Cookin it up!

Lots to catch up on... here we go.

I did laundry and this is how my shirt came out. So much for that favorite white shirt.

Finally started the project of organizing all of our movies together and making a list of each. It took over 20 hours to go through the whole process of getting info on all the movies, organizing them on paper, and then organizing them in our binder and on our shelf.

Daniel and i needed a new pair of shoes and there was a sale so we got new shoes and mine rock! Now though i need to stretch it out a bit cause i was blinded by the love of them on how much my foot really hurt wearing them. Toes rubbing against the leather and fabric inside is what hurts. These keep me from sliding on the snow.

This is us on my birthday as we went out for dinner. Daniel made me breakfast, i tried to go get a pedi with ANY friends i have in rexburg and they all came up with reasons not to go or ignored me so that was a bummer, but then we did dinner and had friends over for games and fun and that was really enjoyable. Strange thing growing up, you learn more and more that you dislike your birthdays. For me not necessarily because im getting older every year but for the other events that go on during the day.

This was my first successful pie, it was a cherry pie.

Really yummy and good.

This is Daniel's Pie he made the very next day. Brownie, ice cream, and cookie dough.

This was what we had for my birthday. White Chocolate Mouse with a Raspberry sauce. Really Really smooth, rich, and delish.

Biscuit burgers take 20 mins to make and are yummy.

Home made pizza turned out perfectly. Daniel felt like he was back at porkies.

Now we are going to go hot tubbing and be ice cubes by the time we are done. But hey, you only live once so enjoy. Best wishes, love our loyal and faithful readers!

The Longs!

issue 54 2-4-12

New View for Life.

Sorry this blog took so long to put up. I just got lazy and then one thing after another and i got distracted. Now i feel it's too overwhelming to type it all out and post everything individually so here is a video for you to watch that will take place as our blog. We might keep doing it this way if it turns out good and pretty easy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iZbLdbiMiE

So this blog was easy enough to do. I know the program and am learning more for it for my class as well so im really excited about this and will possibly be doing this more often when i am crammed for time or overwhelmed. A few things that i forgot! OUR TRIP WAS GREAT! Glad we went home for the holidays. We got to spend a pretty even amount of time with each of our families and we got to see just about all of our friends which was really good and the whole trip was very much needed!

This last weekend we had a huge game night and it was awesome. We had 13 people come and invited about 28 with 19 that confirmed originally. So the turn out wasn't too bad. We had some new people over that are our new next door neighbors now and so that was great to meet them and have them meet some of our friends. I also have a friend who is back in town that got married a month ago and i haven't see him since June. His wife made us dinner and we caught up on things and it was lots of fun. We have a small mini trip planned for SLC soon and i will be meeting some of Daniel's friends and family there as well. So we are really looking forward to that as well.

We came up with a few new meals that are pretty good and you might want to try. They are really simple too. The first one is Biscuit Burgers. You get two packs of biscuits from the store, doesn't matter what kind as long as they aren't the crescent kind. I don't think they would work too well. Then you get ground beef or turkey and you brown it in a pan. You put in what ever seasoning you would like with it. You can cut up onion and small bell peppers if you want. We just did some spicy mrs. dash and swamp dust. Then when it is browned you will flatten out each of the biscuits till you can get a spoonful or two of meat in it, then you will pull the ends over and squeeze them together so that nothing comes out the bottom when cooking. Then bake them for as long as the container says for the biscuits (about 8-10 mins). If you want to add cheese chunks into them you can. I did that for Daniel and he said he liked it.

The next item for food was Chicken Taco Stew. You get a chicken breast for each person eating and put it in a crock pot frozen. Then fill it with water till all the chicken is covered. Cook the chicken till it's cooked through. Then pull the chicken out and let cool, until you can shred into smaller bite sized pieces. Then put any kind of chopped up veggies. We put potatoes, carrots, green peas in the pod still, and will be putting in kidney beans or pinto beans next time. Then add about 1/4 - 2/3 cup of taco seasoning. A dash or two of ground cumin, freshly ground pepper, and we added a dash or two of swamp dust. Then let it all cook to your desired tenderness. Add seasoning to your liking and serve with tortillas.

our last item we had this week that was really good and easy was a fruit smoothy. Make how you want but we put about a cup of pineapple, two cups of orange juice, and ice-cream in the blender and enjoyed. All simple meals and really not to pricy either.

This is it for us so i am signing out and hope you all have a great day! Best wishes.

Issue 53 1-15-12