Swan Lake

On my birthday Taylor got my tickets to Swan Lake and a couple weeks later we finally got to go!

And this how I felt at the ballet:

cheery, merry, joyful, jovial,jolly, jocular, gleeful, carefree,delighted, smiling, beaming, grinning, in good spirits, in a good mood, lighthearted, satisfied,gratified, buoyant, radiant, sunny, blithe,joyous, beatific; thrilled, elated,exhilarated, ecstatic, blissful, euphoric,overjoyed, exultant, rapturous, in seventh heaven, on cloud nine, walking on air,jumping for joy, jubilant.

Needless to say, the ballet was the Best Gift Taylor has ever gotten me. I loved it, it was such a beautiful

show and if I had all the money in the world I would buy season tickets and fancy dresses and go every time! 

Cake

I would like to make a homemade cake for my husbands birthday but the only cook books I have right now are health nut food. Does anyone have some amazing recipes they want to share? I also only have a silicone bunt cake pan - Half my kitchen is still in boxes back in Idaho.

I'd sure appreciate it :)

What I need: 

Really good birthday cake that can be cooked in a bunt cake pan, anyone?

Doc's Chili

One Word: Amazing

Two Words: Must Have

Two More Words: Its Healthy!

Chili is one of my favourite homemade meals, I hate store bought Chili because no one makes it right it my mind but someone did get it right when they made this healthy Chili and it is my new favourite. I had to stop myself from eating the pot! Put this on your Must Make List!! Weather your trying to lose weight or not this is a yummy healthy meal. 

You'll Need:

3 cups copped onion (I used onion powered as a substitute)

1 1/4 lbs extra lean ground turkey

3 Cups diced Tom or 1 (15oz) Can

1 (15oz) Can Pinto Beans

1 (15oz) Can Blakc beans

1 cup (fat free/low sodium) Chicken Broth

2 Tbs Garlic

2 Tbs Chili Powder

1 Teas Cumin

1 Teas Mustard Powder

Options: 1/2 Cup Black Olives 

1. Spray your pot with Olive Oil Spray and add onions and cook till tender.

2. Add Turkey and cook for 6 minutes breaking it up with a spoon

3. Add Everything else and bring to a boil then reduce heat to low and cook for 20 minutes

Now enjoy this easy healthy meal that will please the whole family!

The Prenatal Bucket List

As a wife I have had those, or the last whole month being baby hungry but thankfully I have come to my senses again and remembered I have so much more I want to do with my husband while we have more freedom! I found this Prenatal bucket lists on babble.com and thought it was really cut and a good idea. I modified it a bit for my lifestyle. A lot of these we have done but others I would like to do more of like vacation!

1. Take an adventure vacation - Going in December :)

2. Go to the theatre - Going this month!

3. Get Fit - Always a battle

4. Cancel Netflix and go out more - Did that yesterday (the instant anyway)

5. Volunteer Abroad - Ecuador

6. Utilize your extra bedroom - Wish we had one

7. Spend quality time with friends

8. Eat forbidden foods - Sushi, cookie dough

9. Buy a really nice camera
10. Graduate from University

So far off this list I need to graduate, go on vacation more, and spend quality time with friends and of course try to get skinny but lets be honest when is that ever "done"!

Breakfast Melt

I am a sucker for breakfast sandwiches, they are by far my favourite for breakfast. Here is a supper simple breakfast melt.

You will Need:

Low fat cheese

Low Sodium Ham

Whole Wheat English Muffin

an Egg ring (optional)

Egg whites (I find buying them in the containers of all egg white a lot less hassle!)

Olive Oil Spray

Coat your egg ring with Olive Oil Spray and then put it on your pan and pour in two egg whites. Once the egg is about cooked run a knife along the edge to loosen the egg from the ring and flip. Want you ham on the pan for a couple of minutes and toast your whole wheat english muffin. And out it all together! So Yummy and along around 230 Calories :)

Always a Challenge

Speaking of Dinner... I know I am not the only one that feels it is hard to make healthy lean meals and still pleasing your family or in my case husband. We have been doing a little biggest loser Challenge and I won this weeks way in which I will brag about until the next one because my husband was sure he had it in the bag! 

