I heart October!

Nothing terribly exciting going on lately, just the same ol same ol stuff.

The only thing I can think of is our primary program is coming up and I have been the chorister this year so I am excited to see all my little ones sing their hearts out in a couple of weeks. Can't wait to see all the hard work pay off. I was the chorister before but we had two of us in the calling and we took turns so it was pretty easy. Doing it all by yourself is a little harder but I know the kids will do great and we will all feel so accomplished when its over. Then we get to start Thanksgiving songs and Christmas, YAY!

Besides that all we do is work, keep house and play when we can. Hopefully I can convince Travis to carve pumpkins this year! I LOVE October!

5 Years down!

After Spending the weekend up in Idaho with Travis' sister's family and attending Jaxson's farewell we decided to head back down to Park City Utah for our 5 year anniversary. We stayed at Westgate in The Canyons in Park City. Loved it! It is a super nice place to stay, in case you ever wander up that way.

After settling in we were off to find some yummy food we don't have readily accessible to us in CA. First stop Cafe Rio, YUM! After a delicious dinner we rented some movies from the red box and had a fun movie night in our condo.

The next day we headed down to Orem to help Travis' dad put up a new swamp cooler. We had fun talking with the neighbors and hanging out with his parents. Of course we had to stop in to IceBerg (it's where we met) the food is becoming more disappointing each time we go but the shakes are still 110% the BEST EVER!

Later that night we headed over to Jason and Larissa's for dinner. They just bought a new house and we wanted to see. Loved it and dinner!

The next day was our actual anniversary and I woke up to these beauties! My husband is an awesome flower giver he arranged them himself and everything!

Later that day we headed over to the alpine slide. We tried to take a picture as we were riding the lift up the mountain but the sun was right in our eyes, here is the best one without to much squinting.

Travis ready to go!

You can see the slide and lift that goes all the way up the mountain behind us. I was a little terrified to ride the Alpine slide because the night before Travis' dad told me the story of a time he was riding the slide with one of his kids and they actually flew off the track! I don't really like to do things that have to do with speed and me not having control but as I was riding the slide I thought I was doing pretty good. As I got the hang of it I tried to go as fast as I could but I think there was something wrong with my car and it wouldn't let me go too fast. Anyway we had fun!

After the slide Travis convinced me to ride the new alpine coaster. It looked intense. People were going crazy fast down that thing and it looked monstrous from the bottom of the mountain. But I decided to give it a try. I actually went all out, on this ride you control the speed just like the slide with two handles on the side of your car, to go fast you push them all the way forward and pull back to break. I was actually going all out like a speed demon and the kids behind me still caught up to me at the end of the track, crazy!



After our day at the Alpine slide we headed down to Salt Lake for dinner at Johnny Carinos. We had our family dinner here the night before our wedding and when we lived in Temecula we went there all the time for fun and special occasions. The one in Temecula is closed down now though so it was fun to be able to eat there in Salt Lake. My awesome husband also got me some wonderful jewelry, Love it! We had a great day!

(Us on our balcony before heading home for cali)

For the rest of the week we just hung out at our place, swam, watched movies and visited with family. It was a great and much needed vacation!

Jaxson's Farewell

We started off on a long drive up to Idaho for our nephews mission farewell on Friday night after Travis got off work. We stopped at mom and dad Tuckers for the night, then headed over to the airport to pick up Travis' brother Taylor. Then we started to make our way up to Idaho. We got there Saturday night and had a great time hanging out with all the family, had a yummy dinner and played lots of fun games with all the nieces and nephews!

Waiting for Taylor at the airport

Tyson, Travis & Taylor

Travis and I got to hold Tyson and Katie's baby (Amelia) for the first time

Jaxson is our nephew that left on his mission to Mexico, we enjoyed his farewell talk and hanging out with him and all the family all weekend.

Us.

In one week it will be five years to eternity.
How time flies.

