Aquarium

Dallas and I went to the Aquarium over the weekend. It was so fun! :). I love living things..so places like aquariums and zoos make me happy :). Here are some pictures!

This is a crappy camera...so it makes us look bad! lol

This is for you mom! Delicious cave cockroaches!

Penguin Crossing!!

River Stingray...feared more than piranhas in the Amazon!

Rubber eels....ew

Hehe penguins!!

I will only be this close to a shark when there is thick glass in between us!

This sea turtle loved being the center of attention...any time people came up to the glass she would come right over!

We got to pet these...awesome

Giant clam!

You can barely see them...but there's tiny sea horses in there! :)

HUGE Lobster

Octopus! :)

Awesome Jelly Fish

I thought this puffer fish was cute! :)

Gross water bug..I can't believe we swim with these things! EW!

I stood there for 30 minutes looking at this frog cause it wasn't moving and I couldn't figure out if it was fake or not! Finally it breathed! lol

Buds :)

Dallas wanted to take these home. He thought they were awesome. Tiger Salamanders.

It was so fun! If you get a chance go to the aquarium! It's a blast! :)

Delicious Dinner! Recipes included! :)

Hey Everyone! Sorry it's been a while since I've updated. I'm trying to do better!

I would like to take this moment to brag a little bit! I made a freaking amazing dinner the other night! Dallas even asked me what the special occasion was! Haha. But, no special occasion! Just showing my love and appreciation for my hubby and I was watching Julie & Julia and had a hankerin to make a delicious feast! :) I'm gonna include the recipes..as best as I can anyway. I mostly just go with the flow. But I tried to do measurements this time.

First off I made what I call "Brown Sugar Deliciousness" haha.

Basically, you take however many chicken breasts you need out of the freezer and lay them out to thaw.

Once thawed you slice them through the center horizontally and then you take a slice of ham and a slice of cheddar cheese and place it in the center. Kinda like cordon bleu.

Then take some brown sugar and sprinkle it over the ham and cheese and then sprinkle over the whole chicken breast.

Set your oven for 375 and cook for about 20-30 mins.

Next I made some delicious "Reynolds Mashed Potatoes"

Take 4 russet potatoes (or however many you need for your family) and chop them up.

Set large pot with water and chopped up potatoes to boil until fork tender.

Once fork tender then mix 1/2 cup of milk and 2 tablespoons of sour cream.

Use masher to mash the potatoes and add salt and pepper for taste.

And last are my delicious "Reynolds Bruschetta Bread"

You will need a french baguette, olive oil, mozzarella cheese, roma tomatoes, a yellow pepper, and a garlic clove and garlic salt and basil or oregano and butter.

Place two frying pans on the stove with olive oil and butter on medium heat.

Chop up roma tomatoes and yellow peppers and put into one frying pan with olive oil and cook until soft. Sprinkle garlic salt and oregano or basil on top.

Take sliced bread and fry in 2nd frying pan (yes, fry) until golden brown on both sides.

Once fried take garlic clove and rub on each side of slice of bread.

Take the vegetables and spread evenly on each slice of bread and sprinkle some extra oregano or basil on top as well as mozzarella cheese.

And BAM! Delicious dinner! Unfortunately I only took pictures of the Bruschetta but next time I promise to get the potatoes and chicken.

Oh and don't forget the gravy. I just get gravy mix out of the baking aisle! :)

Hope these recipes made sense! Feel free to use them! :)

Blessed

I have just been feeling so blessed lately. I have an amazing husband, wonderful parents, great in-laws, and loving friends. I can get a little crazy at times and they are always there for me and it's so wonderful! I'm soo excited that Summer is almost here! I've had enough of this winter and this snowy and gloomy weather! It's time to soak up some sun and get me to a beach ASAP!

For, you see, each day I love you more,

Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Rosemonde Gerard

Honky

Dallas and I had quite the adventure tonight. We were on our way home from a car dealership (Dallas is trying to sell his truck) When we see this goose walking in the middle of the road. We nearly hit it. We pulled into a parking lot and Dallas ran into the middle of the road and chased it to the side where it was safe. We figured it was injured because it wasn't flying or anything. I was calling everywhere trying to see if someone could come get this goose and make sure it was safe. Dallas put his coat over it and stuck it in the back of the truck but it jumped out. We didn't want to put it in the backseat for fear of it freaking out...so we sat there for an hour. The goose got used to us and sat down right next to us as we waited for a cop to show up. We thought it was weird that this goose was totally calm with us. It wasn't trying to attack us or anything. Anyway, so the cop arrived and just shined the flashlight on it was just like eh it's fine just let it be. The cop was a jerk. It made me so mad. Well, obviously there wasn't really anything we could do at that point. So, we tried to leave. But the goose followed us to our car! It gets better...we started driving off and the goose started running after our car and then flying RIGHT NEXT TO OUR WINDOW! We were like what the heck?! And it managed to land right in front of our car so we had to stop. We didn't know what to do! The goose didn't want us to leave. But we couldn't do anything cause it already jumped out of the back of our truck so we just tried to leave again. And it started flying after us again but it gave up and I just lost it! I started bawling my eyes out! I feel so so awful. Dallas even named it Honky. I just pray it's safe and didn't get hit. I feel like the worst person in the world. I just thought I'd share this crazy story with y'all. Thanks for listening haha.