I am going to try and share all of my favourite healthy meals we cook along the way to help you at dinner time, or breakfast time or snack time! I know my blog always seams to change from crafty, to fashion, to food and then the cycle starts all over again but that how life is for me so join along for the healthy kick that is going on at our home. I have lost three pounds and I plan to lose five more before I honeymoon in December!

Giveaway

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No one has entered the second half of the giveaway for $30 so if you enter now you will probably have a 100% chance of winning!

Also the Snake Orb Necklace is 50% off and amazing! It is the Necklace I wear the most, and $39 for a 14K Gold Necklace that is oh so wearable! But only today so act quick!

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Happy Birthday

Some of you may have noticed I have a problem, I spoil my husband!! I should be ashamed of my spending habits but he just works so hard I can't help but treat him like my prince. Then my next shameful moment was when I couldn't help but give it to him a month early :)

And Mom thank you so much for going in on it with me, he loved it and he is so lucky he has such a great Mother-in-law like you

Cute, Cute Boy! So happy you finally have a computer with a working screen.

He was so happy he has wanted a new computer for the last year. I have officially turned my husband into a Mac Boy!

The Breath of Life

It is way past my bed time, I am usually in bed at 11:00 and fall asleep quickly but tonight my mind just kept racing so I finally had to get out of bed to poke around on the internet hoping this would remind me how tired I truly am.

I ended up on a family friends blog, her sister past away and left her baby behind over a year ago. I had only met her a couple of time buts she was a beautiful girl and had such taste for style and life from what I knew of her. But they welcomes this new addition into their family and you can see that she has brought such joy into their lives. Although I am not ready to have a child I will patiently wait until I am because I see how much of a blessing they are.

 It just got me thinking about how lately I haven't been taken advantage of these moments I have with my husband, tv shows, blogging and many other meaningless tasks consume our evenings and then the next thing we know its bed time and we repeat our days over again. 

All this thinking reminded me of this picture from our wedding. It hangs above our bed and it is my favourite, Taylor's expression just moves me in this picture. In all the hustle and bustle of getting married, it was hard to take moments for just us since everyone had just driven miles or days to see us. But here in this pictures he just looks like he is breathing in the moment. Closing his eyes and just absorbing his surrounding. I am going to try and do that exact thing more often.

Lets all make time to take a deep breath of those blissful moments in life, and if you can't find one you better go make one because life has been known to slip away.

Mushroom Caps

Stuffed Mushrooms Caps

Ingredients

• 1 pound large fresh mushrooms
• 4 tablespoons butter, divided
• 1/4 cup Kikkoman Panko Bread Crumbs
• 1/2 cup imitation crabmeat, flaked
• 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons Kikkoman Panko Bread Crumbs
• 1/8 teaspoon black pepper

Directions

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Wipe mushrooms gently with a damp paper towel. Remove and finely chop stems. In a large skillet over medium heat, melt 3 tablespoons of the butter. Add mushroom stems and cook for 5 minutes or until tender. Remove from heat and stir in 1/4 cup of the panko, the shredded crab, onion powder, salt and pepper.
2. Stuff mushrooms caps with crab mixture and place them stuffing side up on an ungreased rimmed baking sheet. In a small bowl, combine remaining butter and panko. Sprinkle evenly over the tops of the mushrooms and bake for 15 minutes.

My Husband made these to go along with our meal the other night. Amazing!! Wow and they were so simple so he say's. If you want to treat yourself, or you want to impress some dinner guests or in-laws these are the side to make simple and wow - also if you don't like crab, or seafood neither do we you can't even tell :)

The Rockies Game

My new Boss gave me two tickets to the Rockies baseball game. Little history: Taylor has been talking about taking me to a Rockies game since we very first met two years ago. I actually remember thinking weird I don't even know if I like this guy yet and he is talking about taking me to a baseball game where his parents live? Haha funny how things turn out, the first time I came to visit the game was rained out and we missed out chance.

So Taylor and I finally got our chance of going to the Rockies game, but this time on the VIP Level, it was a separate inclosed level that you had to have tickets for with really yummy expensive food and heated if you got cold while down in your covered seats. It was such a fun date night and we only have to pay for our Nachos!