Featured

Our recipe blog
http://allyourecipeswappers.blogspot.com/
is going to be featured at
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Amy's beautiful and delicious looking
Key Lime Coconut Cupcakes with White Chocolate Frosting
are going to be featured on the
above mentioned blog on April 22, 2010 be sure to look it up!

Crochet headbands

Crocheted flower headbands

I have been thinking about what quick fun projects I could do with crochet because blankets take such a long time to finish. I saw some cute headbands and thought I would give it a try. So here is my first attempt at making one. Also thinking about all my nieces or any friends with little girls that might want some I could make some up and ship them out to ya! I am still adding to the headband and plan on making more tomorrow so I will update my blog when I get them done.

Sorry not the best pictures and I can't figure out how to rotate my pictures yet (new computer) and I am impatient.

Spinach Salad

I recently rediscovered this super delicious salad that my mom makes. I made it over Easter weekend up in Utah while visiting the Tucker family and totally loved it! Some people were wanting the recipe so here it is...

2 bunches of spinach washed and stems removed
1 head of red leaf lettuce ripped into bite size pieces
3/4 lb. grated swiss cheese (I substitute mozzarella)
1 lb. bacon fried and crumbled
1 1/2 table spoon poppy seeds
3/4 cup red wine vinegar
1 1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup white sugar
1 1/2 table spoon white onion minced
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon wet or dry yellow mustard
1 red onion sliced into rings
1 lb. fresh mushrooms (the whiter the better)

To make the dressing:

Combine: sliced mushrooms, minced white onion, sliced red onion rings combine with poppy seeds, red wine vinegar, veg. oil, sugar, salt and mustard. Mix in Ziploc bag and let marinate in for at least 4 hours.

When ready to serve:

Combine spinach, red leaf lettuce pieces, fried and crumbled bacon and cheese with the wet dressing ingredients. Toss and serve.

Serves 15

Cute new blog and niece!

I am so excited and proud of my new blog! Thanks to my sister-in-law who is incredibly talented with HTML codes! She helped me pretty mine up! I love it!

Also she has been quite busy adding a new addition to the Tucker side of the family! Here is Amelia Rose Tucker! Love her! Wish we could see her in person and hold and love on her! Congrats to Tyson and Katie on their beautiful new addition!

Tyson, Katie & Amelia

Moving, yet again!

Still nothing to exciting to post about, the only thing that we have been focusing on is moving AGAIN, right down the street of course, so not to fun but maybe only one more summer in the desert (cross your fingers) Ha probably not! We have actually had an awesome winter this year, LOTS more rain than usual and alot cooler for alot longer, Yay!

It's been pretty busy with Travis' new work schedule and moving and Travis leaving on a business trip for a week all at the same time but hopefully things will start to settle down when he gets home and we can start working on unpacking and getting our new place together so it doesn't feel like we are living in a hotel.

We are beginning to HATE apartment life and hope to one day soon own our own place where no one can tell us what we can and can't do, where we can and can't park, and no one takes all your deposit money at the end of your lease for ridiculous reasons! I guess we just need to hang in there til we find a place we like and will be for a while at least then I can feel better about signing my life away on our own little piece of the world. But for now, we rent!

Ending on a positive note...I made delicious sugar cookies today! YUM!

Nothing much update

Hmmm...I have been totally MIA lately. Although nothing too exciting has been happening around here just normal everyday stuff.

The only really exciting thing that has happened is that Travis was promoted to General Manager of his store! Exciting but also alot of responsibility cleaning up after the old manager, but he seems to be liking it so far.

For the holidays this year we spent Thanksgiving with my family. We actually cooked dinner this year, we usually go out to eat but it was fun to cook all the yummy food. Then we went to the movie and saw Christmas Carol. For Christmas we were supposed to go and visit Travis' family but with his work situation we couldn't make it up there. So we are hoping to plan a weekend when we can make it up there. Lots of fun things going on this year in the Tucker family this year, babies and mission farewells so I am sure we will be up there plenty!

Hope you all had great Holidays and a Happy New Year!