Yummy Yummy

I have a gas oven that heats up my house like crazy! So I am always looking for fun things to cook WITHOUT using my oven/stove.......kinda hard. Anyway-try this one out! If you don't want to go out and buy the mustard and cheese you can use spicy mustard and regular cheddar cheese or even mozzarella cheese. Happy grilling!
Grilled Chicken Sandwiches with Mustard
Martha Stewart Living

1/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons whole-grain mustard
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/3 cup chopped fresh dill (or, if you have to, 1Tbs dried dill as a substitute)
2 garlic cloves, minced (approx. 1 tablespoon)
salt + pepper
2 chicken cutlets (6 ounces each)
1 large red onion, sliced into 1/2-inch-thick rounds
3 ounces aged cheddar cheese, thinly sliced
1 baguette, cut crosswise into 4 pieces and halved horizontally
3 tablespoons creme fraiche (sour cream or plain yogurt work just as well:) )
3 sour pickles, thinly sliced lengthwise ( optional)

1. Mix 1/4 cup mustard, the oil, dill, garlic, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, 3/4 teaspoon pepper in a medium bowl. Add chicken and onion rounds, and toss to coat. Refrigerate, covered, for 30 minutes.

2. Preheat grill to medium-high. Grill onion, turning often, 8-10 minutes. Grill chicken on 1 side for 3 minutes; flip, top with cheddar, and cook 3 minutes more. Cut cutlets in half. Grill baguette, cut sides down, for about 30 seconds.

3. Mix remaining 3 tablespoons mustard and the creme fraiche in a small bowl. Spread onto cut sides of baguette. Sandwich chicken, pickles, and onion between bread.

I love summer!

Birthday Boy Joseph!

Happy Birthday to the love of my life!







Last Monday was Josephs 28th Birthday and we decided to have a small get together BBQ. We had lots of people come who mean so much to Joseph and we had a wonderful time. Though Bree decided to be sick.....really sick....so ALL day she slept like 2 hours and ate nothing but 3 pieces of watermelon. Joseph got home at 5:50 and Bree and I were both washing off throw up #3 for the day. BBQ started at 6 and I was a mess (not to mention the house) None of the food was prepped and nothing was even remotely ready for the guests......I was a bit frazzled to say the least.. Bree continued to scream throughout the evening and I was about to go nuts. Everyone was kind to try and help by holding her and making ALL the food for dinner:) Friends are the greatest aren't they?? But as all you moms know-when your child is sick....who do they want most??? Yep mom:) So I got a wonderful workout holding her all night until 2am when I had had it and gave her some benadryl:) Thank heavens for drugs:)

Bike People

Joseph and I have decided we want to be bike people. Bike people are so "outdoorsy" and are "muscley" and just look cool in bike shorts and helmets.
So our friends Lauren and Shane (who are total bike people) took us out for my first ride since I was like 12. We went up Provo Canyon and biked around 3 miles. It was beautiful and a lovely easy ride. And I didn't even crash! The babies were not so thrilled to be sitting so close to each other and we discovered that Bree is quite the bully when it comes to other children.....(which actually is a blessing in Nursery-she can hold her own with those big kids)We loved it! And decided that we are going to be bike people! The next thing we are saving for is bikes and a little bike holder thing for Bree! Yeah for bikes! Thanks to Lauren and Shane for the amazing food and amazing afternoon!

First lime tasting:)

Before:

After:
Verdict- yeah for limes! Takes after her mom:)

We sprung from our beds to see what was the matter!!!

I don't know how many of you have experienced this phenomenon when you are suddenly woken up in the night by some sound and you automatically think, there HAS TO BE SOME BAD GUY IN MY HOUSE AND HE IS GOING TO KILL US!! You freak out, wake up the man, and tell him that you SWEAR YOU HEARD SOMEONE IN THE HOUSE!! This happened to my mom several times-one of the most memorable was when she SWEARS that there was a DOG in the kitchen!!! She heard it scratching and scratching.....my dad calmly informed her, that after a full search of the kitchen no dog was found. Though he did blow his nose......which was later discovered as the source of the "dog scratching."
Well this happened to me last night at 12:05.....there was a loud loud crash and I was freaked....Joseph kinda moved but then I woke him and told him to go check.....someone has just broken in and broke a window or something. While he was gone "finding the bad guy" I thought to myself "WE NEED A GUN or a bat or something," He came back to the bedroom, unharmed, and then I told him that the sound sounded like it came from OUR ROOM. Sleepy hero Joseph turned the light on to further the investigation........this is what he found




Our closet fell in. Yep the shelves just ripped out of the wall and everything came crashing down. Now, why did ONLY I get woken up by this......Joseph was sound asleep as everything came crashing down-Should I be worried?

I actually may die because of this.......

I have decided that if you are called to be Nursery leaders you should have different requirements then the rest of the ward:
#1. Payment
#2. Special jump suit uniforms that are
a)PANTS
b) germ proof and
c) pee proof
I know now why ladies wear frumpy dresses to church-they MUST work in the nursery. I need to find me one of these!


