Cut chicken breast pieces in half across the breast at widest part. Season all of the chicken pieces liberally with salt and pepper, and submerge them in the buttermilk-yogurt mixture.

In a heavy pot over medium heat, heat a couple of inches of frying oil until small bubbles appear in a rapid stream when a wooden utensil handle is placed in the oil.

In a large paper sack, combine the flour with dill, dried onion and garlic, cayenne, parsley and chives. Add half the chicken to the bag, roll up the top of the bag and shake to coat. Add floured chicken to oil and add the remaining chicken pieces to flour. Fry chicken 8-10 minutes, until deeply golden and cooked through. Serve with wedges of lemon.

I'll try it sometime within the coming weekend some pictures of during and after. Oh P.S. is anyone else confused with the Backstreet Boys being back on tour like they're popular? Yes I know, Tim, Backstreet Boys will always be the "bomb dot-com" in your eyes.;)

Family Pictures 2010

We had family pictures taken a while ago to help support Shea's Young women's group. so here are some of them.