Chef Girl De-Tahnee

So... last Saturday I went over to Delta to go on a double date with Lacey and Travis. I had tons of fun by the way. I'm pretty sure though that the combination of Mt. Dew, Shot guns, clay pigeon throwers (non-automatic) and two girls MAY tend to be a bad combination. Especially when one of those girls drinks 2 Mt. Dews and then starts to sporatically perform cheers (I'm not mentioning names, but I hope she is reading this). LOL! It was lots of fun. Lacey and I just couldn't throw a clay pigeon to save our lives. We attempted it time and time again, and were denied time and time again. Lacey even started to just throw them with her hands instead of putting them in the thrower. There is also a very good chance there was lot of giggling about it on our parts. And Travis also may have shook his head at one point and said "WOMEN!!!". Well anyway.. Aaron, the guy they set me up with, made this amazing dutch oven dinner. It was seriously so good. It had what I like to call "the secret ingredient" in it. I'll give Rustin one guess what it was... It was the juice from heaven. Yep, Mt. Dew. Well... last night I tried to recreate said dutch oven dinner for Dave and Nicole and I. It was good, but not quite as yummy as Aarons. Here it is. I think I put too much Mt. Dew. LOL!!! Anyways... I was proud of myself, so I had to post this picture on the blog. And by the way... if you haven't hung out with Travis and Lacey in a while... you should, they are tons of fun.
Oh... and, I plan to attempt this recipe until I get it right.

Prepare to smile...

This is such a funny video. I took it when Mindy and Abby were over. Nicole put water on the tramp. The hose had a bunch of little hosey things on it and they would flip around. Abby figured out in a hurry that she could control those baby's. Just watch.

Just a thought...

So... I've been reading this amazing book called Joseph and Emma: A love story, it's by Marsha Newman and Buddy Youngreen. It's so good. I had a hard time finding it to buy it. I finally gave up and then Mom borrowed it from her friend for me. It's a 2 volume series. I finally found it on Amazon.com. You can't get it at Deseret Book, you might be able to special order it though. ANyway... the point is... I love them. DISCLAIMER: I am on this spiritual high today because of them. My love for Joseph Smith and even Emma has sky rocketed since I started reading them. I have learned so much about the love of the Lord, for all of us. The newest thing is that the Lord loves us so much regardless of what he lets enter our lives to hurt us and cause us pain and discomfort. Even the times that we think "why is the Lord letting this happen to me, I try to be faithful. Why doesn't he step in and stop this?". Does that mean he isn't there or doesn't love us? Absolutely not! It means he gets to be there to hold and comfort us, we just don't always realize that is the case. Those things will happen in life REGARDLESS of what our religious/spiritual station is at the time. The difference is you acknowledge his presence and comfort more if you are faithful. And you will most likely turn to him and let him help you through it. This is what has struck me hard about Joseph. And this is just one of the things. One amazing thing is that there is NO WAY Joseph made this stuff up. Why would he add all the times the Lord rebukes him for things that I may do and never think to ask forgiveness for. The sins of omission. Why would he do that if he was just writing a story (this is obviously in the D&C). He wouldn't. He wrote the words of God. Anyway... I just wanted to share my thoughts today. This doesn't even skim the surface of how I feel about Joseph Smith. This book bring him to life. Shows you the person behind the prophet. I love that.

Stupid Soccer

So... See this DANG game! I am only posting about it because I completely and utterly frustrated by it. It is on the Wii fit. Nic and I have become slightly (okay that's a lie- completely) addicted to the dang Wii fit. I had the high score on all the games. Nic always beats me, but then i can get on and try and try and try and I can beat her. I was proud, I'm not going to lie, that I had the high score on the games. Now, those of you Nielsen's will understand the accomplish this is- to beat Nic at the games. WELL... Saturday freaking night, she got on there to beat my soccer of 305 (of which was incredibly hard to get) she finally beat me, and of course kept going to ensure an even higher score (I'd be lying if I said I didn't do the same thing LOL) and she not only beat me... she cremated me and chewed up the ashes and swallowed them. Jerk. LOL! She now has the high score of 433. I spent 1.5 hours on Sunday trying to beat the dang score. The closest I got was 420. Dang her!
Okay, here is my plug for the wii fit. You should get one. It is so much fun. Nic and I love it. Plus, we both are pretty competitive, so it works great for us. All you do for this game is move from right to left trying to hit the soccer balls with your head, but you have to dodge shoes and panda heads too. Blasted game!!!