#3. A prescription for Xanax
#4. children's benadryl
#5. Disney movies.......ANY movie for that matter
The only thing good about my calling so far.....SNACK TIME. Ok, I'm done complaining.......this is just really really hard for me........I am so out of my zone and I pretty much want to die by the time church is over...........heck I think I am loosing my testimony slower and slower each week....

We actually did a 5K....just to see what all the hype was about mostly

Top five and bottom five of jogging a 5K (yes I said jogging there was no running involved)

Top five
5. My new orthotic shoe inserts actually fit and are comfortable
4. I actually fit into my sports bra.......come on people this is a miracle since pregnancy-don't pretend you don't know how happy I feel!!
3. I got to jog with my favorite two people in the world
2. Bree would scream so I was "forced" to take a quick cracker/juice break of course to make her feel better :)

1. The run ended with breakfast—lots of cream cheese and some bagel to go with it...Hey! I earned it.

Bottom Five

5. Joseph and I got called as Nursery leaders. Nothing to do with the 5k, but still a bottom five. Just kidding. But it will be harder to make friends.
4. Not having a set playlist on my ipod.......so I would just start to get in my groove with a little Van Halen "JUMP' when "Ye Elders of Israel" would ruin the moment......(true story)
3. Seeing a little kid running with only one shoe! AAAAAAHHHHH talk about shin splints
2. Jogging by a mobile home park and realizing Joseph almost made me move there when we were first married. He'd probably still like it. "Cheap Mortgage" Whatever cheep mortgage my eye!! I want Bree to be able to play outside without worrying that she will step on a used needle or get bitten by one of the 18,000,000 stray cats.
1. It hurts......yep everything in my body hurts except my eyelashes :) I don't get why people actaully CHOOSE to do things like this. Becca and Theresa: you are amazing.... I could NEVER do what you do.

All in all I guess I could say I am glad I did it- JUST because I can say that I have done a 5K but mark my words I don't see myself getting to stoked for more running anytime soon

WE MOVED!!

Finally the post you've all been waiting for!! We moved!......like 6 blocks but we moved!!! And yes my friends we are still in Provo....NO THIS IS NOT OUR PERMANENT LIVING SITUATION-just thought I'd be clear. As we sure do love Utah we are anxious to be gone too.
A few months ago we figured why pay rent when we could own and pay LESS per month! The first day we started looking we found this cute duplex that I fell in love with!
So without further ado- from this:



to this:





Best Part BY FAR:



then Cayling helped with the interior because lets be honest, I can cook, but decorating.....not my best quality-in fact I have NO talent when it comes to putting things together. I found a lady on KSL ( kinda like craigslist) that was selling all the decorations from a model home. It was the style I was looking for so Katie and I loaded up the babies and went for an hour and a half roadtrip. That is were I got most of my decorations and for a good price:)

We have awesome downstairs neighbors that cook for US


Also, we had a bit of drama moving in...and by a bit I mean I thought I was going to be beat up....
If your hubby is a lawyer or a hit man I might have some business for him to take care of :)

Oh and we have a third bedroom+bath so we would love love for everyone to come stay!!! I'll even brush my hair when you come:)

"Matson should I bring warm clothes??"

Last weekend Joseph and Matson had a "business meeting" up in Wyoming. We were able to stay at one of his business partners "cabin" which we were super excited about! Glad to get away for a weekend and spend some time with family and friends. We packed up all our stuff and I called Matson to see if I should bring warm clothes. He said yeah it was cold up there so bring a coat. so I packed Bree all of her winter stuff and me some sweats and heavy coat.
We finally arrived to a snow packed cabin when I realized we had not arrived......we had to take a snow cat up to our "cabin."


Bree loved it! Even though it was really loud. About 10min later, after passing 3 other "cabins" we had arrived!!! Now let me just tell you when I walked in I felt like I was in a hotel.....I WAS HUGE!! It was three stories and each familly had their own bedroom and bathroom! These weren't like small rooms with old ghetto tubs in them-they were bigger then our bedroom/bathroom at home! I was in love! Here I am expecting a "cabin" to be like old and creaky and smelly like fire and mice running around keeping me awake at night as I sleep in a sleeping bag on the cold stone floor. What do I get a fabulous weekend get away!.....at least I thought.......


Come to find out the heating system in the "cabin" was busted......I guess the heat is supposed to come up through the floors (pretty cool) but for some reason it was broken......the boys tried and tired to fix it

But with no luck we went to bed with the "cabin" being 32 degrees!!! I'll be honest this would have kinda been fun because I am expecting to stay in a real cabin and kinda camp for the weekend and it would have been fun to snuggle to stay warm and wake up warm with a cold nose. BUT I HAVE A CHILD!! AND SHE WAS FREEZING!! I layered everything I had on her but I didn't bring her a face mask!! Poor girl! So we built fires and just put the babies in front of them all day. We all just snuggled to stay warm and ended up having a wonderful COLD time! Check out the oil.....yep it was cold!!



Oh and there were these freaking Indians all over the house. Bree was freaked out. So was I!! How would you like waking up with Pocahontas staring at you??? Freaking

Here's a quick video of Joseph making Bree feel better and warmer.


Good times! Fun memories.

(oh and I will post about our move shortly.....I just need to find my camera.....it's somewhere in the massive pile of unpacked boxes......)