WIW: Week 12

I should have known that lovely spring weather we were having would come to an end. This past week it's been cold again, and snowing up in the mountains. Paul's parents invited us to come with them to Snowbasin yesterday for a half day. If you can't tell by face already, it was pretty frigid! I've given up on snowboarding. I can't seem to get carving down. Luckily my brain still remembers how to ski so I was able to keep up with Paul pretty well. Even though it was only for a few hours, we still came home pooped! 

Catch up!

Let's see, where to begin. . .


Last Friday Paul was in charge of our date. He drew the envelope date that I had done last year. This is where he comes up with multiple choices for me to chose from for dinner, activity, and a treat. For dinner, he gave me options on how we would make a dish with chicken in it. I decided on making asian chicken. We had some breading to use and some kung pow sauce and fried up bits of chicken. It turned out SO GOOD. And was so easy.

Then for the activity I chose to go see this movie:

And I bawled my eyes out. I didn't really know what to expect with this movie. I had heard good things about it, but then I was worried that I would go in with too high expectations and then not like it as much. Nope, I LOVED it. And Anne Hathaway's version of "I Dreamed a Dream" was amazing.

Then we got some warm drinks afterwards. It was great!

Last Friday it was my turn. The date was to make homemade doughnuts. I went out and bought some doughnut pans because I didn't really want to mess with frying them and figured I could be a little bit healthier by baking them. Besides, there are tons of recipes for baked doughnuts.

For dinner we went out to get sushi. We've been good at keeping this tradition of getting it once a month. And we've found a place not too far away that is so good and hardly ever busy. We're pretty sure the workers recognize us because the past couple times they have given us free appetizers while we wait for our order. Can't complain about that!

We made crumb doughnuts and cinnamon sugar doughnuts. They were delicious. Absolutely delightful. 

While we waited for those to cool, we dyed easter eggs.

Mom, the yellow one is the Star Trek symbol. Paul made it just for you.

Other things to catch up on:

-I'm two week into a Whittier girl's fitness challenge. It's a 10 week challenge that has 4 daily point you can get for working out, keeping a food journal, getting 7 hours of sleep a night, and drinking 64 oz of water. We're also doing biweekly challenges on top of that which are no eating 3 hours before bedtime, only one hour of media a day, eating 2 servings of fruits/vegetables a day, no sweets/treats, and getting 30 grahams of fiber a day. We report to my Mom every week. We all pooled in $20 at the beginning for the grand prize at the end of the challenge. Each week there is a weekly winner who gets  $5 gift card somewhere. It's been good motivation for me so far! It definitely is a challenge, but that's the point. I just finished the 2 week challenge of no eating 3 hours before bedtime, and now I'm onto the one hour of media a day. Wish me luck, and I better WIN! (by they way, we didn't let Mom participate because we knew she would win no questions asked. She didn't deny it either when we told her that was why she couldn't do it with us. Ha! But she's been a great motivational coach!)

-Hmm. . . . what else? Work is going pretty good. It's busy but I really like the people I work with. I feel really blessed to work for a company that is family oriented, and that is only 3 minutes away from home.

-Is that it? I should do better about keeping a list of little things I could write about on here because when I actually sit down to do it, I forget! Sorry. I'll try to be better.

WIW: Week 11

The weatherman did no lie in saying that the temperatures would be up all week. (Random side note-I heard on the news a while ago that there is some country down in Africa that passed a law that can put weathermen in JAIL for not predicting the weather correctly! No joke. It is real.) We enjoyed walking outside where "it's not too hot, and not too cold, all you need is a light jacket!" (If you can name that movie, I am giving you a virtual high-five.) Oh Utah, please don't dump snow on us again until December. Please and thank you.

WIW: Week 10

That's right. It's in the high fifties this week and supposedly will be all this coming week. For some reason this "warm" weather has brought out the cleaning bug. All that got dejunked and a good scrub down was the bathroom though. As you can see from both our expressions, that's all we really had the patience for. Next week. . .the kitchen. 

WIW: Week 9

Once upon a time Tara was really excited to do a cool little "blog project" where she would take Harry around to all the cool things she does and take cool pictures and write cool posts.

Well, that once upon a time became reality and is crashing and burning all around me. Two things are becoming a problem with this project: 1. I don't do cool things. 2. When the rare occasion happens that I do a said "cool thing", I forget to take a picture. This results in the above happening where at the last minute on a Saturday night I realize I forgot to take pictures this week for my project so I snap a few of the hubs. Not like you haven't seen a picture of him before on here. Making the same creepy face he always does in pictures.

Any suggestions on how I can make this series more interesting? I fee like every week it keeps getting more  and more boring because hey! Tara sucks at remembering to take pictures and blog about them.

Any feedback would be much appreciated.