A night of firsts

So... yesterday I made dinner at the Rubow house. I made Cafe' Tahnee's Pork Barbacoa Salads. Okay... it's really Cafe' Rio. But this isn't Cafe Rio. It was a ton of work, and some might place it in the "breaking the sabbath by working" category, but it was fun for me. I love to cook. I almost screwed it up because I cut all the nasty fat off from around the pork roast, and when Dave say... he about died. But we put it back in the pot and it actually turned out great. I of course pulled all that off before shredding it. They were so yummy. I was surprised how much they really did taste like the salad. It makes a ton of stuff, so I'm sure we'll be eating it again. This is so cute. Mo sang her first song... and here it is. We were eating last night (ignore the mess in the background, I had not yet cleaned up from making dinner. I had to clean up 3 times during the process of making that stuff. See... ton of work) and Davey turned the music on and all of sudden Mo starts singing along. Dave, Nic, and I were like... WHAT?!?! It was so cute and funny.

Build a Mo

I was down cleaning my room today and Mo Mo was assisting in her 2 year old way. I noticed that my hat to my build a bear that I made with Carol about 2 years ago, and dressed in only a cowboy hat, camo boxers, cowboy boots, and named Stetson, was missing it's cowboy hat. I realized that trash was right next to it, so we went diggin'. I found it at the bottom. Mo about hyperventilated over the thing, so I put it on her. Look how cute she looks. She looks like a clown in that hat. What a cutey, huh?

Oh be wise... what more can I say?

Hmmm... what happens when you mix "true lime" and acid (coke)? I'll tell you...Disaster, that's what happens.
So, there are these amazing things at work called "true lime" packets. They are this powder lime and I buy them to put them in my pure water. Well today... someone who I won't name, tried mixing them with a little acid that I like to call coke. Um... I am laughing my head off right now cause my friend at work (you know who you are-Tayler) just sent me this picture and I am blogging about it. Anyway... he put the lime packet inside this coke, thinking it was going to be so SCRUMPTOUS... and created a coke volcano--- GREAT JOB TAY!!! Hey... You got a show, and a mess to clean up. Win-Win!!!

The Garden

Okay, so here are some pictures from Nic and Dave's garden. These tiny little things are the carrots springing up. It's so exciting.

Roses from the Rose bushes. They are so pretty, I love them. Wouldn't Grandma be so proud of Nic? Yep. Nic did say that she wishes that she lived closer to Tooele cause then she'd cut them all and put them on Grandma's grave. Grandma would love them.

Yum...YUM...YUUUUUMMMMM... here come the strawberries. I'm mostly excited for them.

Rustin the Peace Office

You know... I was thinking, now that Rustin is a "Peace Office" I'm thinking it's about time he brings a little PEACE to my life. Just kidding. I was actually pretty proud. I had a couple thoughts about him yesterday (just a couple though). It's like he's all grown up. Even though we've always been pretty close (until Sarah stole him away) but it's like he's... I don't know- grown up. He is a professional now. He actually has official authority/power. Before, he acted like he was authoritative and powerful, and of course we all just laugh, but NOW... he has a certificate saying so. It was a really great graduation. The speakers were great, really opened my eyes. One thing they said was that these guys are held to higher standard and they have to live by that standard. I thought, well... that should be easy for Rustin, he already does live to a higher standard in his life. I was really proud of him yesterday.
I love this picture because every single time in my life Rustin has said "Tahnee, how tall are you? 4 foot nothin'?" ran through my head, and I have to admit, there was lots of smilin' on my face. That guy behind him could kiss his bald shiny head- if he wanted to.
AW....there he is... after getting the diploma. I have to point out how he looks so tough. Crazy. I mean, he does have a bullet proof vest on underneath, but man... what if this guy ran into you, or pulled you over. Talk about crap in the pants. He isn't even fat, it's muscle (don't let that go to your head). My brother is tough... awesome!

