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.