Bad Weekend

So as you all know Dallas and I celebrated our anniversary on the 5th of March. We had a whole evening planned out. We went to Olive Garden for dinner and then we were going to go on a carriage ride around downtown and a few other things ;). Well, we got to Olive Garden and when we sat down to dinner I had this horrible pain in my right side and it was making me nauseous. But, I just put a smile on my face because it was our 1 year anniversary and I didn't want to ruin it. So I just shoved the dinner down and enjoyed a nice conversation with my husband and we left. As soon as we got into his truck I told Dallas that I was having this really bad pain in my right side and it was making me want to throw up it was so bad. He was concerned that it was my appendix to we rushed to the ER. The did a urine test and some blood tests and an ultrasound but they couldn't see anything since we had just finished eating and there was a wall of gas in the way of my right ovary and appendix. So, they sent me home and said to come back in the morning because based on my blood tests and temperature if it was my appendix it wasn't going to burst any time soon. We got there the next morning and it was a different doctor and he was kind of rude and dismissive so he did a blood test said my white blood cell count was fine and sent me home. I was frustrated cause I wanted to know what was causing my pain and they still never said it wasn't my appendix. So, we went to bed that night and I woke up with horrible pain and I threw up and I woke Dallas up and told him what was going on so he took me back to the ER. They did more blood tests so I looked like a heroin addict by that time and had a million bruises on my arms. It was awful. This time around they couldn't find a good vein and my one good vein was underneath a huge bruise so they didn't want to mess with it but after digging around in my arm for 30 minutes I was just like "OK! This is worse then just shoving the needle into the bruised arm and getting it on the first try!" So they went for that vein and my vein popped. Of course. So I just told them to give me a break cause it was killing. After about an hour they sent someone else in and she got it in on the first try. I was just like seriously?? Where were you 6 holes ago?? Anyway, they took me in to get a CT scan to see if it was my appendix. It was kind of scary cause I'm claustrophobic and I don't like tunnel things lol. Well anyway, they found a cyst the size of a tennis ball on my left ovary and it was causing pain on my right side. I was confused as to why they didn't see it during the ultrasound on the first day cause they could see my left ovary just fine....that would've saved us a lot of time, worry, and money. So, I was pretty angry about that. Thankfully though I didn't have to go into surgery and the cyst has shrunk so it's all good.

Just when we thought all of our troubles were over....

Dallas and I were driving home from school the next night when this huge snow storm hit. We couldn't see anything and there was snow all over the freeway. I had a bad feeling that driving in this was a really bad idea. Well we got to the spot on the freeway where the most accidents happen and I got all tense cause my bad feeling got worse and I just heard "Brace yourself." All of a sudden I hear Dallas yelling "Oh crap! Oh crap!" I look up and there is a Mustang that slid right in front of us and it was sideways. So I grabbed the door handle and gritted my teeth and BAM! We smashed right into his driver door going 50 mph. The airbags popped out and there was dust everywhere and a ringing sound and I could hear a faint horn. I couldn't breath and I could barely hear and I thought the guy we hit was dead. I looked to my left and I see another car losing control and coming right for my door so I started screaming but thankfully about an inch away from me they regained control and drove off. My side of the car was completely exposed to the freeway so I jumped into the backseat and put my seatbelt on cause my seatbelt broke from the accident. The car we hit was stuck to the side of our car so he and Dallas just rolled their windows down and started talking to each other. I was relieved cause the guy was alive. Dallas had hurt his back and my chest was hurting and so was my neck so they paramedics came and checked me out and asked if I needed to go to the hospital and I was said "Unless you think it's absolutely necessary. Otherwise, I don't want to go to the hospital cause I was there all weekend including last night!" So, they said I was fine and left. The next day I had a huge bruise across my chest and my neck killed. Dallas put his arm out in front of me and shoved my back into my seat so thankfully I didn't get full blast of the airbag and he didn't either. And the other guy walked away with no injuries. I felt so blessed cause it could have been so much worse and my car didn't get destroyed too bad but sadly since it was a German car it was too expensive to fix so they gave us money and we got a new car. :( My poor beetlejuice.

So that was how we spent our Anniversary weekend! lol We need a do over!!

Mama's Song

I was sitting here thinking today and I felt like I needed to do this for my mom. This is a beautiful song and I don't know if she's heard it. But all the words said is exactly how I feel. I hope you like it mom :)

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and pause the music on the music player and then press play on the video. :)

I love you

ONE FREAKIN YEAR!

One year! ONE YEAR! I can't believe we have been married for one year! And, it's been the BEST year of my life! We've learned sooo much about each other and we've grown so close and I honestly fall more and more in love with him everyday! I am such a lucky woman to have him to spend eternity with. I pray and tell Heavenly Father how thankful I am for him every night. It's funny, now that we've been married a year everyone is asking us "So, when are you gonna start having kids?". Well that is a good question. If we get it our way maybe not for another year. But we may not get it our way lol. Cause, Heavenly Father can change that if he wants to. (Am, I secretly hoping that he does?? YES!) lol. I would LOVE a mini Dallas and Breanna running around :))). It makes me feel soo giddy inside just thinking about it. Thank you everyone for the love and support we needed to get married and for the love and support through our marriage. Can't wait for the years (eternity) to come! :))