Bubba and Daddy.

Rustin and cute Sarah.

Here are all the cadets and their instructors at the academy.

Dad, Rustin, and Bubba.

LOL! I'm about to make fun of this picture, and I'm sorry Rustin, but when I just scrolled down to it... I laughed. I like this picture cause he looks so tough, BUT... he also looks like he's assuming the pushin' potpourri position. Sorry Rust... I love ya, but it was too funny to pass up.

After the graduation... we were standing outside and it started to rain. We all started walking to the cars. Bubba was the last in the line. All of a sudden he stops and we hear him saying something and Sarah and I turn around. He is bent over pulling up his pant leg, and this is what he found... HIS DIAPER. It had fallen off (there was too much pee weight to hold up his little diaper) and slipped all the way down his leg. Sarah and I busted up laughing. That boy can hold his own (or not) in the pee department. I don't think I've seen a kid with so much pee.

It was an aweome day. Congrats Rustin. I love ya!!!
Here is a video of part of the DVD they showed up from their time at the academy. This is Rustin fighting a guy. I missed the whole first part of it. Sorry, but this part is good.

On the Lord's Errand

Have you seen this? It's so good.

Today, I went to find a baptism present for Davey (he is getting baptized tomorrow). I saw this video in the front of the Distribution Center. I had to pick it up. On the back of it says this:

"THE SWEETEST EXPERIENCE I know in life is to feel a prompting and act upon it and later find out that it was the fulfillment of someone's prayer or someone's need. And I always want the Lord to know that if He needs an errand run, Tom Monson will run that errand for Him."
Now... of course I had to buy it. I was too excited to wait until I got home to watch it so I put it in my DVD and listened to it while I continued to work. Of course, there was crying. It's about the life of President Monson. There are several amazing inspiring stories. The first one that made me cry was of this family that came over from Europe. He was their Bishop and asked him to look at the apartment for them. The place was what they could afford, but it was a dump. This bothered him, so he went to meeting on sunday and told the members of the council. Everyone offered up service. Someone laid carpet (see... eyes watering up just writing this), got furniture, the RS president said that she couldn't see cupboards without food in the, and she filled them. Various other kind acts of service took place. They didn't tell the family they had done all this. When President Monson took them to the apartment, the husband apologized to his wife for the condition the apartment was going to be in. When the opened the apartment and saw what had been done for them, they we so happy.
I love service, so much. I need to do more of it. It's what we're here for. Can you imagine how much that family had to have felt the Lord's love for them at that moment. See... we need to take care of each other. We need to love- ALWAYS! All the stories on the DVD are awesome. Another one I loved was of a little girl who was ill in bed. They lived in Louisiana. They wanted a general authority to give their very ill daughter a blessing. They looked through the GA's and when looking at Pres Monson they wanted him to give her a blessing. They were planning to fly to Utah to have him give her the blessing and we unable to do so. They then wanted to have him do it as he was planning to attend thier stake conference. Just days before the conference he had to cancel his trip. The family was devastated. President Monson did not know that they were planning on him giving their daughter a blessing. The family decided to leave it in the Lord's hands. President Monson was in a Conference when he felt prompted that he needed to give this blessing. He went to the families home and gave their little girl a blessing. Their daughter ended up passing away. The thing that amazes me about this story is that even though this family this much faith, and that the Lord loved them so much to send them President Monson, what they wanted, didn't happen. It just shows 2 things. 1- how much the Lord loves us, and how he is in complete control. 2- how much he loves the children.
I love that lesson. Cause just because what we want to happen, may not happen, doesn't mean the Lord is not there, Will not reach his hand forth to envelope us in his love. He will.
I also bought a Brother of Jared figurine cause I have been waiting for them to get one and they did. I love the Brother of Jared. Now it is sitting on my desk, to inspire me , always. Or maybe just inspire me to be good and not bad. I sure do like when the Lord says "That was a good choice Tahnee". But it seems that I tend to get more "That was a bad choice Tahnee." Anyway... you should watch this, I can lend mine to you. It's a must watch video.

