"The greatest part of our happiness and misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." Martha Washington

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Volleyball

February 16, 2010
Well we had a long weekend and were very busy.  Saturday was tournament so we spent the day down in Salt Lake all day watching the girls play ball.  They did great.  They won all of their games.  They are on their way to the top. Yes this is Allora jumping for the block.  She is doing great and loving her team and the game.













We had the Chibante's hang out with us for the weekend.  Always a pleasure and Charles gave me a mini cooking lesson.  Learned a few things about BBQing.  He and Joli made an amazing lunch before they left.  Steak, potatoes, asparagus it was soooo good.  The kids are already begging me to make it again.

I have a few new things I want to try this week so I will let everyone (if anyone even reads this) know what I tried.  I also found a great blog for some slow cooker recipes I am dieing to try. The blog is familycorner.blogspot.com.  I found it on sugardoodle one of my favorite websites.  There are several recipe sites you can link to on the bottom left if you are interested in checking it out.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

California Trip

February 10, 2010
Well I just got back from California and the weather was great until yesterday...  
I had a great time.  I got to see my friend Christy.  That was so great to catch up on things with her.  We went to PF Changs at Victoria Gardens.  Wow that place is amazing.  There is like every store you could ever wish for.
Anyway we had a wonderful visit and I am hoping she will bring her family up to Utah a visit really soon.  She hasn't changed a bit.  I felt like I was back in High School only a lot happier.  : )  
Well we are home safely and back to cooking.  We had a great quick lasagna for dinner tonight.  It was sooooo easy and everyone loved it.  I will definitely make this one again.  
Basically it was bow tie noodles layered with ground beef,  sauce and cheese then baked.  YUM YUM!  Thank you Paige...

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Busy, Busy, Busy

February 2, 2010
Ok the cooking is coming along well.  I am getting used to thinking about dinner in the morning so I have something set out to make.  I had to call my friend Paige about some meat today to find out what I should do with it because I was not sure.  John had bought a beef tenderloin butt fillet at Costco to make as a roast.  When I pulled it out I didn't think it looked like a roast so I had to call and make sure.  Yep I was right Paige said better to cut it up and make steaks.  Anything tenderloin apparently makes really good steak.  For those of you who are veterans I am sure you knew this but for me I had no idea.  So tomorrow she is going to help me make something new and wonderful.  I am excited.  She has some really good recipes so i am looking forward to trying some of them with her. 

Random Question for the day....

Ok for those of you who have dogs I have a question...  My dogs go out in the snow and come back in and then I have little doggie paw prints all over my dark hard wood floor.  Any ideas (besides mop every ten minutes)?????