We really are loving it in Colorado, I would prefer to never leave!

2O

My Mom called me today and said, "You're finally not a teenager."

It is true, I am finally out of my teens I am wishing this will decrease the eye balls rolling and falling out of people heads when they find out I am married haha

We may be married and all "mature" living off in another country fending for ourselves but thankfully we still have a blast together.

I hit the jackpot with the gifts from my Honey and I once again made the famous, Raspberry Lime Cloud Cupcakes and they were amazingly delicious 

I got...

Tickets to Swan Lake

Boat Shoes

And a Love Letter

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Pre-Birthday Dinner at Benihana's after a long sweaty day at work, do nice not to cook or clean tonight.

My Birthday gift is just taunting me on the kitchen table, excited to see what it is tomorrow :)

Infinity Scarf

Navy Infinity Scarf - $0

I Love It!

Ladies this is so simple and such a stellar way to add new winter accessories without spending a dime!

I took an old knit shirt from Target cut the top off.

Double rolled the edge, and sewed it!

With a strip off the top I made a rosette, and glued it to the scarf!

Infinity Scarf

Some of you may remember this scarf from Earlier posts. Super functional scarves, they don't get in the way and they are much easier to fit under jackets. I really love them, my mother made me these two and they are so simple. I have conjured up some material and plans to make some of my own very soon!

If you love these Infinity scarves like I do, but don't want to spend the $15-$45 on them. Stayed tuned! I will be turning a couple of my old shirts into new functional scarves :)

I LOVE HIM!

My Husband does so much for me and supports me in all my silly girlish dreams and lets me drive him crazy! And Boy is it Appreciated. Taylor is letting me go to a Stella & Dot bootcamp this weekend and I am really excited I will be on of the first to see the new Christmas line before it releases.

(Guess this means I should watch football this Sunday :)

Surprise!!

One Day I came home with a surprise for Taylor. 

A Big Surprise!

He was completely shocked, it was very successful.

One Year, Eternity to Go!

WARNING: EXCESSIVE PICTURES!

September 4th 2010

Taylor and I made it one year, and what an amazing thing to celebrate and we sure did have fun doing it! Now a little back ground, Taylor and I still have not had out honeymoon (it's in planning right now), and every time we have any time off school or work we visit family, and I mean every! We had never actually gone anywhere ALONE together!! Crazy after one year of marriage that we still hadn't gone away together, and we finally got the chance. And Boy was it amazing!!

We arrived at my Dads Condo that he lend us for the occasion in Canmore, Alberta, Canada. We started off with Gifts and some Sparkling Juice, we really spoiled each other and it was fun.

They Next day we went to Banff, Alberta, Canada. Go it's amazing!

We walked around main street and picked up some maple fudge and bear claws.

This is a sneak peak on the inside of the condo. This was the room we strayed in and yes that chandelier is made out of twigs!

This is the most amazing part of the condo. The view! This glass wall slides open to show the Three Sisters Mountains and it is honestly the most peaceful breathtaking place I have ever been.

Then we went off to the Hot Springs. With once again such a great view, really you can't go anywhere without in this area.

One of Taylor's favourite parts was driving the Infinity, his dream car through the woods!

The is Banff Springs Hotel, or some call it a Castle as you can see why. Inside in all marble, they have a movie theatre, bowling ally, you name it, a little shopping mall in the basement it is huge.

An Elk

We went for Romantic Walks through the woods, it was very cold up in the mountains

We really did just have a blast Celebrating together, all the stress of the summer was left behind and we spent these two days together falling in Love all over again.

Best Service in Town :)

Off the a Fancy dinner - Which was the most impeccable food we had ever tasted. AAA Alberta Beef  Tenderloin, with Panko Crusted Mash Potato Cakes, Salad and Creme Brulee. They even brought us Sorbet to cleanse our pallet in between courses. Exquisite!

This is my "I am so in Love with you I can't even contain my Joy!" Face.

Then we went off to Echo Lake Montana to spend the rest of the time with my Parents, surfing :)