A little bread and spread

So, last night I went to IKEA with Dave and Nicole. As we approached the checkout line, Dave decides he is going to get some goodies in the food section. He comes back with a chocolate bar, a tube of spread, and some thick bread cracker croutons (I don't really know what they were trying to be). Well, we get in the car and Dave cracks open the bread and the spread. He spreads the tube of stuff on his bread and eats it. I then follow. I just spread a little on it though to see if I liked it. It looks like this...When I put this in my mouth... here was my immediate experience. A fish jumped into my mouth... threw up, and then died! All right inside my mouth, on my tongue to be exact. This was THE sickest thing I have ever placed inside my mouth. We're talking mooshed up worms would have been tastier. Freakin' Sweedes! What kind of person thinks that crap is tasty? Nicole is dying laughing as I am gagging and begging "What is that? I know there is fish in it!" Now... I love fish, but I'm afraid I might have a hard time eating it for a while. I take a drink... didn't help. I eat a piece of the delectable chocolate... didn't help. That just tasted like chocolate covered fish. Nic... still laughing. Dave... still won't tell me what it was. Finally, he reveals to me what freaking ROE is. It's fish eggs. I just ate pureed fish eggs. I think there was some fish CRAP in there too. SICK!!! It took eating a whole bread, and a bite of a second to decide he thought it was nasty. It's because he is used to eating C-R-A-P and so his taste buds are ruined. Mine only get amazingly delicious real people food, so it's like a 5 alarm emergency going off in my mouth when something disgusting enters it.

An Adventurous Saturday Morning

Our adventures Saturday began with a yard sale, across the street. Davey wanted to go, I did too cause I love them, and so he and I walked across the street. I was slightly embarrassed being that it was our neighbors and I was going to look at the crap they didn't want. So, mostly i was going to see if there was anything worthy of Davey's money. Funny thing is I was the one that spent all the money. I came back home with some amazing scrapbook/card making stuff. I didn't take a picture though, sorry.

Next, Nic and I took the kids and went for a bike ride. And the award for woos of the year goes to... (drum roll please) ME!!! I pulled this trailer and Nic pulled Keili on the bike that attaches to the back of her bike (can't remember what's it's called.). Shoot man, I don't think they make a gear slow enough for me to pull this sucker up a hill. Okay, I didn't have to use the lowest gear, but I sure felt like woos of the year. The good news is that my butt has pretty much gotten used to riding, so I didn't have to deal with the pain of the seat too much. It was fun. I got a dang good workout doing it. Here are the cute kiddos I pulled along, who were complete angels by the way.

Next, we got home and started some house work. Nic spotted this killer spider, it was so huge it was like staring us in the face mocking us, as if we couldn't kill it. I threw Nic some paper towel, A LOT OF IT, then you don't have to hear or feel any spider death. She was so afraid of it. So I said "you can always do like me and spray it death with some kind of chemical." She said okay. The best chemical she had under her sink was carpet cleaner. So we foamed it to death. Well, we thought, but then the sucker was trying to break free.

So she covered it with the wad of paper towels. There was A LOT of girly screaming going on, if you can imagine. This my friends, is why Men are good around the house. They are born and bred spider killers. After she put this over it, then there was a new concern. "What if we are freeing it under there. We gotta get it off."

So she grabbed a bag, which I held. She couldn't bring herself to touch the paper towel and neither could I, so because Nic is so flippin' smart, she ran and grabbed the tongs and scooped the crap into the bag I was holding. I then ran (literally) with said bag, holding it as far away from me, and with only two fingers, out the front door and to the garbage can outside. STUPID STUPID SPIDERS! Then Nic cleaned and sanitized the table.

And that was our adventurous Saturday morning.